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The Top 10 Election MomentsElection season is finally over, which means Facebook walls are free of political statuses and com-

mercial breaks are through with campaign ads. And citizens are free to look back and laugh—or cringe—at some of the most memorable events and quotations from 2012.

Chancellor Emeritus Wartell Up for Louisana

Job, Then Out Again

Jessica Geyer Former Chancellor of IPFW Michael Wart-ell was in the running

for the top spot at the University of Loui-siana this week, but it was revealed on Friday, Nov. 2 that he had ultimately not been chosen. The University of Louisiana is the state’s largest university. He had been one of 14 applicants for the position.

Instead of Wartell, the University of Louisiana decided that they would inter-view Sandra Woodley, vice chancellor of strategic initiatives at the University of Texas.

This is not the first time a job oppor-tunity in Louisiana has turned down Wartell for an administrative position. He previously applied for the position of president at the University of New Orleans (ONU) and was in the top two choices for the school. However, ONU chose an alumnus, Peter J. Fos, for the job. That was back in December 2011.

In an April interview with The Com-municator, Wartell said that “something really good” would have to come up to make him want to leave Fort Wayne. Because of his qualifications, he can still teach chemistry at IPFW.

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10Probably among of the most missed sto-ries of the 2012 campaign, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was ar-rested along with her running mate when they tried to enter the presidential debate with a group of their support-ers on Oct. 16. She was arrested again for trespassing on Halloween when she tried to bring food and candy to protes-tors of the Keystone XL pipeline.

After a series of comments by various Republican candidates that make them look bad on women’s rights and equality (see “legitimate rape” below), Romney’s comment was not a good campaign move. In the second presidential debate, he claimed that as Massachusettts gov-ernor, he had “binders full of women” brought to him when he requested fe-male applicants to government posi-tions. It was later revealed that the gov-ernor did not request female résumés, but they were prepared by the Massa-chusetts Government Appointments Project.

People were wondering what happened after Obama lacked enthusiasm in the first presidential debate. The poor per-formance was blamed on everything from the president’s anniversary to the altitude in Denver. He allowed Rom-ney to take a victory in the debate. In later debates, however, Obama appeared more energetic, and the two candidates were more evenly matched.

This became the hit word of the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. Biden said the word in question. His energy had many Demo-crats cheering after the president’s poor performance in the first presidential debate. Many Republicans, however, thought Biden’s laughter and head shak-ing were insulting and immature.

Like Romney’s “47 percent” gaffe, the president’s “You didn’t build that” com-ment about businesses became the theme of the RNC: “You did build that.” The Romney campaign used this mo-ment to show Obama as anti-business but the Obama campaign said the quote was taken out of context.

Actor and director Clint Eastwood was a guest at the Republican National Convention. He proceeded to talk to an empty chair and chide an invisible Barack Obama. “Chairgate,” as it was called, ended up confusing a lot of peo-ple, though it did provoke laughter.

Secret footage of Mitt Romney speaking to campaign donors gave Democrats a rallying cry. “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsi-bility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it,” said Rom-ney about Americans who don’t pay in-come tax.

Republican candidate for Senate in Mis-souri Todd Akin made this infamous

Romney’s running mate made an em-barrassing comment about how his per-sonal best marathon time was, “Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and 50-something.” A sub-three-hour mara-thon is impressively good, but Ryan’s ac-tual best was really more like four hours. Ryan later claimed he wasn’t bragging, but was just trying to remember his marathon time that occurred 22 years ago, and just guessed what he thought was an ordinary time.

There was a time in the 2012 campaign in which these people could have been in Romney’s place: Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul and Her-man Cain. They provided so many gaffes and odd debate moments that they de-serve their own list.

“Binders Full of Women”

The First Presidential Debate

Paul Ryan: Marathon Runner

Extraordinaire

47 Percent

The Entire Republican Primary Season

Jill Stein Arrested,Twice.

“Malarkey!”

“Legitimate Rape”

“You Didn’t Build That”

Clint Eastwood at the RNC

comment, saying that in cases of “le-gitimate rape,” a resulting pregancy is rare because a woman’s body has ways to “shut that down.” This was one of the first in a line of rape and abortion com-ments that have caused uproar among feminists.

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Jessica Geyer A new high-tech imaging and analy-sis lab was dedicat-

ed at IPFW Friday, Nov. 2.A donation specifically made to pur-

chase a new scanning electronic micro-scope (SEM) was given to the university by the Argast family - family of IPFW geology professor Anne Argast. The SEM purchased is a Hitachi S3400N. These types of microscopes produce im-ages of a sample by focusing a stream of electrons, which interact with electrons in the sample. As a result, very detailed images of very small objects are pro-duced.

