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After a few hiccups early on in the day, the stars of NBC’s “Parks and Recre-ation” made it to Pomerantz Stage to meet Drake Univer-sity voters.

Rashida Jones and Adam Scott made their first stop in a two-day trip around Iowa universities on Saturday. They spoke to a crowd of about 75 people concerning the importance of voting and going out to support their candidate.

“It’s inspiring to see all of you doing this,” Scott said to the audience.

The two of them joked about possible hostile situa-tions that could occur during canvassing for a candidate during the big Cy-Hawks game.

“The main thing we’re

trying to get out though, is early voting,” Scott said. “This is incredibly impor-tant work you’re doing here today, to spread the word of Sept. 27 being the first day that early voting starts.”

Jones told the crowd they were “awesome” and thanked them for the dedica-tion they have.

The two actors encour-aged the students to tell their friends to go out and vote and canvass their com-munities to help register vot-ers.

In an interview with The Times-Delphic, Jones said she was out encouraging col-lege students to vote because there are a lot issues that are important to students.

They also said coming out to Iowa universities was important because Iowa is a swing state.

“Iowa, historically holds so much weight, with the

caucus and with the early voting, and I think they really do send a message to the rest of the country,” Jones said. “All eyes are on Iowa, I think, all the time when it comes to an election.”

Scott added that it was in-spiring to see how involved Iowa voters are in elections.

The two of them also wanted to reach the voter base outside of the realm of the Internet.

“There’s just something about connecting with peo-ple personally that is impos-sible to do on the Internet,” Jones said.

After leaving Drake, Jones and Scott headed to Iowa State and the University of Northern Iowa. Yesterday they finished up their two-day trip in Cedar Rapids and the University of Iowa.

The meet and greet was sponsored by Bulldogs for Barack.

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While the student sena-tors waited patiently for the Academic Affairs Commit-tee to arrive, the sounds of Phoenix entered the Fish-bowl in Cowles Library.

The agenda for the eve-ning was sparse — No mo-tions to be voted on.

Once the AAC arrived, the meeting started, and only lasted for 40 minutes. Chair of the AAC, Sen. Stephen Slade apologized for the de-lay explaining they were in a committee meeting with the new provost, Deneese Jones. During the meeting, Dean of Students Sentwali Bakari spoke about some of the safety concerns students have been having recently.

“You might be aware of a shooting that took place last night (Sept. 5) over by Drake Park,” he said. “That’s a sec-ond time we’ve had some-thing in that area.”

Bakari said the university

deemed the shooting not a threat after calls to cam-pus security, marketing and President David Maxwell.

He explained that to deem an incident not a threat to campus various factors have to be taken into consideration such as are students involved, the loca-tion of the incident and what type of incident.

“The president is con-cerned,” Bakari said. Because of this concern they are set-ting up meetings with the chief of Des Moines Police to talk about crime trends in that area.

Slade brought up frustra-tion from social media that night when students wanted clarification on the location of the incident. Tweets went out from the Des Moines Register saying the location was Drake Park, but there was confusion as to if it was Drake Park apartments on 34th Street, or the Drake Park area just east of cam-pus.

He said it might be good

in the future to get some sort of communication about an incident on or near campus.

“It’s a tough call some-times,” Bakari said. He said there is some caution to make sure all the informa-tion they send out is con-firmed.

Student Body President Amanda Laurent began the meeting with discussion about committee appoint-ments and a new weekly blog she is starting for Sen-ate. Her blog will be posted every Monday on the Senate website (drakesenate.com).

“This past Monday was low-key, but next Monday I hope to get into meatier is-sues,” she said. Laurent said a monthly newsletter would also be going out at the end of the month to keep the stu-dent body informed.

Vice President of Student Life, David Karaz took the helm of the meeting next to speak about how many com-mittee applications went out and the start of Senate Executive meetings. Sen-

ate Exec is made up of the nine senators-at-large, the student body president, the vice presidents and the first-year senator once he or she is elected.

Karaz added that all members of Senate could at-tend those meetings, even if they are not an at-large. The exec meetings are more of an informal meeting for the senators to discuss what will be coming up around the ta-ble in future meetings.

He spoke about a Student Senate Five-Year Strategic plan that was produced by former senators and the Sen-ate Feedback Initiative.

“Five years ago, there was a strategic plan that student senate put out, and it was never touched, and it has not to be found,” he said. Once a month, senators would bring one person (administra-tor, Des Moines Leader) and set them up with a senator to discuss what the organi-zation does and then have

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The end of each course signals course evaluations, and so students complete them and scribble their com-ments and rank their profes-sors on a scale from one to five in multiple categories. But then they leave, and likely they will not find out whether or not their evalua-tions were taken to heart.

Lucky for senior Daniel Park, one of his professors distributes mid-semester evaluations so that Park and his classmates are able to witness the effectiveness.

“One of my professors usually does a mid-semes-ter course evaluation so he can improve the teaching in the middle of the semester,” Park said. “He reads through every evaluation and really listens to what the student says.”

But other students are

not as lucky, and do not have the proof of effectiveness that Park has had.

“There’s some professors who hand them out, and you never hear from them again,” sophomore Daniel Hansen said.

However, according to deans and professors from multiple schools at Drake, the evaluations are a seri-ous matter and are used in a myriad of ways.

“It allows the students to give feedback to the pro-fessors about what worked and what didn’t work,” said Kathleen Richardson, direc-tor and associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. “The course evaluations are also looked at by the admin-istration and are part of the tenure and promotion

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When asked what traits he would consider in select-ing the Drake Family of the Year, first-year student Nick Havlicek responded after a few moments of thought.

