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The last of three debates between gubernatorial can-

didates Mike Pence (R), John Gregg (D) and Rupert Boneham (L) was held in Fort Wayne on Oct. 25. It was just across the street from IPFW, located in the PBS 39 station on the corner of Crescent Ave. and Coliseum Blvd.

The debate was moderated by Ken Owen of DePauw University and was split into four sections. The first section had questions from previously-selected citizens in a town hall-style debate. The

second was a Lincoln-Douglas debate, which allowed each candidate to bring up a subject for the others to respond to and then close the conversation with a final word. The third brought back the town hall style and finally the candidates had their closing statements.

Unlike the presidential debates, the gubernatorial debates included the lib-ertarian candidate. Rupert Boneham is famous for his appearance on the TV show “Survivor,” after which he created a children’s charity called Rupert’s Kids.

During the debate, Pence and Gregg made it clear that they considered each other to be their main rivals in the election. They often spoke directly to one another or made reference to each

other’s policies. Boneham, on the other hand, was left out of the attacks and was only directly responded to when he had a chance to ask a question in the second portion of the debate.

Gregg often played up his experience when answering questions. For a ques-tion about medical marijuana, he men-tioned that he was a cancer survivor. He has also been a single parent and served as interim president of Vincennes Uni-versity, and he also has 16 years of ex-perience in the Indiana House of Rep-resentatives.

The subject of reproductive rights of women, specifically abortion, was brought up to some contention in the debate. Gregg and Pence are both pro-life, but Gregg attacked his Republican opponent on his relationship with Re-publican candidate for U.S. Senate Rich-ard Mourdock.

Mourdock made a comment about the pregnancies resulting from rapes were “intended by God,” which many Democrats and Republicans denounced. Pence said that Mourdock should apolo-gize for that statement, but that he sup-ports Mourdock’s campaign for Senate.

In his opening statements, which were not played live because of a technical is-sue, Gregg attacked Pence for flip-flop-

Final Gubernatorial Debate Full of Attacks

ping on his stance of abortion and for

his ties with Mourdock.“Yesterday, Congressman Pence tried

to separate himself from his ticket-mate Richard Mourdock and announced that he now supported abortion for the sur-vivors of rape and incest. Well, that’s not what he told Indiana Right to Life just earlier this year. You know, career poli-ticians always change … their positions when it’s politically expedient,” said Gregg.

Gregg also made several attacks on the Tea Party and equated Pence to

them. “As governor, [Pence] can’t sepa-rate himself from the Tea Party because he is the Tea Party,” said Gregg.

“There’s no place in Indiana for the Tea Party,” Gregg said in his closing

statements, and he also called Pence “an

extremist.”Gregg clarified after the debate that he

was anti-abortion with the exceptions of cases of incest or rape and for the life of the mother. He is also a supporter of Planned Parenthood’s receipt of taxpay-er dollars.

Pence criticized Gregg’s record in the Indiana House of Representatives. “When you were speaker of the house, for five of the six years ... Indiana ran deficits,” Pence said. “You know, John, facts are stubborn things.”

“Congressman, if you’d have spent the last 12 years in Indiana rather than in Congress, you’d know that our budget

Only Agreement Was on Job Creation VS. Environment

“[Pence] can’t separate himself

from the Tea Party because he is the Tea Party.”

-John Gregg

“When you were speaker of the

house for five of the six years ...

Indiana ran deficits.”

-Mike Pence

“Boneham was left out of the at-

tacks and only di-rectly responded to when he asked

a question.”

John Gregg | AP Photo

Richard Boneham | AP Photo

Mike Pence | AP Photo


Richard Mourdock’s Rape Comments Put Indiana in

National Spotlight

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Jessica GeyerThe race for Sen-ate in Indiana was already hot,

with Republican candidate Richard Mourdock beating out incumbent Rich-ard Lugar (R) in the primary race. The race is also the most expensive in Indi-ana’s history, with $9.9 million having been spent on behalf of Mourdock and $7.6 million spent on Donnelly. This in-cludes many out-of-state dollars.

But in a recent debate between the two candidates, Mour-dock made a comment that almost immedi-ately spread through the United States.

Mourdock claims his words were “twist-ed’ and apologized to anyone who mis-understood him. As follows, here are Mourdock’s full comments in answer.

“You know, this is that issue that ev-ery candidate for federal or even state of-fice faces. And I, too, certainly stand for life. I know there are some who disagree and I respect their point of view but I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have for, to have an abortion is in that case for the life of the mother. I just, I struggle with it my-self for a long time but I came to realize that life is that gift from God, and I think

even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something that God intended to happen,” said Mourdock.