The Hitachi S3400N SEM can pro-duce an image with a resolution of three nanometers. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. For perspective, a strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter. The width of a human hair is typically 80,000 to 100,000 nanome-ters. In other words, the IPFW SEM can examine very, very tiny things.

High Tech Lab at IPFW DedicatedThe Argast Family Imaging and Anal-

ysis Lab also contains equipment for energy-dispersive spectroscopy, wave-length-dispersive spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction and sample preparation.

It will cost students and faculty mon-ey to use the SEM. For those in the geo-sciences department, it can cost up to $12.50 per hour depending on the time of day. Other departments are charged $20 each hour. Non-profits pay $30 and it will cost $75 for the first five hours of commercial use, and then $50 for fol-lowing hours. The other equipment in the lab is slightly less expensive, and users are also charged for consumable materials.

According to a press release, Carl Drummond, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the university hopes to work with commercial businesses who do not have their own SEM or other equipment. Fort Wayne Metals is already in partnership with the lab.

B e i ng a f e m i n i s t doesn’t mean burning bras. In fact, a person

doesn’t have to wear a bra to be a femi-nist. That was the message of Campus Feminists in Solidarity President Cai-lynn Smith.

The group hosted a Gender Bender

Ball Tuesday night in the Walb Ball-room to celebrate Halloween as well as let students know that anyone - male, fe-male and anywhere in between - can be a feminist. The only cover charge was a can of food for the Community Harvest Food Bank.

Attendees were encouraged to dress

in drag and costume. Smith said that Campus Feminists will be working this school year to collaborate with OUT-spoken and other equality-promoting groups at IPFW. The Gender Bender Ball welcomed members of the LGBT community to join the Campus Femi-nists in promoting equal rights for all

The club will have several more events throughout the school year. The next one is on Nov. 14, in SB 168. There will be a premier screening of “It’s A Girl,” a documentary focusing on those three potentially deadly words and their role in gendercide.

Campus Feminists Hold Gender Bender Ball to Promote Equal Rights for All

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Kristan MenschFor Domestic Vio-lence Awareness Month, IPFW is

holding its 6th annual “Breaking through the Silence: The Noise of Overcoming an Abusive Situation.”

Tuesday, Nov. 6, the program will feature Chris Garrett, grant coordina-tor for the Department of Labor and project coordinator for Ivy Tech.

Garrett, a survivor and advocate against domestic violence, has helped to bring domestic violence awareness to Ivy Tech’s northeast campus since 2010, according to a press release.

“Projects that are a part of the ini-tiative include domestic violence cam-pus postings, campus-wide domestic violence video presentations, classroom presentations and the annual Domestic Violence Survivors’ Celebration on the fourth Wednesday in October,” accord-ing to the press release.

The lecture, sponsored by the Of-fice of Diversity and Multicultural Af-fairs and the Indiana Purdue Student Government Association will be free and open to the public. The event will begin at noon in Walb Student Union Ballroom.

IPFW Celebrates International Education Week

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“Queens of the World and Kings of the Globe”

Walb Union Ballroom, 6 p.m.

“Which Way Home”Liberal Arts room 258, 12 p.m.

“Tales from Abroad Luncheon”Kettler Hall room 227, 12 p.m.

“Diversity Showcase” Walb Union Ballroom,

11 a.m.-2 p.m.

“A Celebration of World Folksong: IPFW Choirs with African Griot Drum

Ensemble”Auer Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m.

All events are held for students free of charge. The events are open to

the public as well.

Nov. 12

Sixth Annual ‘Breaking Through the Silence’

Lecture for Awareness Set

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learN to make origami

zombie ruN fall clothiNg drive

Learn how to identify how you’re your own worst en-emy, self-compassion and how to increase self-es-

teem. Walb Student Union 114-116, noon-1:15 p.m.

Learn about the history of Japanese origami and how to fold some of the tradition-al and modern patterns with

the event organizers.7-9 p.m. in Liberal Arts

room 258.

A 5k run to help start a feeding program in Hairi

through Just Cause Inter-national, hosted by the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship.

4 p.m. at the Friends Pavillion.

The Big Heart Club will hold a clothing drive from 10-6

p.m., where blue barrels will be out to collect donationa

for the Hope Rescue Mission.

As a part of Na-tive American Heritage Month,

the Office of Diversity and Multicul-tural Affairs hosted three guest speakers to impart their knowledge of Chief Te-cumseh to attending students.

George McClellan, vice chancellor for student affairs, introduced Dr. Me-lissa Rhinehart, cultural anthropologist, Dr. Mark Schurr, Notre Dame professor of anthropology, and Dr. Chad Thomp-son, IPFW associate professor of Eng-lish, Thursday, Nov. 1.

The history of Tecumseh is in need of much revision by native scholars, Rhinehart said, pointing to discrepan-cies in the historical account of Tecum-seh.