“I’d say a Drake Family of the Year really strives to be-come part of the culture at Drake. Multiple family mem-bers get involved and try to make Drake an even better place than it is now.”

The Family of the Year award was engineered in the mid-1990s to recognize the parents and families that contribute and assist students in the Drake ex-perience. The award disap-

peared in the early 2000s but was reinstated by the National Parent Association Board of Directors in 2010. A committee of Board mem-bers reviews the nomina-tions, one by one, and selects a family to honor.

Blake Campbell, director of the office of alumni rela-tions, said the criteria for se-lection is based on “engage-ment and support of their students and experience, ac-tive involvement on campus through attending events or volunteering, any financial support to Drake and/or any personal or family hardships that the family has overcome to make their student(s) ed-ucation possible.”

The Shawd family, of Eden Prairie, Minn., fits that

description to the letter. Jeff is the oldest of three Shawd children, all of whom gradu-ated from Drake. Jeff holds bachelors and masters de-grees, graduating in 1981 and 1983. Jeff and Lynnette Shawd’s oldest son Andrew is a junior, double majoring in finance and accounting. Their niece Marina is a se-nior studying magazine jour-nalism.

Jeff and Lynnette both serve on the National Parent Board. They also assist in the recruitment of prospective students in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Jeff also is an active alumnus of the Sig-ma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

But Jeff, an executive with General Electric Corp., made perhaps his most signifi-

cant impact to Drake in an area that combined two of his passions: marketing and music.

After performing at the opening of the Turner Jazz Center in the spring of 2011, Jeff suggested to the Univer-sity that they “provide stu-dents with practical business experience by allowing them to develop a comprehensive marketing plan to introduce the TJC to consumers and the music community while earning college credit in the process.”

Not only did Drake accept his proposal, the University also asked if he would teach the class. Five undergrads took the class and earned three credit hours. At the conclusion of the course,

the students presented the marketing plan to members of the Drake Marketing and Jazz departments.

When asked why the award is meaningful to his family, Jeff gave two per-spectives. He first cited the opportunity to attend Drake and building what would become lasting professional relationships.

“One reason why Drake is such an outstanding institu-tion is that it recognizes the value of linkages between academics and the business world – and its students are the major beneficiaries,” says Jeff.

Secondly, he praises Drake and its staff for being open to creative ideas, par-ents especially, to contrib-

ute to the university. “Being able to experience Drake as a parent and give back in a way that supports our son’s continued success, while creating unique and mean-ingful ways to contribute our talents and resources to help the University fulfill its mis-sion of providing an excep-tional learning environment for its students has been very gratifying.”

Know a family you’d like to nominate? Students, faculty, staff and parents can nominate a family via blueView in the spring. The Shawds will be honored on Drake’s Parent/Family weekend, which runs from Sept. 21 through 23.

process and annual review of the faculty.”

Since Drake also has an accredited journalism pro-gram, dictated by the Ac-crediting Council on Educa-tion in Journalism and Mass Communications, the evalu-ations must ensure that the course correlates with the ACEJMC’s standards.

“We have to prove that our students are learning these things,” Richardson said. “Some of the standards are built into the questions on the evaluations.”

This year the SJMC evalu-ations will be slightly altered to meet those standards, one of which is the expectation that students are learning digital communication. Oth-erwise, evaluation templates are generally not majorly changed for several years — except for the fact that pro-fessors are able to add their own questions at the conclu-sion of the template for their personal use.

According to Dean and professor in the Drake Law

School, Allan Vestal, the eval-uation has not changed since he’s been at Drake, since 2009.

“Having consistency in the form means we can com-pare them from year to year,” he said. “When we use them for tenure evaluations, we can compare them to other professors.”

The evaluation process is different for most schools. SJMC has primarily hard copy evaluations while the College of Business and Pub-lic Administration’s evalu-ations are generally pro-cessed through scanners.

But regardless of method, all have the same purposes.

Through all of the admin-istration’s use of the evalua-tions in determining tenure, determining whether the standards are met for out-side organizations such as ACEJMC, or determining pro-motions, all determine one major thing: whether or not a professor’s teaching has been effective. And frankly, that’s all the students care

about.“This is a tried and true

method,” said Charles Ed-wards, dean of both the CBPA and SJMC. “It’s not a popularity contest (for pro-fessors). It’s really used by the individual and by the col-lege to measure effect and if we’re teaching what we say we’re teaching.”

Most faculty members agreed that the most impor-tant section of a student’s evaluation is the comments section. It says more than the one to five rankings and provides sincere advice and suggestions from students.

“As a faculty member my-self, I always tell the students that the written comments are the most valuable,” said Richardson. “I think stu-dents should feel confident that the feedback they’re giving through the course evaluations are taken very seriously.”

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With recruitment done, the Greek community has seen record-high numbers of new recruits. Senior Heather Boone, President of the Panhellenic Council, said a record 247 women went through the recruitment process this year.

“It has steadily increased each year and 247 is a num-ber we have not had in a long time, if ever before,” Boone said. “The past years and this year have shown that wom-en continually sign up after they come to school and see what Drake has to offer.”

While the fraternities are not seeing the same acceler-ated growth, according to senior Michael Riebel, Inter-fraternity Council Vice-Pres-ident, they are experiencing growth both in members and in the number of frater-nities coming to campus.

