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Cards beat the buzzer 8New experiences may be added to curriculum 4

Smoking labels won’t hinder student’s habit 2

Crooning comedian comes to campus 5

&Britany Byers

Editor-in-ChiefLaina Thompson

News Editor Lindsey Hobbs

Assistant News Editor Hannah Ullom

Opinion Editor Mike Cirelli

Arts & Entertainment Editor Austin Walsh

Sports Editor Andrea Evans & Leah Driscoll

Copy EditorsJayme Detweiler

Photography Editor Kristen Sapp

Assistant Photography Editor Jessica Miller

Business ManagerKaity Vorbroker

Assistant Business ManagerSarah Douglas

Web Editor

assistant editorsJosh Adkins

Alyssa Cook-AlexanderMonica BegazoPatricia Begazo

Troy FoorKelsey SommersKathleen Quigley

contributing staffFallon ForbushLindsay Paulsen

Kathleen QuigleyDennison Sleeper

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policies The views expressed on this page do not necessarily refl ect the views of the faculty and administration of Otterbein University. Opinions expressed in signed columns are those of the writer and not of the newspaper staff. Positions in unsigned editorials represent a consensus of the editorial staff. The fi rst copy of the Tan & Cardinal is free to the public. Each additional copy is $0.50, and payment can be made at the offi ce at 33 Collegeview, Westerville, OH 43081. Offenders will be prosecuted. The T&C staff would love to hear from you. Write a letter to the editor and tell us what you’re thinking. Letters to the editor are letters responding to a writer or an article published in the Tan & Cardinal. Please keep your letter to 300 words or less. It is at the discretion of the Tan & Cardinal staff as to whether or not the letter will be published. Letters attacking an individual will not be accepted. Letters must include the author’s fi rst and last name, signature, phone number, address and affi liation to Otterbein University.

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thursday, jan. 6, 2011Tan & Cardinal2 opinion

Packaging won’t deter smokerWhile the government rallies for gruesome images on cigarette packaging, one stu-dent claims this new campaign against smoking won’t cause him to kick the habit

DENNISON SLEEPER

DENNISON SLEEPER IS A FRESHMAN ENGLISH MAJOR AND IS A CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR THE t&c.

As long as there are cigarettes, cigarette smokers will be treated at a level on par with, if not worse than, drug dealers. From the looks I get from parents on the street when I light up, you’d think I was wear-ing a trench coat and offering candy to their kid. In the past 10 years, the government has banned indoor smoking, increased the prices, increased the taxes and is now attempting to change the packag-ing. Ever see the show “Mad Men”? The main characters are the epitome of a man for the ’60s : salesmen who chain smoke like they’ve got beef with their lungs. Cigarettes were seen as an everyday necessity; nobody was judged for smoking. But since then cigarettes and their buyers have been vilifi ed, and are now faced with seeing images of death and disease every time they want a smoke. On Nov. 10, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

(FDA) announced that it wants to begin updating the warning labels of cigarettes. Graphic pictures of dead bodies, coffi ns, diseased lungs and mouths and other disturbing images would be displayed with new warnings. The plan would take effect in 2012. Obviously, cigarettes are ter-rible for you. They can kill you if you use them, they cost a lot of money, a lot of people hate the scent, they kill your lungs, etc etc. But you know this if you don’t smoke, and you know this if you do smoke. Since the fi fth grade when I was fi rst in-troduced to the highly unsuc-cessful Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program, I’ve known that cigarettes are terrible, and I never intended to smoke. In fact, I’m still surprised I do. But life has funny ways of working out and now I smoke.

And as a smoker I have to say, America should love us. Every day we pay too much money for a product that gener-ates billions for the economy, plus the jobs opened for health care, and we can’t even smoke inside. Smokers do it because ciga-rettes are a vice for them; every-one has theirs. Customers don’t want pictures of obesity on their

highly addic-tive and deadly fast food, and I don’t like it when drunken frat boys start high-fi ving too loudly at a bar, but I have to smoke outside, and they can knock wings over while watching ESPN comfortably in-side. Except my

cigarette lasts fi ve minutes, and I have to watch you be fat and/or drunk for much longer. Harlan Page, freshman athletic training major and a non-smoker, thinks that the new campaign will be effective.

