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Crew claims first MAAC title over the weekend

Relays had the security guards running as well

Issues on race continue to fuel discussion

Students have been seeing securi-ty personnel driving around in Dodge Chargers. Ongoing tuition hikes are leaving students wondering exactly where our money is going.

Drake security is in charge of keeping the campus safe — that in-cludes everything from returning lost wallets, to locking the buildings at night and to patrolling the surround-ing neighborhoods. They even had an incident back in February that required supervisor Mark Risvold to chase a pig through a parking lot near campus.

The security guards are here for the students and can be quickly and easily reached at any time of the day by calling the emergency num-ber from any of the blue light posts around campus. They are always present, cruising around in their little

carts as the buildings of Drake lock up for the night.

The Times-Delphic stopped in the security office to talk with an officer right as the power went out throughout the city on Tuesday. In between checking the monitors and answering several phones ringing off the hook, officer Dustin Runge sat down to explain the new vehicles around campus.

Drake security only drives three cars, and the rest are sidewalk carts. These cars are given to the higher-up administrators, like the chief, assis-tant chief and supervisor.

Runge has heard several times how surprising it is that the fleet is so small, and he shrugs it off with a laugh, pointing out that it’s more ad-vantageous to have people think the security force is bigger than it actu-ally is. The vehicles used to be 2003

Charging up the DU security vehicle fleetby Kathryn KrissStaff [email protected]

Although the year is winding down, the penultimate meeting of the 25th session of Student Senate cer-tainly was not short on agenda items.

Senators were faced with four mo-tions and four previous notices in the meeting on April 19.

First on the agenda was to ap-prove the Drake University Voice of Choice as an official organization on campus.

“We think it’s really important that we have an advocate of repro-ductive health and choice on this campus,” Cate O’Donnell, president of the club, said.

Senate was also faced with three funding allocations.

The Drake Mascot team was allo-cated $1,100 for registration costs as-sociated with attending a camp over the summer in Milwaukee.

“Our goal as ‘Spike the Bulldog’ is for you to not know who is Spike at any one time,” Sean Conard, mem-ber of the mascot team, said. “We want a really good Spike to represent Drake well and represent Des Moines well.”

The Drake Men’s Soccer Club was also allocated $461.99 for costs associated with starting the club “to promote the sport of soccer and give students the opportunity to play in a less-competitive setting.”

The final allocation of the meet-ing also sparked the most discussion among senators. The motion allo-cated $3,225 for three members of Student Senate to attend the Leader-Shape Conference.

“I think it’s a lot of money spent

per person, and I would like to see more tangible results,” Vice President of Student Life Jessica Hamilton said.

“I would like to see things like this come out of the Student Senate budget,” Sen. Sam Pritchard said. “Maybe it’s not appropriate to spend student funds on three individuals.”

Some senators felt that the oppor-tunity to attend the conference should have been opened to the entire cam-pus, while the motion did pass, Sen-ate decided not to select members to attend the conference until the op-portunity could be fairly advertised to members of Senate committees.

Motions having been served pre-vious notice included bylaw amend-ments concerning resignation proce-dures, Diversity Interest senator and Organizational Council positions and an amendment to the Drake Student Senate Fees Handbook to address an-nual funds for travel.

The Final Meeting for the 25th Session

The final meeting of this year’s Student Senate last Thursday focused largely on the Quasi Endowment Fund — a stock of money from stu-dent fees invested in interest-yielding accounts.

The account currently holds about $150,000, and a new proposal would put a soft cap on the account at $125,000, at which point the account would be drained to address student concerns until it reached $100,000. Then it would be allowed to grow again and repeat the cycle. The pro-posal also suggested that the current excess be spent on a “capital project with a focus on campus communica-tion.”

The inclusion of this suggestion in the proposal was debated with concern that it would limit future ses-

Capping the Quasi, allocating one-time-funding to Senateby Lauren Ehrler and Ethan Clev-engerStaff Writer/News [email protected] [email protected]

sions’ options in spending the money. It was established, however, that as a mere guideline, the wording did not bind anyone in any way.

Sen. Erin Hogan was one advo-cate for the inclusion of the guideline, citing that publicity for various stu-dent functions currently sits at around $15,000, most of which is spent on the various posters around campus that are quickly tossed by the wayside. Improving campus communication, she said, would help this problem.

Ideas for spending the fund as of now include the construction of a large posting wall on campus for vari-ous student groups.

Sen. Sam Pritchard questioned this proposal, suggesting that Olm-sted had several places already desig-nated for this purpose.

The final plan for spending the excess money will be determined by a future session.

Funding for the Board of Stu-dent Communications also came up for discussion. Currently, the board receives a set percentage of the stu-dent activity fee. Various members suggested that this be evaluated, as they didn’t believe an increase in the student activity fee, which happens often, necessarily constitutes more funding for the BSC. Instead, it was

moved to look into having BSC fund-ing allocated out of the student activ-ity fee by Senate.

A pre-dental club was approved. Pritchard questioned the existence of pre-dental students at Drake, and sev-eral other senators quickly noted they knew one or many.

Drake’s Students in Free Enter-prise received funding to attend na-tionals after a strong first-place show-ing at regionals.

To Write Love on Her Arms re-ceived funding to send members to a leadership conference.

THE OLMSTED CENTER already has several posting areas with which students can publicize their events.

New records set at a sold-out Relays this yearStrong performances earned athletes recognition

Drake track and field boasted sev-eral notable finishes at last weekend’s Drake Relays despite blustery, drizzly conditions.

Sophomore Omet Kak and senior Charlie Lapham finished second and third in the 1500, notching the Bull-dogs’ best distance finish.

The pair routinely trains together, making Saturday’s finish especially memorable.

“This race led to a fun last lap,” Lapham said in a Drake athletics press release. “Finishing two and three was pretty exciting and this was a fun race overall.”

Kak took the lead entering the fi-nal lap, earning fans’ uproar.

“When I took the lead, the crowd got crazy,” Kak said in a Drake ath-letics press release. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t hold it as Jeremiah Vaughn, he is a really good, and ran me down.”

Junior Kirsten Lake finished eighth in the women’s 1500, crossing the finish line in 4:25.46. Besides top-ping the Missouri Valley Conference, Lake’s time was a personal best.

Lake lagged at the back of the pack entering the final lap but pushed into eighth.

“This is my third time that I’ve raced the 1500,” Lake said in a Drake athletics press release. “I was really hesitant the first few laps as the pace was fast. I was feeling good the last lap and I pushed and gave it every-thing I had.”

Drake sprinters notched notable finishes in the men’s and women’s 400 hurdles.

Senior Jon DeGrave claimed 10th in the 400-hurdles, clocking 52.16.

Senior Ari Curtis finished 12th in 59.78, her first finish under the one minute mark this season.

“I hit two hurdles and stumbled on a few, but I got through the best I could,” Curtis said in a Drake athlet-ics press release.

Besides his strong performance in

the 400-hurdles, DeGrave claimed fifth in the 4x200 alongside sopho-more Brett Wright, senior Shaun James and junior Dan Karys. Drake finished in 1:26.08.

Juniors Isaac Twombly and Kevin Harp led Drake’s field efforts.

Twombly broke his own school re-cord for the third straight week in the hammer throw. His toss reached 180 feet, seven inches en route to a 13th place finish.

Harp set a new school record in the men’s javelin. Despite wind gusts exceeding 30 mph, Harp’s top throw registered 209 feet, one inch.

Throws coach Mark Kostek laud-ed Harp’s gritty throwing.

