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A PLUS-MINUS GRADING SCALE is in the works for Drake University. Faculty Senate is discussing the matter and brought the proposal to Student Senate.
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STUDENTS LEARN SOME DANCE MOVES (left) at Celebrate Drake on Friday night. A DRAKE STUDENT (above) plays some mini-golf in Olmsted during Celebrate Drake.
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Plus-minus grading may be coming to Drake Univer-sity, but not in the near fu-ture.
Bruce Gilbert, a repre-sentative from Faculty Sen-ate, gave a short presenta-tion on plus-minus grading to Student Senate on Thurs-day. The topic was not dis-cussed during the meeting but will be in the upcoming weeks.
The topic was briefly ex-plored last year, and surveys sent out among the faculty and staff. More information gathering and discussion is needed, but the topic could come to a vote at Faculty Senate as early as Novem-ber. Nothing would be im-plemented until the fall se-mester of next year.
However, only Faculty Senate has the power to for-mally vote and implement a change, with Student Sen-ate only giving their opin-ion. Even if Drake chooses to implement plus-minus grading, it would be difficult and wouldn’t be university-
Bulldogs DU Good across the country
On Saturday, Sept. 29, cities across the country united to celebrate DU Good Day. Throughout the nation, alumni, family and friends of Drake University came together to volunteer and make a difference. In 2011, over 250 people volun-teered at twelve sites in the United States. This year, led by members of the National Alumni Association, there were over 300 volunteers and 13 cities involved with DU Good Day 2012.
This year, groups helped with outside orga-nizations through landscap-ing, construction, picking up litter, cleaning riverbanks, working in food banks and much more.
Bryan Klopack, a 2006 Drake graduate, led the event in the Washington, D.C. area, where he and his group assisted an area or-ganization by landscaping and working on necessary home improvements at a lo-cal group home.
“We are working with SOME (So Others Might Eat), which is a community-based organization in the D.C. that offers a compre-hensive, holistic approach to caring for the homeless and extremely poor citizens of our city,” Klopack said.
Saturday also marked the first-ever DU Good Day in New York City and Los Angeles. In New York, vol-unteers worked with the Central Park Conservancy, helping keep Central Park clean by picking up litter and trash.
The Los Angeles area volunteers worked with the Doris Cantlay Center, an organization that provides services to families in need. Led by 1981 graduate David Beall, volunteers painted the lobby of the center and prepared bags of groceries for distribution.
In Chicago, Mary Pat Rooney, a 2008 graduate, linked her education with her current occupation.
“I work for a nonprofit here in Chicago and thought
Overnight event cause for celebrationDrake University gave
students another reason to celebrate Friday night. On Friday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., Olmsted Center was trans-formed into an intersection of live entertainment, arts and craft projects, mini-golf and even hip-hop instruc-
tion. The event was free for all students.
“The idea is just to get a bunch of different organiza-tions on campus together in a cumulative event,” said sophomore Abbey Barrow, Student Activities Board campus impact member.
Represented groups in-cluded Alpha Phi Omega, Colleges Against Cancer, SAB, Residence Hall Association
and Habitat Against Human-ity.
Fellow SAB member, ju-nior Nicole Germann, recog-nizes a benefit of events like this.
“There are a bunch of dif-ferent organizations here. It is another way for them to market themselves,” Ger-mann said. She also noted
> Homecoming Movie, Hunger Games> 8 p.m. > Helmick Commons
> First Year Election Starts> 12:01 a.m. throughWednesday 11:59 p.m. > Blueview
Tuesday Wednesday> Homecoming Carnival> 4 p.m. > Helmick Commons
> Men’s Soccer vs. Western Ill. > 7 p.m. > Cownie Soccer Complex
wide.“We have no ability to
coerce any professor into doing anything in terms of setting their grading stan-dards,” Gilbert said. “If we established plus-minus and a professor used the old system, there’s no way to change that.”
In the next month, ex-pect some type of campus meeting, probably town hall style, as a forum for stu-dents and faculty to voice their opinions.
Student Senate passed numerous motions Thurs-day.
Senate approved the
establishment of a Drake chapter of the Internation-al Trombone Association. The chapter will not collect dues, but it will fundraise to bring numerous musicians to Drake. Advocates for the
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SOPHOMORE NAZIA ASHRAFUL decorates another students wrist with henna paint to create a temporary tattoo at Celebrate Drake in Olmsted on Friday night.
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Congressman Latham visits with College Republicans Sarah FultonStaff [email protected]
Congressman Tom Latham walked into the Col-lege Republicans meeting last Wednesday, shook ev-eryone’s hand and grabbed a slice of pizza. The meeting, which also featured Sheriff Dan Charleston, was a com-bined effort by the College Republicans and the Stu-dents for Latham.College Re-publicans President, sopho-more Taylor Crow, said she was pleased with the turn-out of about 20 students.
“We had a pretty good turnout. Also, I think the people that were there had good questions, once they listened up a bit,” Crow said. “Which is something that the Latham campaign really wanted was to just get good interaction between the stu-dents and the congressman.”
President of Students for Latham, junior Larrissa Wurm, believes that a good interaction was achieved due to the number of stu-dents in attendance.
“It was nice for him to be able to talk about the is-sues and hear what students are concerned about and for them to hear what he had to say,” Wurm said. “Plus it was a smaller environment, it was a little more personal so he could really talk to everyone, shake everyone’s hand, and then, everyone had the opportunity to ask a question.”
Senior Rachel Cutler was impressed with the ques-tions asked by students be-cause they showed an under-standing of politics.