“It could work because people don’t want to pay for a picture of a dead guy on the pack,” he said. But smokers, like undecided major Andrew Moore, think it is useless. “If you don’t know that smoking is bad for you by the time that you’re 18, then you’re dumb and have other problems.” The pictures are aimed at giving smokers a visual daily reminder of the effects of smok-ing. The U.S. has been criticized before for not having more graphic warnings like other Eu-ropean countries, and researchers believe that pictures are more effective for deterring young smokers than just text. I know the effects of smok-ing. Everyone I know who smokes does, too. Eventually I hope to quit, and I’d like to think that I can. But until then, if I’m going to pay $7 to inhale deadly chemicals, at least let me do it without see-ing some of the morgues’ best highlights.

“And as a smoker I have to say, America should love us. Every day we pay too much money for a product that generates billions for the economy.”

PACK A DAY: According to the American Cancer Society, 46 million adults smoke, 90 percent of whom began smoking at or before the age of 19.

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www.otterbein360.com vol. 92, issue 11 3news

BY LINDSEY HOBBSASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

1. 11/19 A green banner was stolen from outside the Otterbein Universi-ty Bookstore between 5-8 p.m. The banner, donning the words, “The most cash for books,” was hanging on the outside of the store’s front window. The store manager said the banner cost approximately $50.

2. 11/20 A Westerville police offi cer responded to a call from Otterbein Security at 12:40 a.m. about students smoking marijuana in Engle Hall. After the offi cer informed the students that they could be searched, one student pulled a small bag of marijuana and a package of cigar wrappers from the student’s jacket. Inside the package was a partially-smoked blunt. Only the student who produced the marijuana was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and drug abuse through Westerville Mayor’s Court.

3. 11/21 A total of $305 was taken from Tau Delta’s rent collection box. The money was taken between Nov. 8 and Nov. 19.

4. 11/22 Criminal damage was done to Davis Hall at 8:06 p.m.

5. 12/14 A student was found intoxicated in the Davis Hall parking lot at 11:37 p.m. The student asked police to take the student to the hospital due to suicidal thoughts, and was then taken to St. Ann’s Hospital where the student’s parents were contacted. The student was then released to the care of the hospital.

6. 12/29 A parking sticker was stolen from the Davis parking lot at 10 p.m.

7. 12/31 A window pane was broken from a door in Clements Hall.

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Editor’s Note Week 10 of last quarter, the Tan & Cardinal ran “At risk: The land next to the Center for Equine Studies ‘could be harmful,’ and a settlement regarding clean-up costs is still in the works.” The printed story reported that one of the two parcels of the land had “not been cleaned since it was the home of Kilgore Manufacturing’s operations.” The land has not been approved for use (“cleaned”), but work has been done on the property. According to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, “In 1962, the Ammunition and Supply Procurement Agency from Joliet, Ill. supervised a cleanup at the site where buried materials, approximately 120 tons of explosives and flares, were removed and destroyed on site. In 1985, an Otterbein board member discovered about 70 flare canisters at the site. These were taken by the Ohio Fire Marshal to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB) for disposal. In 1986, additional canisters were found and removed by Wright-Patterson AFB.” Jennifer Pearce was incorrectly associated with Brown & Caldwell, an environmental consulting firm. Pearce is executive director of Marketing & Communications for Otterbein. The story also reported that both parties involved in Otterbein College v. United States of America, et al., must file a Joint Status Report regarding settlement negotiations by February 2011. A report was due to the United States District Court for the Southern District Court of Ohio at the end of November 2010.

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UpdateThe parties in the ongoing case, Otterbein College v. United States of America, et al., have requested proceedings to continue to be stayed. Further, the parties intend to file a status report regarding the progress of settlement discussions, including a proposal for further proceedings within the end of this month.