“We have grown over the past four years and that re-flects too in the number of fraternities that have started to colonize here at Drake,” Riebel said. “You can look at Pi Kappa Phi, they just started coming on campus two-and-a-half years ago…We are having another fra-ternity come to campus later this fall, Alpha Tau Omega.”

First-Year recruit Court-ney Hasemann decided to rush because she was look-ing for the type of bond she

felt with her high school teammates.

“Just having that core group of girls to go to when you need anything,” Hase-mann said. “You meet a lot of new people and you can make a lot more connections because a lot of the women who are in the Greek orga-nization are also involved in campus organizations.”

Hasemann believes that involvement is why many of her fellow classmates decid-ed to rush.

“I think a lot of girls de-cided to rush because the Greek life gets you involved and you get to meet a lot of people,” Hasemann said.

Fellow first-year recruit Ricky Menendez joined re-cruitment largely out of cu-riosity.

“I wanted to know ex-actly what the frat life was about.. (the) curiosity to find out exactly what it is like to be in a frat or sorority,” Menedez said. “I think a lot them, they just don’t want the college life they want something else out of it. You are not only interacting with people in this university or this community, you are connected with the outside world through your frat.”

Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Brittan Etzen-houser attributes the growth to a number of different sources.

“We were lucky in that Drake has more incoming first-year students than we

had last year. So that also helps us, having a larger pool of student to pull from.” Etzenhouser said. “(Our women) did a lot of different promotional materials and PR pushes. The number is a direct result of that.”

Riebel also believes that advertising towards admit-ted students days played a role.

“We have a Greek life ses-sion that people can go to… Students go there and ex-plain what Greek life is like and why we joined,” Riebel said. “I think when you can get that perspective from a student who is pretty honest it intrigues the first-year stu-dent and they are interested in learning more.”

However, this increased interest can create anxiety for recruits like Hasemann.

“Being a person going through recruitment it is nerve racking because there are only so many people who can get picked to be in each house,” Hasemann said. “The fact that there are only five houses limits your chances.”

Riebel does not think this will be the case for fraterni-ties.

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meeting. At the end of the meeting feedback would be provided to the body.

“And if we were to do this, I would make sure not to lose it,” Karaz said.

After office reports, Sena-tors offered up news from their committees. A flurry of proxies spoke up for their re-spective senators who were out because of previous commitments.

Slade talked about his

committee’s meeting with Jones.

“She’s definitely a very fun woman,” he said.

In that meeting, she asked the committee what they thought was going well at Drake, and what challenges they saw the university fac-ing that they would be will-ing to work on. Slade asked the senators around the table to put in their thoughts on those questions.

At the end of the meet-ing, Laurent touched on the Knapp Center weight room and informed the table that the weight room was not paid for with students’ tu-ition, but rather special gifts to the university. She said sports clubs could use the Knapp Center weight facili-ties as long as there was a coach.

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July 17, 10:42 a.m. A robbery occurred at 10:35 a.m. at the 2400 block of University Ave. The case is closed due to arrest.

July 18, 8:20 p.m. A case of criminal mischief was reported on the 1100 block of 26th Street. The case is closed due to no investigative leads.

Sunday, Aug. 5, 2:47 a.m.A hit and run resulting in property damage was

reported at the 1600 block of 30th Street. The case remains open but the DMPD has taken over.

Thursday, Aug. 9, 7 a.m.Graffiti was reported at an off campus location. The case was closed as there were no investigative leads.

Tuesday, Aug. 21An individual was harassed and stalked via cell phone in June. The case is closed for judicial review.

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Friday, Aug. 24, 8 a.m.A theft occurred between 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 20, and 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 21. Case has been taken over by the Des Moines Police Department for investigation.

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Citizens would rather be here than thereGrass may not be truly greener on the other side

Without a doubt, aren’t we so lucky to be Here? I mean, let’s be honest, Here is so much better than There. At least we have freedom Here, which I certainly don’t take for granted.

Could you imagine living in a place like There? Take, for instance, the fact that a citizen of There can

be indefinitely detained by his government. Yeah, I know! Crazy. Want to hear something even more shocking about that? It was a policy that was passed and signed by the There president in the name of security. I repeat: In the name of security. Really?

Do the citizens of There feel that much safer when their government can indefinitely detain them without trial? Could you imagine the shock and uproar if that happened Here! Our adept and strong principled citizens would never allow it.

Perhaps this is sufficient for you to really appreciate Here, though. That’s okay, just take a look at the drug laws over There; certainly, we wouldn’t be so ignorant

as to continually prohibit a drug without any reasonable effect from the policy. However, that is exactly what they do There. The government of There has, for the past many decades, declared a war on drugs in order to promote “healthier living” and reinforce normative values against

drugs; the only problem, of course, is that the prohibition hasn’t worked. Drug use hasn’t been deterred despite billions of dollars being spent every year aimed at this very goal. Still, the stigma attached to drugs — rightly or wrongly — creates a feeling that legalizing it, however economically sound this would be, just isn’t the right thing to do. After all, what about the kids? I love when citizens of There say that: What about the kids?! Such a classic form of demagoguery, surely below the people of Here.

And then there is the insurmountable debt over There. Could you imagine having a debt so large that it has grown beyond your own country’s GDP? Or the

December 21, 2012. June 6, 2006. Y2K. These are just three of the hundreds of possible doomsdays available to the planet and its inhabitants. Although there were other instances where various individuals thought the world would end due to the Rapture, or the planets aligning or because Jesus Christ would return again, these three instances are the most popular.

