The first week of spring semester, Butler University graduate student KéturaIsidor pulled three all-nighters in a row. But, she didn’t spend them studying orpartying... she just wanted to know whether or not her family was alive.

Isidor’s home country of Haiti fell victim to a 7.0 magnitude earthquake lastweek, killing an unknown, yet undoubtedly horrific, amount of people. Themedia for the past week has depicted countless scenes of collapsed schools, hos-pitals and homes. The capital city, Port-Au-Prince, is in shambles.

“Sometimes the news exaggerates,” Isidor said. “But not now.”Because her home is nearly a three-hour drive from the city, in a town called

Les Cayes, her immediate family and the 30 orphans in the family’s orphanageall survived unharmed. But some of her friends were not so lucky.

“I have a friend who died,” Isidor said. “He went to school, and basically theschool collapsed and everybody pretty much died.

“It’s very hard right now to communicate with people back there, so that’sall I know for now. There are friends of mine that lived in certain areas that Iknow are down that I’m thinking are probably already dead.”

Although her home, which is connected to the orphanage, is still standing,Isidor said her mother, siblings and the 30 children are sleeping outside with therest of the citizens of Haiti.

“They are very scared because they are afraid there will be another earthquake,”Isidor said. “They are afraid that if there was a crack somewhere or if anythingwere to happen again, it would come down. That’s the state everyone in Haitiis in right now.”

As looting and a severe lack of resources hits the city, many of those whoremain are moving outward toward the coast, to towns like Isidor’s.

“A lot of people are migrating to Les Cayes with nothing but the clothes on

their back,” Isidor, a first-year student in the physician assistant program, said.“My family has been helping the best they can by providing supplies from theclinic to the General Hospital and by providing shelter to many kids who havelost their family members.

“They already ran out of supplies from the clinic and the town itself will soonrun out of food to feed the heavy traffic coming through.”

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INSIDEShelvin Mack andthe men’s basketballteam extended theirundefeated HorizonLeague season lastweekend.

Heath Ledger performs his lastrole in the recentfilm “TheImaginarium of Dr.Parnassus”

Butler ForecastWith studentdebt on the rise,columnists analyze thefrighteningimplications.

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SCENIC ROUTE: Physician assistant student Kétura Isidor is fromHaiti, a country full of rolling mountains in addition to its streets of poverty.

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Driver damages class gift

Committeefinalizesproposal forsixth college

Linda Hadley-Miller, a Butler University Spanish instructor, diedunexpectedly last Friday, Jan. 15.

“She had so many plans,” said Kate Taube-Osborn, secretary ofButler’s Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department. “Itwas a big shock.”

Taube-Osborn described Hadley-Miller as a generous and energeticperson who was always willing to take on extra work for the depart-ment.

“Whatever we needed for her to teach, she would jump in and teachit,” Taube-Osborn said. “She poured herself into her work. She wasthoroughly dedicated to teaching and to her students.

“I’m not sugar coating it.”Hadley-Miller taught at Butler since the fall of 2007. During her

time at Butler, she taught five different Spanish courses including key-stone courses like Intermediate Spanish 2 and more focused courseslike Hispanic Masterpieces and Hispanic Film.

Butler senior Rebecca Groesbeck was in Hadley-Miller’s HispanicFilm class, an experience which she said she remembers fondly.

“She just brought so much to the classroom,” Groesbeck said. “Shewas so outgoing and energetic.”

Groesbeck recalled the time that Hadley-Miller brought cake for theentire class in celebration of her own birthday. She also said thatHadley-Miller’s care for her students was apparent even outside of theclassroom.

“She said ‘hi’ to me every time she saw me, even when I was outof her class,” she said. “I think she really valued students, even whenshe didn’t have the opportunity to teach them anymore, she still want-ed to see that they were progressing.”

Both Taube-Osborn and Groesbeck agreed that Hadley-Miller madea positive impact during her time at Butler.

Funeral services will be in Crown Hill Funeral Home on Thursday,Jan. 21 at 1:00 p.m., with visitation hours beginning at 11:00 a.m.Memorial contributions may be made to the Humane Society ofIndianapolis. Online condolences are welcomed atwww.crownhill.org.

Kelly Patrickkdpatric@butler.edu

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If all goes well, Butler University willwelcome its sixth college to campus nextfall.

The proposal to create a College ofCommunication at Butler has been final-ized and is in its approval stages, KennethCreech, chair of the CommunicationConvergence Transition SteeringCommittee, said.

With a 27-1 endorsement vote, the pro-posal was finalized Jan. 8 by faculty andstaff.

“We’re really excited about this,”Creech said. “We really believe, verystrongly, that this is a good thing for stu-dents, recruiting [and] the departmentsinvolved.”

Today, the Academic Affairs Committeeof the Faculty Senate will vote on theproposal.

If it is approved, the Faculty Senatewill vote on it at an upcoming meeting.As of press time, the date was unknown.

After this happens, Jamie Comstock,university provost and vice president foracademic affairs, and Bobby Fong, univer-sity president, will vote on the proposal.

“It really does depend on whether itmakes the hurdles of the various commit-tees,” Creech said. “In the best case sce-nario, barring no major revisions, itwould probably go to the provost and thepresident in February.”

Creech said faculty and staff memberson the steering committee are somewhatanxious to get the proposal approved inorder to make it in time for the upcomingMay Board of Trustee’s meeting, which isthe final step in the proposal’s approvalprocess.

“We’d like to get it done,” Creech said.“Folks have worked really hard.”

If the Board of Trustees does notapprove the proposal in May, it would bepostponed to the board’s December meet-ing, pushing back the creation of the col-lege until the Fall 2011 semester insteadof the Fall 2010 semester.

“If this is approved, we will have every-thing in place to implement it in the fall,”Creech said. “Putting this in place willallow us to go to a new level.”

If the College of Communication iscreated, the departments of

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Justin Ohlemiller was just another freshman at Butler University 14years ago.

Since graduating in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in telecommuncationsalong with a business administration minor, he has not only worked forformer Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, but was also recently named thenew district director for Indiana State Rep. Andre Carson.

As district director for Rep. Carson, it is Ohlemiller’s job to manage theday-to-day affairs in the congressman’s Indianapolis office. Within thebranch, they provide many local services including social security, veter-ans affairs and overseas travel. It is also their job to display the good workCarson is doing and to get the message out to local citizens on his repre-sentation in Congress, Ohlemiller said.

What is the secret to his success?“What helped prepare me for my career most was the emphasis placed

upon communication skills [including] both verbal and written,”Ohlemiller said.

The importance of effective communication is entirely vital to publicservices and is a skill used “every hour of every day,” Ohlemiller said. TheButler curriculum provides opportunities to hone those communicationskills through campus jobs, activities or classes.

“My advice to students is to diversify yourself when it comes to com-munications,” he said.

Ohlemiller also stressed the need to take a great interest in the commu-nity surrounding you, whether it be the Indianapolis area or the nation asa whole. Being aware of issues and taking active roles on or outside cam-pus helps to gain a grasp of the big picture in life and start working towarda change, he said.

While attending school, Ohlemiller was involved in the business frater-nity Alpha Kappa Psi, the Hampton House (a program focused on servantleadership) while also working at the Clowes Memorial Hall Box Office.These experiences helped educate him in the arts and culture, he said.

“[Education] is vitally important for classroom success, but you needto be able to apply the skills you learn within a community and outsidethe [so-called] ‘Butler Bubble’,” Ohlemiller said. “The opportunity isthere.”

Butler students agree that campus involvement and perfection of one’scommunication skills are the most effective attributes of the liberal artseducation.

“The four classes I’ve taken [toward my political science major] havebeen primarily discussion based either as a class or a small group, whichis very helpful to promoting verbal communication,” sophomore JoshRuff said.

The classes are also completely different in terms of subject material, soregardless of which route you choose to take with your major after gradu-ation, you will have some sort of background experience, Ruff said.

Having the opportunity to better the Indianapolis community asOhlemiller has is something that Ruff said he is interested in, althoughlaw school is also an option.

Having the opportunity to serve Carson and being a part of history iswhat Ohlemiller most looks forward to in his new position, he said.

Carson is part of a very active Congress and will soon be voting on thehealth care reforms that affect around 100,000 Indianapolis citizens withno health insurance, Ohlemiller said.

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A Butler University religion professor won the 2010 JohnTempleton Award for Theological Promise for his disserta-tion “Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience:The Theology of Georg Wobbermin, 1911-1931.”

Brent Hege was one of 12 scholars from six different coun-tries who won the international award.

“Getting an award like this is a really good confirmationof the work that we do,” Hege said. “It’s nice to know thatother people find it valuable.”

Hege won $10,000 with an option for another $10,000 intravel stipends in exchange for giving lectures at universitiesand seminaries around the world for a duration of two years.

Although he won this prestigious award for religion stud-ies, that is not where he originally planned to end up.

Hege started his undergraduate studies as a history major.But after taking one religion class he was “blown away” andwalked out of that first class ready to sign the papers toswitch his major to religion.

“I think it was just this whole world of questions that I’dnever considered before, but it just felt like this was some-thing waiting for me to just jump in and start thinkingabout,” Hege said.

Hege said he grew up with a lot of questions but was neversure if it was OK to have them.

“I got to a religion class and found out that there weremany other people for many hundreds of years who were ask-ing the same questions; it felt like home,” Hege said.

Junior Austin Blue, a psychology major with a religionand gender studies minor, has taken two of Hege’s classes.

“I think [Hege’s award] is very appropriate,” Blue said.“He’s just very good at what he does. He knows a lot, so itdoesn’t surprise me that he got that award.”

Blue said he likes the fact that Hege is the type of profes-sor that really gets to know his students.

“He is definitely there to not only teach but to really addto students’ lives,” Blue said. “The things we talked about inclass were big. They were very real and applicable.

“He does a great job at shaping our thought trains. Hereally lets us learn as much as we can and grow in that learn-ing.”

Learning that suffering is an essential part of life fromHege’s “God and Evil” class was important, Blue said. Bluewas also able to learn something more personal.

“I learned how I can see topics like creation and originalsin,” Blue said. “I learned my own definitions of it. I’velearned ways to interpret the Bible and my own faith, andthat’s really nice.”

While Harry van der Linden, head of Butler’s religiondepartment, only started working with Hege this year, hesaid this award adds to the reputation of the department.

