September 24, 2013

Established in 1857 TuEsday, sEpTEmbEr 24, 2013 Volume 161, No. 3

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IN THIS ISSUE

ARTS & LIFEFEATURESFORUM SPORTSPresident Weinberg insight into the Denison community

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Administrator and students discuss rape, sexual assault

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Philip Levine, new Denison Museum exhibit

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“!e Inn is going to be in good hands,” says Dena McKinley, gen-eral manager of the Granville Inn. “!is is what should have hap-pened a long time ago.”

!e college and Granville share a greatly linked history, she adds, believing the college will be the best entity to restore the Inn to its glory days and maintain its opera-tions.

In 1923, John Sutphin Jones,

Granville landmark the Granville Inn, on the 300 block of East Broadway in the village’s downtown, has recently been purchased by Denison

University.

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By Abbe KaplanSpecial to !e Denisonian

Huffman recycling and composts

Denison kicked up its sustain-ability e"orts a big notch this year as both the recycling and composting procedures on cam-pus were revamped. !e new programs have cut down on con-fusion, decreased the amount of time we spend sorting our food waste and recyclables, and dra-matically increased our output.

Denison, whose students were among the #rst to implement a university recycling program in 1986, made the switch last April from a sorted recycling system to one that is comingled. !is not only eliminates the need to sepa-rate wet and dry recyclables, but also means that plastics of types 1

through 7 can now be processed (as compared to only plastic types 1 and 2 in previous years).

Sustainability Coordinator Jer-emy King anticipates a signi#cant jump in the volume of recyclables that Denison generates, but these results are still in the measure-

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General Manager, Granville Inn

!is is what should have happened a long time ago.

Local landmark the Granville Inn changes hands

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ment process.Denison’s recycling center

still handles materials brought in from the general public, and separates some of the most valu-able items (i.e. aluminum cans

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Parties on $4XDG"

By mid-October, a new initia-tive called Social Spaces may be introduced to change the party culture on campus. !e pro-gram was created during Deni-son Campus Governance Asso-ciation (DCGA) president Drew Johnson’s administration with the assistance of senior Nicole Casey in an attempt to expand available areas for social gather-ings outside of student apart-ments.

Current DCGA president Ana Morales commented, “I think that we need it because I think being able to have parties outside of a bedroom… where there is more space to talk and see each other would nurture a healthier social culture for us.”

Social Spaces will not be us-ing the exact same format as the current party registration policy in place. “I imagine that we will take a lot of the ways party reg-istration is right now and imple-ment it to social spaces as well,” says Morales. However, accord-

By Chris HermanNews Editor

Commission on Social Spaces to explore amending Party Registration to include some public places

See Social Spaces, page 3 See INN, page 3

owner and commissioner of sev-eral of Granville’s most historic sites, including the Bryn Du Man-sion and the Granville golf course, commissioned the construction of the Granville Inn. It was based on the Jacobethan Revival style of the Granville Female College, which had been closed 25 years earlier. Since then, the prop-erty has changed hands for three times.

“It is the close interrelatedness of Granville and Denison,” says Seth Patton, vice president for #-

nance and management at Deni-son, explaining Denison’s deci-sion to acquire ownership of the Granville Inn.

“!e Granville Inn’s facilities and functions are vital both to the village and to the college,” says Patton. “We feel fortunate to be able to act on this opportunity to invest in our remarkable commu-nity and in this iconic property.” He adds, “We believe it is impor-tant for the continued health of the village and surrounding area to keep the Inn viable. Not only

is it a signi#cant local employer, but its services are important to Granville’s downtown and to

First-year students #led into buses and headed o" to a three-day leadership intensive at Camp Joy, DU Lead, where they completed a ropes course and spent time talking about how to “make their mark” on campus.

Natalie Keller Pariano, the di-rector of Campus Leadership and Involvement, and Erik Farley, who works in the Center for Cross-Cultural Engagement, were the two lead facilitators. Juniors Megan Mc-Cormick and Emma Bosley-Smith were the on-site coordinators, and there were 12 club advisors who “role-modeled leadership, vulner-ability, and passion,” according to McCormick.

Changes made to the program this year included the exclusion of

sophomore students. Pariano said, “!is year we made it only #rst-year students. It just felt like a really good way to kick-start a Denison experience. A lot of students go on pre-orientations and not everyone can. D.U. Lead really sets people up to think about what they really want to be engaged in on campus. It’s a really good introduction to leadership at Denison speci#cally.”

!e program focuses on the so-cial change model of leadership as well as di"erent ways to make your mark and start the leadership pro-cess on campus.

!e program began in 2006 when fraternity and sorority leaders from

A look at Bon Appetit’s new e!ort to enhance Denison’s sustainability.

THIS WEEK’S NUMBER

NEWS Tuesday, September 24, 2013Page 2

New reporting method for hate crimes on campusBy Grace BachmannSpecial to !e Denisonian

Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and misogyny $ared in four separate incidents students reported to Denison University administration last fall.

!e University held meetings over the winter to resolve the incidents of bias, but the dialogues made apparent the need for a clear response protocol on behalf of stu-dent safety.

!is summer, a team of students, faculty and sta" developed the Response Protocol for Bias and Hate-Related Incidents. !eir objective was to create a clear protocol to help students feel con#dent in the Uni-versity’s response to incidents of bias. “It was a concern on our part that there were moments of hesitation about whether [stu-dents] should report, whether action would be taken, and what that action would look like,” says Laurel Kennedy, vice president

of student development. She identi#es the uncertainty students experienced as a call to action.

!e Protocol they created weaves togeth-er the University’s zero tolerance policy towards bias incidents and its response to misconduct.

Kennedy says that before the construc-tion of the protocol, the system lacked a standard procedure and clear line of com-munication. Students previously reported incidents of bias to Resident Assistants who documented the incident and reported to Area Coordinators, Campus Safety and Se-curity and relevant administrative o%ces. “All the parts were there—they were just in-visible to the student body,” says Kennedy.

!e Bias-Incident Response Protocol makes process of reporting an incident ac-cessible to students. Now reports receive immediate attention to #rst ensure student and campus safety. !en administrative directors distinguish the nature of the in-

cident as a crime, violation of the Student Code of Conduct, or an educational oppor-tunity for the school. Meanwhile, Denison Campus Reporting Advisors (Denison CARES) contact the harmed party and the alleged o"enders to create a plan of action to resolve the case.

!e protocol both raises awareness about bias and hate-related incidents, and strengthens their response and resolution. Kennedy and the administration were troubled to #nd that “students know a lot about how to report sexual misconduct but not how to report bias-related incidents.”

LOCAL

Heroin overdoses spike in Licking County !e Newark Advocate Heroin abuse and overdose are on the rise for Licking County and its environs, according to coroners. !ere have been 12 heroin-related deaths in 2013. In 2012, Licking County hospitals treated 402 overdoses, up from 117 in 2011.

State house to debate teen driving laws !e Columbus Dispatch A new bill limit-ing teen driving, sponsored by state Republicans, is up for debate in the Ohio state legislature. If passed, licensed teenagers could only drive with family members or licensed 21-year-olds within a 10 p.m. curfew.

NATIONAL

13 shot at park in Chicago Chicago Tribune An assailant with military-grade weaponry opened #re on a pickup basketball game in a South Side Chicago park !ursday night. !irteen victims include a three-year-old boy. All survived, but the gunman is still at large.

JPMorgan !ned $920 mil. Reuters Financial multinational JPMor-gan Chase & Co., the U.S.’s largest bank, will pay out $920 million in settlements in four civil suits regarding its “Lon-don whale” scandal. !e bank still faces probes from several governments regard-ing other alleged crimes.

INTERNATIONAL

Gunmen assault Kenyan mall; 59 dead ABC News Ten to 15 armed gunmen identi#ed as Islamist radicals opened #re on crowds at an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday. As of press time 59 are con#rmed dead with over 175 wounded. Kenyan forces have sur-rounded the mall, where hostages are being held.