Some people believe that the world will truly end on Dec. 21, because it is the end of the Mayan calendar. The Mayans were known for being extremely accurate. Whether it’s a polar shift, a black hole alignment or a giant meteor hitting the

Earth that causes the end of the world — it is impossible to guess at this time. There are also massive critics on the situation, including NASA, just like there were with the other two popular dates that were supposed to be the apocalypse. Then, there’s my simple common sense thought: the Mayans did not include leap days on their calendar. Following this logic, with the leap days we’ve had since they existed, the world would have ended several months ago. Yet, here we stand still freaking out over what a bunch of dead people said thousands of years ago.

June 6, 2006, 6/6/6 or the “Number of the Beast,” as it had been named, was

supposed to be the day when one of two things were to happen. First, the Rapture was supposed to occur. The Rapture is a Biblical idea where millions of people are to disappear within a blink

of an eye without leaving a trace. Those left behind will be condemned to die. Or, second, the Anti-Christ (another religious concept) was supposed to reveal

his or her self on this day. The anti-Christ is to bring the end of the world by bringing everyone together, but silently murdering all who resist. There is still no official anti-Christ today, yet in recent years, it has been rumored that anyone from President Barack Obama to Justin Bieber could be the anti-Christ. Again, it’s hypothetical with no proof whatsoever.

The year 2000, or Y2K was not a religious apocalypse at all. Instead, it was a technology scare. Many people thought the world would collapse due to technology failure. The failure would have come from the numerical dating systems crashing, because

earlier programming only had two-digit numbering (98 for 1998, etc.). Once the year 2000 would start, the numbers couldn’t go back to 00, because that was 1900. The government asked everyone to stock up on supplies just to be safe. Instead of celebrating for the New Year, people were bunkering down in shelters expecting the Terminator to reenact itself on Earth. However, it was a complete hoax. It was an exceptionally easy fix on all programming.

If going out and buying supplies to have ready on Dec. 21, eases the mind, then do it. However, don’t be surprised if the world is still completely normal on Dec. 22. That means for

students everywhere: don’t expect your professors to accept the excuse “I thought the world was going to end.” Other dates have come and gone that were supposed to be the end of the world, what’s so special about 2012?

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fact that it is in trillions of dollars, an amount so large that it is nearly inconceivable to think about. I mean, do the people of There really buy that old, outdated economic theory that they have to spend trillions more in deficits to get out of debt? When are they going to realize, over There that is, that spending in deficit will merely create more debt? I guess the citizens of There find it easier to simply not talk about it, look the other way, get lost watching reality TV shows (thank goodness our

society is not so debased as to actually place reality TV show “stars” on a pedestal), and pretend like the debt isn’t ticking upward at an alarming rate.

Now, you’ve heard about the indefinite detention over There, as well as the counterproductive (although benevolent) drug laws and the massive debt. So, obviously, being a reasonable person, you — a citizen of over Here — must be thinking that There would never be an acceptable place to live. I do very much so agree.

However, this was not an exhaustive list. We have still not discussed the secrecy of the central bank over There, which prints money to support their deficit spending at the cost of devaluing their own currency, or even the fact that There’s biggest city’s mayor banned soda pop bottles that are 16 ounces or over! Of course, the mayor did it for the health of his constituents. But, really, do the people of There think that’s acceptable? As C.S. Lewis asserted, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny

expressed for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” Totally.

So, after absorbing this information about over There, take comfort that you live Here. Don’t fret about the policies of There, which would assuredly never get off the ground Here, and remember that your freedoms are unlimited. Here, no doubt, is better than There. Right?

Levine is a junior politics major and can be reached at [email protected]

Drake University hosted a panel discussion Saturday afternoon on the future of the Arab Spring movement.

Moderated by Drake pol-itics and international rela-tions professor Mahmoud Hamad, the event featured three different Arab Spring experts who shared their views on the cur-rent political climate in the Middle East and Northern Africa after the uprisings of the past year and a half.

“The Arab Spring is what I consider to be the most important event in the 21st century and to be able to listen to different opinions from three nationally renowned scholars is a great opportu-nity,” Hamad said.

One of those scholars, Michael Wahid Hanna of the Century Foundation, conceded that the political developments in the Arab world are dubious.

“I think it’s not a point and time when we can draw definitive conclusions about what is and is not happen-ing in the region,” Hanna

said. That uncertainty also

applies to America’s involvement in the Arab Spring, said panelist Marc

Lynch, a politics profes-sor at George Washington University.

“Americans always talk about democracy in the re-gion, but don’t always want it,” Lynch said.

The panel was co-

sponsored by the National Security Network and the Iowa United Nations As-sociation, whose members joined Drake students and Des Moines residents in an estimated crowd of 80 in Al-iber Hall for the discussion.

Panelist Mark Goldberg of the UN Dispatch took the floor to explain the interna-tional response to the Arab spring and the “effective stalemate” of relations with Syria.

On a state level, Execu-tive Director of the Iowa United Nations Association,

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just want the type of person we are looking for,” Riebel said. “If there (are) more than they number they were think of they are going still going to give out however many bids they want.”

Eztenhouser agreed with Riebel on the opportunities that are presented by frater-nities.

“More likely than not you will end with a chapter. The only gray area is whether or not that is your first choice chapter.” Etzenhouser said. “Our hope at the end is that they end up getting placed with a chapter and they are excited about it and they are ready to start their new ex-perience in the sorority or fraternity.”

Etzenhouser said if the number of women being ac-cepted does grow too high and the pledge classes reach around sixty, twice as high as last year, than the Panhel-lenic Council, would look at bringing in another sorority.