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Hiring is under way for the replacement of Otterbein’s provoststudent on the committee, said that he is specifi cally looking for a candidate who is “visible on campus for the students and someone who is an advocate for the students.” According to Jenney, the committee’s focus is on fi nding a candidate who is adaptable. “Sometimes people come in and interview and have their own plan,” she said. “We’re really looking for someone who can come in and change with Otter-bein’s changing.” During the fi nal open forum on Jan. 4 the topic of Otterbein’s current changes and growth brought about some opposition regarding whether or not the changes are for the best. Devin Fraze, junior second-ary math education major, said Otterbein needs to stick to its liberal arts roots instead of branching into more professional programs. “Job training can be given anywhere you go, but college is more experience of growth as a human being, at least in under-graduate degrees,” Fraze said.

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Before the end of the academic year, there will be a vacancy in the Otterbein admin-istration. Otterbein Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Abiodun Goke-Pariola said in an e-mail over break that he has “ac-cepted the position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina, ef-fective late spring 2011.” In light of this announce-ment, Otterbein has hired Larry Christman, a senior consultant for the higher education search council RH Perry & Associates to fi nd a new provost for Ot-terbein when Goke-Pariola leaves for North Carolina. According to Christman, he has received “tremendous feed-back” from faculty and students during small-group forums held during his two visits to campus, the most recent on Jan. 4. Christman said that his visits to campus were meant to be

used as discussion forums to see what the Otterbein community is looking for in the next provost. In conjunction with Christ-man’s efforts, Otterbein as-sembled a search committee, which includes two students, to develop an idea of what they will be looking for in candidates.

One of the search committee members, junior molecular biol-ogy major Chelsea Jenney, said, “There’s so much that goes into searching for one (a candidate), let alone fi nding one.” Rich Rice, junior international studies major and the other t&c

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According to the WPD and the Otterbein Security Log, the following has been reported

from Nov. 19 through Dec. 31.

“We’re really looking for someone who can come in and change with Otter-bein’s changing.”

Chelsea Jenney junior, molecular biology

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Editor-in-ChiefLaina Thompson

News Editor Lindsey Hobbs

Assistant News Editor Hannah Ullom

Opinion Editor Mike Cirelli

Arts & Entertainment Editor Austin Walsh

Sports Editor Andrea Evans & Leah Driscoll

Copy EditorsJayme Detweiler

Photography Editor Kristen Sapp

Assistant Photography Editor Jessica Miller

Business ManagerKaity Vorbroker

Assistant Business ManagerSarah Douglas

Web Editor

assistant editorsJosh Adkins

Alyssa Cook-AlexanderMonica BegazoPatricia Begazo

Troy FoorKelsey SommersKathleen Quigley

contributing staffFallon ForbushLindsay Paulsen

Kathleen QuigleyDennison Sleeper

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policies The views expressed on this page do not necessarily refl ect the views of the faculty and administration of Otterbein University. Opinions expressed in signed columns are those of the writer and not of the newspaper staff. Positions in unsigned editorials represent a consensus of the editorial staff. The fi rst copy of the Tan & Cardinal is free to the public. Each additional copy is $0.50, and payment can be made at the offi ce at 33 Collegeview, Westerville, OH 43081. Offenders will be prosecuted. The T&C staff would love to hear from you. Write a letter to the editor and tell us what you’re thinking. Letters to the editor are letters responding to a writer or an article published in the Tan & Cardinal. Please keep your letter to 300 words or less. It is at the discretion of the Tan & Cardinal staff as to whether or not the letter will be published. Letters attacking an individual will not be accepted. Letters must include the author’s fi rst and last name, signature, phone number, address and affi liation to Otterbein University.

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thursday, jan. 6, 2011Tan & Cardinal2 opinion

Packaging won’t deter smokerWhile the government rallies for gruesome images on cigarette packaging, one stu-dent claims this new campaign against smoking won’t cause him to kick the habit

DENNISON SLEEPER

DENNISON SLEEPER IS A FRESHMAN ENGLISH MAJOR AND IS A CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR THE t&c.