Syria submits chemical weapons data, considers cease!re Al Jazeera !e Organization for the Pro-hibition of Chemical Weapons received information from the Syrian government Saturday about its chemical weapons programme. !is is the beginning of a process that could lead to destruction of the Assad regime’s nuclear stockpiles. Qadri Jamil, a deputy PM of Assad, said his government is considering peace talks with rebel groups.

78 dead in Pakistan church bombing CBS News Taliban-associated militants bombed a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan as the faithful were exiting from Mass on Sunday. 78 were killed and over 120 wounded. Secular and religious lead-ers in Pakistan condemned the attack.

O! the Hill

With the Denison Campus Governance As-sociation (DCGA) #rst-year elections taking place on campus this week, freshman candi-dates bustle to get their voices heard among their fellow classmates and announce every-thing they hope to accomplish in the 2013-2014 year.

!e eight new DCGA senators are Hanna Saba, Olivia Ireland, Sarah Ho"man, Ryan Vagedes, Sarah Dixon, Landon Slangerup, Haley Jones, and Trishna Desai (pictured).

Posters and messages #lled every available space around West Quad and in Slayter. Com-mon themes among the candidates included improving communication between admin-istration and students, making meal options more $exible, and increasing school spirit.

Sarah Ho"man from Bloomington, Ind. fo-cused on topics regarding the inconsistency of the Wi-Fi on campus, the long lines in Slayter, and changes that could make dorm life bet-ter, such as air conditioning during the hotter months.

First-year Haley Jones wants to create a “solid place in the community and be an ap-

proachable resource for [her] fellow class-mates.” Landon Slangerup aims to centralize the arts on campus, and allow it to be a cam-pus-wide act and bring the community closer together.

Ryan Vagedes, a biology major from Can-ton, Ohio, brought up an interesting point of making all professors commit to using black-board for all class-related work; he felt it would be “helpful to teachers and students as all class information would be on one centralized site.”

First-year Charlie Reynolds, a chemistry major from Wooster, Ohio, wanted to “usher a new area of transparency and communication [while] provid[ing] a link between the Class of 2017, the DCGA, and the administration.”

“Denison is a very close-knit community, and it is very important for the incoming class

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that our campus remains a cohesive and caring place where students work together to voice their opinions and make changes,” explained Reynolds.

An important issue brought up by several candidates was that of parking.

Cantidate Ruthy Orevba wanted to expand the newly initiated Car Share program as well as increase available parking to students, espe-cially on East Quad.

Minchen Hu, a cantidate from Shenzhen, China, hoped to become the “bridge between di"erent kinds of groups and people” in an ef-fort to get the international students more in-volved. In order to achieve this, he intends to introduce more cultural events to !e Hill.

Only time will tell what changes these new senators will bring.

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CorrectionsOn page 1 of the Aug-O issue, the title of Kim Coplin should have been Provost.

On page 1 of the Sept. 17 issue, the headline should have read “2 sexual assaults, no criminal

investigations,” not “2 rapes, no criminal investigations.”

On page 12 of the Sept. 17 issue, the freshman standout was Joel Lohoua, not Joel Elliot, who

is a senior.

The Denisonian regards itself as a professional publication and strives for the highest standards of journalism

at all times. If there is a mistake, please contact us at [email protected] so we can correct our error.

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Denison went to a leadership conference called the Undergraduate Interfraternity In-stitute. “!e conversations they got there and that immersion and being focused on some-thing got them started on a conversation that they didn’t get to have on campus. !ey #g-ured they should start a leadership program speci#cally for #rst and second year students, so the CLIC o%ce created a one-day program for how to make your mark,” said Pariano.

First-year student Grace Bachmann from Columbus, Ohio, said, “the entire weekend was culminated into this idea of making your mark,” and her mantra was “about using dif-ferent forms of media as a platform for sto-rytelling.” Students faced their fears and worked together to complete a rope course at Camp Joy.

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The eight DCGA Class of 2017 senators: (Left to right) Sarah Dixon, Ryan Vagedes, Sarah

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DCGA Weekly Report

Last Tuesday Sept. 17, DCGA Senate convened to continue elections for the univer-sity’s governing councils. Logan Smith ‘16 and Yuqing Liang ‘16 were elected to the Committee on Residential Life (CRL). Jack Olmstead ‘16 was elected to the Security Committee. Isabel Randolph ‘16 and Chris Wallace ‘14 were elected to the Student En-rollment and Retention Committee (SERC). Jennifer Park ‘17, Evan Langford ‘16, and Kristóf Oltvai ‘15 were elected to the General Education Competencies Committee. Po-

Former members of Capitol Hill Barry Goldwater Jr. and John Hall visited our very own Hill last week, Sept. 16-17. !ese two former congressmen were brought to Deni-son by the Lugar Program, which is run by Dr. Andrew Katz. According to Dr. Katz, the Lugar Program has been bringing former Congressmen to visit the university every other year since 1996.

Goldwater and Hall were chosen to come here to Denison by the United States Asso-ciation of Former Members of Congress. Ac-cording to its website, one of the purposes of

By Jewell PorterSta" Writer

Capitol Hill to ours: Senators Goldwater and Hall visit Political Science classesthis organization is to send one Republican and one Democrat to colleges and universi-ties across the country to educate students about careers in public service and their per-sonal opinions of the inner workings of Con-gress.

Former Republican Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. is the son of the famous Barry Goldwater, who ran against President Lyn-don B. Johnson in the Election of 1964. Barry Goldwater Jr., however, ran for congress in 1969 in Arizona and kept his seat in Congress until 1983 when he o%cially retired.

Former Democratic Congressman John Hall, on the other hand, started out his career in the band Orleans, which he founded in

1972. However, in the early 2000s, Hall began to develop a political career, and, in 2008, he beat 12-year incumbent Sue Kelly, who is also a Denison alumna. Hall served in the House of Representatives for four years.

While Goldwater and Hall were here, they spoke to several di"erent groups on campus. !ey gave discussions in !e Politics of Con-gress 307, American Political Behaviors and Institutions 110, and Foreign Policy Formula-tion 214. !ey also had dinner with members of the Lugar Program during their time here.

Sophomore Constantine Politis, who is a student in the Politics of Congress 307, said his favorite part of having the former con-gressmen in his class was seeing how much

ing to Nicole Casey, a more case-by-case approach depending on the space in ques-tion may be used. Both indoor and out-door areas are being reviewed as potential party locations, including a Sunset lounge, the Shaw basement, Chamberlin, and the Lamson Lodge. As of now, fraternity houses are not up for review as locales; however, “I don’t know if we have limited fraternity spaces, I just think we haven’t gotten to that place in the conversation,”

they “really wanted to defend their opinions.” He also said it interested him to see how far apart the two former members were ideologi-cally. “It de#nitely put into perspective what it’s actually like on the [House] $oor now,” he commented.

But even though these two former Con-gressmen were very di"erent ideologically and politically, Politis was surprised to #nd how respectfully they treated each other. “I de#nitely didn’t expect to see them refer to each other as a ‘good friend,’” he said.

!e next two former members of Congress will be back on campus sometime during the 2015-2016 school year.

Morales mentioned. Individuals who are not part of an organization cannot reg-ister a party through Social Spaces. Mo-rales says there are still some questions in need of answers for the new policy, such as “who’s going to make sure the place stays neat right a&er the party happens, [and] who’s going to make sure that people don’t register a space every single week so that other people have access to it as well.”

!ese questions have been addressed during the Social Spaces commission meeting this Monday and will be covered in a future edition of !e Denisonian.

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RECYCLING

and cardboard), but the majority of recy-clables are now collected and processed by Rumpke.

Recycling isn’t the only thing expanding this year.

Due to Bon Appétit’s emphasis on fresh produce, the kitchen generates more fruit and vegetable scraps, therefore rendering the amount of meat, dairy, and oil that people scrape from their plates – previ-ously non-compostable – insigni#cant. As a result, the compost facility behind Deni-son’s Physical Plant has seen four times as much food waste per day as compared to last year, or roughly 8 33-gallon bins from each dining hall.