“It was really great to see other people who had re-ally great questions. I could see they really are thinking about our future and they understand politics. They have a passion for it,” Cutler said. “They know what is go-ing on and they have the pas-sion to act for it.”
Crow hoped that the eve-ning would help to foster this understanding of politics.
“I just hoped that (stu-dents) would get a better un-derstanding for conservative politics and where Latham stands on certain issues. I think personally if you have a conversation with someone who knows what they are talking about you are going to benefit more than reading an article,” Crow said. “I think you might be able to under-stand certain issues better. With having the students ask questions I think it was over-all a better learning session.”
Crow also enjoyed Latham’s responses, which ranged from the situation in Israel to the Farm Bill and even included discussion of the budget crisis.
“I liked that he fully an-swered the questions and made sure that they under-stand it in their own way. I think that is something with politics, you can get big words or things that the everyday person doesn’t un-
Nation-wide volunteer efforts with alumsit would be a great fit! Since I work in the organization’s development department, I volunteered to act as the site coordinator,” Rooney said.
Rooney works for Chi-cago’s Lakeview Pantry, one of the largest and oldest pantries in the metropoli-tan area, where volunteers worked Saturday.
Close to 50 volunteers worked with the Desert Mission Food Bank in Phoe-nix, Ariz. The Bank pro-vides relief to more than 4,500 Phoenix families each month, filling a gigantic need. Not to mention, it was a perfect fit for 1981 gradu-ate and coordinator Tammy Perkins who said, “DU Good Day is a perfect volunteer activity for me – I get to sup-port Drake and help people in Phoenix!”
Groups in Denver and the Twin Cities worked to limit water pollution in their riv-ers and lakes. Laurel Herold, the Twin Cites coordinator and 2008 graduate, elabo-rated on her group’s task.
“We’re working with Minneapolis Public Works to stencil signs that read, ‘No dumping, this runs to our lakes,’ on the storm drains around Lake of the Isles,” Herold said. “Water pollu-tion is an issue that impacts
chapter who showed up to the meeting stated that es-tablishing a chapter here at
Senate allocated $1,413.49 to DRxUGS, a con-glomerate of pharmacy orga-nizations, to put on a Drake Campus Health Fair where they will provide cholesterol screenings and other health screenings to students. This will benefit the student body as well as provide those working the fair to put into practice the skills they are learning in pharmacy school.
The group Mission of ONE received $506.20 to go to a leadership conference in Boston to learn the fundrais-ing, recruitment, and plan-ning skills to become a suc-cessful and thriving chapter at Drake as they are a rela-tively new organization.
Drake’s Men’s Soccer Club was allocated $101.55 to reimburse them for the gas they used when they
Activities offered for ‘alcohol alternative’ night
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that the event provides an “alcohol alternative” for stu-dents on a Friday night.
There was no shortage of things for students to do. On the main floor of Olmsted, there was a table offering free raffle ticket with pos-sible prizes, including gift cards, apparel and even a tablet. Venturing upstairs, a variety of doors led to differ-ent options. One of these was a craft room, where students could make themselves a hat and bag and receive and an intricate henna tattoo. While
that was going on, across the hall, students were getting in a late night work out with a hip-hop class.
“I am enjoying the vari-ety of things they have. They have more crafts and activi-ties going on this year com-pared to last,” said sopho-more Katina Degtyareva
The schedule of events for the night also included mini-golf, cash cab, karaoke and a comedian.
To top off the night, there was a performance by the Brocal Chords. Clearing out after the concert, students’ hands were filled with vari-
all of us, and this project gives our group a chance to educate others in a fun way.”
Around 30 alumni vol-unteers in Denver came out and, with the Denver Parks and Recreation department, participated in a clean up of the Platte River, which runs through downtown Denver.
Here in the Des Moines area, around 65 volunteers led by co-chairs Kim Pfan-nebecker and Susan Stocum partnered with the Drake
ous tokens from the night and their heads were ring-ing with the melodic tunes of the Brocal Chords. The event gave students a memorable Friday night
“Celebrate Drake was a unique experience,” Mor-gan Sekhon, first-year, said. “They did a very nice job putting it all together.” Fel-low first-year Shelby Der-rick said. “I really enjoyed it. They had a lot of fun things to do. I would for sure go again next year.”
derstand,” Crow said. “It was nice that he was able and willing to walk through (the questions) and make it more understandable for every-one.”
The congressman’s over-all demeanor was a highlight for Cutler.
“I really like when they do not try and make themselves seem like they are above us. To me that makes him that much more relatable,” Cutler said. “He does not come in a suit and tie; he is very warm and welcoming. You could see his human side, it is nice.”
Crow thinks Latham tak-ing time out to speak to stu-dents makes a statement.
“I think that it shows that student’s votes matter. (Con-gressmen) are able and will-ing to reach out to students because they know our votes count for the election and we make up a big population,” Crow said. “For them reach-ing out is a nice way of say-ing ‘hey’ do not forget that you have this right and this privilege.”
Latham agreed with Crow, stating the message he want-ed students to take away was to be involved in the political process, and particularly this election, because that is how good representatives will be elected.
“Be involved in the pro-cess and help in campaigns,” Latham said. “Basically that is the message, how critical this election is.”
travelled to a road game at Graceland University in early September, before the Stu-
dent Fees Allocation Com-mittee was established for the year.
The business fraternity
Neighborhood Association to beautify and improve Witmer Park and other ar-eas around campus.
“We felt it made sense to focus our efforts on the Drake neighborhood be-cause all of our alumni, as well as current students/staff, called that area home during their time at Drake. It just seemed appropriate.” Pfannebecke said.