He said Hege’s award stands out because the other winnerswere from institutions, such as Yale University, where theprofessors have much more time for research and publication

than professors due to strong focus on teaching.“I think he brings a kind of open-minded liberal perspec-

tive to religion, and I think that’s very important,” van derLinden said.

He said that Hege is very popular among students.“He challenges students, but students feel at the same

time really comfortable to express their opinions evenknowing that he might have different opinions,” van derLinden said.

The opinions of the students here at Butler seem to be oneof the central things around which Hege said he shapes histeachings.

“Unlike seminarians, a lot of undergraduates are muchmore willing to question everything, to be open to new ideasand thinking about things in different ways,” Hege said.“That’s been so much fun, to explore questions about reli-gion with undergraduate students.

“The students here at Butler are really good at that. They’rewilling to ask difficult questions, think about things in newways.”

Hege said that the questions he and his students ask arequestions about literally everything: religion, life, theworld, relationships.

“The number one thing I hope [my students] gain is thefeeling that it’s OK to ask questions, and that there’s noth-ing that can’t be questioned,” Hege said. “Also, that some-times the most important questions in life don’t haveanswers, and that’s OK. That actually can be a beautifulthing.”

Hege’s future goals are to continue publishing and to finda permanent teaching job. He will travel to Heidelberg,Germany in May to accept his Templeton Award.

Butler scholar wins awardTara McElmurry

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As Butler University students walkfrom their dorms to the heart of campuseach morning on the way to class, adamaged campus landmark will be anew sight on their route.

Early Sunday morning, an accidentby a drunk driver damaged the limestonecampus sign that welcomes studentsand visitors to Butler at the intersectionof Clarendon Road and Hampton Drive.

The sign, given to the university bythe Class of 1929, still stands on themall even though the right half is dam-aged.

At approximately 1:28 a.m., a crowdgathered around the intersection where ablue Ford was stopped on the grass afterhitting the sign, according to a policereport by Butler University PoliceDepartment (BUPD).

Witnesses who were at the scene saidthe driver left the vehicle and acted in anintoxicated manner, after hitting thesign.

The driver, Jeremy Henderson, 32,was lying on the ground when OfficersKevin Barrett and Chris Walls arrived atthe scene.

“I crashed through your cement sign,arrest me,” Henderson, an Indianapolisresident, said.

After the officers arrived, Hendersonwas arrested for alleged public intoxica-tion and operating a vehicle whileintoxicated. He was transported down-town for a breathalyzer test and a bloodsample.

Once results of the blood sample arereturned to BUPD from the MarionCounty Forensics Lab, Henderson maybe charged with another count: operat-ing a vehicle while intoxicated with ablood alcohol content (BAC) above

0.08, which is the legal limit inIndiana.

BUPD Police Chief Ben Hunter saidhe suspects Henderson’s BAC wasabove 0.08.

Vice President for Operations MikeGardner said while plans to repair thesign are tentative right now, it willoptimistically be done before the springsemester is finished.

“I’m sure we’ve got some pieces oflimestone that are broken, not just dis-placed,” Gardner said. “We’ve not had achance to really see what we have infront of us but suffice it to say that wewill put the sign back together again.”

Gardner said the issues are how muchlimestone will have to be replaced andhow the sign will be financed.

At this time, the university does notknow whether the blue Ford that hit thesign is insured. Henderson was also notthe owner of the car.

“We’ve got to get all those questionsanswered first, but the sign will getrepaired,” Gardner said.

Hunter said the accident highlightsthe importance of safe driving.

“It’s sad, a piece of history gettingstruck by a drunk driver,” Hunter said.“It underscores the dangers of drunk

driving because our concern is [if] stu-dents would have been standing there.That’s a main focal point of campus,even late on Saturday.”

Both Butler students who witnessedthe accident, Hannah Cash and MelissaHendricks, were unavailable for com-ment as of press time.

For a lot of education majors, their futures may be a little blur-ry. They might not know what they want to teach or to whomthey want to teach it.

However, new state rules might make them find the answers totheir questions a little sooner than they had planned.

New rules, passed by a state panel on Jan. 8, are changingwhich courses education majors will need to take in order to gaintheir teaching licenses.

The Revisions of Educator Preparation and Accountability(REPA) development now requires all education majors to majorin their field of teaching and minor in education. For example,those who want to become high school science teachers wouldnow need to major in science and minor in education.

Butler University President Bobby Fong said students currentlyenrolled in the College of Education do not need to worry abouttheir certification.

The REPA developments will not affect current education stu-dents, only students after 2013.

To future teachers, like freshman education major AmyCoffman, the changes are alarming.

“It’s already getting hard to find a job,” Coffman said. “Thisjust creates more of a disadvantage.”

According to Coffman, the change in plans may change themarketability of some teachers.

“It changes things when you go into the job market,” Coffmansaid. “If a school is looking for an English teacher and youmajored in math and have an education minor, you can’t get thatjob. You’re not qualified enough.”

The changes were also something that Ena Shelley, dean of theCollege of Education, found potentially problematic.

“There has to be a balance between knowing your informationand learning how to engage your students,” Shelley said. “Youcan’t teach what you don’t know, but if you can’t engage your stu-dents, you’re just up in the front of the room giving a mono-logue.”

Coffman also agrees that teaching requires a balance of methodsand materials.

“The plan takes an emphasis off of the students’ needs and putsit on what to teach them,” Coffman said. “Students have differentlearning styles, and it’s definitely important to know leadershipand how to control your classroom.”

While the plan has received someopposition, both Fong and Shelleyare acknowledging its benefits.

“There is more flexibility in non-traditional avenues by which adultscan retool to become teachers,”Fong said. “Some will say the newrules are less rigorous, while otherswill hold that the options willincrease the number of teachers.What this might mean in a trade-off of quality for quantityremains to be seen.”

Not only do the changes affect teachers, but they also affect thesuperintendents’ requirements.

Now, if a person has a master’s degree in any field, they are eli-gible to be hired as a superintendent, as long as the school boardapproves them.

The revision of the current plan faced opposition from univer-

sities across the state, as professors and educators were originallyleft out of the REPA discussion.

“You can’t change something that involves someone withoutall of the involved parties present,” Shelley said. “You have toengage all stakeholders.”

While some educators and professors were concerned aboutspeaking up and asking for a vote in the matter, Fong spoke outagainst being left out of the conversation.

“He [Fong] was a real model of leadership and I think he madeit easier for others across the state to say ‘if you change our pro-grams, you have to talk to us,’” Shelley said.

Fong spoke to stakeholder groups about the changes last yearthat were set to be made. He also sent letters to Gov. Mitch

Daniels and to Tony Bennett, Indianasuperintendent of public instruction,suggesting that educators and deansbe present in voting and discussion.

Educators, parents, deans, admin-istrators and other IndianaAssociation of Teacher Education(IATE) members joined forces togather 2,500 signed petitions fromall over the state to protest the orig-

inal plan and the lack of voices in the discussion.“It was important for us to be present because our Butler pro-

fessors of education have actual experience in the classroom andknow firsthand what works and what doesn’t,” Fong said.

The efforts of both Fong and the IATE members helped inchanging the end result.

“The end result is definitely better than we had hoped for,”Shelley said.

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State to bring major specialization requirement to education degree

“ You can’t teach what you don’t know, but if you

can’t engage your students, you’re just up in the front

of the room giving a monologue.”- Ena Shelley

Dean, College of Education

Collegian photo by Rachel Senn

HEART OF CAMPUS: The Butler University limestone campus landmark was partially destroyed in an accident caused by an allegedly intoxicated driver on Sunday morning. The sign wasa gift from the Class of 1929. While plans to repair the sign are tentative, Vice President of Operations Mike Gardner said he hopes to have the sign fixed by the end of the spring semester.

Historic sign destroyed in car accident

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ROAD RAGE: After crashing his car into a sign, Indianapolis residentJeremy Henderson was arrested and subsequently charged with two offenses.

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Jan. 92:49 p.m. – BUTLER -TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOODAn officer took a report ofdamage to private property.

Jan. 108:48 a.m. – UNIVERSITY TERRACEPARKING LOTAn officer took a report ofdamage to private property.

4:49 p.m. – BUTLER -TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOODAn officer took a report ofburglary of a residence.

Jan. 111:03 a.m. — BUTLER -TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOODAn officer took a report ofa theft from a motor vehicle.

5:44 p.m. — BUTLER -TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOODAn officer arrested an indi-vidual wanted on a warrantand for public intoxication.

Jan. 1211:48 p.m. – ROSS HALLAn officer checked on thewelfare of an individual.

Jan. 1312:00 p.m. — BUTLER -TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOODAn officer took a report ofa traffic accident.

12:49 p.m. — BUTLER -TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOODAn officer recovered stolenuniversity property.

10:27 p.m. — BUTLER -TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOODAn officer took a report ofa traffic accident.

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Communication Studies, Journalism andMedia Arts will merge.

However, that’s not all that willchange, according to the proposal.

If the college is created, current depart-mental structures will be abandoned andsix programs will be formed.

The programs are as follows: DigitalMedia and Recording Industry Studies,Journalism, Strategic Communication,Organizational Communication, CriticalCultural Studies and Communication

Sciences and Disorders. Creech said the Critical Cultural

Studies program would focus on analyz-ing media rhetoric as well as media criti-cism.

Plans for the new college also includeextended graduate areas of study includingIntegrated Communication and DigitalStory Telling.

While Creech said merging the depart-ments has been an idea in the works foryears, senior Jaclyn Bevis said the

change will be beneficial to incomingfreshmen who are interested in journal-ism.

“As a senior in high school, you don’tunderstand the difficulties that it presentswhen the two [departments] aren’tmerged,” Bevis said.

Creech said he hopes the new collegewill make it easier for students who aremulti-interested as well as attract newstudents, even though Bevis said shedoesn’t think the new college will appeal

to students who wouldn’t otherwisecome to Butler.

Bevis is double majoring in PublicRelations and Electronic Journalism,two majors that are currently splitbetween two of the three departmentsinvolved in the plans for the new college.

“As a student in both departments, [Ithink] there will be much more ease ofuse in the new college,” Bevis said.“Each professor will be more knowledge-able within the college as a whole.”

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But until she can return for spring break or during thesummer, she’s stuck watching the news and waiting forphone calls.

“I feel helpless,” Isidor said. “I feel like I should bethere, like I should be helping.

“At the same time, I’ve been encouraging myself, say-ing ‘Well, at least you can acquire a tool to go back.’ SoI’ve been studying even harder.”