“We do all scratch cooking... some peo-ple don’t understand that when you’re eat-ing watermelon on the fruit bar at breakfast it’s because someone took a watermelon, that I probably got from the farmer’s mar-ket Saturday, and cut it up, and the rest of the watermelon goes in the [compost],” said S.K. Piper, sustainability manager for Dining Services on campus.

Senior environmental studies and politi-cal science double major Chelsea Eastman, of Granville, Ohio, is working in conjunc-tion with Piper and her team to determine the best long-term solution for the in-creased volume of compost. !is solution may include transporting our compost to a facility o" campus, where even industrial compost such as the to-go containers and utensils in Slayter can be processed.

Denison visitors as well.”!e Inn will remain on the village tax

rolls and its use “will fundamentally re-main the same,” says Patton.

According to Patton, the decision was not expected as recently as of Tuesday, Sept. 17, but has been “under serious con-sideration by the college’s Board of Trustees for nearly 18 months.”

!e 88-year-old Inn currently is in re-ceivership under the Licking County courts and includes the properties at 304, 314 and

348 East Broadway. Denison, as the holder of a back-up con-

tract, is in the process of transitioning own-ership of the Inn a&er the primary contract holder, the Columbus-based Urban Resto-rations, chose to back out.

“As recently as Monday, we remained in discussions with Urban Restorations on ways we could be supportive of their planned ownership of the facility. In the #nal analysis they decided to back away from the project,” said Patton in an email.

!e college is prepared to invest the re-sources that will be required to maintain and rehabilitate the historic facility. “Dur-

ing our research process, we came to un-derstand the signi#cant investment that will be needed to preserve and update the Inn, and we are ready for that,” said Patton.

McKinley explains the current sta" may or may not stay, since Denison will be con-tracting with another hospitality manage-ment company.

“!e goal is to enhance the Granville Inn, making it a vital and successful busi-ness. Weighed against all others, there may be more attractive investment opportuni-ties from a purely #nancial perspective, but few that are more important to Granville and Denison,” said Patton.

One of the Granville Inn’s largest guest populations include Denison alumni, par-ents, faculty and sta", according to McKin-ley. Patton believe the investment will “reestablish the original grandeur to the Granville Inn, providing a very positive ex-perience for students, faculty, alumni and guests of the college right within the Vil-lage.”

!e investment will not put any pressure on students’ tuition, according to Patton. “It is unlikely that it will be so pro#table... but our goal is for it to be self-sustaining... and generate a minimal amount of pro#t,” he says.

sitions remain open on CRL, the Security Committee, and the Personnel Committee. Steven Hix ‘16 was appointed the Treasurer of DCGA for this year. Rules Chair Chris

Hoye ‘16 introduced a potential revamp of the Co-Governor position. Senate conclud-ed with open discussion of the role of Co-Governors in campus governance; no mo-tions were debated.

THIS WEEK IN PICTURES

Asian Culture Club put up the Moon Festival to

celebrate the favorite autumn festivity in many

countries Saturday, Sept. 21. See PAGE 10

Mark Waterman ‘15 taking a shot in Denison -

Capital match on Wednesday, Sept. 18, taking

Denison men’s soccer to its 7th victory. See PAGE 12

University Programming Council (UPC) hosted

Hypnotist Sailesh on Friday, Sept. 20.

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EDITORIAL Tuesday, September 24, 2013Page 4

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DEditor’s Corner >>Sexual assault: tougher policies needed

OUR VOICE >>

About a week and a half has passed since news broke about the two sexual assaults on campus. It is very disconcerting to know how quickly the dialogue regard-ing those incidents has simmered down.

I am disturbed by how normal it has become to hear about sexual assault incidents occurring on campus. I am afraid that this institution is setting a pattern of neutrality and lack of trans-parency that is making rape and sexual assault become desensitized topics.

I am particularly baffled by the ac-tions that are taken by administra-tion to resolve allegations. It does not sit well with me that a student ac-cused of sexual assault can be moved to a dorm across campus as a pre-ventive measure. (As mentioned in !e Denisonian’s previous issue.)

We are dealing with potential felonies but these types of issues seem to be treated in a different kind of fashion. It seems as though this institution is acting on the interest of the university before acting on the interest of the victim. Per-haps this is one of the reasons that sexu-al assault and rape cases plague Denison

as well as other college campuses across the country. The final jurisdictions of investigations need to be transparent.

Since my freshman year, I have wit-nessed time and time again how rape and sexual assault incidents seemed to have been swept under the rug.

I understand that there has to be a level of discretion to protect the par-ties involved, but the lack of trans-parency leaves a lot of room for gray area. This can send the mes-sage that rape and sexual assault are not serious matters on this campus.

It is not enough for our institution to host guest-speakers to take a stance. The anti-rape activism here on cam-pus is commonly focused on lecturing students on how to protect themselves from being raped and too little on con-demning the act of rape itself. When rape and sexual assault are condemned it has been done through humor (ex. Aug-O skits). While humor can help engage students, it is not necessarily the most effective way to address the severity of the matters at hand. It is not to say that these methods are not useful but instead that more meth-ods are necessary moving forward.

I am not trying to discredit the ef-forts that Denison has taken to as-sist victims of sexual assault and rape as well as educate the student body on the subject but that there is more work to be done. If Denison is serious about anti-rape activism, the first place to start is by making policy changes in the Denison Code of Student Con-duct. Sexual assault and rape are mat-ters that should not be taken lightly.

We should have used this space to con-gratulate the newly-elected DCGA senators from the class of 2017. But instead, we found something that happened during the cam-paign process that we cannot ignore.

Of the 14 candidates that ran, four male students chose to spin their campaigns dif-ferently with posters that were overtly sexual and demeaning to women in their nature.

“A tight situation? He can !x that.” —Carter Moebius

“He’ll always put you on top.” — Charlie Reynolds

“He’ll do you the right way.”— Hank Tran“"ere is nothing too hard to bang out.” —

Alex Haddad "e easiest way to excuse them from their

behavior is to point out that they’re just !rst year students. "ey’ve got a lot to learn about what is and isn’t appropriate. But they were admitted to Denison for a reason - and that reason can’t have been these posters.

At least one person !gured that this wasn’t acceptable. On the posters, someone wrote “"is is rape culture” and “Keep up rape cul-ture”. "e comments, while still visible, were scratched out.

Symbolic, isn’t it? On Denison’s campus, we have a lot of conversations about sexual assault, feminism, etc. but the moment some-

one speaks out against it, their comments are scratched out. "eir voice is silenced.

Meanwhile, the evidence of patriarchy in these posters speaks for itself, but perhaps more context is needed. Below each quote, the men pose in Oxfords and ties (classic symbols of the privileged male upper-class) with elderly citizens of Granville.

"e posters themselves contain no other semblance of platform, instead touting neb-ulous #ippancies like “Denison’s community deserves happiness and love” and “You de-serve the best on this campus.” Best of what, and what kind of love, is clear.

"ese posters and the carelessness exhib-ited by the students who created them show an overall ignorance of the objecti!cation of women. It’s ironic: women make up nearly 60 percent of the class of 2017, and these candi-dates that needed their votes squandered it when they made these posters.

But it’s not fair to pick out these four fresh-man and point to them as though they are the only students that could use an education on feminism or masculinity, regardless of gender.

As a community we have been insensitive and dismissive of these sort of issues and we need to do better at educating one another. "e classroom and our professors can only do so much.

A vote against insensitivitySta! Editorial

Slayter, Hu$man, Curtis: these are our dining spaces. While the food has un-doubtedly gotten better, a complaint made by many students in the past has gained steam with the new composting system in the dining halls. "ere are more stations, more signs, and the new system takes more time. While sustainability is important, and we should all want to compost and recycle, the current system increases our time by up

to two to three minutes at each meal. With 2,000 students on campus, eating around 2 meals per day, spending 30 seconds extra per meal, our student body spends around 33 hours per day composting.

