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Next year, Drake students will reach deeper into their finances to pay for a 4.5 percent tuition increase. The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon via a campus-wide email.
The email cited the two main reasons for the increases were to help offset merit-based salary in-creased to help keep faculty and to help fund the “most urgent pri-orities” in the university’s strate-gic plan.
The email, signed by Univer-sity President David Maxwell said the increase was a “modest” one. The total amount added to tuition was $1,324. Room and board for on-campus housing increased 3.7 percent, adding $320 to the cost.
On Wednesday morning, Max-well and Vice President of Busi-ness and Finance, Debbie Newsom said the increase was suggested by a Budget Advisory Committee,
and then brought to vote by the Board of Trustees. The commit-tee, started by Newsom, consisted of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.
The Board of Trustees voted on the tuition increase on Jan. 19.
Maxwell said the increase is also determined based on the “assumption” of next year’s bud-get, or an estimate of the coming year’s budget. If enrollment goals are met then an additional amount of revenue would be produced for the university’s budget.
The Budget Advisory Commit-tee recommended the additional revenue go toward “merit based” salary increases for faculty and toward the university’s strategic plan. Those recommendations, Maxwell said, were fully backed by the President’s Cabinet and the Board of Trustees.
Projections put $1.29 mil-lion for the salary increases and $410,000 for the strategic plan.
Maxwell said there are no across-the-board salary increases
for faculty, instead it is based off of performance, which he said was “strategic” based on Drake’s promise to retain the best faculty for its students. Newsom said the increase for salaries was “modest” based off of the fact that about 70 percent of the total budget is for salaries and benefits.
They both said next year’s tu-ition increase was a “more en-gaged” process than previous years.
“Obviously, we don’t like to raise tuition,” Maxwell said.
Tom Delahunt, vice presi-dent for admission and student financial planning, said there is a “danger” that Drake might be considered too expensive with its “sticker price.” The sticker price is the tuition cost without financial aid factored in.
“We hope it won’t hurt us in the recruitment of students,” Dela-hunt said.
With this increase comes a lit-
Several hundred Drake Univer-sity students, clad in neon colored T-shirts, will converge on Olm-sted Center this Saturday to par-ticipate in the third annual Belize Dance Marathon in an effort to raise money to send impoverished children in Belize to high school.
The marathon was spear-headed by Drake Law professor Jim Albert after a trip to Belize two years ago. Nick Cooper, an as-sistant track coach at Drake, had shown him a photo of a group of kids in Belize standing next to a canoe.
“They were going to paddle two hours upstream to go to grade school, but they were grin-ning from ear to ear because they were holding the pencils some Americans had sent them,” Albert said. “I decided I had to see this for myself.”
A few months later, Albert flew down to Belize to meet with the students and was astounded by what he saw. The children were playing with sticks and had to sleep on the floors of their huts.
Upon returning to Drake, he asked his students what they would dream about if they fell asleep at night knowing they would never go to high school.
“That’s what started this,” Albert said. “We wanted to give them something to dream about.”
Thus, the Belize Dance Mara-thon was born. Hundreds of danc-ers pledge to dance for four hours to raise the money be able to send some students in Belize to high school.
“It is a beautiful thing, students fighting for students,” senior Mi-chael Sage, the Belize Dance Mara-thon president, said. “Education is the solution to poverty, but the problem is these families do not have the resources to send their children to high school.”
In Belize, it costs $200 to send just one student to high school for a year. However, Albert said the average annual income for an entire family in Belize is $380, meaning high school isn’t an op-tion for many children. Less than half of all high school age children in Belize have the funds to attend
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Multi-cultural reception hosted by Drake, Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute, and Greater Des Moines Partnership 5-7 p.m.Parents Hall
Drake Women’s Tennis vs. UTEP6 p.m.Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Senior Recital, Robert Starace, horn 4:30-6 p.m.Sheslow Auditorium
Women’s Tennis vs. Milwaukee12:30 p.m.Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Mardi Gras party6-8 p.m.Morehouse Ballroom
Faculty Recital, Susan Odem, oboe, with Kimberly Helton, flute, and Sonya Selbert, piano12-4 p.m.Anderson Gallery
Women’s Tennis vs. North Dakota7 p.m.Roger Knapp Tennis Center
Jennifer Angus: Magpie Tendencies12-4 p.m.Anderson Gallery
Belize Dance Marathon6-10 p.m.Olmsted Center
Jennifer Angus: Magpie Tendencies 12-4 p.m.Anderson Gallery
Free Movie Friday: “Skyfall” 9 p.m.Sussman Theater
Junior recital, Paul Strike, trombone 4:40-6 p.m.Sheslow Auditorium
Drake choir preforms singing Valentines
Where: Olmsted Center
To register for the marathon to go: bdm.kintera.org
Students talk about J-term experiences in D.C. and Ghana
Fong’s back to dishing up its signature pies after flood
Drake to defend its honor on the road
STUDENTS GOOF AROUND at Belize Dance Marathon last year.
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Dancing to make dreams of school a reality
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Adding context to the increase
VSDRAKE
$38,236Bradley University
Butler University
Creighton University
Uni. of St. Thomas
Marquette
$36,964
$43,986
$42,776
$46,650
$43,664Look at how Drake stacks up against peer institutions for tuition this academic year. Tuition is based on full-time undergraduate student status and room and board.
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Friday nights on campus will be getting more exciting start-ing Feb. 8, when Drake’s Student Activities Board will be unveil-
ing their new event series “Free Movie Friday.” SAB plans to show pre-released movies such as “Sky-fall,” “Life of Pi” and “Argo,” using Sussman Theater and Aliber 101 as venues.