* * *While the images of Haiti today show death and

destruction, Isidor said her vision of Haiti is full of beau-ty.

“The people are just amazing,” she said. “It can beaddicting. When people go, they always want to comeback.”

Although Isidor described her childhood as “sheltered”as a result of growing up in the church, she said she wasnot immune to the poverty of her country.

“Although I lived in a poor country, and I’ve knownhunger, and I’ve known what it’s like to live a hard life,I’ve gotten to see a lot of good things in Haiti,” she said.“Growing up, I remember the hard times, but I remembermostly how great it’s been being a part of the people andthe ministry my dad had.”

Isidor had the opportunity to travel the country with herfather, who was president of the Lutheran church in Haitibefore he passed away five years ago.

Their travels led her to understand how a country, evenone the size of the state of Maryland, is made up of dif-

ferent people, and no two areas are the same.“Where I live, nothing happens there,” Isidor said. “It’s

a small town and it’s always peaceful. We have mission-aries that come all the time and nothing ever happens toanyone. Mostly what happens is in Port-Au-Prince. Eventhere, it happens in certain areas, not all.”

But wherever she went, she said, the common denomi-nator was the heart of the people.

“The people are so resilient,” Isidor said. “They alwayshave hope that they will survive one more day. And theyhave a sense of contentment. Even if they don’t havemuch, they’re still happy.”

Butler sophomore and pre-physician assistant majorLynn Okuley experienced first-hand the love of theHaitian people during four trips to Haiti.

“There’s something about the people,” Okuley said.“Even though they’re so poor, they just love life.

“Going to Haiti changed my perspective on life com-pletely. We have so much in America and we don’t eventhink we could live or have a life worthwhile if we livedsomewhere like that, but these people live such greatlives.”

* * *For a country like Haiti, where nearly 80 percent of the

people make less than $1 a day, a devastating earthquakeis like pouring alcohol on an open wound.

As a future physician assistant, the issue that drivesIsidor is health care.

“A lot of people die of simple diseases that you wouldnot think anybody should die from,” she said. “I wouldlove to open a clinic for starters. I would like to have oneof the best hospitals Haiti can have, especially for chil-dren.”

But she doesn’t want to stop there, she said.“There are so many kids that have talent to do so

much singing, or poetry, or anything,” Isidor said.“I’d like to have a culture center for them. I waseven portraying how you have those little giftshops in the hospital, that it would all betheir work in that gift shop.”

But until then, Isidor said she wantsto raise awareness for her country andthe ways people in any country canhelp. She said she hopes to get a groupof physician assistant students to trav-el to Haiti in the spring or summer.

“Even before this happened, Haitiwas already in a bad shape,” Isidorsaid. “So it will take a long timebefore they can reconstruct every-thing, and repair for people personallyis going to be really hard. I think it’sgoing to take a lot of help, a lot of aware-ness, a lot of money and time.”

The Volunteer Center at Butler is doing its part to offerrelief to the people of Haiti.

The Center collected $1,446 at the Butler men’s bas-

ketball game Saturday to donate to UNICEF, an interna-tional relief organization. They also set up money collec-tion points in Atherton Union and in Starbucks lastingtoday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Studentsmay also check out a collection jar from the Center, col-lect donations during the day and return the jar to the cen-

ter at the end of the day.Senior Jennifer Schwab, who works in the VolunteerCenter, said she learned the importance of relief

efforts after a trip to Nicaragua to fix housesafter a hurricane her sophomore year of col-lege.

“It was heartbreaking to see all thesestruggles that these people had to gothrough,” she said. “Once you see peo-ple in need, it’s hard to forget that.”

Schwab said the money collection isthe Volunteer Center’s way of makingstudents aware of the issue while doingwhat they can to contribute.

“We do care about this and we dowant to give whatever we can,” shesaid. “Whether it be a dollar or a hun-

dred dollars, you’re showing that youcare.”

Isidor said she hopes people will get involvedany way they can.

“We need people who have a heart to help,” she said.“Haiti needs that now more than ever.”

David McCullough’s dedication and passion as a band instructor are reflect-ed in the decisions he makes and the actions he takes for the Butler Universitybands. He demonstrated that dedication when he played the Butler War Song,by himself, at a Butler alum’s funeral.

Every year, the Butler bands get requests to play at special events aroundIndianapolis. If McCullough can gather the right instruments together, a bandwill attend the events.

During winter break, McCullough received a request from Victor Mercer, anIndianapolis resident. The request was for a small Butler band to perform theWar Song at Mercer’s wife, Carolyn’s, funeral.

Carolyn was a Butler alum.McCullough said he e-mailed local band members and asked if they would

be able to perform the request. He received four positive responses from stu-dents, which didn’t include the correct instrumentation to play the song.

He got to thinking about another way the song could be performed.

“I told them I’d be more than happy to play it as a single trumpet becausethat would be a respectful way to play it,” McCullough said.

He said after sitting through the funeral service at NorthminsterPresbyterian Church and listening to all of the stories about Carolyn, he knewhow he should play the song.

He began and ended the song with a version of Taps, normally played atmilitary services.

“Most of the stories told were a celebration of Carolyn’s life,” McCulloughsaid. “Carolyn sounded like a person that I would have liked to have knownand the Taps version seemed like the best fit.”

McCullough said that he didn’t perform for any recognition, and that theMercers seemed like nice people with a sincere request.

“The event had nothing to do with me,” McCullough said. “I was only thereto do what they asked me to do. I could hear in his voice that Dr. Mercer real-ly wanted this to happen, but we didn’t have the students to do it.”

He said the only option left was himself.“Butler students do so much,” McCullough said. “This was something that

I could do to make a contribution.”

Olivia Ingleoingle@butler.edu

HAITI: Volunteer Center collection underway for Haiti earthquake relief effortsContinued from Page One

Collegian photo courtesy of Kétura Isidor

GOOD LISTENER: Kétura Isidor works withchildren in her home town of Les Cayes, Haiti.

Collegian photo courtesy of Lynn Okuley

FAMILY: Butler University sophomore LynnOkuley (top) has been on four mission trips to Haiti.

Collegian photo by Rachel Senn

OPINIONTHE BUTLER COLLEGIAN Page 5

Required Eating

Are Butler University’s mealplans worth their high cost?

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Journalism’s Fate

What does the future holdfor journalism students?

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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OUR POINT THIS WEEK: Students should actively support legislation that will ease the growing burden of student debt.

The national debate concerning health carereform has had many effects, not least amongthem is the disappearance of other pressing issuesfrom the public spotlight.

This has been the same fate of efforts address-ing chronic problems in student lending.

In September of last year—a week afterPresident Obama’s speech to a joint session ofCongress on the need for health care reform—theHouse of Representatives passed H.R. 3221, orthe Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of2009.

The bill includes numerous nuances and provi-sions, but its main goal is to increase direct lend-ing to students from the federal government.

It does this by reducing private management offederal loans by companies like Sallie Mae.Because the government will ask less of the likesof Sallie Mae, it will no longer pay these compa-nies huge amounts in subsidies.

Instead, funds will be diverted to increasing lev-els of government aid to students, particularly inthe form of Pell Grants to students from low-income households.

We at The Butler Collegian think this legisla-tion is excellent. While we understand concernsabout de-privatization, we believe that the finan-cial needs of students and their families shouldtake precedence over faith in the sanctity of freemarkets.

In recent years, student debt levels have spi-raled out of control. As recently as 2008, TheNational Center for Public Policy and HigherEducation found that the price of college tuitionhas increased by 439 percent since the 1980s,tripling the rise of family income during the sameperiod and even exceeding the much malignedgrowth of health care expenses.

Students have been forced to adjust—an adjust-ment that has meant more student loans. Today,nearly two-thirds of students graduating fromfour-year colleges are indebted.

For those who are, the average amount owedexceeds $23,000. To put things in perspective,only 58 percent of students were indebted upongraduation in 1996. Also, on average, they owedonly $13,200.

As one would expect, student debt is an issue of

particular relevance for those studying at privateinstitutions, particularly private institutions lack-ing large endowments like Butler University.

This is all the more reason for Butler students tosupport congressional efforts aiming to increasethe efficiency and availability of student lending.

What remains is for the Senate to take up itsown legislation, a process that is expected tobegin upon the completion of health care reform.

We encourage the Senate to pass a bill andPresident Obama to sign legislation when itarrives on his desk.

Accomplishing this will not be easy. Privatelenders are intensely lobbying Congress. Andthere are many on Capitol Hill who, in the clutch-es of ideology, cannot bring themselves to sup-port any form of de-privatization.

To get the job done, students across the countrymust make it clear to their representatives that itis not OK for college to be financed through per-petually increasing levels of debt.

The staff’s view: 19 agreed; 6 disagreed; 8 neutral.Visit www.thebutlercollegian.com for a dissenting viewpoint.

This week’s staffeditorial is aboutstudent debt.

Specifically, it’sabout supporting leg-islation that wouldhelp reduce studentdebt. To me, thislegislation seems to

be a good thing.In this column, I want to address

another facet of the debt issue. I want totalk about the relationship between debtand value and how indentured learningcoerces students into certain ways ofacting, thinking and ways ofprioritizing.

Let’s begin with word about coercion:While coercion is often perceived as aphysical thing, e.g., someone beingtortured for information, it can also beimmaterial—psychological, for exam-ple—or, in the case of debt, economic.

The coercing power of debt isstraightforward enough. A student whoowes lenders $23,000, which is justbelow the national average, must find away to pay that money back to thelenders or bad things are going tohappen.

Moreover, as few students have thecredit necessary to obtain loans on theirown, it is likely the case that badthings will not only happen to ourdelinquent (or should we say victim-ized?) student borrower, but also to his

or her family members, the usual co-signers.

In this fashion, a coercive relation-ship is established: Indebted studentsare systematically pressured to act inways that guarantee a certain measure offuture income. All the while, lurking inthe background, are consequences forinsubordination.

Thus, indentured status works to pro-hibit students from pur-suing certain sorts ofvalue, from pursuingideas, activities andvocations that promotecertain ends—mainlythose ends that do notcoincide with highincomes or withthe accumulation ofwealth.

What sort of valuesam I talking about? Toname a few, the onesthat include peace andjustice, environmental-ism and the arts, academics and human-itarianism. In short, those valueswhich, when pursued professionally,tend not to command large salaries.

The function of debt is to pull stu-dents away from these types of value.The process is readily apparent at theuniversity, where debt pushes studentstoward studying certain subjects andstudying those subjects in certain ways.

