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Issue 2Vol. 43august 29, 2012

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Delay on Bike Racks Means Less Parking for a WhileThe blue metal loops that appeared on campus over the

summer are already in full use by bike-riding students and faculty. After years of portable racks that were difficult to lock a bicycle to, IPFW has built perma-nent bike parking on campus.

The racks are located currently in six places: near Kettler Hall, Parking Lot 6, between Liberal Arts and the Sci-ence Building, Walb Union, the Athletic Center and Williams Theatre. More are being planned for the parking garages, and each parking space can hold 30 to 40 bikes. The parking in the garages will be installed during the next month.

“We’re just trying to make campus a lot more friendly to everyone that bikes to campus and making everyone more healthy,” said project manager Greg Jus-tice of the IPFW Physical Plant.

Among the features of the bike racks that he boasts is easy access to the park-ing, which are completely connected by concrete either through Mastodon Way or the streets and parking lots around campus.

The bike parking was built the week before classes started and were practi-

cally finished overnight.“Admittedly we had a little

bit of a late start,” said Jus-tice.

Construction projects like the YoYo and the new x-ray lab in Kettler during the summer pushed aside the construction on the racks.

But delays in the manu-facturing have limited park-ing spaces in the meantime. Fifty of the bike racks are on order but are currently being manufactured. The missing racks account for 100 bike parking spaces.

Just as some bicyclists were about to praise IPFW, they turned to complaining about the lack of room.

To resolve the problem of lost space, the old bike racks are still being utilized.

“What we’ve done actually is moved some of the portable ones onto those pads,” Justice said.

There were about 20 of the old racks on campus, each comfortably hold-ing eight bikes. Over time, Justice said, some of them were being moved clos-

er and closer to the entrances of campus buildings. At one point a rack was found completely blocking a doorway.

When all of the racks are built, there will be room for 430 bikes to be parked on campus. If that’s not enough, Justice said that more room can always be added.

“If we see a need, we can add some more concrete and add some more bike racks,” he said.

Once the project is fully completed, Justice said that the old, portable racks will be recycled instead of simply dis-posed of.

“We’re very much believers in recy-cling everything. Even if we can’t use it on campus we’ll use it somewhere,” he said. Justice expects that the remaining racks should be finished in two weeks, or the week after Labor Day.

Jessica Geyer

Aug. 30 Aug. 31 Sept. 5 Sept. 5Japanese Summer

Culture DayPre-Labor Day All White Party

Luncheon Lecture Kruse Duo Recital

Learn about summer in Japan and taste Japanese-

style snocones.The learning begins at

noon and will last until 1 p.m. in Liberal Arts’ lan-

guage lab

Just as it says - dress up in all white before the fashion is deemed too summer-like.The event will be in the Walb

Ballroom 126 from 7 to 11 p.m.

The first in the Anthropology Club’s weekly lecture series featuring a diverse range of

speakers and subjects.The lecture kicks off at 12 p.m. in Kettler Hall G46.

A violin and viola concert free to students with their

student ID card.The recital begins at 7:30 and ends at 9 p.m. in the Rhinehart Recital Hall.

They say the early bird gets the worm, and that held true

for students hoping to get their hands on rental calculators and iPads. IPSGA ran out of both devices last week.

The calculators, over 300 of them, were completely gone as early as Wednesday, Aug. 22. Just two days later, the last of 100 iPads went through the door.

“We went through a receipt book in a day,” said Brittany A. Caldwell, execu-tive assistant to IPSGA.

Out of the two programs, “The cal-culators are like the high, high, high de-mand,” said Caldwell. They were avail- @IPFW_News

Rental iPads alReady Gone


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able to rent for $5 per semester. When Kasey Price, Director of Special Programs and Student Activities, warned Caldwell that the calculators would be gone very quickly, “I didn’t believe her, but they were,” said Caldwell.

“The iPads started slow ... Monday was the kicker,” she added.

Most of the students that rented the iPads were younger and “tech savvy,” ac-cording to Bradley Crowe, Vice Presi-dent of Legislation. “They don’t want to commit to an older generation [of iPads],” he said, alluding to the future release of the iPad 4.

