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Violence prevention education at Hamline is getting an update with the introduction of the Green Dot, etc program this spring.

Green Dot, etc is an organization that aims to reduce “power-based personal violence” within communities by training individuals in methods of prevention and intervention, according to their website. The Green Dot model visualizes each community as a map, with red dots representing bad acts, such as violence, and green dots as good acts or acts of intervention that cover up the red dots.

Assistant Dean of Students Patti Klein has been working to bring Green Dot to campus for the past couple years after hearing posi-tive responses to the program from Hamline faculty.

“[Theater Arts Professor] Carolyn Levy went to a training that was offered by a Min-neapolis organization around preventing

sexual violence,” Klein said. “She went to an eight hour training on a Saturday that was all

Green Dot and came back and was just excited about it because it was all about bystander train-

ing.”According to the Green Dot website, bystanders

are community members who have been educated in methods and behaviors that facilitate an intoler-ance of violence as a cultural norm in the commu-nity, and who know how to appropriately intervene in potentially violent situations.

After Nurse Jaimie Bennett returned from a simi-lar Green Dot training, Klein, along with an imple-mentation committee, began investigating what it would take to make Hamline a Green Dot campus.

Klein said the organization’s reputation con-vinced them it was the right program for the univer-sity.

“The ideas and the messages seem to fit with who we were, what we were looking for,” Klein said. “As we researched it a little bit more, it’s one of the few programs we could find that actually has some success in maybe doing something.”

According to Klein, interest in the Green Dot program stretched beyond Hamline to the other ACTC schools. The wider interest enabled them to bring Green Dot creators Dr. Dorothy Edwards and Dr. Jennifer Sayre to the Twin Cities last July to train faculty volunteers. During a four-day session, over 60 participants completed a ‘Train the Trainer’ workshop, including 15 faculty and staff from Hamline.

However, Klein and her team discovered that implementing Green Dot at Hamline

would more difficult than they initially thought.

“We walked into training thinking we would come out trained and that

three weeks later we’d be able to have things ready by orientation

and roll the whole thing out and we would be Green Dot

trained by December,” Klein said. “We came out of the training realizing we need a year to be able to create our marketing and all of our other plans.”

Director of Counseling and Health Services Hus-sein Rajput, a member of the implementation team, agreed with Klein.

“Our biggest challenge at this point has been to fully comprehend what it will take for us to imple-ment this initiative with a high degree of fidelity to the model. Green Dot is a very comprehensive program,” Rajput wrote in an email. “Along with a detailed research-based curriculum, implementa-tion of Green Dot relies heavily on a successful mar-keting and communications effort.”

Although the implementation team has been working on bringing Green Dot to Hamline for over a year, the program was first brought to the atten-tion of the Hamline community in an email sent by Provost Eric Jensen on Jan. 4. The message, which addressed a violence incident in January involving a member of the Hamline men’s basketball team, stated that “Patti Klein and others will be coordi-nating a Green Dot program in the athletic depart-ment.”

Professor Kristen Mapel Bloomberg, another member of the implementation team, found Jen-sen’s email to be problematic because it tied Green Dot to the athletic department before it could become a campus-wide initiative.

“Green Dot is not created as a response to the critical incident in January. It’s already been in pro-cess,” Mapel Bloomberg said. “To all of a sudden pigeon-hole it just in athletics is also a disservice to campus, because while a critical incident did happen with an athletics team, these are issues that we see across a variety of constituencies on campus.”

Jensen said the goal is to spread the message of Green Dot broadly across campus, beginning with athletics. According to Klein, the curriculum shouldn’t differentiate athletics from the rest of campus.

“I think you have to personalize it to an audience to help give ideas or suggestions that might work, but the essence of what is Green Dot and how you talk about Green Dot is very scripted,” Klein said. “So it wouldn’t be a different message to athletics but it would be, ‘how does it make sense here?’”

Mapel Bloomberg said that Jensen’s email also complicated the timetable the implementation team had for introducing the Green Dot program.

“Our timeline has been moved up enormously,” Mapel Bloomberg said. “We had hoped to spend a year making sure that we were going to roll this out in a way that was rational and effective, and now we’re being asked to move that up by more than 50 percent.”

Mapel Bloomberg expressed concern about ensuring that Green Dot is implemented success-fully from the start so that it can gain momentum on campus.

“This is the kind of program that when you do it, you’ve got to do it right the first time because oth-erwise you’re done, nobody will take you seriously,” Mapel Bloomberg said. “And so that’s very frustrat-ing. We’re in process now because it went out in a public email, we have to scramble to meet that mandate.”

Klein echoed this concern.“If you rush something like this you could sabo-

tage it from the beginning before really truly doing it,” Klein said.

Seeing green: visualizing violence prevention

Hannah Porter hporter@hamlineoracle.com

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In lieu of our normal incident log, this week we’ve published a special interview with Jim Schumann, director of Hamline Safety and Security Services.