Student senate’s campus ad-vancement committee, first-year
interest committee, and SAB developed the idea as a way to use excess student activities fees from past years, which
had built up in the senate’s reserve account to near-capacity.
“The main thing peo-ple are confused about is
that the money for the event is not affiliated with any organiza-
tion,” Zachary Keller, campus advance-
ment committee chairman, said.
“The reserve ac-count is just left-over student ac-tivities fees that
have gone unspent.”Moreover, sup-
porters of the event believe giving stu-dents a regular on-
campus event will provide a sort of morale boost to the campus.
“We want students to have something to do on campus,” Car-ly Kinzler, Senate’s vice president of student activities, said. “As far as events go on this campus, it’s one of the less expensive events. Even if only 50 to 100 students are there, in our minds, that’s worth the money.”
Kinzler said $750 as an esti-mate of the cost of purchasing the screening rights for the movies, which together with food costs would bring the cost of each “Free Movie Friday” to around $1,200. If “Free Movie Friday” were to con-tinue throughout the rest of the semester, the total cost for one semester would total to about $25,000.
The proposal for the event was well-received within Drake’s stu-dent senate, with the main con-cern being the frequency of the event and the effect it may have on its popularity. Though formal allocation from Senate’s student fees allocation committee was not required, the committee also be-lieved the event was a worthy use of the otherwise unused money.
On-campus movie screenings set for FridaysWill ThorntonStaff [email protected]
Upcoming Movies
“Skyfall” Feb. 8, 9 p.m. Sussman Theater
“Life of Pi” Feb. 15, 9:30 p.m. Aliber 101
“Argo” Feb. 22, 9 p.m.Sussman Theater
Students’ reaction to the event has been quite good. In the few days the event has been publi-cized, the “Free Movie Friday” Facebook page has nearly 400 likes. Students have also praised the movie choices for the first three dates.
“I barely missed out on see-ing ‘Skyfall’ in theaters, so I was pumped when I saw they’d be showing it for free on campus,”
When: Saturday, Feb. 9, 6-10 p.m.
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Uniting the campus with charity
Vocal valentines are a ‘friendraiser’ for choir
high school. The group believes that all
those who want to attend school should be able to, so a scholarship fund was established to award students with the education. In the last two years, the group has been able to give out 100 scholar-ships each year. Sage said the goal for this year is to match that num-ber again, if not add to it.
The money from the marathons has also build two grade school buildings, and the James Arthur Albert Foundation is responsible for keeping the doors open at the night high school for girls.
“That is one of my favorite things about BDM,” Sage said. “Your donation to other charities may buy a test tube or power the building or pay the administra-tors. Not BDM, every dollar goes directly to those children.”
Sage said the primary goal of the dance marathon is to provide
the children in Belize the mon-etary resources to get the educa-tion they need through both schol-arships and the building of the schools. The secondary goal, Sage said, is to unite the Drake campus.
“We want to bring together in-dividuals from all colleges and a variety of organizations to fight for one amazing cause,” Sage said. “Last year we had over 1,000 dancers, and it was uplifting to see the campus come together.”
The Belize Dance Marathon doesn’t follow the normal dance marathon model, however.
“We do not want our marathon to be an obligation for people to come to that drags on for 12, or even 24 hours,” Sage said. “We want it to be a celebration of the hard work and amazing accom-plishments that Drake can have when it unites around a common cause.”
Other than dancing, the mara-thon includes a live D.J., food, T-
shirt giveaways and various con-tests throughout the evening.
“What we like to say is that the marathon is going to make New Years Eve look like Columbus Day,” Albert said.
Sage said one thing he particu-larly likes about the marathon is that it is Drake students champi-oning for other students.
“No one has ever fought for these children before,” Sage said. “We are the first organization, the first charity, the first campus. This is a uniquely Drake effort.”
Albert said the students in Be-lize know it’s the Drake students who crusade for them.
“You know what is the most popular book in Belize is? It’s Pe-ter Pan,” Albert said. “Those kids fall asleep believing that some-where in the world, there are stu-dents who fly and fight for them. Well, there are. And they’re wear-ing Drake shirts.”
Roses are red, violets are blue, this Valentine’s Day Drake Uni-versity Choir could be singing to you! It is that time of year again where the store shelves are filling up with chocolate hearts, cards with mushy sayings and enticing jewelry for loved ones. Drake’s Choir is offering a way to let that special someone know you care in a unique way while benefiting a good cause.
Every year, Drake Choir travels around the Des Moines commu-nity to deliver singing valentines
to workplaces and homes among other various locations. Accord-ing to Aimee Beckman-Collier, di-rector of choral arts, they deliver roughly 150 singing valentines annually – an estimated 500 to 600 roses.
Orders will be taken until Feb. 8 and can be placed online at the Drake Music Department’s Sing-ing Valentines webpage, www.drake.edu/valentines or by call-ing (515) 271-3024. A variety of options are available for people looking to purchase one of these unique valentines. The main three packages range from $25 to $60 with one to a dozen roses. There is also a package tailored to the
sometimes tight budgets of stu-dents for the Drake campus, cost-ing $10.
Mary Honeyman, senior choir member, has been doing singing valentines since she was a first-year.
“It gets crazy,” said Honeyman. What is her favorite part? “The look on people’s faces,
you never know what to expect.” She has been hard at work tak-
ing care of much of the logistics of the operation, including taking orders, answering phone calls and training younger members.
The proceeds raised go to-ward funding the choir’s inter-national tours that happen every
four years. Since the university does not fund these trips it is up to the choir students themselves to raise the money. The fundraiser was started 15 years ago and has helped to fund tours across the world.