Students that missed their chance to rent will have another opportunity next semester. The rental due date for the devices is December 17, and after they have been processed, it will be first-come, first-serve again.

It took a lot of work to get The Com-municator onto the newsstands this year.

Going into my second year as the Editor-in-Chief of the publication, I knew – along with the staff – that some-thing needed to change if this student newspaper was going to stay relevant on campus. We thought long and hard over the summer and worked to bring you this paper, and we hope that you con-tinue to read throughout the year.

As you may have realized, we changed our format – scrapping the long pages we previously had for a square design that’ll fit on your desks. We’ve also added the weekly dig, where we’ll bring you a new, highly re-searched article each week.

Newspapers have gotten a bad rap the past few years, but we can assure you that they are not dying; they are changing. News may be more available online, but there will always be something in The Communicator that’s worth the effort it takes to pick it up. If

there isn’t, there’s a problem, and I en-courage you to let us know what we’re missing.

We also will be unveiling a brand new website this year, which will be compatible with various mobile devic-es and will be packed with features to keep you connected no matter how you choose to read The Communicator.

Stick with us this year – you won’t be disappointed.

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Cap on Credits Makes Little Difference to Many at IPFW

What’s the Republican National Convention,

and Why Should I Care?


Dennis Barbosa

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Recent legislation for Indiana pub-lic u n i v e r s i t i e s

may not be as efficacious as originally thought.

House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1220 lim-its credit requirements to 120 for bac-calaureate degrees and 60 for associates.

Effective as of July 1, HEA 1220 has been described as “student friendly” by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education in press releases. Governor Mitch Daniels signed off on the bill ear-lier this year as part of his campaign to save students money and speed up gradua-tions.

In Daniels’ State of the State address in January, he said, “...[schools] should have to explain why all that time and student expense is necessary... .”

According to Teresa Lubbers, Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education, “...earning a college degree is taking Hoo-siers too long, costing them too much, and leading far too many to pile up debt with no degree.”

Lubbers said this new legislation is “essential” to countering said “trends.”

But at IPFW, where the adjustment would be a matter of four credits for

most programs, one class hardly seems to be a money or time saver.

“It’s a relatively small change,” said Steven Sarratore, Interim Vice Chan-cellor for Academic Affairs. “In spite of credit limits, lots of students choose to take more than ... [required].”

Most of the degrees at IPFW are close to 120 said Mark Franke, Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Manage-ment. “We’re talking about a class or two [difference].”

This isn’t the case for some in the mu-sic department where credit require-

ments can reach up to a 141.

Amy Schwarz, a senior majoring in music education, said “When I get out on the job field, I’m going

to be qualified to teach K-12 instrumen-tal and general music.”

Schwarz said she understood why the legislation was passed, “[But] if they took out 20 credits of our degree, that would be a significant loss of knowledge and skill that I need to be successful.”

According to the house bill, educa-tional institutions may be approved for requiring additional credit hours if they provide justification, as outlined in sub-section (a).

“We’re talking about a class or two [difference].”

-Mark Franke, Associate Vice Chancellor for Enroll-

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The Republican National Conven-tion (RNC) began this week on Tuesday, Aug. 28, toughing it out against the in-coming tropical storm.

The RNC, like it’s Democratic Party counterpart, is designed to accomplish two things. First, it’s where Republican delegates gather to vote for their nomi-nee for the next president of the United States. But this year, like in recent voting years past, no one is in the Republican primary race except for former gover-nor Mitt Romney and his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan. In other words, much like at high school prom night, everyone already knows who is going to win and the vote is just for show.

That doesn’t mean Romney didn’t run completely unopposed, however. Each Republican candidate needed to hold delegates from at least five states, and Rick Santorum met that requirement. That means he was officially on the bal-lot.

So the vote is for show, and the second

most important thing that happens at the RNC is that the Republican Party votes on their official platform. This means they officially decide what they stand for and against. This, too, usually holds no surprises but serves as the official guide for the candidates. These priorities don’t just hold for Romney and Ryan, but for any Republican who will appear on the ballot in 2012.

In addition to the votes, a bunch of prominent Republicans made and will be making appearances and speaking to the crowd. Soundbites of these speeches will probably be played over and over again over the next couple weeks.

