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Ordinary pub serves extraordinary grub 5

Crowning spring sports moments get the rundown 8

How to catch a bookstore thief 3

Student calls for more oversight of oil companies 6

Britany Byers Editor-in-Chief

Lindsey Hobbs News Editor

Laina Thompson Assistant News Editor

Hannah Ullom Opinion Editor

Mike Cirelli Arts & Entertainment Editor

Austin Walsh Sports Editor

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LUCK O’ THE IRISH: O’Reilly’s Irish Pub, on High Street in Clintonville, dishes up specialty burgers and homemade fries.

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Lady Gaga is coming to Columbus.

Facebook reveals new account privacy options.

Otterbein is looking into a shuttle service for students during the bridge construction.

“Lost” is over.

Not all Otterbein dorms have air condition-ing.

THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN

Not much progress has been made in stopping the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Information compiled by Emmy Beach. Information from www.cnn.com, www.otterbein.edu and www.

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Summer is on the horizon, but we can’t fi nd the motivation to make it all the way there We’re in the homestretch, everyone. It’s not week eight anymore, when we still feel like we have another week before the crazi-ness hits, and it’s not week 10, when you know you’ve got to get your rear in gear. Week nine of spring quarter is probably the worst because: We just want summer. There’s so much to do and so little motivation. How can you write that 10-page paper when it’s sunny and 84 degrees? You can still procrastinate for one more week. This may sound great at fi rst, but just wait until Sunday night rolls around and you haven’t done jack squat. All the projects, papers, presen-tations and tests loom over you like a dark cloud everywhere you go. Unless you are lucky enough to be able to push all those dead-lines out of your head, you’ll feel like you will never make it to the end of the quarter. Yes, you know you have a lot to do. No, you can’t even think straight long enough to get started on a paper or get a project done. The last thing you want to do now is procrastinate. We all do it, though. It’s inevitable. But just think — the sooner you fi nish everything, the closer you are to summer. This week, try to get ahead of all your work. Sometimes it’s not possible, but it’s worth a shot.

Just in case you’re having some trouble getting your life together during these last couple weeks, here are some things you can do to help bust the end-of-year blues — aka ways to help you get all of your crap done. 1. Have your roommate change your Facebook pass-word. Yes, it sounds terri-ble. How will you ever survive? But think about it. You’re writ-ing a paper and after every other sentence you feel the need to take a Facebook break. No, you don’t really need to, but why not creep on someone you don’t ever talk to? 2. Take your homework outside. The sun is shining and all you want to do is be outside. Pack up your laptop, books and notebooks, and instead of going to the library, fi nd some spot outside to do your work. There are picnic tables on campus, or just take a blanket and pop a squat somewhere. You can work on your tan, too. 3. Unplug your Ethernet cord or turn off your wireless. Just because your room-mate changed your Facebook password doesn’t mean that you can’t access about a zillion other websites. After studying for hours, you get desperate and start Googling things like “what is spam made out of?” or “how many licks does it really take to

get to the center of a Tootsie Roll® Pop?” (364, by the way.) 4. Take a break. It can’t be healthy to study for nine hours straight. How de-pressing is it when someone asks you what you did all day and you tell them, “Well, I woke up, went to class, worked on a project, wrote a paper, studied for a fi nal, wrote another paper and went to bed.” I pity the fool. No matter how busy you are, make time for something other than schoolwork. Go to Seren-dipity, go play sand volleyball at the park or watch a movie. A break will help clear your mind. 5. Set daily goals. Taking these last couple weeks one day at time may bethe reason you can make it to

the end of the quarter — with your sanity intact. Instead of looking at the big picture, make lists of things you need to ac-complish every day. Then you won’t feel so overwhelmed. Anyway, we hope this helps. You can do it. Just get through the end of the quarter and it’s goodbye copious amounts of schoolwork and high blood pressure and hello free time, cookouts and more than four hours of sleep a night. Oh, how amazing it will be.

