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The length of toilet paper used in one year at Doane College is longer than the flight distance from Nebraska to Paris.

Doane spends around $14,000 a year on approximately 4,800 miles of toilet paper Custodial Services Manager Bobbie Fye said.

Freshman Taylor Hester said this figure blew his mind.“If we’re going to spend that much on toilet paper, I’d like to have

better quality instead of sandpaper,” Hester said.The quality of the Georgia Pacific 1-Ply White Bath Tissue also

frustrated others, including sophomore Ryan Schilling. Schilling compared the toilet paper to using “shards of glass.” Having to use copious amounts of toilet paper to prevent tearing or leakage irri-tated not only Schilling’s state of mind, but also his skin, he said.

Schilling said 1-ply toilet paper was what he used for arts and crafts activities with his younger cousin, but not in the bathroom. In the bathrooms on campus, he used his own store bought, double quilted paper, which he also offered to students for a small fee, he said.

Doane goes through over 5,500 rolls of toilet paper yearly; over 25 million square feet, Fye said. This equals approximately 4,800 miles of toilet paper. The distance from the college campus in Crete to the Eiffel Tower in Paris is 4,550 miles.

Junior Jenna Alswager thought the quality of the toilet paper led to excess use.

“If it’s extremely thin then you’ll have to use more so that your hand stays clean. I imagine our school goes through a lot of toilet paper because it’s not good quality,” Alswager said.

The amount of toilet paper used on campus is harmful to the en-vironment, Alswager said. The school might be using thinner toilet paper because it is more biodegradable, which is good for the envi-ronment, but if students are using large amounts because of the poor quality, then it isn’t really solving anything, Alswager said.

Freshman Tyler Kuhfahl said he was disappointed to come to a college where the fees were $32,000 per year, and the school didn’t have good quality toilet paper. For that much money, he should not have to worry about the quality of toilet paper causing him pains after going to the bathroom, he said.

“There is no way they can’t find nicer toilet paper for $14,000 a year,” Kuhfahl said.

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One Doane student has branched out and produced a garden for the Crete community.

Over the past two years Ju-nior Ryan Corrigan cultivated the idea of a community garden into a real place for people to plant and grow their own food.

“It has blossomed from theory to being able to till the ground,” Community Garden Committee Member Karla Coo-per said. “He was a freshman with that fantastic idea.”

At 10th Street and Thorn-wood Avenue, half an acre of dirt will soon hold seeds that grow into food for Crete community members.

“This will help families have cheap, healthy food,” Corrigan said. “They (kids) can get dirty and muddy and find out what asparagus is.”

Corrigan said he fundraised over $1,400 from Crete busi-nesses. Sunday, Doane Student Congress also donated $250 for a fence to surround the garden.

Corrigan hasn’t done it all alone, though. The Roots and Shoots Conservation Club and community members have helped with logistics and get-ting the garden ready for plant-ing, said Brad Elder, Roots and Shoots adviser and assistant professor of biology.

The hardest parts of start-ing the garden were finding the space and organizing it, Elder said.

“We’re not exactly master gardeners so there are a lot of issues,” Corrigan said. “I fig-ured out that the manure I was spreading on the ground wasn’t ready yet so I had to remove it all.”

Corrigan said the garden

would be divided into 6 feet by 12 feet plots that would be sold for $25 from April to Novem-ber. There could end up being anywhere from 40 to 50 plots depending on whether or not people choose to purchase the normal dimension plots or com-bine multiple plots. Two plots have been sold so far in this pilot year.

Corrigan said he hoped the garden would be used for educa-tion as well as community build-ing.

The community garden can be a fabulous classroom, said Linda Kalbach, professor of ed-ucation and community garden committee member. She said it would be wonderful for kids to experience the raw opportunity to connect with water, dirt and air.

Kalbach said people used words such as blossom and root often as a metaphor for relation-ships in our lives.

“There’s a root; there’s a rea-son we use that word,” Kalbach said. “Our connection to how things grow is a part of our lan-guage because we need it.”

Doane’s forensics team placed No. 18 out of 83 teams at the American Forensics As-sociation National Individual Events Tournament (AFA NIET) in San Marcos, Texas, Monday.

Coach Dawn Bartlett said since the team qualified for fewer national events than in the past, the chances of placing in the top 20 looked less likely.

“Frankly, the odds were not in their favor,” Bartlett said. “Their top 20 ranking is a testa-ment to the quality of the events

they had.”Sophomore Queeny Piment-

el, who made quarterfinals, said she didn’t think the team would be able to do it.

“It’s the last time I doubt my

team,” Pimentel said. Junior Bekah Ehly also made

quarterfinals, and junior Jor-dan Johnson took two events to quarterfinals.

Senior Kyle Carroll said he

did not question his team’s abil-ity to succeed.

“I felt like with the team we had, finishing in the top 20 was within our power,” Carrol said.

Carroll said it felt great to go on stage with the other top 20 to receive Doane’s trophy.

“Doing this for however many years, it’s always been a dream to go up there and get a trophy that’s symbolized the year you’ve had,” Carroll said.

Bartlett, who was in her twelfth and final year as coach at Doane, said the event was bittersweet.

“Nationals was a good way to top it off,” Bartlett said. “It was a good way to say goodbye.”

Community garden blossoms potentials

“This will help families have cheap, healthy

food.”