At the Democratic National Conven-tion (DNC), things work pretty much the same way. Barack Obama is voted for, the party adopts its national plat-form and Democrats talk about the is-sues most important to them. And it’s really all done to start the real presiden-


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dential campaigning and pump up the voter base.

Why does this all matter to the aver-age voter? Knowing what happens at a national convention, both at the RNC, the DNC or any of the (much less publi-cized and talked about) third-party con-ventions means knowing what the rest of the presidential campaigns will look like. They set the tone for the rest of the voting season, including what we’ll see

and hear during the future debates between Romney and Obama. Knowing what hap-pens means being an informed voter and not looking stupid when everyone’s talking poli-tics before class.

Following the evacuation of student housing build-ing C Monday afternoon,

school officials seemed unclear as to who was fulfilling the duty of spokesman in the absence of a police chief.

A “potentially threatening situation” was identified by the University Police Department (UPD) according to the campus wide email alert.

The former Chief of Police, Jeff Davis, who normally would have given a statement to the press, has stepped down to Lieutenant of Com-munity Policing as of July 1.

Building C was evacuated at 2:14 pm. “UPD Officers were able to mitigate the threat and res-idents were able to return to their apartments at 2:28 p.m.,” according to the same email alert.

The email alert was sent out about an hour later.

Captain Anthony Colone declined to com-

No Chief of Police Amidst Housing Evacuationment, and named Susan Alderman, Media Di-rector for IPFW University Relations and Com-munications, for any comments.

Alderman released a statement to the press which said, “Nothing happened. As the alert said it was a potentially threatening situation. UPD handled the situation and everything is fine. It is standard operating procedure for UPD to re-spond to threatening situations.”

Cristina Veltri, resident of building C, tweet-ed after the incident, “Well that was one of the scariest [things] that’s ever happened....”

Alderman declined to further comment on the incident and said Walter Branson, Vice Chancellor for Financial Affairs and Interim Chancellor [July 1–August 31], would if neces-sary.

Veltri tweeted later that police would not tell her why she had to evacuate her building.

Dennis Barbosa

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TinCaps VS. White Caps Game

Barr Street Market

Miami Indian Heritage Days @ Chief Richardville House

2012 FW Air Show @ Indiana Air National Guard Base

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ipfwcommunicator.orgopinion august 29, 2012

Why IPFW Shouldn’t be independent and lawmakers should

cut it outTalks of IPFW becoming an inde-

pendent university have come and gone for as many as 29 years. In the wake of announcing a new chancellor, they’re starting again – for all the wrong rea-sons.

The study committee on educa-tion will be discussing the possibility of IPFW being its own university Septem-ber 4 in Indianapolis.

The resolution filed gave the reasons that IPFW is “a growing campus with a diverse student population and numer-ous academic offerings,” and that the current structure allows IPFW to oper-ate separately but be overseen by Pur-due.

What is not mentioned, however, is what really sparked interest in the sub-ject: The now retired Michael Wartell.

It would seem law-makers are only trying to childishly get even with Pur-due for not making the decision they wanted.

Sen. Den-nis Kruse (R-Fort Wayne), report-edly told Indiana’s News Center that Purdue’s decision to retire Michael Wartell was one of the reasons the dis-cussion will take place. Influential people statewide were pulling for Wartell to stay at IPFW for another two years, as he had hoped.

Among them was Mayor Tom Henry, who has told of his personal relation-ship with Wartell.

It’s no secret The Communicator was in support of Wart-ell, but our August 22 editorial said it best: It’s time to stop whining about War-tell and welcome our new chancellor.

Should the dis-cussion to break from Purdue and

IU continue, it should be for the reasons laid out in the State Resolution: enroll-ment and oversight. It should also take

into account what the students at said university have to say.

When the numbers are crunched, IPFW had an enrollment of 14,326 last fall; however, it’s fallen about a thou-sand, and about 600 were students who simply hadn’t returned, according to _____. And while IPFW is overseen by Purdue, we are still able to get reputable names printed on our degrees, and that’s the reason, arguably, many students are enrolled at IPFW in the first place.

