By: MATT ZAKROWSKIStaff Writer

For the sixth consecutive year, the Indiana University South Bend School of Busi-

ness and Economics has been se-lected by The Princeton Review as one of the best business schools in America. The 2012 edition includes 274 of the best business schools in the United States and 20 of the top schools internation-ally. IU South Bend was one of just 61 schools in the Midwest selected for this list. The review stated that, “Indi-ana University at South Bend offers an ‘Exhaustive’ MBA that provides ‘low cost, high accredi-tation,’ and ‘convenience’ to its locally-based, largely profession-

al student body.” Also noted was IU South Bend’s commitment to flexibility and the option of eve-ning classes for working students. The School of Business and Economics, which has concentra-tions in finance and marketing, also received positive marks for its 17 to one student-faculty ratio, with 35 faculty members teach-ing 257 students. A student in the review was quoted as saying, “Ev-ery class has 15 to 20 students in it, so the professor can take care of everyone.” The Princeton Review states, “None of these lists purport to rank the schools in terms of overall quality.” There fore, the schools are not ranked overall,

but the review does have top ten listings for many things includ-ing, best administered, best pro-

fessors, greatest opportunity for minority students and women and toughest to get into.

By: ROGER TIMMSStaff Writer

In the past few years IU South Bend has seen a large increase in enrollment. With all these

new students, the current facili-ties have struggled to properly accommodate their demands. Everyone has had to deal with difficulty finding a parking spot and long lines at the various food vendors around campus. Campus clubs and organiza-tions also have to struggle and compete for facilities and con-ference rooms to conduct their weekly activities. The Student Activity Center is often barely able to handle the demand for meetings and events clubs want to put on. These growing pains are acknowledged by the admin-istration and efforts are being made to alleviate them. The new Education and Arts building is already under con-struction. The construction site is closed off to pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Kenneth Baierl, Director of Communication and Marketing at IUSB, stated, “No disruptions to classes and stu-dent activities have occurred. The classes in Greenlawn will be moved to the Education and Arts Building when it is completed in 2013.” With this success, IUSB has started to plan for more pos-

sible long-term projects around campus. These new additions would add additional parking to sev-eral areas around campus, as well another whole garage next to the Northside building. This will go a long way to address one of the main issues students raise here on campus. The Greenlawn building is also tagged for possible demolition according to Baierl. Resulting free space will be used as part of

a renovated central quad area. The idea is to give students a nice place to relax and gather in be-tween classes. This new quad will be adjacent to one of the main components of the proposed land-use plan, a student union building. “Be-cause of the growth of student life and athletics on campus, a student union building is on the list of possible needs for IU South Bend,” said Baierl. It would have several rooms to help ease the de-

mand on the SAC for meetings and activities. There would also be several new dining options and areas for students to social-ize. New opportunities would be provided to our ever-growing campus with the student union building. Other possible features include a new building for the Purdue Technology Center, addi-tions to the River Crossing apart-

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By: KELSIE FERGUSONManaging Editor

The IU South Bend Delta Sigma Phi fra-ternity recently earned

the transition from a colony to a Chartered Chapter - the Iota Gamma Chapter. Two and a half years, and 20 ac-tive members after their start on campus, the fraternity has made great progress. IUSB has one chartered sorority here on campus, the Alpha Sigma Tau. Another, Theta Phi Alpha, is also getting their charter in December. “This is a very exciting time for us all,” says Tylen Baker, an active member of Delta Sigma Phi. He explained that working up to this position required members to have 100 percent club involvement, along with other requirements. The club as a whole will now be official-ly recognized as a Chapter in regional events. The fraternity will also now be given a new vote status at convention. The level of weight a fraternity’s vote has is based on size. “Convention is where we vote on certain topics that af-fect the whole fraternity…as a colony you are allowed half a vote, when you are chartered you get two votes. So it’s like the senate of the fraternity,” stated Baker. Not many changes will have to be made among the frater-nity now. However, they do need to maintain all the previ-ous requirements to keep their charter. Members who have worked hard for this moment were very excited and proud to see the work pay off. Interested in finding out more? Contact the frater-nity’s president, Henry Lowry at helowry@iusb.edu or call 574-850-4211. You can also visit the website at http://www.iusb.edu/~dspiusb/pnm.html.