As long as there are cigarettes, cigarette smokers will be treated at a level on par with, if not worse than, drug dealers. From the looks I get from parents on the street when I light up, you’d think I was wear-ing a trench coat and offering candy to their kid. In the past 10 years, the government has banned indoor smoking, increased the prices, increased the taxes and is now attempting to change the packag-ing. Ever see the show “Mad Men”? The main characters are the epitome of a man for the ’60s : salesmen who chain smoke like they’ve got beef with their lungs. Cigarettes were seen as an everyday necessity; nobody was judged for smoking. But since then cigarettes and their buyers have been vilifi ed, and are now faced with seeing images of death and disease every time they want a smoke. On Nov. 10, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

(FDA) announced that it wants to begin updating the warning labels of cigarettes. Graphic pictures of dead bodies, coffi ns, diseased lungs and mouths and other disturbing images would be displayed with new warnings. The plan would take effect in 2012. Obviously, cigarettes are ter-rible for you. They can kill you if you use them, they cost a lot of money, a lot of people hate the scent, they kill your lungs, etc etc. But you know this if you don’t smoke, and you know this if you do smoke. Since the fi fth grade when I was fi rst in-troduced to the highly unsuc-cessful Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program, I’ve known that cigarettes are terrible, and I never intended to smoke. In fact, I’m still surprised I do. But life has funny ways of working out and now I smoke.

And as a smoker I have to say, America should love us. Every day we pay too much money for a product that gener-ates billions for the economy, plus the jobs opened for health care, and we can’t even smoke inside. Smokers do it because ciga-rettes are a vice for them; every-one has theirs. Customers don’t want pictures of obesity on their

highly addic-tive and deadly fast food, and I don’t like it when drunken frat boys start high-fi ving too loudly at a bar, but I have to smoke outside, and they can knock wings over while watching ESPN comfortably in-side. Except my

cigarette lasts fi ve minutes, and I have to watch you be fat and/or drunk for much longer. Harlan Page, freshman athletic training major and a non-smoker, thinks that the new campaign will be effective.

“It could work because people don’t want to pay for a picture of a dead guy on the pack,” he said. But smokers, like undecided major Andrew Moore, think it is useless. “If you don’t know that smoking is bad for you by the time that you’re 18, then you’re dumb and have other problems.” The pictures are aimed at giving smokers a visual daily reminder of the effects of smok-ing. The U.S. has been criticized before for not having more graphic warnings like other Eu-ropean countries, and researchers believe that pictures are more effective for deterring young smokers than just text. I know the effects of smok-ing. Everyone I know who smokes does, too. Eventually I hope to quit, and I’d like to think that I can. But until then, if I’m going to pay $7 to inhale deadly chemicals, at least let me do it without see-ing some of the morgues’ best highlights.

“And as a smoker I have to say, America should love us. Every day we pay too much money for a product that generates billions for the economy.”

PACK A DAY: According to the American Cancer Society, 46 million adults smoke, 90 percent of whom began smoking at or before the age of 19.

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PHOTO BY JAYME DETWEILER

thursday, jan. 6, 2011Tan & Cardinal4 news

Is your day kind of boring? Spice it up with some

alternative rock!

THE CARDINAL COMPASS: The Five Cardinal Experiences guide students toward successful futures after college.

BY KAITY VORBROKER AND FALLON FORBUSH

Assistant Business Managerand Contributing Writer

Three schools, a university, semesters — undeniably the old Otterbein doesn’t exist. That was all in the plan. “To assure future success … continuous planning and adjustments to changing environments are needed,” reads the introduction to Otterbein’s Strategic Plan, written in 2007. Otterbein’s vision for its students is to transform the school into a “nationally recognized comprehensive liberal arts college whose hallmarks are: graduates who are knowledgeable, intellectually curious, ethically driven, who can and will act with a global understanding informed by a commitment to social justice to improve the world; and who are empowered to accept personal responsibility for learning and for planning their lives holistically as global citizens.”