Smash end-of-year laziness

STATUS UPDATE: Facebook adds to the list of things distracting us from homework.PHOTO BY KRISTEN SAPP

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& News briefs from around campus and OhioIN THE NEWS

On May 19, Ohio sena-tors announced the launch-ing of the College Access and Economic Opportu-nity Caucus. Its purpose is to give Ohioans the tools neces-sary to get an education beyond high school.

Effective July 1, Mitch Davidson will become the associate vice president of Information Technology at Otterbein. Davidson has a master’s degree in computer informa-tion technology from Regis University in Denver.

Quick action warrants arrest Intelligence alert photo triggered bookstore manager’s call to security

McPherson left the bookstore again before Campus Security arrived and he left the backpack behind. However, according to Morris, he returned moments later because he wanted to return the pen he had borrowed. That was when he was stopped by Campus Security. According to Detective Larry French of the Westerville Division of Police (WPD), McPherson was arrested at the scene due to three outstanding warrants. “The warrant was from the Columbus police for driving under suspension, no operator’s license and a turn signal violation,” said French. French also said that the back-pack McPherson had left behind was stolen, but to his knowledge, McPherson did not get away with anything from the bookstore. “He realized he was being watched,” said French. Morris said she speculates that McPherson was stealing textbooks from college bookstores and then trying to sell them to others. “That’s one of the reasons we at Otterbein request a student ID when buying back books,” said Morris. “I was just really thankful that Offi cer Verne got here when he did.” McPherson was transported to the Franklin County Jail.

bookstore employee about what she had seen. “As I was talking to the book-store cashier, I saw him out of the corner of my eye walking back in,” said Cochran. According to Morris, when McPherson entered the bookstore again, he had a backpack.

As a rule, bookstore employees asked him to leave the pack on the shelves just outside of the entrance. He then asked to borrow a pen and a piece of paper and proceeded to the textbook section of the store. That was when Morris recog-nized him from the alert. “They (Offi cer Verne) had given me a picture and I recognized him from the picture.” Morris said that when she told a bookstore cashier to call Campus Security, the cashier informed her of what Cochran had seen.

An alleged textbook thief was nabbed by authorities with the help of some watchful eyes. Shawn Lamar McPherson, 32, of Columbus was arrested last Friday afternoon in the Campus Center bookstore after Ann Mor-ris, bookstore manager, recognized him from an intelligence alert from other Central Ohio bookstores re-garding McPherson stealing books. “Offi cer Verne (of the Otter-bein Security Department) came to see me around 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon … a call had come in that said a man had stolen about $600 in books from Ohio Domini-can,” said Morris. “It was about 3:30 p.m. when I saw him come in.” Erin Cochran, a junior art major, was in the Campus Center lobby for the Starving Artists’ art sale when she noticed McPherson entering and leaving the bookstore several times. “I saw him go in the bookstore and come out once, and I thought there might have been something under his shirt,” said Cochran. “After the second time, he walked out in front of the Campus Center towards the parking lot.” According to Cochran, that was when she decided to alert a

NOT-SO-SMOOTH CRIMINAL: McPherson had also stolen the backpack that he was asked to leave on the bag drop shelves.

BY LINDSEY HOBBSNews Editor

PHOTO BY KRISTEN SAPP

“He realized he was being watched.”

Detective Larry French,Westerville Police Division

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Students, worry no more. Ot-terbein is awaiting confi rmation for a shuttle service to accom-modate students, faculty and staff during the year-long West Main Street bridge construction. Construction is scheduled to begin this July and end August 2011. The construction site will be completely closed to all traffi c, creating a detour for those who use the bridge to get to the Art and Communication Building. According to David Bell, director of Otterbein’s Physical Plant, the college looked into a temporary bridge that would have cost $200,000-$300,000. “For a temporary bridge … that just doesn’t make sense,” Bell said. Jim Pajk, Franklin County deputy bridge engineer, ap-proached Otterbein with a