“In my opinion that is pretty significant and in some cases that twice as

many new members as there are active members,” Etzen-houser said. “That ratio is off balance that would call for another group to come in. That is a good problem to have.”

Riebel does not feel that an increase in numbers would affect the fraternities.

“The fraternities would be ecstatic if the numbers just went through the roof, in all honesty. I do not think it we mean they cut more it just means we will see big-ger classes,” Riebel said. “If our numbers hit over 200 the guys would not blink an eye. They would just do the same process, it do not change on how many people are going through.”

One potential problem Riebel does see is the lack of space on Greek street.

“There is not any oppor-tunity for another chapter to have a house on 34th Street unless a chapter leaves,” Riebel said. “That is a chal-lenge that new chapters have to face as well as chap-ters looking to re-colonize

back at Drake.”While Etzenhouser

agrees that adding another house directly on 34th Street with the current chapters would be a problem, she does not see it as a large one.

“I do not necessarily agree that there is not any more room for another group on that street because it is ever evolving and chang-ing,” Etzenhouser said. “So it would be interesting to see if they break off more on the Forest area or establish a second area of Greek Street.”

The necessity of these changes is up in the air. Boone hopes that 250 women would participate in recruitment next year, but believes that it is up to the future leaders of Greek Street.

“I would really hope that they would (reach 250). It depends on the next Panhel-lenic Council, the next group of leaders in our commu-nity,” Boone said. “How well they promote our commu-nity to the first years and the people on campus.”

Abbey BarrowStaff [email protected]

“Iowa has a great connection to international and global issues. I love seeing turnouts like this because it shows people really do care.”

— Vassef Yasher, Executive Director Iowa United Nations Association

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Yashar Vasef, praised in-volvement in world politics.

“Iowa has a great con-nection to international and global issues. I love seeing turnouts like this because it shows people really do care,“ Vasef said.

Leaders also see a trend whereby Drake students are seeking understanding of the Arab world.

“There is a growing interest in the student body in the Arab Spring and in taking Arabic,” Hamad said. “More students than ever

before went on the Egypt trip. Last May, there were 39.”

The Hamad-led Egypt trip in particular has in-volved students overseas.

“(Participants) had the opportunity to see the country firsthand and talk to journalists, politicians and activists,” said David Skidmore, whose Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship at Drake was another sponsor of Saturday’s talk.

For students who experi-

enced Egypt, their involve-ment in the region has car-ried far beyond returning to America.

“It’s had an impact being there last May and see-ing what people hope for,” said Caitlin Podemski, 21, a senior music and business major from Rockford, Ill. “I read the paper to see what’s happening in Egypt and keep up.

Yet as the conflict con-tinues to develop in Egypt and around the Arab world, uncertainty lingers.

“The success of what is underway is indeterminate,” Hanna said. “We could see a variety of outcomes, but the jury is still out,”

Meanwhile, there is still hope for a positive future.

“I really hope they can start stable democracies,” Podemski said. “I really wish Syria would just let go and we could see an end to the violence. But I think they’re moving in the right path and hopefully other countries will respond.”

MAHMOUD HAMAD, moderator, and panelists MARK GOLDBERG, MICHAEL WAHID HANNA AND MARC LYNCH speak about the events and themes of the Arab Spring movement.

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“We wanted to make sure we had a system which would be flexible to our needs and the students’ needs.”

— Carlyn Crowe, Drake professor

When recruited by Drake University, you probably heard about internships. They’re a point of pride for the school. A large percentage of our students have internships before their ju-nior year — a rare feat owed largely to worker friendly Des Moines and Drake’s programs. One of their most success-ful is now in its sixth year and still going strong.

Started in 2006, Career BluePrint was made to give students access to internships, jobs and work study opportunities.

“We wanted to make sure we had a system which would be flexible to our needs and the students’ needs,” said School of Journalism and Mass Communications Intern-ship Coordinator Carlyn Crowe.

Now the program has featured over 5,000 companies with an average of 600 jobs

available at any given time. There is no requirement for ap-plying to these jobs or using any of the other tools on BluePrint.

The website has announce-ments about large opportuni-ties such as presentations and workshops, a personalized profile page to show to employ-ers, and a section dedicated to documents such as resumes,

portfolios and cover letters.In addition to these tools,

there is Drake’s impressive job list. There are specific jobs listed for Drake students as well as nation-wide opportunities. Then you have the difficulty of narrowing down the list.

You can look at scholarships, internships, full-time jobs, post-graduate work or volunteer programs. Once you’ve complet-ed your profile, the website will also filter the listing to highlight the jobs that you are qualified for. Then all you have to do is click the “Apply” button, and the website will take your resume, cover letter and any other required material from your

documents page and send it straight to the company. It’s that simple.

The key to this process is persistence.

“Look often and apply when you see something that interests you as many are posted on a daily basis and some have a short

application deadline,” Crowe said.

If you’re interested in getting an internship through Drake, log in to BlueView, go to the student services tab and click on the blue square on the right lower tab labeled Career BluePrint.

Katie EricsonStaff [email protected]

Career BluePrint offers internships for students

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STUDENTS AND DRAKE COMMUNITY MEMBERS engage in a conversation on the Arab Spring movement with panel members. The panel was co-sponsored by Des Moines United Nations Association, Iowa United Nations Association, National Security Network and the Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship at Drake.

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Freshman Evy Van Genechten is only two weeks into her Drake women’s ten-nis career, but she’s already eyeing the Missouri Valley Conference’s top prize: the MVC team title.