According to Jim Schumann, director of Safety and Security, there have not been any significant changes made regarding Safety and Security since the fall semester. However, some ideas are being discussed as possible changes for this spring semester. Some probably modifications include refiguring parking organization and adding more security cameras around campus. “Safety and Security has been a little slow for the past couple of months, although we have seen an increase in escorts since we’ve expanded our radius,” Schumann said. Schumann articulated on a particular incident that took place in the Anderson Center. “We recently arrested someone for indecent exposure in the anderson center for inappropriately using the computers and indecent exposure and trespassing,” Schumann said. “This person has had history of the same behavior.” Schumann also explained that there has been a slight increase in theft on campus. “Students should make sure that they are keeping their personal items in their sight. Also, if they ever see anything suspicious to always report it, S&S is here to be bothered,” Schumann said.

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The Star Tribune has returned to Hamline with paper and electronic options.

Preston Dhols-Graf pdholsgraf@hamlineoracle.com

The Minneapolis Star Tribune returned to campus on Monday Feb. 4 after a semester long hiatus. The financial burden of the Monday through Friday “readership program” subscription is being split between the Dean of Students office and HUSC.

For the two school years previous to 2012-13, Dean of Students Alan Sickbert’s office provided the entire funding for the campus subscription. Besides splitting the cost for the current and future semesters with HUSC, a few other changes have been made.

The number of papers available daily has been increased from 75 to 100. In addition, interested students, faculty and staff can take advantage of full online subscriptions to the Star Tribune. This year, all copies will be delivered to the Anderson Center front desk, rather than to the previous loca-tions such as Bush Student Center and Sorin Hall.

After cancelling the original Star Tribune sub-scription, other publications were considered.

“HUSC has explored a variety of options.They looked at the Pioneer Press, New York Times, USA Today...when you’re doing multiple copies a day of any of those, you’re looking at $12-14 thousand a year,” Sickbert said.

By comparison, a subscription to the Star Tribune for Hamline students, faculty and staff from September to May, Monday through Friday (excluding breaks) costs $600. Because the sub-scription has been renewed mid-year, the cost will be around $400 for this school year.

Sickbert originally cancelled the subscrip-tion for fall semester “to see if anyone would even notice.” Apparently, not many people came forward to Sickbert to say that they missed the newspaper.

“Nobody approached me and said that they wanted to do this,” Sickbert said.

However, Sickbert believes this is because many people may not have known who was responsible for the subscription.

Although having another newspaper on campus could be considered competition, the staff of The Oracle are certainly glad for the return of the Strib. Whether you pick it up for the funnies, the crossword or the stock reports, it’s good to have it back.

Those interested in e-subscriptions should contact the Dean of Students office for Hamline’s username and password to log in at www.startribune.com.

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BRIEF

Cold front freezes out-of-state students Students from warmer climates shared mixed reactions to Minnesota winter.

Taylor Richter trichter@hamlineoracle.com

When some people think of Minnesota they may think of winter. Cold, long, rough winters. Two Hamline first-years, Cambrell Turner and Jordan Laffin, thought they were prepared for the notori-ous Minnesota winters, but they had a few sur-prises.

“I didn’t think it would be as cold as it is,” Laffin said. “My friends back home in California are com-plaining when it’s 40 degrees. They have no idea what cold is. They need to come here.”

Laffin and Turner are getting used to the harsh

winter, but miss their hometown weather.Turner is from Atlanta, Georgia, and said he had

seen snow before, but it would only stick for a few days and then the temperature would rise to 60 degrees.

“That was just perfect. The snow is cute when it falls, but after it’s around for a few days I’m ready for it to be gone,” Turner said.

While Turner is ready for the snow to go, Laffin is experiencing the snow for the first time.

“This is my first time seeing snow,” Laffin said. “I woke up the morning of the first snow and there was white everywhere and I knew I was definitely not in West Covina, California anymore.”

Both students agree they will not miss winter once it’s over.

“I came here for a change of scenery and a change of lifestyle, but I’m not going to miss these winters,” Turner said.

PHOTO | PRESTON DHOLS-GRAF, ORACLEThe Hamline community can once again enjoy free issues of the Star Tribune, available Monday through Friday at the Anderson Center.

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Google replaces outdated Groupwise as new campus-wide software.

Kristina Stuntebeck kstuntebeck@hamlineoracle.com

Hamline made a big change this year with a campus-wide transition from Groupwise to Google as the university’s sole collaborative software program.

Zoe Miron, Hamline’s Director of Customer Technical Support, said that one goal of the transition was to get students and faculty onto the same system to make communication easier.

“The scope of the project was to replace the old system that was email, calendar and contacts,” Miron said.

She said that faculty had not been able to share their calendar with students unless they created a personal calendar on Google, but then they could not share it with other employees on Groupwise. Sharing documents was also a problem because authorized indi-viduals had to gain access to a single copy of a document through IT, but now they can be shared instantly in Google, Miron said.

Miron said another downfall of Group-wise was that it was not accessible on mobile devices, which is a common practice now.