“His performance was pretty gutsy,” Kostek said in a Drake athlet-ics press release. “It’s pretty difficult to throw the javelin in those condi-tions.”

by Taylor SoulePhoto [email protected]

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SENIOR ARI CURTIS turns the corner Saturday at the Drake Relays.

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While on routine patrol near the painted street, security personnel observed a male subject who was staggering while walking. Security approached the male subject, later identified as a Drake student, on Helmick Commons. The student was intoxicated and had an aggressive manner. He became defensive and hostile towards security when asked for identification. The student eventually provided security with an identification card, but it did not match the name given earlier by the subject. The identification card did not belong to the student. The student became aggressive with security when being questioned and poked one of the officers in the chest. This resulted in a physical altercation in which the subject was detained by security personnel and later arrested by the Des Moines Police Department. While the subject was being placed into custody by DMPD, the subject resisted arrest. The student was transported to a local hospital for treatment prior to being booked into jail. The dean of students and the director of residence life were notified of this incident.

GOOD NIGHT? BAD NIGHT? 1:54 a.m. April 22

8:00 a.m. April 12It was reported to security that a Drake Uni-versity employee received a note that was threatening in nature. The note was left on her vehicle, which was parked in the 1000 block of 36th Street. The note was left between the hours of 2 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 12. The Des Moines Police Department was contacted and a police report was taken for harassment.

1:19 a.m. April 14Security personnel were notified that there was a man lying on the ground at 24th Street and Forest Avenue. Security responded to the area to conduct a welfare check. Security made con-tact with the subject, later identified as a Drake student. The student appeared to be intoxi-cated; he was unable to stand up by himself. The student was of legal drinking age. The Des Moines Police Department and medics were called to the scene. DMPD arrived first, and at that time the student was taken into custody for public intoxication. The dean of students and the director of residence life were also notified about this incident and will conduct further fol-low up.

12:38 a.m. April 15While on routine patrol, security personnel ob-served a female walking east on Carpenter Av-enue towards 32nd Street. The female was hav-ing difficulty walking and almost fell multiple times. Security made contact with the female, who was later identified as a Drake student. The female appeared to be intoxicated; she had slurred speech, unable to stand unassisted and was not able to follow simple directives. The student was also under the legal drinking age. The Des Moines Police Department and the Des Moines Fire Department were sum-moned to the scene. It was later revealed that the student was in possession of another per-son’s driver’s license. DMPD took possession of the driver’s license. DMFD evaluated the student’s medical condition and left her in the care of a friend. The dean of students and the director of residence life were notified about this incident and will conduct further follow up.

7:45 p.m. April 18While on routine patrol on the 2400 block of University Avenue, security personnel were summoned by a non-Drake affiliated female.

She stated that she works at a store located on the 2400 block of University Avenue. She stated she had to fire another co-worker today, and that he was very angry and agitated. She stated he refused to turn over the keys to the store and stated he would “take the store down.” The suspect fled the scene prior to the officers’ ar-rival. The owner was advised to contact the Des Moines Police Department to make a police report about this incident if he felt the threats were viable.

2:21 a.m. April 19Security personnel were summoned to Carpen-ter Residence Hall on a report of a male subject harassing the monitor. Upon arrival, the moni-tor informed security that a male subject was trying to enter the building without following protocol. After being denied entry, the subject shouted obscenities at the monitor and left the scene. Security located the subject in the nearby area and identified the subject as a Drake stu-dent. The subject appeared intoxicated; his speech was slurred, and he had an unsteady stance. The subject was over the legal drinking age and was informed to go back to his room for the night. The monitor declined to make a po-lice report for harassment with the Des Moines Police Department. This information was for-warded to the dean of students for review. 11:26 p.m. April 20Security personnel responded to Stalnaker Res-idence Hall on a report of a female who had vomited in the stairwell. Upon arrival, security made contact with the female Drake student. The female was intoxicated and under the le-gal drinking age. She was alert, coherent and able to answer questions. The student was left in the care of two other students. The dean of students and the director of residence life were notified about this incident and will conduct fur-ther follow up into this matter. 5:15 p.m. April 20Security personnel were advised that there was a female intoxicated subject walking between Meredith Hall and Jewett Residence Hall. Se-curity and the Des Moines Police Department made contact with the intoxicated student, who had been participating in Drake’s Street Paint-ing event. The student had red watery eyes, slurred speech and was unable to stand unassist-ed. The student was intoxicated and made state-ments that needed to be assessed by mobile cri-sis. While waiting for mobile crisis, the student vomited at the scene. The Des Moines Fire De-partment, medics and mobile crisis all arrived

on scene. Mobile crisis advised that the student to be taken to a local hospital for medical treat-ment. The dean of students and the director of residence life were notified of this incident and will conduct further follow up with the student.

3:35 p.m. April 20While on routine patrol in the 2700 block of Carpenter Avenue, security personnel observed a juvenile who had been previously advised that he was not allowed on Drake University prop-erty. Security made contact with the juvenile along with the Des Moines Police Department officers. The juvenile was released to the custody of his parents, and a police report was made for the juvenile’s trespass violation.

1:01 a.m. April 21Security personnel responded to Herriott Resi-dence Hall on a report of an intoxicated female being carried into the lobby by several people. Security arrived on scene and made contact with the female student, who was located in her room. The subject was intoxicated and under the legal drinking age. She was left in the care of her roommate. The roommate was advised to monitor the students condition, and if it wors-ened, to let the monitor know. Later that eve-ning, the student contacted the monitor about the student’s status. Security arrived on scene and called for the Des Moines Fire Department and medics. The student was transported to a local hospital for treatment. The dean of stu-dents and the director of residence life were notified about this incident and will conduct further follow up with the student.

12:36 a.m. April 22While on routine patrol in the 3100 block of Carpenter Avenue, security personnel observed a male subject who appeared intoxicated. Se-curity made contact with the male subject to conduct a welfare check. The male subject was unresponsive initially, so the Des Moines Po-lice Department and medics were called to the scene. While waiting for emergency personnel, the subject began to become more alert to his surroundings and responsive to questioning. Emergency personnel responded to the scene, and the subject refused medical treatment. The subject was released at the scene and was trans-ported via taxi service to a local motel.

5:28 p.m. April 23Security personnel were advised by a Drake staff member that a female subject was inside the School of Education asking for money. Security made contact with the non-Drake af-filiated subject outside of the building and later advised her that she was not allowed on Drake property.

12:04 a.m. April 26Security personnel responded to Stalnaker Resi-dence Hall on a report of an intoxicated female. Upon arrival, security located the female Drake student who was intoxicated and under the le-gal drinking age. Due to the female’s physical condition, medics were called to the scene. The student was found in possession of a fake iden-tification card. The card was taken into posses-sion by security personnel. The Department of Transportation was also notified of this incident and will conduct further investigation and fol-low up. The student refused medical treatment and was left in the care of another student. The director of residence life and the dean of stu-dents were notified about this incident and will conduct further follow up into this matter.

1:44 a.m. April 26Security personnel responded to Stalnaker Resi-dence Hall on a report of a male student vom-iting in the bathroom. Upon arrival, Security made contact with the Drake student that was underage and intoxicated. Medics were sum-

moned to the scene and later transported the student to a local hospital for care. The dean of students and the director of residence life were notified about this incident and will conduct fur-ther follow up into this matter.

12:51 p.m. April 27Security personnel were flagged down by a fe-male subject, and she advised that she just wit-nessed a hit and run accident. She stated the ac-cident occurred in parking lot No. 16, which is located in the 2800 block of University Avenue. The owner of the vehicle was contacted and the Des Moines Police Department responded to the scene. The witness was able to provide a description of the suspect vehicle. DMPD took a police report and will conduct further follow up and investigation.