“Coach, this morning, he sent us all a message,” Van Genechten said. “He was looking online, and he was looking through the confer-ence, and he said, ‘OK, guys, I think we could actually win this.’ So, we’re really focused on winning conference.”

Before the State Farm MVC Championship opens next spring, though, Drake’s five freshmen look to gain experience this fall. The Bulldogs’ fall season opens Friday with the Drake Fall Invitational.

“It’s our first year as freshmen we all have to get used to it,” Van Genechten said.

Drake’s freshman class includes two European play-ers, who face added adjust-ments.

Clay is the primary sur-face in Europe, but the U.S. favors hard courts. For Van Genechten and fellow fresh-man Lea Kozulic, team play is also new.

The adjustments are fa-miliar for junior Klavdija

Rebol, who hails from Kranj, Slovenia.

“It’s a little different from the spring, so first of all, we have new players who are European, so they are not used to the surface and play-ing on teams,” Rebol said. “I think we just need to get used to it first and see what’s going to happen.”

Despite Drake’s young roster, Rebol is already opti-mistic about spring play.

“It’s kind of hard to start with five freshmen,” Rebol said. “I think they’re all pret-ty good. We’ve played some matches already. They’re good players, so with a lit-tle bit of matches this fall, it’s going to work out in the spring season.”

For Rebol, new players bring new energy, new per-sonalities and new leader-ship.

“It’s really good to have new people on the team,” Rebol said. “We gain a lot of girls who are new and ex-cited about it. We need to get together, like me, Ali (Pat-terson), Amanda (Dick) and Nell (Boyd). We need to lead the team.”

Thomson expects Patter-son, Drake’s lone senior, to lead on the court and in the classroom.

“Ali is going to be a great role model,” Thomson said. “She’s a very good student.

She’s had a tough career with injuries and coming back, but she’s kind of seen where the program was and the pick-up that we’ve had, and she knows where this program can be.”

After finishing 22-7 last season, Thomson anticipates a strong 2012-13 campaign. He’s counting on the fresh-men to power Drake’s MVC title chase. Albeit lacking experience, Thomson said Drake’s young lineup boasts athleticism and enthusiasm.

“The freshmen are going to be catalysts to drive the team this year,” Thomson said. “There are five new players that are all very ath-letic. They’re all very accom-plished tennis players, and they’re going to be the ones that add wheels to the ve-hicle that’s Ali and Klavdija and Amanda and Nell from last year.”

Thanks to a newfound can-do attitude, the Bulldogs are looking to top last year’s 5-2 MVC record.

“It’s the small things that we didn’t get down last year,” Thomson said. “I think last year we reached the point of, ‘I think we can, I think we can, I think we can,’ and now, the next thing we’re going to do, especially for returning players is getting to the point of, ‘I know we will.’”

Five freshmen look to drive Drake’s fall campaignTaylor SouleSports [email protected]

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A golden goal from North-western’s Chris Ritter at the 92:25 mark propelled the Wildcats over the Bulldogs to a 2-1 victory in the Northern Illinois Invitational opener on Friday.

The loss dropped the Bulldogs’ record to 1-4 as they continue to play out their competitive non-con-ference schedule. The Wild-cats came into the game having received votes in the latest National Soccer Coach-es Association of America

(NSCAA) Top-25 national poll.

“Again the outcome was a little disheartening, but when you’re playing

a strong Big Ten team like Northwestern, you have to put away chances,” said head coach Sean Holmes in a Drake athletics press release. “We realized when we grad-uated the players we did last year that we’d have days like this, back-to-back days like this, but the challenge now is for a young and less experi-enced team to step up and in-crease our scoring chances.”

Northwestern opened up the scoring at the 27:03 mark when Kyle Schickel

found the back of the net for his second goal of the year. The Bulldogs went into the break trailing 1-0.

Fifth-year senior Michael Thaden scored his first goal of the year off a free kick to tie the game up in the 52nd minute.

Both squads attempted to break the deadlock and avoid overtime, with the Wildcats edging the Bulldogs with a 10-6 shot advantage during regulation. Redshirt junior Rich Gallagher reg-istered a pair of key saves in the second half to keep the game tied up at one and force overtime.

Gallagher made two more

key saves in the extra period, but it was the third shot on goal in overtime that ended the match and gave the Wild-cats the win.

The Wildcats edged the Bulldogs with a 13-6 shot advantage and also regis-tered a 5-1 edge in corner kicks. Holmes felt his squad generated enough scoring opportunities to come out with the win.

“I have coached teams that couldn’t make scoring opportunities, but this team can, and now we have to put them away,” Holmes said.

Gallagher’s four saves all came in the second half and overtime. Thaden paced the

Bulldogs with three shots and junior Addison Eck reg-istered two shots.

Holmes expressed con-cern with the inability of Drake to score in the run of play.

“Thaden’s goal was world class,” Holmes said. “But that now means that in four of the five games we have lost, we have yet to score a goal in the run of play.”

While the Bulldogs’ 1-4 start is disheartening, Drake has faced a tough non-confer-ence schedule and has faced quality opponents, such as Cincinnati, Marquette and now, Northwestern. Drake’s four losses have come by a

combined five goals. Following the North-

ern Illinois Invitational, the Bulldogs will play four con-secutive games away from the Cownie Soccer Complex. Drake will take on William and Mary on Sept. 14 and will face Old Dominion on Sept. 16. Both games will take place in Omaha, Neb.