We appreciate the work that Bon Appetit is doing to help Denison pitch in and make the world more green, but it’s a major time commitment for students.

There’s got to be a better way to compost

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YOUR VOICE >>

Community at Denison: A new president’s perspective

By Adam WeinbergPresident

In my initial weeks at Denison, I have been struck by the strength of our com-munity. Denison is an interesting and vi-brant place !lled with students who are smart, engaged, multi-talented, friendly, and fun to be around.

Clearly, community is a strong cultural norm at Denison. We talk about valu-ing friendships and striving to protect and improve Denison. Our commitment to community suggests a lot of positive things about this place and our students.

Our community is also vibrant. Deni-son is neither monolithic nor boring. We are a pluralistic place. Our students bring a wide spectrum of interests, passions, tal-ents and life experiences to campus. "ere is no lack of things to do, people to meet,

or groups to join at Denison. Finally, our community is being stretched

in good ways to embrace and leverage our pluralistic attributes.

Having just spent eight years working on critical global issues, I believe the fu-ture will be de!ned by people who can thrive in diverse environments, embrace rapid change, think creatively (outside boxes and across categories), and who possess humility, con!dence, con#ict ne-gotiation, and communication skills.

"e crucial capacity is the ability to creatively problem solve by surfacing dis-agreements and embracing diversity of thought, experience and skills. I see us struggling with this issue in positive ways. Let me give you two examples:

First, students have talked to me about social life. Clearly, Denison students value fun. Having said this, students de!ne fun in all kinds of ways. I hear students eager to create a community where people can de!ne fun for themselves, and in ways that respect the rights of others to de!ne fun di$erently.

Second, students are also talking to me about breaking down cultural silos. Deni-son is a tolerant place. But I hear students wanting more. "ere is a thirst for mov-ing beyond a toleration of di$erence to a leveraging of it. Students sense that we can make our community more fun, inter-

Adam Weinberg received his B.A. from Bowdoin College and his Ph.D. from Northwestern. He and his wife Anne have three children.

esting and vibrant if we can let di$erence bring ourselves together in new ways.

As I listen to our students, I see an en-trepreneurial community. I have always believed that a campus community should be seen as a series of “design studios” or spaces where students come together to invent and remix knowledge as a way to perform new ideas and approaches. "is is happening at Denison.

Like all communities, Denison has chal-lenges and controversies. "is is not sur-prising. "e issues we face are the ones that you will !nd on most college cam-puses.

What is unique about Denison is the way students are stepping up to acknowl-edge the issues and then to take the lead on addressing them. Students think of themselves as social entrepreneurs (I love that we use this language on campus) and problem solvers. Nobody is waiting for others to solve problems.

Consistently, I see two actions that are the mark of a healthy community. First, students are willing to acknowledge prob-lems. Second, students are owning the solutions, working through formal stu-dent organizations and DCGA as well as informal means to create new ideas and approaches to campus life.

To do this e$ectively we need to bet-ter leverage the pluralistic nature of our

community. "is is where I see something exciting going on at Denison. In my con-versations across campus, students are !nding new ways to move beyond exist-ing student organizations and friendship groupings to seek out di$erent views.

It seems to me that this new approach is interdisciplinary and team-based (and hence very much steeped in the liberal arts). In my experience, problem solving around the “tough” stu$ requires purpo-sively creating teams who bring di$erent perspectives, views and skill sets to bear on an issue. In short, you need diversity of thought, experience and talents.

My passion has always been around community. Community in the 21st cen-tury is being shaped as people around the world are being forced to live alongside di$erence (o%en with people they may not know and/or like) and to learn to address pressing issues that are coming at them rapidly.

Denison is preparing you to live suc-cessfully in that world. During my initial weeks at Denison, I have been impressed and inspired by the ways our students are meeting the challenge.

Op-Ed

No compromise on privacy

By Clarice PrangerSpecial to !e Denisonian

One e$ect of the a%ermath of Sept. 11, 2001, brought about by a president more interested in capitalizing on fear monger-ing than helping the citizens whose rights he swore to protect and uphold, has shamefully endured under the rug for more than a de-cade: governmental surveillance.

"is reprehensible legacy of phone tap-ping and internet record collection has re-cently been con!rmed and even defended by President Obama, who claims his admin-istration has struck “the right balance” be-tween security and privacy.

“You can’t have 100% security, and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconve-nience,” Obama said at a White House ad-dress.

While the logical wisdom of that state-ment may seem self-evident, there is also a dangerous undercurrent to those words that must be exposed.

In most situations, the logic of compro-mise makes perfect sense; but when that same compromise is applied to certain guar-anteed rights, it becomes a hindrance and an outright infringement.

Obama continued to say at the same ad-

dress that there are “some trade-o$s in-volved” in the administration’s counter-ter-rorism e$orts and that “we’re going to have to make some choices.”

"ese “choices,” as he so nonchalantly puts it, are unacceptable. When it comes to inalienable human rights, compromise should not, and cannot, be part of the American lexicon. "ere can be no choice between public security and a right to priva-cy; they must coexist. As Benjamin Franklin famously said, “they who can give up essen-tial liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

"at said, perhaps the worst aspect of the government’s public acknowledgement of its infringement on its citizens’ rights is that it went largely unnoticed and uncontested by the general public.

"is admission of guilt should be the !rst piece in a long line of evidence that unfortu-nately stretches at least the length of the last century of American government, instead it is cast aside as yet another unavoidable gov-ernment folly.

"is counter-terrorism quest is nothing but a blatant abuse of power in the face of an overblown threat that is equally as threat-ened by U.S. interests.

To those who voted to keep Obama in of-!ce, myself among them, it is a betrayal of trust and an outright failure to keep previ-ous promises. "is is not the president the public voted for, and the sooner the prob-lem is remedied, the sooner the freest nation of hypocrites can rid itself of that shameful moniker.Clarice Pranger ‘17 is a creative writing major from Fort Wayne, Ind.

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FEATURESPage 6 Page 7FEATURESTuesday, September 24, 2013

Our previous issue addressed two al-leged incidents of sexual misconduct on campus. To further clarify what happens in cases regarding sexual misconduct, The Denisonian delved deeper into how the administration deals with allega-tions of rape and sexual assault. Students who have known victims of sexual mis-conduct take a critical stance on current procedure.

Investigative procedure

Security’s involvement in the investi-gation of sexual misconduct on campus now has changed from the old proce-dures practiced.

Instead of being involved from the beginning of the investigation until the end, security is now only involved with the initial investigation.

Director of Security and Safety Gar-rett Moore described security’s role in an investigation as “trying to tell a story or paint a picture of what happened. We try to get as much information as we can, es-pecially the who, what, when, where and, why.”

Campus security is the first step a vic-tim takes when he or she chooses to go through the school rather than the Gran-ville Police Department (GPD).

Security will usually get a report from the victim with a Sexual Harassment and Rape Education (SHARE) Advocate in order for security to get the needed in-formation while still maintaining a sup-port system for the victim.

It is infrequent that security will re-ceive a report of sexual misconduct near when the act occurred, but, if this is the case security will report it to the police, and will advise the victim to undergo an exam as soon as possible.

However, reports placed right after the incident occurred are rare. The process of a late report varies slightly from the early reports.

In the case of a recent report the as-sumption has been made that the vic-tim does not want a criminal investiga-tion because no physical evidence will be present. The option to go to GPD is always available. Security is required to report all such incidents to the GPD.

Obtaining a written statement from the victim is the best way to move the process forward, so that the victim does not have to go through his or her story again, the report is also shared with the police.

Security is also responsible for sending out community alerts and sending out no-contact orders to the suspect in order to protect the victim as much as possible.

In order to further protect the victim the suspect will be moved to a different residence hall and be ordered to only eat at the dining hall in the area.

Moore made the point that the inves-tigation process is now much more cen-tered around the victim and the “goal is to give as much control to the survivor as possible.