possible transportation solution. The county added a shuttle ser-vice into their project bid. Bids opened on Tuesday, May 25, and a contractor will be an-nounced June 8. As of now, the college is looking into one 32-passenger vehicle that would run fi ve days a week for 10 hours a day. Transportation for students and residents would be free. “I think given the economic times it’s probably the best solu-tion for Otterbein,” Bell said. “Would we like to have a bridge? Sure, who wouldn’t? But it’s just not in the fi nancial realm.” Don Foster, registrar, said he wonders about the feasibility of one vehicle. “I don’t know how well that’s going to work,” he said. “I think students who have back-to-back modules are going to end up being fairly late to class.” Otterbein is not included in the funding for the bridge.

However, “Otterbein will be responsible for 20 percent of the shuttle service,” Bell said. “Estimates are that it (the shuttle service) could be as much as $100,000.” The other 80 percent of the shuttle costs would be federally funded. “I’m not sure how the city gets away with not having to put up any money … for that service,” Bell said. “… It’s not costing the college very much, the city benefi ts from it as well, so good for them.” Foster said the bridge con-struction is a “missed oppor-tunity” to provide a permanent pedestrian bridge over Otterbein Lake. “It seems to me a waste of money to spend $100,000 on transportation when that $100,000 could have gone into the construction for the bridge,” Foster said. Logistics for run times, pick-up and drop-off locations

Editor’s NoteFor full campus news briefs, a web exclusive story, this week’s security report and a map of some alternative routes around the Main Street bridge construc-tion, please visit www.otterbein360.com.

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cannot be determined until a contractor is chosen. “I hope people’s expectations are not that ‘as soon as I need the service, it should be there,’” Bell said. “There will be a sched-ule and that’s what people will have to follow.” According to Bell, the college will request that the shuttle runs during class times. “We don’t want to leave students stranded … particularly in the winter.” Mychael Ihnat, junior art, photography and visual com-munication major, walks to class every day because she does not have a car. Ihnat said she would use the shuttle service if one is provided. Ihnat also said that the shuttle service is a wonderful

solution for student transporta-tion during construction. “I am glad that they (Otterbein) see this being a problem and want to help the students out.” According to Foster, some classes may be moved to main campus next year. These include fundamentals of public speak-ing, business and professional speech and art history classes. “Those courses, we may try to move up here (main campus), and if we don’t have space, we may rent space from the church across the street,” he said. Foster said decisions for class relocations will be made this summer and there has not been a request to add time between classes or change module times.

BY BRITANY BYERSEditor-in-Chief

Otterbein offers a solution for bridge botherConstruction will begin on the West Main Street bridge this July and is estimated to end in August of 2011

PHOTO BY JAYME DETWEILER

Say What?&“I would use it. I was concerned about the con-struction, but I really think this will help students.”

“Yes, to save gas. And it is going to be really help-ful for students who don’t have an option to drive.”

“I would use it even when the bridge is built. It would save me gas and be quicker than walking.”

—Erin Cochranjuniorart

—Brianna Stoversophomoreart education

—Neil Brownfreshmanbroadcasting

“No, because I have my own car and can come and go as I please.”

—Brent Fordsophomorebroadcasting

IF APPROVED, WOULD YOU USE THE SHUTTLE SERVICE PROVIDED DURING CONSTRUCTION?

PHOTOS BY AND INFORMATION COMPILED BY KRISTEN SAPP

ROAD CLOSED: A shuttle service is part of the Franklin County project proposal that would take students and residents around the bridge construction to either side of Main Street.

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Don’t forget about the Communica-tion Banquet today at 4 p.m. in the communication lounge. Live music provided by WOBN - 97.5 FM.

What’s your flavor?