“We are committed to taking every student in the ensemble,” said Beckmann-Collier.
The unique thing about the fundraiser is that many of the students who are participating are raising money not necessarily for themselves but for classes to come, explained Honeyman.
“It puts into perspective the family of Drake Choir and is very community building,” she said of
the experience. Eric Ferring, a junior vocal per-
formance major, said the Drake Choir is unique in the fact that it spans across all grade levels and disciplines, all coming together to share a love of music.
The singing valentines prove to bring together Drake students and members of the Des Moines com-munity together, while giving the members of the Drake Choir time to bond as well.
As Beckmann-Collier puts it: “We find it to be good every year, a friendraiser as well as a fund-raiser.”
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STUDENT PARTICIPANTS enjoy a musical performance during the Belize Dance Marathon in Olmsted last year.
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tle bit of context. Maxwell said Drake’s peer institutions have in the past raised their tuition costs between 3.5 and 6 percent. Tues-day’s announcement put Drake at a 4.5 percent increase.
Among Drake’s peer institu-tions, it is ranked one of the low-
est in cost, but with tuition clos-ing in on the $40,000 a year mark, Maxwell said it’s a “psychological issue.”
“Our goal is to keep tuition as low as we can while still keep-ing the promise of an exceptional learning environment,” he said.
With the increase, $1.1 million in financial aid will be given to
students. This year Drake spent close to $48 million in financial aid to its students.
“We look very closely at what funds we have to utilize to help make Drake affordable,” Delahunt said. “It is still not enough ...We sure wish it was.”
Maxwell also said Drake has the ability to support an incoming
class of 900 students, which would factor into tuition changes in the future.
The reason the increase was described as “modest” is because the 4.5 percent increase is in the middle of the average increase in tuition of peer institutions.
“You can’t pick up a newspaper ... without somebody talking about
the cost of college,” Delahunt said. “There are a lot of myths out there ...We’ve got to get people through all this noise they’re hearing.”
“(The) top priority is for the Drake experience ... and making sure we have the capacity (to in-sure that),” Newsom said.
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THIS CHILLY DOG watches temperatures creep up. Campus says good-bye to its latest piles of snow and looks forward to the promise of the end of winter. The melting snow proves troublesome though, as it turns to ice.
John Kenealy, first-year actu-arial science and finance major, said. “Free movie nights will make sure there’s always something in-teresting to do on Fridays.”
“We may have students vote on the new movies,” Kinzler said, “We’re probably going to be doing some Facebook polls just to see what students want.”
“I can’t wait to see ‘Life of Pi,’” Veronica Jandura, first-year psy-chology major, said.
“It’s a great idea, we already have a theater on campus and it’s hardly ever used. I’m hoping they will show ‘Les Misérables’ once it comes out,” Jandura said.
Kinzler and Keller are con-fident that, should “Free Movie Friday” prove to be as popular as they hope, it will become a long-standing tradition within Drake and the SAB.
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“We complain
about so much,
even simple things
like going to
school. But these
people are gracious
and thankful for
everything they
have and anything
you give them.”
— Emily Bowman, Drake junior
JILL APPLEGATE, LUCAS MUELLER AND ABBY BEDORE stand in front of the White House while visiting D.C.
J-term: GhanaScholarship funded trip
Drake visits D.C. Students attended the Inauguration
One day after school I was walking through the village and ran into a woman carrying a cooler on her head named Felicia. I smiled and said “Hi,” and she in-vited me to her house — as simple as that. I had known her for less than 10 seconds, and was already headed to her house, to meet her mother and sister, with two of my friends.
On our last day in Asikuma, Ghana we went back to find Fe-licia. It took some looking, but we eventually found her selling snacks by the school. Before we left she gave each of us a packet of biscuits, which are like crack-ers here, just because we came to visit her. During the eight days I spent in Ghana, I have never felt more welcomed anywhere in my life — and half the people I met didn’t even speak Eng-lish.
With assistance from the Olson Global Scholarship Fund I was able to spend my January-term in Ghana, Af-rica teaching in the village of Asikuma. Here’s a little of what I experi-enced.
Our first night was spent in Accra, the capital, and it was our first and last hot shower. However, my shower didn’t function in the typical man-ner. Instead it was more like a hold-the-shower-head and show-er-with-one-hand, but at least it was warm. The rest of our trip I showered from a bucket of cold water.
Each morning we would wake up, put on sunscreen, bug spray, walk outside and instantly be dirty and sweaty. We went to a church with a membership of 10,000, and I have never seen so much praise in my life. While my congregation definitely has more members than in Ghana, they are much more thankful than we are.
Everywhere you look there are goats, chickens and trash, but not one trash bin can be found. The kids, and everyone, just throw their trash on the ground — the best outcome is that it eventually gets burned, however, this is still not a great option.
We could only drink bottled
water and had to remember to save a little each night to brush our teeth. I quickly learned that Voltic is the brand of water to buy — the other brand tasted like den-tist water.
Nothing runs on time in Afri-ca, and we’re just not used to that. Breakfast was usually around 8 a.m. We were served chicken and rice for lunch and dinner ev-ery day, but none of these things mattered. I knew that every day I would go to the school and be greeted by kids smiling ear to ear, excited just to see us. I knew that I could love on these kids all day, every day, and that was enough. Spending time in Ghana made me very thankful for all the conve-niences we have here in America, but nothing can beat a smile and the kindness I felt in Ghana.