Ryan Corrigan-Junior

Forensics places in top 20 at Nationals“Doing this for however many years, it’s always been a dream to go up there and get a trophy that’s symbolized the year you’ve had.”

Kyle Carroll-Senior

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A multicultural Inter-faith Center has been set up on campus that wel-comes the religious back-grounds of all.

The Interfaith Center is temporarily located in the Trobough Room in Perry Campus Center, with the intention of moving to a more permanent location in the future, President Jacque Carter said. Do-ane’s chapel was not used because of its location in the Business Center, which Carter said was an administra-tive build-ing. He said if he were a student, the room wouldn’t feel spiritual to him.

The center was created because Carter wanted to identify a place on cam-pus where students could explore their spirituality through a variety of faiths.

“Wherever you go in the world, regardless of your major… different people you work with will have different religions,” Carter said. “You need to be able to understand these be-liefs in a global world.”

The Interfaith Center is also open to those who are spiritual but not religious, Chaplain Karla Cooper said. She said there were various beliefs and no one was absolutely sure who was right or wrong.

“Doane’s Interfaith Center is a place where students, faculty and staff can connect, find com-munity, learn about other faiths, deepen their own beliefs, values and iden-tity,” Cooper said in an e-mail sent to Doane stu-dents.

Junior Jordan Ren-kert said he thought the Interfaith Center would be a good place to share knowledge about different faiths. Multiple perspec-tives are one of the found-ing pillars in a liberal arts education, he said. Ren-kert is Jewish, and said he was sometimes ques-tioned about his beliefs.

“Knowledge is power, the more you know about things, the better,” Ren-kert said. “The more peo-ple who know about it (his religion), the less silly questions.”

Renkert said he appreciated the creation of this new multi-cultural center.

“ A n y b o d y who believes in a higher pow-er deserves the chance to share that with someone else,” Renkert said.

Carter said that histori-cally Doane was connected with the United Church of Christ, but over the years the affiliation became less prominent. He said that now Doane was not aligned with any particu-lar church but was open to students of all interests, faiths and religions.

“The better liberal arts colleges in the country not only address the needs of the mind and body, but also the needs of the soul,” Carter said.

Doane was lacking the third piece which would enable students to com-plete themselves as a per-son, and they now have the opportunity if they choose, Carter said.

“Religion is an indi-vidual choice, and it is any human being’s decision whether or not they prac-tice a certain faith,” Carter said. “All students are wel-come here.”

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Usually colleges are known for recruiting sports players, but the University of South Dako-ta (USD) had something else in mind when they re-cruited Molly Rozum, as-sociate history professor.

“It’s very gratifying,” Rozum said, “to have someone specifically in-terested in your work and to see the potential of your work.”

Rozum was contacted by the head of the search committee for the history position at USD.

“One thing lead to an-other, and they invited me to the campus and made me an offer that I thought was a good offer,” Rozum said. “This was an oppor-tunity that was difficult for me to turn down.”

USD currently has 10,100 students enrolled with a student to teacher

ratio of 15:1, according to http://admissions.usd.edu. Rozum said she liked the small class size at Do-ane, and her classes at USD will be a little larger.

She will still have a re-duced teaching load with the new position, and it would allow her to spend more time on her research and writing in her special-ity field.

“My work very much applies to the South Da-kota area,” Rozum said. “They’re very interested in my research and feel like they want to support it.

Rozum is original-ly from Mitchell, S.D., where she still has family. That 117 miles away from USD which is located in Vermillion, S.D. That’s a lot closer than 280 miles away in Crete, Neb., ac-cording to google maps.

“That was hard to pass up,” Rozum said. “So it was kind of a personal

connection.”She’s also had award

winning publications that have won awards. Her latest work, “Small-town Boy, Small-town Girl” was published in 2009.

“I edited the two mem-oirs in there and wrote the introduction to it, and it won an Independent Pub-lisher of America award,” Rozum said.

Rozum said this posi-tion will also put some more pressure on her to get more of her research out.

“I’m about ready to bring out a book, and I have some other projects in the hopper,” Rozum said. “This position will help me and be very much required and as a part as my position to lead in re-search.”

At Doane Rozum did a lot of work outside of the classroom. She was the Director of the Honors

program and is making sure she hands the pro-gram off to good hands.

“I’m working with Dean Burney on my various re-sponsibilities here at Do-ane,” Rozum said. “I won’t have a final say, but I’m working to make sure ev-erything is taken care of.”

Rozum said there’s a lot she doesn’t know about teaching at USD.

“In life you need to take risks and advance,” Ro-zum said. “This was an opportunity that came my way, and I thought I need-ed to take it and challenge myself.”

BY TYLER WEIHEManaging Editor

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All 23 submitted summer re-search projects were approved, Academic Affairs Vice President John Burney said.

Of the 23 projects, 18 are science related. Junior Amy Craig will work with the biology department to test plant ge-nomes.

Craig will work Monday through Friday, seven to eight hours a day, for 10 weeks, dur-ing which she will do plant imaging. The imaging process uses a camera hooked up to a microscope that takes pictures every nine seconds for 20 to 30 minutes. Craig said she will ex-amine over 200 sets of images.

Craig said Nebraska’s Ex-perimental Program to Stimu-late Competitive Research (EP-SCor) gave her a $5,000 grant for a full summer of research, while Doane gave her just under $2,000 for half of the summer. Unless she can accept both, Craig will not take Doane’s grant money, though she will still work on Doane’s campus.