Tecumseh is largely known for his efforts to rally all Native Americans into a single Indian confederacy in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

One example of inaccuracy, Rhine-

hart pointed to during the panel discus-sion, was the Battle of Tippecanoe.

The Battle of Tippecanoe took place while Tecumseh was away from his fu-ture confederacy capital, rallying more recruits for his confederacy. Left in charge of Prophet’s Town—an area just north of present day Lafayette, Ind.—was Tecumseh’s brother Tenskwatawa, also known as “the Prophet.”

According to the Tippecanoe

County Historical Association, Tecum-seh’s brother acted against his orders and attacked Gen. William Henry Harrison, governor of the territory, and his small army of a 1,000 men, breaking the mu-tual truce.

This defeat of Tecumseh’s men was devastating for his vision of a peaceful confederacy, however it is this 1811 bat-tle which has mistakenly been called the defeat of Tecumseh, according to Rhine-

Professors Discuss Chief Tecumseh,Point Out Inaccuracies

hart—a “political twist,” she said.Rhinehart also said she’d like to see

some of the focus shifted to the other chiefs involved in Tecumseh’s movement, questioning why so much emphasis had been put on Tecumseh and his brother when the other chiefs were just as in-volved.

Schurr said one reason Tecumseh’s story was so “compelling” was that Te-cumseh was an underdog, citing story ex-amples such as “Braveheart” and “Sparta-cus.”

A large portion of the panel discus-sion was composed of intermittent video clips from PBS’s “We Shall Remain.”

Toward the end of the panel discus-sion, the question was raised as to the sig-nificance of Tecumseh’s story.

Tecumseh brought the tribes togeth-er, Thompson said.

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It’s called the victory lap. It means taking an extra year, or two or three, to make it through the

typical four-year Bachelor’s degree. 28 percent of Indiana college students don’t finish their degrees and run the extra laps around the track of graduation. That means Indiana places 40th among the states in degree completion time.

Because of the ranking, college graduation has become a polticial issue in recent years. Indiana governor Mitch Daniels called for an end to “college credit creep” at his visit to IPFW last year, which is an increase in the amount of credits required to get a degree. Not only does it mean students have to spend more time at college, but they have to pay more because they need more credits.

Republican Indiana gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence said he would push for “on time” graduation from col-lege. He would do this by taking state financial aid money and rewarding stu-dents for graduating within four years by giving them “performance grants.”

It can take some effort to complete a degree, and it takes time. The busi-ness program at IPFW takes 60 credits toward the degree just to get accepted into it. It takes 123 credits overall to graduate. If a student took the mini-mum 12 credit hours per semester to be a full-time student, it would take a little over 10 semesters to graduate. In other words, five years of schooling for a traditional four-year degree. In order to graduate “on time,” the student would need to add a extra class each semester for 15 credit hours, and two extra in one of those semesters. That’s barring a class failure or not achieving a C in ENG W131 and W233.

A music education degree at IPFW takes a mininum of 137 credit hours to complete. That would require over 17 credit hours per semester to graduate in four years.

Fifteen or 17 credit hours each se-mester might not seem like a terrible amount. It is only 12 to 15 hours in

class each week - far less than someone spends in even a part-time job. But each credit hour amounts to about two hours or more per week in studying. So for 15 credits, that’s an extra 30 hours outside of class per week, totalling to 45 hours a week. Those are just the university sug-gestions, however. According to a survey The Communicator conducted in 2011, students spend only about 14 hours per week studying and doing homework.

The long-term senior phenom-enon is not new. In fact, IPFW has professors that have taken

longer than the traditional four years to earn their degrees. French professor Laurie Corbin is one of them.

It took Corbin nine years to achieve her Bachelor’s degree in comparative literature. “I was working full-time. I put myself through college,” she said. Corbin worked as a waitress four or five nights a week, putting in around 30 or 40 hours on top of her classes and study time. She would stay up until around

three or four in the morning to get her homework done.

Rather than being anxious about graduating within four years, Corbin said, “It didn’t

seem strange to me at the time.” Instead, she had a feeling that, “This is the the life I have … this is what I have to do right now.”

Taking nine years in undergrad studies didn’t set Corbin very far back in her life. She started college at age 16 so she finished her degree at 25, only a few years later than a traditional student. Corbin also said the attitude toward ed-ucation in the early 70s helped.

“We were really kind of unabashed-ly learning for learning’s sake,” she said about many of her fellow students. “It’s very different from now … [There is] a lot of anxiety about keeping on a certain schedule.”

Corbin pointed out, however, that she is not critical of the mindset of to-day’s college students.

“It was just different,” she said.