School in Ghana is nothing like school in America. All schools re-quire a uniform, but if you can’t afford a uniform, then you don’t go to school. If you can afford a uniform, hopefully you’ll be lucky enough to live close enough to walk to a government school, but you probably won’t and will have to go to the private school, if you can afford it. Otherwise, you won’t go to school. If you are able to go
to school, you have to pass the eighth grade exam. If you don’t, you’re done. Assuming you can pass the eighth grade exam, all high schools are private, so chances are you won’t be able to afford high school. According to the Iowa Department of Education, in 2011, Iowa’s high school graduation rate was 88.3 per-cent. According to UNICEF, the enroll-ment rate of upper high school grades
in Ghana was only 35 percent
from 2007-2010. Unfortunately, many people know they won’t be able to afford high school anyway, so they don’t waste their time with school at all.
We complain about so much, even simple things like going to school. But these people are gra-cious and thankful for everything they have and anything you give them. They are kind and hospita-ble, smiling and living with what they do have — not focusing on what they don’t have. I’ll admit, it’s much more preferable to live with all of the amenities we are so used to, but I do wish that they could come with some of the hos-pitality, kindness and thankful-ness I saw in Ghana. Nothing will ever be able to trump that.
Eleven days. That’s all it took for 25 Drake University students to fall in love with Washington, D.C.
From tourist stops to cupcake shops and meeting strangers and making lifelong friends, Drake’s J-term class Inside Washington: The Presidential Inauguration, was the trip of a lifetime.
Led by Rachel Paine Caufield, a professor of politics, and Jill Van Wyke, an assistant professor of journalism, the class filled its trip with academic lectures, site tours, alumni visits and group discus-sions. Everything we experienced in the first 10 days built up to the 57th Presidential Inauguration.
Our class was run in conjunc-tion with The Washington Center (TWC) academic seminar, also based in D.C. Housing at TWC put us within walking distance of the National Mall and just four blocks away from the Metro station. Our time in D.C. started with a scav-enger hunt and navigating public transportation, and the Metro
proved to be the most efficient way to get across town for site tours or just another cupcake.
Every morning, TWC brought in distinguished speakers such as Eugene Kang, special proj-ects coordinator and assistant to the president, and President of Americans for Tax Reform Gro-ver Norquist. Other speakers in-cluded Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, Brian Lamb and Bill Dauster. Each presented a different way to look at current events in the U.S. and challenged us to see multiple sides of an issue.
Every afternoon, site visits would teach the class more about politics in Washington. We made all the major stops in D.C. at mu-seums, the Supreme Court, the Capitol, the White House and the Brookings Institute. Thanks to one Drake alumnus, we even spent an evening bowling in the White House — though the actual location is in the Eisenhower Ex-ecutive Office Building next door. Our service project at “Bread for the City” showed us yet another side of D.C. and left us with a well-rounded understanding of the city’s culture.
Inauguration Day was an ex-perience in itself. At 5:30 a.m., we took off to secure the first spots in line to pass through the gates. As we filtered into our sections, we bared the cold and watched the sun rise over the Capitol. After six hours of standing and waiting, we watched President Obama take the oath of office, all the while taking in what we had learned throughout the week. Watching
this historic moment alone made seven total hours of standing in the cold worthwhile.
While all of our seminars and site visits provided us with knowledge and insight to politics and how the government runs in D.C., I think everyone would agree that experiencing the “Drake con-nection” was one of the best parts of our trip.
Almost every day, Drake alum-ni welcomed us into their offices to show us what it’s like to work in D.C. They shared their experienc-es and gave us tips over lunches, dinners and at a networking re-ception. Seeing so many alumni in D.C. showed the class that Drake alumni can be found anywhere and they are always willing to lend a helping hand.
We found another Drake con-nection during Drake in D.C. Be-fore the trip began, everyone joked about being a “happy, cohe-sive group” in D.C., but it did not take long for this joke to become reality. It’s one thing to take part in an experience such as the inau-guration; it’s another for a whole class to share the experience and come back to campus as friends. Thank you, Drake University, for providing this opportunity, and thank you to our professors and the happy, cohesive group for making this trip an unforgettable experience.
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For being in a state that is gen-erally perceived as conservative, Des Moines is a city filled with a lot of quirks. We have the Pappa-john Sculpture Park with a man made out of letters next to heads reminiscent of Easter Island, Zom-bie Burger filled with gruesome décor and eccentric meals, and SkyZone — a simple building that secretly houses a massive tram-poline park. However, one favor-ite oddity of the city was recently closed, but re-opened just after the semester started: Fong’s.
Located in the middle of down-town, Fong’s Pizza is a restaurant that serves just about any kind of pizza imaginable. From the Moo Shu Pork to the Philly Chees-esteak, the Crab Rangoon or the Loaded Potato, its assortment of pizzas is wild and wonderful. Yet that is not the only portion of the menu that can be considered strange. In addition they have mozzarella sticks wrapped in egg rolls, bacon and peanut sauce Thai
Styx and a massive drink list in-cluding Super Happy Fun Good Time Tea, the Unlucky Tourist and the Angry Pirate. Fong’s is also one of Des Moines’s most well known restaurants. On Jan. 30, the Travel Channel featured the restaurant on “Pizza Paradise 2.”
The restaurant’s recent close was caused by a water main break on Nov. 23. The break near the building flooded Fong’s from the basement to the roof of the first floor. It was forced to close for a month as the damage was fixed. Walls had to be replaced, a walk-in cooler installed, along with a new electric system. On Jan. 29 the res-taurant opened for the first time in a month. During that time the dining room was remodeled and a new drink menu created. The business is now back to normal.