Otterbein is well on its way according to its peers. Otterbein University premiered at No. 7 on U.S. News & World Report’s “Up-and-Comers” list, which recognizes institutions that have recently made the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus or facilities, as determined by their peer institutions. Aside from changing the hierarchy, structure and name of the institution, Otterbein and its higher-ups have been working on other changes to meet their vision: the “Five Cards.” The Five Cardinal Experiences consist of Community Engagement, Global and Intercultural Engagement, Undergraduate Research and Creative Work, Internships and Professional Experience and Leadership and Citizenship. Otterbein was one of six institutions chosen to be awarded a $100,000 grant from the Association of American

Colleges and Universities in order to bring the “Five Cards” to life. Amy Jessen-Marshall, associate vice president of Academic Affairs and dean of College Programs, and Melissa Gilbert, director of the Center for Community Engagement (CCE), will spend the next two years working toward organizing “Card-tables” to discuss the experiences with the community with a goal to “see the Five Cardinal Experience opportunities as curriculum.” The major question most students are asking is when the Five Cardinal Experiences are going to become a graduation requirement. “Never say never, but, never,” Gilbert said. There are currently no plans to make the Five Cardinal Experiences a graduation requirement, but things could change in the future. According to Jessen-Marshall and Gilbert, the Five Cardinal Experiences will not replace the Integrative Studies (INST) Program and Senior Year Experience (SYE); rather, the INST and SYE programs will begin to incorporate the Five Cardinal Experiences in their curriculum.

Check out www.otterbein360.com on Friday for an interview with Otterbein University President Kathy Krendl about her opinion on the strategic plan and the Five Cardinal Experiences.

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A vision for OtterbeinMore ideas for a new and improved Otterbein are in the works

Editor’s NoteWant to be on the radio? E-mail us at wobn@otterbein.edu or check us out at WOBN.net.

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www.otterbein360.com vol. 92, issue 11 5arts & entertainment

The past few years have defi nitely been exciting for musician/comedian Evan Wecksell. He was named Hot Comedian for 2009 by Campus Activities Magazine, performed on “America’s Got Talent” and participated in VH1’s “I Love the ’70s: Volume 2,” “I Love the ’80s 3-D” and “I Love Toys.” Currently, his comedic journey has him traveling throughout the country, making stops at college campuses including Otterbein.

Your online biography compares you to Adam Sandler and Stephen Lynch. Do you see the comparison yourself? When I tell people about my act, that gives them a reality of who I am, because those people are out there. My main infl uence was actually Jon Bon Jovi. I’m a huge Bon Jovi fan. That’s how I started playing guitar, and the comedy thing didn’t happen until a few years after. I kind of wanted to be a funny Bon Jovi.

You were into sports marketing before comedy. How did you end up becoming a comedian? I really didn’t know where my life was going after college. I just fi nished an in-ternship with the National Hockey League in New York City. At NYU, I took a sports marketing seminar and for my fi nal presentation, I talked about the WNBA and I was really funny about it, using hand puppets and all these silly things. The professor liked the presentation, but he really thought that I should be on stage. I love comedy and every club anywhere has a class, so I took a class at a club on the Upper East Side to learn stand-up itself. It taught me things that I still use today, even though I play more songs.

You do parodies of “bad music”? I did a parody of Bowling for Soup’s “1985,” and I actually just fi nished a

parody of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” just because they’re on tour again and I kind of just wanted to have some fun with it. What I really love doing recently is bringing people on stage and making the show personal.

You’ve done work for VH1 with “I Love the ’70s: Volume 2” and “I Love the ’80s 3-D.” What was that like? It was cool, and it was weird how I actually got the job at VH1. I was actually at a job for the New York City Marathon, and I was in the fundraising branch and all the people were helping us fundraise. And this one lady from VH1 found out I was a comic. Sometimes they spoon-feed you what you need to say, and depending on when you go in, they just need certain things. You’re pretty much answering questions from a producer, and there’s a green screen behind you.

Is it intimidating knowing that you’re going to have a large audience through TV or a live performance? Well, TV’s easy because you write down your thing and then you hand it to the editors. I guess a lot more can go wrong with a live performance. I used to do crazy things during my live per-formance, whether it was chasing after students who left during my show, or call-ing people silly things. Just being like a kid. I get nervous when it’s a little more than what I’m used to, like when I did “Ameri-ca’s Got Talent” a year and a half ago.