Corbin also switched her major, not knowing what career path she wanted to pursue. First

she started in theatre, which she loved. However, she did not stick with it.

“They’re really good at letting you know you’re not very good at it,” she said about theatre programs.

Then she tried nursing, which she quit because of sexism and condescen-sion during the time, she said. Finally, she ended up in comparative literature, which she ultimately got her degree in.

Changing majors for Corbin didn’t add much more time to her degree be-cause she didn’t stay in theatre or nurs-ing long enough. But that is not the case for everyone who switches paths in the middle of college. Often, required class-es for one major do not carry over ex-cept as electives to another.

Erika Schaadt, who has been study-ing at IPFW for eight years, encoun-tered this problem when she changed her major from music to French after three years.

“Some of my music classes have counted toward [my degree],” said Schaadt, who will graduate this Decem-ber. Most of the credits, however, only counted as electives so apart from gen-eral education classes, she essentially had to start over in her new major.

Schaadt has also worked for much of her time in college, both part-time and full-time at different points, which is part of the reason it has taken her longer.

“I’ve had a lot of things going on be-sides school,” she said, including family issues and getting married.

Studying abroad in Strasbourg, France for a year also affected the time it has taken for her

to graduate. Many programs encour-age students to get overseas study, par-ticularly foreign language majors. Be-cause of the smaller amount of classes a student will take normally take while abroad as well as the problem of taking credits that actually count toward their IPFW degree means students have more classes to take when they come home.

It’s not always the case, however, said Corbin. “It doesn’t have to prolong your degree,” she said, and that it’s im-portance to balance the benefits of over-seas experience.

Schaadt said that her travel was not something she regretted at all, despite the fact that it made her need more time at IPFW. It had been something she had wanted to do for a long time and gradu-ation time was not a factor in her deci-sion to go.

The intrinsic value of an education is something both Corbin and Schaadt men-

tioned about their experience in college. “I’m glad I followed my heart,” said

Corbin about her choices. Now, as a pro-fessor at IPFW, “I love my job,” she said.

Corbin has been teaching at IPFW for 20 years, since 1993. It was her first job after she received her Ph.D.

“I wasn’t someone that knew from the start what I wanted to be doing,” she said.

Even after she received her master’s degree, Corbin was still unsure of what her career path would be.

“I was not sure where I wanted to go at that point,” she said, and her degree was not helping her find a job, so she pursued her doctorate.

Though some people come into and leave college knowing their life plan, “It’s okay if you’re not one of those people,” Corbin said. Like her, “You can come to it in kind of a roundabout way.”

Corbin said her experience “helps me sometimes just diminish people’s anxiety … okay that you don’t know right now. That doesn’t mean you’re in trouble.”

What’s important, she said, is that college is a chance to learn things about yourself.

“I want to make sure that they don’t lose an appreciation of the learning they’re doing,” she said.

Schaadt said that she used to be a little embarrassed telling people she’s been at IPFW for more than four years, but now she’s just proud of her accom-plishments.

“I’ve studied literature, I’ve studied foreign language, I’ve studied abroad, I’ve performed in concerts,” she said. “Yeah, it’s taken me longer than four years, but I’ve gotten a lot out of it.”

“I’ve done a lot of things compared to what I could’ve done if I hurried up and got it done in four years,” Schaadt

added.

“I think it’s good to encourage [four-year graduation],” Schaadt said. However, “Some people just don’t get done in four years because life happens.”

When Corbin worked on a project in which she called high-GPA students who

were taking a long time to get their de-gree, she found that, “A lot of times it was just sort of life stuff.” Health prob-lems, marriage, kids and employment can all affect when a student graduates and many of these things are unavoid-able.

IPFW, said Schaadt, has an atmo-sphere that makes it easier for those types of students.

“We’re already a commuter type campus … we’re used to non-traditional students,” she said.

“We can be different things to dif-ferent people,” said Corbin about higher education.

For both Schaadt and Corbin it is the personal parts of their life that de-termined how long it took for them to graduate.

“College is part of the complex story of your life. It’s easy to get worried be-cause your story is different from other peoples’,” said Corbin. “Our stories are going to be different … and there’s noth-ing inherently bad about that.”

What it Takes

‘What I Have to Do’The Undecided

Sometimes Life Happens

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Still Loading...“I’ve Studied literature, I’ve studied foreign language, I’ve studied abroad, I’ve performed concerts. Yeah, it’s taken me a lot longer than four years.”

Jessica Geyer

After their first experience with

a battle of the bands competition, IPFW alums Na-than Hoff and Jillian Speece vowed they would never again enter another – a vow they fortunately broke in May when they entered the Bud Light Battle of the Bands.

The entry was a whim, and one they forgot about until three days before the end of the initial voting round, where they had already ranked 15 out of the 70 bands in the Detroit region without lift-ing a finger.