The comments may have been ig-nored if the Mourdock campaign had not previously been backed by several big-name Republicans, such as presi-dential candidate Mitt Romney and Indiana gubernatorial candidate Mick Pence. In fact, Mourdock was the only senatorial candidate Romney has en-

dorsed in a TV ad. Mourdock’s comments have shown an effect in the polls, showing Donnelly pulling ahead of him in the race or at least tied according to

Mourdock’s campaign. They’re also af-fecting the gubernatorial race, giving Democrat candidate John Gregg a new point of attack against opponent Pence. Gregg brought up Pence’s endorsement of Mourdock in his opening statement during a debate on Oct. 25.

Mourdock isn’t the first one to re-ceive flak from pro-life comments, this election season. Earlier this year, Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO)’s “le-gitimate rape” gaffe also made national headlines.

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EDITORIAL STAFFJessica Geyer Six months ago,

j o k e d J e f f r e y Toobin, he wanted

to be in the center of the political con-versation. “And here I am,” he said, making the audience in the Auer Re-cital Hall laugh. It was a reference to Indiana Senate Republican candidate Richard Mourdock’s recent comments about his view on abortion, which had made national headlines just in the day before Toobin arrived at IPFW.

Mourdock stated in a debate against his Democratic opponent Joe Donnelly that a pregnancy resulted from a rape “is something that God intended.” His comment led to back-lash among the public and was used by Democrats to criticize his campaign.

It wasn’t the last time that evening that Toobin got laughter out of po-tentially awkward subjects. He made jokes throughout, sprinkled among se-rious conversation about the Supreme Court’s role in politics.

Toobin’s topic took a twist in re-lating the Supreme Court to a chang-ing ideology in the GOP. Though the speech could have been offensive to those who align with the Republican Party, Toobin addressed it with a good nature and humor.

“It was a moderate party,” said Toobin about the Republican party of the 70s, and that it wasn’t a religiously-motivated party.

An example he gave were the re-tirements of Justices John Paul Ste-vens, David Souter and Sandra Day O’Connor. “Three more different in-

dividuals you will never encounter … and they all left the Supreme Court completely alienated from the modern Republican Party,” said Toobin.

He took note of how Souter and Stevens both retired after the election of a Democratic president.

“These justices, I assure you, they pick with great care who picks their successors,” Toobin said.

He compared those justices to the ones nominated to the Supreme Court by former president George W. Bush. “George W. Bush nominated people to the Supreme Court who reflect the modern Republican Party,” said Toobin. Those justices were John Roberts and Samuel Alito.

Toobin acknowledged, though, that Roberts does not vote completely on party lines. In the case of Obamacare,

Roberts joined the majority which held the healthcare act constitutional.

“Roberts knew that he was the em-bodiment … of the Supreme Court,” said Toobin, since he serves as Chief Justice. “And he knew that Obamacare was the third in a trilogy.”

That trilogy began with Bush v. Gore and the Citizens United case, which were both decided with a con-servative favoring.

The Affordable Healthcare Act, said Toobin, was different because it

was mostly a politically-charged case and that Obamacare started as a con-servative idea.

“This idea had been around for 20 years,” he said.

“Roberts had the good sense to know the Supreme Court should not be a part of it,” added Toobin, and that is why Roberts voted in favor of Obamacare.

Some of what Toobin said of-fended at least some of the audience, however. The first question asked in the question and answer period that followed was from a man wondering why Toobin had pointed out the slide to the right of Republicans but didn’t mention how much more liberal the Democrats had become.

“I don’t think there’s an equiva-lence there,” said Toobin, defending his statements to a brief round of ap-plause. He said he thinks that Demo-crats have become far less liberal than Republicans have become conserva-tive.

When another audience member expressed disappointment with how the Supreme Court seemed to decide things based on politics rather than legal matters, Toobin did step in to de-fend the justices.

“When you look at the kind of cases the Supreme Court gets … those questions can not be answered as purely legal questions,” he said.

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“When you look at the kind of cases the Supreme Court gets ... those

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has to be balanced in Indiana accord-ing to our constitution,” retorted Gregg. “I find it laughable that a United States congressman would lecture anybody about fiscal responsibility.”

All of the candidates did find them-selves agreeing on one thing: creating jobs and protecting the environment

are not mutually exclusive. Gregg was on the offensive again

when he mentioned Pence’s com-ments in a previous debate about how Pence supported marriage as a way to get children out of poverty. “I’m not a matchmaker,” said Gregg.

Despite being located just across the street from IPFW, Indiana’s fifth largest university, higher education played only a small part in the debate.

Mostly the candidates focused on pre-K through 12th grade education and get-ting high school students on the path to college.

While Gregg wants to institute a pre-K state education program as part of his platform, Pence said that Indiana already has programs like that and the government shouldn’t spend money to make a new one. Instead, they should expand opportunities for ones that exist.

IPFW’s first inaugural dance marathon didn’t quite make its goal of $5,000. However, they did present Stop Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) with a check of $3,500.