“The old system was built before the

mobile age,” Miron said. “It was really cum-bersome to get to it unless you were at your office computer.”

Miron explained that programs would have to be downloaded on every computer to gain access to Groupwise and that not all of the features would be the same, which is not the case with Google

Silvester Vicic, the Director of Sundin Music Hall and a key player on the Going Google proj-ect team, said the university had to choose between Google and Microsoft Sharepoint as the new program, but that Google came out on top.

“We tried to be careful that we were getting what was best for the university,” Vicic said. “Google was the best price.”

Aside from cost, Vicic said functionality was another cru-cial component in the decision-making process and that Google, once again, held the advantage.

“Google is a constantly evolv-ing set of applications,” Vicic said. “Google is as simple as you want it to be or as compli-cated as you want it to be.”

Vicic said Google goes beyond basic email necessities by incorporating features such as labeling and the Google search bar to help

keep track of emails, even when the inbox is full.

He said that the team worked to make the transition as easy as possible for the campus. They looked at what other universities had

done and asked about experi-ences to inform them of the best way to transition, he said.

“There was no point in rolling it out then just having it blow up,” Vicic said.

He said they used digital sig-nage to let people know that Hamline was going Google and established technical support for any questions that would come with it.

“We tried to be really com-prehensive,” Vicic said. “We didn’t want to put anything out until we had our technical solu-tions in place.”

Miron said that the “Gsquad”, separate from the Going Google project team, was created to help deal with questions that were coming in. It consisted of

faculty and staff from a number of different fields so that the best possible answers could be provided, Miron said.

“It’s a forum really,” Miron said. “People could ask a question to it, and all of us could collaborate on the answers.”

Despite the precautionary measures, Miron said that the transition hasn’t been without its complications.

“We expected a lot of questions,” Miron said. “The kinds of questions run the gamut.”

She said they have been able to success-fully answer most of the questions, but when it comes to the question of how to access email on a personal device, they are at a loss.

“We don’t know,” Miron said. “We’re not prepared to support every device out there.”

Miron said that they have been combating the problem by assembling lists of instruc-tions on how to access email from various mobile devices. The lists, along with many other frequently asked qustions, can be found at hamline.edu/googlelearn.

Vicic said the transition has been compli-cated for some people because not everything that was done in Groupwise can be done in Google, so people have to think differently about how to do their work. He said that the immediate impact may be that it is different from what people are used to, but it will be easier to work with in the long term.

“Over time, people will discover what the advantages are,” Vicic said. “A lot of people put a lot of time and a lot of careful thought into this process knowing that it wasn’t the perfect solution, but that it was the best one.”

Currently, the implementation team is still figuring out the best way to spread the Green Dot model throughout campus, including the best way to incorporate the train-ing into orientation for first-years.

“One thing is that you don’t just want freshmen trained, but if you start with freshmen, in three years you have them walking through campus, really aware and trained,” Klein said.

The team is also focusing on ways to attract students to Green Dot without making training mandatory.

“Mandating people to do some-thing, versus voluntarily attending something is much more meaning-ful,” Klein said. “Someone who doesn’t want to be there can be a huge dis-traction and can have a really nega-tive impact on some things as well.”

T h e G r e e n D o t m e s s a g e i s broken up into separate stages to address different levels of interest.

“There’s an overview you can do in anywhere from 30 minutes to 90 minutes that gives people some tools but then there’s the eight hour training for people committed to this idea of ‘how do I empower people around me?’” Klein said.

According to Klein, Rajput has designed a powerpoint template that includes all the necessary informa-tion for the 30 to 90 m i n u t e p re s e n t a t i o n and allows presenters, such as FYSem profes-sors, to personalize the message to fit their own experiences or to relate it to the class. Those students who are inter-ested in receiving full Green Dot bystander training will then be able to volunteer for the eight hour session.

Klein said they hope to attract students on campus who are leaders in nontraditional ways as “early adopters” of the Green Dot program. By creating Green Dot lead-ers outside of HUSC and other leadership orgs, Klein hopes to create a grassroots movement where people want to get involved.

One caveat of Green Dot training is that students can only be trained

a s by s t a n d e r s, n o t f a c i l i t a t o r s.“The training is faculty/staff-based

because if you’re going to truly keep it alive on your campus—students come and go,” Klein said. “Students have a role in the train-ing, to be able to pos-sibly be assisters on training, but Green Dot refuses to train stu-dents as facilitators.”

Klein said the imple-mentation team initially had a problem with this but they are still positive about student involve-ment in creating a com-munity of bystanders who are comfortable reacting to potentially violent situations on campus and beyond.

“It’s not just about Hamline, it would be about the other com-munities where our stu-dents, faculty and staff

have a part of because it isn’t some-thing where you walk off of Ham-line’s campus and all of a sudden it

doesn’t have any matter anymore,” Klein said. “It does matter, you know, we do have the ability to respond.”

