t&c- fall 2011 week 15

otterbein university

wednesday, dec. 7, 2011

vol. 93, issue 15

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What’s in your bottle?

Freshman doubles up on athletics 7

The T&C breaks down J-term facts and figures 2

Year flashes by for photographer 8

photo by blythe malonepick your poison: A majority of students prefer Samuel Adams, according to a survey the T&C conducted.

The T&C surveyed students on their favorite bars and brands in the world of beer 4

wednesday, dec. 7, 2011Tan & Cardinal2 newsLindsey Hobbs

Editor-in-ChiefJosh Adkins

News Editor Kaity Vorbroker

Assistant News Editor Leah Driscoll

Opinion Editor Steven Collins

Arts & Entertainment Editor Jordan LaBatte

Sports Editor Mike Cirelli

Copy EditorKristen Sapp

Photography Editor Anna Schiffbauer

Business Manager assistant editors

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Lindsay LoshboughBlythe Malone

Evan MatsumotoAlly Nagle

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BY PAOLA CASALEStaff Writer

As the new term approaches, questions regarding meals, housing and enrollment arise

special courses that weren’t usu-ally offered in the fall and spring, but we ended up offering regular courses,” Foster said. Seven overseas study abroad programs are offered during the term, including places such as Japan, Chile, Trinidad and England. Almost 100 students will be taking travel courses throughout J-term. “I don’t know what the plan is for the future, if we are plan-

Otterbein University prepares the campus for the very fi rst J-term in the school’s history. Although plenty of changes are expected, J-term is to be treated as any other term.

Housing The housing for J-term will be treated like fall and spring semesters. Laura Farley, the ad-ministrative assistant of Resident Life, said that for J-term, stu-dents will be staying in the same rooms that they live in during the rest of the school year. Those students who are not registered for J-term will not have access to their room or residence hall and their Cardinal Cards will not work. All buildings on campus will be open and fully operated and maintained by the cleaning crew. Meal Plans One big change that Ot-terbein made during this school year is that meal swipes will now roll over into J-term. All students that have a full meal plan for fall and spring semester will have access to any unused meal plans, whether it be from the fall or spring meal plans. “There is no room charge, no meal charge, no tuition charge,” Farley said.

“In the years past, all meals have wiped out at the end of ev-ery quarter, but now everything is going to roll over into J-term and spring. It will, however, wipe out at the end of the school year,” she said. A couple of food options will be available to students through-out J-term. Breakfast will be available in the OtterDen while lunch and dinner will be served at the Cardinal’s Nest, according to Will Armstead, the general manager of Bon Appétit.

Enrollment The only visible difference for students who are enrolled in J-term is the fact that there will be fewer students on campus. A lot of students are enrolled in internships and study abroad courses that will also count for J-term credit. However, those students will not be on campus. Although the campus will not be seeing as many students as it does during fall and spring, al-most half of the current student population is enrolled in J-term courses. About 1,100 students are cur-rently enrolled in J-term courses and 750 of them are living in residence halls, according to Don Foster, the registrar. However, J-term’s original purpose was different. “J-term was originally in-tended to be travel courses and

saVe the Date: J-term will take place Jan. 4 to Jan. 26, lasting almostthree weeks. Regular classes in the spring semester will begin on Jan. 30.

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ning to continue offering regular courses for J-term or go back to the original plan and offer travel courses, special courses for unique types of study situations,” Foster said. J-term will start Wednesday, Jan. 4, and end Thursday, Jan. 26, lasting almost three weeks.

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BY MELISSA KENTContributing Writer

Transition verdict is in: Conversion opinion is splitRecent survey reveals that 78 percent of students have not enjoyed spending a longer amount of time in class

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Student and faculty think dif-ferently about Otterbein’s fi rst semester. According to a survey con-ducted by the Tan & Cardinal, 44 percent of the online survey takers said that the transition was unsuccessful. Kate Lehman, assistant dean for student success, said that everything went as smoothly as expected. “The reality is you know you can never anticipate everything, so we have done the best that we could,” Lehman said. Lehman recently spoke as the keynote speaker at the statewide semester summit. She spoke of the successful transition at Otterbein and dis-cussed possible upcoming issues with other schools. She will also be speaking at Ohio University in the near future. The conversion also made things easier for the registrar’s offi ce. Instead of having to con-struct three terms, it only had to build two. “The toughest part about the conversion was the reconstruc-tion of the degree audits, which I am still in the process of doing,” said Don Foster, head of the registrar’s offi ce. t&c Graphic by kristen DaVis anD blythe malone

surVey says: A Tan & Cardinal poll reveals Otterbein students’ thoughts on moving to a semester system after having been in a quarter system.