Drake University students (especially those in the College of Business and Public Adminis-tration) meet with professionals who are already several years into their career and eventually worked their way up to being a CEO. However, some Drake gradu-ates are different. They are their own bosses and become a CEO less than 10 years after gradu-ation. Sounds impossible? Lau-ren Hong, a 2003 graduate, is the founder and CEO of her own hand-bag company, Lauren, Olivia & Co. The Times-Delphic caught up with this former graphic design major to ask her questions about her in-spiration, starting a business and how attending Drake University helped her along the way.
Times-Delphic: How did the project of starting a business come about?
Lauren Hong: “I was on cam-pus looking for accessories, and I only found two kinds: products that were low quality and inex-pensive or high quality and very expensive. Eventually, everything started to look the same and noth-ing had functional utility. When I went to Seoul, South Korea for my Master’s in International Stud-ies, I was inspired by amazing stories from people who were do-ing everything. It’s uplifting and empowering. It made me ask the question: Can we run with the idea of creating products for people with functional utility, high qual-ity, have an international touch and create a full circle connection between these things.”
TD: What are the company’s future goals?
LH: “Raising the minimum for Kickstarter within our timeline. Build up the company and insure we have appropriate cash flows and scale up, while retaining that personal touch with our custom-ers and making them feel special. That way, they know they’re not just another number or another order.”
TD: What is Kickstarter, and how has it helped you start a busi-ness?
LH: “It’s about supporting a dream. Businesses can go and state they have a project, such as manufacturing a signature line. They input a goal and a minimum funding goal. Consumers can then go on and become a backer. In other words, they can pay money to support or buy a product from that business and get a reward for doing so. If we reach our mini-mum goal, we get that full amount of capital, and all cards will be charged. If we don’t reach our minimum goal, no one gets any-thing, and they keep their money.”
TD: How have your experienc-es at Drake helped you with these endeavors?
LH: “Overall at Drake, if you can dream it, you can do it and go after it. You can jump in the deep end. The community there is so supportive of each other and takes time to listen. It’s quite genuine, and those qualities are invalu-able.”
TD: Do you have any advice for future designers?
LH: “If you’re going to jump into something, especially a new business, make sure you’re pas-sionate about it. You’re not on a 9-5, your days blur, and you work constantly. Surround yourself by smart people who can help direct you in a positive direction and make smart decisions. Be diligent: understand the market and bells and whistles. Take time to chew it apart so you get it. Lastly, be pa-tient with yourself.”
To check out Lauren, Olivia & Co.’s handbags, go to laurenolivi-aco.com. All handbags are under $250 with the emphasis put on quality, functionality, innovative designs and the ability to be ver-satile. More information can also be found on Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook.
The Times-Delphic has pub-lished several articles on intern-ships: how to find them, how to get them and who has one. However, there has not been an article debating whether internships are worthwhile. Yes, you can gain work experience from hav-ing an internship, but recently there has been much debate about whether the experience outweighs being an unpaid in-tern.
Many internships are now un-paid which creates a lot of prob-lems. For one, it limits the acces-sibility of internships since only those who can afford a summer out of pocket can apply. Even if someone who plans to take a sec-ond job applies, their chance of getting the paid job is lower, and they will not get as much out of their internship.
However, some students have found ways around this. Junior La-
rissa Wurm is interning with the Iowa Senate Republican Caucus Staff, and it is her third unpaid in-ternship.
“Ideally, of course, I would love to be paid; What college student wouldn’t? But I won’t pass up on a chance for a good experience.”
For Larissa, the internship is much more about being involved in politics and learning about the process, than about getting paid.
First-year Emily Enquist has
found a bit of a compromise. She is currently working for the Des Moines After School Arts Program (ASAP) and the LS2 group. The second internship is paid while the first is not.
“I decided to work for ASAP because I’m extremely passionate
a b o u t
philanthropy and community ser-vice, and I wanted to work for LS2 group because I feel that it is a re-ally great starting point (for) my career.”
With these two internships, Enquist has managed to find work that is both promising for her fu-ture and fulfilling in the present.
Unpaid internships work for some students. However, many are now challenging the idea of unpaid internships. The Charlie Rose Show is paying 189 former
interns $1,100 for minimum wage violation. More lawsuits have been raised up against the Hearst Corporation and Fox En-tertainment. Fox is now paying its interns as a result, and so is Condé Nast.
So the question is: Are unpaid internships really worth it? En-quist had some advice.
“I would say that students should not reject an internship just because it is unpaid, because it could help you land a great job
in the future,” Enquist said.Experts agree that the de-
ciding factor for an unpaid intern-ship is whether it will ultimately aid you in your professional goals or not.
>>What’s your favorite kind of pizza at Fong’s?
compiled by Emily GregorStaff [email protected]
Katie Ortman, sophomore
Brandon Jenkins, first-year
Lexi Richter, first-year
“Kung Pao Chicken pizza.”
“Crab Rangoon pizza.”
“Beef and Broccoli pizza. It’s super good!”
>>Have an idea for a story or a Students Speak? Email Features Editor, Kelly Tafoya at [email protected]
>>Food joint is back in business
courtesy of LARISSA WURM
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Campus News
“I know it sounds cheesy, but I just like knowing that I helped make someone’s life easier or put a smile on their face.”
— Aly Schmidt, Drake junior
HANNAH RISINGER volunteers at the Urban Youth Ministries after school. STUDENTS IN D.C. volunteer at a local church near Trinity University that was hosting a food drive.
Emily GregorStaff [email protected]
Volunteering a priority for Drake studentsGiving back to community rewarding, worth the time
Students at Drake University are provided with opportunities from professional fraternities, various clubs and organizations, including countless opportunities to volunteer and give back to their community.