Prizes for participants included an iPad, a digital camera, and all-in-one printer, and iPhone or iPod dock, a CD player and IPFW merchandise. Prizes went out to best costume, best team costume, highest individual

fundraiser and highest team fundrais-er. DJ Chris Cruise provided music for the event and Qdoba, 800 Degrees and YoYos provided free food. Best Buy and LSR Activewear were also spon-sors of the event.

Vice chancellor for student affairs George McClellan had promised to shave his head if the Dance Marathon raised $5,000 for SCAN. His hair is safe from the razor.

IPFW isn’t the only university to hold a Dance Marathon. Indiana Uni-versity at Bloomington raised $2.1 million for Riley Hospital for Children with their 22nd Dance Marathon. 3,000 students participated in their 36-hour-long event.

IPFW’s Dance Marathon lasted four hours. It was organized by IP-SGA, Student Life and First Year Ex-perience (FYE).

IPSGA’s Dance Marathon Raises $3,500 for SCAN

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hearing about whether Daniels would be able to actually do his whole job as Purdue president. Indiana has a “re-volving door” policy which requires former public officers to wait one year before lobbying the General Assembly. It’s a way of avoiding conflicts of inter-est and was in fact instated by Daniels himself in 2005. A major part of the job of Purdue president is to lobby on be-half of the university. The ethics com-mittee eventually decided that Daniels could, in fact, lobby.

It’s hard not to see a conflict of interest when looking at the people who ultimately offered the presidential position to Daniels. It is the author-ity of the governor to appoint trustees to the boards of state schools. Eight out of the 10 members of the Purdue Board of Trustees were appointed by Daniels. That means the great major-ity of the trustees who approved Dan-iels were themselves approved by him. It’s enough to raise an eyebrow or two, even if the trustees were trying their best to remain neutral.

The change of leader-ship that happens dur-ing every election sea-

son makes us think about the leadership changes happening right here at IPFW. We’ve recently received a new chancel-lor and IPFW’s governing body, Purdue University, will be getting theirs in Janu-ary: Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.

Right from the beginning, Daniels’ appointment to Purdue presidency was roiled in controversy and emotion. A governor is not typically a neutral figure in the political world because of party loyalties. Personal feelings about Daniels made many people upset about his new job, as was apparent in many news ar-ticles after the announcement was made.

The inconsitencies in the Purdue Board of Trustees’ decision and the tim-ing of the announcement did not help with negative press. IPFW’s own chan-cellor Michael Wartell was being forced into retirement at the age of 65 because of a Purdue rule, yet 63-year-old Daniels was given a five-year contract.

There was also an ethics committee

At the least, it makes for less ideo-logical diversity at the executive side of the university. But it smacks of politics.

The Board of Trustees will also de-cide the contractual salary of Daniels. If the pay of past Purdue presidents is any clue, Daniels will be making over $450,000 a year - over four times as much as his salary as governor.

At the same time, Daniels’ record as governor shows him as a cost-cutter and we can expect he’ll do the same as Pur-due president.

He was, however, able to say no to renovations at Hovde Hall, where Purdue houses their presidents. The renovations to the office were to the tune of $380,000, which Daniels says he had no part in or knowledge of and which Purdue says had nothing to do with the new president.

The cost-cutting part of Daniels’ ten-ure as governor is important to look at. He cut over $30 million from Purdue’s budget. “Is that going to be awkward in the lunch line?” comedian Stephen Col-bert asked Daniels during his appearnce on “The Colbert Report.”

During his visit to IPFW for the Om-nibus Lecture Series, Daniels also made remarks about the “college credit creep,” and that “… Schools requiring 126 hours for a degree in sociology … or 141 hours in music education, should have to ex-plain why all that time and student ex-pense is necessary, especially when other colleges offer high quality programs in less time and cost.” It seemed like a di-rect jab at IPFW, whose music education program can take 141 credits and whose sociology program needs 124.

Daniels is a politician, not an edu-cator. Apart from earning his bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctor, he has not been involved in higher education except as a politician. Compare that to former IPFW chancellor Michael Wartell, who was a chemistry professor, dean and vice presi-dent for academic affairs at various uni-versities. Or France Cordova, Daniels’ predecessor, who was a vice chancellor and a chancellor at two universities, not to mention that she was NASA’s youngest and first female chief scientist.

In fact, the governor’s lack of experi-ence in academia cost Purdue $1,000,000 of a donation by a former professor.

No, Daniels’ best experience with higher education has been looking at it from the outside and asking, “Where can we cut money?”

But the role of a university presi-dent means lobbying the government for more funding and extolling the impor-tance of earning a degree. How can Dan-iels be taken seriously by his former co-workers while pushing for money when he denied Cordova the same?

We’ll have to wait much longer than finding out who will be president of the United States what the next president of Purdue will do during his term. But what we do know is every decision that Dan-iels makes at Purdue will affect IPFW.