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What, if anything, would you change about the way Otterbein has handled the university’s transition into semesters?

”“Start a week or two earlier so we can have � anksgiving to New Year’s o� .

”I don’t see a problem. I think people will whine and complain about any change.“

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I feel the classes should be shorter. Also, some professors added a lot more to their lesson plans, not taking into account that we have an extra class per week.

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How successful do you think Otterbein’s fi rst-ever semester has been after the transition from quarters?

Do you think the change to semesters has af-fected your grades at all?

Have you enjoyed spending a larger amount of time in the same class under the semester system?

Favorite type of beerarts & entertainment 5wednesday, dec. 7, 2011Tan & Cardinal4

Filling up your Solo cupDespite the dry campus status of Otterbein, students still fi nd a way to wet their drunken whistles. The T&C polled the college’s population for their answers

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BY STEVEN COLLINSArts & Entertainment Editor

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Everybody knows that Otterbein is offi cially a dry campus, but the Tan & Cardinal has discovered that that may not actually be the case. The survey showed that 77.7 percent of students actually drink. As far as those students’ favorite type of alcoholic beverage, beer and mixed drinks led the category with the same amount of votes with 30.8 percent. If you’re someone who prefers Bos-ton Beer Company brands (Sam Adams Boston Lager, Sam Adams Pale Ale, Yuengling, etc.) then you prefer the same as a majority on campus with 30.5 per-cent of the votes. Next highest was Bud brand with 16.9 percent and Coors Brand with 11.9 percent. Budweiser brands were students’ favorite pong beer with 27 percent of the vote followed by Pabst Blue Rribbon

with 11.1 percent. PBR was also the least favorite beer among respondents with 24.6 percent of the votes. Budweiser brands were the second least favorite beer with 16.4 percent, and 31.7 percent of respondents said they don’t play beer pong. While students have spoken on what types of drinks they do and don’t like, there is some split among where students go and where they like to drink. Respondents who didn’t prefer to drink at home 51.9 percent of the time said that Jimmy V’s was their go-to place for alco-holic beverages with 19.2 percent. Less popular options included Old Bag of Nails, Cluckers, Rancho Al egre and other area bars including some of the ones downtown on Ohio State’s campus as places they like to go. While the response for Jimmy V’s was signifi cantly more popular, some students

feel that that Old Bag has some advan-tages. Junior broadcasting major Neil Brown said, “I prefer Old Bag to Jimmy V’s per-sonally. I feel like the service is better and they’re a little more personable at Old Bag than at Jimmy V’s.” Senior broadcasting major Kristen Hughes agreed. “I know a lot of people (at Old Bag of Nails),” she said. “A lot of Otterbein stu-dents work there and my roommate works there. I’m used to going there. Jimmy V’s doesn’t have the atmosphere for me that Old Bag does.” When it comes to hangover remedies, students agree that drinking lots of water and taking some aspirin before bed are good ways to try to avoid the morning hangover. Several respondents suggested drinking Gatorade or Powerade or consuming Ta-basco sauce. One student even mentioned that their remedy was to take a nap with “Happy Days” on repeat. Brown’s hangover remedy is to grab brunch in the Campus Center after sleep-ing in and watching some football. Senior political science major Jason Watts’ hangover remedy is to eat “tons and tons and tons of meat.” “I think I heard it from some crazy old lady, but every time I have a hangover I go and overload on some chicken,” he said. Students may have their methods, but according to the health center nurse, Lee Ann Bowers, the only prevention method is not drinking at all. She said, “The only guaranteed way to avoid a hangover is to not drink. The only way to get rid of it is time. But rest and fl uids should help the process along.”

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wednesday, dec. 7, 2011Tan & Cardinal6 sportsJunior calls for more attendance at sporting events

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T&C writer urges students to bring more life and create a unifi ed student section to cheer on the Cardinals

Home-court advantage is dif-fi cult to quantify when it comes to college basketball, but most consider it fact to be a game-

changer, fuel to a team’s inspiration.