11:00 a.m. April 27Security personnel were called to Carpenter Hall on a report of a male student that was as-saulted on Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. The student stated he was assaulted in the 2600 block of University Avenue by another male Drake student. The student suffered minor in-juries and had a complaint of pain to his ankle. The Des Moines Police Department was called to the scene and a police report was taken. The dean of students was notified about this incident and will conduct follow up with all of the in-volved parties.

3:11 p.m. April 27Security personnel were informed that a vehicle was broken into in lot No. 24, which is located in the 2800 block of University Avenue. Security responded to the scene and made contact with the vehicle’s owner. The vehicle’s window was shattered and her Garmin GPS device was miss-ing. She declined to make a police report.

7:15 p.m. April 27Security personnel responded to Morehouse Residence Hall on a report of an intoxicated male student that was found passed out in the hallway by a staff member. Security made con-tact with the subject, who was highly intoxicated and underage. The Des Moines Police Depart-ment and medics were summoned to the scene. Due to the student’s physical state, he was trans-ported to a local hospital by medics. The dean of students and the director of residence life were notified about this incident and will con-duct further follow up.

2:05 a.m. April 28While security personnel were patrolling in the 3000 block of Forest Avenue, their vehicle was struck by another vehicle. The driver of that vehicle attempted to leave the scene of the ac-cident in her vehicle. Security personnel stopped the female driver and detained her until the Des Moines Police Department arrived on scene. The female was intoxicated and was placed under arrest by law enforcement personnel and booked into county jail. The female driver was non-Drake affiliated.

2:16 a.m. April 28Security personnel responded to Carpenter Res-idence Hall on a report of an intoxicated female student. Security made contact with the student, who had vomited. The student stated she had been drinking at a local bar. The student was alert and able to answer questions and appeared to not need medical attention. The student was left under the supervision of another student. The dean of students and the director of resi-dence life were notified about this incident and will conduct further follow up with the student.

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Pulitzer Material Tom Hallman, jo’77, senior writer and reporter

for The Oregonian newspaper, is nationally

recognized for the talent he honed at Drake.

Hallman won a Pulitzer Prize for feature

writing in 2001, and his work has appeared

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Dodge Durangos, but those were traded in for a 2008 Ford Escape, a 2011 Ford Escape and a 2010 Dodge Charger. The cars are replaced ev-ery two years. Some fiscally-minded students question why the cars need to be replaced so frequently. Runge counters that the cars each total about 100,000 miles every year, so they have to be swapped out on a regular basis

to avoid losing money through repair costs.

It’s important to note that after security is done with the vehicles, like the old Durangos, they are repur-posed for the maintenance depart-ment. The new cars for the security department are always bought used, and they are always the baseline models with few to no additional features. Because of all of the sur-veillance technology and equipment that has to fit inside each car on the

force, ordinary civilian vehicles can-not be used. The officers have limited options for cars that can be adapted to security duties and can deal with infamous Iowa winters.

Other than the carts seen around campus, there are only three vehicles used by the security force. The money for the vehicles does not come out of student tuition. Runge said that there is a separate fund set aside by the uni-versity for security purposes, and it comes out of that budget.

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In the Relays Edition of The Times-Delphic published on April 23, the Drake Student Activities Board was mistakenly attributed to creating the Drake University Straw poll and other events that happened on campus during the Republican Debates in the article “Political Involvement on Campus”. The group that hosted the events was the Election 2012 ad hoc committee of Student Senate. We apologize for the error.

Correction

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WHERE: President Maxwell’s house

WHEN: Thursday, May 3, 5 p.m.

WHAT: Free hot air balloon rides

WHERE: Drake Intramural Fields

WHEN: Friday, May 4, 5 p.m.

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Our Two CentsSTAFF EDITORIAL

• LastweekatDrake.Power through thosefinals,butmakesure tospendtimewithfriendsandhavesomefunbeforeeveryoneheadstheirseparateways.

• DrakeUniversityblack-out.Apologiestothoseof youwhosemealswereinterruptedasyouwerekickedoutof Hubbellduetothepoweroutage.Butcongratstothoseof youwhogotoutof classesandtests.

• Makesureyou followallof therulesof ResidenceLifeotherwiseyou’llhavetopayaprettypennyinfineswhileattemptingtomoveout.

• We’resadtoseesomeof ourseniorsgo.Goodlucktoallof youinallyournewendeavors.

• IsanyoneelseexcitedabouttheFarmers’Marketstartingupagain?That’sasuresignthatsummerisrightaroundthecorner.

• Stopcomplainingabouthowmuchyouhavetodoandhowbusyyouare.Weallhaveatongoingon,it’sfinals,it’scollege,getusedtoit.

• Attention:Donotleanovertheedgeof thehotairballoonsorac-cidentallyfloataway.Whileitmaysoundexciting,we’dbeincrediblysadif youflewaway.

• It’sbeenapleasurebeingyourcampusnewsstaff thisyear.We’realreadyplanningfornextyear’sTD,sogetreadyforanotherawe-someyearof #TDlove.

Every once in awhile, we experience a great “aha!”momentinwhichallof thefactsprofessorsarethrowingatusinclassesrelatesoexplicitlytoreallife,italmostknocksusover.It’sanimportantseriesof momentsthatremindusexactlywhywegotoschool.Inassociateprofessorof religionJenniferHarvey’smodernethicalissuesclass,ourpresentationgroupontheissueof reparationsforslaveryhadseveral suchmomentsasweexpandedourresearchonthetopic.Intoday’ssocialclimateithasbecomeexcep-tionallyimportanttoaskyourself:

“Whatdoweowetotheblackcommunity?”Alotof ustendtothinkthatissuesof racismanddis-

criminationare thingsof thepast—oh, thathappenedback then. This impression leads people tomake argu-ments like, “African-American disadvantage doesn’t ex-ist,”or“Blackstodayjustwanthandouts.”(Really,peopleactuallysaythosethings.)

Whatisundeniable,though,isthattheUnitedStatesmade its fortune on the backs of kidnap victims fromacross the Atlantic, justifying their treatment as chattelsimplyby thecolorof their skin.Acknowledge thathis-toricalfactindictsusall.Ascitizensof theUnitedStates,webenefitevennowfromtheforcedlaborof millionsof

slaves.Given this historical legacy, it is incredibly naïve to

assume that theaccompanying racism just fadedaway,andthatallof thosefeelingsof superiorityandhatejustendedbackthen.RecenteventsonDrake’sowncampusmakeitplainthatnotonlydothosefeelingsstillexist,buttheyexistrighthereinourowncommunity.Itseemsthatthereisalotof frustrationoncampusfromthiscontin-ueddiscussion,andmanypeoplearecallingforustojustdrop it,but the fact is, refusing to talkabout itdoesn’tmakeitgoaway.

In a world where black unemployment is twice ashigh as white unemployment, incarceration rates of blackmalesexceedwhitesbysixtimes,andawhitemanwithacriminalhistoryismorelikelytobehiredthanablackmanwithoutone,wecannotcontinuetosaythatracismdoesnotexist.What’smore,ourunawarenessof thesediscriminatorypracticesandinstitutionsmakesuspartof theproblem.Ourinterestincallingattentiontoracismisnottosaythatblacksarevictims.Instead,whatweurgeyoutoconsideristheissueof equality.

Asagroup,wespentalotof timediscussingthataswhite students,we simply can’tunderstand theday-to-dayexperienceof anAfrican-Americanstudent.Beingwhiteisn’tpartof ourdailyrealitybecauseflesh-coloredBand-Aidsmatch our skin tones, and no one ever as-sumesweareonlypresentoncampusbecauseof someaffirmativeactionprogram.Ourdailyrealitiesdonotre-volvearoundrace,butmaybetheyshould.Itisuptoustolistentothemessagesthatourfellowstudentsarecom-municating,tointernalizethemandtoliveinwaysthatconscientiouslycombatracistideas.Thisisnotapassiveproblem;thereisnopassivesolution.