The Politics of Education

Daniels Actions Will Have Effects on IPFW

All votes count, and they all have some sort of

impact on the presidential elections, but voting for a third party candi-date counts significantly less.

Often, the third party candidate is seen as just helping a Democrat or Republican win over the other, as votes for a third party are votes unused on the main runners. There

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Staff have been times when the news media even credited third parties for helping one of the main runners win, simply because they were taking the votes away.

Rather than stating issues or rea-sons why he’d be the best president, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson tries on his campaign website to draw votes simply because he’s the third

party. “Be Libertarian one time,” it

says. “The vote for Liberty is not wasted.”

In all actuality, third party can-didates rarely exceed 1 percent of the total vote, even if there are hun-dreds of thousands of people voting for them.

Yes, this is wrong. Yes, there

should be more plurality when it comes to politics. But, the third party won’t be successful without serious solidarity among voters, and one shouldn’t knowlingly let their voice be weak.

Editorial cartoon by Travis White

Don’t Throw Your Vote into the Third Party Dumpster

This is not the opinion of staff writer Dennis Barbosa, but he was unavail-

able for dissent.

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Says he will build off the job market growth.

His plan is to get rid of overseas tax breaks in order to urge companies to operate in America.

Wants the economy to be built from the middle class rather than the up-per class.

Has capped federal student loan re-payments at 10 percent of income.

Got rid of the No Child Left Behind mandates on individual states.

Says he’s “investing in community colleges to provide education and career-training programs.”

He’s still behind the Affordable Care Act, which stops capping or cutting in-surance coverage when an individual gets sick, makes rates for coverage equal among the sexes and makes preventative services, prescription drugs and monthly premiums more affordable for the average middle class individual.

Wants energy independence by 2020, and hopes to keep money America puts overseas for oil back into the states.

Says he will increase trade while competing with China.

Wants to up education access to help match unemployed individuals with jobs.

Says he wants to cut the deficit.Will “champion small businesses.”

Says federal funding is raising the prices of tuitions and is increasing burden on people with few job oppor-tunities.

Says he will “strengthen and simplify the financial aid system,” welcome private sector participation and re-place regulation with innovation and competition.

Wants to immediately issue waivers to all 50 states to avoid the Affordable Care Act, and will work to repeal it as soon as possible.

Wants to “pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a new health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens.”

Wants to cut spending to programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

Says he will cut back on military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan and stop spending on special interests.

Wants to put “educational funds in the hands of the people who use them,” al-lowing parents and students “a vote as to which schools are best and which need im-proved.”

Wants to end the Department of Education to get rid of federal regulations and man-dates, giving the deciding power to parents and individual schools.

Wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act to limit regulations and mandates which he says will “allow innovation and competition to make health care more affordable and more accessible.”

He then says he will allow individual states to innovate.

John GreggHis main focus, he says, will be to create jobs and strengthen the economy throughout the next four years. According to his plan, he will begin a “‘re-shoring’ initiative,” with a goal of getting manufac-turing jobs back in the state, and there will be a tax credit for each job the companies bring. Gregg also wants to strengthen small business in the state and increase exports from Indiana businesses.

Mike PenceAccording to the Pence campaign, he will be focusing mainly on six areas of improvement: building private sector jobs, attracting new investment opportunities in the state, “with emphasis on manu-facturing, agriculture, life sciences and logistics,” increasing elemen-tary students’ skills in both read-ing and math, increasing gradua-tion rates, raising the quality of the state’s workforce and health, safe-ty and wellbeing improvements among Indiana families.

Governor

US House of Representatives

Kevin BoydBoyd says he will work to pass leg-islation which protects farmers, pro-test Social Security and Medicare, help to get funding for Fort Wayne’s Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing, strengthen public schools and “pass a responsible budget, bring jobs to northeastern Indiana.”

Marlin StutzmanStutzman does not show a specific plan of action. However, he lists his views on issues such as the defini-tion of life, jobs, national defense, energy, spending and taxes, among others, on his campaign site. That information is available at gomarlin.com.

IN State Senate District 3

Earline S. RogersRogers is running unopposed in this election.

IN House of representatives

district 3

Charlie BrownBrown is running unopposed in this election.

Attorney General

Kay FlemingFleming says she will work on pre-ventative measures regarding con-sumer fraud and fraud prosecu-tion, work closely with the sheriff’s departments and Sheriffs’ Asso-ciation to ensure the sex offender registry is accurate, organize an ad hoc task force to help protect children, use resources efficiently and establish offices around the state with the purpose of creating awareness of local issues and to be readily available for assistance.

Greg ZoellerZoeller is up for re-election.Though Zoeller doesn’t list exact issues he will fight for, he says he will stand up for Indiana citizens “whether it is protecting seniors from identity theft, safeguarding children online or helping strug-gling families avoid foreclosure scame,” according to a press re-lease. More information about him can be found on gregzoeller.com.