A liberal arts education is a dangerouspath for indentured students. A muchsafer route is a professional program—

business, pharmacy, marketing, etc. And even those daring enough to

study a subject such as philosophy arecoerced into doing so in a certain fash-ion—such as with the intent of attend-ing law school in hopes of becomingdebt free.

Lifestyles outside the classroom arenot exempted from coercion. Unliketheir wealthy colleagues, indentured

students cannot whim-sically spend theirspring breaks on serv-ice trips to Mexico orsummers buildinghouses in Somalia.

They may certainlywish they could pro-mote such laudableends, but these sorts ofvalue are closed off tothose who must devotetheir free time to labor.

The process obvi-ously does not end atgraduation. Just as the

indentured are forced to study in a cer-tain fashion, so they must work in acertain fashion.

Our philosophy student turnedlawyer, now saddled with anotherdegree’s worth of debt, is again preclud-ed from pursuing certain values. Publicdefenders don’t get paid like corporatelawyers.

This, then, is the coercion of theindentured, a relentless tractor beampulling the poor away from the mostnoble pursuits. The leisurely undertak-

ing of the highest values is a right notgranted to big borrowers—it is onereserved for their more fortunate peers.

To focus exclusively on the realm ofhigher education tragically is to riskmissing a larger point, for the closingoff of realms of value begins at a muchearlier age.

Long before divisions are madebetween university students, they aremade among families, school systemsand social groups.

Those from poor households and,generally from poor regions, are dis-criminated against from birth in thecompetition for value.

Whether peace activism or choralcomposition, such goals are too likelyto seem either alien or out of reach.When such values appear unattainable,those who are actually able to pursuethem are prone to become objects ofresentment or to become “elites”unsympathetic to the realities of“average Americans.”

Thus, not only can the poor be pro-hibited from professional pursuit of thehighest values, they can be made antag-onistic to them through processes ofexclusion.

The question of debt, then, must beunderstood not merely as an issue ofability to pay back loans. It must alsobe understood as an issue of ability tolive a certain sort of lifestyle and to par-ticipate in a vocation that endows onewith purpose and fulfillment.

Such things should not be elite. Theyshould be commonplace.

Caleb Hammanchamman@butler.edu

Student debt determines pursuits, aspirations, goals

“This, then, is the

coercion of the

indentured, a

relentless tractor

beam pulling the poor

away from the most

noble pursuits.”

Growing debt demands action

What is your hardestclass this semester?

“My evolutionclass,

Bio 310.”

Robbie FooteJunior

“MusicTheory.”

Daniel BenzelFreshman

“Accounting.”

Trevor DavisSophomore

“Stage Craftis going to be

a lot of work this semester.”

Jenny HoganSophomore

“Introductionto Psychologyis going to be

toughbecause I am

used to having theatre classes.”

Maggie SmithFreshman

By Ryan MurachPaw Prints

The Butler CollegianWednesday, January 20, 2010Page 6

OPINION OPINION

It’s no secret that theAmerican press is experiencingsome significant difficultiesthese days. Newspapers are dis-appearing left and right, and tel-evision and radio news stationsare constantly struggling toretain viewers and listeners whoappear to have become too disil-

lusioned to tune in. This trend bodes ill for college graduates hoping

to enter the journalistic field, as the job market hasbecome increasingly competitive in the face of thefaltering economy. A survey of journalism andmass communication graduates gathered annuallyby the University of Georgia found that job offersupon graduation, interview opportunities and full-time employment levels had all declined in 2008.

Nancy Whitmore, director and associate professorof the Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism atButler University, said this decline in opportunityis due mostly to the sufferingmarket, which has compelledcompanies to save money by cut-ting advertising and public rela-tions spending. This financialshift has had negative repercus-sions for newspapers, especiallysince they rely on advertising fora good percentage of their returns.

In order to survive in the fierce-ly competitive field, Whitmoresuggested that graduates be pre-pared with multiple skills, including writing,understanding of the web and social media, as wellas experience with video journalism.

“You have to come out with traditional skills,plus,” she said. “There are things that you can doto set yourself apart.”

While the economy is largely to blame for thedecrease in journalism job opportunities, it is notthe only factor negatively affecting the business.

Technology, while it has opened doors to a mul-titude of possibilities, has disturbed the definitionof what it means to be a professional journalist.High quality journalism certainly exists in today’sworld, but it has been drowned in a sea of televi-sion superstars and Internet bloggers who pullinformation from print media without committingthemselves to the excellence expected of theAmerican press.

The real journalists are the people on the groundwho serve the public by gathering and compilingthe important information.

If the definition of the professional journalist hasbeen altered in recent years, then the definition ofnews itself has undergone drastic changes.

Traditionally, journalists have been concernedwith information that the public needs to know inorder to function in a democratic society. However,it seems nowadays that the news consists only ofwhat people want to hear. Essentially, the press hasbeen partisanized within an inch of its life.Accuracy still exists, thankfully, but bias sneaks intime and time again.

Varun Vora, a sophomore business major, saidhe doesn’t have much trust in American journal-ism.

“I feel that a lot of American journalism isbiased,” he said. “It could be accurate, but it couldbe misleading as well.”

Whitmore said that this tendency toward politi-cal bias is, once again, due to economics. Newssources are aware that they can attract readers andviewers with conservative sympathies by reportingthe news based on the rightist perspective, thereforeassuring themselves the income. Leftist newsorganizations exist as well, so no amount of fin-ger-pointing will absolve either party of the guilt.

“It makes economic sense to slant the news,unfortunately,” Whitmore said. “News organiza-

tions are feeding the public whatthey want to hear instead of edu-cating them because they know itwill increase viewership.”

It might make economic senseto slant the news, but this gap incoverage is absolutely unaccept-able. No agenda should existwhen reporting the news, period.Money, while always important,should never, ever take precedenceover fair, accurate and objective

coverage. If political bias persists, the public’strust in American journalism, already fading, willdisappear entirely.

The Pew Research Center for the People & thePress conducts confidence polls throughout eachyear, asking the public to note whether it be confi-dence in the press coverage of certain events is highor low. Unfortunately, whether concerning the warin Afghanistan or the outbreak of swine flu, veryfew people have a great deal of trust in news cov-erage. This is nothing less than a tragedy — theAmerican press is supposed to be a bastion of fair-ness and honesty. Where, oh where, have the goodol’ days gone?

In order to survive the new decade, journalismmust reinvent itself. Graduates entering the fieldmust be prepared to work across media by cultivat-ing multiple technological skills, but they mustalso re-commit themselves not only to excellenceof quality, but also to fair and accurate coverage.They must be prepared to resist the pull of politicsand report what the public needs to know: the facts.Because the facts are, after all, the main concern ofevery journalist.

When I first came to ButlerUniversity, I was fairlyimpressed by the dining options.Compared to what was offered inmy old high school cafeteria, thefood at Butler seemed diverse,readily available and (mostimportantly) edible.

Sure, that sounds all right.But, remember that this was an introductory glanceat Butler’s dining experience through the eyes ofsomeone who went to a high school that onlyoffered food that was drenched in grease.

A year-and-a-half into my Butler education—withthe benefit of my experiences, thoughts and theaccumulation of a catalogue of complaints from mypeers—my opinion of the general dining experiencehas changed more than a little bit.

The first thing that truly began to strike me asquestionable about Butler’s meal plan was the sheercost of it. Essentially, every student living inButler’s dorms is required to buy one of the fourmeal plans that Butler offers (each of which costs$2,485 per semester).

Since most people participate inthis meal plan from Jan. 11 untilMay 8 (118 days), I figure thatcomes out to a cost of about $20per day in food costs.

Perhaps I’m just an overlystringent individual who realizesthe limitation of his own funds(I’m living off of student loansand wages made when I was actu-ally employed), but this seemslike a fairly high price for food,especially considering what we getfor this price.

Personally, I know that I could live off of twoJimmy John’s sandwiches per day for a cheaperprice of $14. Or, if Butler could actually offer decentkitchens for their dorm inhabiting students, someof us wouldn’t mind cooking for a change (whichalso would cost significantly less).

From what I’ve heard from my vegetarian friends,trying to avoid meat while on the meal plan atButler isn’t exactly an easy task.

Sure, there is a salad bar at both the AthertonUnion and the ResCo dining halls; and, the wrapsfrom C-Club’s deli do offer a touch of tasty diver-sity for those who avoid meat. And sometimes hotvegetarian meals are avaliable.

But nonetheless, being a vegetarian at Butler

isn’t the most comfortable or enjoyable exis-tence.

The choices are sparse, questionable in their qual-ity and rather repetitive on a week-to-week basis.

That’s to say nothing of the hours that the din-ing courts are available. ResCo closes by 1:30p.m. What’s more, trying to visit the ResCo din-ing area around noon quickly dissolves into a longwait to get into the dining space, a struggle to findtwo empty seats and a general feeling of congestedovercrowding.

C-Club—the home of the meal exchange systemthat theoretically allows students to grab food onthe run and get on with their overworked, hecticlives—is nice because it stays open for much of theday. Yet, it also becomes a bit of a time eater from5:30 to 7:30 p.m., when the crowds of studentslacking other dinner options flock to it.

When talking about Atherton, the thing thatmost people immediately note is that the food is farfrom exemplary. But even putting the quality of thefood aside, A-Town is still bothersome for a pletho-ra of different reasons.

During the later hours of the day, a kind of smogseems to fill the entire area and leaves those who sitin it with the feeling that they probably should take

a shower when they return totheir residences.

Additionally, the place is stillfairly crowded during the betterparts of the day.

The bottom line is that thebang for the buck ratio of Butler’smeal plan just doesn’t seem tomeasure up to what could beoffered.

I don’t mean any of this tocome off as belittling to theworkers who do their best at ourschool’s dining facilities. These

individuals do what they can to give the studentsdining options that they can appreciate and enjoy.

Rather, I regard this to be a closer look at whatour administration asks of its students and whatkind of profit margins are involved. If everyonewho lives within the dorms is required to buy intoone of the meal plan options, it truly should not betoo much of a stretch to at least ask that the mealplans give some measure of quality to go alongwith their price. The students deserve at least thatsmall courtesy.

But, hey; things can hardly be considered entire-ly bad. For those of us who rely on coffee to sur-vive the day, our university’s wonderful Starbucksgives us a convenient way to dispose of all our“Dawg Bucks.”