Jensen noted that the empha-sis on community in the Green Dot model is what makes the pro-g r a m a g o o d f i t f o r Ha m l i n e.

“The most appealing part of it for me is that prevention is based on a sense of community, that it’s not individuals, it’s that we’re all part of a bigger group,” Jensen said. “That’s fun-damentally what makes Hamline spe-cial, that’s what we need to build on.”

Klein said the team is hoping to have a website and other resources for students available this spring.

For more information on Green Dot, etc visit www.livethegreendot.com.

TECHNOLOGY

Hamline switches from groupwise to Google

“Google is as simple as you want it to be or as complicated as you want it to be.”Silvester Vicic

Going Google team member

GREEN DOT: “‘How do I empower people around me?’”(continued from front)

“Prevention is based on a sense of community...we’re all part of a bigger group. That’s fundamentally what makes Hamline special, that’s what we need to build on.”Eric Jensen

Provost

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Starbucks introduces eco-cup COFFEE

In an attempt to reduce waste, Starbucks is o!ering reusable co!ee cups at a price that’s hard to beat.

Jordan Fritzke jfritzke@hamlineoracle.com

Starbucks’ recent release of their own reusable cups has made it’s way into the Anderson Center location. The cups are the company’s newest and latest strategy in waste reduction.

First-year Chris Russell, a barista at the Starbucks on Hamline’s campus, explained in depth the marketing pitch with this new strategy.

“The cups are only a dollar and every time a customer brings one into refill, they get ten cents off of their pur-chase. This gives the customer an incentive not only in saving money on coffee, but allowing them to also contrib-ute to maintaining the production of waste,” Russell said.

Russell also pointed out that the cups share information with the customer on what waste products make up the material of the cup and are also biodegradable.

According to Starbucks’ Responsibility page on their company website, the company saved more than 1.5 mil-lion pounds of paper from landfills. Starbucks outlined this new strategy in 2008, and made a goal to serve one quarter of all their beverages in reusable cups by 2015. That goal has since changed to serving five percent of all beverages in personal tumblers by 2015. As far as recycling, the company is working on a plethora of other goals in conjunction with the reusable cup goal in order to relieve their account of four billion coffee cups globally each year.

First-year Lauren Becker, another barista at the Star-bucks in the Anderson Center, said that she has a cup of her own.

“I have one myself. I enjoy it because it’s pretty good at keeping coffee insulated,” Becker said.

First-year Martha Mucklinski, another coffee barista, said that the Starbucks in the Anderson Center has seen fair reception from customers with the new eco-friendly cups.

“A lot of customers seem to buy them out of impulse, or after we’ve explained what they are, but we’ve seen quite a few being bought here,” Mucklinski said.

One customer, who asked not to be named, explained their own opinion of Starbucks’ reusable cups.

“I have heard of them and sadly haven’t bought one yet, but I think about buying one someday,” they said.

Dining Services continues to respond to student feedback.

Daniel Schauer dschauer@hamlineoracle.com

The ongoing process of improving the dining services on campus con-tinues as more changes have been implemented at both the Anderson Center and the Klas Center.

Dining Services took into account feedback from focus groups con-ducted in October, as well as other surveys and meetings, when making the adjustments for spring semester.

One of the largest and most visible changes to the dining experiences on campus is the addition of a cash register at what was previously the exit of the Bishop’s Bistro. According to Gayle Hanson, Director of Dining Services, the new location of the cash register allows students to enter on both sides of the Bistro and it allows Dining Services to monitor both sides of the buffet.

Hanson also said that the addition of the new registers allows for Dining Services to keep their prices at the same level and prevent people from cheating the system.

The open seating system in the Anderson Center has caused some prob-lems with people taking meals without paying for them by sneaking into the Bishop’s Bistro through the rear entrance. According to Hanson, it has been a common problem that the new registers should address. Previously there was an alarm system that went off when students attempted to enter through the exit, but Hanson said that has been disabled. Hanson said that the new addition of the cash registers should help the Bishop’s Bistro efficiency.

“We knew open seating would provide us with different opportuni-ties and challenges. As a department, we have tried to quickly respond to customer feedback as well as ensuring the integrity of the buffet program stays intact,” Hanson said.

The decision to bring back made-to-order sandwiches to Klas was made based on the feedback Dining Services gathered this year. Dining Services was able to rework staffing in order to accommodate for the change, but Klas is still not operating exactly as it did last year. The new “old” Klas does not offer sub-style bread because, according to Hanson, the amount of resources that the Anderson Center uses due to the volume of dining areas there means that fewer resources can be sent to Klas. Instead, Klas now offers made-to-order wraps, salads and sandwiches on sliced bread, as well as fruit smoothies.

Due to the brand new Anderson Center on campus, Dining Services set up ways for students to give feedback on the new system at several points this year, the largest being several focus groups, surveys and reviews performed by ARAMARK, Hamline’s dining services catering company, in October. However, according to Hanson, there were several other points throughout the year that they collected feedback including a small focus group of approximately 10 students in December.