Drake closed out their tournament action on Sun-day against Northern Illi-nois. Details from the game against Northern Illinois will be available in the next issue of The Times-Delphic.

Eduardo Tamez ZamarripaCopy [email protected]

Wildcats edge Bulldogs at Northern Illinois InvitationalMen’s Soccer

Seeking to stage a ma-jor upset, the Drake football team fell just short, falling to No. 4 Montana State 34-24 Saturday night at Drake Stadium in front of a large crowd. Despite holding a lead for a large portion of the game and winning the turnover battle, the Bobcats were able to ride a surge of fourth quarter momentum to improve to 2-0 in head coach Rob Ash’s return to Des Moines after 18 seasons as the Bulldogs’ head coach.

“This is not OK that we lost, we wanted to come in here tonight and win this game,” said head coach Chris Creighton in a Drake athlet-ics press release. “Don’t get me wrong, that’s a great foot-ball team that we played, but we came out here to win this game.”

Leading 24-21 at the end of the third quarter, a 30-yard run by Tray Robinson gave Montana State a lead that they would not relin-quish, stopping Drake twice more on fourth downs sand-wiched around a pass from

DeNarius McGhee to Tanner Bleskin which provided the final margin of victory.

The Drake offense had a very proficient day, espe-cially through the air, led by fifth-year senior Michael Pi-atkowski’s 311 yards passing on 25 completions, including a touchdown to sophomore Michael Hudson, his first as a Bulldog.

Rushing the ball was an-other story, as the Bulldogs could only muster 59 rushing yards, but did score twice on the ground with Piatkowski and junior TJ James getting the ball in the end zone.

Defensively, the Bulldogs didn’t play like a team that gave up 34 points, at times imposing their will on the Montana State offense, espe-cially in the second quarter where Drake held the ball for over 10 minutes while hold-ing the Bobcats to under 30 yards of offense.

The Bulldogs recorded three sacks on defense. Ju-nior Brett Park, senior Bran-don Coleman and fifth-year senior Tyler Moorehead each recorded a sack, giving them 12 team sacks on the season. Pacing the team in tackles was sophomore John Hu-

gunin with 13 stops, while ju-nior Travis Merritt compiled 12 tackles as well as a big forced fumble that stopped a Montana State drive early in the fourth quarter.

Following a relatively qui-et first quarter that featured one score from the Bobcats’ Cody Kirk, Drake exploded for 17 points in the second quarter on James’ one-yard run and Hudson’s 15-yard reception. That continued Hudson’s big half as he also ran a fake punt 30 yards on a fourth-and-six, setting the stage for James’ touchdown.

Despite the defeat, the Bulldogs’ performance should give them confidence as they head to Indiana State next Saturday for their final non-conference game of the season.

“There’s a lot of dis-appointment right now,” Creighton said. “I’m so proud of our team and I told them I love and respect them so much. We wanted for them to experience the joy of win-ning this game, but we’ll watch the film and move for-ward, but I wouldn’t coach another team in the nation.”

Mike WendlandtStaff [email protected]

Bulldogs’ upset bid foldsFootball

Late offensive push lifts No. 4 Montana State over Drake

WIDE RECEIVER MICHAEL HUDSON (above) leaps to catch the football on Saturday against No. 4 Montana State at Drake Stadium. Hudson registered 30 yards and scored a touchdown.

Joel Venzke | staff photographer

Get out your old high school cleats, personalized frat jerseys and sweatbands because intramurals start this week. Let me introduce myself. I am Joanie Barry, one of the new additions to the intramural supervisor staff. I am also the new regu-lar intramural column writ-er. If you are looking for me I am the short, blond super-visor with the side ponytail. Don’t mistake my small stat-ure for meekness. I throw flags like Drew Brees throws touchdown passes.

To start off, let’s look at some of the changes to intra-murals this year.

First, you will find a lot of new faces around the intra-mural playing fields this sea-son. Haley Bosco, who wrote this column last year, has graduated. She is now gradu-ate assistant of intramural sports at Armstrong Atlantic State University. Hopefully, I can do her justice and keep you all entertained and in-formed with stories from in-tramurals.

Those of you who played the past two years knew Matt Gasser, our former in-tramurals coordinator. Matt has graduated and moved on to a permanent job at Uni-versity of Louisiana at La-fayette. Though everyone at intramurals misses our old boss, we have a new Colora-doan this year. Bill Moorman joins us fresh from Colorado State University-Pueblo. If you have any concerns or intramural questions, Bill is your guy.

Bill is not the only new face around intramurals. In May, four long time super-visors left intramurals and Drake for the real world. To fill their spot three new supervisors, including my-self, got called up to the big leagues. In addition, we re-cruited six of the best offi-cials to fill in at junior super-visor positions. Supervisors and junior supervisors bring

our staff to a total of twelve. We should be the perfect combination to serve your intramurals needs.

Now that all of the staff-ing news has been addressed let’s review three tips for a great intramurals season.

Last year, intramurals introduced a new website www.imleagues.com. Online IM Leagues allow you to cre-ate teams, invite players to a team and check game sched-ules. There are even discus-sion boards for trash talking. The site also provides a live chat option if you have any questions that need imme-diate answers. Being famil-iar with IM Leagues is im-portant because this is how teams sign up on the perma-nent roster. You must sign up online, or you cannot play in playoffs. I repeat you MUST sign up online if you want to play in playoffs.

Another fundamental rule that everyone on your intramurals team should know is: bring your ID. A player is not permitted to take the field without an ID. This rule applies to every-one, even officials and super-visors. There are absolutely no exceptions to this rule. For future reference, Olm-sted sells replacement IDs until 10 p.m.