Name: Adam SchalterYear: sophomoreMajor: musical theaterHometown: East Lan-sing, Mich.What’s your fl avor? dark chocolate, baby.If you could have any superpower, what would it be? fl ightFavorite place to shop: SunocoFavorite place to eat: Five Guys Burgers and FriesFavorite actor/actress: Hayden Panettiere

It has been fi ve months since I signed my personal oath to restaurant exploration. Fortu-nately, the fl ow of Columbus restaurants is still rushing by faster than I can keep up with. This week I traveled to O’Reilly’s in Clintonville off of High Street, just down from the Weber Road exit. I was made aware of this local burger joint by Patri-cia Ryan of the education department. She claims this burger place reigns supreme in Columbus, so I thought I’d check it out. My fi rst impression of O’Reilly’s was that of a hum-ble Irish pub. It was hard to locate the entrance, but after walking through the small, inconspicuous entryway, I found myself in the middle of a local bar scene. Literally everyone there seemed to be a regular. It re-minded me of Moe’s bar on “The Simpsons.” Everyone was on a fi rst name basis, and no one seemed to notice I had entered the room. I got caught up in people-watching. After standing around for a bit I caught the bartender Cindy’s eye, and she asked if I was lost. Lost I was. I had entered a new universe. The sec-ond question Cindy asked me was what I wanted to eat. I was clueless. I knew I wanted a burger, but past that, I hadn’t seen a menu. I plopped down in a seat and the regulars started to stare. So I did the best thing I could think of: I ordered a beer. There’s no drink menu so I had to look at the case. They had American microbrews, and I got a Great Lakes Burning

River. The place returned to normal. I learned the language quickly and was accepted. Let me make it clear that

O’Reilly’s does have a menu. You just have to

ask to see it.

I liked the menu. It was no fuss and straightfor-ward. You had burgers and sandwiches, fries and rings. There’s no messing around with salads and veggies. I ended up with a pep-per burger (their infamous burger), a jerk burger and an order of fries and rings. The service was fast and friendly. I had multiple short conversations with people passing by, and ev-eryone was very pleasant. My food arrived in a plastic basket, how I expected it to be served. I dived right in. The pepper

burger had a great layer of melted Swiss, real, delicious smoked

bacon and full cracked pepper-corns over the top. The jerk burger was good, but I preferred the pepper burger. Great burgers are a good starting place, and the fries and rings were homemade, crisp

and hot. They made it worth the trip. My fi nal judg-ment of the burgers was that the meat was different than anything I had previously eaten. It wasn’t greasy, but still very moist. I contributed this to it being higher in quality and lower in fat. Ryan had indi-cated that O’Reilly’s gets its meat from Weiland’s Market, a well-known and respected grocery store in Clinton-ville. The meal left me feeling full and satisfi ed, but without the usual sluggish sensation

that typically follows a burger adventure. Dare I say that my meal may have been somewhat healthy in addition to tasting so great? Overall, I can say that it truly was a worthwhile experience. I enjoyed the people watching, the informality, the beer and of course the food. At $15 for ev-erything, my pocketbook didn’t suffer either. Whether it was the best burger I’ve ever had, I can’t say, but you can decide that for yourself. For more reviews from my quest to fi nd the perfect burger, visit my blog at www.moving-mouths.blog.com. t&c

The T&C’s resident food critic follows an Otterbein professor’s advice to check out an Irish pub hidden in Clintonville, Columbus

Pub overplays familiarity but serves great burgers

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BP oil spill leaks bigger problem

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Millions of gallons of BP’s oil have polluted the Gulf of Mexico, but is the U.S. to blame for this disaster? After over a month at sea, downed BP rig Deepwater Ho-rizon is still spewing oil into the

Gulf of Mexico. To date, six million gal-lons of the sludge, originating from a damaged well, have spilled into the ocean since the rig exploded on April 20. This

is the worst spill in U.S. history.