“It’s kind of interesting I end-ed up with the biology depart-ment, but I kind of fell in love with it,” Craig said. “I’m actually looking to go to grad school for biophysics now.”

Burney said summer research projects allowed students to

get a taste of their possible fu-tures.

“It helps students decide if this is what they want to follow as a profession,” Burney said.

Junior Grant Dewey will also help with plant imaging for the genome project, as well as work on his own individual proj-ect, for which he received just under $2,000 from Doane. In his individual project, Dewey will study the process of cross-pollination in the same plants the genome project is study-ing the growth of. Dewey participated in summer research with bone mineralization two summers ago.

“You really see that what happens behind all of the big scientific discoveries is a bunch of smaller ones,” Dewey said. “It reinforced the idea that things take time.”

Burney said the faculty rec-ommendation committee said all the proposals were good.

“Students are really trying to help develop new knowledge, not just find an answer out of a textbook,” Burney said.

Dewey said he was ready to gain new experience in his field.

“I enjoy learning for learning’s sake, so that’s what pushed me toward science,” Dewey said. “Working with plants is an experience in itself. And I don’t really have a green thumb, so a lot of them are go-ing to die.”

BY HANNAH BAUERStaff Writer

Summer research projects approved

A task force has created a working proposal to revise and strengthen the Doane Plan.

“If you think of your program of study here at Doane, you kind of have your major, and then you have the Doane Plan things to check off,” Alec Engebretson, information science and tech-nology professor, said. “The question is, do you see much in-teraction between the two?”

In order to help students see the interaction, the proposal includes multiple liberal arts seminars.

Instead of just taking LAR 101 freshman year, students would take a LAR classes all four years.

The classes would build on each other, Engebretson said.

“In your major you have a se-quence of courses that naturally build on one another, and you start reflecting on what you’re

learning,” he said.Engebretson said general

education courses should allow students to do the same.

According to the curricu-lum presented to the faculty in August, the LAR 101 courses available would still introduce students to college-level writing, discussion, critical thinking and critical reading.

The LAR 201 courses would require students to address complex questions.

Teamwork and leadership skills will be focused on in the LAR 301 classes. These courses will allow students from differ-ent majors to come up with so-lutions to real-world problems.

Students will get a final op-portunity to examine their growth as a result of their gener-al education experience in LAR 401 courses.

The Doane Plan require-ments would also include cours-es from the major areas of study, English Assistant Professor Philip Weitl said.

“I still want students to learn about history, biology, math; but why can’t we do that and talk about how it all fits together, and how they (students) can apply what they learned?” Weitl said.

Engebretson said the college is actually considering reducing the number of credits, which could result from a decrease in Doane Plan credit hour require-ments.

Doane currently requires 132 credit hours to graduate, Engebretson said, whereas most institutions require 120 to 124 credit hours.

“On this campus we have a dangerous culture of busyness,” Weitl said. “Students and fac-ulty have a lot of things on their plates all the time, but I don’t think we take enough time to think about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.”

Weitl said being busy doesn't mean students or faculty were accomplishing more.

The Doane Plan Task Force will meet every week this

semester to modify its cur-riculum plan and will have a meeting at the beginning of the summer to finalize the plan, Engebretson said.

Engebretson said his goal was to present a revised gen-eral education framework to the faculty in the fall to be debated and voted on.

If the faculty were to approve the framework, it would take at least two years to implement the changes; one to prepare for the changes and then one for the changes to begin to occur as new classes came in, he said.

Senior Adam Hunke, a stu-dent representative on the task force, said he thought changes to the Doane Plan could be beneficial for students.

“It (the current Doane Plan) is a list of items to check off, and that’s what this program wants to get away from,” he said. “We just hope it (the new Doane Plan) gives them (students) a broad base of knowledge.”

BY ERIN BELLStaff Writer

Task force works to build Doane Plan

Sophomore Nick Clark said he would also like a change in toilet paper. The college could save money on toilet paper and spend it on improving other ar-eas around the school, such as the food, Clark said.

“If we got better toilet pa-per we wouldn’t spend so much money on it,” Clark said. “I never realized toilet paper could cost that much, that’s half our tu-ition.”

Hester said he would like to see money spent on boxes of Kleenex as opposed to vast amounts of toilet paper. These

boxes would be available for students in the bathrooms as an alternative to using toilet paper to blow their nose. Schil-ling said he would prefer money spent on improving the bath-rooms in Frees Hall to prevent flooding.

Overall, many students said they were in favor of buying more expensive, higher quality toilet paper.

“It would cost more to buy better quality paper,” Hester said, “but at least that way when I go to the bathroom, I’m not go-ing to use half a tree.”

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As the end of the semester approaches, it’s time to start thinking about next year’s living situations. The task of finding roommates and a place to live can be dramatic, but there are quick and simple solutions to easing that drama.

1) Know where you want to live. There’s a huge difference between Sheldon Hall and Colo-nial Hall. If you’re an extrovert and you get your energy from others, you might look for a suite-style or quad-style room. If you like to be more secluded while you study, investigate tra-ditional-style housing like Smith Hall or Frees Hall. If you love movies, imagine how you can use the theater in the Frees base-

ment. If you’re a gamer, check out the game room in the base-ment of Smith. If you qualify for off-campus housing, think about whether you want an apartment or a house. Each housing situ-ation has its own benefits and drawbacks, but there’s usually a right fit for each student.