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Letters to the Editor WhileBenLevine’s question—

“DoesDrakereallyhaveasubstan-tialproblemwithracism?”—isnota bad starting point for inquiry, itwould have served our communitybetter if thepublishedcolumnhadpursued that question through re-search and critical thinking, ratherthanspeculation.

Forinstance,Levineandtheedi-torialstaff couldhaveeasilycheckedthefactualbasisof therumorsaboutthe creation of the petition. Onewouldonlyhavehad to speakwiththe co-authors of the letter to findthatwewroteitnotforasocialmediaclass,butbecauseweweremovedtotake action after hearing about theincidentatameetingof theWork-ingGroup for InfusingGlobal andMulticulturalUnderstandings.

To provide a more informedopinion on his subject, Levine alsocouldhavespokenwithoneormore

of the students who were targetedduring the hate speech incident togain their perspectives. Instead, thecolumnengagedinspeculationaboutwhat happened, and as a result, itdismissedthelivedexperienceof thestudents who weremost directly af-fectedbytheincident.

These acts of inquiry are consis-tent with Drake’s educational goals,aswellaswithstandardsof journalis-ticintegrity.Movingforward,IwouldurgeTheTimes-Delphicnotonlytocontinue toprovidea forum forourcommunity to engage in discussionabout multicultural understanding,but also to hold itself to a standardin which its contents — includingopinionpieces—mustbe informedbyresearch.

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Thisisaddressedtotheauthorof “UnofficialRelaysDrinkingTradition,”Ms.EmilyHecker.

IamaDrakesuperseniorwithatriplemajorindirecting,musicaltheatreandspecialeducation.Imustsay...yourarticlewasthemostpretentiouspieceof textIhaveeverseenintheTimesRegisterinfiveyears.

Firstof all,youareafresh-man.HaveyoubeentoaRelayscelebrationatDrake?Haveyoueverwalkedpastandseenthesecel-ebrationsyousoharshlycondemn?Besideswhatyouhaveheardfromyourfriends,yourentirearticleisbasedsolelyonsecond-handgossip,whichyouprobablyheardfrompeoplewho,likeyourself,haveneverbeentooneof theseparties.

Second,Iam23yearsold.WhoareyoutotellmewhetherIshouldhaveadrinkornot?Sure,thearticlemightnothavebeenintendedforme,butyournovicewritingmadenomentionwhoyourintendedaudiencewas.YouspeaktotheentireDrakecommunity,regardlessof whethertheychoosetostaysober,haveaglassof wine

atdinnerortakeatwo-minutekegstand(lookitup).

Third,pleasestoptryingtocoverupyourintentwithcheapphraseslike“I’mnotheartopreachtoanyoneasamother,interventionistortherapist.”If yourintentistonotdoanyof thosethings,thenstopdoingit.Youcan’tlecturesomeoneandthensuddenlysay,“I’mnotheretolecturesomeone”andhaveitallbeOK.

Don’tgetmewrong.Irespectyourchoice100percent.Iamnotsayingthatyoushouldgooutandgetdrunk.ThatisnotwhatIamherefor.WhatIdonotrespectisbeingtalkedtolikeachild...byachild.If youwanttoreallychangelives,writeaneditorialthatdoesnotdemeanthepeopleyouwantto“help.”

Beforeyougotellingmeandtherestof myDrakefamilyhowtoliveourlives,perhapsyoushouldcom-pleteyourfirstyear.

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Recent events on Drake’s own campus make it plain that not only do those feelings still exist, they exist right here in our own community. It seems that there is a lot of frustration on campus from this continued discussion and many people are calling for us to just “drop it” but the fact is, refusing to talk about it doesn’t make it go away.

featuresFEATURESTHE TIMES-DELPHIC THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 | PAGE 4

don’tmissthisMulticultural BBQ Block Party 28th StreetFriday, 1 – 3 p.m.Free food, activities and a DJ

by Emily HeckerStaff [email protected]

Things to do, places to go in DSMDes Moines offers a variety of attractions for those in the area over the summer. From art festivals to cupcakes, DSM has plenty of things to experience.

Des Moines Art FestivalArt fans will want to visit Western Gateway

Park between June 22 and 24. Over 185 of the nation’s top professional artists will display their work. Jewelry, sculptures, ceramics and mixed media pieces will be displayed and available for purchase. Street performers and musicians will also be featured at this free event. The festival opens at 11 a.m. on June 22.

Blank Park ZooAnimals of the Ice Age are featured

at the zoo’s indoor exhibit until June 10. Check out a saber-tooth cat and the rest of the zoo animals. Get a close-up view of a wallaby in the Australian section where some of the animals roam free. Take your mom out for a special Mother’s Day meal with the zoo’s Take Mom to the Tropics event May 13. Seating times are at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. for $24 a meal. Regular zoo admission is $7.

Downtown Farmers Market

The Farmers Market returns to the Historic Court District downtown on May 5. Vendors will span nine city blocks every Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon. Ev-erything from fresh fruit to artisan breads will be available for purchase. Local art and entertainment will also be featured. On select Saturdays, Pioneer Hi-Bred will present science related activities to children in their “Earn Your PhB” tent. Dress comfortably and be prepared to try something new.

Terrace HillTour the historic home of Iowa’s gov-

ernors. Keep an eye out for Governor Branstad as you go through the 18,000 square foot mansion built by Iowa’s first millionaire. Guided tours are available Tuesday through Saturday every hour starting at 10:30 a.m. Tickets are $10.

Des Moines Botanical Center

Smell the flora and fauna in the Bo-tanical Center’s dome. Explore the bonsai garden and stop for a snack at the Riv-erwalk Café. Take a picture for Facebook next to the floral exhibit in the show beds. Admission is $5. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Drake Stadium will be hosting an-other track and field event June 6-9. Both men and women will be competing. The javelins and feet will be flying starting at 2:30 p.m. An all-session packet of tickets starts at $75 for reserved seating.

Kosama Warrior RunSleepy Hollow Sports Park is hosting

this 5K race July 14. The race’s theme is water and will include 30 obstacles. Rac-ers can look forward to creative ways to cool off starting at 9 a.m. Admissions for racers is $45. No cost for spectators.

Val Air BallroomA variety of events will be featured

at this venue over the summer. Kid Ink will perform May 26. The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $20. Bow Wow will perform June 13. Tickets start at $30.Smokey Row Coffee Co.

This full service restaurant includes an old fashioned soda fountain. Get a Tor-nado (milkshake mixed with candy) for $4.75 or a scoop of Caramel Combus-tion ice cream for $2.25. Serves breakfast items, sandwiches, burgers, soups and sal-ads. Open daily.

Crème CupcakeDes Moines has not escaped the cup-

cake trend. This bakery features a daily flavor schedule of cupcakes and other desserts. Get a Blueberry Pancake or Give Me More S’Mores Cupcake for $3. Min-iature cupcakes are $1.50.

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 FEATURES THE TIMES-DELPHIC

Relays has passed, graduation is around the corner and my intramurals column is making its final appearance. The pilot year of The Times-Delphic publicity has acquired as much success as we hoped for, and I am sad to be leaving it so soon. The program hopes to extend the weekly tradition, but the reins are being passed down to a younger model. Sophomore Joanie Barry is the brightest prospect currently on staff, and her experience and keen eye at the fields will be preparation enough.

