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Natural photographer James Balog captured the attention of the Knapp Center at Drake Uni-versity Wednesday night as he ad-dressed misconceptions revolving around global climate change.

Balog spoke as part of the Bucksbaum Lecture Series estab-lished in 1966 by Martin and Mel-va Bucksbaum and is continued in their memory. Martin Bucksbaum was the chairman and CEO of Cen-tral Growth Corporation, a mem-ber of Drake’s governing board and a leader in the Des Moines community. At the beginning of the presentation, Drake Univer-sity President David Maxwell announced that the university is proud to host American astro-physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Oct. 29, 2013, for the next install-ment of the Bucksbaum Lecture Series.

“The Bucksbaum Lectures are such a privilege to Drake’s cam-pus,” first-year Jenna Sheldon said. “Many influential people speak at these lectures and make the Des

Moines and Drake community that much richer. It is important that these lectures come to Iowa to keep worldly and informed.”

Throughout his career, Balog has found himself at the cross-roads of art, with his photogra-phy, and science, as he studies glacial patterns. According to the “Extreme Ice Survey” website, “28 cameras are deployed at 13 glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, the Nepalese Himalaya, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. These cameras record changes in the glaciers every half-hour, year-round during daylight, yielding approximately 8,000 frames per camera per year.”

“Art and science are about bringing the left brain and the right brain together,” Balog said. “I never understood the power of photography until I started this project.”

“As an art major, it’s always refreshing to see an artistic per-spective on such a global issue,” first-year Susanna Hayward said.

He described how the glaciers act as a “bermometer,” which he explains as a combination be-

tween a barometer and a ther-mometer. “It is exquisitely sensi-tive, it is almost alive,” Balog said. His images preserve a visual lega-cy of the glaciers that are ceasing to exist and will be useful in years to come in revealing the impacts of climate change and human ac-tivities.

“Nature isn’t natural any-more,” he said, making his point with a variety of graphs showing the unnatural peaks of carbon dioxide and the effect that those chemicals have on the atmo-sphere.

Balog hopes that through his work, he can shed light on the misconception that humans can-not change earth, because the evi-dence points strongly in the other direction. He argues that it affects all humans because we all breathe air, eat, drink water and pay taxes, so we should all be doing our part.

Balog quoted Sir Edmund Hill-ary saying, “You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things, to compete. You can be just an or-dinary chap sufficiently motivat-ed to reach challenging goals.”

Vying for student’s attention, 82 classes set up booths in Par-ents Hall Thursday night during the second J-term fair.

The fair grew from 43 courses last year to 24 travel seminars and 58 on-campus courses this year. J-term committee chair Arthur Sanders was “very pleased” with the student response to the fair.

“We did it last year, and we had a great response, lots of people came,” Sanders said. “So, it is still a pretty new kind of thing, so we decided to do it again and give stu-dents an opportunity to find out information.”

Assistant Professor of Envi-ronmental Science and Policy Kathryn Szramek is teaching “En-

vironmental Hazard,” a class that will cover the impact of hazards such as volcanos, earthquakes and population growth. She is excited to teach the course.

“Environmental hazards is one really awesome ... and why I chose to teach this particular class is be-cause it is the kind of class that you can do in three weeks,” Szramek said. “It is exciting, interesting and there are a lot of visuals, experi-ments and hands-on things that we can do in the three weeks.”

Szramek said her class was re-ceiving decent amount of student interests but not as much as the travel seminars. However, she said that her class is still worthwhile.

“Even though we are not in a grand adventure out in the world, we can still have some pretty great fun here at Drake,” Szramek said.

Sophomore graphic design ma-jor and advertising double major Lexi Ruskell took part because she did not attend last year.

“I totally missed the oppor-tunity last year, and I thought I would check it out,” Ruskell said. “I also need to catch up on some of my classes.”

The “Introduction to Letter-press” class caught Ruskell’s eye.

“The print-making one stuck out me a lot because I am interest-ed in it, and it is something that I could incorporate into my major,” Ruskell said.

The fair helped Ruskell make her decision.

“Looking around, they had a lot of examples you could pick from, examples of the work you can do,” Ruskell said.

Katie Hanson, a sophomore

graphic design major, came to look for an art class to apply toward her majors and is now leaning toward the “Book Binding Workshop” taught by professor John Fender.

“I know Fender is going on sab-batical next spring, so I will not have very many classes with him,” Hanson said.

The “Book Binding Workshop” also caught the attention of P1 Blake Martin. Martin came to the fair looking for “anything art” to fulfill an AOI.

“I like drawing first of all. I am looking for something that is not to hard, so book binding would be good,” Martin said.

Martin said the fair was mainly helpful in providing information.

“I got more information here than I would get looking at the course descriptions,” Martin said.

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The Changing Business of Media6:30-8 p.m.Meredith 101

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Arts & Sciences Honor Convocation6:30-8 p.m.Parents Hall

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Student Senate opened its meeting last week with a message from some of the candidates run-ning in the upcoming election. The candidates were encouraged to attend Senate this week to give a short presentation of their plat-form for the current senators.