For most schools, it stems from their student section. Duke’s Cameron Crazies, Kentucky’s

eRUPPtion Zone, Min-nesota’s

Barnyard, Wisconsin’s Grateful Red and Missouri’s ZouCrew are some of the most recognized student sections in college bas-ketball that come to mind. Excited, energetic, noisy, obnoxious (and probably for some, drunk), students pack into a section of the gymnasium clad in school colors; faces and chests painted, ready to make playing in their home gym a nightmare for the visiting team. I know a stu-dent section doesn’t win or lose a game for a team, but there’s no doubt that they can help decide an outcome. So my question is, why doesn’t Otterbein have a bona fi de student section? Yes, some students come to the

games, but they’re indiscernible from the rest of the Westerville community. Maybe this should be the year Otterbein creates a student section. I remember a blog post by Mark Titus, the infamous for-mer walk-on and benchwarmer on the Ohio State basketball team that became well known for his blog “Club Trillion.” While talking about how the Big Ten has the best student sections, he remembered some of his favorite encounters, like when Michigan State knew more about his new girlfriend at the time than he did, or how Indiana fans knew that he airballed his last shot in high school and even how Michigan’s Maize Rage had a cheat sheet with the dirt on every player on the OSU roster. “We had a real good student section (at Walsh),” transfer point guard Jason Davis said. “It just made the environment more fun to play in. When there’s momentum swings the students can really encourage that. I feel like the student section has a lot more of an effect than student’s think.” Davis said that going to away games with good student sec-tions means advanced planning

and preparation on how they will communicate on the court. “It would just boost the morale around campus,” Davis said. “It just gets the students more involved and would bring an extra boost of excitement.” For those who don’t know, Otterbein won the national championship during the 2001-02 season. I attended quite a few games that season at the age of 10 with my brother and now sister-in-law, who was in the pep band at the time. The Rike Cen-ter was packed every game dur-ing that 30-3 run to the national championship, and we had to get there extra early to make sure we had seats. How loud the student section was still sticks out to me. Though I probably remember it mostly because I learned a few new words during those games that my brother had to explain to me, words that my brother told me mom couldn’t know I knew about. While the attendance at home games still remains respect-able, it’s no longer the students that are packing the gym, but an organized student section would change that. Naturally, we would need a creative name. Most schools play off the coach’s

name, arena’s name or mascot’s name. So I’ve taken some liberty to come up with a few sugges-tions for student section names — but just to warn you, these could be pretty lame. The Fourth Rike, The Rike Ragers, Dick’s Disciples … OK, so maybe that’s all I’ve got that I didn’t consider too lame to print, but I’ll put it on you to brainstorm. In addition, the men’s basket-ball team has its home opener

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this Saturday against Ohio Athletic Conference favorite Marietta. You can expect the Pioneers to come in with quite a bit of talent. So, why not start this year? There’s not much else to do on campus at 7:30 on Wednesday or Saturday nights.

silent stanDs: An empty section tries to encourage the women’s basket-ball team at a home game last Wednesday against Oberlin College.

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DOM PORRETTA IS A JUNIOR JOURNALISM MAJOR AND A STAFF WRITER FOR THE t&c.

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Dual-sport freshman dominates the hardwood Tabatha Piper is a standout volleyball setter and basketball forward in her fi rst year at Otterbein University

It is no secret that playing a sport in college is a diffi cult task. Playing two sports is often unheard of. However, that did not intimidate or stop freshman Tabatha Piper from continuing to play volleyball and basketball. Piper, a graduate of Big Walnut High School, started her fi rst year a few weeks earlier than most other freshmen by report-ing to volleyball preseason camp to start her athletic career at Otterbein. Piper was originally recruited and committed to come to Ot-terbein to play basketball, but in the process was also heavily recruited by volleyball coach Monica McDonald. Both vol-leyball and basketball coaches were well aware of the talent and potential Piper held. In similar situations, the athlete in this position would pick between the two sports and solely focus on only one; she came to the decision to tackle playing both sports. “I love both and couldn’t decide, so I thought why not give both a try and see how they go,” Piper said. Fortunately for both pro-grams, Piper has done just what was expected and more. “Tab’s composure on the fl oor mirrors

that of an upperclassman, and that is why she was able to excel at running a 5-1 (rotation setup which made her the only setter on the court) as a freshman,” assistant volleyball coach Michael Crofton said. “She gained the respect of her teammates right away with her leadership and her ability to take control of the fl oor. She possesses a great awareness of how the game is fl owing and is able to break down what the opponent is do-ing tactfully.” Piper started in all the match-es this season, and her perfor-mance earned her Ohio Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year and second-team All-OAC. Piper dished out 1,118 setting as-sists, which ranked her second in the conference with 10.25 assists per game. On top of ranking second in the conference, she fi nished out the season with a .330 hitting percentage and 136 kills, which is an accomplishment for someone with the position of setter. The volleyball season ex-tended to the middle of Novem-ber after the team qualifi ed for the NCAA Tournament, during which basketball had already started. With the two sports overlapping, Piper had no time to rest and enjoy a little bit of

on the Go: Piper runs up court with her teammates to capitalize on another scoring opportunity weeks after completing volleyball season.