Superintendent of public instruction

Joe Donnellyjoeforindiana.com

US Senate

Richard Mourdock richardmourdock.com

James Johnson, Jr.No known website.

Amy WillisNo known website.

Glenda ritzritz4ed.com

Andy Horning horningforsenate.com

Tony Bennett tonybennett2012.com

Who Are the Candidates?all featured information was gathered from the candidates campaign websites

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art

celebrated its Dia de los Muertos exhibit this weekend with the Day of the Dead family celebra-tion.

The exhibit includes altars erected by community members to honor their ancestors, who were celebrated with a re-ception that involved traditional dance, music, poetry and food.

Local artist Ricco Diamante was asked to do a painting for the event, which he used to incorporate both the modern decorations associated with the Day of the Dead and the Aztec influences where the holiday gets its origins.

“We simply told him to give us something contemporary that embodies the tradition and folklore behind Day of the Dead, and what he gave us is nothing short of the excellent work we expected from him. Ricco’s day trade is as a tattoo artists [sic], so we see that graphic, illus-trative quality in his work with carefully chosen colors in all the right places that help tell the story of Lady of the Dead, the contemporary ‘La Catrina,’” said dep-uty director of administration and pro-grams, Amanda Martin.

The skull, commonly seen in its decorated sugar skull form, comes from the natives of Mexico, who believed they were a symbol of death and rebirth. Since ancient times, the celebration has become quite festive, including flowers, food offerings, colorful decorations and images of deceased ancestors. Mexican tradition sees this festival as a celebration of life rather than an occasion of mourn-ing.

The artists who created the altars were chosen through an application process, which saw 50 entries this year – far surpassing the number received the

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Day of the Dead Exhibit Showcases Lively Alters for Those Passed

previous year. “We began the call

for entries with the notion that these altars would be created by community members, and not neces-sarily professional art-ists. Once individu-als and groups submitted their application[s], we responded most to the altars that were person-al and cre-ative, honor-ing family and groups of people that have died for a cause or that have been persecuted in some way,” said Martin.

Star Vong-phachanh, a student from the New Tech Academy at Wayne High School, created an altar in honor of her grandmother. While her grand-mother came from Laos, Vong-phachanh also has Mexican heritage, and found that in creating her altar she was able to meld her

mixed heritage. She decorated with origami irises, which were a favorite

of her grandmother’s, as well as with sugar skulls and candles

bearing images of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

“What I found in-teresting was how

connected some people can be

with Dia de los Muer-

tos. I’ve learned

a lot more

too about it

because I’m more in tune with my Asian

side. It’s really great to

get a feel for both of

them,” Vong-phachanh said.She applied

to have her altar included in the celebration after a school assign-ment that required her to learn more about Jose Gua-dalupe Posada, an artist known for his

renderings of skeletal images now associated with

Dia de los Muertos, and the artist who created the original

“La Catrina” which Diamante used for inspiration.

In doing so, she was able to learn more about the heritage she hadn’t cel-ebrated since she was a small child.

Also working on the same proj-ect for school, New Tech juniors Dylan Caldwell, Kamari Allen and Quinasha McCall created an altar for the event that put their own spin on the term ancestors.

“In Spanish ancestors is ‘antepasa-dos’ and it translates to those who pass before you, so it doesn’t necessarily mean your family members, the ones you’ve directly descended from, but just people who live before you that influence your life,” said Caldwell.

Rather than honoring a single fam-ily member, the group created an altar to their musical predecessors, memorial-izing artists like John Lennon and Kurt Cobain for their contributions to the world of music. Mostly untraditional, the altar contained images and t-shirts from different artists, as well as musical in-struments with a few flowers and incense sticks thrown into the mix.

“Especially in America, death has a very, very negative connotation, and justifiably so, but it’s a refreshing change of pace to know that there is positive aspects, there are even celebrations,” Caldwell said.

Day of the Dead is typically celebrated

on Nov. 2.

The exhibit at the FWMoA ends Nov. 4.

Illustration by Travis White


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Maybe it’s the popularity, or perhaps it was

that Halloween was only days away. Whatever the reason, the Anthropol-ogy Club decided it was time to host a Zombie Night—complete with a view-ing of “Zombieland” and an academic panel to discuss the living dead.

Featured on the academic panel was: Dr. Damian Fleming, of the Eng-lish department; Dr. Hal Odden, of the Anthropology department and Profes-sor Katrina Kessler, from the College of Health and Human Services. Each offered their professional opinion on

zombies. Fleming focused on zombies in literature, while Odden centered on their origins. Professor Kessler, though, turned her attention to how a zombie apocalypse would play out in the real world, e.g. Center for Disease Control procedures, what one should expect and survival tips.