According to Hanson, much of the feedback they receive revolves around meal plan setups, food variety and special diet requests. According to Hanson, there is also a survey scheduled for later in February, and discus-sions with financial offices for next year have already begun. However, no decisions are finalized as the process of improvement is ongoing.

Food services changes curb theft, complaintsDINING

Reusable Cups: In 2011 customers brought their own tumblers into Starbucks more than 34 million times, saving more than 1.5 million pounds of paper from landfills.

Recycling: In 2011, 79% (more than 2,400) Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Cananda (where starbucks is responsible for providing wase removel services) recycled cardboard boxes and other back-of-store items.

Goal: Serve 5% of beverages made in Starbucks in personal tumblers by 2015.

Previous Goals: Serve 25% of beverages made by Starbucks in reuseable cups by 2015.

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Whimsy 5 The Oracle | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013

SCRAMBLE!

Why is an asteroid tastier than a planet? It’s...

Answer to Jan. 22 puzzle

Q: How did Darth Vader know what Luke was getting forChristmas?

A: He felt his presents.

January Crossword Solution

That jumbled word game

Puzzle by Jake Barnard, Illustration by Bre GarciaCan you unscramble these space-themed words? Hint: Three of them are proper nouns. Rearrange the letters in the grey boxes to solve the riddle.

Crossword By Josh Epstein and Jake Barnard Across1. Space drink6. 2012 hostage movie10. Space program13. Multiple burnings14. Sports rule16. Clothing game17. Star Wars spoof19. ___-Eau Claire20. Barrel throwing monkey21. He know all about dat22. Internet medium24. Bard’s instrument26. Staggered race27. Space debris31. Sweetly or lovingly33. Shorthand for city34. Snitch36. ___ Allen, actor37. Affirmative40. Article before vowel41. Spy author47. Reckless search50. Embarrassed51. Cote d’_____52. Performer of menial tasks53. Pre-roman Brits54. Pound

Down1. Stinky yellow flower2. A soda3. Air defense agency4. 9mm pistol5. Lung affliction6. Inferred

7. UFO mecca8. Wildebeest9. Fish hawk11. Untruth12. There ain’t no father to his style15. Old Sega console16. Keep it quiet, on the __ 18. Intoxicated23. Month of the pil-grim ship24. Cee ___25. Rabbit warren in “Watership Down”26. Healthcare worker acronym27. NY art museum28. Biofuel29. Transportation30. Long time32. California region33. Euro style measure-ment35. Capitalist author38. How bears commu-nicate online39. ___ Nash, poet41. Former “Cop Killer” current detective42. Kalashnikov43. Electric Kool-Aid44. Electronic health record45. Film info site46. “No” prefix48. Street shorthand49. Pirate syllable

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Cabin Fever

HIBERNATION

We’ve made it through December and January but winter isn’t over yet. February is arguably the most di!cult winter month to survive despite it being the shortest. Whether or not we all make it through to the annual thaw without contracting the flu, it’s likely we will all be spending a considerable amount of time indoors in the coming weeks. As most Minnesotans know, hours passed in the confines of a dorm, apartment or house will, at some point, feel neverending. When the going gets tough (and the temperatures below zero), make a night of one of these activities somewhere warm.

hold down the fort

host a Game night

Relish in comic relief

JAm outIf you can play an instrument (regardless of skill), get with some like-minded friends and have a jam session. No pressure to start the next local sensation or star of The Current, just play around for a while. If you live in a dorm, ask around and see if any of your neighbors play instruments as well.

For the not-so-talented, music can still provide reason for a social event. For example, having a music listening party with people with similar tastes a"ords the opportunity to hear new music or obsess over that new My Bloody Valentine album with other people. Sure, you can read reviews and share music over the internet, but sometimes it’s better to play it old school. Even better: limit music listening to vinyl.

become an expert

Board games are a thing of the past, but there’s really no reason they should be. Setting aside technology and social media for a few hours can be a reminder of simpler pleasures. Though most popular games can be purchased at Target for under $25 (i.e. Scrabble, Bananagrams), Sorin Residence Hall has board games you and your friends can rent out for free. Monopoly, anyone?

Every once in a while, acting like a little kid can be refreshing for us “adults.” Not only are pillow and blanket forts fun to construct (see: Community), but they keep the warmth in. It’s like spending all day in bed, except kind of more acceptable and more people fit! Equip the fort with magazines, books, laptops and snacks and there’s no reason to leave until April.

With access to the internet and books, our generation has no reason to be bored. Choose a topic of interest that your classes may not cover, like deep sea species discoveries, cryptozoology , abstract expressionism or astronomy. Documentaries on Netflix are an ideal place to start. Dedicating some time to a totally new topic can be rewarding, and it’s never been easier.

Graphic novels are more than superhero stories. They span a variety of topics, like teenage outcasts to life during revolution. Check out titles by Marjane Satrapi (author of Persepolis), Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine. Graphic novels usually take only a few hours to read, so they are easy to add on top of your reading load for class. Picking up one of these titles between assignments will help to break up the monotony of homework while still being productive.