2) Find a roommate. This will be the hardest and the easi-est part of the process. Many students have already com-pleted this step, so the selection is getting more narrow by the day. The good news is if you’re still searching for a roommate, you’re not the only one. Ask around in your classes, talk to your friends and notify your Residence Director and Resi-dence Assistant that you’re still looking. He or she will probably know of some students who are in the same boat and will keep

you posted when they hear of openings.

3) Have a backup plan. It’s not a surprise that many of the plans we make fall through at the last minute. The room you think you want might not be available or your roommate might not be able to afford it. Keep your fingers crossed your plan works out, but keep in mind you might have to keep searching. Once again, notifying your RD or RA will help make the process smoother if you hit a bump in the road.

4) Make negotiations early. If you and your roommate have a prospective issue, discuss how you can make it work. If you know your roommate is messy, ask them to work on those skills

over the summer so the transi-tion in the fall is as easy as pos-sible. Also improve your own roommate skills. If you know you stay up late studying, but your roommate likes her beau-ty sleep, find a new study spot around campus and make those small sacrifices.

5) Be open minded. When figuring out my housing situa-tion for sophomore year, my two friends and I filled a nine-person suite with transfer students. As we began the year, the nine of us were nearly strangers. By the end of the first semester, we had become a family. Those were girls I never would have come in contact with if it hadn’t been for our random housing assign-ment, but since I approached the situation with an open mind, it became one of the best experi-ences of college so far.

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Doane Plan revisions will benefit allCurrent Doane Plan requires too much from students

The possible Doane Plan revisions that the task force are dis-cussing could be of great benefit to the college; specifically to the students.

At Doane, it is extremely easy to get involved. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Some students need that ease to cre-ate friendships and grow beyond the classroom. Other students find themselves leading three major committees and participating in a dozen other campus organizations. That is on top of taking 21 credit hours.

The current credit hour requirement of 132 is much too high. In order to finish in four years, students need to take an average of 16.5 credit hours each semester. This is often on top of multiple jobs and activities.

Take this example. There are 168 hours in a week. A student spends 16 of those hours in a classroom. An additional 48 hours are spent studying. Assuming that student gets at least six hours of sleep each night, 42 hours each week are spent dreaming while the brain processes the information gathered throughout the day. That leaves 62 hours for a student to eat, shower and be actively involved enough to make a decent resume.

If the student is involved in sports, the time left for daily rest and relaxation is almost nonexistent. Baseball players, for exam-ple, spend roughly 25 hours each week at practices and games. Those athletes are left with about 37 hours each week to eat, show-er and socialize.

The stress of completing the current number of required credit hours with enough time to sleep, eat and get to extracurricular meetings leaves students doing the bare minimum. The creative learning process is lost because students will do just enough to make the passing grade.

By reducing the number of credit hours required to graduate to a number closer to 124, students will have more time to make the connections between classes. The liberal arts part of a Doane education will be more meaningful; there would be more time to realize that the lesson they learned in economics could be applied to what they are learning in philosophy.

Adding more liberal arts seminars could also be beneficial in order to prepare students for life after college. Some skills that LAR classes teach like writing, leadership and team building can get lost in the upper-level classes in certain majors. If a senior has not done much writing since his/her freshman LAR class, he/she may not be prepared for graduate school or a career.

Most professors make it a goal to include the four aspects of the Doane Mission Statement into classroom learning, but sometimes there is too much material to cover and certain learning skills may get lost. By adding LAR classes, students will be able to focus on leadership, inquiry, values and engagement.

Some may argue that reducing the number of required credit hours will make college too easy. In actuality, it will only benefit students in the long run. Instead of skimming the surface in class-es and activities, students can grow deeper and find more signifi-cant learning.

Thumbs up to the Crete com-munity breakfast group for its efforts to revitalize Crete. Hopefully the changes can help the community become more than just the town with the college on the hill.

Thumbs up to the community garden project for bringing the community together. By gardening some of our own food, Crete can become more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Thumbs up to summer research projects for providing stu-dents with the opportunities to investigate topics that interest them.

Thumbs up to Mind Expo for giving students an opportu-nity to showcase research and projects that they’ve done. We hope there’s better attendance this year than last.

Thumbs up to the Forensics team for its top 20 finish at nationals. The season was definitely successful, and we applaud you.

Thumbs down to the excessive use of toilet paper on Doane’s campus and the poor quality of the toilet paper purchased by the college.

Thumbs down to the departure of Softball Head Coach Barry Mosley. We wish you the best in your retirement and a strong finish to your last coaching season.

Thumbs down to the large amount of e-mails students receive on a daily basis. Inboxes flooded with updates on cafeteria birthday drawings and various meeting times leave most students pressing delete before opening the message.

Thumbs down to not being prepared when taking out loans. Students should investigate before taking out a loan so they don’t have to default on it later.

Thumbs down to long lines at Common Grounds on Thursday nights. Extra help would benefit both students and the barista.

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Last week, a student posted to the Doane Student Congress Facebook page inquiring about the possibility of putting in fil-tered water bottle fillers around campus to cut down on the num-ber of water bottles used by stu-dents.

This is a great project and, if students actively participate as planned, it could have a ma-jor impact on student pollution. What many students don’t know is that there is funding available for campus green projects like this one.

In the inaugural year of the green fund, the Green Commit-tee received only three propos-als; this leaves almost $26,000 available for next fall.

At just under $400, it is rea-sonable to think 10-12 fountains

could be installed in buildings around campus, and students could be provided or sold reus-able water bottles.