BY ALLY NAGLEContributing Writer

free time, as she was expected to report to basketball practice a few days after her fi nal volleyball game of the season. Piper, however, enjoys having a sport to occupy her time. “One thing I love about playing a sport is how it keeps me active and doesn’t leave me sitting around bored. I have also made so many great friends on both teams that I always enjoy my time at practices and games because I am with them playing the sports I love,” Piper said. Basketball season is already underway and Piper is once again showing her skills and talent on the court. She has started four out of the six games this season and was the leading scorer with 14 points in a huge conference victory over ninth-ranked Mount Union. Those 14 points made her on going season total 37, averag-ing 6.2 points per game. Within those 37 points she is 10 for 15 at the free throw line, making her accuracy an impressive .667 percent. Piper admits that it was strange transitioning from vol-leyball to basketball so quickly. “I had a slow start, but everyone has been very understanding and welcoming,” Piper said. Head women’s basketball coach Connie Richardson is im-pressed by Piper’s performance thus far on the basketball court and is excited to see what lies ahead. “Tabs is a great addition to our program,” she said. “I think once she gets some time to ad-just to the speed of the game as well as get into basketball mode, she will continue to develop and do nothing but get better. She and the other post players help compliment our outside game and she is also an integral part of our defense. She is smart and un-derstands the game which makes it easy to coach her,” Richardson said. Piper said, “The games are much faster paced and are differ-ent … defi nitely more challeng-ing. That is what I am enjoying so far though; it’s really pushing me to become a better competi-tor.”

bump pass: Piper looks to her offense for a scoring opportunity by set-ting up the play during a home match this past volleyball season.



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I’ll never forget the fi rst time I took sports photos. It was on production day of week one dur-ing fall quarter of my junior year. The sports editor, Austin Walsh, and I made our way to football prac-tice and arrived shortly before practice was about to end. The assignment: Get photos of run-ning back Colton Coy. I only had one opportunity to get these shots. I was so ner-vous, but that all changed once I started snapping pictures. I was hooked. From that day on, sports became my favorite thing to photograph. I loved being on the sideline right next to the action, but most of all I loved the challenge of getting that perfect shot and freezing the action at just the right moment. I even started showing up at games to take pictures without being assigned, which is some-thing I’m thankful I did for those moments when photos were needed, and there just happened to be no home games that week. My experience with the T&C also introduced me to the sport of lacrosse. I had never seen a game before, and I knew next to nothing about the sport. This posed a bit of a challenge at fi rst, and I was a little on the nervous

wednesday, dec. 7, 2011Tan & Cardinal8 opinionSenior captures T&C life in snapshots

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Photo editor discovered passion and talent for sports photography throughout her time at Otterbein’s newspaper

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KRISTEN SAPP IS A SENIOR ART MAJOR AND THE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR FOR THE T&C.

cheerinG on the team: This year, Kristen tried to focus on capturing the emotion involved in the sport, in addition to capturing the crucial moments happening on the field.


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Dr. Warren and Mike Wagner, I’m pretty sure you both are still in denial that I am a senior. You two have been the best advisers this staff could have asked for. Not only when it came to the paper, but life in general. New photo editors Kristen and Blythe, I hope T&C is as great of an experience for you as it has been for me. I wish you both the best of luck, though I don’t think you will need it. There are things I’ll miss about T&C and I have learned a lot from it, but I know it’s time to close this chapter of my life and open up the next.

side. I don’t know what I was so worried about, though. I caught on fairly quickly and was able to get that amazing shot of the goalkeeper, which was on the cover for week two this past spring. That photo is my favorite sports action shot I have taken. Not only did my time as pho-to editor lead me to discover my passion for sports photography; it also gave me the opportunity to work with an amazing staff, which became more like family. They are all very talented and have been a blast to work with. Josh, I’m sorry Lindsey lied to you, but I’m not sorry we let you eat 1,200 calories worth of doughnuts. I hope you felt “nice and full.” Kaity, thanks for letting me take photos of your hands, not once, not twice, but four times. Steven, no, I will not write an article for your section. Anna, is there any way we can shrink this ad? Lindsey, Starbucks run? Mike, thanks for being the best T&C DJ, and congrats on being the next editor-in-chief. Leah, all those headshots that I always seemed to forget about. Alyssa, wait, whose turn is it? What color is it? Gotta love Uno. Jordan, you’re welcome for all of those awesome sports photos that I always seemed to make sure your pages revolved around, and thank you for always being optimistic … Can we make that photo larger?

Quick shoot: This photo ran on the cover of the T&C in spring 2010 and is Kristen’s favorite photo she’s taken for the newspaper.

heaD shot: Kristen had a goal of getting a shot of someone heading a ball at every soccer game she attended.

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