As for the purpose of DU Good Day, Beall talked
“We have no ability to coerce any professor into doing anything in terms of setting their grading standards,”
—Bruce Gilbert , professor
about a perspective of mu-tual gratitude.
“I gained so much from Drake during my time there, and I feel like this is a wonderful opportunity to help further the univer-sity’s good name, while also connecting alumni with a very worthwhile organiza-tion. It’s a win all the way around,” Beall said.
Alpha Kappa Psi (AKPsi) was allocated $3,550 in or-der to host their Big Dream Event and open it to the rest of campus. The Big Dream event brings in a motivation-al speaker and participants bring a goal, or a dream, and a plan to do it, and then ev-erybody walks around and offers advice and contacts to help them fulfill that dream. This vote was the only vote not to be passed unani-mously, with senators Josh Schoenblatt, Stephen Slade, James Ley and Dan Pfeifle voting no, and senators Ekta Haria and Zach Keller ab-staining.
The Board of Trustees will be meeting on campus this week during Homecom-ing.
Senators Rebecca Mata-loni and Ley are the Student Senate nominees for home-coming court.
The First-Year Senator election is this week and is expected to result in a run-off.
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A tweet from the popular ‘DRAKEPROBLEM’ Twitter handle shows how sexual awareness is being seen across campus.
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Rush is a junior magazines major and can be reached at [email protected]
Kylie Rush
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I receive a lot of weird things in the mail. Mostly it’s just 9/11 conspiracy theo-ries and CDs of bands that want coverage. On Friday though, I think the zenith of weird pieces of mail came to my mailbox.
I picked up my mail from the offices in Meredith Hall. I had one piece of handwrit-ten mail. It was addressed “Letters to the Editor, School Paper.” Cool, right? Who
sends hand-written mail these days? Not a lot, mostly just my grandparents and...well yeah, just my grandpar-ents. It was also from Las Ve-gas, Nev. I was intrigued, so I opened it.
Inside was “The Ten Commandments of Repub-lican Politicians” and a $10 bill. I have no idea how to deal with this. One, the com-mandments are snarky and weird. Second, why would
someone send a $10 bill with it? I mean, is it ethical to spend that money on donuts for my staff? Should I send it back? It’s a dilemma. I was really uncomfortable about to be honest.
I haven’t been able to get into contact with the person who sent it to me (mostly be-cause I can’t find her phone number). The staff here at the TD is debating sending the money back, as there
was a return address. I’m still just flabbergast-
ed at this point. What would you do? Is it even ethical to keep the money? Well, the staff is going to figure it out and get back to you.
I’m sure if you’ve been on Drake University’s campus for even a short amount of time, you’ve seen chalked messages on the sidewalks. Some students think it’s in-formative, some annoying, but no matter what, you have to admit that it’s effective. How could you see bright green chalk on the sidewalk and not at least glance and see what it has to say?
Last week was Sexual Assault Awareness Week, and as part of the program, Student Activists for Gender Equality chalked statistics around campus. Interest-ingly enough, I’ve heard more complaints about the chalkings themselves than about sexual assault. In my time at Drake, I’ve gotten more and more involved and passionate about preventing sexual assault and informing people about the dangers of sexual assault on campus. I’m sorry if rape statistics chalked on the ground make you feel uncomfortable. I understand that feeling like this represents Drake (and you) in a poor light makes you mad.
You know what makes me mad? Sexual assault.
It makes me mad that my friends, family, people I love are assaulted in the most personal, violating and heartbreaking way. It makes me mad that I feel powerless to stop it. It makes me mad that you think these statis-tics about rape aren’t rel-evant to you and the people in your life. If you think that the statistics of rape chalked on the ground are startling, unpleasant or inappropri-ate, take a number. I assure you, they feel worse when
you realize how much they apply to people you love.
It’s true that, to quote the chalkings, “One in four college women will be sexu-ally assaulted” and “every two minutes, a sexual as-sault happens in the U.S.” So why are we pretending it’s not? We’re worried about what potential students may think of these statistics, but why are we less worried about preventing it from ac-tually happening? The fact that people think we should sweep it under the rug to get prospective students to come here is completely ridiculous. Drake does not exist simply for potential students and if that’s all we care about, we don’t deserve to be a university.
Last Monday morning, we saw a facilities worker intentionally wash off some of the statistics. That after-noon I saw Facebook sta-tuses pop up making light of the hell rape survivors go through. In a routine TD staff story budget, here’s part of an editorial prompt: “With tours being held around campus this time of year, (the sexual assault statistics are) insanely inappropri-ate . . . and does not leave a good impression. We want people to come to Drake, not remember us as the school with the scary statistics on the sidewalk. I’m not say-ing the facts aren’t true but maybe save those statistics for a Facebook page and not underneath touring families’ feet.”
I’ve heard plenty of com-ments about how this whole thing makes Drake look bad. Actually, I agree. When we have staff members, stu-
Sidewalk chalk raises awareness to issuesActivists promote sexual assault week, faced complaints for chalk
‘Snarky’ letter to the editor, money sparks ethical debateFrom the Editor’s Desk
Column
Caitlin O’Donnell
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dents and even the Drake Problems Twitter account making light of a horrible crime, we do, in fact, it looks like an awful place to go to college. The retweet from DrakeProblem says “All this sexual assault stuff on cam-pus reminds me of how the packers got raped last night
by the refs #DrakeProblems RT @jagow75.” Get it? It’s funny because rape is funny. Thank you for demonstrat-ing why Sexual Assault Awareness Week is needed on campus.