"The act of violence survivors have faced has taken control from them. We try to give control back... Anything that has happened to the victim has never happened because of something the vic-tim has done. It happens because people prey on others who appear vulnerable.”

After a written statement is completed and information is gathered, security will give the victim options of what he or she can do.

“We have tried as a university to give students resources to go to for aid in cases of sexual misconduct,” said Dean of Students Bill Fox.

Denison has several resources for vic-tims of sexual misconduct, including SHARE, Whisler Counseling Center, CSMART (Community Sexual Miscon-duct Awareness Response Team), and so on. The victim can also have a SHARE advocate present during the investiga-tion for additional support.

“One of the reasons security is not in-volved from beginning to end is because having someone who knows how to bal-ance the comfortability of the victim while getting information may not be feasible with an authority figure,” claims Moore. In other words, the presence of a non-student administrator tends to so-lidify student statements.

This is why Denison also utilizes the Student Conduct Board and Title XI for further investigation.

University Conduct Board

Because Security is involved only with the initial investigation, the remainder of the process is adjudicated via the Uni-versity Conduct Board.

Every year, revisions are made to the Code of Student Conduct to deal with all cases of criminal activity on campus.

The UCB is comprised of students, faculty, and administrators and must have at least one woman, man, and per-son of color in an effort to ensure equity.

Members of the UCB are formally ap-pointed by the DCGA President upon the recommendation of the Office of Student Conduct.

Students who serve on the board are able to remain in their position for one year, and administrators and faculty serve terms for up to two years.

Additionally, no member of the UCB may participate in a proceeding regard-ing his or her own alleged misconduct.

According to the Code of Student Conduct, “complaints related to sexual misconduct or other Title XI claims, bi-as-related behavior, violence toward oth-ers, or other interpersonal conflicts that may violate the Code of Student Conduct are referred to a more formal and inde-pendent investigation process.”

Since gender targetting plays a role in cases of sexual misconduct, Title XI plays a large role in the process because it aims to bring equity in gender across every aspect of student life.

Title XI

Additionally, Title XI aims to deal with Campus Climate, the overall attitude of campus, and how the atmosphere is af-fecting students and students’ lives.

Toni King, Associate Provost, fac-ulty member and Title XI Coordinator, mentioned that “Title XI deals with all barriers related to gender equity across campus, including those of sexual mis-conduct.”

Upon receiving a complaint or report, the Office of Community Rights and

“I feel unsafe”: students react to conduct process for sexual misconductBy Hannah KubbinsSpecial to !e Denisonian Biker, hiker Paul Djupe goes for laidback

approach; studies politics qua religion

Professor Spotlight

By Curtis Edmonds Forum Editor

You might know Associate Professor of Political Science Paul Djupe — and if you don’t, you’ve come to the right place. !e self-described “liberal hippie” has taught at Denison since 1999, and focuses on religion and American politics. He cites two reasons for studying in this "eld: "rst, his family, in-cluding two religious parents and an uncle and grandfather who were pastors; second, his professor and mentor in undergrad, Chris Gilbert, who also focuses on religion in his political science research.

Djupe took six classes with Gilbert while he was at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minn. “I majored in Chris Gil-bert,” the tenured professor jokes. Djupe de-scribed Gilbert as “accessible and fun”, and Djupe, who is 6’3, enjoyed pick up basket-ball games with his mentor. Almost coinci-dentally, he would attend the same graduate school as Gilbert, Washington University at St. Louis. Today, the two are still close and conduct research together.

Paul Djupe was raised in Des Plaines, Ill., a northwest suburb of Chicago. He describes his upbringing as similar to a John Hughes movie, but “far less archetypal.” He gradu-ated from Maine West High School in 1989 before matriculating to Gustavus Adolphus. His mother was a nurse, and his father was a cost estimator for an oil company, despite not having a college degree. While Djupe agrees that today, the need for college de-grees has become unnecessarily ampli"ed,

Standards will review the case to deter-mine if formal charges should be filed.

If formal charges are made, the student(s) involved will be asked to at-tend a student conduct meeting to re-solve the issue.

In the case of a student admitting guilt to the allegation, no further hearing will proceed and disciplinary action will take place. Punishment will vary depending on the severity of the crime. Expulsion, suspension, and revoked privileges are common.

On the other hand, when a student de-nies the charges, a formal hearing will occur and responsibility or non-respon-sibility for the crime will be determined by the board.

After the hearing, the student accused will receive a letter outlining the find-ings and sanctions of the case and all deadlines for completion.

Students are able to appeal their sanc-tion, but when the student is expelled or suspended, he or she is required to leave campus within 24 hours and appeal the case off-campus.

In the case of expulsion, the student is to never re-enroll in the school, and all credits earned will be unaccounted for.

“The best practice is expelling students for sexual misconduct. It’s the most sig-nificant thing we can do when the victim chooses to go through the school,” Gar-rett Moore stated when reviewing sanc-tions for sexual misconduct.

It appears as though the numbers of attacks have gone down in past years, but it is important to keep in mind that it might unfortunately be inaccurate be-cause of how most incidents go reported.

Additionally, Moore says, “Unfortu-nately, we know these things happened every weekend. The low numbers may suggest people are not comfortable with reporting these incidents.”

Administrative response

In the midst of the negative events on campus, “it is important to acknowledge that Denison is primarily a safe campus, but crimes of violence do happen,” said Fox.

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nation, sexual assault and rape, and oth-er crimes of violence.

Fox added, stating, “there seems to be a real sense of empowerment when stu-dents get together to discuss issues of sexual assault, rape, or related crimes.”

It is also important to increase by-stander intervention, and to look out for one another on and off campus.

“We would also like to make sure a stu-dent knows how to seek non-confiden-tial sources for support, and confidential sources to make a report, and that both Denison and the Granville Police De-partment are options, ” Fox noted.

“You’re putting young people who have never been away from home for a long amount of time. We give people a lot of freedom in college... we give them the freedom to make good decisions and bad decisions, and bad decisions can typically have bad consequences,” con-cluded Moore.

Student critique

Some students who have had personal experience with allegations of sexual as-sault believe that the process outlined above is not enough. These students ap-pear to favor police intervention over a campus-only investigation in cases of rape and sexual assault.

One male student, who personally knows a victim of sexual assault, speak-ing on the condition of anonymity, says, “Students joke about the Denison bubble all the time, but, in cases of sexual as-sault, perpetrators notice that in previ-ous incidents, justice was served by the campus, not by the police. The justice served by Denison is not nearly enough of a deterrent for the perpetrators.

“I personally have heard of two inci-dents where the campus acknowledged the fact that sexual assault occurred, and in both cases the perpetrators remained on campus,” this student says.

“Crimes as abhorrent as rape should not just be let off, and student perpetra-tors should be treated just as any other citizen. Such cases should only be han-dled by the police.

“If found guilty after a fair trial, a stu-dent should be removed from campus because they are a threat to the Denison student body,” this student continues. “I am unhappy with Denison’s reaction to these cases, but mostly I feel uneasy and unsafe.”

Another male student, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, falls in with these sentiments.

“I think that there are certain priori-ties within the administration that are not the most beneficial to the Denison student body,” says the student. “I was under the impression that several sexual assault cases were reported within the last week that the administration was aware of and no significant action of investigation by law enforcement or by Denison’s security was taken.”

This other student continues, “Deni-son’s administration seems to be more focused on assault cases, arson, and vandalism than cases of alleged sexual assault. It seems like [it is] partial to ac-cusations that really should be handled by Granville police.”

“I feel unsafe in general,” says this second student. “I would like to see the administration treat alleged sexual as-sault incidents as crimes just as serious as physical assault and responsibilities handed over to local law enforcement.”

he also thinks that “it makes society better having more degreed people.”

But don’t accuse him of being in the “ivory tower” as many academics are. “I’d rather call it the ivory zoo,” said Djupe. He believes that people tend to glamorize academia: “We don’t make nearly as much money as we would in the private sector.” !is could explain the overall laidback nature of the political scientist, who is known for wearing a T-shirt and shorts to class. “[It] should be content driven as opposed to a jacket and a tie.”