IPFW is in no way a terribly univer-sity, and independence wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, but simply, a degree from Fort Wayne University isn’t going to have a bad reputation – because it won’t have a reputation at all, at least for a few years.

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A warlord sits on his throne, surrounded by everything he needs to conquer

villages and citadels alike: a 12-pack of Mountain Dew and a miscellaneous bounty of salty snacks. His party is counting on him, his skills and his tactical strategies to get them through their quest. It could be a long night.

For some, the idea of settling in for a long bout of gameplay with some online friends might be the highlight of their day. To others, expending that much time and resources into a mere game can only be a sign of some sort of addiction, and don’t doubt they’ll cite stories about any number of gamers who have died while sitting in front of their computers or consoles.

While deaths due to extended sessions of play are the most rare and extreme form of over-usage, such occurrences have caused debate to spring up about whether gaming is a danger to human health.

ADT Healthcare Group, which specializes in treating addictions of all kinds, devotes an

entire website to the idea of internet and gaming addictions. They characterize

such addicted individuals with the inability to withdraw from computers and gaming devices without anxiety, dishonesty about the amount of time they devote to gaming or online activities and an inordinate preference for spending time with keyboards and controllers over other human beings.

Those who actually spend time in virtual worlds regularly resent a lot of the negative assumptions made about their behavior. They would argue that spending time gaming on a regular basis doesn’t necessarily mean they are addicted to it or in danger of becoming a soulless shell of a person, and that the extreme cases that do surface are best looked at on an individual basis. The death of an individual who has spent an excessive amount of time playing

a game is a tragedy, but it doesn’t require riots against a device that others manage to use safely.

James Fairfield, former IPFW student and gaming enthusiast, says he can see where

some people can get excessively reliant on video games if they feel like they don’t have much else to do with themselves, but it’s not something that does or will happen to every gamer.

Brandon Erickson, a writer for gamecritics.com, says claiming video games are inherently addictive and unhealthy is a rather absurd concept. While studies have tried to show that playing video games can be akin to pathological gambling and substance

addiction, Erickson points to case studies showing that excessive use of video games can more be a sign of an underlying problem - a symptom of a bigger issue - rather than the cause of it.

And several IPFW gamers stand behind similar claims.

While studying photography at IPFW, former student Ross Trout found himself

unsure about exactly what he wanted from his education and a career. Feeling burnt out, he stopped attending his classes and

began spending more time playing online games like League of Legends and Minecraft with his friends. While he was unable to return to school because of his grades, Trout does not credit video games as the reason, instead believing they gave him a way to disconnect from a situation he wasn’t sure how to handle in his life.

For those like Trout, video games have the benefit of allowing a player to

easily escape uncomfortable situations or even emotions that they don’t want to deal with. While this escapism doesn’t solve the issue at hand, it does offer up a rewarding experience that allows the individual to feel in control and satisfied.

The HopeLab Foundation and the Department of Psychology at Stanford University conducted a study to understand the positively

reinforced effects of gaming on cancer patients. The study found that patients who played the games themselves stimulated parts of their brains related to reward-processing that wasn’t affected in the brains of patients who merely watched others play.

The effect is similar on recreational gamers. Unlike reading or watching TV, playing

video games requires a large amount of interactivity, and the ability to make

choices - to be perceived as important in a course

of unfolding events - allows the gamer

a sense of pride, even if those

events are virtual.It also allows players to take on

different personas and say or do things that they wouldn’t or couldn’t on a regular basis.

“I’m a nice guy that loves to joke around with everybody. Then when I play an RPG, I sometimes like to play the opposite where I’m the badass and I go kill everything and anything I want. The thing with games is you can take on a different persona depending on how you feel at the time,” said Trout.

Like many coping strategies, this behavior can get out of hand. Dr. Marc Kern,

who specializes in treating addictions, makes the statement that anything can become addictive if it elicits an emotional or rewarding response. This is how activities that are originally used to help people cope with other issues can become behavioral addictions. He specifically states that video games are fun, meaning players will continue to come back to them for comfort when they want something fun. Whether that becomes a problem is up to the individual.