Eighteen of the 27 candidates attended the meeting. Senator-at-Large candidates Ben Verhasselt, Mark Reiter, Olivia O’Hea, Emma Wilson, Mike Jennings, Josh Duden, Jacob VanderVaart, Ethan Gascho, Zachary Keller, Emily Grimm, Ekta Haria, Josh Schoenblatt and Cole Schwartz spoke at the meeting.

Diversity Interest Senator-at-Large candidate Salwa Janjua, CBPA senator candidate Kevin Maisto, Arts and Sciences Senator candidate Ben Lambrecht, Phar-macy and Health Sciences Sena-tor candidate Natalie Gadbois and Journalism and Mass Communica-tions Senator Gwendolyn Baum-gardner also spoke at the meeting.

The Ultimate Club came to Sen-ate last week requesting to change the amount of money it had previ-ously requested from SFAC. The group planned to attend a tour-nament in Decorah, Iowa, but the tournament was cancelled. It al-ready paid for a hotel, however, so the group requested $250 to cover the costs of the hotel. The motion passed unanimously.

The Middle East Peace and Prosperity Alliance came to Sen-ate to request funding for dona-tion jars. The money raised from the donation jars will be donated to a hospital in Israel that provides medical service to Palestinians who are otherwise denied access to specialized medical treatment. The donation jars will be placed in high traffic areas of campus and around the Des Moines commu-nity. The motion carried unani-mously.

Greek Street Fellowship re-quested a name change during the meeting. The group feels there is a division on campus between those involved with Greek life and those who are not, so it wants to make the group open to anyone on cam-pus. The group changed its name to “The Navigators,” and the mo-tion was passed by acclimation.

Most of the Senate meeting last week was spent reviewing the budget for fiscal year 2013-14. Senate will not vote on the budget until later this year, but the sena-tors were encouraged to share their opinions on the current state of the budget. Vice Presi-dent of Student Life David Karaz expressed concerns that Senate should look into funding more or-ganizations.

Sen. Dan Pfeifle sparked a de-bate when he suggested that Stu-dent Activities Board had been given too much money.

“They’re spending a lot of mon-ey on entertainment that not a lot of students are taking advantage of,” Pfeifle said.

Treasurer Michael Reibel coun-tered Pfeifle.

“They’ve done a lot with col-laboration with other organiza-tions recently to create greater attendance at their events,” Reibel said.

The proposed budget is posted in Olmsted.

Student Senate elections will be held April 8 and 9 on BlueView.

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1) Expand Dogs On Campus 2) Weekly Fireside Video summary on Senate work 3) Getting your input to make your dreams a reality.

Josh Schoenblatt At-LargeSophomore Politics and Leadership concentration

A diverse background with Drake organizations gives me a well-rounded understanding of Drake Students. I hope to bring their views to the Senate table next year.

Mark Reiter At-LargeSophomore Public Relations

Expanding horizons for students by developing meaningful academic and professional skills, knowledge, resources and connections.

Alexander Shaner Arts & ScienceJunior Politics and International Relations

I hope to bring more professional opportunities to students & bring more prospective students to Drake as a whole, not just the J school

Luke Nankivell SJMCSophomore Magazines and Politics

Establish the House “College” Cup. Each college on campus is able to earn points to win overall college of the year “Hogwarts Style.”

Jared Netley CPHSPharmacy P1

I will provide JStudents with outlets to stay involved, as well as working with faculty and Senate to make Jstudents a top Drake priority.

Gwendolyn Baumgardner SJMCJunior Broadcast News

I believe it is critical to improve campus security and increase communication between Senate and the student body to improve student life.

Mike Jennings At-LargeSophomore Actuarial Science and Finance

I do what I say I would do, proven through my Facebook page “Drake University Student Services.” I solve issues.

Ekta Haria At-LargeSophomore Biology

Promoting, encouraging participation and advocating diversity. Bridging the gap between students and senate. Serving the multicultural orgs.

Salwa Janjua DiversitySophomore Politics and International Relations

Facilitate a continuous dialogue with students regarding what they are passionate about or would like to see changed on campus.

Natalie Gadbois CPHSPharmacy P1 and MPA

Collaboration. Accessibility, Visibility and Spreading the Word. Use of Resources. Moving Drake forward to be the best it can be.

Sarah Engbretson At-LargeSophomore Markeing and Economics

As senator I would work to keep the student body well informed on senate operations, make sure all students opinions are voiced.

Jacob VanderVaart At-LargeSophomore BCMB

I will continue what the 26th session has done, increase communication between organizations and bridge the gap between Drake and Des Moines.

Emma Wilson At-LargeFirst-year Broadcast News and Politics

During my term I have improved many campus facilities. Drake, you know who you elected last year, I am ready and willing to serve you again.

Emily Grimm At-LargeSophomore Politics

It’s important to understand diversity, spread awareness, create unity, promote immersion in order to build our Drake community.

Krystle Thai DiversitySophomore Pharmacy

Drake should have more building accessibility, technology integration, and professional development.

Daniel Scheetz Fine ArtsSophomore Music Education

Increase communication with students, raise awareness about the funding process for organizations and increase publicity for campus events.