Tom Fryskatfryska@butler.edu

Mary Beth Sekelamsekela@butler.edu

High cost, unregulated private student loans are just one example ofwhy we need a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA).Indiana’s Sen. Evan Bayh sits on the Senate Banking Committee andis a key vote in creating a robust new watchdog that would keep an eyeon the loan market for students, and set strong rules for fairer privatestudent loan marketing and terms.

As someone who will graduate with about $70,000 in private loandebt from Indiana University-Bloomington (IU), I urge Bayh to createthe CFPA.

We’ve been told since we were young that a college degree is the keyto our future. Now that I’ve been in college for a few years, I alsounderstand how society benefits from our education. We are challengedto form a vision for impacting the world, and we get the training andtools necessary to do it.

I entered college intent on getting a business degree to make the bigbucks. But now, I’ve set my sights on a career in public service whenI graduate. My education at IU helped mold my political and socialviews in important ways and helped reform my priorities. I am deeplygrateful for it.

However at some point, the benefits of a college degree are undercutby the deep financial risk students take on to get it. The Indiana PublicInterest Research Group, a consumer advocacy organization at IU, justreleased a report finding that 62 percent of Indiana’s college graduates

carry student loan debt, averaging approximately $23,264 per student. Most is in the form of safer federal loans. But a significant amount

is in private student loans, which are unregulated and much riskier.Indiana students graduated with an average of $3,556 in private studentloans in 2008.

This is where the picture becomes even bleaker. Interest rates onprivate student loans can be as high as 18 percent, and fees can bepegged at 10 percent of the loan principal. Marketing is also aggres-sive, considering that two out of three borrowers with private studentloans forgo taking out the maximum in federal loans for which theyqualify.

The combination of shrinking state investment in higher education,stagnant federal grants and less parental assistance has left studentspicking up more of our educational tab. Against this backdrop, we areprime targets for private student lenders, standing by with the easyfinancing we need to attain our dreams.

The 33,000 students in Indiana who attend for-profit colleges arereally taken for a ride. Graduates from for-profit colleges carry an aver-age of $32,650 in debt. Many of these colleges make their own privateloans to the students, promising students a high paying job at gradua-tion to handle the repayment. In reality, those loans are a rip-off.

Corinthian Colleges Inc., a corporation that manages a collection offor-profit institutions, actually plans for more than 50 percent of itsprivate student loan borrowers to plunge into default.

Being the third child to enter college, I am fortunate to have a fatherseasoned in the loan process. However even with a financially savvy

father, I haven’t gone through the past three years without some bumpsin the road. My private loans were originally taken out through SallieMae. This year, my father and I discovered that the terms had changedsignificantly since my freshman year. As a result, we stopped borrow-ing from Sallie Mae and took out this year’s loan through my home-town bank.

Taking out these private loans was initially an easy decision I madetogether with my dad when I planned on a business degree. But now,I can’t help but feel a little trapped when I consider the reality of alower paying social service career combined with high private loanrepayment.

The bottom line is that the level of debt I have taken on for mydegree is my choice, regardless of the consequences. But at the veryleast, students and families should be assured that the private loan prod-ucts that are out there in the marketplace are fair and transparent. Andstudents should be protected from the predatory lending practices oftheir own institutions.

I think that a strong CFPA would not only bring some badly need-ed security to the uncertain world of private student lending, but, speak-ing first hand, it will help keep student dreams of a better world with-in reach. But in order for the CFPA to first be created, strong studentsupport for the proposal is necessary.

Andrew Merki is a junior at Indiana University-Bloomington, and thechair of the Indiana Public Interest Research Group. Visitwww.inpirg.org for more information.

Andrew MerkiContributing Writer

“The bottom line is that

the bang for the buck

ratio of Butler’s meal

plan just doesn’t seem

to measure up to what

could be offered.”

“Money, while always

important, should never,

ever take precedence

over fair, accurate and

objective coverage.”

Students need financial watchdog

Press sheds jobs, loses focusButler demands high prices,offers only mediocre meal plans

THE BUTLER COLLEGIANWednesday, January 20, 2010 Page 7

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Playlistof the Week

I've been following the NBC late-night meltdown just like everyoneelse, watching all the jokes about iton TV: Jimmy Kimmel's sharp-elbowed appearance on Jay Lenobeing the highlight, along with thekibitzing from network elders, rang-ing from Fred Silverman who heapedblame on NBC Universal chief JeffZucker to NBC sports guru DickEbersol, who trashed Conan O'Brien,calling him "chicken-hearted and gut-less" for taking a few jabs at Leno.Even if it isn't absolutely official, itlooks like Conan is finally a freeman, getting a big payoff while Lenogets to return (after the Winter

Olympics) to his old 11:35 p.m. ESTtime slot.

(And speaking of big payoffs, I canonly wonder how many office poolshave sprouted up in the past fewweeks, with over and under bets onhow long Zucker, who got everyoneinto this fine mess in the first place,keeps his job after the Comcasttakeover is completed.)

But what about Conan? He clearlyemerges with a big reservoir of sym-pathy as the poor guy (yes, theextremely highly paid poor guy) whogot the shaft, losing his show afterbarely a couple of months on the job.But as some of my TV-steeped col-leagues have shrewdly pointed out,where can he possibly go to replicatethe kind of late night talk show he'sbeen doing for years? ABC has alreadysaid it's not interested in hiring him.HBO isn't prepared to get into thelate-night talk show racket. And Fox,the network that normally would bemost aggressive in taking advantageof a competitor's misfortune, has alot of issues to overcome, startingwith a huge lack of enthusiasm fromits affiliates who see a Conan show asa losing game, as well as the finan-cial complications of footing thehefty bill for hiring O'Brien alongwith settling out the costly contractsfor reruns on Fox's TV stations.

This creates quite a bind forConan's team of WME talent agentadvisers. They've sprung him fromNBC, getting a big payoff, but wheredoes he go from here? With the late-night landscape already crammed withtalk shows, O'Brien (to use an analo-gy from his favorite sport) is like the

slugging first baseman who becomesa free agent in a year where there arealready loads of great first basemen onthe market.

Whatever he does, he's going tohave to take a serious pay cut. Sincethat's a given, I'd like to see him goto where his audience already isinstead of asking them to find him onan unfamiliar outlet. It's no secretthat Conan's audience is at least adecade younger than Leno orLetterman's audience. We also knowthat the younger the TV viewer, themore likely they are to be watchingcable TV, not the cobwebby program-ming available on network TV.

So if I were Conan, since I have totake a pay cut anyway, I'd be focusingon cable. And I'd also want to gosomewhere where I had a decent lead-in for my show, not to mention alead-in that might help me hang on tothe younger audience that has beendeserting TV in droves. Get my drift?If there were ever a perfect setup forO'Brien, it would be Comedy Central,which already has a powerhouse dou-ble bill of Jon Stewart and StephenColbert. Conan would be a great fitfollowing their shows, inheriting asmall (by network standards) butintensely loyal audience of viewersprimed for his droll, irony-filled com-edy routines.

The money wouldn't be the same,but I think it would be a liberating,low-pressure experience for O'Brien,who looks like he could use a breakfrom the high-stakes ratings deathmatch of network late-night TV.Instead of being told to tone down hisact and pretend to be an old fogy, as

NBC was asking him to do on "TheTonight Show," he could cut looseand get back to his roots, when he

was the most inventive, loose-limbedfunnyman on TV. It's time to letConan be Conan again.

New options for Conan despite bootPatrick Goldstein

MCT

Ke$ha’s ‘Animal’ stands out with upbeat club hits

Kesha Sebert, known by the stage name ofKe$ha, comes off as the girl at the party whomeveryone wants to know about: she’s wearing cow-boy boots and a vintage cutoff Rolling Stones T-shirt and didn’t pay at the door. Dancing on the cof-fee table in the living room, she is the epitome ofa stereotypical party animal.

Her No. 1 single, “Tik Tok” sold 610,000copies during the final week of December, settinga record for most sales during one week for afemale artist.

The concept for her debut album “Animal,”released Jan. 4, was that a woman who is sexistand inconsiderate can gain greater freedom by usingsex, binge drinking and an immense amount ofglitter. Interestingly, Ke$ha has recently beenannounced as an act for the 2010 revival of theLilith Fair.

All of the songs on the album have potential tobe top-of-the-chart singles, thanks to the producersand co-writers Dr. Luke (Britney Spears, KatyPerry), Max Martin (Kelly Clarkson, BritneySpears) and Benny Blanco (3OH!3, Spank Rock),who have mastered the art of masking bland andsometimes nonsensical songwriting by using anamount of Auto-Tune to which Lil’ Wayne and T-

Pain would even be skeptical. Ke$ha’s debut is ironic at times and almost self-

mocking when she rants about partying. Even hername is ironic. The dollar sign symbol is replacedwith a regular ‘s’ to show how she does not placeemphasis on earning money.

Case in point: she refused to appear in FloRida’s “Right Round” video and did not receive anymoney from sales of the song, even though thesong was a hit worldwide, thanks in part to hervocals on the hook.

Here, Ke$ha begins her irony-filled image anddouble-life of a record.

Sebert steps up her game from the hung-over

reminiscing “TiK ToK” in the single “Take it Off”and “Blah Blah Blah,” a song featuring electro boy-counterparts 3OH!3, in which she tells boys to notbe sensitive with all their “chit-chat.”

Though she comes off as a blonde party brat, shehas legitimate experience partying in the industry.Her mom, songwriter Pebe Sebert, used to bringKe$ha to industry parties and recording studioswhen she was a child.

After gaining a publishing deal in Nashville,Tenn., Pebe began encouraging Ke$ha to sing andthey began writing songs together, several ofwhich are on the album.

“Your Love is my Drug,” a song similar to the

Boys Like Girls’ “Love Drunk,” compares her loveto, well, drugs.

Ke$ha tries to rationalize her party persona andfoul mouth by trying to prove she has real feelingswith songs like “Hungover,” with lyric proclaimerthat her “heart is broken/like the bottles on thefloor/or am I just hung-over?”

She tries again with “Stephen,” a crying-outside-your-window song that almost comes off aspathetic when the whole chorus is dedicated towondering “Stephen/why won’t you/call me?”

“Dancing with Tears in my Eyes,” in which sheadmits to living a double life and living up to theold saying “being alone in a crowded room,”begins the streak of only semi-believable balladson the record.