Fleming told the audience of the first known “re-animated corpses” in literature, dating back to Old Icelandic times.

Odden discussed the idea of a zom-bie being very much real in Haiti, with those dying being afraid of eternal en-slavement, and the discovery of a drug

from a blowfish that could bring back a recently buried corpse.

Professor Kessler advised those in attendance of precautions of a viral out-break. She continued that one should have plenty of food, water, shelter, a way to communicate, and, most impor-tantly, a plan for loved ones.

The main goal of the night, how-ever, was to raise money for the An-thropology Club’s famous Luncheon Lecture Series.

“Students have an opportunity to hear from professors from all different disciplines. Professors have the oppor-tunity to present research and other

things … in a forum other than a class-room … The people who attend the lec-tures have the opportunity to share in this discussion that they might not nor-mally have,” said Anthropology Club President Kara Miller. “A lot of people have had the opportunity to go take a class they normally wouldn’t have cho-sen … or even some have changed their major [from the lectures].”

The funding for Luncheon Lecture Series was recently cut short, and the club has to make up the difference if they want to continue the series.

Zach Crook

Professors Spoke on Zombie Origins, Preparedness for Anthropology Club Fundraiser

What’s Going on in the Art Scene

-Nov. 28 Nov. 3 Nov. 3 Nov. 3Letters. Words.

Books.orchid shoW orNameNts aNd

Nativitiesa christmas

story

At Artlink is the exhibition which features typography, re-purposed books, books that were carved into, art-ful sketches and a host of

other artistic pieces.Artlink is open Tuesday-Fri-day 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Satur-day 12-6 p.m. and Sunday

12-5 p.m.

There will be an orchid show at the Foellinger-Freimann

Botanical Conservatory from 12-5 p.m.

Orchid growers will be competing in specimen, col-lection and creative display

categories.

The Orchard Gallery is fea-turing Lynn Diamente dur-

ing this display.There will be ornaments and nativities made with clay, class, fiber, metal,

natural material and other mediums, which have been

created by many artists.The displays can be seen

10-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday or 10-7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday through Dec. 28.

A play put on by the Civic Theatre downtown, featuring

a classic story of a young boy growing up in the 1940s who is trying to obtain a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.The play is put on during the weekends through Nov. 18. Tickets available online at

fwcivic.org.


Music has played a role in nearly every important

social or political movement of the last century, from Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, with songs about civil rights, anti-war sentiments and women’s lib-eration, to punk bands and their com-mentary on political degeneration and

excessive authority.While some bands like Rage

Against the Machine make a point of singing about what needs to be fixed, other artists want to lend their support to the efforts of individuals or causes, in the case of “Forward,” the collaborative effort that is now being trumpeted as Obama’s “unofficial election anthem.”

Whether it’s just a song or an entire repertoire, everyone has something to say about the state of things – especially close to election day.

Here’s a look at some influential political albums of the last few decades.

Laura Rosenbaum

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“When the President Talks to God” -Bright Eyes

“Minority”-Green Day

“Radio, Radio”-Elvis Costello

“American Jesus”-Bad Religion

“Born in the U.S.A.”-Bruce Springsteen

“Dance to the War”-Hierosonic

“For What It’s Worth”-Buffalo Springfield

“Imagine”-A Perfect Circle

(Cover of John Lennon)

“Talk Shows on Mute”-Incubus

“Bulls on Parade” -Rage Against the

Machine

“Hands Held High”-Linkin Park

From it’s cover, which features Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burning himself in protest, to an inspiration section which thanks activists such as Bobby Sands and Huey P. Newton, this album is littered with political messages and social commentary. The album features the track “Killing in the Name,” which has be-come one of the band’s most well-known songs about corruption in authority.

While “War” is U2’s third studio album, it has been slated as their first overtly political work. Opening with the well-known protest song about the conflict between ethno-political groups in Northern Ireland, “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” the work goes on to deal with issues like nuclear prolif-eration and the Polish Solidarity movement.

Written as a rock opera, this album tells a politically charged nar-rative of several characters, mainly Jesus of Suburbia. Ultimately about following your beliefs and combating the rage and stupidity of the modern world, the album features notable tracks “American Idi-ot” and “Letterbomb.” The band followed this album with a second rock opera, “21st Century Breakdown,” which deals with discontent during the Bush presidency.

“War” -U2 (1983)

“rage against the Machine” -ratM (1992)

“aMerican idiot” -green day (2004)

@IPFW_Streetbeat

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DON’T TAKE THESE STORIES AS FACT.WE’LL MAKE FUN OF YOU IF YOU DO.WARNING WARNING

Students Investigating Convenience Store Pop That Looks Suspiciously

Like Vending Machine Pop

Kristan Mensch

By Ryan Nooe

A few cr iminal justice students are investigating

the use of likeness between beverages in Mastodon Mart versus those found in the vending machines about 15 feet east of the convenience store.