The reason we make our voices so loud is because otherwise, rape survivors
O’Donnell is a senior secondary education major and can be reached at [email protected]
Sexual assault statistics were written around campus by the STUDENT ACTIVISTS FOR GENDER EQUALITY in order to raise more awareness for their mission to end rape and sexual assault on Drake’s campus.
will drown in the silence. You don’t like having a con-stant reminder about sexual assault as you walk around campus? Neither do we. We’ll stop chalking when rape stops happening.
And for what it’s worth, as a prospective student, I would be happy to see that the campus is teaching their students about sexual as-sault and how common it re-ally is. I would have wanted to go to a school where the community supports each other and stands up against injustice. In the past two days, I have learned that a large chunk of the people at Drake care for neither of the above.
Instead of complain-ing about chalk, maybe we should fix that first.
illustration courtesy of KELLY TAFOYA
Lauren Horsch is the editor-in-chief and can be contacted at [email protected] Lauren Horsch | editor-in-chief
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JAKE HIGHFILL, a 22-year-old running for the Iowa House poses for a quick smile. Highfill believes in legislation that promotes small business growth and economic development.
“People are tired of the rich, white, old guy sitting in the office. People want new faces; they want change.”
— Jake Highfill, Congressional hopeful
Sculptor Kenney displays newest works built entirely from legos
Highfill running for House at the age of 22Young Republican looking to hear issues, connect with citizens
Reiman Gardens hosts enormous animal lego sculpturesAround Iowa
State Politics
When people imagine a member of a statehouse legislature, they tend to pic-ture a middle-aged male, of-ten one who is distant from their concerns. But in Iowa, there is a candidate who is challenging that stereotype. Twenty-two-year-old Jake Highfill is a Re-publican running for the Iowa State-house this year.
“People are tired of the rich, white, old guy sitting in the office,” Highfill said. “People want new faces. They want change.”
Highfill majored in business and mi-nored in exercise sci-ence at the Universi-ty of Iowa. He hopes to one day start his own business. High-fill favors low taxes and few regulations on businesses to spur job growth and economic de-velopment.
“I’m a fiscal conserva-tive first; I believe that gov-ernment is not the answer,” Highfill said.
A major aspect of High-fill’s campaign is going door-to-door to talk to people about what issues are im-portant to them. Highfill said this is not to ask for votes, but to hear people’s experi-ences and listen to their con-cerns.
“I have to have a lot of people trust me and have a lot of people know that I’m a great candidate,” Highfill said.
Highfill and his fam-ily have a long tradition of working at Hy-Vee. Highfill’s father, Brent Highfill, started working at Hy-Vee when he was 16 and is now presi-dent of a Hy-Vee subsidiary and assistant vice president
of Hy-Vee. While working at Hy-Vee, Brent met his wife Renee, who currently works as a certified pharmaceutical technician at Hy-Vee.
Highfill and his sister both worked at Hy-Vee from a young age, and Highfill connects his political beliefs to his experience with Hy-Vee.
“Businesses create jobs, not the government,” Highfill said. “Coming from a family
of lifelong Hy-Vee employ-ees, which is Iowa’s largest private employer, I know what it takes to create jobs.”
Highfill says that, if elect-ed, he will honor the Consti-tution, lower taxes and re-move regulations on “Iowa’s job creators,” defend the Sec-ond Amendment, protect the sanctity of life and decrease the size of government.
Some students express concern that someone so
young, nearly the age of many Drake students, might have difficulty getting votes later this fall.
“His age doesn’t matter. It’s about experience. He theoretically could have more experience than an older candidate if he spent his time well. However, some people will still think he’s too
young,” Kevin Smaller, first-
year, said.Other students feel that
those who are younger are more connected to the is-sues in modern times.
“I think a lot of times people who run for office are older, so they don’t re-late to our generation,” said first-year student Mckayla Crouss. “If he had the right stance on issues, and he could prove he knows what he’s doing, he could stand a chance.”
As children, we had fa-vorite toys — dolls, trucks, yo-yos — they were our constant companions. Yet we aged, and so did our toys most of the time. Some have found a way to keep their toys through life and make them into a profession.
Currently, there are 13 LEGO Certified Pro-fessionals in the world building sculptures and projects with special permission from the company. Sean Kenney is one of them.
“The LEGO Group selects people . . . whom they think best exem-plify the fundamentals of building proficiency, enthusiasm and profes-sionalism,” Kenney said.
However, it took Kenney time to get to there. Originally, he worked as a graphic designer in New York. Every night he would return home and build LEGO sculptures for friends. He re-alized it was his passion. He quit his job and began work-ing for LEGO.
“It’s wonderful to see people enjoying the LEGO creations I’ve made. It in-spires me to build even more cool things,” Kenney said.
Some of his favorites are an interactive toy store
exhibit, a model of his old work labeled “Success,” and a 50,000 piece model of Greenwich Village.
Though his process var-ies from piece to piece, Sean said he starts with a sketch, proceeds to a prototype and
then begins working on the full project — gluing the blocks together to ensure stability.
“Depending on the size of the sculpture, it can take anywhere from a few days to weeks or even months. And if the model is something that needs to be uniquely recognized, I spend a lot more time making sure it’s perfect,” Kenney said.
Kenney has worked with
companies such as Chase Insurance, Google and the Philadelphia Zoo. He has made artwork, lamps and themed books with simple LEGO bricks.
“A sculpture made with LEGO bricks is fun and bright
and something everyone can relate to. When you look at a LEGO sculp-ture you under-stand how it was put together, and maybe even can imagine doing it yourself,” Ken-ney said.