Lastly, officials are your friends. Keep in mind our officials get paid minimum wage to referee these games. We are students too. We want you to have fun and be competitive but we also want fair and safe games. Before you start screaming asking for instant replay or insulting the nervous fresh-man ref, remember we all just want to have fun. Play ball!

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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]

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The Drake volleyball team wrapped up its non-conference schedule this weekend at the Inn Towner Invitational hosted by the University of Wisconsin -Madison. The Bulldogs (0-9) are still seeking their first win of the season after fall-ing to Wisconsin, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and North Da-kota State.

The Badgers took down the Bulldogs in straight sets (25-17, 25-17 and 25-19) on Friday in the Invitational opener. The loss to Wiscon-sin puts the Bulldog’s all-time record against the Uni-versity of Wisconsin at 3-6.

Senior Bentley Man-cini led the team with 9

kills while sophomore Erin Roggenburg tallied eight as-sists and five digs.

“We were down tonight but we once again pushed back and continued to run our offense and we blocked and dug with them,” said head coach Tony Sunga in a Drake athletics press re-lease. “We have been com-petitive all the (way) up til the 17-18 point in each of our sets this season, includ-ing tonight but we have to find a way to push through and win some.”

After the loss to Wiscon-sin, the Bulldogs took on the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers, who owned an all-time record of 4-3 against the Bulldogs. Last season, the Panthers defeated Drake 3-1 at the Sheraton West Des

Moines Invitational.Drake registered its sec-

ond straight-set loss of the weekend after falling 25-20, 25-19 and 25-22. Mancini again lit up the scoreboard with 10 kills from her out-side hitter position bringing her kill count to 49 over the last five games.

Sophomore Amanda Platte tallied five kills, while redshirt junior Sarah Mad-den registered 15 digs.

On Sept. 14 the Bulldogs are slated to take on their first Missouri Valley Con-ference opponent, Wichita State, in their first match of the season at the Knapp Center. The first 100 fans at the door will receive a free T-shirt from the team.

The Bulldogs were se-lected to finish 10th in the

MVC 2012 pre-season poll, while Northern Iowa won all 10 first place votes and was picked to finish first.

Drake lost both match-ups against Wichita State (9-3) last season.

North Dakota State dealt Drake a 3-1 loss in the Bull-dogs’ final match at the Inn Towner Invitational on Sat-urday.

The Bison opened play with a statement, winning the first set, 25-11.

Drake answered to take the second set, 30-28.

North Dakota State nar-rowly claimed the third and fourth sets, 25-19 and 25-20, sealing Drake’s ninth straight defeat.

Rodney SpearsStaff [email protected]

Drake drops three straight matches to conclude non-conference schedule

Three rules that changed the way the NFL is played

Volleyball

Perhaps no rule modification in the NFL’s history has made more of an impact on the game than the changes made by the league in 1978, which opened up the passing game to great heights. At the time, the rules made sense, as offenses started to establish a little more dominance over defenses and scoring reached new heights. In the thirty-four years since then, offenses have skyrocketed to stats that were thought to be unreachable, such as 5,000 yards passing and 40 points per game. Here, we will look at each rule and figure out if they are still needed in today’s NFL.

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Mike Wendlandt

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Wendlandt is a senior radio-television major and can be reached at [email protected]

After receiving the Defensive Scout Team Player of the Year Award as a redshirt fresh-man, Hugunin’s sophomore season is off to a strong start.

Hugunin, a linebacker, registered a game-high 13 tackles against No. 4 Montana State on Saturday, including seven solo tackles.

In his first collegiate start against Grand View on Aug. 30, Hugunin recorded three solo tackles en route to seven total tackles. He also scored a touchdown against the Vi-kings.

Player of the Week

1. The “Mel Blount” Rule.This rule is probably the most commonly known of all the changed. It established the five-yard bump rule in which the only

time a receiver can be bumped by a defender is within five yards of the line of scrimmage. After that, any contact will result in a penalty. In today’s game, that has allowed receivers to run free wherever they want, creating some gaudy yardage stats and severely handicapping physical defenders. This rule needs to be changed slightly so defenders can gain some sense of physicality and make their job a little easier.

2. Pass Blocking became easier.Before 1978, you could only block with a closed fist with your arms held close to your body. With this new rule, you can

extend and grab your opponent as long as you don’t reach outside his shoulder pads, severely hampering pass rushing and allowing more time for quarterbacks to pick defenses apart for big plays. This rule I think only needs one modification, that offensive linemen can push but not grab and pull defenders.

3. Double touching by the offense is not legal.Until 1978, no offensive player could touch a tipped pass unless a defender touched it first. That was put to the test in

the “Immaculate Reception,” in which, to this day, there is no proof of who touched the ball first, John Fuqua of the Steel-ers, or Jack Tatum of the Raiders. Due to that controversy, as well as other examples, the NFL changed the rules to allow a deflection to still be live for the offense, allowing for “tip drills” and other similar plays to stand.

Now, I can definitely see why these rules were implemented. In 1977, teams only averaged 17.1 points per game in what is referred to as the NFL’s version of the “Dead Ball” era. However, with how much receivers and tight ends have gotten more and more athletic, defensive backs and linebackers are at a huge handicap with these rules. Especially with the Blount rule, offenses have never had it easier. I know that the casual fan wants to see scoring, but with athletes like Calvin Johnson and Jimmy Graham now in the fold, defenders need some help to keep up.

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