Do you think that a sense of humor helps relieve the stress of performing? Yeah, I like to interact. I don’t want to just go up there with my script. I know what songs I’ll do, but I want to keep it conversational. I like to have fun with it. It’s just about being topical and making it personal so that you kids know what I’m talking about. I have to stay current. I’m probably ... 10 years older than all of you guys, but I still know about “Jersey Shore” and Four Loko and all ofthat stuff.

What is your best performing experience? I think the best was Missouri State be-cause it was the fi rst time that I performed in front of about 650 people. It was really packed. It just played really well and I guess they really liked me.

And worst? I got kicked off the stage once. I did a show for North Dakota State, and it was really unfortunate because I know that there was something in the contract about an obscenity law. Like, in the state of North Dakota, you can’t curse and you can’t reference sex. They wanted PG and I may have brought PG-13.

Can you describe your college experience? I went to Tufts University, near Bos-ton. I ran on the cross country track team, and in my sophomore year, I pledged to a fraternity because I was injured. I didn’t expect to pledge, but I knew some of the guys. It was interesting. It gave me another group to be a part of. And I think that Greek life helped my career more than anything.

How do you develop your jokes? It could happen at any time, anywhere. It can be externally motivated. I don’t re-ally write from my soul, per se. One time, a person asked me if I had a song about “Jersey Shore,” and I said yes but I didn’t. So I had to write a song that night about how the “Jersey Shore” was so bad that I killed my grandpa. I saw the Backstreet Boys at the American Music Awards, and I wanted to write a song about them. Instead of “I Want It That Way,” it’s “We Need the Money.”

Any advice for current college students? A career is just a job. Your fi rst one will not be your last. If you have that itch to do something that will shake people up a little bit, you should do it before you get some cortisone cream for your itch.

Singing comedian to visit OtterbeinTV personality Evan Wecksell doesn’t joke around when it comes to his stand-up act and song parodies

BY KATHLEEN QUIGLEYStaff Writer

Thursday, Jan. 6 7 p.m. Campus Center lounge Free admission

& Evan Wecksell

SUPER FUNNY: Comedian Evan Wecksell has appeared on E! and VH1 as a commentator.PHOTO PROVIDED BY DENICE DUFF

“I used to do some crazy things

during my live performance.”

Evan Wecksell

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Music Releases▪ Cage the Elephant“Thank You, Happy Birthday”▪ Steel Magnolia“Steel Magnolia”

Campus Events▪ Center for Career Planning’s 26th Annual Cardinal Network Luncheon12:30 p.m.Campus Center, Rooms 1, 2 and 3

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Campus Events▪ PRSSA Meeting5 p.m. Library, Room 127

Campus Events▪ CPB Free Movie Night9:30 p.m. Hollywood Studio Theatre

Sports▪ Men’s Basketball vs. Wilmington7 p.m.Otterbein Rike Center

Campus Events▪ PRSSA Meeting5 p.m. Library, Room 127

Campus Events▪ Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation3 p.m. Cowan Hall

Campus Events▪ CPB Open Mic Night8 p.m. OtterDen

Sports▪ Women’s Basketball vs. Ohio Northern7:30 p.m. Otterbein Rike Center

Sports▪ Men’s Basketball vs. Marietta7 p.m.Otterbein Rike Center

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LINDSAY PAULSEN IS A FRESHMAN JOURNALISM AND EQUINE BUSINESS AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT MAJOR AND IS A STAFF WRITER FOR THE t&c.

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WHAT CHILDHOOD TOY DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD?

“My stuffed dog called Lucky. I couldn’t have pets so I really likedthis stuffed dog.”

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“My teddy bear. I was very attached to it.”

PHOTOS AND INFORMATION COMPILED BY TROY FOOR

www.otterbein360.com vol. 92, issue 11 7opinion

Freshman learns the sentimental value of her childhood memories

Confessions of a ...&

True life: I was a pack rat. I had always been somewhat of a hoarder — not of reality TV show proportions, but still someone who couldn’t bring herself to throw away any item of senti-mental value. It wasn’t even the monetary value of things that haunted me. To me, everything that I touched seemed to become a souvenir, reminding me of some moment in the past, signifi -cant or not. A few weeks before I left for college, my parents asked me to clean out two closets that were in my room. Since a new phase of life awaited me at school, shedding some of the useless crap from my past seemed like an appropriate way to welcome the new. The three days that fol-lowed were a sentimental walk down memory lane. I organized the contents of my closet into piles to either donate, throw away or store. I sorted through old bro-chures from historic sites that I had never been to, a stuffed animal from one of those claw machines that are near impos-sible to win, old Nintendo Game Boy game cartridges, American Girl doll clothes and accessories, a single Barbie shoe, a collection of atrocious purses, old invita-tions to parties, children’s books