Known as The Bergamot, their band was one of three from across the US chosen by Bud Light fans to play in the Bahamas Nov. 17 with artists like Pit-bull, Flo Rida, Brad Paisley and The All-American Rejects.

Burgeoning with the completion of their second full album, and now only weeks away from this once in a lifetime opportunity, the band is riding on a wave of success that has been a long time in the making.

Both Speece and Hoff began their musical journeys at a young age.

While Hoff began learning guitar around the age of 10 and writing his own songs right away, Speece was singing in choirs and performed her first solo when she was nine. They didn’t meet until high school, and while it would seem obvious that they met through their music, they actually met initially through golf.

Because of their shared interest in the sport, they also found that they shared a love of music, and what origi-nally began with Hoff attempting to teach Speece how to play guitar evolved into a musical partnership that has con-

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IPFW Alums: From Golf to Playing with Flo Rida in the Bahamas

tinued for nearly a decade.“To this day I still can’t play guitar,

because he was either a really bad teacher or I was a terrible student,” said Speece.

The lessons didn’t pan out, and the pair decided to drop the lessons in favor of putting their song writing abilities to use – together.

“That’s kind of where it really start-ed getting good. When we started writ-ing together was when we started really flourishing in what we do,” Speece said.

The two started writing together in 2003, with Speece bringing the lyrics and

Hoff writing the guitar parts, and while collaboration was a new endeavor their abilities just clicked.

“When we were writing it was never hard, there was never judgement or weird feelings. It’s just a weird thing sharing a song because it’s such a personal thing, but you kind of get over that once you’ve written thousands of songs together,” Speece said.

The growth of this comfortable writ-ing relationship has allowed them to cre-ate the music that has been so well re-ceived today.

“I think that was one of the big-gest reasons that we developed. This idea that we were comfortable writing by ourselves, we’re comfortable writing together, we’re comfortable improving with each other now, which helps us to write too. So there’s a lot that goes into the creative process and a lot that we’ve grown the past eight years,” said Hoff.

The duo played their first show in Fort Wayne in 2004, the year that Hoff graduated from high school, and both attended IPFW, where they continued to play together.

Neither graduated with a degree in music, although Hoff did study classical guitar for two years. Speece obtained de-grees in interpersonal communication and media and public communication with a minor in peace and conflict stud-ies and Hoff graduated with a degree in accounting and finance.

“A college education is a prerequisite for anything anymore,” said Hoff.

Both musicians found their edu-cation to be important in getting them where they are now, especially in terms of their record label.

After graduating from IPFW in spring 2010, Speece and Hoff decided to head out on their first tour of the US. While the experience was both scary and risky for the duo, they enjoyed the op-portunity and afterward created their la-bel Both Records – their way of tackling the music industry on their own terms.

Her degree in communication and his degree in finance came together in a neatly perfect union that gave them an important edge when it comes to self-promotion and the business end of liv-

Where it Began

Breaking into the Business

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“Do you want to open it Bill?” said Madeline.

“Yes, Maddie. I think I need to do that,” said Bill.

Scott Maughmer, as Bill, and Mar-cia Smith, as Madeline, rehearsed their lines Thursday, Nov. 1, in preparation for this Friday’s performance of “The Women of Lockerbie.”

In the Studio Theatre of Kettler Hall, Maughmer and Smith acted out an emotional scene where the two, as parents, finally received luggage be-longing to their son who died in a plane explosion seven years prior.

In the wake of Sandy’s destruction, “Lockerbie” is both timely and appro-

priate, drawing on the Greek tragedy form to paint the portrait of those suf-fering the loss of loved ones.

However, unlike Sandy, the trag-edy affecting those in “Lockerbie” was avoidable. More specifically, the plane — Pan Am Flight 103 — was bombed.

On Dec. 21, 1988, the Boeing 747 detonated, killing all 259 on board plus 11 on the ground below. The explosion showered its burning wreckage over 50 square miles of Lockerbie, Scotland.

The play portrays the grief of those affected, both in Scotland and America. The theatre students tackling this pow-erful play were fortunate enough to be visited by the author of the play herself, Deborah Brevoort, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2.

After director Jeff Casa-zza added “Lockerbie” to the IPFW Department of Theatre 2012-13 sea-son, Brevoort contacted Casazza offering her ex-pertise.

With Brevoort’s in-sight guiding both the director and the stu-dents, the cast learned to employ the Greek trage-dy form according to the creator’s vision.

“The most unique thing about this play is that the playwright has put it into a Greek trag-edy form,” Smith said. “We have the orchestra pit here, which resem-bles the orchestra of the Greek amphi-theaters of the past.”

Staged in the Studio Theatre, a small intimate setting for a small cast of seven, the set was kept minimal and basic reflecting the design elements of the playwright.