Though the comments the students made were based only on preliminary information, they have theorized a high probability of copyright infringement,

and have notified the manufacturer of its ability to sue itself.

The investigation has since gone into its observance phase, where the students are looking into behavioral patterns to see if mammals choosing between the two locations realize the difference.

So far, the only preliminary conclu-sion is that those entering the conve-nience store use Internet Explorer.

Partygoers Still Unsure Who that Dude Dressed as Slenderman Was, Scared

Jake Flitzer I t w a s a l l f u n , games and candy apples for a group

of college students at weekend Hal-loween parties, until a disturbing set of photos was examined more closely on Facebook.

The group, consisting of Mario sans Luigi, an escaped convict, various sexy inanimate objects and the one charac-ter no one understands without expla-nations, flip-flopped between a series of Halloween parties together, taking group photos along the way to docu-ment life via Timeline.

When the photos were uploaded to the social media website, however, the same Slenderman costume hovered in the background - or in one case, front and center.

No one in the group recalls speak-ing to or seeing the person, and they’re fairly certain pages are missing from their notebooks now.

“I would’ve noticed him. He was standing next to me, giving me the bun-ny ears in one of the photos,” said party-goer Chad Gulpert. “That kind of stuff can’t just be made up man. I’m freaking out. Please help?”

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Zach Crook

DON’T TAKE THESE STORIES AS FACT.WE’LL MAKE FUN OF YOU IF YOU DO.WARNING WARNING

Weekly Meeting Proves Difficult to Attend Every Other Weekish

“The Chess club meets once a week,” said IPFW sopho-

more Don Geary. “And for the past three weeks I’ve missed the meetings. Well, not next week! Next Monday, I’ll be there!”

“He claimed three weeks ago that he’d show up, but nothing,” said club

Zach Crook The second-year French class that meets at 3 p.m. had

an oral exam last Monday. As with all language classes, the oral exam tests how well you’re able to speak the respective language and conjugate verbs on the spot. Some students unoriginally try to get out of the exam, however, by skipping class or playing sick.

One student, IPFW junior Holly Ice, in the spirit of Halloween, decided to cos-tume as a mime.

“Yeah, she came in with the whole mime getup,” said classmate Jonathan Dark. “I think it was because, you know, mimes are silent. And deep and, like,

Kristan Mensch With presiden-t ia l e lec t ions n e a r l y h e r e ,

crowds of many have been showing their bewilderment toward people who seem to actually know who they’re voting for - and why.

“I just wasn’t expecting my dad to know why he was voting for Rom-ney,” said freshman Tonni Gray. “It’s apparently not even because he’s just

stuff.”“I have to admit, she was creative,”

said French professor Irene Frisk. “I told her it was her turn to do the exam and she just made a stupid invisible wall that was getting smaller and smaller. Eventually she just lassoed her way out of class.”

Ice was unable to make a comment, because she was still in her mime outfit.

“Now she’s just pushing it,” said Frisk. “She keeps doing that shrinking box gag, and now I’m just mad.”

At press time, Ice was seen “leaning” on an invisible wall in the Science Mall while allegedly 15 minutes late for her Bi-ology class.

Nation Shocked by Informed Voters

anti-Obama. Makes no sense.”Junior Hailey Fetters seemed to

be confused as the prospect of in-formed voters in her household.

“My family is intending on voting for Obama, but not just so Romney doesn’t get to be president. They seem to think he has plans and that the plans will affect them ... but I’m not sure if I’ve heard anything about plans from anyone,” she said.

Student Dresses Up as Mime to Avoid Oral

Exam

president Christian Munch. “We just kind of stopped expecting him to come. We were kinda counting on him those three weeks.”

Geary now reports that he will not be able to make it to next week’s meeting due to a quiz, but “will definitely come the week after that.”

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Women’s Soccer Team Gets the Win

on Senior Day,Final Point Came Off

a Penalty Kick

Kristan Mensch The Mastodons fell in a five-set match against South

Dakota State on Saturday with 20-25, 25-22, 24-26, 28-26, 11-15. Senior No. 4 Tessa McGill tallied 45 digs in the match, a season-high attempt, in the loss. McGill was just two digs short of her career-high of 47.

The Dons fell to 21-5 overall record with 10-3 in the Summit League. South Dakota State, however, got their 16th win this season with a Summit League standing of 8-5.

Sophomore No. 7 Emily Spencer

This Week's sporTs

women's soccerTaking on Western Illinois in Brookings, S.D. Nov. 2.

In the Summit League Championship in Brookings, S.D. Nov. 4.

men's soccerUp against IUPUI at home Nov. 3. Game starts at 6 p.m.

women's volleyballPlaying Nebraska Omaha at home for senior night Nov. 3. Play

begins at 7 p.m.