Greek life at IUSB shapes up

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Greenlawn Hall is scheduled to be demolished to make way for future renovations.

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The IUSB school of Business and Economics is featured in The Princeton Review

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Holiday volunteer and donation opportunities for IU South Bend studentsBy: SARAH DUIS Staff Writer

Temperatures are falling and the holidays are near-ing. The economy is suf-

fering and according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment in St. Joseph County is nearly 10 percent. Many members of the community are struggling to put food on the table, heat their homes or find a safe place to sleep for the night. Fortunately, there are a wide range of opportuni-ties in the area for IU South Bend students to lend a helping hand. The South Bend Center for the Homeless (SBCFH) is one of many area organizations seeking community support in order to help those in need. “We’ve got people here now who never expected that they would be homeless. They’d drive by up Michigan Street and say ‘Oh, I’ll never be there,’ and now they’re here. They’ve been laid off. Their store is closed, the fac-tory is closed, maybe it moved out of town or went bankrupt, and they’ve found themselves unable to secure another job,” said Peter Lombardo, director of commu-nity involvement for the SBCFH. Lombardo is in charge of organiz-ing volunteer events and educating the community about the shelter. Lombardo said that they are in need of toiletries, tow-els, socks and blankets for the over 200 men, women and chil-dren who currently reside there. “We’re getting into winter so good warm clothing would be es-sential,” he added. “If anybody is cleaning out their closets, we can use any parkas or gloves that people aren’t using and we can give

them to people who need them.” Donations can be dropped off at the center before 10 p.m. through-out the week at 813 S. Michigan St. There are also opportunities for volunteering at the SBCFH that can be designed around the inter-ests and schedule of the volunteer. “If a club has three or four members who live in town and they might want to take our kids ice skating some afternoon dur-ing [winter break] that would be spectacular. The kids here have some challenges. It’s not easy living here, so we try to make it some-what pleasant and happy for them.” The SBCFH will hold a volun-teer orientation on December 7 at 6 p.m. Those interested in volun-teering should attend or contact Peter Lombardo at 574-282-8700, ext. 81322 or email him at plom-bardo@cfh.net to get started. For additional information on what to donate or ways to volunteer for the SBCFH, visit www.cfh.net. There are also upcoming donat-ing opportunities on the campus of IUSB. “Food for Fines is a program that’s run to be a community out-reach from the library and the IUSB community to the South Bend greater community,” said Katherin Plodowski, circulation supervisor for the Franklin D. Sch-urz Library. “For every can or item a student brings in to pay for fines, we forgive a dollar of their fines.” The program will last two weeks, starting the last week of classes and continuing through the week of finals. The donated items will be sent to the Northern Indiana Food Bank. All food must be non-per-ishable and may be brought to the circulation desk on the first floor

of the Franklin D. Schurz library. Subtracted fines will ap-ply to overdue fees, but dam-age or replacement fees are in-eligible. Students without fines are welcome to donate as well. A useful online resource for find-ing additional service opportuni-ties in the area is Make a Differ-ence Michiana. They are a local organization that aims to connect members of the community to lo-cal non-profit organizations. Us-ing a search engine, people can find a volunteer job or donation center that is best suited for them.

According to their website, they currently list over 350 local orga-nizations, along with hundreds of local volunteer opportunities and donation needs. Their service area includes St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall, LaPorte and Kosciusko counties of Indiana and Cass and Berrien counties in Michigan. To find a donation center, food pantry, homeless shelter, soup kitchen or other non-profit orga-nization in your area that you or your campus club or organization would like to assist, visit www.makeadifferencemichiana.org.

‘Tis the season for giving: Adopt a family for the holiday seasonBy: LYSA WINSTONStaff Writer