I have documented the last year of play to the best of my ability, but that leaves three pre-vious years worth of untold stories. In the space allotted, I would like to present my top five Drake Intramurals moments.

*Names have been changed

The Pike PuppyRecreational basketball games can always

offer uplifting moments. Those who place themselves in the ‘B’ league are looking to win but also looking for a good time. Apparently, a good time becomes a better time when a dog shows up. One night this past year, a few Pike fans showed up on court 2 with a miniature golden lab, and as supervisor, I had to make an executive decision. The puppy passed the charming and cute test, so I allowed it to stay. The team was later notified that if the dog did not have a Drake ID next time, it unfortunately would be denied entrance.

Sour Sport

I could have used every column this year to write about poor sports and still have excess ma-terial. We like to look for the best in our athletes, but dramatic incidents inevitably occur. My fa-vorite episode to retell comes from a men’s com-petitive basketball game my sophomore year. I was officiating the semifinals, and the defeated team was looking for anyone but themselves to blame for the loss. “Here’s my jersey,” said the player, handing me a smelly jersey dripping in sweat. After instructing the frustrated Frankie* to place the jersey in the bin, he responded with, “Well, you took my season, you can take my jer-sey.” Not only is the intramurals staff not your housekeepers, but we are also not the reason you missed a lay-up.

Identity ConfusionBefore the golden days of Intramural Coor-

dinator Matt Gasser, it was Intramural Coordi-nator Becky Gilmore. Becky had an unassum-ing authority and could easily match Gasser’s skill at removing a troublemaker. During a floor hockey game three years ago, one player with typical baseball-envy was utilizing his hockey stick as a weapon, and his mouth was audition-ing for a drunken sailor’s role. Becky tolerated barely a minute of it and threw him out of the game. Like most players do at some point, Confused Charlie* stepped up to an intramu-rals manager role and yelled, “And who do you think you are?!” Becky calmly replied, “I’m the Intramural Coordinator, and you can leave the

building now.” Charlie obviously didn’t know any other positions above a coordinator that he could assume, so he left enraged. Since it was floor hockey, he had to walk home alone at 1 a.m.

Hots for Scorekeeper (submitted by Joanie Barry)

As employees of a late-night career, our per-sonal appearance and mental state of mind is not always easily kept. However, the pumping adrenaline after a contest occasionally leads to flirtatious feelings from victorious players. Terms of endearment such as “sugar plum” and “beautiful whistle blower” have been heard. Phrases like “dirty jerseys for a dirty girl” unfor-tunately come out as well. All pick-up lines are taken with good spirits, but if you really want your smooth moves to be considered, work your way to a championship first. #Winning.

Duff DreamsEvery basketball season, a fan favorite comes

out to play. A FIJI-originated team called Duff is made up of boys looking to play anything but basketball on the basketball court. We have seen stick ponies, short shorts, touchdown passes and the occasional “Mighty Duck” formation. My typical advice for the rookie official is to expect the unexpected. Duff has never been exempt from technical fouls or void of the regular rules. In fact, they may even hold the record for viola-tions. Nevertheless, we want nothing more than

Duff to continue the legacy.

I’d like to give a very generous honorable mention to my fellow colleagues for four years of intramural companionship and to Lisa Murphy for always directing great services. If you are lucky enough to catch Gasser walking around, thank him for the tremendous develop-ment we have seen in the program throughout his two-year contract. He will be announcing later this month on SportsCenter where he is taking his talents.

As always, we thank you, the athlete. We wouldn’t be here without your games to watch, Drake ID’s to check and stories to tell.

Until next time, please play by the rules.

Top 5 Drake Intramurals momentsUntold intramurals stories from years past recalled

Students looking into study abroad programs have certain choices to make. Do they want to study in an English-speaking country or not? Do they want to stay in a first-or third-world coun-try? Should they study abroad for a summer, a semester or a whole year? What are they hoping to gain from their experience? For some students, it ultimately comes down to coin toss. For others, one is simply not enough.

International relations and his-tory major Hannah Borge is cur-rently spending her second full semester abroad. After spending the fall 2010 semester in Grenoble, France, Borge was itching to go back to Europe.

“Soon after I returned from France, I went in to see Jen Ho-gan about doing another semes-ter abroad,” Borge said. “She just smiled and said ‘the bug bit you hard, didn’t it?’ I was hooked.”

Assistant director of interna-tional programs and services Jen Hogan said it’s unusual, but not unheard of, for students to do a second semester abroad. She said about five percent of students make a second full-semester trip.

Though Borge said she loved her first time studying abroad, it gave her a better idea of what she wanted out of her second go-around.

“I knew what had and hadn’t worked in Grenoble, so it helped me to narrow it down,” Borge said. “So far, this second experi-ence has been amazing, and I think I fit in here more than I did in Grenoble.”

The real challenge for Borge was getting her study abroad cred-its aligned with the requirements for her two majors and minor to graduate on time.

“It has taken a lot of time and effort to get it all sorted out,” Borge said.

“For students who do multiple study abroads, it’s a stretch to make sure all the credits work to-ward their degree,” Hogan said. “It’s too bad you can’t get a de-gree in study abroad.”

Borge is hoping to go to a graduate or law school abroad post-graduation and to ultimately work with the United Nations on development projects in Africa.

Like Borge, Lukas Olynyk is no stranger to travel. At the tender age of 21 he’s gone to 18 differ-ent countries, studied abroad in Jordan and volunteered in Kenya and Palestine.

Olynyk credits his wanderlust to his parents’ constant encourage-ment to travel — not vacation — but rather to go out of their way to experience different cultures, languages and people.

“Studying, volunteering, work-ing or traveling abroad defines who you are as a human being. We’re all on this planet together, might as well try to figure out what others are going through,” Olynyk said. “Studying abroad widened my perspective and allowed me to approach the rest of my Drake experience with a different, more open and matured point-of-view.”

Olynyk said as an international relations major studying Arabic and the Middle East, his semes-ter abroad in Jordan helped him further understand the people, culture and language in a greater capacity than he would have at-tained in the U.S.

“You gain a different perspec-tive, a worldview that is simply un-achievable from your living room or classroom,” Olynyk said.

During his semester in Jordan, Olynyk lived with a Muslim family, studied Arabic from native speak-ers and was immersed in the Arab culture.

“Complete immersion is al-ways the best way to understand what you’re studying,” Olynyk said. “Just as a future doctor works on cadavers, I wanted to experi-ence my interests and my passions first-hand.”

While his adventures abroad are numerous, his volunteer work and study abroad experiences have only fueled the fire and have Olynyk yearning to go abroad again — this time on a more per-manent basis.

Recently Olynyk applied and was accepted into the Peace Corps, and will be serving as a sustainable agriculture extension agent in Senegal from September 2012 to December 2014.

“The Peace Corps will change my life, but I know that I’ll need to go to graduate school if I want to make a difference in the field I’m pursuing,” Olynyk said. “After that, I would love to work abroad in either Africa or the Middle East.”

International relations ma-jor Ian Weller has also secured a job post-graduation thanks to his study abroad experiences. After he graduates this spring, Weller will be stationed abroad as a surface warfare officer for the Navy.

“I was picked up by the Navy for my Arabic skills and cultural experience,” Weller said. “I’m ex-cited to see where that takes me.”

For Weller, it was a high school trip to Paris that had him hanker-

ing for more global experiences. “France was cool for my first

time factor — you never forget your first love and you never forget the first time you cross an ocean,” Weller said. “It starts to become addicting, the concept of waking up in new areas and really testing yourself.”