Jeff Kempton, previously of IPFW and a current Ivy Tech student studying information technology, racks up about 6 hours of gaming a day. While he thinks it can be easy for people to get wrapped up in games and lose track of how much time

they actually spend on them, he says he still manages to find a balance between gaming and the rest of his life.

“I have worried about my grades, but not because of video games. I still play a few rounds of [Call of Duty] or

Halo to relax a bit after I get home, but afterwards I find it easier to do [schoolwork] so I don’t overload myself. I put more time into studying if I see that I am struggling with school,” said Kempton.

While studying at IPFW, Kempton would often bring his xbox to the student union where he could spend time playing games between classes. Despite bringing his love of games along with him, he still managed to make it to all of his classes.

Our warlord has a confident command of the keyboard. And he will defend his throne until his death - or at least until it’s surrounded by chip wrappers and the Mountain Dew is gone. It’s not a soothing cup of tea or meditation, but to the gamers among us, video games are a viable method of stress reduction. It’s just a matter of keeping the reality tether tied tight.

Reality Bytes . . .

Erickson points to case studies showing that excessive use

of video games can more be a sign of an underlying problem - a symptom of a bigger issue -

rather than the cause of it.

While he was unable to return to school because of his

grades, Trout does not credit video games as the reason, instead believing they gave

him a way to disconnect from a situation he wasn’t sure how to handle in his life.

Illustration by Abra Katterhenry

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Comic by Dennis Barbosa

Zach CrookThough zombies donned in ripped and blood-stained prom

formal, dancing the night away, haven’t been seen since 1982, the undead gath-ered in Fort Wayne this past weekend. The event was thrown to raise money for Fort Wayne local Tasha Milburn.

Milburn suffered a stroke this past April, and future sister-in-law, Rachel Roberts decided to bring the commu-nity together in a thrilling way in an at-tempt to help Milburn and her family deal with medical expenses.

“There is a Zombie Prom in Chicago every summer. I have always wanted to go but have never been able to,” Roberts said. “When I thought we should put

together a fundraiser for the family, I knew it needed to be creative and differ-ent. So... Zombie Prom was the answer.”

IPFW junior Stephanie Aker, a friend of the family, helped come up with the idea to bring Zombie Prom to Fort Wayne. From Chicago herself, Aker thought transplanting the event would be a great opportunity for Fort Wayne.

“This isn’t about tragedy,” she said. “Everyone has tragedy in their family. I thought this would be a fun way to raise money while bringing culture to Fort Wayne.”

A good majority of attendees dressed with the theme in mind: make-up mimicking rotting flesh and tattered clothes. Roberts says that 107 people at-

tended the event, which she finds im-pressive.

“We live in a generous city,” she said.

“I attended the zombie prom not only because I am a huge zombie en-thusiast, but it was for a really excellent cause that I wanted to donate to,” said IPFW junior Kellie Radkins.

Serenading the prom-goers was lo-cal ska band Black Cat Mambo. Rob-erts called in a favor from good friend and lead singer Joe Arehart.

There was a silent auction as well. Local businesses, such as A Day Away Salon, Lasalle Bed and Breakfast, and Rave Movie Theaters, donated gift cards and baskets of products. People,

meanwhile, donated food items for the prom.

Despite all the generosity, Rob-erts said they fell short of their goal. “The silent auction didn’t do as well as we hoped, but in retrospect, I think our demographic was off. Over all though, the band was great, the costumes were fantastic and we raised some money,” Roberts said. “That was what we intended to do.”

Roberts said she intended the audience to be all ages, but the at-tendees were mainly teenagers. She also said that if she were to run an-other one next year, it’d be in a bar so adults could enjoy the evening more.

Dance ‘Til You’re Dead


Laura Rosenbaum

New Director, High Hopes

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5 Great Films with the Executive Director

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“Star Wars: A New Hope” [George Lucas]

“F For Fake” [Orson Welles]

“Class of 1984” [Mark Lester]

“My Winnipeg” [Guy Maddin]

“Rear Window” [Alfred Hitchcock]

“One of the greatest pseudo-documentaries of all time. That’s what filmmaking’s all about - Is art a forgery? Is forgery art? Books should

be written about how awesome ‘F For Fake’ is.”