Ke$ha’s best song lyrically, morally and musi-cally is probably “Blind,” a ballad with enough ofa beat to make you want to roll down your win-dows in the summer, but is also straightforwardenough to not make you laugh at the bubble gummetaphors.

“Dinosaur” is a song all about an older man try-ing to hit on her, and its lyrics are dedicated totelling him he needs to get a CT scan and that hebelongs in an retirement home. The beat soundslike a half-recycled Cyndi Lauper song and half-Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl,” even taking it tothe level where Ke$ha thinks it necessary to spellout the word ‘dinosaur’ in the chorus.

Even with songs like “Dinosaur” Ke$ha nevercomes off as rude or mean, just honest.

Overall Ke$ha, who is only 22 years old, sets upevery feeling that young 20-year-olds have to elec-tro-beat, whether it be wanting to party all night,waking up in a haze or having some feelings ofbitterness and resentment toward friends or exes.

The concept of “Animal” is considering, seeingif it’s OK for girls to turn the tables and go all-outin sexual relationships, and is it OK to wake up inthe morning in a bathtub?

The ballads don’t work as well as they should.Considering the amount of them on the album,they kind of throw off the listener from the “TiKToK” mentality, which, in general, is a fair repre-sentation of the album.

Ke$ha should definitely stick to party animal.After all, her best songs come from the depths ofdance clubs and late nights.

Kellye Donnellykdonnell@butler.edu

“Animal”CD REVIEW

Rating: ���5 = perfect, 4 = outstanding, 3 = good, 2 = fair,

1 = poor

Ke$haRCA Records

Collegian photo courtesy of flickr/stevegarfield

PARTY ANIMAL: Following the release of Ke$ha’s sassy debut album, “Animal,”she was announced as one of the artists to tour with the revival of Lilith Fair in 2010.

Collegian photo from MCT

SO LONG, NBC: Conan O’Brien will face a decision-making moment after JayLeno overtakes “The Tonight Show.” Possibilites are endless for this funny man.

Collegian photo from MCT

BACK TO 11:35: Jay Leno gets hisold time slot back on NBC’s late night.

A&E

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“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus”MOVIE REVIEW

Infinity FeaturesEntertainment

Directed by: Terry GilliamStarring: Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher

PlummerRated: PG-13

Time: 2 hrs. 2 min.

Rating: ����5 = perfect, 4 = outstanding, 3 = good,

2 = fair, 1 = poor

What’s Happening in Indianapolis

Weekend of: January 21- 23

“Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra”Jan. 21, 5 p.m.- happy hour, 6:30 p.m. - performance

Hilbert Circle Theatre

“Hip-Hop and its Influence on Global Culture”Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Panel featuring: Mathew Knowles, Jeffrey Johnson, Young Joc, Sandy “Pepa” Dentonand LeDeana Brown

Clowes Memorial Hall

“Leadership through the Arts Forum: Bernardo Rey”Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall

“Concert: Fiery Furnaces”Jan. 22, 8 p.m. (21+)

Radio Radio

“Theatre Performance: Bus Stop”Jan. 22, 8 p.m. (ongoing through Feb. 7)

Indianapolis Civic Theatre

“Barbie: The Fashion Experience”10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (ongoing through Feb.)

Indianapolis Children’s Museum

Oh, the days when Britney Spears andLindsay Lohan used to be the worstinfluences we had to face. Sure, theywere dabbling in who knows what, but atleast they weren’t starting brawls in barslike in the new controversial show“Jersey Shore” on MTV.

What is crazy is hard to define today,and it seems that it’s getting easier andeasier to ignore, making society moreand more jaded. Not only do we see noth-ing wrong with a guy punching a girl inthe face and (almost) televising it, we seeit as entertainment.

Most of us were younger whenAngelina Jolie went offthe deep end and had avial of blood strungaround her neck at alltimes, even whileattending the AcademyAwards with her then-husband, Billy BobThornton. On today’sspectrum, it wouldappear that Jolie wasclearly just preemptively really into thevampire craze.

Moving into more recent years, bothLohan and Spears had their moments.Lohan proceeded to dye her hair a Paris-Hilton blonde and throw away anyclothes that really covered anything.Spears, on the other hand, just felt thathair wasn’t really her thing anymore.

Yet, low and behold, they wereupstaged by Amy Winehouse.

Winehouse, for a couple years now,has been the epitome of bad hair, badmakeup, shredded clothes and addictionsthat even addicts wouldn’t be able to han-dle. Now, it’s to the point thatWinehouse’s pictures rarely surface inthe tabloids anymore, but when they do,it’s a simple update to the fact that she isstill the same person.

Until recently, Winehouse was thereigning champion of crazy, and no onecould really stop her. That is until“Jersey Shore” appeared on MTV inNovember.

Immediately after the debut, manyItalian-American groups stood up to thenetwork and protested its airing fordegrading Italian-Americans and catego-rizing all New Jersey Italians into onestereotype.

Though those groups have legitimatestances, as the show essentially hasfinally one-upped Winehouse by bring-ing in not only one, but seven wild,brash and crazy people. That is what Icall teamwork.

“Jersey Shore” is basically formattedlike “The Real World.” But for some rea-son, if you tan or like Bump-Its, thatmakes you immediately 20 times more

likely to get in a fight at a club. MTV has gone on record saying that

the show is not intended to “offend ordiscriminate” against anyone. Yet theyhave offended Winehouse: All her workhas added up to being beaten out byseven kids who fist-pump and drink… alot.

The show never got better as the sea-son went on; it didn’t even try to redeemitself from the two-hour premiere whichlanded all the cast members into the holygrail of more reality TV stars who don’tdeserve magazine covers or late-nightinterviews.

It simply moved into more dramaticthemes: another roommate gaining jailtime, confessions of eating disorders, and

“the situation finallygetting out of control,” abad pun made in anepisode summary ontv.com commenting onthe absurdness of thepersonalities in thehouse and Mike “TheSituation” Sorrentino.

“Jersey Shore” is oneof those shows that you

can’t even describe to people; you justhave to tell them to watch it because youwon’t be able to get them to grasp howridiculous it really is.

The show has already been reportedlypicked up for a second season with thesame cast, according to MTV, which isjust more bad news for Winehouse.

“Jersey Shore” is that kind of thingyou will tell your kids about, braggingabout having lived through it, just asyour parents tell you they lived in the erathat steroids weren’t in baseball yet. It’llbe savored, because who knows what caneven take reign of crazy behavior aftertwo whole seasons of this mess?

“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” has mostlyeverything right: the acting (with a few exceptions)is practically flawless, the imagery is dreamlike andthe music sets the mood for each scene perfectly.

But by the end of the movie, I wasn’t particular-ly sure of what had happened during the last 20minutes. Plot details are thrown at you one rightafter the other, and it becomes a little hard to keeptrack.

For the most part, Terry Gilliam’s film is anenjoyable two hours. Set in present day, it tells thestory of Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) andhis magical traveling imaginarium, in which audi-ence members choose between a good or an evilvisit. Unfortunately, Parnassus has been hiding adark secret, having made a deal with the devil, Mr.Nick, (Tom Waits) many years ago for immortalityand youth. In return for his youth, however,Parnassus pledged to give his daughter Valentina(Lily Cole) to him when she turned 16 years old.With Valentina’s birthday three days away when themovie begins, Parnassus strikes one more deal withNick involving his imaginarium, receiving a littlehelp from a strange man named Tony (HeathLedger).

Ledger keeps the audience enthralled throughoutthe entire movie. As the film was still incompleteupon Ledger’s death, his character was adapted tobecome a shape shifter, changing faces each time heenters the imaginarium. Johnny Depp, Jude Lawand Colin Farrell manage to stay true to the origi-nal concept of the character that Ledger portrayed,with Depp standing out of the three.

Waits, as Mr. Nick, manages to give you shiversfrom start to finish. Words seem to drip from hismouth. He steals every scene. You just can’t takeyour eyes off him as he toys with Parnassus andtries to seduce every soul that enters the imaginari-um. Plummer does well as the movie’s moral cen-ter and as a man trying desperately to save the onlygood part of his life. Only Cole’s acting leavesmuch to be desired.

Gilliam is perhaps best known for directingmovies in the ‘Monty Python” series. Althoughperhaps not as ridiculous, “The Imaginarium” iscertainly still full of slapstick humor and crazy sit-uations that stay true to Gilliam’s roots.

However, it is certainly hard to compare anything

with the imagery of the movie. The scenes set inpresent-day London are good, but those inside theimaginarium literally live up to its name. Based onpeople’s imagination, the scenes become differentfor each person. A small boy uses his video gamecontroller to pop larger-than-life balloons, while anelderly, wealthy woman walks through a pasteldream full of enormous shoes, pearls and diamonds.

Nick’s temptations in the imaginarium are sleazyand inviting, appealing to each person’s specificweakness, whether it be alcohol or lust.

The end is chaotic and caused a friend and myselfto discuss it fruitlessly for our entire ride home.Although I understood the final scene, it felt off ina way. More could have been done to resolve a fewissues.

“Imaginarium” is full of thrills and is an amazinglast performance by Ledger. For me, that alone wasgood enough to make me want to see it again.

Collegian photo courtesy of Flickr/Daniel Semper

THE FINAL SHOT: Heath Ledger shinesin his last movie role as mystery man Tony.

Caitlin O’Rourkecorourke@butler.edu

Collegian photo from MCT

THE HOT SPOT: Two ‘Shore’ nativespose outside the famous MTV hangout.

Kellye Donnellykdonnell@butler.edu

‘Jersey Shore’ sets newprecedent for crazy behavior

Ledger lives last role

Playlistof the Week

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“Dream a Little Dream of Me” - Louis Armstrong

“Dream On” - Aerosmith

“All I Have to Do is Dream” - The Everly Brothers

“Dream Love” - Yoko Ono

“The Dream is Over” - U2

“Daydream Believer” - The Monkees

“I’ll See You in My Dreams” - Frank Sinatra

“The Dream Song” - Joan Baez

“Dream Girl” - Dave Matthews Band

“In My Dreams” - REO Speedwagon

“Sleep to Dream” - Jason Mraz

“A Dream” - Jay-Z

“California Dreamin’”- The Mamas and the Papas

“I Have a Dream”

“Winehouse was the

reigning champion of

crazy, and no one could

really stop her. That is

until ‘Jersey Shore’...”

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Split Games Coaching Changes

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Women’s basketball splitconference road games in

Ohio last weekend.

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Some college football coaches haverecently packed their bags for greener

pastures—money that is.