Since that initial taste of life abroad, Weller spent the two subsequent summers in Jordan, participated in Drake’s first study seminar in Egypt and started out spring of 2011 in Egypt before be-ing evacuated to Muscat, Oman due to revolutions in Egypt.

It’s his experiences abroad that Weller said he’s learned the most from.

“Revolutions were no longer dates in my notebook, but events I was witnessing,” Weller said. “And one understands the importance of water and development with regards to empires and even basic living by being in the desert.”

While some Drake students say they don’t want to go abroad because they’ll miss out on the col-lege experience, Weller argues that adventures abroad only add to col-lege life.

“The Library and Relays are great, but college has so much more value and tangible expe-riences (with) international so-journ,” Weller said.

by Bailey BergStaff [email protected]

Studying, volunteering, working or traveling abroad defines who you are as a human being. We’re all on this planet together, might as well try to figure out what others are going through. Studying abroad widened my perspective and allowed me to approach the rest of my Drake experience with a different, more open and matured point-of-view.

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Study abroad junkies continuing to travelOne trip abroad was not enough for these travelers

STUDENTS LOVE GOING TO OTHER COUNTRIES

>> Check out photos from students’ trips abroad at www.drake.edu/international/study-abroad/gallery

>> To learn more about Weller’s abroad adventures visit ianwellerdrake.blogspot.com

>> Find out how students have kept their abroad memories alive through DU-IT, Drake University International Travel, a student organization

This Weekend in DSMSPRING AWAKENINGFeatures Drake studentsThursday – Friday @ 7:30 p.m.Saturday @ 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.Sunday @ 3 p.m.Stoner Studio Theater - Civic CenterAdmission: $15

AUTO RACESFriday @ 6 p.m.Iowa State FairgroundsAdmission: $10

IOWA CUBS VS. NEW ORLEANS ZEPHYRSFireworks following the gameFriday @ 7:05 p.m.Principal ParkAdmission $7 – $25

DOWNTOWN FARMERS’ MARKETSaturday, 7 a.m. – noonDowntown Court AvenueAdmission: Free

CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVALSaturday, noon – 10 p.m.Historic Valley JunctionAdmission: Free

HALEY BOSCO | COLUMNIST Bosco is a senior English and secondary education double major and can be contacted at [email protected]

THE TIMES-DELPHIC SPORTS THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 | PAGE 6

sportsThe men’s and women’s basketball squads were busy adding people to their programs in the past week. Head coach Jennie Baranczyk hired David Lane as assistant coach and Kelsey Bolte as coordinator of basketball operatons. The men received a letter of intent from former Utah guard Chris Hines. The women received a letter of intent from Mary Pat Specht.

DID YOUKNOW?

Despite one of the best seasons in Drake women’s tennis recent history, the Bulldogs were unable to advance past the second round of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Championship.

Drake easily made it out of the first round against Northern Iowa, 4-1, but it fell to Illinois State in the second round, 4-0.

This marked the fifth time in the last six seasons that the Bulldogs have been ousted in the MVC tournament by the Redbirds.

Even though the season may have ended before the ladies wanted, there are still plenty of bright spots from the entire season.

“I think the season went fabulous,” freshman Nell Boyd said. “We broke an all-time record for most wins in a sea-son and received the second seed in the

MVC tournament, which we worked very hard for.”

The season was highlighted by a streak of 10 wins in a row in the middle of the season, which started Jan. 28 against Northern Illinois and ended Feb. 25 against Kansas. The Bulldogs finished with a 22-7 record.

Boyd pointed out another personal highlight.

“The biggest highlight I think was when we beat Illinois State 6-1 because we were really looking forward to play-ing them and finally beating them, and we ended up beating them by five points, and that was huge,” Boyd said.

Junior Manca Krizman, sophomore Klavdija Rebol and Boyd all suffered losses on Saturday in Omaha, Neb., while senior Gabby Demos was losing when the match ended. Senior Jessica Aguilera and junior Ali Patterson of Drake were winning matches at the time, but the matches would not matter.

The squad will lose five players to graduation: Demos, Aguilera, Amanda

Aragon and Earlynn Lauer. Krizman will also be graduating early and pur-suing other interests. There is a bright future however, with this year’s mo-mentum and returning players such as Boyd, Patterson, Rebol and freshman Amanda Dick.

“I think we will still be a very strong team next year,” Boyd said. “If the other returning girls and I can really get the new freshmen excited about play-ing tennis, I think we will be in excellent shape. The thing that makes me most sad is losing five incredible girls that I only got to have one season with, and I wish I could have had them longer because they are amazing role models.”

If next year’s new batch of players can put together team chemistry like this year’s squad, the Bulldogs will be in good shape.

“We became very close and sup-ported each other through everything good and bad,” Boyd said. “We will always be there for each other.”

Drake’s historic season comes to an endby Blake MillerStaff [email protected]

WOMEN’S TENNIS

MEN’S TENNIS

by Dominic JohnsonStaff [email protected]

Bulldogs throttle Shockers to claim second-straight MVC title, will face Auburn in first round

For the second-straight year, the No. 48 Drake men’s tennis team captured the State Farm Missouri Valley Confer-ence Championship crown and earned an automatic bid into the 2012 NCAA tournament. The Bulldogs defeated the Wichita State Shockers 4-1 in Omaha, Neb., on Sunday to book their ticket to the NCAA tournament.

The Bulldogs, who beat the Shock-ers just one week earlier to capture the regular-season title, were coming off a 4-0 win over the Illinois State Redbirds on Saturday and entered Sunday’s championship match as the favorite to win.

But the Shockers were eager to post an upset, and it showed at the begin-ning of the match. The Shocker duo of Tomislav Gregurovic and Guilermo Nicol posted an 8-5 victory over the Drake duo of junior Jean Erasmus and sophomore Robin Goodman at the second doubles position to open the match. Wichita State had taken the doubles point from Drake in the teams’ last meeting, but Drake’s third doubles team, comprised of freshman Alen Salibasic and senior Cesar Bracho, weren’t ready to see that happen again on Sunday.

Salibasic and Bracho evened the doubles tally at 1-1 with an 8-4 victory over Juan Estenssoro and Erick Reyes of the Shockers. The pressure then shifted to Drake’s top doubles team of juniors

Anis Ghorbel and James McKie. Drake’s pairing was in a fierce

matchup against Matheus Pereira and David Cavalcanti, and neither team could break serve until 4-4 in the match.

“We played an amazing game at 4-all, and from then on, we made abso-lutely sure to hold serve to win,” Ghor-bel said.

With a 7-6 lead and Ghorbel serv-ing, the duo rushed out to a 40-0 ad-vantage. After missing his first serve, Ghorbel chose to be bold on his second.

“I knew the guy always turns around to his inside-out forehand, and we were up 40-0, so I decided to hit it hard down the T,” Ghorbel said.

His ace granted the duo an 8-6 vic-tory and a 1-0 lead in the match going into singles play.

“Winning the doubles point defi-nitely gave us a big boost going into singles,” Drake head coach Evan Aus-tin said. “We learned a lot from losing the doubles point last week, and we came out with a much better sense of urgency.”

The Bulldogs wasted no time in ex-tending their lead as Salibasic quickly defeated Wichita State’s Reyes 6-1, 6-2 to move the tally to 2-0.

After sitting out last weekend with a lower back injury, Goodman returned on Sunday at the fourth singles position. The Bulldog sophomore didn’t let his setback in doubles affect him in singles play, though, as he posted a routine win over Nicol, 6-2, 6-4.

“Robin had beaten Nicol before, so I felt good about that matchup,” Aus-tin said. “Robin has always been a big-match guy, and he ended up getting us a huge win.”