David Springston At-LargeSophomore Actuarial Science

As Business senator, I would communicate directly with the student body, as well as work to collaborate with the other academic senators.

Kevin Maisto CBPAFirst-Year Actuarial Science Major

I want to make Senate transparent, increase communication with the student body, help organizations grow and create diverse programs.

Matthew Roth At-LargeFirst-Year Philosophy and Politics

Increase communication between faculty and students, use and ask for student feedback more often, & working to keep buildings up-to-date.

Nicole Germann SOESophomore Elementary Education

I plan to form connections with other governing boards, help new organizations and increase interactions between Senate & the student body.

Olivia O’Hea At-LargeFirst-Year LPS and Public Relations

I listen. I will stay grounded and available for students to represent this outstanding student body.

Ben Verhasselt At-LargeFirst-Year Marketing and Politics

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by the entrances with care, in hope that Suzy or Sam will be the candidate with your vote. This year’s Student Senate general election has plenty of candidates to choose from, which can make voting difficult. Sure, with over 20 candidates in total it’s over-whelming when you look at the ballot, but this is a good problem to have. We have so many stu-dents whom are willing to serve us and to show us what they can offer the student body.

The platforms given out so far have been vague and non-committal, but that is the nature of the beast that is student gov-ernment. What we have to do — as voting members of the Drake community — take that into ac-count. The platforms are vague because the senators have no idea what can be accomplished until they are sworn in. The ideas molded initially are about what problems are currently grasping campus, and they have to move on from there. The bu-reaucratic red tape that many of the student run into also restrict Student Senate at times.

Thinking about it, though, as voters and constituents of these students, we need to make it our job to vote for those who are most capable, those who want to prove themselves. This year there are many senators with name recognition and experi-ence around the table, but as a

voter you have the obligation to think about how they have served you this year. How have they proved themselves as good senators? When you open that electronic ballot, vote for who you truly believe can make a difference, not just the person whose name you recognize.

It’s what a candidate can truly offer around the table that makes him or her a good can-didate. It’s not the Greek house that makes the candidate — it’s the ideas that make the person.

As voters, we also have to think of our representation around the table. Yes, 30 percent of campus is involved in Greek life, but that means 70 percent (the majority, mind you) is not involved. Our representation should reflect that. With a total of 24 senators sitting around the table, that means only seven should be Greek.

We, the Drake University Stu-dent Body, need and deserve an elected body that will listen to us and represent us to its greatest ability. When we open our ballot through BlueView over the next few days, we need to do our-selves the ultimate favor with our governing board — vote for whom we truly believe in. Not who our friends told to vote for. Not who had the best posters. We’re not voting for the person’s organizations, we’re not voting for his or her allegiances, we’re voting for the candidate.

Often times when we all go see our grandparents or visit people from older generations, they respond with criticisms of the younger generation. One of the biggest criticisms of our genera-tion is the new influx of commu-nication techniques that hinder face-to-face contact. In the olden days, which to us are a mere 20 years ago, there was no texting, no emailing, no instant message — the main way to communicate was face to face contact and tele-phone conversations. The human interaction has decreased in our generation, and I feel that the interaction is only going to get worse in the future due to texting, the Internet and email.

Granted, our society is much more efficient with these new modes of communication. We are able to provide faster responses, be more to the point and not have to worry about the stresses with talking to people. This is help-

ful for the world’s industries as a whole, but the generations in the future will not have the same skill set as generations in the past. Peo-ple are relying on technology to do the talking for them just to avoid talking to people for one reason or another. This is hurting the social skills that are the basis of all hu-man interaction. People who do this are typically not as good at talking to people in person.

For example, we have all been in that situation where you meet somebody, and you start texting them. Everything seems fine as you are talking, but those one- or two-line responses are only in-hibiting your social ability. Even-tually, chances are that you will start talking about the same thing over and over, and it seems to be-come boring to talk to that person. We have short attention spans because of this phenomenon, and texting is an ineffective means of communication. It’s easy to have misunderstandings and to mis-interpret someone’s message and have situations blown out of pro-portion simply because someone’s text message was misconstrued.

Another minor point I want to make is that people’s inability to memorize something as simple as telephone numbers. If you find yourself in a dangerous situation, you need to be able to recite a friend’s, roommate’s, police sta-tion’s number off the top of your head instead of relying so much on one’s contact list. There was once a time when stories were merely

recited and done by memory. Now, people can barely remember their best friend’s phone number. That is a part of society that has died that is saddening.

Social media has also had a tre-mendous impact on our dissolving social abilities. Sites like Facebook and Twitter have not only revolu-tionized the definition of sharing things with your friends but have changed the definition of the word “friend” itself. Anymore, the word “friend” simply means that you know this person and might not mean that you even like this per-son. There is this sense of compe-tition where people just want to keep on adding friends to appear more popular to others, which re-ally makes no sense. These social networking sites also give people the chance to learn about people’s interests without even necessar-ily talking to that person, which gives less incentive to go out and actually meet people.