“Everyone wants to have a light saber and be able to use the force! Really, movie-going is all about experiences and

memories and some of my first memories are of watching Star Wars with my dad and getting me into film.”

“It doesn’t get enough love. With the slight and sound top 50 they had ‘Vertigo’ as the top film, but ‘Rear Window’ is such an inter-

esting exercise.”

“A great modern independent film. [Maddin] is the best living filmmaker out there, awesome in every way, shape and form.”

“It’s one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the most fun. You have to see it to believe it.”

Having spent the last two weeks as the

Cinema Center’s new executive direc-tor, Jonah Crismore has intentions aplenty for Fort Wayne’s only purveyor of independent films.

Traditionally, the audience at Cin-ema Center has skewed older, despite the fact that the theater offers signifi-cantly discounted rates to students.

Crismore, a former student of film and video at Columbia College, be-lieves that the key to reaching younger audiences is about creating a place that is more than just a movie theater.

“Right now, Fort Wayne is in a time of transition and I think Cinema Center is very poised at this point right now to become a big part of that posi-tion. We are a community resource and it’s been a while since I think we’ve been used as a resource,” said Crismore.

Under his direction, Crismore hopes that the Cinema Center will be able to partner with local entities to start providing educational opportuni-ties to community members and stu-dents, as well as more interaction from directors and speakers who are touring with their films.

“I think with this being such an ex-citing time where it’s kind of this weird blending of the film spectator and the film maker are kind of becoming one and the same where people are watch-ing a film and then going out and mak-

ing their own film. And I think that’s something much more that’s going on with younger people and that’s part of how I want Cinema Center to grow - to allow that to happen.”

According to the theater’s vision statement, being a “wildly popular des-tination in Fort Wayne’s revitalized arts campus downtown” is a goal of the ven-ue. The new director, however, believes that a disconnect needs to be fixed be-tween the theater and locals who may not even know what it is before this can really be achieved.

Through this, though, the aim of Cinema Center, above all else, still remains to bring culture to the city. While other local theaters may show several mainstream movies, the Cin-ema Center provides more unique viewing experiences, in the form of both regional and foreign films, as well as smaller budgeted independent films and art films.

“It’s kind of the best of both worlds when you have a really interesting film that fits within our vision statement and everybody likes it. And that’s great, but there are films that sometimes come and they’re only gonna be here for a week, because no more than a couple people a night are coming to them. That’s sad, but at the same time at least we had that here, they had a chance to come see those films. It’s about build-ing that awareness with your audience,” said Crismore.

Cinema Center Executive Director


Zach CrookChances are, if you have entered Walb Student Union, you

have heard a student playing the piano, whether the person is just plucking at the keys or practicing a music piece for class. James Langford is one of those students.

“Music is a passion,” Langford said. “I really enjoy it when people come up and I can talk about that passion.”

Despite playing the piano since fifth grade, Langford is a computer science major. He plays in Walb several times a

week. This time, he’s been practicing

Pachelbel Canon in D for a wedding coming up in September. His friend is singing at the wedding and invited him to accompany. He also is practicing a song called “Trumpet Voluntary” by Jeremiah Clarke. His favorite concerto, he said, is “Piano Concerto No. 23”, or otherwise known as “Appasionta” by Beethoven, who also is his favorite com-poser.

In addition to the piano, Langford played the violin for one year and wishes

he could take it up again. He also owns a guitar but rarely plays it.

Since high school, he has been play-ing with Music Ministry, which has heavily influenced what he plays.

However, he also has a relatively unique talent in being able to play by ear. He claimed that he could listen to a song on the radio, and by the time it was over, he could play along with it. He could even adapt a song to his own play-ing style.

“Give me some chords,” he said, “and I’ll write you a song.”

Getting to Know a Walb Piano Player

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Vote Now

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voting against George W. Bush was too popular.

Now that Joe the Plumber has re-verted back to apathy, the 20-some-things have begun sending their coffee stained voter registrations in - via the United States Postal Service, of course.

“Most people don’t have voices any-more,” said Theodore Smith I. “But I’ve always had one. Basically since the womb.”

The successful and popular Welcome Back Week, run by

IPSGA, was met with scandal early last week when it was found that the food has contributed to a spike in weight gain among students.