While expensive at first, this system has the potential to cre-ate a green culture around cam-pus, and this culture can lead to many other projects. Below are several proposal ideas that stu-

dents could pursue for next fall.Over the next few weeks,

I will research and provide information that can spark proj-ects around campus. This starts with high efficiency shower heads.

Since being installed in Hansen the spring of 2011, high efficiency shower heads have re-

duced student water consump-tion by thousands of gallons as well as saved Doane money.

According to research by En-vironmental Science Professor Russ Souchek’s 2010 climate change course, changing all shower heads on Doane’s cam-pus would cost just over $1,000, and save Doane nearly $6,000 and more than one million gal-lons of water.

During the research period, students found almost no differ-ence in quality despite switching 2.5 gallons per minute to 1.5 gal-lons per minute. The heads are also adjustable and have mas-sage settings.

Projects like these are a win-win situation because they save the college money and reduce its water consumption.

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Green Committee can fund projectsRyan Corrigan/The Owl

High efficiency shower heads like this one can save Doane nearly $6,000 and more than one million gallons of water.

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On Thursday nights, students can be found dashing in to Com-mon Grounds to cash in on left-over meal credits.

At 10 p.m. on Thursdays, the meal plan week ends. If students have anytime meal plans, their unused meal credits are lost, and they start again with 14 or 21 for the new week.

In order to avoid lost meals, students often visit Common Grounds on Thursday nights to use their extra meal credits and stock up on bottles of water and granola bars or muffins.

Long lines at Common Grounds leave some students growing impatient and others feeling sorry for the barista be-hind the counter.

Common Grounds barista Shayla Budura is usually the only employee working on Thursday nights. She has worked at Com-mon Grounds for nearly a year.

Budura said her normal 2:30-10:30 p.m. shift Monday-Friday is not a problem until Thursdays.

“I want a second person working on Thursdays just be-cause it’s busy,” Budura said.

Budura said she thought an-other barista may not be avail-able because of the cost.

“It might be a budget thing or a schedule issue, but I only need help for part of the night,” she said.

Freshman Riley Miller said he

noticed Common Grounds was typically busiest around 8:30 p.m. He said the barista was not as friendly during the rush.

“Whoever works on Thursday nights is cranky,” freshman Riley Miller said. “I haven’t cashed-in in a long time, but when I do it’s not like I’m ordering 12 smooth-ies; it’s usually waters and may-be a muffin.”

Miller said he thought the employee was unfriendly be-cause of the chaos at that time.

“If they had another person...one making smoothies and one clicking in the 12 bottles of wa-ter…that would work,” Miller said.

Sophomore Gabrielle Chav-ers said she thought another employee at that time would be helpful.

“I think Doane should work on better staffing Common Grounds and Tiger Inn to main-tain a smooth flow on customer cash-ins,” Chavers said.

Budura said she just wanted assistance.

“I like this job. It would just be helpful to have another per-son working on Thursdays,” Bu-dura said. “Helpful for me and the students.”

BY MIMI SHIRLEYStaff Writer

Students pack Common Grounds Thursdays

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Junior Brad Higgins reaches to grab a water. Students like Higgins often use their extra meal credits to get water on Thursdays from Common Grounds before the new meal week starts. This makes the night extra busy for barista Shayla Budura.

“I like this job. It would just be helpful to have another person working on Thursdays. Helpful for me and the stu-dents.”

Shayla Budura-Common Grounds barista

Barista works by herself onThursdaysduring big rush

Students’ e-mail accounts fill with spamWhen Doane Students have

a heavy flow of e-mails on a daily basis, it’s no wonder some e-mails don’t even get opened.

“If it’s nothing that pertains to me, I delete them,” freshman Delayne Martin said. “I feel like I get 100 (e-mails), but it’s more like 20 to 30.”

Junior Laura Andersen said she only received 10 to 15 e-mails per day. She said she had a hard time keeping track of them all.

“A lot of the time the impor-tant ones (e-mails) get lost,” Andersen said. “Sometimes I might miss something.”

She said people who kept their inboxes down to 20

e-mails were crazy.“I have cleaning days that

I delete everything from last month,” Andersen said.

Junior Brandon Stevens said he got an average of 25 to 30 e-mails per day.

“Most of them I don’t read,” Stevens said. “They (e-mails) just seem pointless and don’t have a lot of meaning.”

Freshman Jamie Riddle agreed with Martin and Stevens and said the overflow of e-mails was ridiculous.

“I get all excited when I see all those e-mails, and then I see they’re not for me,” Riddle said.

Andersen said she saw a lot of the same organizations sending out multiple e-mails a day. She suggested those organizations condense their content and put it all in one e-mail.

BY TYLER WEIHEManaging Editor

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ON THE PATH}{Do you read your Doane e-mail regularly?

“I do, with the edu-cation program you get a lot of e-mails from teachers.”

Kyla Maas-Junior

“Yes, because it’s updated very of-ten.”

Nick Hamilton-Freshman

“Yes, otherwise I feel lost.”

Maggie Hubbell-Freshman

“Absolutely not, so many of them come out every day.”

Chase Jones-Senior

You have been chosen as tribute for your district in this year’s Hunger Games, so “may the odds be ever in your fa-vor.”

“The Hunger Games” broke box-office records and moved its way up to score the third best opening of all time, accord-ing to Entertainment Weekly. It brought in $116.1 million in only three days, according to The New York Times.