C u r r e n t l y , Sean is display-ing his collec-tion of nature themed LEGO sculptures. From an eight-foot-tall h u m m i n g b i r d to a mother buf-falo made with
45,143 LEGO pieces, the
collection is spread across Ames’ Reiman Gardens. With 27 sculptures in the collec-tion, the nation-wide tour has been extended to 2015. The “Nature Connects” Col-lection is scheduled to stay in Reiman Gardens until Oct. 28. Then it will move to the Lauritzen Gardens in Oma-ha, Neb., in February.
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“It’s wonderful to see people enjoying the LEGO creations I’ve made. It inspires me to build even more cool things.”
— Sean Kenney, LEGO Certified Professional
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>>Breakdown of number of legos to complete sculptures
Lego Sculpture Exhibit
• Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly — 37,481 pieces
• Mosaic -— 29, 587 pieces
• Rose — 41,242 pieces
• Water Platter and Koi — 14,740 pieces
• Germinating Acorn — 15,581pieces
• Green Darner Dragonfly — 6,535 pieces
• Bison and Calf — 61,372 pieces
• Garden Worker — 37,497 pieces
• Goldfinches — 575 pieces
• Lawn Mower — 13,704 pieces
• Humming bird and Flower — 31,565 pieces
• Fox and Rabbit — 18,908 pieces
• American Bumblebee — 16, 383 pieces
• Moth Orchid — 2,300 pieces>>Fun exhibit to visit in Iowa for a limited time
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“It (sex trafficking) made me feel unaware. It’s literally happening everywhere. It’s shocking how quickly it’s growing, and that it could happen to any ordinary girl.”
— Suzanne Rettley, Drake student
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“I procrastinate until late at night, and then, I have to stay up later to actually study.”
“I study during the times I’m not in class, at work or eating.”
“I like to study in small blocks of time. Studying in between classes works best for me. I like to study with a group of friends as long as it’s quiet, so I don’t get too distracted.”
“One of the best study tips I have is to download Quizlet. I use it all the time. It’s a free online flash card app that keeps my notes organized and helps me study.”
“When I’m studying by myself, I use notecards. But I like studying in groups with friends.”
“I have to approach studying differently because of my majors. One is more test- and lab-based, while the other is more research- and qualitative-based.”
“I study by sitting down and reading the material over and over.”
Last Thursday Drake University students packed Sheslow Auditorium for a showing of the documen-tary “Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.”
“The only way I had heard about sex trafficking was from ‘Taken,’” Caitlin Allen, first-year, said. “Ne-farious” is a documentary on sex trafficking throughout the world, as well as a cam-paign to raise awareness and money.
Following director and producer Benjamin Nolot throughout Europe, Asia and
the Unites States, modern-day sex slavery is exposed in emotional interviews and shocking statistics. Bone-chilling facts included the fol-lowing: 2 million chil-dren worldwide are victims, 80 percent of all victims are women and children and the average age of a vic-tim entering into the commercial sex trade is 13-years-old.
Emotions, includ-ing fear, were running high among students.
“It made me feel unaware. It’s literally happening ev-erywhere. It’s shocking how
quickly it’s growing and that it could happen to any ordi-nary girl,” Suzanne Rettley,
sophomore, said.Sophomore Charlie Jas-
chek, member of the social fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsi-lon, was encouraged by his
brothers to attend the documentary.
“We have a process of how to better yourself and how to be of strong mind and strong body, so we were en-couraged to go because it would help us on our path of develop-
ment,” Jaschek said.
“I was an-gry because it seems like it’s such an accepted thing
in so many places, and I had no idea the extent to which it was happening,” said Jaschek after seeing the film.
One of the hardest things for viewers to comprehend was how close to home the issue of sex slavery actu-ally was. Sophomore Jordan Beard, an Iowa native, was extremely concerned about the possibility of sex slavery in Des Moines and how nec-essary it was to raise aware-ness. “Nefarious” opened eyes to how widespread the illegal sex trade market truly is.
In response to the com-parisons of sexuality be-tween forced sex slaves and
average women, first-year Sarah Grossman was dis-gusted.
“So many women just throw their bodies around,” Grossman said. “They don’t even realize what they’re throwing away when so many women don’t have any control. It’s not just eye opening, it’s heartbreaking.”
In a heartfelt discussion after the movie, volunteers explained the project in further detail and offered routes to help raise aware-ness across the country, all the while sharing their own stories of how the movie touched them, too.
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The Drake women’s soc-cer team stretched its un-beaten streak to nine on Thursday thanks to a 1-1 double-overtime tie against in-state rival Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.
Northern Iowa opened play with an of-fensive bang as senior Kiki McClellan scored at the 5:00 mark.
Drake head coach Lindsey Horner expect-ed a dangerous Panthers squad.
“UNI was up for a battle tonight, and while we prepared all week for our players to come out and match the energy level, we found ourselves on our heels and down a goal,” Horner said in a Drake athletics press release. “We knew this would be a tight game espe-cially if we struggled to com-pete in the air, came out flat or gave them opportunities in restarts, unfortunately
each of which we did.” Senior forward Laura
Moklestad likewise antici-pated a tough Panthers team.
“We knew that they were going to come out just ready to go,” she said. “They’re our rival, so they were just really
wanting to beat us, so I think that just kind of put some-thing under us. They had to be better and more urgent, and they had to take care of the ball. We countered quickly after that.”
Less than one minute later, Drake answered with a goal, but officials were un-sure which Bulldog scored.
The Missouri Valley Con-ference rivals traded posses-
sion to complete Thursday’s 1-1 tie, snapping Drake’s eight-game winning streak.