Speaking of content, Djupe was recently in-terviewed by the Political Religion Research Institute to talk about why it is Ohio Catho-lics are more opposed to same-sex marriage

Djupe with his two sons, Gusty and Bear, on Mount Scott overlooking Crater Lake in

Oregon.

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than Catholics nationally. He attributed this to the “more isolated social communities” that Ohio Catholics might experience from living in more rural areas, whereas other Catholics live in or around cities and have more exposure to diversity. While Djupe himself is not religious, he doesn’t mind that others might make political decisions based o# social and religious issues “if those are the values they think are important.”

Djupe is married to his wife, Kate, who works in the food industry and was the chief caterer at Denison. Together they have two sons: Gusty, age four, and Bear, six. He enjoys bike riding, swimming, rock climbing and camping, and has participated in triathlons. Some of his adventures include Mt. Bierstadt and Longs Peak, two 14,000 foot mountains in Colorado. !e 14-year Denison professor has been a vegetarian since his senior year of college a$er a philosophy seminar and see-ing a slaughterhouse during a Texas road trip. He and his family shop organic and grow their own food.

Djupe is also a TV fan. Some of his favorite shows are Luther, !e Wire, Homeland, !e Americans, and Breaking Bad, which he calls “the best show ever.” !e last movie he saw was Disney’s Planes with his two boys.

Students interested in studying under Dj-upe might consider taking courses such as American Political Behavior and Institutions (POSC-202) or Analyzing Politics (POSC-212). Not inclined? Try and nab him cycling home!

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Review

By Grant VeltmanSpecial to !e Denisonian

Among conversations between Deni-son students are discussions about parts of campus yet to be explored, hidden gems awaiting their arrival. For some, the Denison Museum is one such un-discovered gem. Located on the ground floor of Burke Recital Hall, the Denison Museum boasts first-class resources that make rearranging for new exhibits a concept unlimited in possibility.

This past Tuesday, September 21st, the Denison Museum hosted the open-ing reception for “Personal Space,” a collection of works by five New York artists created from a myriad of artistic means. Closely related to the first-year class theme of real utopias, “Personal Space” displays pieces seeking to evoke a raw emotional response. “True to it’s title, [the exhibit] explores very per-sonal facets of life: anxiety, fear, trauma, and binaries like fantasy/reality, utopia/dystopia,” said Marisa Zemesarajs, an at-tendee of the reception.

Walking across the hardwood mu-seum floor, with each footstep echoing back, one receives a near instant mix of affecting responses from the exhibit as a whole. “The exhibit was curated by Tommy White, a professor in the studio art department,” Zemesarajs explained, “thus the art theory in the exhibit really

Denison Museum presents “Personal Space”shows.” Each work was created by unique means, living in the form of videos, col-lages, plaster, and sculptures made from steel, wood, and Styrofoam. An eclectic assortment of this degree succeeds in sparking an intimate reaction.

Reinforcing the prospect of the view-er’s reaching the most personal response, Dr. White has set up the gallery in the simplest of fashions. Said Zemesarajs,

Philip Levine speaks passionately about poetry and his roots in closeby Detriot, MI.

Pulitzer laureate Philip Levine graces Slayter AuditoriumBy Hillary ReddSpecial to !e Denisonian

!e hill has been host to some incredible speakers and artists over the years, but it’s not every year that our community is graced by the former poet laureate.

On Wed., Sept. 18 at 8 p.m., Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Philip Levine kicked o" the renowned Beck Lecture Series in Herrick Hall with as much gusto an 85-year-old man could muster. For over 50 years, the Beck Lecture Series has been bringing amazing writers to Denison’s campus to speak about their life’s work and, despite his age, Levine proved he was the perfect choice to start the year o".

Quickly breaking the ice in the packed hall, Levine approached the night with some light humor saying “they tried to get me drunk at dinner, and as you’ll discover they were suc-cessful.” Levine even referred to himself as “a great bullshitter.” As the crowd became more comfortable with him and him with us, Levine read from some of his poems.

!e #rst two poems, titled “Black Wine” and “What Work Is” helped the audience to get a feel of what kind of poet Philip Levine is. It is impossible to second guess the reasons behind Levine being made the national poet laureate and why he has won almost every award in his #eld with lines such as “feeling the light rain fall like mist into your hair, blur your vision” and “questioned the wisdom of playing with #re” and “to face the world as it was, everything was actual”. Levine’s poems have the ability to create music and evoke emotion in the listener.

Levine cited many of his in$uences as stemming from Spanish culture, jazz mu-sic, and his blue-collar roots. Growing up in Detroit, Michigan to immigrant parents,

Levine worked hard in factories before go-ing to university and eventually delving into poetry. On the side, Levine taught at a California State University in Fresno, Cali-fornia, and later served as a professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Each of Levine’s poems tell a story. One poem, “!e Mercy”, tells the story of Levine’s mother arrival to the United States aboard an immigrant ship called !e Mer-cy. He described her struggles with English and navigating her way through New York City. Levine read, “she prayed in Russian and Yiddish to #nd her family in New

York, prayers unheard or misunderstood or perhaps ignored by all the powers that swept the waves of darkness before she woke.”

Levine’s poems are mainly retold stories with a wonderful mix of his imagination. Levine spent much of the night telling light hearted stories about himself and making jokes at his expense, but when it came to read-ing his poems, Levine was all seriousness. Students who attended the lecture could only praise Philip Levine’s poetry. Alice Heider, a senior creative writing major from Bar-rington, IL, said “his poetry voice was more poetic while his speaking voice was friendly,

casual.” Her friend, Jon Halper, also a senior and creative writing major from Chagrin Falls, OH, agreed saying Levine’s voice when reading from his poetry was “lively, yet very straight forward, to the point”.

Philip Levine captured the audiences’ at-tention from beginning to end. !e respect he was awarded by the crowd demonstrated his importance and in$uence in this country. Levine read a total of #ve poems on Wednes-day night, and each one was #lled with emo-tion that grasped the audience, his powerful voice not letting go even a%er the night came to an end.

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“Unlike the usual museum aesthetic, there are no labels around the artwork.” The absence of any background infor-mation for the artwork shapes a truly one-on-one experience between the audience and the art. In turn, this art-viewer relationship makes for the most unbiased interpretations from the view-er, avoiding influence from added infor-mation.

“Personal Space” has generated a healthy buzz within the Denison com-munity, which Zemesarajs credits to the notion of the exhibit being “art of our time.” Remaining open and free to the public until December 7th, “Personal Space” leaves ample time to be observed by students, faculty, and civilians alike.

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Hypnotist Sailesh returns to campus, proves to be a smash hitBy Sam HeymanArts and Life Editor

As Sailesh, the hypnotist brought by the University Programming Council on Friday, Sept. 20 put it, “!e average stu-dent goes into a hypnotic state 112 times a day.” Judging from the ample showing of students gathered on the Slayter third "oor to see his show, many Denisonians are overachievers in that respect.

Named “THE BEST HYPNOTIST ON THE PLANET” by MTV Europe, Sailesh is a world-renowned performer special-izing in comedic hypnosis. Having visited campus last Fall, Sailesh’s return to cam-pus was warmly received, with several at-tendees of his previous performance re-turning for a second show.

Seeing the con#dence and poise with which he carried himself and handled the night’s various beats, there was no wonder how this hypnotist managed to garner his many accolades. Sailesh began his show with an explanation of hypnosis, the real meat of the show came a$er members of the audience took the stage.

A$er being put into a hypnotic state, the ensemble of audience volunteers, which gained and lost members throughout the evening, were guided through a series of hilarious mental situations. !ese ranged from having participants react to a sud-den Canadian coldfront to having them fall in love with the person to their le$. As the show progressed, commands grew more outrageous and physical. At several

points, Sailesh persuaded participants into smacking their butts—and those of others—to the beat of the music playing.