The attention this book adapted film has and continues to receive does not go unde-served.

This action packed film starts by introducing the audience to the poor-stricken area of Dis-trict 12 as the wealthy elite set up a stage to pick tributes.

Each year, one boy and girl are chosen as tributes at random from each of the 12 districts to

fight to the death in The Hunger Games.

The emotional intensity that unfolds is only one of many in-timate moments that pull you into the story as Katniss, the main character, volunteers to take the place of her younger sister when she is chosen as the District 12 female tribute.

For those of you who are familiar with George Orwell’s 1984, the storyline of “The Hunger Games” is similar as it portrays a futuristic society op-pressed by government rule.

“The Hunger Games” was created after the government faced a national rebellion. The purpose of the games was to remind citizens of the govern-ment’s absolute power and to reward the lone survivor.

As the games begin, the audi-ence is immediately swept in as tributes run to kill, and run to survive.

You cheer when valiant ef-forts are made to help another tribute survive, and cry when the greatest of the tributes die.

The movie was a good repre-

sentation of the book, but one minor mistake was made.

The well-known mockingjay pin that Katniss received was not given by her sister, but was given by the mayor’s daughter, who is not even mentioned in the movie.

As the action unfolds, so does a love story. The fate of that love could be life or death, but you’ll have to watch the movie or read the book to find out.

However, an unexpected ending could leave you hungry for more.

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Freshmen Sydney Johnson, Krista Couton, Brianna Golka and Lindsay Wilson read four books in the Hunger Games series. Ryan Corrigan/The Owl

Mind Expo presents top researchBY AILEEN GELB

Staff Writer

Doane students have an opportunity to share their re-search projects at the upcoming Mind Expo event.

The program has become an annual event for students to present their work to the Doane community and will take place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 19.

Mind Expo began in 2001, Psychology Professor Rod Pe-ters said.

This year, Mind Expo will have 31 posters and about 15 presentations from students sharing research ranging from biology to psychology to math to business, Economics Instructor Jennifer Bossard said.

“In the (Nyrop) Great Hall will be their posters,” Bossard said. “Students will be standing by their poster for one hour. And

then people can just come by and walk through and look at the posters and ask ques-tions; see what the students

have been working on.”Students are encouraged to

attend and will be given refresh-ments at the event. Students that attend both a poster and a presentation will be eligible for one of three door prizes.

The Mind Expo is mainly composed of science majors, but students of other disciplines are given the chance to present, Bossard said.

“We’re doing something dif-ferent this year,” Bossard said. “We’re having a panel discus-sion for business students to discuss their internships. That kind of works better for the business discipline because not a lot of students are doing re-search, at least not that you can see.”

Biology Assistant Professor

Kate Marley said she has had students present projects in the past, usually involving DNA or molecular biology.

“My expertise really lies in molecular biology and DNA,” Marley said. “So most of my students are doing projects with that. Sometimes there’s a cancer feature to their question.”

Marley said Mind Expo was a positive experience for students to participate in or attend.

“Most of the students that present at Mind Expo are there because they’ve already been successful,” Marley said. “Mind Expo is a celebration of our stu-dents’ accomplishments.”

Students of all discipline areas are encouraged to par-ticipate in Mind Expo, Bossard said.

“We want to encourage those students to showcase whatever they’re working on,” Bossard said. “A student could do an art

exhibit, a musical demonstra-tion. In the future, if students are doing any special work ei-ther inside or outside the class-room, they should consider pre-senting that at Mind Expo.”

“Most of the stu-dents that pres-ent at Mind Expo are there because they’ve already been successful.”

Kate Marley-Biology Assistant Professor

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Men’s Golf@Blue River Classic

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On March 31, Doane’s base-ball team won the first game of a double-header against Dordt 6-4. Behind by three runs in the last inning, Doane made up the difference and managed to go into extra innings because of an uncertified bat.

Neither team had a run go-ing into the fourth inning. Dordt slowly crept their run-ners onto the bases and with

a solid hit, brought in the first run of the game. Doane’s head coach, Jeremy Jorgensen, called to the umpire, and they started examining the bat with Dordt’s coach. After a striking-ly quiet discussion over home plate that kept the crowd tense for several long minutes, the run was revoked, the batter called out and the bat deemed “illegal” by the announcer.

“With the new rule changes, its our responsibility to know which ones are legal and illegal,” Jorgensen said. “I recognized it

was an illegal bat and had the opportunity to bring it to the at-tention of the umpire.”

While there are inflated sto-ries of bats being illegally im-proved in malicious schemes, the bat used, like most bats that are banned, was not usable be-cause of recent modifications of league rules.

“There is a regulation to measure how much ‘pop’ an alu-minum bat has,” one of Doane’s assistant coaches Sam Bjorling said. “It’s called BBCOR.”

At the start of the 2011 sea-

son of collegiate baseball, the National Collegiate Athletic As-sociation changed the standard by which bats are certified, us-ing the “Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution” (BBCOR). In its official statement explaining the new standard, the NCAA de-scribed the new standards of bat length, width, weight and how

much a ball bounces off. These new standards bring down how far balls have bounced off bats in previous seasons of play.

In an email explaining the situation to league officials, Ath-letic Director Greg Heier gave more specifics on the situation.

“The batter was using the ‘Rip It Prototype I’ bat. The ‘Rip

It Prototype I’ bat was not on the approved bat list, though the ‘Rip It Prototype II’ is.”