Through the entire month of November, the Student Alumni Association (SAA)

is working with the statewide not-for-profit organization, Grandpar-ents as Parents, to adopt a family of four this holiday season. Grandparents as Parents helps assist grandparents as well as relative caregivers and guardians who are raising children who are not their own. According to the Grandparents as Parents website, “In the South Bend area there are 2,300 grandparent headed house-

holds and 700 in Mishawaka. In the state of Indiana, there are 96,169 grandchildren being raised by their grandparents.” This could definitely be a hardship on grand-parents during the holiday season. Kelly Eberhart, Assistant Alumni Director and Advisor of the SAA mentioned that this is a great ini-tiative for IU South Bend to partic-ipate in. “It’s a need in the commu-nity. In order to meet the need we have an obligation as a university,” said Eberhart. This initiative is completely stu-dent led. The reason the donations

are being accepted so early is to let students prepare for final examina-tions, and for the family to receive their gifts in time for the Christ-mas holiday. The SAA has never done this before, and hopes to continue this initiative next year if this year goes well. Anyone can donate items at the Alumni office through November 30, 2011. Please contact Kelly Eb-erhart with any questions at (574) 520-4383.ADOPT A FAMILY WISHLIST6-year old girl: Sizes 7-8 girls, fa-

vorite colors are red and pink, Pil-low Pet (Lady Bug), Polly Pockets, Barbie & books2-year old boy: Sizes 4T, favorite colors are red and blue, anything from the movie “Cars”, educational toys, coloring book & crayons, books1-year old girl: Sizes 24 months, sleepers, sippy cups, Baby EinsteinAll children need books, hat, gloves, scarves and snowsuits.Grandma: Sizes XL, 18 pants, fa-vorite color is red, candles, long robe, hat, gloves, scarf, anything Mickey Mouse for the kitchen.

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It was a night full of music, dancing and applause as over 100 students currently

enrolled in dance classes at IU South Bend showed off the skills they have been learning all se-mester. From ballet to flamenco to social dance, students and in-structors alike performed in the “Studies in Dance: A Lecture Demonstration” held on Friday, November 4. The night began with ballet students performing dances from the popular Swan Lake ballet. A mixture between seasoned danc-ers and beginners, the ballet stu-dents gracefully moved across the stage in their swan make-up and leotards.

“I’m not a dancer, but I thought that it was really fun to perform in front of everyone,” said Chris-tina Pierce, a ballet student. “I think it’s something everyone should experience.” Integrating the new media department into the show, New Media and Informatics Professor Eric Souther led one of his classes in programming sounds based off the movements of dance students who choreographed their own short routines. The new media students had a camera set up viewing the danc-ers. The camera was connected to equipment programmed to make digital sounds in real time with the movements of the dancers. Soloist Emily Barker performed a dance she choreographed her-self to music to lead into the

modern dance section of the eve-ning. The modern dance class seemed to be more contemporary and natural than the dances pre-viously performed. Before intermission, the night spiced up as the flamenco classes performed an exciting dance to traditional flamenco music with a fast-tempo. The bright colors of the costumes and the number of students performing added to the energy of the performance. After the flamenco students finished, dance instructors Car-olynn Hine-Johnson and Vladi-mir Sorokin performed a flamen-co duet that kept the audience on the edge of their seats with energy and excitement. After intermission, the energy was still high as the Middle East-ern dance students performed

traditional belly dancing in their traditional costumes. They were dressed in shimmering, vibrant colors with beads around their waists to make music as they danced. The jazz dance students fol-lowed suit and performed two dances to two popular songs of-ten heard on the radio or at local night clubs. The audience also seemed to dance along to these songs in their seats. Karen Pajor performed the only tap dance of the night, a solo to a fun musical song. She grinned the entire time and her fast legs and gesturing arm waving en-tertained the audience greatly, as they applauded her loudly at the end of her performance. Latin Dance continued the eve-ning. This class meets on Satur-

days and dance professor David Seymour said that the group had a lot of fun every week. “I am very impressed with this group,” he said. “Not only do they have natural rhythm, but they have flavor too!” The class performed three tra-ditional Latin dances: meringue, bachata and salsa. Before each performance, Seymour went over the brief history of each dance. The night ended with the social dance class. Girls dressed in for-mal dresses and boys dressed in suits and danced in a formal ball-room style. Though some of the dancers bumped into each other and they changed partners often, it was a fun dance to feature as the finale.