Overall, the next time you hear somebody from the older genera-tion make a comment about how our generation is lacking social skills, it is easy to see where he or she is getting that idea. One day we will be those old people, and it would be really sad to see the younger generation being even worse socially than we are.

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You know AWOL like the Mili-tary term, “absent without leave.” The sense of musical accomplish-ment and great live sound seemed to be AWOL this past Tuesday. Playing the ever present 70s ball-room “Dazed and Confused” im-bued vibe of the Val Air Ballroom, AWOLnation, next in the line of electro-pop-punk-metal bands looking to make it big through cross country tours and extensive plays on Spotify.

Two friends grabbed me for a Tuesday night show, and we were off to go AWOL.

AWOLnation’s set began with my favorite song of theirs, “Guilty Filthy Soul.” While the song may or may not be homage to the TV gangster scene of “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” it was an energetic way to start the show. The layered fuzz guitar blasted through the speakers as lead sing-

er Aaron Bruno squelched his way through the buzz ballad. Halfway through, the song turns to its cho-rus for a popping piano lick, which allowed for maximum sing along possibility. This song would be the highlight.

What I could guess as a 16-year-old next to me somehow knew every single word and was shouting them as loud as he pos-sibly could. Even on their most famous song, (used in two car commercials), “Sail,” the chorus which utilizes many long chants of “SAIL, SAIL, SAIL,” the teen shout-ed them, arching his back high enough to let the band and every-one else in the ballroom know that he was the biggest AWOLnation fan in there.

I did enjoy the concert but felt underwhelmed by the bands most intriguing part of their music, their sing along nature. Some of the songs bled together and felt more of a wall of noise than their extremely cleaned-up studio al-bum. Also the rowdiness of the crowd wasn’t what I had expected. It ended up being tame, noisy and overall was not my favorite con-cert I’ve ever been to. If you’d like to pay $20 to have your ear drums blown out with minimal melo-dies? Then this is the band for you.

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We’ve all seen him, and we all love and adore him — our bulldog mascot, Porterhouse.

But what is the job of beloved mascot?

Erin Bell, Porterhouse’s “mom,” said they are trying to figure it out.

“It’s all completely voluntary,” Bell said. “We go to as many games as we can, especially basketball and football. People notice when we’re gone. They will come up to us and say ‘Where were you guys? Why weren’t you at the game?’”

Porterhouse has been Drake University’s official live mascot for four full years, now beginning his fifth. He was asked to be the official mascot after he won the 2009 Beautiful Bulldog Contest, on his fourth try.

“We just kind of figured out what we were supposed to do,” Bell said. “We interact with the fans, and he runs the team out at games. They asked if they thought

he would run after a basketball and I said, ‘Sure, why not?’”

“We just love sharing him with people,” Bell said.

The newly made Twitter ac-count has brought that to a whole new level, allowing them to inter-act with students like never be-fore.

“I haven’t met one student who doesn’t like stopping to say ‘hi’ to Porterhouse or his ‘parents,’” said Nate Erickson, a senior market-ing major with a human resourc-es concentration. “Whether you see him on campus or look at the pictures on Twitter, he can really brighten your day. His owners re-ally go out of their way to make him accessible to students.”

And let’s not forget about Spike.While a bulldog has been the

official mascot since the 1930s, it wasn’t originally named Spike. After a contest held on campus, in which only one name was submit-ted and subsequently picked, the mascot was then named Butch. In the 1950s, the name was changed to Spike in another contest during homecoming week.

The job of being the school mascot is given to a team of sev-eral students, unknown to the rest of the student body, who go to university events to pump up and interact with the crowd. They also have the job of representing the university wherever they go. The team has even ranked fifth in a national cheerleading and dance competition in 2009.

“Whether it’s a sporting event, community program, or other function, Spike embodies every-thing great about Drake,” Erick-son said.

What does Porterhouse think of Spike?

“He’s always a little competi-tive,” Bell laughs.

But having a live mascot is one of the things that is really unique to Drake.

“Most schools don’t have a live panther or something,” Bell said. “This is something unique that Drake has. Sometimes, the other teams will even come looking for him.”

The Internet has become one of the most important resources for students. Through it, they have access to an unlimited amount of information, assistance and contacts. A new addition that is geared toward journalists is Pressfolios.

Pressfolios is a website that allows journalists to show their work all on one site. By uploading links to published material, they can create a page of their work.

“I see it as a great way for peo-ple who have writing published on various websites can bring all of their best work onto one portfo-lio website,” said Chris Snider, in-structor of practice in multimedia.

Though the site is less than one year old, it has already undergone many changes and improvements. You are allowed to choose eight stories that will be featured and appear first on your home page which also shows a cover photo. There is a biography section, and all of your stories are stored se-curely on the website as PDFs.

Junior Larissa Wurm started using Pressfolios after Snider rec-ommended it.

“It’s a cool tool to try out and an easy way to get your work up and out there for people to see, kind of like LinkedIn, but more targeted towards journalists,” said Wurm.

Much like a blog, the site is dedicated to helping journalists

showcase their work. By including options for photos and profiles, the site is slowly branching out so that people can use it for more than just stories.

That was the only problem sophomore Taylor Larson had with the site.