There has been a good deal of fi nger pointing in this disaster to determine the culprit in this

case, but the true reason the ca-tastrophe occurred was because of the U.S.’s lax regulation on oil companies. Decisions on safety are made and enforced by the corpora-tions themselves. Our govern-ment sets the safety standards, but lets companies like BP work out the details. So in short, big oil self-regulates. If the U.S. says that rigs need to have better precautionary measures in place to prevent a massive rupture of oil, then it is up to BP to make sure that they enforce regular maintenance on

parts like the blowout preventer, which is the piece of the rig that failed and caused the massive spill in the fi rst place. Even Mexico and Venezuela have tighter restrictions on off-shore oil drilling than the U.S. Doug Suttles, chief operating offi cer at BP, has said that the oil could continue to fl ow until early August at the latest when work on a new well to contain the liquid can be completed. Throughout the past few weeks, researchers for the company have been working to quell the fl ood, and they seem to be down to their last ideas before the end of the summer. Announcements about new technology come out nearly every day, and their most recent trick, the “junk shot” method, involves shooting garbage, shredded tires and human hair into the blown out well to plug the leak. BP has provided murky reports as to exactly how much oil is actually leaking. They have said that there are 210,000 gal-lons released into the water daily, but analyses from independent organizations have determined that it could be much more than the giant has been letting on, perhaps even up to 4.2 million gallons daily. After much urging from lawmakers, the oil company has posted a live underwater video of the damaged well, and view-ers can log in at any time and see plumes of black liquid rushing

into the gulf ’s deep waters. In its fi rst day, there was so much traf-fi c that the site crashed. The idea behind the current regulation guidelines our country has in place is that offshore oil drilling operations know the risks of their business, and how best to prevent disasters. But as we have seen with the events beginning late last month, they have absolutely no safe-guards in place in the event of a spill of this scale, much less the power to stop it once it starts. We should stop assuming that they can police themselves. Not only do spills of this magnitude affect the environ-ment and ecosystem of a tremendous amount of wildlife, but they also hurt the economy of those closest to the coast. The tourism industries as well as large fi shing operations in the area have already taken a big fi nancial dive. Understand-ably, people don’t want to swim in water with a slick, oily sheen, and they don’t want to eat fi sh laced with tar. Our country can’t afford to continue in this way. The busi-nesses and fi shermen in states like Florida and Louisiana can’t afford it either. The U.S. needs to shorten the leash on big oil. We’ve certainly let them run too far already.

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1. At the exact moment the Deepwater Horizon blew up, BP executives were celebrating the safety of the rig in an on-board party to commemorate no accidents for seven years.

2. Kevin Costner sunk $24 million of his own money into developing a machine supposedly capable of quickly separating oil from water.

3. The endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is in danger again due to previously being airlifted from Mexico to the Gulf Coast so they wouldn’t be wiped out by the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979.

4. BP may be charged royal-ties on every drop of spilled oil. Under the law, oil spilled is the same as oil sold, so BP may end up footing the bill after all.

5. 210,000 gallons of oil leak-ing per day equals about one olympic-sized pool every three days.

6. Engineers contemplated stuffi ng the leak with golf balls and old tires to plug holes in the automatic safety.

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Information compiled by Cole Hague. Information from

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SLOPPY MESS: Workers hired by BP attempt to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This catastrophe, which may continue into early August, is the worst spill in history.

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& What’s NextON CAMPUS

IN THEATERSMay 27“Sex and the City 2”May 28“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”

ON DVD JUNE 1“Alice in Wonderland”

“The Wolfman”

ON CD JUNE 1Taio Cruz“Rokstarr”

Jack Johnson“To The Sea”

Information compiled by Britany Byers from www.otterbein.edu, www.experienceco-lumbus.com and www.metacritic.com.

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3. Golf teams tee up at nationalsHead coach Mark Paluszak was named the OAC Coach of the Year for both the men’s and women’s teams follow-ing fi rst-place fi nishes at the OAC Championships for both squads. Their 13th and 15th place fi nishes likely were not what the men and women’s teams wanted to bring home, especially after the men led the tournament much of the second round and the women were looking to fi nish in the top fi ve for the third straight season. Nonetheless, qualifying for the post season, though becoming a regular occurrence for both teams, is quite impressive.