IU South Bend’s student dancers show off their skills

ments, and another unspecified academic building for classes. All of these projects are purely hypothetical at this point. They are all in the planning stage, and no one currently enrolled is likely to see any of the proposed additions. Baierl explained, “The land-use plan was designed to look 20 years ahead. It is still be-ing developed and has not been finalized. None of the proposed buildings have been approved or budgeted. The process for any individual building could take 10 years from start to finish.” All IU campuses were required to draw up plans and present them to the board of trustees. Approvals of these plans still are contingent of many factors such as budgeting and enroll-ment numbers in future years here at IUSB. The plans address the large demand for space and facilities that currently exist on campus and these demands need to keep growing to justify all the expansions. Many students will have ideas for things they would like to see on campus. IUSB does welcome all comments and suggestions, but would like them to be well thought out and have a specific request. Any such proposals can be submitted to the representa-tives of the Student Government Association.

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By: JOE KUHARICStaff Writer

On the night of Friday, November 4 the Midway Tavern in Mishawaka

was packed with patrons wait-ing to laugh. They had come to see the “First Annual Michiana Comedy Competition.” Patrons paid a modest cover charge, $5 for general admission and $3 for valid college and mili-tary ID’s, which went toward the cash prize for the winner of the competition. 12 comedians were assembled to be a part of the competition. Each of them vying for a spot as one of the six finalists set to com-pete on the following Friday No-vember 11 and ultimately to win a coveted trophy and a cash prize. One of the competitors was IU South Bend’s resident comedian Jeff Carrier. Carrier began his comedy career at IUSB last year at an Open Mic night. Friday’s show was the first competition in which he has participated. “It’s not as depressing [as other forms] of writing,” he said with a wry smile. Carrier explained that he has always enjoyed performing and writing; to him comedy is a mar-riage of the two. The competition was arranged by Jon Hancuff, a Michiana native and former IUSB student. Han-cuff started working on creating a competition approximately a year ago and has striven to make it a reality. He has already put to-gether three shows over the past year and would like to expand the Michiana event to a three show event in the future. Based on the positive reception of the community, Hancuff plans

to begin hosting comedy shows once a month at the Midway Tav-ern. The program he intends to kick start is called “First Friday Comedy Night” and will begin in December of this year. As the name implies the shows would occur on the first Friday of each month and Hancuff is working hard to have national headliners involved as part of the shows. 22 comedians applied to be a part of this year’s competition, of them only 12 were chosen to per-form their comedy on stage. The six winners going on to the finals were selected by audience vote the evening of the performance.

The votes were tallied while lo-cal comedian and headliner for the event, Jack Hull, took to the stage to entertain the audience. It took slightly longer than expect-ed to find the winners but even-tually the six were revealed. Car-rier, unfortunately, was unable to advance in the competition but managed to keep a positive attitude. “[They’re] like writer’s workshops, but funny!” he said about comedy shows and compe-titions. The finalists consisted of Car-men Dusek, Harry Moroz, Mike Maxwell, John Cessna, Dwight Simmons and Corbin Recke.

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IUSB’s Jeff Carrier performing his five minute set at the Michiana Comedy Competition

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Students excavate pig remains for forensic field studyBy: ROGER TIMMSStaff Writer

IU South Bend students in the Fundamentals of Archaeol-ogy class unearthed the re-

mains of a large pig a few days be-fore Halloween. No, they didn’t find some random pig carcass on campus. It was actually buried there almost two years earlier by Professor James VanderVeen. This was done to give students in his forensic anthropology class the following spring an oppor-tunity to conduct a field study. “I wanted the students to get a chance to see decomposition of a body and identification tech-niques used. Pigs are the closest analogue to humans. They have thin skin, and their teeth are of-ten confused for human teeth,” explained VanderVeen. The pig was initially exhumed for the class in the spring of 2010 and then reburied until the stu-dents of Dr. Josh Wells’ class dug it up. It was buried under a fairly shallow layer of dirt, so they went out with shovels only instead of any kind of digging equipment. Vanderveen felt that slowly digging with shovels helped the students see the sluggish pace of archeology. “As they dug with shovels, they would notice pieces of evidence that we had inten-tionally left behind. If they hadn’t been going carefully and slowly digging with shovels they would have never noticed these clues.”