The Shockers refused to give up though, as Cavalcanti bested McKie 6-2, 6-4 to move the tally to 3-1. Drake’s fate now seemed to rest on the shoul-ders of senior Jonathan Hadash at the third singles position. The decision to put Hadash at the third spot was a dif-ficult one for Austin, as Gregurovic had beaten Hadash in straight sets just a week prior.

“Third singles was a tough decision for me because Jean had beaten Gre-gurovic in the fall, and Jonathan didn’t play a great match the week before,” he said. “I just felt that Jonathan had a re-ally good week of practice, and it was clear that he really wanted another shot against this guy, and I liked the matchup of our senior against their freshman.”

As McKie’s match finished, Ha-dash had already captured the first set 6-4 and was closing in on winning the second. Up 5-4 in the second set, Ha-dash held two match points to seal the win for the Bulldogs, but Wichita State’s Gregurovic mustered up some excellent tennis to stay in the match.

“I stayed aggressive instead of just waiting for him to make a mistake, but he just played an amazing couple points,” Hadash said. “Looking back, I don’t even think I would have done anything differently.”

Hadash and Gregurovic pushed each other to a tiebreaker to decide the

second set. Hadash briefly got atten-tion from the athletic trainer and took the court, looking to send Drake into the NCAA tournament for the second-straight year.

“I had no doubt in my mind that I could beat him; it just came down to ex-ecution,” Hadash said.

And execute he did. Hadash rallied to take the tiebreaker 7-3, and his 6-4, 7-6 victory clinched Drake’s fourth trip to the NCAA tournament in the last six seasons. At the time, Hadash didn’t know that he was the one to clinch the match for the Bulldogs.

“After I won and I looked over at coach, and then I looked to the other side to see all the guys running towards me, and that’s when I finally realized we won,” Hadash said. “I fell to the ground knowing the guys were going to pile on top of me, and now I have a big bruise on my hip as a bit of a memento.”

The Bulldogs won’t have time to rest on their laurels, though, as after a few days of rest and recuperation, they will be hitting the courts in preparation for their match against No. 15 Auburn in the first round of the NCAA tourna-ment. Drake will take on the Tigers at the University of Illinois’ Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Ill.

“We have to go in there expecting to win the first round,” Goodman said. “We can’t get too excited for winning conference because losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament is not something we should accept and be happy with.”

Auburn is 17-9 on the season and will be the stiffest competition the Bull-dogs have faced this season. Each of the Tigers’ nine losses came at the hands of teams ranked in the top 20 in the na-tion. Auburn hasn’t lost to a team out-side the top 30 since falling to No. 34 LSU last season.

Despite having the odds stacked against them, the Bulldogs aren’t back-ing down.

“The better the opponent, the bet-ter we play as well,” Ghorbel said. “I believe that if we play our best tennis, we can beat anyone.”

“This time will be different than last year,” he added.

photo from TAYLOR BENDER

Well, Drake University, it’s time for me to ride off into the sunset after four years of covering Bulldog sports for The Times-Delphic.

I just wanted to use this forum to say how much I enjoyed covering nearly every Drake sport during my time here, and I want to thank all of you who have read my work. I’ve come a long way since being that wide-eyed freshman covering a sold-out Knapp Center in Drake’s first game after its 2008 NCAA tourna-ment appearance, which happened to be against a young Butler team that was rebuilding its identity the same way our Bulldogs were.

That Butler core went on to make two straight national championship games, and their journey began right here in Des Moines. It’s cool to look back on that experience and realize that that night was the first college basketball game for future NBA play-ers Gordon Hayward and Shelvin Mack.

Some of my best times in college came from covering the Drake men’s basketball team at the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Champi-onship in St. Louis. I made the trip every year (I just wish more of you would, too, because we are BY FAR the least represented school each tourney), and I will never forget when Josh Young nailed a fade-away, game-winning shot to beat Southern Illinois in the first round in 2010.

I came to Drake as an actuarial science major, and I saw an ad in The Times-Delphic about needing sports writers. What the hell, I thought, I’ll give a shot. It will be a fun way to make some extra money.

I enjoyed covering sports so much that I switched my major right before my first year even ended. Drake offers plenty of opportunities, especially for all you young journalism students out there.

I’m shocked to see The Times-Delphic struggle to find writers and to see Drake Broadcasting System struggle to find announcers when we have such an acclaimed journalism program. What the hell are all of you doing out there? You will not land a good job in journalism by taking

classes and getting A’s. Sorry, it just won’t happen.

When we have over 40 broadcast majors, but DBS still struggles to find announcers for football and basketball games (that happened in 2010-11), it’s just sad. When the TD can’t find writ-ers, which we struggled mightily to do this year, it’s just as worse.

Ask yourself this because you better believe future employers will: What have you done? What have you accomplished? How do you prove your skills?

All you news/Internet, public relations and magazine majors out there, if you are doing nothing, there is NO REASON why you shouldn’t be writing for the TD. It shows fu-ture employers that you are actually capable of talking to someone and of effectively communicating their story through writing. If you don’t think that’s important in any type of jour-nalism, then you better wake up. Plus, you get paid — you have no idea how lucky our writers are because other schools laugh at Drake when we tell them that we pay our writers but still struggle to find some.

Anyway, my work is done here. It’s time to pass the torch to someone else. All I can hope is that the next sports junky loves Bulldog athletics and find-ing sports stories as much as I do.

To all of my fellow graduates, good luck in your future endeavors.

Looking back on four years of Bulldog coverage

MATT MORAN | COLUMNIST Moran is a senior news/Internet and math double major and can be contacted at [email protected]

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| THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 SPORTS THE TIMES-DELPHIC

Crew claims first-ever MAAC championshipROWING

by Eduardo Tamez ZamarripaSports [email protected]

The Drake rowing team accom-plished something that no crew team had ever accomplished: winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Coast cham-pionship.

The Bulldogs captured the 2012 MAAC championship on Lake Mer-cer in Windsor, N.J. on Saturday after barely beating out powerhouse Marist by two points. Drake finished with 33 points.

The results are calculated from three races (Varsity 8, Varsity 4 and second Varsity 8) to determine the overall winner.

“When we found out that we had won conference that was the most gratifying moment in my rowing ca-reer,” said senior captain Kat Moore.

Drake had earned second place finishes at both the Varsity 4 and sec-ond Varsity 8 races. Marist had fin-ished third in the Varsity 4 race, but had claimed the second Varsity 8 vic-tory. In order to win the conference the Bulldogs’ Varsity 8 squad had to pull through and win their race.

“They were out there in the wa-ter not knowing that they needed to win,” said junior stroke seat Megan Bannister. “The Varsity 8 had seen Marist in Connecticut before. We knew they were going to be very fast, we knew they were going to be a ma-jor contender and someone to watch out for, and that ended up being the case.”

Yet, even if the Varsity 8 team

didn’t know that its victory was abso-lutely necessary to take home the title, the team was focused on winning the race. If there’s a tie after the three races the tiebreaker goes to whoever wins the Varsity 8 race.

“We needed to win the Varsity 8 no matter what. We just needed it,” Moore said.

After the Varsity 8 race the Bull-dogs had to wait a while for the re-sults. The race was decided by less than a tenth of a second and the of-ficiating crew spent 30 minutes going over video replay.

Moore thought they had lost the race.

“I thought we had lost it by only a couple feet. We thought the finish line was farther than it was,” Moore said. It was a pleasant surprise when I realized the finish line was a lot earlier than I thought and we actually had a chance.”

Freshman Jacque Nowers (cox-swain) led the team to believe the fin-ish line was actually a few feet more ahead to get them to finish the race with a lot of energy.