The “Rip It Prototype I” that was used by Dordt was a valid bat before the 2011 season, but the model was too springy to meet the BBCOR standards of play.

“I think it’s been a very good thing,” Bjorling said describ-ing the change to BBCOR. “It’s been one step closer to playing with wooden bats, which is how the game was designed to be played.”

Like most children, Se-nior Chance Brull was intro-duced to the game of base-ball at a young age.

It wasn’t until high school that Brull realized he liked baseball more than the other sports he was playing.

“I played football and basketball, but baseball seemed to fit more with me,” Brull said. “I didn’t like run-ning that much and getting hit all the time.”

While in high school, Brull said he attended sum-mer baseball camps regu-larly, where scouts watched. When he received his first call from an interested scout, he said he was a little anx-ious.

“It was exciting because Doane was the first school to contact me,” Brull said. “I was anxious because I knew I wanted to play college ball, and I wanted to perform.”

Four years after that phone call, Brull has been named to the All-Confer-ence team, the NAIA All-American team and was a preseason All-American this season.

Senior Jake Arbuckle said Brull found ways to get the job done whenever he was on the field.

“He knows how to pitch,” Arbuckle said. “He has a good fastball and has learned how to mix speeds really well.”

Brull has been in the starting rotation for the past two seasons and has grown to know how hitters are thinking. He has also played in the Northwoods League the last two summers.

The Northwoods League is a summer baseball league composed of top collegiate players from across the country and North America.

“I think I have matured a lot as a person. I don’t just throw now, I pitch,” Brull said. “I have learned how hitters think, and my overall maturation has gotten me to this point.”

This season, Brull is 5-2 and has thrown four com-plete games. The opposing batters are hitting .235 av-erage, and he has nearly 50 strikeouts.

“When I pitch I am ag-gressive without showing my best stuff early,” Brull said. “Once the hitters adjust to the velocity, that is when I mixed in more off-speed stuff.”

In sports winning is ev-erything, and that is what Brull and the rest of the Ti-ger baseball team is about.

“Chance is a guy who doesn’t want a lot of credit,” Arbuckle said. “He just goes about his business.”

Individual awards don’t mean as much as team suc-cess, Brull said.

“I would like to be named All-American again,” Brull said. “But more importantly, I want the team to have a great season.”

BY AUSTIN BENSONStaff Writer

Take a ‘Chance’ for Doane baseball

Photos by Ryan Corrigan/The Owl

Senior Chance Brull has been named to the All-Conference team, NAIA All-American and preseason All-American. He is 5-2 this season.

Illegal bat helps Doane defeat DordtBY KEVIN ANDERSON

Staff Writer

From wands to wizards to snitches, Quidditch is a game that expands your mind and your magic.

For Doane College, it’s the sport that is here to take over.

Led by leading scorers junior Jordan Renkert, sophomore Jacob Biaggi and junior Kurt

Harders, Quidditch has a record of 3-3.

In the International Quid-ditch Association, Doane’s team has a record of 0-1.

This isn’t bad given that this is the inaugural season.

The team was started by former Doane student Austin Booher. Booher left the program in late March, but the team has fought on without him.

Biaggi took his place as In-

terim President throughout the season.

This weekend Doane will host its first official Quidditch Tournament, the First Annual Nebraska Cup.

For Doane, there are 40 play-ers in the club, but the team will only bring 15-20 to the tourna-ment.

Originally, nine teams were invited to the tournament, but a few of them couldn’t put togeth-

er a full team. So they opened up the spots to any team in the Quidditch Association who would be able to make the trip to Crete.

The teams attending are: Papio Quidditch (high school team), University of Minnesota

Morris, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Augustana College, and the Denver Dementors (a community team).

In my eyes, Doane has a good chance of winning this tourna-ment.

We have been able to catch the snitch in every game we have played. The snitch is 150 points, which is a huge advantage to those who catch it.

Since Doane has been suc-

cessful in the past, there is no reason for this trend not to con-tinue.

All the other teams are traveling a good distance to come to this tournament, and Doane will have the home field advantage.

It sure seems like everything is on our side, and maybe we’ll see a little Harry Potter skill come out in our Quidditch team this weekend.

Quidditch tournament to ‘fly’ at Doane CollegeBY RICHARD CREEGER

Sports Editor- OPINION -

“With the new rule changes, its our responsibility to know which ones are legal and illegal.”

Jeremy Jorgensen-Baseball Head Coach

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The Doane Men’s Golf team is competing in the Blue River Clas-sic this weekend hosting the first day Friday afternoon at the College Heights Country Club.

The classic is that last meet be-fore the third round of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cham-pionship at Fremont Country Club on April 23.

“All the guys need to build momentum in this meet,” Head Coach Myron Parsley said. “The team needs to continue hitting good shots and making good swings.”

Sophomore Colby Blackman said the team needed to focus on scoring well and capitalizing on good opportunities.

“We all have to work on our short game before Friday,” Black-man said. “If we play well as a team, it will definitely be a confidence builder.”

With only one senior leading the

golf team, Parsley said he needed Senior Bo Cribelli to lead the young squad.

“Bo is our only senior, and we are looking for him to lead us,” Parsley said. “The team needs him to play well.”

Parsley said he implemented ev-erything he could this season and now the team just needed to per-form the way it can.

“Everything is in place,” Parsley said. “Now it is a matter of gaining momentum and the team peaking before the GPAC tournament.”