The event, which spanned during the first week of classes, featured high-calorie foods such as donuts, pizza and cookies. This, paired with the opening of a frozen yogurt restaurant in Walb Union, led to a weight gain of eleven pounds per freshman on average.

Doctors are viewing the spike as record-breaking.

“What we’re seeing is a combination of students reacting to the lack of home-cooked meals as well as a natural

Welcome Back Week Accounted for 75 Percent of Freshman 15

inclination to stuff down any nutrients that come at no cost to them,” said physician Ben Rodriguez. That desire to eat free food is what is called in the medical world as the Pizza Effect.

“What it basically means is that a col-lege student’s brain will tell the stomach to feel perpetually empty in the face of free pizza, or any other foodstuff,” said Rodriguez. “Only when the food is gone does this feeling of hunger subside.”

Freshmen have already begun to lament the weight gain. The Athletic Center announced a new high for visits to the cardio center.

“I went up probably two sizes in pants,” said freshman physics major Lindsey Manor, pulling sadly at the waistband of her sweatpants. “I can’t

fit in any of my jeans.” She admitted to taking second and sometimes third helpings of the free meals.

“I’M SO FAT,” sobbed another stu-dent, former athlete Charlie Grandoble. He sat outside of YoYo, face buried in a cup of low-fat vanilla topped with a pound of cookie dough and taking up nearly a whole bench.

IPFW defended Welcome Back Week in a defensive written statement.

“We decided that rather than pro-vide students with a cafeteria, we’d just put a full year’s worth of calories in our Welcome Back Week food,” said the statement. “That’s why we have so much fast food here. Students should be grate-ful that we’ve saved them probably $50. That’s like 500 packages of ramen.”

At a rally in Chi-cago last Friday, Mitt Romney

adapted a new slogan to appeal to the lower classes of America, and the work-ing man.

“You see America, we’re not so dif-ferent you and I. I work hard, I’m a family man, I made myself and I don’t look for handouts. I believe in good old American values. In the end, I’m just like you, but richer.”

Romney was seen sporting slacks and a wife beater with a Cubs baseball cap.

“When one has more wealth, one sees a proportionate amount of prob-

lems… do you know what I am saying?”Members of the audience found

Romney’s presentation as “finally get-ting’ it.” Others said that Romney was “speakin’ ma language.”

Political analysts say Romney’s dra-matic change might just win him the election. Some even go as far as to say that we may see similar behavior from other presidential candidates. Early Sunday morning, Barrack Obama was seen outside the White House wearing three gold chains, and what appeared to be shutter shades.

In a later press conference, Romney described the experience as “uncom-fortable.”

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With the possibility of IPFW separating from its parent schools,

many thoughts and concerns burden the minds of current students.

“One concern is if the IPFW name will carry its own weight,” said Anne Brooke the president of the New Vision board. “Over the last few weeks have had countless meetings and have agreed on where IPFW’s future lies.”

The board informed the university that starting next semester the school will be known as Hogwarts University.

The information has had positive and negative responses from the student population.

Amanda Sloffer, a student in communications said, “I have been a fan of the Harry Potter series since I was a little kid and now I can actually say I graduated from Hogwarts! I mean a degree from

Hogwarts could get me any job I want.”“Various incoming freshmen have

voiced their excitement at receiving an acceptance letter from Hogwarts,” said the staff of SOAR.

The school announced last week that they are going through many revisions just to make sure the acceptance letters meet the expectations of incoming freshmen. The board also released a purchase record for one thousand owl’s to show to the public they are serious in pursuing this new vision for the school.

The IPFW Grounds and Mainte-nance Department has already voiced their concern for the overwhelming amount of owl pellets on campus, and has requested for more employee’s if the university is going to proceed in this di-rection.

“Expect to see a lot of changes very soon,” said Anne Brooke.

An anonymous source came forward with

what is apparently the fabulous “homosexual agenda.”

“I was just on my way to Yo-Yo’s from the computer lab,” the source said, “when I saw these crumpled pieces of paper on the ground. Being the nosy busybody I am, I read them. Boy, was I sur-prised.”