“As a PR student, I have writing clips that have been published, but would really like to be able to put some of my planning and other ex-perience in my portfolio, too.”

However, Pressfolios is trying to take people’s recommendations and suggestions into account. Wurm said that she had been hav-ing some troubles with the site, but they were easy to fix.

“The Pressfolios blog has been really good about explaining what the purpose of the site is, giving examples of how other people have set up theirs, and they are re-ally encouraging interacting with them on Twitter and Facebook,” Wurm said. “They encourage you to tweet them any questions you have, and they started a hashtag and everything.”

With this open mindset about their website, Pressfolios is still clearly a developing site, but one that is a great tool for journalism students. If interested in Pressfo-lios, go to http://pressfolios.com/ and sign up for your own account. If you know someone who already has a pressfolio, both of you can add an additional five free articles to your pressfolio.

Anime Club, Japanese Language Students, and Japan Ameri-can Society of Iowa present

Free Japanese food, great prizes and more!

Tuesday April 9, 9-5pmin Olmsted Center

Questions? Contact us at: [email protected]

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SPIKE AND PORTERHOUSE are the two mascots chosen to represent Drake University. COURTESTY OF ERIN BELL

DBS is hiring!

- DogTUBE Producer- DogTUBE Video Coordinator- KDRA Program Director- KDRA Operations Director- DBS Sports Director- Web/Digital Coordinator- Marketing Coordinator- Promotions Coordinator

Contact Grace Wenzel, DBS president, at [email protected] for questions or to apply. Resume and cover letter are due by Saturday, April 13 at midnight.

Positions for 2013-14 school year are open and waiting for you to fill them. Open positions include:

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“I think we’re all naturally inquisitive and intellectually curious, and new classes generally come out of that curiosity.”

— Rachel Paine Caufield, Drake professor

THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION TRIP, a class created by Rachel Paine Caufield and Jill Van Wyke allowed students to see Washington D.C. over J-term. PHOTOS COURTESY OF NOELLE SMITH

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Professors create new courses for studentsProcess for class creation complicated but rewarding

With registration coming up, everyone is looking at the class list for fall semes-ter. Going through the courses, it is pretty clear that we have some inventive faculty members. From “Science and the Art of Da Vinci” to the “Spirit of Mathematics” to “Moral Monsters,” there are a lot of choices for Drake University students. But how do professors develop these courses?

“Once you determine that your sched-ule allows you to develop a new class, and that department, college and university programs would benefit from that new course, you then submit proposals to the appropri-ate administrative review committees,” said Associate Pro-fessor of Politics and International Rela-tions Rachel Paine Caufield.

Drake has a stan-dard form for creat-ing a new course, but what discipline you are creating the class for changes the pro-cess. For more stan-dard courses, the process is not too difficult since those are only listed in one field.

“Especially if it is a class that might be offered just once as an experimental class, the process is relatively informal,” said professor Kathleen Richardson, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Com-munication.

If a professor is creating an honors course, though, or a class that is cross-listed, then the proposal has to go through all the departments that are included as well as the College Curriculum Committee Council. Area of Inquiry courses are simi-larly taken care of by the University Cur-riculum Committee.

However, this is only one part of cre-ating the course. First, the teacher must come up with an idea for a course. Paine Caufield said this is not a particularly pressing problem, though.

“On the whole, I think every faculty member has a little list of potential cours-es in their head that would allow them to

build on their existing expertise and aca-demic training, while developing better or deeper knowledge and working with stu-dents to do so,” Paine Caufield said. “I think we’re all naturally inquisitive and intellec-tually curious, and new classes generally come out of that curiosity.”

Yet there are some risks taken when creating a new course. Teachers constant-ly have to experiment with their schedules, assignments and classes as they learn of the students’ interests and capabilities. There is also difficultly finding professors who have enough time to experiment with a new course.

Richardson admitted that the process can be difficult.

“I think you might find that in the profes-sional schools, espe-cially, it is somewhat more difficult to offer new classes or add classes to the curricu-lum because we have so many required classes that we have to offer.” Richardson said. “It is difficult for faculty to have time to teach electives.”

Yet it is still some-thing most profes-sors encourage.

Paine Caufield said that this is a beneficial process for teach-ers, students and the university itself.

“First, they foster creativity and curios-ity on the part of faculty, staff and students, which is a good thing.” Paine Caufield said. “Second, they allow the university to be more flexible and innovative to meet the academic and professional goals of the stu-dents.”

This view has especially been apparent in the January-term offerings, with cours-es on Harry Potter and robots appearing on the course list. These courses allow for students to express themselves and enjoy courses that broaden their collegiate expe-rience while strengthening it as well.

If interested in viewing the courses available for the 2013 fall semester or J-term, go to MyDusis, Student Services and Registration. There you can find a listing for all the available courses. Also, if inter-ested in pursuing a particular topic, talk to a professor. Courses are always being added and adopted.

The Polynesian Paradise Dancers bring the Aloha spirit to Des Moines, IA.

The international touring company known as The Polynesian Paradise Dancers will perform at Vaudeville Mews on April 12th 2013.