Cribelli agreed that momentum can be gained this weekend, and the team does need to perform.

“It is a good chance to put up some good numbers,” Cribelli said. “Hopefully we shoot well this weekend heading into conference.”

Doane is sitting second in the GPAC standings heading into con-ference. The Blue River Classic should act as preparation, Parsley said.

“All these tournaments are in preparation for conference, and the guys know that,” Parsley said.

Just because it isn’t a conference meet does not take away from the serious mentality the Tigers will take, Cribelli said.

“We are going into this meet with the expectation of winning.”

No matter where you go in the world, there are just some baseball traditions that go unquestioned. You don’t step on the foul line when a game is in progress, you don’t talk about the statistics of a player stepping up to the plate, and for the love of god, you don’t talk about a perfect game until after it is over.

The great American pas-time is riddled with odd tradi-tions and superstitions in ev-ery league, in every country. Worldwide, batters tap the home plate with their bat the same way every time before a pitch or take a practice swing after each strike. As many teams do, Doane’s baseball team has their fair share of eccen-tricities. Senior Outfielder Mike Albert

drinks Monster energy drinks without fail before and during games.

Senior Pitcher Chance Brull never steps on to the pitch-ing mound in a game unless he kisses a medallion he wears around his neck.

Sophomore Closer Nathan Roth eats a brown sugar Pop-Tart each game before he comes in to close.

Senior Pitcher Nick Dawson al-ways does the same warm-up rou-tine before each game and listens to the same 3 songs, but he pre-ferred to keep which ones to him-self.

“I think there is a lot of super-stition because there is a lot of

luck involved,” Dawson said. “For example, you can throw a perfect pitch, and a guy can take a horrible swing,andifthefieldersarenotinthe right position, manage to get a hit. Or you can throw a horrible pitch, and strike a guy out.”

Some of the Tigers’ tradi-tions are minor; calling loved ones or reciting personal mantras. But anybody that comes to a game can see the Tigers in a few of their more public traditions.

Before games, the team huddles and receives a private pep-talk from one of the seniors starting the game. The most noticeable team tradition is any time the team gets a batter out. The ball is thrown toalloftheinfieldersinaspecificorder in quick succession, ending with the pitcher.

“It’s to get everybody involved and on their toes,” Student Coach Jake Arbuckle said. “It is hard to keep everybody involved all the time. Plus, it gets everybody excit-ed.”

Senior Catcher Anthony Dunn said he had a few strange tradi-tions of his own.

“If I have a good game,” Dunn said, “I try to keep the same under-shirts on for the next game, and I let my facial hair grow out. If I have a bad game, I shave it.”

Dunn said that some players take the superstitions a bit too far.

“I’ve heard of some people wear-ing the same boxers each game without washing them when they are having a winning streak,” Dunn said. “Nobody on the Doane team, however.”

BY KEVIN ANDERSONStaff Writer

Taking a bite out of supersitions

Barry Mosley, head coach of the women’s softball team, announced on Friday that he would retire at the end of this season.

“It just became overwhelm-ing over the last couple of years,” Mosley said. “It’s a position that needs a lot of dedication and focus, and I feel I haven’t been able to give it what needed these last couple of years. I gave it a

lot, though.”Mosley’s full-time job is in

Lincoln. Mosley said between coaching, his job, his family and his hobbies of painting and pho-tography, he needed to make a change.

“I had to make a personal choice based on the weight of so many things,” Mosley said. “I have to put my family first.”

Aside from his plan to finish out the season, Mosley said he did not know what would hap-pen to the head coach position.

“We’re going to finish the sea-

son out, and Doane will do what they do,” Mosley said. “They just need someone full-time.”

Junior Jenna Alswager said she understood Mosley’s deci-sion.

“He loves coaching,” she said. “It’s just time for him to dive into his other passions.”

Alswager said Athletic Direc-tor Greg Heier spoke to them about next season.

“Greg told us that he’s going to do the same thing that he did with basketball and soccer,” she said. “Look for someone with a great track record who’s going to help us do well. . . Coach Mos-ley’s got some big shoes to fill.”

Heier said the process would begin immediately.

“I will be starting a search immediately to fill the posi-tion,” Heier said. “Though a new coach will not be named until this year's team completes its season under Coach Mosley's leadership.”

Mosley said he was leav-ing Doane on good terms, and in his letter announcing his retirement, gave his fondest wishes to the college and his team.

“I will forever embrace the memories of my time with Do-ane, spent with the players in vans, buses, dugouts and res-taurants, as well as on the ball field,” Mosley said. “I sincerely appreciate the support of the college, the athletic staff and all the alumni and current players and wish them the very best.”

Softball Coach Barry Mosley resignsBY KEVIN ANDERSON

Staff Writer

Men’s golf goes to Blue River, eyes GPACBY AUSTIN BENSON

Staff Writer

“We all have to work on our short game before Friday. If we play well as a team, it will definitely be a confidence builder.”

Colby Blackman-Sophomore

Ryan Corrigan/The OwlSophomore Closer Nathan Roth eats a brown sugar Pop-Tart before he enters each baseball game to pitch.

Doane’s Men’s golf team is competing in the Blue River Class this weekend. The tournament will be a tune up for the third round of the GPAC Championship.

Archived Photo/The Owl

“I had to make a personal choice based on the weight of so many things. I have to put my family first.”

Barry Mosley-Softball Head Coach