!e infectious experience of watching other people undergo hypnosis was noth-ing compared to the experience of being put under yourself, as this writer found out.

Part way through the show, Sailesh ex-tended his exceptionally hypnotic hand to the audience and tested to see if any of us were in a “partially hypnotic state,” which I happened to be. !is resulted in me joining the group of students on stage

for the remainder of the performance, be-ing made to “see” Sailesh naked, engage in an epic harp solo, and share a slow dance with the young man in the chair to my le$. !ough I was entirely aware of my actions, the circumstances of the performance made it di%cult to resist the “power of persuasion” being employed.

When Sailesh had at last exhausted his bag of tricks, he closed out the show by thanking those of us on stage, “the real stars of the show” and by sharing some words of positive a%rmation, giving the whole room a nice feeling to walk away

with. First year Grace Bachmann said that the show had her laughing “more than she had all semester.” Her sentiments were echoed by sophomore Alex Woroncow, who called Sailesh “hilarious,” though he also noted that some parts of the perfor-mance, such as when several female par-ticipants were told to shake their breasts to untangle them from each other, were “kind of inappropriate.” Despite this mild criticism, Sailesh seems like a performer that resonates with campus, and hopefully will join us again soon.

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Music to my ears! Fall semester concerts invade Columbus

Fall semester is in full swing – but don’t forget to have a good time! Treat yourself to a well-deserved study break by attending one of the many con-certs happening in Columbus in the coming months. With rappers, DJs, Indie-rock bands, and entertainers such as Justin Timberlake, MGMT, John

Mayer, and Drake, everyone is sure to find a show to enjoy!

By Sam TaggartArts and Life Editor

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Kid Cudi (with Tyler, The Creator and Logic)

Lifestyles Community Pavilion

Tuesday, Sept. 24 - $22

Gov’t Mule


Wednesday, Oct. 2 - $22

Phoenix (with The Vac-cines)


Thursday, Oct. 3 - $22

Franz Ferdinand


Friday, Oct. 4 - $29

Steve Aoki (with Waka Flocka Flame, Borgore, and

Felix Cartel)


Tuesday, Nov. 5 - $25

Pretty Lights (with Blood Diamon and Paul Basic)


Wednesday, Nov. 6 - $35

Timelifes (with Chiddy Bang)


Tuesday, Nov. 12 - $23

MGMT


Thursday, Nov. 14 - $32.50

Tech N9ne

Alrosa Villa

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Don’t fall asleep! Students sit onstage as performer Sailesh begins his routine.

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“Girl Rising” raises awareness on education and equality

Mooncakes? Chinese lanterns? Erhu play-ing in the background? !e Asian Culture Club had everything it needed to host the annual Moon Festival at Slayter Union on Saturday. Cathy Lagunas and Neslie Borges stopped by to get of taste of the celebration.

A"er biting into a mooncake, a Chinese pastry typically eaten during the Moon Fes-tival, Borges called it “something di#erent, something I’ve never tried before—it was awesome.” Reminiscent of miniature pies, mooncakes have a rich $lling of red bean or lotus seed paste, and yolk traditionally from duck eggs, in a decorative so" crust. Moon-cakes, Asian inspired-sweets and teas were in abundance, but Saturday’s celebration was

more than just tasty delicacies. Asian pop music blared while students painted paper lanterns with bright colors that symbolize the festival.

!e festival was host to some musical performances from students as well. Several students performed live on acoustic guitar and one on the erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument whose sound resembles the hu-man voice. Tony Liu, a senior from Chengdu, China who performed on the erhu described it as “pretty similar to the violin.”

!e erhu’s two strings are the same as the middle strings on the violin, but the horse-hair bow is played between the strings. In China, both traditional and contemporary music incorporate the erhu. Liu’s perfor-mance at the Moon Festival represented the erhu’s versatility.

Asian Culture Club enthusiastically celebrates Moon FestivalBy Grace BachmannSpecial to !e Denisonian

THIS WEEK ON CAMPUSDFS: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Slayter Auditorium

Open Mic Night Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 9:00 p.m. !e Bandersnatch

N.E.R.D Movie Night: Silver Lin-ings Playbook !ursday, Sept. 26 at 9 p.m. !e Bandersnatch

Hannah Rosin: “The End of Men” !ursday, Sept. 26 at 9 p.m. Slayter Auditorium

Vail Series: Ethel Strings Quar-tet Friday, Sept. 25 at 8:00 p.m. Swasey Chapel

“Can Movement Change the World?” Friday, Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. Fine Arts Quad

DFS: Star Trek Into Darkness Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27, 28

at 7:30 p.m. Slayter Auditorium

Slayter Auditorium hosted a screen-ing for the documentary “Girl Rising” this past Thursday. Sept. 18. The doc-umentary focuses on the struggles en-dured by women due to inequality and lack of opportunity worldwide.

The film portrays the lives of nine girls from eight different countries, in-cluding Afghanistan, Egypt, Haiti, In-dia, Nepal, Peru, and Sierra Leone. Each girl’s story included the background of their life, detailed with a unique conflict they individually went through at some point in their lives. The stories of some girls ended in triumph they reached to overcome their hardships. However, all of the stories tie together in a single voice arguing for equal female rights. “Our privileges really have a conse-quence on those in oppression,” Aissata Barry, a junior, said. That is, the things Americans are able to obtain sometimes have an opposite and/or negative ef-fect on other countries throughout the world without us even realizing it.

Many of the girls undergo poor living quality and conditions due to their fam-ily’s financial situations. In one case, a girl (Suma of Bardiya, Nepal) was sent to work for a married couple because her family was so unfortunate and in dire need of money. The couple mistreated and malnourished her, but the songwrit-ing and singing she did as she worked were the only things that kept her go-ing. Eventually Suma was freed and able to go to school to get the education she wanted. “Education in America is taken for granted,” said Jenna Breslin, a sopho-more. “I know people who would rather stay stagnant.”

Education for women is a key theme pressed to the viewers. Without it, the following facts displayed throughout the movie are concurrent: in one year, 150 million girl are victims of sexual vio-lence, 75 percent of AIDS cases in Sub-Saharan Africa are women and girls, and putting every child in school could pre-vent seven hundred thousand cases of HIV each year.

However, with it, there is hope: a child born to a literate mother is 80 percent

By Kalyn DunkinsSpecial to !e Denisonian

Left: Students paint paper lanterns on the floor of The Roost while enjoying mooncakes and sharing different cultural designs and patterns. Right: Alex Tybl ‘16 in the line tasting moon cakes. Below: CeCe McGee ‘15 decorating her lantern.

!e Moon Festival, celebrated in China, Vietnam and the Philippines, among other countries, is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival and follows the lunar calendar. !e festival is held during a full moon in late Sep-tember or early October to express gratitude for a good harvest. Xue (Yolanda) Yang, Pres-ident of the Asian Culture Club, says that in China friends and families gather together on the occasion with limitless mooncakes and festive lanterns.

She hoped to help students of all back-grounds experience the Moon Festival and its Asian cultural context. !e event had a great turn out. “I am happy about it—we did a lot of promotion” Yang said. !roughout the year, ACC puts on many events like the Lu-nar New Year in January and Cherry Blossom Festival in April.

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more like to survive past age 8 and edu-cated mothers are twice as likely to send their kids to school.

For more facts and information about the movement, visit www.girlrising.com.

“Girl Rising” gives an aspiring mes-

sage applicable to people all over the world – not just women – in everyday life. “They are architects of their change,” said professor Wendy Barrie Wilson of the theatre department. “They empow-ered themselves.”

Review

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from the past week in Big Red athletics.