Though Drake’s winning streak ended, Moklestad stressed the tie’s importance entering the State Farm MVC Championship.
“It was really im-portant, especially it being in our confer-ence,” she said. “We wanted to make sure we got at least one point out of that game because it gives us a better spot to be in the tournament. So, we just went into that game knowing that we either had to tie or
win. Our team decided that losing wasn’t an option.”
Junior forward Generve Charles led the Bulldogs with three shots.
Junior goalkeeper Kalena Litch paced Drake’s defense with six saves.
The Bulldogs are back in action against Western Illi-nois at 3:30 p.m. on Wednes-day in Macomb, Ill. SOPHOMORE DEFENDER TORI FLYNN battles a Missouri State player on Sept. 22 at Cownie
Soccer Complex. Drake registered a 1-1 tie against Northern Iowa on Thursday in Cedar Falls.
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Bulldogs extend unbeaten streak to nineWomen’s Soccer
“Our team decided that losing wasn’t an option.”
—Laura Moklestad, senior forward
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Volleyball, soccer and football seasons are well un-derway and volleyball play-offs are almost upon us. Now is the time that reveals our champions. Real champions are looking for any tips to propel them to the finals. In today’s column, I wish to debunk some myths of intra-murals for those soon to be champions.
Myth #1: Officials favor teams whose players in-clude off-duty officials.
W r o n g , in fact just the oppo-site is true. Imagine you are a new referee. You are pretty nervous be-cause you know that some players can be pretty tough on the officials. You are inexperienced and un-comfortable with your re-sponsibility. Then you see you are officiating a team with another official on it. That person knows what you are going through and that helps. You know those play-ers/off-duty refs have been in your position and under-stand the job challenges. Frankly, it makes it easier to make the call, as you can be pretty sure that they won’t yell at you. Eventually, all of our officials get the rules down and call an even, con-sistent game. Like all things it takes a little practice to be a good, solid official.
Myth #2: There is no good reason to bring my ID.
This one is definitely a myth. You might think that collecting IDs is unneces-sary. But this is not a power kick that officials and super-visors use. This procedure is, like most things in intramu-rals, done for your safety and ours. Everyone who plays intramurals needs to sign a waiver to play. The IDs are a way for us to strengthen that waiver. Also, it allows us
to keep track of the people playing. For instance, let’s say that someone gets hit in the head and is disoriented. The IDs give us official docu-mentation of that person. If we simply went by the paper roster someone could claim they were somebody else. This way we have a picture ID to make sure we can help you and your needs specifi-cally.
Myth #3: If you forfeit the first game of the season your team is removed from the league.
This is a new myth brought upon by a rule change this year. Last year, the rule was very similar to the Drake attendance policy.
This year, however, there has been a rule change. A team is not kicked out of a league until they forfeit two games. No matter what the rules are though, do not forfeit! For-feits can only be described one way: lame. There is re-ally no upside to forfeits. The opposing team does not get to play. The officials do not get the experience they need. On top of all of that, your team loses. All of those things are just flat out lame.
Myth #4: Intramurals have the same rules as the NCAA.
Now this myth is just ridiculous. You can’t tackle people in foot-ball or slide
tackle them in soccer. I know many people spent their childhood watching NCAA sports but just because we are in college doesn’t mean we play by collegiate rules in intramurals. If you want to play by those rules you need to be playing at the intercol-legiate level, this is intramu-rals.
So that is it for this week. As always, stay safe and play ball!
Drake cruised to a vic-tory Saturday on the road, as it dismantled the Campbell Fighting Camels 35-7 to im-prove to 2-0 in Pioneer Foot-ball League play.
A spectacular defensive effort was the main attrac-tion as the Bulldog defense held the powerful Campbell running attack to just 57 yards, and allowed only 286 total yards.
Lightning caused a de-layed start to the game and turned the field into a swamp.
“It was a weird game with lightning delays,” said head coach Chris Creighton in a Drake athletics press re-lease. “But I was proud of our guys and how they were able to maintain the momentum and the emotion through all the breaks.”
Drake got going early in the first quarter as sopho-more running back Gary Scott Jr. capped off an eight-play drive with a one-yard touchdown run. The second quarter started similarly as the Bulldogs took over on the Campbell 22-yard line af-ter a disastrous fourth down play by Campbell quarter-
back Dakota Wolf that cost them 26 yards. It took two plays for Drake to increase the lead on an 11-yard touchdown pass from fifth-year senior Mike Piatkowski to senior Nick Rosa.
Drake then had another long drive, going 82 yards in 12 plays but came up emp-ty as sophomore Spencer Lee missed a 24-yard field goal. However, three plays later, Drake put the idea of a Campbell comeback to rest as junior defensive back Der-ek Temple intercepted a Da-kota Wolf pass 27 yards for a touchdown to give the Bull-dogs a 21-0 lead at halftime.
Campbell scored its lone touchdown of the day on a 57-yard pass from Wolf to receiver A.J. Artis to open up the third quarter, Drake re-sponded with a Piatkowski two-yard touchdown run to put the lead back at 21 and effectively end the game. Early in the fourth quarter, junior T.J. James scored with a one-yard touchdown run to give Drake a 35-7 lead.
Penalties were a factor for Campbell after being flagged eight times for 98 yards. Drake only committed three penalties for a total of 20 yards. Both teams turned the ball over twice, with
Campbell failing to capitalize on either turnover.
Offensively, Drake main-tained balance, receiving 258 passing yards from Piat-kowski, as well as three run-ning backs with at least 50 yards rushing. Scott led the way with 77 rushing yards, senior Trey Morse had his best game of the season with 68 rushing yards and James added 58 yards to go with his rushing touchdown.