After being dug up, the pig wasn’t immediately put back to rest. The current Anthropology of Zombies class also had a chance to examine the body. With zom-bies becoming a big part of Pop Culture in recent years, the class takes a look at the history of zom-bies in society. It examines both the traditional religious views on reanimating dead, and the Holly-wood depiction of rotting sham-bling corpses. Many of the students in the

Anthropology of Zombies class were also involved with the initial burial of the pig almost two years prior. The focus of their exami-nation of the body was on the way the tissue decomposes and the ef-fects it had. Professor VanderVeen wanted to show the students that the Hol-lywood version of zombies would be very unlikely. “The reality of reanimated dead wouldn’t be like it is portrayed in movies and tele-vision. A dead body loses almost

all muscle tone. The skin will break and fall off. They wouldn’t be the fearsome zombies that you sometimes see in horror,” said VanderVeen. The pig was reburied again af-ter the two classes got a chance to examine it. Hands-on experi-ence in the fields of anthropology and archeology is very valuable, and for some of the students in these classes it was their first real chance to do field work. With dig sites and forensic research activi-

ties being very limited, creating opportunities the way Professor VanderVeen did becomes almost necessary to give students a full experience in the field. The faculty has plans to con-tinue using the pig in the future. It is considered a resource for the department and will provide a knowledge base as the corpse is reexamined year-after-year.

MARIA HUBBARDStaff Writer

On Friday, November 4, two professors of English, Dr. Jacob Mattox and Dr.

Lee Kahan, spoke at a feminism and gender studies open forum on the second floor of Wiekamp. They gave separate presentations explaining their approaches to teaching feminist protest litera-ture and the symbolic content of various texts. Mattox spoke first. He is a vet-eran professor of ENG-L207, a class that focuses on women writ-ers. He explained that “There are different ways of defining protest literature. Some attach to a spe-cific protest movement. I take a broader approach.” He pointed out that “literature that is meant to convince does

not have a hard and fast line be-tween art and propaganda. I want students to erase that line because keeping it is over-simplistic and problematic.” He added, “Some protest overtly; others implicitly.” Mattox said that he likes to help students pinpoint what a text ar-gues and what strategies it uses to make its arguments convincing. Sometimes these arguments in-tersect with questions concerning race. Historical context, Mattox said, is important to understanding why authors are making certain arguments. He has taken different approaches to contextualizing, including showing documents, court cases and even playing an unedited My Old Kentucky Home, which recently has been modified to remove some references that

are now considered offensive by many. Mattox has also used other works in his teaching including, Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, Okubo’s Citizen 13660, Black Arts Poetry and Harriet Jacobs’ Inci-dents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Next, Kahan gave his presenta-tion on gothic novels. He said, “I tend to focus on 40 to 50 years, from about 1750-1800. This sees the rise of the gothic novel in Britain and other areas, which was very popular although we tend to ridicule it now.” Kahan said the novels are “about effective individualism and personal choices, family ob-ligation over personal feelings. They attempt to deprivilegize bloodlines.” He then listed some of the

characteristics of Gothic novels. “They usually take place in an Italian province, usually involv-ing a woman separated from her family. She becomes imprisoned under an aristocratic old man with lascivious tendencies. After the Revolution, it was an aristo-cratic priest with lascivious ten-dencies.” The heroine also wishes to re-main pure and often flees to cata-combs where she finds secrets and skeletons in closets. She is sometimes saved by a man of am-biguous origins who appears to be poor but has a manner noble. He said, “There are some de-bates on patriarchal authority. It is always the outsider women who hold the true views on the man. The women who always have lived there do not recognize

problems.” Settings, according to Kahan, are also important in gothic nov-els. “Settings play a substantial part in plots. Usually the castle is a wreck. In Otronto, the roof is off. There are subterraneous cata-combs, and when the women flee, they end up in the catacombs, hidden from the world, where they are safe.” “Scholars often read them [set-tings] as feminine unconscious and how violence and perversion plays a role. The heroine spends most of the time running through the dilapidated castle eluding a man and discovering its secrets.” The presentations concluded with a question and answer ses-sion with the audience.

Two English professors speak on feminism in literature

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Students from Dr. Josh Wells Fundamentals of Archaeology class examine the unearthed pig

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By: RACHEL ADAMOVSKYStaff Writer

Betty Cockrum, CEO of Planned Parenthood in In-diana, made an appearance

at Wiekamp Hall on the IU South Bend campus on November 9. “When I signed on as CEO of Planned Parenthood nine years ago, I knew I was signing up for a relentless battle to keep abor-tions legal for Hoosier women. I did not realize, however, that I was signing up for a battle to keep birth control legal,” she said.