The stage is simple, a white circu-lar platform occupying the majority of floor space set against a background of white shattered shapes.

Like Greek tragedy, “Lockerbie” utilizes a chorus comprised of various protagonists who alternate between narration and poetry according to Hal-lee Bandt, who plays Olive.

At times the chorus seemed to be speaking directly to the audience in an eerily somber tone.

“You think the worst can’t happen,” said Hattie, played by Kearstyn Keller.

“You think that it won’t,” said one woman, played by Heather Moser.

“But then one day, it does,” said an-other woman, played by Piper Kirkpat-rick.

“The ‘poor soul’ on television is suddenly you,” Olive said.

And that far away disaster becomes not so far away according to the chorus.

The chorus, known as the women of Lockerbie in the play, struggle along-side Bill, Madeline and Olive as they search for closure for their long endur-ing wounds.

George Jones, played by Chase Francis, is at odds with the victims as the government agent who is withhold-ing clothing recovered from the crash site.

But as this external conflict plays out, each character is conflicted within as well, as their “fatal flaws” act against them according to Bandt.

“Greek plays tend to draw attention to mankind’s flaws, and the fact that we don’t always have control over things,” Smith said. “Anybody who’s lost any-body in their life can be touched by this play.”

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Theater Cast Employs Classic Form

Upcoming events at the embassy theatreTickets on sale at the Embassy box office and Ticketmaster

Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Fort Wayne Philharmonic Masterworks: Passion and Paradise

Nov. 21-28, times vary Embassy Festival of Trees

Nov. 23 & 24, 9:30-11 a.m. Breakfast with Santa at the Festival of Trees

Nov. 30, 8 p.m. Mannheim Steamroller

Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. Cirque Dreams Holidaze – Broadway at the Embassy

Dec. 7, 8 & 14, 8 p.m. Fort Wayne Philharmonic Holiday Pops

Dec. 15, 2 & 8 p.m. Fort Wayne Philharmonic Holiday Pops

Dec. 29, 7 p.m. Down the Line: Hard Chord, Presented by 3Rivers

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The Embassy Theatre’s Kelly Updike and Fort

Wayne Children’s Choir’s Jonathan Busarow will talk about upcoming produc-

tions. 7:30-8 p.m. at WFWA PBS39

Lori Sims, a pianist, is the guest artist at this master-

class. It will be held from 10-12 p.m. in Rhinehart Recital Hall, and is free and open to

the public.

IPFW singers will join the Bach Collegium of Fort Wayne at 7 p.m. Tickets

available at the door of the Zion Lutheran Church, 2313 S. Hanna Street.

In the Rhinehart Recital Hall from 7:30-9 p.m. Admission for students is free with an

ID. Non-students are $4 and adults are $7.

ing their musical dream.

Since this first tour and the creation of their label, the band has released an EP, “Smile,” and an album, “Haven.” Both of these feature the band with their sig-nature stripped down sound of simple but distinct instrumentation and vocals.

The most recent album by The Ber-gamot, “Static Flowers,” departs from their previous formula by introducing a sound rounded out by studio musicians that dances between genres.

“This album is different from any al-bum we’ve ever created because it liter-ally merges multiple genres seamlessly. We’re really proud of this piece because through all of our adventures of being artists and creators, this piece really shines on all fronts of what we’re really capable of doing. And it also shows just this sense of joy we have in what we’re creating,” Speece said.

The tracks blend between jazz, folk rock and pop, and the album as a whole marks the bands first recording in an actual studio – in Nashville’s Fry Phar-macy nonetheless.

“It just kind of shows the natural progression of us not only as people, but as musicians too. We started off with ‘Smile’ which was recorded in a rented room at an apartment complex on a Sat-urday afternoon, and you go from that to finishing up our album next to Di-

erks Bentley. So when you pop in ‘Static Flowers’ I think you hear something that you’ve never heard from us, which is this band that really came from noth-ing getting all the way up to getting to record in the most sought after studios in Nashville,” said Hoff.

According to Hoff, “Static Flowers” embodies the sense that in a time when singles are more relevant than albums, artists don’t have to commit themselves

to one genre.

This musical milestone comes just in time for The Bergamot’s showcase at the Port Paradise Music Festival, which will introduce their music to an audi-ence of over 5,000 people.

Considering the band was only one out of more than 350 entries, their abil-ity to win over and please a crowd is not

to be contested. And since their first tour in 2010, when they decided that they wanted to throw their lives, financ-es and time completely into their music, they’ve been determined to shine their unique light onto any crowd they can.

“We’re doing our own thing and you can’t hold us back. We’re way too far into this to have naysayers do anything to de-stroy what we’ve done. I think that kinda sums up The Bergamot,” said Speece.