Tickets are $10.00. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. at Vaudeville Mews, 212 4th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309.

For more information and to purchase tickets visit www.poly-nesianparadisedancer.com.

The Drake men’s and women’s track teams both took first place at the Ashford Spring Invitational in Clinton, Iowa on Saturday. The Bulldog women won eight events, and the Bulldog men won seven to take the top spot among eight and nine teams, respectively.

In Drake women’s mid-distance action, sophomore Melissa Parks took first place in the 800 meters in a time of 2:22.90.

“It was my first outdoor 800 of the year, so it was just to see where I was at, physically,” Parks said.

Parks said the wind made Sat-urday’s meet difficult.

“It was pretty insanely windy,

so my time wasn’t the best,” Parks said.

In women’s sprints, the Bull-dogs registered wins in the 100 and 200-meters. Junior Danyelle Cole won the 100-meters in a time of 12.13.

Senior Whitney Westrum tri-umphed in the 200-meters in a time of 24.74. Cole crossed the line less than a minute later than Westrum in 25.43 to take second place.

Drake captured a pair of victo-ries in hurdles action, too. Senior Sarah Yeager won the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 13.90. In the 400-meter hurdles, senior Briana Isom-Brummer finished first with a time of 1:03.16.

Two Bulldog women’s relays recorded the top times on Sat-

urday. The 4x100-meter relay of junior Tiara Winston, Cole, sopho-more Ariel Kinlow and Westrum finished first with a time of 47.89.

In 4x400-meter action, the Bull-dogs recorded another top finish. The team of Yeager, Cole, fresh-man Virginia Hill and Westrum recorded a time of 4:02.85 to take first.

Drake recorded a single field victory in the triple jump, as fresh-man Kayla Bell finished first with a distance of 37-4.

In Drake men’s action, the Bull-dogs captured seven wins. In dis-tance action, freshman Ali Jindal claimed first in the 1,500-meters in a time of 4:10.74.

The Bulldog hurdlers claimed a pair of victories on Saturday, thanks to junior Travis Marsh.

Marsh won both the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles with times of 14.65 and 55.89, respectively.

Marsh contributed to another Bulldog win in the first-place 4x400-meter relay. The Drake team of Marsh, junior Ian Wells, senior Dan Karys and freshman Scott Goad finished first in a time of 3:20.48.

The Bulldogs won four field events on Saturday. Karys won the long jump with a distance of 23-3.5.

Senior Isaac Twombly won the discus with a toss of 149-6. Twom-bly won the hammer throw, too, with a top distance of 198-5.

Freshman David Silkman fin-ished first in the javelin throw with a toss of 163-3.

The Bulldogs are back in action

on Friday and Saturday at the Jim Duncan Invitational at Drake Sta-dium. The meet marks the first home competition for the Bulldogs this season.

Despite the windy conditions, Parks said the meet gave Drake a boost of confidence entering the Jim Duncan Invitational. Plus, the meet gave the Bulldog freshmen one last chance to calm any nerves before they compete at Drake Sta-dium for the first time.

“It was a good confidence booster,” Parks said. “It wasn’t the most competitive meet, but we competed just because it was close to home.”

The No. 23 Drake men’s tennis team passed its stiffest test of the conference season on Sunday, as the Bulldogs defeat-ed the Wichita State Shockers in Wichita, Kan. Drake rallied from an early 0-2 deficit to win the match 4-2 and remain atop the Missouri Valley Conference standings.

The Bulldogs struggled early on in the match, as they failed to secure the pivotal doubles point. Although the pairing of se-nior James McKie and freshman Ben Lott won their match 8-2, the two remaining doubles teams failed to do so. Sophomore Alen Salibasic and senior Jean Erasmus lost 2-8, while sophomore Ben Mullis and junior Robin Goodman lost 5-8.

Already facing a 0-1 deficit, things did not get any easier in singles against a very competitive Shockers squad. Lott, who was playing at the sixth singles position, lost 6-3, 6-1 to give Wichita State a 2-0 ad-vantage. Fortunately for the Bulldogs, the

momentum began to swing in their favor after Salibasic posted a 6-4, 6-2 victory at the second position. Goodman’s 6-3 6-4 win at third singles evened the score at

2-all.With the momentum firmly in their

grasp, the Bulldogs sprinted towards the finish line. Mullis’ 6-3, 6-1 win put the squad on the brink of victory, and McKie’s 6-4, 6-3 win clinched the match.

Erasmus was still on court when the match finished, but the coaches decided to let the match go unfinished to avoid any potential injury to both players.

With the Shockers out of the way, Drake now focuses their attention on next Satur-day’s match against the Salukis of South-ern Illinois. The Bulldogs will travel to Carbondale for a 1 p.m. match.

Drake will finally return home to the Roger Knapp Tennis Center on Saturday, April 20 for a matchup against Illinois State. The last time Drake played at home was Feb. 16 against Western Illinois.

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ALEN SALIBASIC AND JEAN ERASMUS play doubles on Feb. 3.

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Assistants impressGiacoletti adds two to staff

Drake men and women win Ashford Invite

A lot about Ray Giacoletti has captured interest on campus, in Des Moines and in Iowa.