Junior Aly Schmidt wanted to make a differ-ence, so five years ago she started her own clothing drive called “Spread the Warmth” which runs during the holiday season.
“Basically I col-lect new socks and new gently used hats, gloves, scarves,” Schmidt said.
Initially, she col-lected about 300 items her first year, and the second year the num-ber tripled to reach over 1,000. This year, the drive successfully collected over 3,300 items.
Schmidt enjoys volunteering with other organizations includ-ing Alpha Phi and through her internship at the American Lung Association of Iowa.
“I absolutely love my intern-ship at ALA,” Schmidt said. “The people who work there are won-derful and I’ve learned a ton.”
When it comes to volunteer-ing, Schmidt sees nothing but the benefits.
“I know it sounds cheesy, but
I just like knowing that I helped make someone’s life easier or put a smile on their face,” Schmidt said.
Sophomore Anna Chott has experienced the advantages of volunteering as well, especially while serving as the fundraising chair of Drake’s Habitat for Hu-
manity club. Habitat for Human-ity builds houses for people and families who wouldn’t be able to own a home otherwise, funding the houses through donations and volunteers.
“When you volunteer with Habitat for Humanity in the Drake
neighborhood you get to meet people from different back-grounds,” Chott said. “It’s very in-teresting to hear their stories.”
Volu nt eer i ng can be challeng-ing to fit into a busy schedule, but there are strate-gies to make it do-able even for the busiest student at Drake.
“Don’t be afraid to ask someone if they
need help, even if they don’t
have it posted,” Schmidt said.
For Chott, simplifying involve-ment is her secret to success.
“Make volunteering a priority,” Chott said. “I try not to overcom-mit myself so when a Habitat build day comes up or another club needs volunteers, I don’t have a million other commitments.”
Giving Back>> Community service organizations at Drake
• Alpha Phi Omega• Best Buddies• Colleges Against Cancer• Enactus (Students in
Free Enterprise)• Habitat for Humanity• Optimist Club• TOMS Campus Club
courtesy of LUCAS MUELLERcourtesy of HANNAH RISINGER
A vengeful Evansville squad awaits Drake on Sunday night in Evansville, Ind.
When the Missouri Valley Con-ference foes played on Jan. 16, Evansville controlled the tempo to take a 10-point lead with 10 minutes left in the opening half. Ten minutes later, though, Drake entered halftime with the lead.
That shift in momentum translated into a Bulldog victory. Though Drake dispatched Evans-ville in January, the Purple Aces stand a threat on Sunday. Evans-ville senior Colt Ryan spearheads that threat. Ryan averages 17.8 points per game. He leads the Val-ley with a staggering 89.4 percent accuracy from the charity stripe.
Evansville senior Ned Cox like-wise stands a threat. Besides aver-aging 11 points per game, Cox has drained 91 3-pointers this season en route to 41.8 percent shooting from behind the arc.
Expect the Drake defense to zero in on Ryan and Cox.
The Bulldogs’ composure on the road likewise stands a threat on Sunday. The Bulldogs own a 2012-13 ledger of 11-11 overall. Drake has dropped 8-of-11 losses away from the Knapp Center.
With the excitement of Satur-day’s overtime victory still linger-ing on campus, Drake will look to parlay that energy into Sunday’s showdown at Evansville. The Bull-dogs defeated Indiana State 74-71
in overtime on Saturday. Satur-day’s unpredictable plot included a half-court shot by junior Gary Ricks Jr., a trio of consecutive 3-pointers by senior Ben Simons and clutch inside play by fresh-man Joey King.
The Bulldogs played with con-sistency throughout the overtime thriller, to Drake head coach Mark Phelps’ satisfaction.
“There were quite a few mo-ments where we had to demon-strated toughness, some persever-ance, some poise and composure, and I thought we answered those each and every time,” Phelps said after the victory.
A 0-4 start in MVC play has since given way to an optimistic, improvement-minded Bulldog squad.
“Obviously, we didn’t start out the way in Valley play we would have liked, but it was what it was, and we’ve been playing better basketball as of late,” Simons said.
Fifth-year senior Chris Hines expects that improvement to translate into a Drake victory on Sunday.
“I think we have grown as a team, and I think we’ve stepped up as a team on the defensive end as on the offensive end,” Hines said. “I think it will go hand-in-hand with wins.”
Drake faces Evansville at 7 p.m. on Sunday in Evansville, Ind.
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1. Wichita State 9-02. Creighton 8-13. Illinois State 5-44. Northern Iowa 5-45. Evansville 5-4
6. Indiana State 4-57. Missouri State 3-68. Bradley 3-69. Drake 2-710. Southern Illinois 1-8
How the rest of the MVC is doing:
*Conference record
Men’s Basketball Calendar
REDSHIRT JUNIOR CENTER SETH VANDEEST drives to the hoop against MVC rival Indiana State on Saturday night at the Knapp Center.
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Victory. That’s what the Drake women’s basketball team is aim-ing for this Friday against Illinois State.
After suffering a tough loss to Creighton, the Bulldogs are ready to come out fighting this Friday night.
“It was a game where I felt like we really played hard, and we came together at parts,” said ju-nior forward Morgan Reid. “We’ll build on that and we’ll have more time where we’re playing together and on the same page.”
Even though the result against the Bluejays didn’t favor the Bull-dogs, they look at it as a learning experience.
“This game (against Creighton) has helped us learn to play against really good teams because Creigh-ton’s at the top of conference right now,” Reid said. “This was a wake-up call for us, and we just have to have a really good week of prac-tice.”