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Men’s Tennis

at Ohio State

Columbus, Ohio

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vs. Wright State

7 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

at Loyola

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THURSDAY

Women’s Basketball

vs. Detroit

2 p.m.

Men’s Tennis

at Purdue

West Lafayette, Ind.

2 p.m.

Men’s BB continues league successThe Butler men’s basketball team made a

good start for themselves in 2010, remainingundefeated in the Horizon League (7-0) bysecuring wins over Cleveland State (7-12, 3-4HL) Thursday and Youngstown State (7-10, 2-6HL) Saturday.

During Thursday’s game, the Bulldogs fellbehind early, entering half-time down 31-30.Viking sophomore Jeremy Montgomery scored13 points in the first half and finished the gamewith 22.

However, Butler managed to battle back bytaking advantage of numerous CSU turnovers.Butler scored 20 points off 17 Viking turnoversin the game.

“Thankfully, there are two halves in a bas-ketball game,” Butler head coach Brad Stevenssaid.

Senior Willie Veasley added, “They’re a goodteam. When we were down, we realized weweren’t playing our style of basketball.”

Starting out poorly on defense wasn’t theBulldogs’ only problem, as sophomore GordonHayward had been severely ill earlier in the day.

“I didn’t know if he’d even play until 3:30this afternoon,” Stevens said.

Hayward ended up scoring eight points andgrabbing four rebounds in 30 minutes.

In the end, the Bulldogs found their game.Butler shot 53.7 percent from the field, andVeasley led Butler with 16 points.

Saturday’s game against Youngstown Stategave Butler their highest-scoring game of theseason and a 91-61 victory.

Butler started strongly, beginning the gamewith a three-pointer from sophomore ShelvinMack. Mack had 24 points, 22 of which werein the first half.

When asked if this game was Mack’s best ofthe season, Stevens said it wasn’t, adding, “I’veseen Shelvin play well a lot. He’s a guy thatcan score, that’s for sure.”

Stevens said that a lot of components playedinto the Bulldogs pulling off a win.

“Our guys came out with a lot of energy,” hesaid. “We made some shots and shared the ball.”

The team looked to junior Matt Howard for alot of shots inside, including three dunks.

“Their defense may have been focusing onother people,” Howard said. “The guards did agood job looking for me.”

Howard scored 22 points, the most he’sscored since Nov. 26 when he scored 23 pointsagainst Minnesota.

Veasley has been shooting at a noticeablyhigher percentage in recent games, includingSaturday’s game against the Penguins.

“Everybody’s confidence in every game hasgrown,” Veasley said.

That confidence was evident in the play ofjunior Zach Hahn, who scored all 12 of hispoints from behind the arc.

With a large lead secured late in the game, theBulldogs gave their younger bench players timeon the court. Freshman Andrew Smith scoredfive points in six minutes, and redshirt fresh-man Chase Stigall scored a three-pointer duringhis three minutes.

“We’re going to need Chase to play in thefuture,” Stevens said.

Noticeably missing from this game and morerecent ones was Howard’s trademark undershirt.

“It’s just something new,” Howard said. “Itdoesn’t have anything to do with how I play.”

As to whether he’ll keep playing without ithe said: “I like the way it feels. We’ll see.”

Butler hits the road for their next four gamesto face Loyola Thursday, UIC Saturday, GreenBay Jan. 29 and Milwaukee Jan. 31.

Sarah Blacksablack1@butler.edu

Collegian photo by Maria Porter

INTERIOR STRENGTH: Matt Howarddominated the paint against the Penguins.

Collegian photo by Maria Porter

EXTENSION: Shelvin Mack led all scorerswith 24 points in the home game against YSU.

Hayward named to short list for John R. Wooden Award

Sophomore Gordon Hayward has been selected to the MidseasonTop 30 list for the 2009-10 John R. Wooden Award given annu-ally to the player of the year in men’s basketball.

Originally presented in 1976, the award is named for legendarycollege basketball coach and Indiana native John Wooden, whopiloted UCLA to an unprecedented 10 national championshipsbetween 1964 and 1975. No other program has cumulatively won10 men’s basketball national championships.

Wooden, 99, remains active as the chair of the Wooden AwardBoard of Governors, comprised of 12 of college basketball’s great-est coaches.

Hayward, a native of Brownsburg, Ind., said he feels honored tobe part of a list for such a prestigious award.

“I never thought I would see myself on this stage so quickly,”he said. “It’s humbling to look at some of the other players whowere also selected.”

This marks the fourth consecutive year a Bulldog has beennamed to the Midseason Top 30 list. A.J. Graves was selected in2007 and 2008, Mike Green was nominated in 2008 and juniorMatt Howard was selected last year.

Hayward said he believes his nomination is primarily due toButler’s recent team success.

“You don’t just get nominated for this kind of award as an indi-vidual,” he said. “The team game has really become a Butler sta-ple.”

The results support Hayward’s assertion. The Bulldogs havequalified for the NCAA Tournament each of the past three years—the same years in which they’ve had players named to theMidseason Top 30 list.

Head coach Brad Stevens agrees with his emerging star.“It’s a compliment to [Gordon], but it’s also a compliment to

his teammates,” Stevens said. “Sure, it’s an individual award, but

the winning teams tend to have representatives.”It is hard to deny that Hayward is becoming a more complete

basketball player. Last season, he averaged 13.1 points and 6.5rebounds per game. This season, he currently averages 15.8

points and 8.4 rebounds per game, despite playing the same num-ber of minutes.

Hayward credits his improvement to a range of factors, startingwith the fact that he is now devoting more time to basketball.

“Basketball has always been my first love,” he said, “but Iplayed every sport growing up.

“I would always go from one sporting event to the next; some-times I even had to change in the car.

“Just being able to focus on basketball has been a lot of fun andhelped me become a better player.”

Second, Hayward said working with Butler’s head strength andconditioning coach Jim Peal has helped him develop his skills. Inturn, he said he has been able to more effectively drive to the bas-ket and battle for rebounding position inside the key.

And third, he credits University of Pittsburgh coach JamieDixon, who served as Hayward’s head coach on the under-19 USABasketball team, for being tough on him during practice and help-ing him to become a better all-around player.

As for the recent comparisons to NBA Hall of Fame memberand French Lick, Ind., native Larry Bird, Hayward said that at thispoint in his career, he remains undeserving of such high praise.

“It’s an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence with[Bird],” Hayward said, “but he was on a completely different level.

“I have a long way to go to even be compared with him.”Since Bird played most of his basketball before Hayward was

born, he said has not modeled his game after the Boston Celtics’legend at all.

“To tell you the truth, I haven’t seen [Bird] play very much,”Hayward said. “I’ve really modeled my game after [Phoenix Suns’point guard] Steve Nash.

“I like the way he distributes the basketball and gets his team-mates involved.”

The Midseason Top 30 list will be condensed to 20 players atthe end of February. The winner of the 2010 Wooden Award willbe announced in April.

Michael Ellismellis@butler.edu

Collegian photo by Maria Porter

HIGH PRAISE: Elementary school basketball players welcomeGordon Hayward as his name is announced at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

TRACK & FIELDBack in action, the Butler track and field team ran

to three individual titles and two runner-up finishesat the Notre Dame Opener Friday.

Senior Rob Mullet won the men’s 8000-meter,senior Steve Lisgo clinched the men’s mile andfreshman Lauren McKillop won the women’s mile.

Second place finishes came from senior MarbethShiell in the women’s 3,000 and junior Brent Severin the men’s 60 hurdles.

The Bulldogs will compete at the GladsteinInvitational Friday and Saturday in Bloomington,Ind.

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Women’s BB beats YSU, loses to CSUButler women’s basketball (10-6, 3-2

HL) finished their road trip 1-1 with a 74-48 rout at Youngstown State (0-17, 0-6HL) Saturday afternoon.

Senior Melanie Thornton led the wayto victory with 19 points and ninerebounds, while junior Terra Burns added11 points on a perfect field goal percent-age.

Butler head coach Beth Couture saidshe was pleased with her players’ intensi-ty and overall attention to detail.

“I felt like we accomplished what weneeded to accomplish,” Couture said.“We were more committed to defense,and we tried to get more shots in thepaint as opposed to just shooting three-pointers.”

The Bulldog defense surrendered just14 points in the first half. They alsoscored 30 points off of 25 Penguin

turnovers, which Couture said she feltwas a testament to her team’s commit-ment to the game plan and increaseddefensive intensity.

“It really showed our players that if wecan mix up our defensive looks and beintense, we can get offense from ourdefense,” Couture said.

Although the Bulldogs have returnedhome on a high note, they suffered a dis-appointing 81-68 loss at Cleveland State(9-8, 4-2) Thursday night.

Butler was resilient, trimming an 18-point half-time deficit to six with justmore than 14 minutes remaining. Butthe Vikings quickly responded with an 8-0 run, widening the gap to an insur-mountable 14 points.

Thornton and junior Alyssa Pittmanled Butler with 17 points each, whilejunior Brittany Bowen contributed 16points. The Vikings were led by seniorKailey Klein’s 19 points and 12rebounds. Off the bench, they and

received 14 points from senior AngelRoque.

Bench play proved to be a crucial fac-tor in the game, as Cleveland State’sbench outscored Butler’s 26-10.

Additionally, the Bulldogs were decid-edly overmatched on the boards. TheVikings won the rebounding battle 41-27, helping them to 15 second-chancepoints to Butler’s six.

“They just came out with the intensi-ty that we didn’t have,” Couture said.“We had three days to prepare for thisgame.

“We talked about the importance ofboxing out and jumping to the ball.

“We simply could not get it done ondefense and did not do what we needed todo to take them out of their strengths.”

Butler is currently fifth in the HorizonLeague standings, even though they havethe second-highest overall winning per-centage among league schools.

This week, the Bulldogs host ninth-

place Wright State (5-10, 1-4 HL) andsecond-place Detroit (6-10, 4-1 HL).They hope to gain ground in the stand-ings before heading north to face confer-ence, leading Green Bay (16-0, 5-0 HL)on Jan. 28. Ranked No. 17 in the latestAssociated Press Top 25 poll, thePhoenix are one of just five undefeatedteams remaining in Division I women’scollege basketball.

For now, Couture said that her teamcannot afford to look ahead to spoilingGreen Bay’s undefeated season.

“Right now, we really need to take careof business,” she said. “We have to beready to play every night.