Rosa finished with sev-en receptions for 92 yards and a touchdown. Behind him, senior Joey Orlando recorded five catches for 57 yards, and both sophomore Michael Hudson and junior Jacob Schmudlach had three receptions for the Bulldogs.
Defensively, six play-ers finished with at least six tackles, with senior Jake Underwood finishing with 10 tackles. Sophomore Brad Duwe recorded the other Bulldog interception. Drake also tallied two sacks on the day.
Drake will take on PFL co-champion San Diego on Sat-urday, Oct. 6 at 12:30 p.m. at Drake Stadium in what will be the most important con-ference game of the season for the Bulldogs.
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Joanie Barry
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Barry is a junior radio-television and secondary education double major and can be reached at [email protected]
SOPHOMORE WIDE RECEIVER MICHAEL HUDSON leaps to catch the football on Sept. 22 against Morehead State at Drake Stadium. The Bulldogs dispatched Campbell 35-7 on Saturday.
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OCT. 3Men’s Soccer
vs. Western Illinois7 p.m.
OCT. 5Volleyballvs. Bradley
7 p.m.
Coming Up at Drake
OCT. 6Football
vs. San Diego12:30 p.m.
OCT. 6Men’s Soccer
vs. Central Arkansas7 p.m.
OCT. 6Volleyball
vs. Northern Iowa7 p.m.
OCT. 7Softball
vs. William Penn1 p.m.
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After a grueling non-conference schedule, the Bulldogs needed a spirited performance against Creigh-ton to get their season back on track. On Saturday night, they delivered just that.
Playing in front of a packed Cownie Soccer Com-plex, the Bulldogs (1-7-3, 0-0-1 MVC) opened their Missouri Valley Conference campaign with a hard-fought 0-0 tie against the No. 12 Bluejays.
Drake came into the game hobbling after playing a competitive non-confer-ence schedule, mostly on the road, and having allowed 14 goals in its last four games.
“I would say we are the best 1-7-3 team I’ve ever seen,” said head coach Sean Holmes. “We played just a ridiculously difficult first ten games, had we played with
that sort of tenacity and com-mitment, and spirit, we’d be in a better place right now. But that really sets the tone for the conference.”
The story of the match turned out to be the young back line for the Bulldogs. Drake started three fresh-men on defense, along with a goalkeeper who’s in his first year as a starter and a left back starting for the first time at center back, and held Creighton scoreless for 110 minutes.
Freshman Austin Re-utzel made his first start at center back and was joined by freshman Jon Choda and redshirt freshman Alec Bartlett to lead the Bulldogs to a scoreless draw.
“They’re one of the best teams in the conference at keeping the ball and I mean, their spacing and everything is just perfect. To sit in and defend like we did for how-ever long it was; it was a good result,” said junior Ad-
dison Eck.The Bulldogs showed no
signs of a team still hung up on their lack of success in non-conference play, go-ing toe-to-toe against a team that made the Final Four last season.
“You gotta try and take some points from confer-ence opponents and this is a team that is still currently 12th in the country and ob-viously they’ll drop after the loss to Tulsa and tied us, but that’s a good team,” Holmes said.
Creighton started off the match with a lot of energy, testing redshirt junior goal-keeper Rich Gallagher with dangerous shots from out-side the box on a couple of occasions. After containing Creighton’s initial surge in the first ten minutes, Drake settled in and muddled Creighton’s attempt to con-trol the middle of the pitch.
The Bulldogs gener-ated a few solid chances in
FORWARD ERIC WILLIAMS aims for the goal against Creighton on Saturday night.
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Defense drives double-overtime tie against CreightonMen’s Soccer
Two members of the Drake men’s tennis team started their campaigns at the ITA All-American Cham-pionships this past Saturday in Tulsa, Okla. Senior James McKie and sophomore Alen Salibasic both won their first round matches in pre-qualifying play in convincing fashion, as neither Bulldog dropped a set on the first day of competition.
“Both James (McKie) and Alen (Salibasic) looked very comfortable in their first match wins today,” said head coach Davidson Kozlowski.
After receiving a bye in the first-round of pre-quali-fying, McKie faced off against Willie Sublette of UNLV. Sub-lette, a Las Vegas native, was coming off an easy win over Nathaniel Avery of Oral Rob-erts, but he was no match for McKie.
“Definitely was a little nervous at first, but I found my range and started playing to my strengths,” McKie said.
After playing a couple shaky games to start the match, McKie dominated the rest of the way. After closing out the first set 6-3, his serve and forehand carried him on to win the second set 6-1.
“James’ opponent came out excited and energized and it wasn’t until midway through the first set that James was able to use his experience to get the break,” Kozlowski said. “Then he just got stronger and stron-ger as the match went on, winning seven of the last eight games.”
McKie will face off against Kevin Metka, a freshman for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Metka, a four-star recruit according to tennisrecruit-ing.net, is coming off of wins against opponents from UNLV and Oral Roberts. If
McKie defeats Metka, he will have one more match to win before reaching the qualify-ing round of play.
Like McKie, Salibasic received a first-round bye in the pre-qualifying draw. Salibasic’s first opponent was freshman Nate Lam-mons of the SMU Mustangs. Lammons, another four-star recruit according to tennis-recruiting.net, also received a bye, making this the first match for both players. Sali-basic was simply too good for his SMU opponent and tallied an easy 6-2, 6-2 vic-tory.
“I played a solid (match) from the baseline today and made an early break in the first set,” Salibasic said. “I held my serve through the whole match, even though he had a couple break points.”