Seniors Moore, Susan Goulette, Madi Perington, sophomores Brittney Michael, Jessica Nightser and fresh-men Maggie Benhart , Emily House-holter, Sarah Travis and Nowers (cox-swain) finished with a time of 6:52.8 in the Varsity 8 race.

“The Varsity 8 race today (Satur-day) was one of the best races I have ever seen,” said head coach Charlie DiSilvestro in a Drake athletics press release. “Timing really plays a part of rowing and I’m so proud of how the

team competed together. The confer-ence championship came down to the last stroke of the very last race and we came out on top today against Marist, who is a great team with great tradi-tion. We were lucky today to come out on top but it is a perfect way to end the season.”

Senior Brittany Smith, juniors An-drea Piekarczyk, Kristina Vann and Bannister, sophomores Justin Choe and Mallory Bonstrom and freshmen Megan Friel, Brianna Leinon, Han-nah Hennessy (coxswain) finished with a a time of 7:22.4 in the second Varsity 8 race, which earned them

second place behind Marist (7:18.3). Freshmen Wenel Jais-Cross, Han-

nah Powers, Leinon, Friel and sopho-more Monica Worsley (Coxswain) took second place in the Varsity 4 race with a time of 8:17.8.

Bannister commented on DiSil-vestro’s confidence in the squad head-ing into the conference champion-ship.

“He was pretty confident in us placing in the conference,” Bannister said. “We’ve been really amping up our training. We’ve been training for this. It was nice to see it all work out.”

The Bulldogs joined the MAAC

in 2009 and competed in their first conference championship in 2010, where they finished in fourth place. The following year, the championship was cancelled due to weather. This time, Drake claimed its first title.

Next year, the MACC winner will receive an automatic bid to advance to the NCAA Rowing Championship for the first time. A conference must support at least six teams to be eligible to receive a bid.

The Bulldogs still have one final competition left this season, the Dad Vail Championships in Philadelphia, Pa. next Saturday.

Worley, Jennings lead Bulldogs in MVC Championships

GOLF

MENWind gusts reaching 25-30 mph

troubled the Drake men’s golf team at Tuesday’s State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Championship in Hutchin-son, Kan., dropping the Bulldogs into seventh place.

Freshman Dane Worley and fresh-man Blake Huser led Drake on Monday, the first day of the tournament, shooting a 72 and a 75, respectively, in the second round. The pair pushed Drake into third place after the initial 18 holes en route to the team’s 292 score after day one ac-tion, which consisted of two rounds.

Worley and Huser finished the day tied for 11th place individually.

Junior Ben Lyons finished day one in 14th place, registering rounds of 76 and 73.

After finishing Monday tied for third place, Drake entered day two with con-fidence. Day two consisted of one final round of golf.

“We were all just feeding off each other,” Worley said. “We knew the course. It’s a tough course. We were all on the same page. To have a legitimate

chance to win today was a good feeling for us all.”

Blustery conditions hindered Drake’s hopes for day two, though.

Huser led the Bulldogs with a final-round score of 76 en route to Drake’s 910 total. Huser tied for 12th in the indi-vidual rankings.

Alongside Huser, Worley and Lyons earned tournament flags reserved for the MVC’s top-18 individual finishers.

Worley and Lyons recorded identical 18th-place finishes, carding scores of 81 and 80, respectively, during Tuesday’s final round.

Drake’s day-two frustration was two-fold for Worley.

“The wind definitely affected us all,” he said. “We also had a poor stretch where we didn’t make many birdies. It was tough.”

WOMENThanks to three golfers shooting

scores in the 70s, the Drake women’s golf team finished eighth of 10 teams at the State Farm Missouri Valley Con-ference Championship on April 24 in Terre Haute, Ind.

After a rocky start, the Bulldogs com-pleted day three carding 317 in the final round.

Sophomore Hadley Jennings guided Drake’s opening round, shooting 77.

Junior Chelsey Falk and freshman Danielle Brooks completed the Bulldogs’ top three, both shooting 81.

Shaky shooting plagued Drake on day two as the Bulldogs registered a 341 score, good for ninth place.

Despite day two’s shaky perfor-mance, the Bulldogs entered day three with determination.

Drake head coach Leanne Smith lauded her team’s final round push.

“Hadley (Jennings), Danielle (Brooks) and Chelsey (Falk) all played really well today and this was a positive way to end our campaign,” she said in a Drake ath-letics press release.

Jennings tied her season-low score with a team-best 75.

Falk led Drake shooting a final-round 78, good for 33rd place individually.

Brooks finished one place behind Falk shooting 77.

Seniors Paige Menze and Christy Wittmer completed their Drake careers carding 87 and 91, to finish in 44th and 47th place.

Missouri State took the title shooting 910 overall while the Bulldogs finished eighth shooting 981.

The Drake softball team swept Evansville 3-0 last weekend in Evans-ville, Ind., improving the Bulldogs to 23-27 overall and 14-10 in the Mis-souri Valley Conference.

Drake opened game one with a defensive statement thanks to sopho-more pitcher Jordan Gronewold.

Gronewold threw a four-hit shut-out with two strikeouts, allowing only one walk en route to Drake’s 2-0 vic-tory.

Gronewold’s statement wasn’t lim-ited to Drake’s defense, though. She launched her third home run of the season in the second inning.

Sophomore infielder Amy Pierce registered Drake’s second run. After an errant throw by Evansville catch-er Halie Malone, Pierce and senior infielder Torey Craddock’s double steal attempt plated Pierce, extending Drake’s lead to 2-0.

Junior Macie Silliman, sophomore Liz Buck and sophomore Nicole Ran-del each registered a hit in game one.

Freshman pitcher Rebekah Schmidt started game two. She pitched seven innings and allowed only one unearned run and one hit. Schmidt struck out nine, improving her record to 6-8 this season.

Drake used five Evansville errors to complete game two’s 6-1 win.

The Bulldogs capped Saturday’s performance with Sunday’s 7-3 vic-tory.

Schmidt again directed Drake, pitching seven innings and striking out nine.

Drake scored seven runs on 11 hits compared to Evansville’s three runs on six hits.

Three sophomores guided Drake’s offensive efforts.

Randel collected one run and one

RBI to lead all hitters.Buck notched one run on 2-for-4

hitting.Pierce registered two stolen bases

and two RBI. For Schmidt, last weekend’s series

displayed Drake’s improved offense.“I think we’ve really improved

with our hitting,” she said. “A lot of times at the beginning of the season, we would lose and have zero runs a lot, and I think we’ve put up a fight a lot more.”

Drake awaits Wichita State on Saturday and despite the Shockers’ No. 8 MVC standing, Schmidt ex-pects a battle.

“I’m expecting them to really put up a fight,” she said. “They are tech-nically at the bottom right now, but they’re on the edge of getting into the tournament, so they’re going to be putting it all in. This is it for them. If they lose, they’re out of the tourna-ment.”

This weekend’s series is equally critical for No. 5 Drake entering the May 10-12 State Farm MVC Cham-pionship, Schmidt said.

“I’d really like for us to go in with momentum just because we’ve played everyone, we’ve seen everyone, and I think if we can just go in with great confidence and great momentum, it will be really good for us,” she said. “Anyone can really beat anyone.”

Although powerhouses like North-ern Iowa and Illinois State loom in Drake’s future, one goal tops Crad-dock’s MVC tournament to-do list.

“Getting past the first game,” she said. “I think since we’re a pretty young team, we’re going to have a lot of nerves and expectations, and I think if we get past that first one, we’ll be good.”

Drake takes on Wichita State at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday at Ron Buel Field. Sunday’s game is set for 12 p.m.

Drake sweeps Evansville

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