Men's golfIn the Hummingbird Intercollegiate in Cashiers, N.C. Nov. 3-4.

men's basketballPlaying an exhibition game against ALMA

at home Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.

Starting the season against Auburn in Auburn, Ala. Nov. 9.

Loss for Women’s Volleyball at South Dakota State

keep up with sports online ipfwcommunicator.org

Kristan Mensch The Mastodons took on IUPUI for Senior Day at Hef-

ner Field, narrowly taking the win with a score of 2-1.Senior No. 16 Danielle Bishop rebound-ed her own kick at the 73-minute mark and took her second goal of the match. Bishop was the only scorer in the match.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Dons are guaranteed to have a win-ning record, as well, with 9-7-1 overall and 5-2-1 in the Summit League.

The first half was testing the limits of the goalkeepers, as senior No. 3 Ari-anne Mason took a shot at goalkeeper Giselle Guzman less than a minute into the match, along with 13 more shot at-tempts by other Dons.

IPFW broke out the second half with Bishop’s first goal with the assist from freshman No. 27 Rachell Good. IUPUI was able to tie it up a little less than five minutes later.

Bishop’s second goal was on a pen-alty kick with 16:19 left on the clock.

was able to tie her career-high of 29 kills against the Jackrabbits. Spencer also had 91 total attacks.

Middle hitters No. 9 Jessie Manwar-ing and No. 3 Hailie Ripley had 16 and 10 kills, respectively.

Spencer and senior No. 10 Megan Steenhuysen both took double-doubles against the Jackrabbits. Spencer had 21 digs and Steenhuysen took a match-high 65 assists and 14 digs.

Sophomore No. 12 Kendall Wienk-es took her new career-high of 30 digs against the Jackrabbits.

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The Men’s Bas-ketball team begins its sea-

son Nov. 9 against Auburn.The team is starting out with

seven letter winners from last year, including redshirt senior No. 4 Frank Gaines. Last year, Gaines finished ranked ninth in the coun-try and averaged 21.2 points each game.

Senior Mario Hines is back as well. Hines averaged 7.1 points per game, and 4.5 rebounds last year.

Men’s BasketBall season to start nov. 9

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Men’s soccer teaM loses in the last second against eastern illinois

Also returning are junior No. 20 Michael Kibiloski, who averaged 5.2 points and 2.2 rebounds and sophomores No. 11 Isaiah Mc-Cray and No. 53 Joe Edwards, who averaged 2.5 points, 2.3 rebounds and 4.2 points, 1.7 rebounds, re-spectively.

Eight new players are on the roster this year, including Pierre Bland, Steve Forbes, Kevin Hard-en, Luis Jacobo, Herbert Graham, Brent Calhoun, Will Dunn and Joe Reed.

The Mastodons fell at Eastern Illinois over the

weekend when the Panthers’ Jake Plant hit the back of the net with just a second left on the clock. The game ended with a score of 3-2.

IPFW was taken down to a 3-13-1 overall record and 2-3-1 in the Summit League, making the team just one point behind Western Il-linois for the last spot in the play-offs for the 2012 Summit League Championships.

The Dons were the first to grab a goal with less than a minute com-ing off the clock when freshman No. 20 Austin West took a free kick and hit the back of the net after bouncing off the wall. It was West’s second goal this season.

The Panthers tied it up about 12 minutes later, and the teams would

Kristan Mensch ultimately go into the locker room at 1-1.

Junior No. 8 Kyle Ackerman took the lead back in the second half, taking his first goal of the season a little over 10 minutes into play.

Senior No. 11 Brent Helton picked up a red card with about a half hour left on the clock, leaving the Dons a man down. The Pan-thers took the opportunity to use the one-man advantage, and Plant got his first goal.

With six minutes left to play, freshman No. 12 Jackson Tooke got his second yellow card, taking the Dons down two men.

The Panthers took many shot at-tempts, but the Dons were able to fend them off until the last second when Plant took his second goal of the night.

siMMons, Bell lead WoMen’s cross country teaM in suM-

Mit league chaMpionships

The Mastodons took sixth place a t t h e 2 0 1 2

Summit League Championships, hosted by Oakland University, in large part by freshman Katie Sim-mons and Andrea Bell.

Finishing seven points behind Omaha in fifth place, IPFW ended with a total of 164 points. North Dakota State took the champion-ship title with 36 points, followed by South Dakota with 59, South Dakota State with 63, and Oak-

Kristan Mensch land with 117. IUPUI finished with 176, Western Illinois took 196 and UMKC had 214.

Katie Simmons placed 28th over-all with a time of 23:41 - it was her first conference in college.

Bell finished in 30th with a time of 23:44.8.

Juniors Kayla Boyes and Amaya Ayers finished in 33rd and 34th with matching times of 23:47.1, and Julia Jeszenszky took 39th with 23:56.6.

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