As Drake fans discuss his impressive re-sume (six consecutive NCAA berths at Gon-zaga, a Sweet 16 appearance at Utah) and struggle to pronounce his name (JACK-o-let-ee), Giacoletti has drawn two new assistant coaches to the program.

You know, the other men on the bench who coach the players, the men who too seldom catch fans’ interest. The new Drake men’s basketball assistant coaches are worth a column, thanks to their diverse resumes.

Thus far, Giacoletti has taken the care to select long-time basketball coach-es from diverse basketball backgrounds, a move that contrasts the previous staff. As his vows from the March 28 press conference — draw more Iowa players, win the rebound war and score easy baskets — echo across campus, the metro area and the state, Giacolet-ti has taken a step forward in his two newest hires, Jeff Rutter and Bill Walker.

Giacoletti named Jeff Rutter assistant coach this past Thursday. Rutter comes to Drake from Iowa State, where he spent sev-en seasons, four as an assistant coach and the last three as the Cyclones’ director of basketball operations.

Before his tenure at Iowa State, Rutter worked for three seasons as an assistant coach at Northern Iowa under head coach Greg McDermott.

Expect Rutter to play a pivotal role in Giacoletti’s vow to draw more players from Iowa. He knows the regional basketball scene, thanks to coaching jobs at North Da-kota State, Wisconsin-Parkside, UNI and Iowa State.

Plus, Rutter can help Missouri Valley

Conference newcomer Giacoletti learn the league’s ins and outs.

Giacoletti named a second basketball vet-eran to his staff on this past Friday, in Bill Walker. Walker returns to the NCAA scene from Texas A&M, where in just four years as an assistant coach from 2008-2011, he helped develop three — yes, three — NBA players in the Los Angeles Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan, the Detroit Pistons’ Khris Middleton and the New Orleans Hornets’ Donald Sloan.

The three players mark just the start of Walker’s NBA success, though. He spent the

last two seasons as a scout for the Hornets.

Those experiences and more add up to 25 years of basketball knowledge across the NCAA and NBA. Clearly, Walker has a knack to develop players, a knack Drake desperately needs.

Expect Walker to draw some big names to Drake, too. He knows just what to look for in a player, thanks to two seasons as an NBA scout.

In the NCAA scene, most notably, Walker earned acclaim at Minnesota when he drew Big Ten Fresh-man of the Year and eventual NBA pick Kris Humphries to the Gophers’ squad. He spent nine years at Minnesota before heading to Texas A&M.

Clearly, Giacoletti owns a plethora of column-worthy basketball contacts. Expect more notable hires as Giacoletti builds his Bulldog staff.

Taylor Soule

Sports Editor

Soule is a sophomore news-internet and writing double major and can be reached at [email protected]

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Men’s Tennis

Singles play lifts Drake on the roadTAYLOR SOULE | SPORTS EDITOR

After falling 4-3 in the first half of a doubleheader against Indiana State on Saturday, the Drake soft-ball team evened the series and won 9-1 in the second game.

Junior pitcher Jordan Grone-wold started the first game for Drake, allowing two runs and four hits in four innings. Gronewold struck out two batters and walked one.

Indiana State got off to a 2-0 lead in the third inning and was able to hold it until the fifth, when Drake junior Amy Pierce belted a two-run homer to tie the game.

Megan Stone of ISU opened the sixth inning by hitting a homerun, giving ISU a 3-2 lead. That lead didn’t last long, with junior Cort-ney Wood driving in freshman Seyerra Dubois off a base hit.

ISU responded the next inning and took a 4-3 lead off a blooper to left field. Drake attempted a come-back but left sophomore Rebekah Schmidt stranded at third as ISU took the win.

Both teams struggled bringing runners in, combining for 15 run-ners left on base.

Gronewold pitched the entire second game for Drake, letting in

just one run off four hits. She re-corded another two strikeouts and three walks.

Drake lit up the scoreboard first, scoring one in the third in-ning and adding a pair in the fourth.

Sophomore Hayley Nybo shined in the rematch. By batting three of four, Nybo extended her hitting streak to 13 games. She hit a homerun in the sixth inning to extend Drake’s lead to 4-1.

Drake dominated the sixth in-ning, having the team bat around the order. The Bulldogs scored six runs in the inning, and after the run rule was enforced, Drake came out with a 9-1 win.

With the win, Gronewold im-proved to 11-7 for the year. The offensive struggles for Drake dis-appeared during the second game, recording 11 hits and leaving just four runners on base the entire game.

Along with Nybo, Wood led the Bulldogs with two hits and three RBIs. Pierce had one RBI off two hits and sophomore Laura Brewer had two hits.

The Bulldogs faced Indiana State again Sunday and will play Iowa State Tuesday. Check back in the Thursday edition of The Times-Delphic for the results.

The Drake women’s tennis team swept Missouri Valley Conference rival Creighton 7-0 on Saturday at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 Valley re-cord. Though the Bluejays challenged Drake in several matches, the young Bulldogs kept composure to take a sec-ond step toward their MVC Championship goal.