Salibasic said that he may want to be even more patient with his baseline rallies in the next match, but Kozlows-
ki was impressed with his ability to wait for the right shot to attack during his re-turn games.
“Alen relied on his strong serve to fight off four break points,” Kozlowski said, “but it was his patience and con-sistency on his return games that really made the differ-ence.”
Salibasic’s next opponent will be Aliaksandr Malko of Sacramento State University. Malko, a native of Belarus, played primarily at the third, fourth and fifth singles posi-tions last year for the Hor-nets. If Salibasic is to win the match against Malko, he will take on an opponent from ei-ther Xavier or Virginia.
The Times-Delphic will have the remainder of McKie and Salibasic’s results in the next issue, as well as the qualifying draw results of se-nior Anis Ghorbel and junior Robin Goodman. SOPHOMORE ALEN SALIBASIC prepares to return a serve in
doubles competition at the Drake Fall Invitational on Sept. 21.
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Pair of Bulldogs advance to next round at ITA All-American ChampionshipsMen’s Tennis
Taylor Soule | sports editor
Michael Sage | staff photographer
THE DRAKE OFFENSE leaps to head the ball on Saturday night against Creighton.
the first half, but struggled to get depth on the flanks. Creighton once again took command of the game late in the first half, but could not breakthrough as both teams headed to the break tied at 0-0.
Creighton outshot Drake 11-5 in the first half.
The story remained simi-lar for Drake in the second half, as the Bulldogs contin-ued to successfully contain the Bluejays’ attacks and also generated a pair of dan-gerous chances. Redshirt sophomore Brian Grand’s strike from outside the box barely went wide left as the crowd gasped with excite-ment.
After a frantic stretch to close out the half, the match went into overtime. Creigh-ton dominated the first period of extra time, while
the Bulldogs came closer to scoring on the second period of extra time. Junior Bryan Jantsch and Grand combined on the right side of the field and came close to opening up the score.
Creighton outshot Drake 6-2 in overtime and 30-15 in the game. Gallagher re-corded nine saves for the Bulldogs.
Holmes talked about the future for his young team. The same team that started on Saturday will be back next season, with the excep-tion of fifth-year senior Mi-chael Thaden.
“In terms of the big pic-ture, I’m super, super happy. I think there were some guys that were sort of pretending to defend, but tonight guys fought,” Holmes said. “For guys to be able to do that at 18 (years old), in their first
month of college, it’s really, really encouraging.”
The Bulldogs will contin-ue their three-game home-stand on Wednesday when they take on non-conference foe Western Illinois at 7 p.m. at the Cownie Soccer Com-plex.
They’ll hope Saturday night’s spirited performance carries over.
“We haven’t really had many home games, this is our third home game and not many night games either. So when you have an atmo-sphere like this you have to play up,” Eck said. “We’ve had a bad run of form lately and I think this is just what we need to pick up the sea-son. Keep going in the right direction.”
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Austin, Lake lead Drake at Roy Griak InvitationalCross Country
The Drake men’s and women’s cross country teams placed 14th and 16th, respectively, at the Roy Griak Invitational on Saturday in Falcon Heights, Minn.
Junior Brogan Austin led the Drake men, clocking 25:52 for 42nd place.
Though all seven Drake participants finished within the Top-100, Austin noted the Bulldogs’ rocky perfor-
mance. “It wasn’t a pretty meet
for us,” he said. “We had a lot of high expectations, and not everything panned out the way we had planned. We had some good workouts leading up to the meet, but we were just a little flat.”
Fifth-year senior Charlie Lapham took 67th place with a time of 26:22. Freshman Rob McCann finished eight seconds behind Lapham to complete Drake’s top three.
Minnesota won the team title with 67 points. Drake
tallied 349 points. Fifth-year senior Kirsten
Lake paced the Drake wom-en, clocking 22:13 for 28th place.
Four freshmen trailed Lake to complete Drake’s top five.
Freshman Cassie Aerts claimed 94th place with a time of 23:55. Four seconds later, freshman Taylor Scholl crossed the finish line for 95th place. Freshmen Ce-leste Arteaga and Emma Hutson completed the Bull-dogs’ top five.
The Roy Griak Invitation-al marked uncharted terri-tory for Arteaga.
“It was very important to me,” she said. “It was a really big meet and my first time ever running at (Roy) Griak (Invitational). Some of the other girls had ran there in high school, but I never ran there in high school. It was a really fun meet, and I mean, I did better than my last 6K.”
Saturday’s improvement boosted Arteaga’s confi-dence entering next week-end’s Bradley Cross Country
Classic. “It’s exciting to know
that I was in the top five for Drake,” she said. “It really makes me happy. I’m hop-ing for Bradley (Cross Coun-try Classic) and (State Farm MVC) Conference (Cham-pionships) to improve my times and get better as the season goes on. I’m so excit-ed. Hard work has paid off.”
With the Oct. 27 State Farm MVC Championships approaching, teamwork tops Drake’s to-do list.
“We all want to do our
best, and that’s a really im-portant meet,” Aerts said. “I guess I’m just taking it a day at a time and improving and helping my teammates im-prove as they help me.”
In-state rival Iowa State captured the women’s team title with 47 points. Drake totaled 429 points.
The Bulldogs are back in action on Oct. 12 at the Brad-ley Cross Country Classic in Peoria, Ill.
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Drake Homecoming GO WILD
WINDOW PAINTING a Drake Homecoming tradition was Saturday. Campus Organizations, including Harriot Hall (above), painted windows emboding the Go Wild theme with their own unique organization spins/
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