Their Sound

Relishing in Success

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Student Terrified to Let Parents See Voter

Report CardKristan Mensch

By Ryan Nooe

No television, no Internet, no video games or time to

hang out with friends.Voting report cards were sent out

last week to remind voters how many of the last five elections they’d cast a vote in. Since, college students the city over have been nothing less than freaking out about their parents seeing their of-ten low scores.

“I voted for president the last time, because I’d just turned 18,” said senior Fay Smith. “I thought that was the most important and now it’s saying I fail be-cause I only voted for one out of the last five. My parents are gonna kill me.”

“We saw our John’s report card. He thought he was going to get it past us that he didn’t vote last time,” said John’s dad, Peter Bonter. “He also thinks he’ll be able to play the new Halo. Nope!”

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Jessica GeyerWhen students

in Charles Hang-ermeyer’s geology

class heard that the test was going to be a multiple choice, they were ecstatic.

“Hangermeyer’s tests are hard,” said sophomore Jennifer Crowe. “Like, a mil-lion essays and fill-in-the-blanks with no word bank. Seriously, the last one took me over a whole class hour to finish, and I stud-ied for it for a week, and I still got a C.”

“I think the class average is 70 percent,” said junior Rick Barker, who is on his third attempt at passing this course.

Students said Hangermeyer announced a change in the typical test format for the next exam, which would be “considerably easier” with five choices for each question.

But when they sat down to take it, the students were shocked.

“‘None of the above,’” said Crowe, “Every single question.” Crowe ended up

Kristan Mensch Though the elec-tion is now over, America’s unde-

cided voters are still having a hard time choosing among the candidates.

“I just don’t know,” said Glenda Filbop. “I waited in the poll lines all day on Tuesday, and I thought that by the time I got to the front I’d have it all situated in my mind, but I just

receiving a D on the exam.“You can’t even narrow down the an-

swers when that happens,” said Barker. “‘None of the above’ represents literally every other possible answer in existence! How can you mark A when the entire rest of the alphabet and beyond is contained in E?”

Hangermeyer was said to have been chuckling softly to himself as his students worked on the test. He refused to answer questions on the subject.

“Why did I put that option on the test? People are saying that it’s because I’m evil,” said Hangermeyer. “Well, here are all of the reasons I did. A, because I wanted to test students on their actual knowledge and not their ability to narrow down op-tions. B, because it was a test on their abil-ity to handle pressure. C, because I’m evil. Or D, none of the above.”

Nation’s Undecided Voters Still on the Fence

couldn’t figure out who I wanted.”Another undecided voter,

Adam Pertzie, said he watched the televised election and didn’t know whether to get excited or not when the new president was announced.

“Mabye next election,” he said.Both Filbop and Pertzie are

unsure whether they’re upset they didn’t vote this election season.

Maniacal Professor Adds ‘None of the Above’ Question to Final Exam

Missed Connection: I’m a man. I saw you at Starbucks. You got a pumpkin spice latte. You have long brown hair and were wearing pretty masculine cloth-ing for a woman. If you’re not a woman, this is really awkward and uncomfortable. I’ll just go.

Looking For:A girl who is uglier than me. Wanted for basically anything, just as long as it’s in densely public place so people can see how compara-tively pretty I am.

Lost:A wish. I threw it in a well I think. Don’t ask me, though, because I’ll never tell. I was looking at someone as it fell. I regret doing this, too.

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Lady Dons Sweep Omaha to Gain Spot in

Conference Tournament

Kristan Mensch The Men’s basket-ball team played their first game of

the season against ALMA in an exhibi-tion match Monday night, outscoring the competition 71-43.

Dons’ Redshirt Senior No. 4 Frank Gaines led the team with the first goal of the night and was the only double-digit scorer with 12 points.

Though the stats weren’t quite what IPFW might have wanted, shooting only 55 percent from the free throw line and 7 percent behind the arch, the new lineup looks promising for the team that lost four starters at the end of last sea-son.

This Week's sporTs

men's soccerTaking on Oakland in MaComb, Ill. Nov. 9.

Also going up against UMKC or Western Illinois in MaComb, Ill. Nov. 11.

men's basketballFirst game of the year against Auburn in Auburn, Ala. Nov. 9.

women's volleyballUp against Western Illinois in MaComb, Ill. Nov. 9.

Taking on IUPUI in Indianapolis, Ind. Nov. 10 as well.

Men's and women's cross countryCompeting in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional in Madison,

Wisc. Nov. 9.

IPFW Takes First Game by 28 Points

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Rachel Given As soon as you walked in the doors of the Gates

Athletic Center on Saturday night, you could feel the excitement from everyone in the gym. It was senior night and the game that determined which team got a spot in in the Summit League Tourna-ment.