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5. OC hurdles over competitionToday, sophomore Samie Corbin will compete in the NCAA preliminaries in the 400-meter hurdles. If she advances she will run in the championships on Saturday. Corbin, the lone Otterbein runner to qualify for nationals, wasn’t the only Cardinal hurdler that ran well during the regular season. Junior

Sarah Petraitis and senior Stacey Schall consistently fi nished in the front of the pack of the 100-meter event all

season. On the men’s side, sophomore Austin Curbow defended his 110-meter conference championship,

taking his total of OAC titles to four.

Shortly after I sat down to recap the spring season’s top moments, I realized two things:

Austin Curbow is really fast and reminiscing about the sea-son isn’t much fun to do alone. So I decided to

talk to Otterbein’s second-year Assistant Sports Informa-

tion Director, Adam Prescott.

Prescott and I relived nearly three months of sporting events in a mere 10 minutes. Bouncing from sport to sport, we talked about each indi-vidual team. Even the teams that didn’t meet expectations on the fi eld had memorable storylines. “You look at the baseball team and you had Brian Hiscox who broke a (home run) record that stood for 22 years, and then

one year later our leadoff hitter is chasing it again,” Prescott said. Switching gears, Prescott recalled that as the softball season wound down he couldn’t remember outfi elder Casey Clar-ridge recording an out. “She was just a sophomore and she was as good of a hitter as you could fi nd in the confer-ence,” Prescott said. We also spent a great deal of time talking about the lacrosse team. Prescott enjoyed the new dimension the team brought, and well, I liked watching games from DeVore Hall’s computer lab windows. I felt like Jerry Jones or Theo Epstein watch-ing from my private suite with the rosters of both teams in my hands. After looking back through stats and schedules, here are my top fi ve storylines from the spring.

4. Baseball team shutout from postseasonThe baseball team was suspended from

its Florida spring trip and failed to post a winning season for the fi rst time in 10 years. A perennial OAC Championship contender, the team went 6-14 to fi nish the year. Amidst

the struggles of the season, senior shortstop John Quimby gave

the conference something to watch. On pace to hit 78

home runs after the fi rst doubleheader (he hit

two in each game), Quimby began his chase to become

Otterbein’s single season home run king. Unfortu-

nately, he fell short and the team fi nished its season on the outside looking in.

1. Women’s tennis makes its markDuring a season full of individual recognition, the women’s tennis team had their best regular season in school history. Finishing with 19 wins, the team enjoyed marquee victories such as an 8-1 win over defending OAC champion Ohio Northern and a 9-0 rout against Heidelberg on Senior Day. Unable to win the conference, the team fell short 5-4 to Baldwin-Wallace in the OAC title match. Seniors Brittany Rings and Cheryl Thinnes each surpassed 100 wins for their careers and Rings was named OAC Player of the Year.

2. Lacrosse team debuts Otterbein introduced the fi rst lacrosse team to the OAC this spring when a group consisting mostly of freshmen took the fi eld against Lake Erie College in March. A 4-11 season might not look good on paper, but with nine home games, the team received support from the college and looks to have a strong foundation to build on for

next year. “We’ll still be a young program for a couple of years,” coach Colin Hartnett said. “But it’s looking good for us and we’re real excited about the future.”

& To read interviews with Clyde Lamb Award winners Brian Hiscox and Carly Dent, please visit www.otterbein360.com.

Editor’s Note

Spring season leaves lasting memoriesThanks to birdies, backhands and bombs, Otterbein’s spring athletic teams provided more than enough to refl ect on

SPRING SWINGS: Seniors John Quimby and Brittany Rings had stellar spring campaigns.

PHOTO BY GREG BEERS

PHOTO BY JAYME DETWEILER

AUSTINWALSH

AUSTIN WALSH IS A SOPHOMORE JOURNALISM MAJOR AND IS THE SPORTS EDITOR FOR THE t&c.

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