and most importantly, High Step-per, the electronic walking horse made for Barbie. After the fi nal load of items was carried downstairs, I decided to reward myself with a trip to the movies with a group of friends. The selected movie was, of course, “Toy Story 3,” which addressed the fate of old toys as their owner departed for college, on a path toward adulthood. How appropriate. Little did that I know that during my absence, my wonder-ful, well-intentioned mother had mistakenly carted off nearly all of my childhood toys to the local Goodwill. When I returned home to fi nd the area that had been devoted to sorting items entirely empty, I was struck with terror. Felicity and High Stepper and even Robbie the little yellow money-eating robot bank were doomed to spend the rest of their inanimate lives with small children with sticky hands tearing off their limbs without a single thought as to the actual senti-mental value that they had in their previous life at the Paulsen home. In an effort to undo her mistake, my mom took me to Goodwill the next day at the crack of dawn so that we could search through the latest batch of donated goods before they reached the shelves. We man-aged to uncover a few books and Robbie the Robot, but to my dismay, that was all there was to be found.

For a while, my devoted mother religiously scoured the shelves of that Goodwill in search of High Stepper and even posted a reward for her return. I eventually came to terms with the loss of some of my most-prized childhood posses-sions by hoping that they could bring more joy to a new child than they could have brought to me by sitting in my attic. Things changed this past Christmas when I received a 1994 edition of High Stepper. It was not mine, but open-ing it for the fi rst time conjured up the same feeling that I had when I opened my original High Stepper. It even made the same annoying mechanical sound as it walked. The new High Stepper is cer-tainly no replacement for the old one, but it’s more of a tribute to all of the good times that I had shared with the original. More importantly, it’s a reminder that the same kid who nearly wet her pants seeing that plastic horse for the fi rst time still lies deep within me somewhere. Knowing that part of my identity still lingers al-lowed me to embrace the person that I have come to be and the changes that lie ahead of me. So I am a reformed pack rat. Not so much by my own choice as that of the universe, but none-theless, I’ve shed a bad habit.

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Freshman learns the sentimental value of her childhood memories

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True life: I was a pack rat. I had always been somewhat of a hoarder — not of reality TV show proportions, but still someone who couldn’t bring herself to throw away any item of senti-mental value. It wasn’t even the monetary value of things that haunted me. To me, everything that I touched seemed to become a souvenir, reminding me of some moment in the past, signifi -cant or not. A few weeks before I left for college, my parents asked me to clean out two closets that were in my room. Since a new phase of life awaited me at school, shedding some of the useless crap from my past seemed like an appropriate way to welcome the new. The three days that fol-lowed were a sentimental walk down memory lane. I organized the contents of my closet into piles to either donate, throw away or store. I sorted through old bro-chures from historic sites that I had never been to, a stuffed animal from one of those claw machines that are near impos-sible to win, old Nintendo Game Boy game cartridges, American Girl doll clothes and accessories, a single Barbie shoe, a collection of atrocious purses, old invita-tions to parties, children’s books

and most importantly, High Step-per, the electronic walking horse made for Barbie. After the fi nal load of items was carried downstairs, I decided to reward myself with a trip to the movies with a group of friends. The selected movie was, of course, “Toy Story 3,” which addressed the fate of old toys as their owner departed for college, on a path toward adulthood. How appropriate. Little did that I know that during my absence, my wonder-ful, well-intentioned mother had mistakenly carted off nearly all of my childhood toys to the local Goodwill. When I returned home to fi nd the area that had been devoted to sorting items entirely empty, I was struck with terror. Felicity and High Stepper and even Robbie the little yellow money-eating robot bank were doomed to spend the rest of their inanimate lives with small children with sticky hands tearing off their limbs without a single thought as to the actual senti-mental value that they had in their previous life at the Paulsen home. In an effort to undo her mistake, my mom took me to Goodwill the next day at the crack of dawn so that we could search through the latest batch of donated goods before they reached the shelves. We man-aged to uncover a few books and Robbie the Robot, but to my dismay, that was all there was to be found.