Drake recorded comfortable wins in all three doubles matches to take the momentum early.

At the No. 1 spot, freshman Jordan Eggleston and junior Klavdija Rebol garnered an 8-4 victory over the Bluejays’ Anna Kirshenbaum and Analese Snyder. Freshmen Mad-

die Johnson and Lea Kozulic registered an 8-2 win at the No. 2 position over Creighton’s Jennie Hartjes and Amanda Noonan.

The No. 3 doubles team of freshman Mariel Ante and senior Ali Patterson sealed a 1-0 Bulldog lead with an 8-4 decision versus Liz Vermillion and Sam Anderson.

That early momentum led to wins at every singles spot, but the Bulldogs faced a couple tense moments against Creighton.

At the No. 1 singles spot, Rebol dispatched Hartjes com-fortably, 6-3, 6-0. A back-and-forth affair took place at No. 2, though, as freshman Evy Van Genechten edged Snyder, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 10-7.

Kozulic defeat Kirshembaum at No. 3, 6-3, 6-3. At No. 4,

Johnson defeat Noonan, 6-2, 6-1. Boyd and Ante rounded out the Bulldog roster with

straight-sets victories.Boyd beat Vermillion, 6-2, 6-0 at No. 5. At No. 6, Ante

registered a close 7-6 (4), 6-3 win over the Bluejays’ Taylor Koehrsen.

Drake faces MVC foe Southern Illinois on Saturday at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center. The Salukis have already emerged as the Valley team to beat in 2013, so Drake faces a tough task.

The Bulldogs played MVC rival Wichita State on Sunday at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center. Results from that match will be available in the next issue of The Times-Delphic.

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FRESHMAN JORDAN EGGLESTON prepares to hit an overhead against Missouri Valley Conference rival Wichita State on Sunday at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center.

JUNIOR INFIELDER LIZ BUCK prepares to swing against Indiana State on Sunday at Ron Buel Fueld. The Bulldogs split a double-header against Missouri Valley Conference rival Indiana State on Saturday.

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Valley rival Bluejays no match for Bulldogs

Bulldogs rebound to go 1-1 against Sycamores

Stress management, love of sports necessary for officials As the semester winds down,

many of you are probably wor-ried about finding a summer job. It’s not only important to find a job, but it also needs to pay enough money gets you through the school year. One way to lessen the stress of finding a new job at the end of every semester is to get a part-time job during the school year. If you are looking for a job for next year, intramurals might be the option for you. Here are some qualities that we look for as intra-mural officials.

Coolness under pressure is an essential quality of an intramu-ral official. Officials have to make quick judgments in tough situ-ations. Panicking does not look good to intramural athletes, and it is not unusual for experienced intramural athletes to take ad-

vantage of a new, nervous official. That is why it is important to stay steady on the outside even if the official is freaking out on the in-side.

It is important to add that while staying calm under pressure is a required trait of all officials, it may need to come from some practice. I certainly can vouch that my fresh-man year, I was a nervous wreck while officiating. My first officiat-ing experience was fraternity flag football, so I learned quickly how to be calm under pressure.

Physical fitness is also a for-gotten but helpful quality of an intramural official. Sports like basketball, soccer and flag foot-ball require some serious cardio — especially basketball.

In basketball, officials do not have substitutes. They run the en-

tire game with a whistle in their mouths, which is an added chal-lenge that people take for grant-ed. It is harder to breathe with a whistle in your mouth because you might accidently blow it while running. Do not forget, officials

also have to make calls while do-ing all of this. Physical fitness can help a new official focus better on the game because they are not ex-hausted.

Lastly, the most important quality for intramural officials is a general appreciation of sports. It does not matter if you have never stepped foot on a soccer field or hit a birdie with a racket. As long as you respect the athletes and the sport, intramurals can be an incredible work-study job. In my three years at intramurals, I have seen some crazy, competitive games. I have grown to appreciate soccer and volleyball in a way that I never did before.

Officials get paid to watch in-tramurals and meet new friends. The best part about intramurals, in my opinion, is the people. Meet-

ing new, awesome people was my favorite part of the job. Some of my closest friends were made on the intramurals fields. For those of you looking for a job next year, working for intramurals can be a great place to go.

Here is your rule reminder for this week. Metal cleats are not al-lowed on the softball field. While they may good for preventing wipeouts, they can cause some serious injuries on the field. Make sure you have plastic or rubber cleats, or you can not play. As al-ways, stay safe, and play ball!

Joanie Barry

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Barry is a junior radio-television and secondary education double major and can be reached at [email protected]

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Drake Relays Events:All Events Thursday-Saturday are free for

Drake students with a valid Drake Student ID Monday, April 22

34th Annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest10:45am-1pm

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Tuesday, April 23Grand Blue Mile

6pmDowntown Des Moines, Western Gateway Park

Register at GrandBlueMile.com

Wednesday, April 24Downtown Street Painting

1-4pm Downtown Des Moines on Court Avenue between 3rd and 4th streets

Pole Vault in the Mall

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Featuring London Games Rematches5:15-9:30pm

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Live music begins at 7:30pmWe the Kings 10:30pm

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