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Hunt & Gather

Treat Yo’ Self

enjoy a liquid warm-upOnce any significant amount of images or little bits of information are amassed, it can be overwhelming to keep it all organized. Go through magazines and books and scan or cut out the most relevant or interesting images, which can then be kept in a notebook, journal, inspiration board or folder. This will be an indispensable tool for collages or can be a source of inspiration for a variety of creative projects.

For more digital-types, blogs work in much the same way. Tumblr is an easy-to-use blogging platform and community which caters to basically any interests you may have. For most people, the website is scarily addicting. Proceed with caution.

postal serviceVeg out togetherMost often, cold weather means a lot of movie and tv show marathons. Instead of watching hours of programs alone, make that temptation to be lazy a group event. Use a show or a genre of movies (i.e. B-horror, 90s rom-coms, 60s film noir) and plan an event around it. Have a Freaks and Geeks marathon and make snacks you haven’t had since your were a kid. See which one of your friends can show the goriest obscure horror movie. Remember, bad movies are always more fun when watched with other people.

Facebook and texting make communicating with friends super convenient, but not very special. Whether your BFF is studying abroad in Denmark or down the hall in your dorm building, writing her or him a letter shows more genuine e!ort than a message online.To make personalized colored paper, mix oil, water and food coloring of your choice in a shallow pan big enough to fit your desired size of paper. Use a pencil to swirl the water color, which, with the help of oil-and-water separation, will make a one-of-a-kind design. For best results, use an absorbant paper type like watercolor paper.

Sometimes, nothing seems to relieve chills like a warm drink. Invest in some gourmet hot chocolate ingredients. If you’re ambitious, there are a slew of recipes online for homemade marshmallows (I know).Apple cider or wine (if you’re of age, of course) can be made even more delicious with some spices. Heat your drink of choice in a large pot and add whatever you please: cinnamon sticks, allspice berries, cloves, orange slices, nutmeg...etc. Let it hang out for a bit and serve hot. Make enough for your friends on a cold night and they will be forever grateful.

Winter is not nice to our bodies, that’s a cold, hard fact. Buying lotions, exfoliating scrubs and moisturizing treatments can get expensive. There’s no reason to spend extra money when you can use ingredients you can probably find in your (or your parents’) cupboard. Sugar and olive oil can act as a moisturizing exfoliant for your skin. Plain yogurt, avocado, coconut oil can all be seperately used to moisturize your skin. Oatmeal works as a face mask. For a dry complection, mix half an avocado and a tablespoon of honey and leave it on your face for 20-30 minutes. You’ll look like a swamp monster, but your skin will thank you later.

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Staff Editorial

Congrats to college

Congratulations. What? Congratulations on what? You’re still here, trudging through the cold winter for credits. Only around 30 percent of Ameri-

cans obtain their Bachelor’s degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2011. Soon, that will be you. Do your homework and you, too, will join the 30 percent.

It’s hard to look so far into the graduatory future when it doesn’t actually exist yet. College is four or five years total. The United Nations predicts that Americans born between 2005 to 2010 will live an average of 78 years, making college about five percent of total time on this planet for your typi-cal Hamline undergraduate. What makes this five percent of life so critical is how it shapes the remaining span of your time here, all based on how well you apply yourself — and how personally you grow.

If you feel like college is getting you nowhere, you might be right. You have to do something with it. To get a career in the modern world takes more than a degree. So what does it take? There’s no general answer for that. Everyone’s different. Go to the Career Development Center and set up an interview to find out. Log on to Hamline CareerLink and start applying for internships — it’s not that hard; it’s just the internet. Maybe your advisor has some advice. At the very least, join a student org, make some friends, and test out your leadership skills. Hamline offers many opportunities to practice leadership because of our smaller size. You’ll never know if you’re good or bad at something until you actually try it (hey, The Oracle’s hiring reporters).

How’s your résumé coming? One thing you can’t expect in today’s economy is to get your spiffy double degree in Creative Writing and Forensic Science and immediately land that job for the new primetime “CSI.” To get a profes-sion takes some experience with internships, and to get an internship usually takes something even before that — careers aren’t easy. We’re not in 1950s Kansas anymore. Hamline is small for a reason; the professors “know your name,” not just because it’s cool. To build a close net-work of peers and professionals (know names) is to build the window of opportunity which will open to you post-graduation. And at small schools, it’s easier to make con-nections when you only have eleven other people in your class and the professor offers to go over your essay during office hours. Compare that to a lecture hall of 400 at a mas-sive public school where the ever-so-busy professor darts off to their V.I.R. (very important research) immediately after reading off the department script for undergrads. How many connections do you think those students have a chance to make with professionals?