For a while, my devoted mother religiously scoured the shelves of that Goodwill in search of High Stepper and even posted a reward for her return. I eventually came to terms with the loss of some of my most-prized childhood posses-sions by hoping that they could bring more joy to a new child than they could have brought to me by sitting in my attic. Things changed this past Christmas when I received a 1994 edition of High Stepper. It was not mine, but open-ing it for the fi rst time conjured up the same feeling that I had when I opened my original High Stepper. It even made the same annoying mechanical sound as it walked. The new High Stepper is cer-tainly no replacement for the old one, but it’s more of a tribute to all of the good times that I had shared with the original. More importantly, it’s a reminder that the same kid who nearly wet her pants seeing that plastic horse for the fi rst time still lies deep within me somewhere. Knowing that part of my identity still lingers al-lowed me to embrace the person that I have come to be and the changes that lie ahead of me. So I am a reformed pack rat. Not so much by my own choice as that of the universe, but none-theless, I’ve shed a bad habit.

Hiring spring 2011-fall 2011

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thursday, jan. 6, 2011Tan & Cardinal8 sports

Otterbein

Capital

Men’s Basketball

Cardinals5-7 (1-4 OAC)

Crusaders9-3 (5-1 OAC)

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BY AUSTIN WALSHSports Editor

break buckets, but their own of-fense was stagnant at times. “They changed up their de-fense to focus on me and Shea in the second half,” Kotterman said. “Other people stepped up, which was important.” Kotterman said that the win can turn the season around for the Lady Cards, who have been on the losing end of several close games this season. The team has dropped three of its conference losses by a combined nine points in addi-tion to taking Baldwin-Wallace to overtime before losing 72-63. “We’re a team with a losing re-cord but have scored more points than we have allowed,” assistant coach Jeff Blunt said. “Every close game we have lost … it’s nice to get one, espe-cially Capital.” Senior guard Tara Harper played 41 minutes for the Cru-saders, putting up 18 points and seven rebounds. However, she also recorded seven turnovers. Sophomore forward Stacy Timmerman led Capital with 23 points. Both teams will travel Satur-day as the Lady Cards will visit Muskingum while the Crusaders will play 10-2 Baldwin-Wallace in Berea. t&c

Guard guides Otterbeinto victory in overtime &

Davis- 16 points 14 rebounds

Robertson- 21 points 12 rebounds

Kristi Kotterman wasn’t go-ing to lose another heartbreaker. Days after being announced Otterbein’s athlete of the week, the senior guard delivered in what could be remembered as the turning point of the team’s season. Her game high 27 points and late-action heroics helped the Lady Cards take down Capital 88-81 in overtime last night, giv-ing the team its fi rst conference win of the season. “I didn’t even think about (the award), winning is the most important thing … this win against our rivals will defi nitely boost our confi dence,” Kotter-man said.

The Cardinals, (5-8, 1-5 OAC) found themselves down two with four seconds left in regula-tion when Kotterman took an inbounds pass at half court. “When I got it I thought, ‘I’m going to the hole,’” Kotterman said. Fighting through a foul, she got a layup to fall with one second left. The game was sent to over-time after Kotterman missed her free throw, but she quickly redeemed herself, hitting a three on the team’s fi rst possession in OT. From there, Otterbein outlasted Capital largely thanks to Kotterman and junior guard Shea McCoy who scored nine of her 23 points in overtime. Otterbein outplayed Capital in the fi rst half, but poor transition defense kept the Crusaders in it. “At halftime we said we have to stop messing around with the rebounder and keep back … play the ball,” Kotterman said. In the second half, the Lady Cards were able to minimize fast

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CLUTCH PERFORMANCE: Senior Kristi Kotterman went 9-17 from the floor against Capital.