“We want to finish first, second orthird in conference so we can play ourfirst round [conference tournament] gameat home.

“Besides Green Bay, the league is pret-ty even. The team that can improve andgo on a winning streak will be able toget that home game.”

Michael Ellismellis@butler.edu

Collegian photo by Rachel Senn

GOING UP: Melanie Thornton ledButler with 19 points against YSU.

Women’s tennis falls to Hoosiers

Butler’s women’s tennis teamdid not fare well on the score-board when they traveled to No.46 Indiana Sunday. They lost 7-0 to the nationally-rankedHoosiers, all matches ending instraight sets.

But head coach Jason Suschaobserved pieces to build uponwhile in Bloomington.

“A real positive was that wedidn’t play on our heels,”Suscha said. “IU is the tough-est team we’ll play all year, andthey hit the ball hard early inthe point.

“We may not be used to thatstyle of play, but we were ableto play it.”

Senior Molly Caspersonadapted to Indiana’s style thebest. She took her opponent,junior Katya Zapadalova, to afirst-set tiebreaker in the No. 3singles match.

“Molly came to the net a lotand was really physical (in hersingles match),” Suscha said.“If she keeps playing like that,she could work her way up tothe No. 1 spot.”

Casperson said that she feltreally comfortable with thatstyle of play and will continueto use it.

“It’s the easiest way for me towin points,” she said.

Zapadalova overcame theclose first set to win the match7-6 (7-3), 6-1.

“I think I capitalized on big-ger points more in the firstset,” Casperson said. “Plus, Ihad a strong start. I started up3-0.”

Casperson also played in theNo. 1 doubles match with sen-ior Becky Jenkins.

“I saw one of the best dou-bles efforts from Becky,”Suscha said. “She and Mollyplayed really well together.”

The pair lost to the Hoosiercombination of freshman LeslieHureau and junior MyriamSopel, 8-5, after Casperson’sserve was broken twice.

“We rely a lot on Becky’sserve because it’s a really bigserve in doubles,” Caspersonsaid.

Sophomore Cam Thompsonfell to Sopel in the No. 5 sin-gles match. Thompson lost thefirst set 6-0 but had a 4-3 leadin second until Sopel ralliedback to win three straightgames and the match.

Freshman Brittany Farmerdid well in her first officialmatch for the Bulldogs, losingthe first set by only one break.

“Brittany played one of her

best sets ever in the first,”Suscha said.

Farmer said she hit daily dur-ing the semester break in prepa-ration for the early springmatches and felt good about herperformance at Indiana.

“I was hitting the ball welland dictating play on mostpoints,” she said. “(JuniorMaria Guerreiro) was able todefend just well enough andpick her times to be aggres-sive.”

Guerreiro defeated Farmer 6-4, 6-0.

Butler women’s tennis con-tinues its stretch on the road,when they travel to LouisvilleFriday.

“Louisville is a really solidtennis team,” Suscha said. “Butwe will have some opportuni-ties to win some matches, if wecan capitalize on some moregame points.”

Farmer said she will look tocontinue striking the ball welland implement improvements.

“I need to increase my con-sistency and look for opportu-nities to close in at the net tofinish points,” she said. “I willlook to be aggressive with mygroundstrokes and improve myserve.”

Play at Louisville begins at 6p.m.

Steven Peekspeek@butler.edu

College Soccer News recently honoredButler forward Julian Cardona by naming himto their 2009 All-Freshman Team. The fresh-man was selected to the third team of thehonor squad that recognizes the nation’s topfreshman performers.

Cardona, a native of Omaha, Neb., hasbeen playing soccer since he was six yearsold and said the success of this season wasmore than he could have imagined.

“I really wanted to play Division I,”Cardona said. “And now I know that I canplay at this level.”

Cardona adds this honor to his other award:Horizon League Newcomer of the Year.Cardona led the Horizon League in game-win-ning goals, and he finished sixth in theleague in scoring. During the 2009 season,Cardona led the Bulldogs in scoring with sixgoals and three assists while playing in all 19matches.

Cardona also played baseball but droppedthe sport when he chose to go to a schoolthat specialized in soccer.

“I was pretty good at it [soccer],” Cardonasaid. “I had good friends playing it; my par-ents encouraged it. There was really no downside to playing soccer.”

Cardona was a junior at Shattuck-St.Mary’s, when he first caught the eye ofButler.

“[Butler] is a great place, as well as greatacademically,” Cardona said.

Cardona credits his coaches for the successhe had this season.

“I listen to my coaches; they know me andthey show me how to fix problems andimprove my game,” Cardona said.

To improve on the 2009 season, Cardonasaid that it is going to take more hard workbut that he is up to the task.

“I enjoy it,” he said. “Everyday, I justenjoy it.”

As to the awards, Cardona says they helphim look forward to next year.

“Not to downplay it,” he said, “but it’s noteverything. After all, it’s awesome. It helpsmy confidence because I know I can play atthis level, but now it motivates me to play atthis high level all the time.

“These awards keep me hungry for more.”Butler head coach Kelly Findley said he

saw Cardona take it upon himself to workhard individually.

“I hope he continues to improve the way hedid this season,” Findley said. “Otherwise, hewill not be the player I know he can be.

“He has all kinds of potential.”However, Cardona attributes all of his suc-

cess to his team.“We have a great team where I can really

perform well,” he said. “It’s all about theteam; that’s why I had the success I did thisyear. We have great chemistry as a team.”

Cardona’s first year of play led to a produc-tive year for the Bulldogs, as they played to a14-3-2 record, the third highest win total inschool history. During the season, Butler wasranked as high as No. 17 in the nation, cap-tured a regular season league championshipand earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

“As the season progressed,” Findley said,“he was a vital player for us.”

Freshman forward receives honorMegan Moles

mmoles@butler.edu

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Coaching football for fame or fortune?Remember when you were lit-

tle and your parents said, “Moneyisn’t everything?” I don’t thinkmany football coaches ever heardthat.

This season, college footballsaw University of Cincinnati’sBrian Kelly leave a program heturned into a BowlChampionship Series (BCS) con-tender for the University of NotreDame. Despite the Irish’s recentstruggles, the new job was sureto offer him more money, not tomention the ability to say he isthe head coach at Notre Dame.

Kelly took the Cincinnati pro-gram and turned it into a teamthat went to two straight BCSBowls. After becoming headcoach for the Bearcats, Kelly ledthe team to their second ever 10-win season in 2007, their firstsince 1949.

The next season, he led theteam to their first ever outrightBig East Championship and aspot in the Orange Bowl.

In 2009, Kelly led the team,unranked at the beginning of theseason, to an undefeated regularseason and a spot in the SugarBowl.

But then he got the offer fromNotre Dame and left the team tobe coached by assistant ButchJones.

He first shocked, then aban-doned, a team he took to thenational spotlight. He leftCincinnati with an impressive34-6 record.

Kelly’s story doesn’t stand

alone. He’s one of many coaches,both at the collegiate and profes-sional level, who will stand on adifferent sideline next season.

Amid controversy about play-ers’ gifts, University of SouthernCalifornia (USC) head coach PeteCarroll made the shocking deci-sion to leave a team that broughthim great success.

As head coach for the Trojansfrom 2001 to 2009, Carroll ledthe team to an overall record of97-19, going 62-14 in confer-ence. The team went to threestraight National Championshipgames between 2003 and 2005,winning the first two. They wonseven conference titles and sixBCS bowl games. They werecalled a dynasty.

But that dynasty meant nothingwhen Carroll was offered theopportunity to jump back intothe National Football League(NFL) and become the head coachand executive vice president of theSeattle Seahawks.

Something drug Carroll awayfrom the college football dynastyof the 2000s. The prestige ofbeing a great college coach wasn’tenough.

To complete the coaching cir-cle, University of Tennessee headcoach Lane Kiffin announced hewould be the next coach of theUSC Trojans just one year afterhe accepted the position as theVolunteers’ head coach.

According to espn.com, Kiffinwill have to pay $800,000 to theUniversity of Tennessee to leavehis contract.

But Kiffin’s situation may bedifferent. It may not be money

which drew him away from theVolunteers and to the successes ofUSC, as he has been on the movelately.

Before his single Tennesseeseason, he spent slightly morethan a year as head coach of theOakland Raiders before he wasfired from that position inSeptember 2008.

In the 20 games he coached forOakland, Kiffin achieved a mea-ger record of 5-15. At Tennessee,Kiffin led the Volunteers to a 7-6record, ending the season with aloss to Virginia Tech in theChick-Fil-A Bowl.

However, Kiffin’s time atTennessee was not without con-troversy. Before the team evenplayed a game, Kiffin accusedFlorida Gators’ head coach UrbanMeyer of recruiting violations.Then, he was found to have com-mitted three recruiting violationshimself.

Maybe Kiffin was just tryingto get the heck out of a schoolwhere he started with such con-troversy. Maybe he’s looking forgreat success at a program with agreat history of success. But he iswalking into a program, as men-tioned above, that is dealing withNCAA investigations regardingpossible gifts given to players

It’s not the first season coach-ing controversies have occurred.

In 2007, Rich Rodriguez leftthe University of West Virginia,where he became one of the mostsuccessful coaches in school his-tory, to become the head coach ofthe University of Michigan, aprogram steeped in rich history.

The announcement of

Rodriguez’s retirement came justfour months after renegotiatinghis contract with West Virginia.

Because of this, Rich Rod wasforced to pay $4 million to WestVirginia for breaching his con-tract, $2.5 million of which waspaid by Michigan.

So why coach? For the money?For the prestige of coaching ateam known for its successfulprograms? It’s hard to know.

But coaches should be respect-

ful in their decisions and not leavein a controversial way, as some ofthe coaches mentioned in thisarticle have.

I respect those coaches whostay with their teams throughthick and thin.

So to those coaches who aretaking a ride on the crazy coach-ing carousel, leading them fromschool to school, program to pro-gram, NFL to college and back,take note of Joe Paterno, head

coach of the Penn State NittanyLions since 1966.

Yes, he has two national cham-pionships under his belt as wellas NCAA records for wins andbowl wins. But you know whatelse he has? Seasons in which histeam went 3-9 and 4-7.

Joe Pa has stuck by his pro-gram through thick and thin. Irespect that. And sometimes,respect means more than a pay-check or a title.

Emily Newellenewell@butler.edu

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CAROUSEL: (clockwise from top-left) Former USC coach Pete Carroll; former Tennesseecoach Lane Kiffin; Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez; former Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly.

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