Cockrum went on to explain that Planned Parenthood pro-vides contraception, medical ser-vices and abortions at 800 clinics across the country. She said it didn’t come as a surprise to her when the House of Representa-tives proposed cutting the 317 million dollar program of aid for family planning. She explained that this course of action would also prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds for any purpose. She discussed the idea that many

state lawmakers and government officials believe that women can-not be trusted to make decisions concerning their reproductive freedom, but she disagreed with it. “Why do male politicians think that it is okay to interfere with a woman’s right to make her own choices regarding her body? She best can make these decisions, not the state,” Cockrum said. She continued to discuss the fight for women’s healthcare by saying, “we have fought for our

precious freedoms, freedoms that go beyond access to afford-able contraceptives and the right to a safe and legal abortion.” Cockrum went on to explain that a woman can now pursue her education instead of drop-ping out because of an unplanned pregnancy. She can make the de-cision to marry the man she loves instead of the man who got her pregnant. And most importantly according to Cockrum, she is granted the freedom to become a mother when she is ready. As an

end result, the child that is con-ceived from choice will receive a stable environment, food in their mouth and they will be wanted, according to Cockrum. Not only is Cockrum the CEO of Planned Parenthood but she is an advocate for women’s re-productive rights. She explained that she believes that all women should be given a choice when it comes to their bodies.

Betty Cockrum discusses her battle to keep abortions and birth control legal

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By: ELIJAH DURNELLColumnist

A good November to you! The leaves are changing, the air is

chilled, and the air smells vaguely of burning leaves and greasy fries. I’m not sure exactly what the greasy fry smell has to do with the particular time of year… wait! Yes I do! The McRib is back! Nothing says au-tumn and the holidays are here like greasy taters and pork(?) soaked in barbeque sauce. Well, it won’t be long now until the snow is blow-ing, your windows are icy and your face is stung with that special numbness that makes it impossible to feel whatever may or may not be dripping down it. In that vein, this week we will be delving into the most won-derful time of the year…

Dear Take My Word for It – “Many of my friends and relatives live out of town and I have been invited to stay with several of them this holiday season. The issue is I don’t want to! I don’t like using other people’s stuff, staying in their houses, etc… what do I do?”Sincerely,Weirded Out This Christmas

Dear Weirded Out – In my experience (limited as it may be) this situation is not as unusual as one may think. There is nothing more disconcerting than going into someone else’s home, even a relative’s and trying to make yourself at home. As often as they say “our house is your house!” it’s nearly impossible to get over that creepy feeling as you lie in someone else’s bed. What is that smell? Why does other people’s stuff ALWAYS smell different than yours? And what about using their bathroom? What is more awkward than carrying all of your stuff through their house, making sure your un-derwear aren’t hanging out of your little pile of personal belongings you are carrying and finding a place to put it in a bathroom that seems

like a cross between reading someone else’s diary and en-tering the dankest dungeon in the castle. But instead of reading a diary you are seeing medicines and other paraphernalia that you really never wanted to associate with whomever you are stay-ing with. Or instead of enter-ing a dank dungeon you are being visually assaulted by the most lighthouses or sea-horses you have ever seen in one place. We won’t even get into how to use the “facili-ties”. Nothing defines your relationship with whomever you are staying with more than your reaction behind that locked bathroom door. And why are bathroom locks so flimsy? Every time someone walks by the door you’re arrested with that one second of terror that they are going to walk in on you flossing or trimming your toenails or something. What I’m getting at, I guess, is that I, and many others I’d wa-ger, relate to your situation. Here is the way you handle the situation. When they ask you to stay, you say “you smell funny and your bath-room gives me the creeps.” Now, I understand that that reaction might not go over very well. If you’re afraid of making them feel badly, I suppose you could turn it on yourself. “I’m sorry I can’t stay with you – but you could come and stay with me!” That will end that con-versation every time. Be-cause your bathroom smells funny. These have (obviously) been my opinions. If you want your question an-swered in “Take My Word for It” e-mail me at elijah-preface@yahoo.com. Thank you and good night.