For game recaps, visit:www.denisonbigred.com

WOMEN’S SOCCER09/21Centre 1Denison 0

FOOTBALL09/21Wabash 50Denison 13

VOLLEYBALL09/21Marietta 0Denison 3

MEN’S SOCCER09/21Heidelberg 0Denison 2

VOLLEYBALL09/21Roanoke 0Denison 3

WEEKLY ROUND-UP

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY09/21at Otterbein InvitationalDenison 4th Place

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY09/21at Otterbein InvitationalDenison 4th Place

VOLLEYBALL09/18Ohio Northern 3 Denison 2

MEN’S SOCCER09/18Capital 2Denison 3FIELD HOCKEY09/18Wittenberg 0Denison 4

WOMEN’S SOCCER09/17Ohio Northern 2Denison 1

During a press release in early August, head !led hockey coach P. J. Soteriades an-nounced that her sister, Nikki Wimsatt, will serve as head coach for the 2013 season while she is on maternity leave. In addition to naming Wimsatt head coach, Soteraides has also named Victor Brady as Denison’s new assistant coach for the upcoming sea-son.

Wimsatt, a 1996 graduate of Ohio Uni-versity, was a four-year starter on the Bobcat !eld hockey team. While Wimsatt graduated with a degree in special education, there was no doubt that her love for !eld hockey would continue a"er graduation. Wimsatt recently completed her fourth year of assistant coach-ing under her mother, Marge Redmond, at Ohio Wesleyan University. Before her time at OWU, Wimsatt served as head coach for nine seasons at Upper Arlington High School, as well as co-chair for the Senior All-Star Field Hockey game for nine years.

Brady, a 2013 graduate of Swarthmore College, has just recently received his Bach-elors of Arts degree in Political Science. Dur-ing his undergraduate career Brady served as a student assistant for four di#erent varsity teams. For four years though Brady assisted the Garnet !eld hockey sta# in game !lm analysis and opponent scouting. He would also organize goalkeeper practices, designed and implemented goalkeeping drills which included shooting, interception and foot-work.

“I am thrilled to be coaching !eld hockey at Denison. When looking for coaching jobs this spring, one of the most important factors for me was the mission of the school itself. I !rmly believe that athletics, especially at the Division III level, supplement and enhance a liberal arts education and to be an e#ective coach means to buy into [the] University. Dr. Weinberg speaks about thinking criti-cally, understanding deeply, and connecting broadly, and these are very much the same tenets that undergird my coaching philoso-phy. Having a relatively nontraditional !eld hockey background, I feel extremely fortu-nate for the opportunity provided to me by Coach Soteriades,” Brady said.

In Brady’s !rst season as a part of the Big Red team, he will be working primarily with the goalkeepers, assisting in video break-down and analysis, along with helping in the recruiting process.

$e girl’s season has also already started o# strong with these two new coaches. $ey won their !rst game on September 3rd against Ohio Wesleyan, and since then the Big Red women are already 5-1 at the end of last Wednesday’s game against Wittenberg.

“Our !rst three wins were all in overtime and so they were certainly exciting, and we are coming o# our !rst shutout of the sea-son 4-0 against Wittenberg. Getting the opportunity to go to Baltimore and play Johns Hopkins and Washington, both of the Centennial Conference, was extremely ben-e!cial: the Centennial is consistently one of the top Conferences in Division III (Massey Ratings had the Centennial Conference as

VOLLEYBALL09/16Franciscan 1Denison 3

By Stephanie AntonettiStaff Writer

Field Hockey shines brightly with new coaches

the number three !eld hockey conference last year) and Johns Hopkins and Washing-ton are two consistently very strong teams,” Brady expressed.

Denison plans to take the !eld again on September 25th in a home game against Wooster.

“I absolutely love the women on the team and I am truly honored to get to work with them and learn from them every day. $ey have been exceptionally welcoming and re-ceptive, and their dynamic individualities in-tertwine wonderfully as the collective team. Every single player makes signi!cant and ir-replaceable contributions to this team. I am so excited to get to know each of them even better as the season, and the year, progress-es,” Brady concluded.

!e athletic world, coaches especially, love to talk about start-ing a season o" with a bang. $e women’s cross country team (pic-tured above and right) did just that with a !rst place !nish at the Flyer 5K Challenge in Dayton, Ohio on Aug. 31.

During the 10-team invitational, which included Ohio State, IUPUI, Xavier, Northern Kentucky and Wittenberg, senior Olivia Galano pulled through with a 20th place !nish overall - which hap-pened to be the best time for all intercollegiate competitors. Sopho-more teammate Emily Laam took a 23rd place !nish as well.

$e next tournament, the Rochester Invitational, ended with a third place team, with Galano and Lamm placing second and sev-enth respectively. $is past weekend, at the Otterbein invitational, the Big Red Women lead a"er the !rst day of competition - high-lighted by yet another second place !nish for Galano, who was only nine seconds o# the top time. And although the team dropped to fourth in the !nal rankings for the tournament, the Big Red women have shown they are a team to be feared.

Courtesy of Sports Information

Courtesy of Sports InformationSophomore Jake Barnes and senior Blake Miller (pictured above) have led Denison Men’s Soccer undefeated to an undefeated record so far. (See story on back page)


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Men’s soccer stays unbeaten with 7th win

A!er nearly a month of regular season play, the Denison men’s soccer team ap-pears to be on the legendary path.

Following a 2-0 shutout victory against Heidelberg this Saturday, the Big Red have improved their overall record to 7-0-1.

"e team has shown they are a force to be reckoned with, winning seven consecu-tive games a!er a double overtime 0-0 tie

against Washington and Lee at the end of August.

Wednesday night’s matchup at home against Capital was a anther feather in the cap as well.

While Capital put the #rst points on the board with 13:12 into the match, Denison ‘s#rst year Quinn Miller connected with the back of the net only three minutes later, tying things up 1-1.

Capital clearly was not ready to relin-quish their lead, as they scored for the

second time just 22 seconds later. However, junior Mark Waterman would capitalize on a free kick from just outside the 18 yard box to tie the match for the second time.

"e second half of the game was a back and forth battle. Neither Capital nor Deni-son were able to get the ball past their op-ponent’s keeper. Denison’s senior goalie Matt Wagner had a particularly impressive second half, coming up big with two quick saves following a Capital corner kick rough-ly 15 minutes into the second half.

Denison nearly took the lead with under ten minutes remaining. Senior Jamie Wag-ner placed the ball perfectly in front of the goal a!er a corner kick, though fellow senior John Krentz missed the target with a wide right header.

Two minutes later, a foul on Capital would give Denison another chance. "is time, se-nior Will Krentz attempted to break the tie with another header, though Capital’s goalie Bob Weisgarber blocked the shot.

A!er 90 minutes of play, Capital and Denison would head into overtime. Capital attempted to end the game quickly, though Denison’s Wagner had di$erent plans, sav-ing Capital’s only shot on target 49 seconds into overtime.

Denison’s Miller gave the Big Red their #rst chance at victory, though his #rst head-er was unsuccessful. He would quickly re-deem himself, perfectly placing the ball a!er a pass from sophomore Jake Marsh nearly 10 minutes into the #rst overtime, ending

the game 3-2 Denison."e Big Red also continued their win-

ning ways this Saturday against Heidel-berg in Ti%n, Ohio.

Denison took the early lead a!er senior Bob Casarona put one past the keeper nearly 5 minutes into the match. "e Big Red were in control for the rest of the #rst half, limiting Heidelberg to only 4 shots.

In the second half, Denison widened the lead a!er Miller gained control of the ball a!er it was de&ected o$ of the post, rip-ping a shot into the Heidelberg net.

Heidelberg was not able to put one past Wagner on nine shots. In all, Deni-son would outshoot Heidelberg 15-9 in their victory, continuing their undefeated streak.

So far this season, Denison has out-scored their opponents 26-6, an impres-sive trend they hope to continue through November.

Beginning September 28 at Allegheny, the Big Red will begin conference play.

"ey will face a number of highly-ranked teams, including Ohio Wesleyan and DePauw, who are currently ranked second and twentieth on the National Soc-cer Coaches’ of America NCAA Div. III National Poll.

"ese teams will make for an interesting conclusion to the end of conference play, as Denison is scheduled to face them in their #nal two matches.

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