Those connections will come in handy when you’re out in the career world. Graduation stress is natural, don’t fret; lots of us will face tons of debt. Maybe you’re still clueless about what you’re going to do with your degree or how to pay those bills, and that’s fine. Maybe you still have no idea what the world is actually about — but here’s a hint — nobody really does, not even those fancy dancy profes-sors. Just go with it. Try something different. Apply some-where weird. Most of all, make something out of nothing. Congratulations: you’re a student at Hamline University, and few people will ever get such an awesome chance as you. At the risk of sounding like those cheesy people who speak during Piper Passages: embrace it, explore it, define it, live it. Otherwise, you’re getting yourself into thousands of dollars worth of debt for naught. And don’t forget to eat your breakfast.

“I do like the whole back door opening because it’s easier to get seconds.”

“I think they’re getting better and are more ac-comodating to peoples’ needs.”

“I like the idea of having a second line in the back. It’s easier than having to walk all the way around just to get a glass of water.”

“I really appreciate the healthy choices in the C-store. !ey have some re-ally healthy snacks, which is helpful, and there are options for everyone. ”

SPEAKOUT What is your reaction to the recent changes in Dining Services?

Parker JohnsonFirst-Year

Aly XiongSophomore

Averi PhanFirst-Year

Mandela OesterreichSenior

8 Opinion The Oracle | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013

PHOTOS | ANDREW MAAS, ORACLE

Undead existentialismHamline has caught supernatural fever. Students in FYSems and Eng-lish classes are studying vampires of the sparkling and traditional varieties. But what about that other staple of modern macabre, the zombie? There’s plenty of intel-lectual depth behind the snarling visage of the walking dead worth exploring. But first, here’s a little history.

The earliest zombies were corpses reanimated by voodoo sorcerers. Lacking any autonomy, the zombies were in the complete control of their creators. The para-digm of reanimation held firm for a long time. “The Night of the Living Dead” is primarily responsible for creating the modern conception of what a zombie is. The mon-sters portrayed in the film, though never actually called zombies, are shuffling corpses that spread their affliction like a plague to their vic-tims.

These twentieth-century zom-bies were horror movie bread-and-butter, but they had little symbolic significance. They were grotesque monsters, plain and simple. The twenty-first-century saw the rise of a new breed of zombies. These aren’t the leg-locked undead of horror flicks past; they are agile and feral predators capable of tire-less and rapid activity. I won’t get into the debate over whether these are really zombies — that‘s what blogs are for. What’s more inter-esting are the neuroses that keep us watching, digitally slaughter-ing and dressing up as the walking dead. These twenty-first-century zombies represent a modern fixa-tion with the fragility of our social institutions. They also make for fantastic fodder.

Part of the reason behind the zombie fad is their utility as antag-onists in movies and video games. Zombies don’t invoke sympathy or compassion in an audience, so they can be ruthlessly killed in creative fashion. In this regard, they’re like active members of the Nazi party — their dignity needn’t be respected. This allows directors and develop-ers to use undue amounts of blood and gore to the delight of their pre-dominantly teenaged male audi-ences.

There’s more to the modern

zombie than physical violence. The zombies of the new millennium signify a collective fascination with the collapse of social stability. The zombie movies of the early 2000s, “Dawn of the Dead” and “28 Days Later” in particular, coincided with fears of pandemics and terrorism. Zombies in this context represent an unrelenting and unstoppable force that will destroy everything humanity has accomplished. They’re the equivalent of judgment day, marketed to an increasingly irreligious audience.

The fear of infectious disease is obviously exploited by the zombie genre. The zombie is a physical manifestation of an unstoppable virus with devastating conse-quences. In the midst of the SARS and avian flu panics, the idea of a zombie plague became especially

palpable. Beyond the plague, the zombie spreads mindless terror, much like the terrorists we’ve been told are lurking in the shadows. Zombies, given the opportunity, will kill without hesitation or com-passion. It isn’t surprising that a nation in the middle of a “War on Terror” would be fixated by the senseless violence wreaked by the undead horde.

On a more positive note, zom-bies also provide a means by which to showcase the strength of the ties that bind us to our fellow humans. Modern zombie stories are about survival of individuals, of the human race and of love. They’re bleak stories of hope that rarely end well, but it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. In the “Dawn” remake, the indi-vidualistic protagonists squabble amongst themselves while the col-lective mob of zombies close in on them. Only once they’ve set aside their differences and agreed to uphold the moral laws of the recent past do they start to gain traction. Even though the survivors eventu-ally and inevitably die, their tenac-ity is celebrated. This is a reflection of the human condition in general, a hopeless yet admirable struggle punctuated by an inevitable and irrevocable death.

The zombie genre presents an indomitable foe against whom struggle is necessary. In this way, it exploits the popularity of exis-tentialists like Camus, as well as a general societal fixation with apoc-alypse. Modern zombie survival narratives expose the hopes and fears of an American generation that will, according to most predic-tions, be less successful than their parents. This is a generation jaded by senseless violence and financial insecurity. Of course, fighting zom-bies is marginally more romantic than fighting terrorists and cor-porate bureaucrats, which is why we watch movies and play video games. So grab your shotguns and crowbars, there’s zombies about!