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By: MANDI STEFFEYColumnist

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, you probably

have noticed the slough of celeb-rity drama hitting the press. No, this is not exclusive to the past week or so, but, yes, the recent “news” has been bothering me and probably a lot of others. As an entertainment writer, naturally, I love hearing about entertainment. However, when the ugly truth about certain celebrities becomes mainstream information that I actually see on the news, I get a little worried. My first point is the Kardashi-an divorce. Blech. Who cares? I admit that sometimes I do get sucked into watching Keeping up with the Kardashians, but even the biggest fans of Kim K. prob-ably haven’t even had time to process the fact that she was even married, since Kardashian and ex-husband Kris Humphries were wed less than three months ago. I didn’t even look up why they de-cided to divorce. It’s not mine or anybody else’s problem—it was really just clogging up my Twitter feed.

Next is this whole Oscars scan-dal. Apparently the director for the next Oscars, Brett Ratner, has dropped out as director after he used a gay slur during a question-and-answer segment after the screening of his new film, “Tower Heist,” starring Eddie Murphy. After Ratner bowed out, Mur-phy suddenly dropped his role of hosting the same Oscars. This story flooded pretty much every mainstream news website. Again, I understand the interest of the story, but it’s time to move on. Rest assured, a new host and pro-duction team will be found by the time the award show rolls around. It’s not that I’m anti-main-stream. It’s just that, lately, main-stream news has its interest where it shouldn’t be. Yes, entertainment is GREAT. It helps shape our culture. However, I think more important things should be the main focus of a news story some-times—important meaning not media gossip. It’s sad to see celeb-rity gossip dominating the web pages and minds of the masses. Plenty of things are happening in this world—right this second! So, what are you doing still reading this? Go inform yourselves.

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Elijah Durnell

The Preface 8Wednesday, November 16, 2011

46-45 victory gives team its second victory of the seasonBy: JOSEPH GRAFWeb Editor

The IU South Bend Titan women’s basketball team recorded their second vic-

tory of the season over the Uni-versity of Michigan-Dearborn Wolves with a 46-45 win that came down to the final wire on November 12 at the Student Ac-tivities Center. The win improves the team to 2-3 on the season. Both teams were somewhat sloppy with possession of the ball as the teams posted a combined 48 turnovers (26 by the Wolves and 22 by the Titans). But aggres-sive play at the end of both halves (including a key run by the Titans at the end of the first half) made for an exciting conclusion and a great show for the home crowd. In the first half the game started very slow offensively, with both teams’ scores in single digits for the majority of the first 10 min-utes. But towards the end of the half, the switch was turned on and the game turned up as both teams started charging and mak-ing up for what was looking to be a low-scoring affair. The Titans especially took control of their game. After being tied or leading by a couple points for the major-ity of the first half, they were able to put together a solid run and go into halftime leading by seven with a score of 24-17. In the second half, the Titans started out slow once again on of-fense, and throughout the period the Wolves were able to slowly chip away at the Titans lead. With about three minutes left in regu-lation, IUSB was leading by only one point with the score 41-40. After foul trouble by the Wolves and a few sets of free throws by the Titans, IUSB was leading comfortably again 46-42 with less than 20 seconds left on the clock. But the Wolves weren’t done yet. With time winding down, a Michigan-Dearborn player sank a three-pointer to pull the Wolves within one point with only 1.5 seconds remaining on the clock. Even though the play was unex-pected and may have shocked the crowd, the Titans were able to run down the final ticks off the inbounds pass and hold on to a 46-45 victory. Lizzie Stapke led the Titans in scoring with 12 points, while Lauren Adams and Emily Pep-pers-VanNamee each put up 10

of their own. The Titans actually had a very low shooting percent-age of only 26.3 percent for the entire game and only hitting one of 10 attempts from the three-point line. Yet, their ability to turn the ball over and their clutch free throws in the final minutes helped secure the win. The Ti-tan women should be especially

proud of their effort as it was also UM-D’s first loss of the season. The next home game for the Titan women will be on Novem-ber 22 at 6 p.m. against Purdue University Calumet. The game is the first of a double-header where the men’s will follow with a match (also against PUC) at 8 p.m.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF: JOSEPH GRAF

Staci Funkhouser takes the ball the the paint

Emily Peppers-VanNamee attempts a lay up

Coach Steve Bruce talks to the team during a timeout

Nichole Sly drives the ball

Lauren Adams sneeks behind the defense to put up a shot