The Bulldogs are currently 2-7 in conference play while the Red-birds are 5-4. Illinois State lost to Missouri State this past weekend, 91-76.
The Bulldogs will look to shut down the Redbirds’ offense and make sure to prevent the Red-birds’ key player, Jamie Russell, from scoring. Russell has the hot hand for Illinois State, averaging 14.1 points a game, and she re-cently scored 23 points in their loss to Missouri State this past weekend.
The Bulldogs will look to play
calm and collected on Friday. “We take it one game at a time,”
said sophomore guard Kyndal Clark. “One thing we try to do is focus on ourselves first because if we don’t show up it doesn’t mat-ter how much we prepare for the other team, and there are things we can do to prepare for the other team, and we’ll start there.”
Clark is currently leading the Bulldogs in scoring with an aver-age of 14.3 points and Reid is right behind, with an average of 11.3 points.
This will be the second time Drake plays Illinois State this sea-son after losing 71-66 to the Re-birds at the Knapp Center on Jan. 13. The Bulldogs struggled with shutting down Smith, who scored 16 points and senior guard Can-dace Sykes, who contributed 19 tallies.
In the past, the Bulldogs have struggled with turnovers, allow-ing their opponents to score with ease. Drake tends to play a game of runs and that has led to its de-mise in the last few minutes of each game.
In order for the Bulldogs to come out on top, they’ll have to work on playing an up-tempo game. When the Bulldogs have been victorious in the past, it’s when they are composed and play together. With a tough game ahead of them, the Bulldogs will need to shake off this past loss to Creighton and come out with a clean slate ready to fight.
Drake will take on Illinois State on Friday night at 8 p.m. in Nor-mal, Ill.
Women’s Basketball
Bulldogs ready to avenge previous loss to RedbirdsCreighton defeat offers ‘wake-up call’ as Drake hits regular season home stretch Ashley BeallStaff [email protected]
Joel Venzke | staff photographer
Men’s Basketball
Evansville awaits improvement-minded Bulldogs
JUNIOR GUARD MARY PAT SPECHT shoots a jumper against Creighton on Saturday at the Knapp Center.
FEB. 13@ Wichita State
7 p.m.
FEB. 16vs. Northern Iowa
7:05 p.m.
FEB. 20vs. Bradley7:05 p.m.
FEB. 23vs. Green Bay
7:05 p.m.
FEB. 10@ Evansville
7 p.m.
FEB. 27@ Indiana State
6:05 p.m.Joel Venzke | staff photographer
Men’s Tennis CalendarFEB. 03
vs. Green BayW, 5-2
FEB. 03vs. Nebraksa-Kearney
W, 7-0
FEB. 08@ Nebraska
6 p.m.
FEB. 09@ VCU4 p.m.
FEB. 16vs. North Dakota
10 a.m.
FEB. 16vs. Western Illinois
3 p.m.
The No. 43 Drake men’s tennis will look to add to their five-game winning streak this weekend as they travel to Lincoln, Neb., in what may two of their more im-portant matches of the season. This Friday, the Bulldogs will go up against the host Huskers and then on Saturday they will battle the Rams of Virginia Common-wealth University, who carry a na-tional ranking of No. 31.
The Huskers enter into the contest with a 1-2 record on the season, with losses to No. 41 Lou-isville and Oklahoma State. Ne-braska’s lone victory has come at the hands of Drake’s Missouri Valley Conference rival Illinois State, which is seen as one of the teams that will challenge Drake for the conference title this year. Although the Bulldogs are the favorite in Friday’s match, they are not taking Nebraska, or their home court advantage, lightly.
“These two matches are pretty important to keep building our confidence throughout the sea-son,” said senior Anis Ghorbel. “Nebraska are not ranked any-more but they are a very solid team. They have couple new fresh-men who are not bad at all, so we have to be ready for them even though we’re favorite.”
The Bulldogs are determined to get a win on Friday, as they believe it will provide them with
more momentum for their tough-est test of the season against No. 31 VCU. The Rams enter the con-test with a 6-1 record, including wins over No. 37 Minnesota and No. 61 North Florida. Their only loss of the season was against No. 6 Georgia.
Although none of the cur-rent Drake players have gone up against VCU in the dual-match for-mat, they are still familiar with a few members of the Rams squad.
“We know two of the VCU play-ers,” Ghorbel said. “They played at (ITA) All-Americans, very solid and compete really hard, so we’ve got to expect a war against those guys on the court.”
Despite being the underdog in the contest, the Bulldogs are con-fident that they can capture the upset against a team ranked 12 spots higher than them.
“The match against VCU this coming Friday is one of our most important matches of the season,” said senior Jean Erasmus. “They are ranked a lot higher than us, but are very beatable. If we can win this match, it will not only help our ranking but more impor-tantly help our confidence grow as a team so that we can go into the up-and-coming matches knowing that we are at the Top-25 level, if not higher.”
Drake will be relying on its en-tire lineup to get the win, but the seniors will likely have to play a huge role if the Bulldogs are to get the upset. Senior James McKie, who is ranked No. 68 in singles,
has won all of his singles matches so far this season but struggled slightly against UMKC last week-end. He will have to be in top form at the second singles position. Ghorbel, who is ranked No. 35 in singles, lost his first two matches of the season at the ITA Kick-Off in Malibu, but has a perfect record since then. The Bulldogs are hop-ing he has returned to form, as his contribution at the top singles slot will be invaluable. Finally, Eras-mus may be the final key piece to victory for Drake. Against No. 29 Florida State, Erasmus lost his singles match after dropping two tiebreakers. The Bulldogs will need him to pull through if he gets stuck in that situation again this weekend.