In the first game, No. 10 Megan Steenhuysen jumped up to the net for a kill which the Omaha Mavericks could not defend. The entire crowd roared with excitement as the score kept jump-ing higher and higher with a 10-4 lead. The final score of the first game was 25-17.

During the second game, the Dons took charge, as No. 13 Erica Dryden served nine serves in a row. IPFW also had multiple big plays at the net. No. 7 Emily Spencer and No. 9 Jessie Man-waring had multiple kills and hits, mak-ing the final score of 25-10, which gave IPFW a two game lead.

In the third game, the Mavericks got a head start in points in the begin-ning with minor mistakes from the Dons. IPFW quickly recovered from their slump and gained the lead. The fi-nal game ended with a score of 25-19. Sweeping Omaha, IPFW gains a spot in the conference tournament, something

the team had been working for since day one.

Senior Libero No. 4 Tessa McGill said she will miss her teammates the most about IPFW volleyball. She said, “They are a great group of talented girls and I love being on the court with them.”

Junior No. 14 Jen Milligan said that she will try to keep the team strong next year and “try to be a good leader and keep the communication up.” Being the only junior on the team this year, Mil-ligan will be taking the leadership role as she becomes a senior.

Newcomer junior No. 13 Luis Ja-cobo had some noteworthy plays, tak-ing nine points, two assists and four re-bounds. Prior to IPFW, Jacobo averaged 13.2 points and 3.9 rebounds at the Col-lege of Central Florida.

Junior No. 54 Steve Forbes tied with Jacobo for second leading scorer with nine points, playing only 15 minutes of the game.

Freshman No. 44 Joe Reed and No. 50 Brent Calhoun got IPFW six and two points, respectively. Calhoun played only three minutes.

The team will go down to Auburn, Ala. to play their official season opener Nov. 9.

Photo by Sarah Pringle

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The Mastodons, second seeded i n t h e 2 0 1 2

Summit League Tournament, fell to the Oakland Grizzlies 2-0 Sun-day in the championship game.

Senior No. 2 Tylar Allison, freshman No. 27 Rachel Good and sophomore No. 10 Sydney Hoareau were named to the All-Tournament Team, however.

The Dons were out-shot by Oak-land overall 18-12, and were down 8-2 in corner kicks.

The match was stuck at 0-0 for the first 35 minutes, until the Griz-zlies were able to reach the back of the net with just under 10 minutes

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left in the first half, leading into the second half with a one-point advantage.

Though the Dons had a few chances to score, the Grizzlies took another goal from Nocole DeLuca, padding their lead at 2-0.

IPFW fought hard and took a couple shots to goal in the last 10 minutes of play, but Oakland was able to keep their lead and take the victory at 2-0.

The Dons end the season with a school-record of 10 wins, and an overall record of 10-8-1. It’s only the second winning season in IPFW history.

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The Mastodons went up against rival Holy Cross

Saturday. The teams, evenly matched in the talent department, were con-stantly changing lineups in an at-tempt to keep the players from wear-ing out in what would prove to be a struggle to the end.

“They always play us tough,” said assistant coach David Rose.

In the first match against Holy Cross Friday, IPFW took the win with a score of just 2-1.

Both teams were scoreless the en-tirety of the first period, though the intensity of competition rose after a flurry of penalities and last-minute shots.

No. 17 Andrew Gard gave the Dons a little comfort room 2:42 into the second period, however, when he was able to get past Holy Cross’ goal-ie to take the 1-0 lead.

Holy Cross nearly tied it up again with about 9 minutes left, when Dons goalie No. 31 Larkin Saalfrank lost the puck and the left side of the goal was wide open. Holy Cross’ No. 23 Drew Brodbeck swept behind the goal and attempted to slip the puck

Kristan Mensch in the side but narrowly missed, hit-ting the post.

The team hit the locker room again at 1-0.

Gard opened up the third period strong as well, taking a goal just 1:28 into it with an assist from No. 22 Channing Lamborn, increasing the Dons’ lead to 2-0.

No. 7 Tyler Mason took it even far-ther with another goal at 3:33 off an assist by No. 50 Josh Sellden.

Holy Cross was determined not to be on the losing end of a blowout, though, and quickly came back with No. 28 Bradley Kolcz getting around Saalfrank at 4:49. Following at 7:33 was another, cutting IPFW’s lead to 3-2.

Holy Cross pulled their goalie for the last minute and played hard on their end of the rink. With 6.1 left on the clock, No. 17 Alex Haygood got the puck into the goal, but the goal was off and the point didn’t end up counting. After running the clock out, IPFW hit the locker room champs at 3-2.

IPFW’s overall record improved to 7-5 with the set of wins.

Andrew Gard defending the puck