News of this find has reached everyone from Newt Gingrich (who was quoted saying “I told you so!”) to the most recent kid who was thrown onto the streets after coming out of the closet.

Among the rules listed were:“Four days of the week, your

faux hawk must be gelled. Hair-spray only if needed. I mean, come

on, we’re trying to be environmentally conscious here.”

“You must make at least one sassy comment a day. No exceptions.”

“Girl, you gotta be emotionally attached to at least one of the follow-ing shows: Dance Moms, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Project Runway, Ex-treme Makeover, Reba, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will & Grace, out-dated episodes Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, and White Collar, if only to watch Matt Bomer.”

The widespread reaction to this discovery is shock.

“I’ve been doing it all wrong,” said out IPFW freshman Louis Vager.

“Where’s the part about going against nature and ruining my already-shaky marriage?” said IPFW senior Frank Fanasta.

The Republican Na-tional Convention came to a socially

awkward beginning when a group of sci-fi cosplayers showed up in Tampa.

The nerds were said to have been misdirected from their own convention, held only a few blocks away, due to a mixup on the tickets. As a result, over 200 of them flooded the convention donning spacesuits and brandishing light sabers.

Former candidate Rick Santorum was booed offstage by the nerds when he gave an insufficient answer to who was the best Doctor.

“Colin Baker? Who picks Colin Baker?” demanded a fan between wheezing into his inhaler.

Surprisingly, most of the sci-fiers

fit in quite well with the convention. “This convention is pretty cool,” said Robert Doolihay from behind his Storm Trooper mask. “It’s got this whole dystopian future vibe. These Republicans are way into character, you should hear them talk.”

“That Mitt Romney does a really good Vulcan,” said Hannah Gurtz, who was simply wearing a giant robot suit made of cardboard boxes. “Super emotionless, it was terrific.”

Unfortunately, the influx of sci-fi conventionists was frightening and confusing to some Republicans. “I don’t know what’s happening. Where am I?” Senator John McCain was reported to ask, but sources say it is a regular question for the former presidential candidate.

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Senior Women’s Volleyball player Tessa McGill was

named the first Summit League Defen-sive Player of the Week this season be-cause of her performance in the Hyatt Place Fort Wayne/IPFW Invitational over the weekend.

In the season opener verses Murray State, McGill grabbed an IPFW school

Defensive Player of the Week Goes to IPFW’s No. 4

T h e M a s t -o d o n s dropped the first match of

the new season with no goals against the Detroit Titans August 26.

The Titans took the lead right off the bat, when they scored a goal in min-ute seven, taking a 1-0 advantage.

A corner kick and two shots later, the Dons couldn’t keep up, ending the first half at zero.

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Titan Kevin Pinkos netted a second goal for Detroit at 46 minutes, and the team took another a half hour later to keep the score at 3-0.

The Dons attempted two goals and took five other shots during the game, but nothing was able to connect with the net. The final score was 3-0.

The Dons are back August 29 in Kalamazoo, Mich., playing the Western Michigan Broncos at 4 p.m.

record with 28 digs in a three-set match. To get placed on the invitational’s all-tournament team, she got to double dig-its in dig totals for each of three matches over the weekend.

Overall, McGill ended with 68 digs, an average of 7.56 each set, which is the second all-time high at IPFW. She’s eighth in Summit League history books with 1,637 career digs.

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The Mastodons picked up their first season win up

against the Indiana State Sycamores in Terre Haute this weekend.

Their first two goals came just a couple minutes apart, with freshman Erin Gill and senior Arianne Mason each netting by the 21-minute mark. Those two goals,

the first for IPFW in this season, brought the game to 2-0 just over 20 minutes into play.

Defense took over from there, while 10 shots overall were tak-en between IPFW and Indiana State, but the Mastodons were able to keep their advan-

tage and head into halftime with the two point lead.

The first shot in the second half, however, cut the lead to 2-1 as Indi-ana State’s Marisa Windisch netted a

35-yard kick.

Though Indiana State attempted an-other five shots, the Dons kept their lead to finish with their first win of the season with the help of freshman goal-keeper Sam Pavlika, who saved twice.

The Dons are up against the Ball State Cardinals in Muncie September 2, start-ing at 1 p.m.

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