Finally, Drake is placing a huge focus on doubles play going into both matches. The Bulldogs plan on coming out with intensity right from the start to capture the lone doubles point, as the 1-0 lead will give them the momentum going into singles play.
“The doubles point is prob-ably going to be a key factor,” said sophomore Alen Salibasic. “I think we are going to do our best to win the doubles point and getting the momentum on our side. Once we have that energy going it will be easier to play our singles match-es.”
Check back with The Times-Delphic in the next issue for the results of Drake’s weekend in Ne-braska.
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SOPHOMORE ALEN SALIBASIC prepares to serve on Sunday against Nebraska-Kearney at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center. Salibasic beat Nebraska-Kearney’s Jack Nicholson on Sunday, 6-0, 6-2.
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Super Bowl enlivens Twitter
Drake aims to crack Top-25 as VCU loomsDoubles expected to play ‘key factor’ against nationally ranked Rams
The Harbowl has come and gone. Super Bowl XLVII punched viewers in the mouth with enter-tainment — Beyonce’s body rolls were so electric the lights went out, and the enormous tweet out-put could have exploded the Inter-net (just like the Mayans said it would ... or not, I’m not one for hy-perbole). I can honestly state that never as much sheer giddiness has come directly from following the Twitter sphere in one whole four-hour sitting. I did write a column last year about the integration of television events with social me-dia, i.e., “Hey look at me I’m sit-ting on a couch with my laptop, and Twitter is open. I’mma tweet about everything I see.” At no point but during the actual game could you get up from your chair for another cheese drenched chip or relieve yourself if you were to miss a moment of pop culture. But the Super Bowl is the penultimate arena for human/media immer-sion event, and 2013 did not in the slightest bit disappoint.
Lets start with the statistics: • 24.1 million tweets about
the game. • 5.5 million tweets oc-
curred during the emo-tional whiplash of Be-yonce’s performance and Destiny’s Child’s reunion.
• 231,500 tweets of some of the best Twitter jokes/retweets/viral marketing happened during the 30-plus minute power outage.
Next, let’s examine the best parts of the whole experience.
While the first half of the game was sub-par in many ways, the Twitter sphere and world became slightly disinterested. Also the ad-vertisements were vaguely simi-lar to previous years, wallowing in general hit or miss humor and pulling on heartstrings. HBO co-median Bill Maher put it best with his tweet, “Looks like again this year the advertisers elected to punt.” While Twitter took barbs at the game and advertisements, any
and all excitement focused as Be-yonce took the stage.
Twitter had been largely si-lent, until the scrambling set up of the stage and Beyonce’s libido-drenched swagger manifested itself onto the millions of televi-sion screens across the nation. The fiery outline of Beyonce’s “oh no you didn’t” towered over the stage, with almost as much heart-pounding waiting as Mi-chael Jackson waiting for his mu-sic cue on stage in 1993. Then the tweets came, first with fervor
of “Beyonce,” and then with her multiplying holographic selves onstage there came cries of “HOW MANY BEYONCES ARE THERE?!?! #SERIOUSLY” by @traviscrice. Then the Destiny’s Child reunion caused pandemonium ... or hilari-ous indifference, by sports satirist @sportspickle: “Beyonce actually bought the shoes and clothes for the other Destiny’s Child ladies. Hard times these past few years.”
Just as soon as the smoke cleared from the halftime spec-tacle, and as seemingly fast as the game started, the power outage happened, which, in its element created some of the greatest Twit-ter responses I’ve come to see. The reason it became the enter-tainment forum that it did, was 1. Technical difficulties spawn jokes, always. You’ve been to a high school play when things don’t go right, what do you do? Yeah,
I know. 2. Nobody was hurt. And 3. People started blaming every-body. Twitter joke accounts from al-Qaida to Bane to the Illuminati claimed and dispelled faux ru-mors of their evil doings. Rembert Browne of Grantland (@rembert) tweeted simply, “I’m looting.” Be-yonce took hilarious blame for her electrifying performance. Resi-dent science and smart guy Neil deGrasse Tyson said he would look into the matter for everyone, “Be-yoncé radiates about 500 watts, is my guess. But to be certain, I’d have to run a special calculation just for her.” Even sports financial reporter @darrenrovell tweeted, “This could be the most lucrative minutes in stadium beer selling history,” which I’m sure is com-pletely true.
While the Internet stream was throttled by millions of tweets throughout those four and a half hours, it became one of the most interesting and talked about cul-tural events of the coming decade. People will remember what they tweeted about when Beyonce body popped so vivaciously that she knocked out power in the Super Dome, or better yet, they can look it up on their own tweet stream. Social media works as a national collective voice as to what is important in a day-to-day society. While it allows us to con-sume media and give feedback faster, it is essential now to how we communicate. Imagine what Twitter and Facebook would have done when Pearl Harbor was at-tacked, or when we signed the Declaration of Independence. It is unsure how to even measure the cultural impact this medium has changed how we view ourselves and our history, but seriously, it is so much fun.
Tad Unruh
Columnist
Unruh is a senior radio and sociology double major and can be reached at [email protected]
Senior Ben Simons drained three back-to-back 3-pointers to help Drake beat Missouri Valley Confer-ence rival Indiana State in overtime on Saturday night at the Knapp Cen-ter.
The 6-foot-8 forward finished 4-of-5 from behind the arc to lead the Bulldogs with 21 points. He also contributed five rebounds, a pair of blocks and an assist.
Player of the WeekBen Simons
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