‘What’s more interesting are the neuroses that keep us watching, digitally slaughtering and dressing up as the walking dead. These twenty-first-century zombies represent a modern fixation with the fragility of our social institutions. They also make for fantastic fodder.’

JAKE BARNARD

Opinion 9The Oracle | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The Stairs Issue: another point of contention between the Hamline administration and at least a small segment of the Hamline commu-nity. Since the new Anderson Center represents Hamline as a whole, this is something that should concern everyone who is paying tuition to attend this school, but apparently it doesn’t. The administration told us that the new building would improve our campus and there-fore our community, which it has in some ways, but the issue of the transparent stairs undermines these improvements and poorly reflects on our community. The ability to look up an individual’s skirt or dress is more than an issue of “privacy” or feeling “uncomfortable,” or of “friendliness” towards women as it was expressed in The Oracle’s Dec. 11 article about the stairs; it inhibits the formation of a unified, inclusive community.

Many of the students interviewed in the previous coverage failed to see the Stairs Issue as an issue at all. I can honestly say I’m not sur-prised, but definitely disappointed. While the issue of whether or not the Hamline community and general public can see up a person’s skirt or dress may seem trivial to some, if you actually think about it, it’s not. Pigeonholing it as a “women’s issue” makes it easy to dismiss. There’s been some debate about whether the Issue is an issue at all. This is puzzling to me. The backsides of the stairs are virtually transparent and the underside of the stairs are vis-ible from almost every spot in the Anderson Center. According to the architect firm who who consrtucted it, Shepley Bulfinch, this airy design was intended to foster open com-munication and a sense of commu-nity. What I want to know is, how do you foster a community in a place where a large portion of the popula-tion doesn’t feel safe or comfortable in a building that is integral to Ham-line’s campus? Building community in a place that you pay $33,000 a year to be at should be a priority for everyone. Not just the women on campus.

Another thing to consider besides the general consensus that people don’t want others looking up their skirts is the reality of rape and sexual assault survivors on campus. If they’re uncomfortable with people seeing up their skirts or potentially taking pictures up their skirts from underneath, it’s unfair to tell those survivors to “take the elevator,” as the architect did at the meeting on Dec. 10. It was presented as a temporary solution, but it seems like it could become a more permanent “fix.” This is a clear example of women being told to limit their movements in order to not be victimized instead of finding a solution to a problem. This doesn’t make women feel safe. I know it’s hard to believe, but there are plenty of websites on the Internet where creepy men post “up-the-skirt pics” and other problematic images of

unaware women in public. This is real, and it can and possibly has already happened on our campus.

As for the comment made in the previous article that “they should do it as long as it doesn’t cost a lot,” I don’t even know how to react, except with incredulity. It demon-strates the apathy a large portion of our campus has for this issue and for women in general. Why should we deny women the basic right to feel safe in their own home — since Hamline is many peoples’ home — because it might cost too much? How does that make any sense at all?

The Dec. 10 meeting with Dean Sickbert and the architect of the Anderson Center demonstrated the obstacles involved with trying to improve Hamline in any way. Professor Kathryn Burleson wore a dress to the meeting and modeled neon yellow underwear over her tights while walking up and down the Anderson Center stairs to dem-onstrate the problem for the group of attendees.

Despite this evidence, the archi-tecture firm who designed the build-ing is making a computer-generated model of the stairs to see if this is a problem and whether or not it needs a solution. This is frustrat-ing because the point of the meet-ing was to tell them that this is a problem, not to ask them to deter-mine if it is. It appears that student’s voices and concerns have fallen below other administrative priori-ties once again. The administration’s slow reaction to this issue inhibits

the cultivation of community that Hamline is so proud of and seems to be largely driven by the question of cost. This is something we should all be concerned about as we attempt to project an image of Hamline as a safe, inclusive community.

ILLUSTRATION | BRE GARCIA, ORACLE

Twisted story of stairs The mental illness of gun control

‘We come to the point now where the pivot takes place in the U.S. political and social bamboozlement on gun control: it’s not felons shooting up the malls and elementary schools.’

Never in the history of weapons has a handgun, assault rifle or a sharp blade randomly picked a crowded group of bystand-ers and killed at will. I think we agree that for an act of sense-less murder-by-weapon, human intervention is necessary. But misguided education on guns and the left-wing political assault on the Second Amendment has clouded the origin of gun violence and replaced it with an abhorrent political platform. Banning assault rifles, restrict-ing large gun magazines and emphasizing mental illness has led U.S. lawmakers to introduce new soft-tissue laws that focus on keeping guns out of the hands of felons. But felons are not the problem.

To prioritize heinous over-sights in U.S. social and political undertakings, we need look no further than important unad-dressed issues by U.S. lawmak-ers. How is it that a country that can produce $1.4 trillion in less than six months to spend on “saving the economy,” under Bush in late 2007 and President Obama in early 2008, cannot sustain or organize the feeding of hungry children in the U.S.? Pri-oritizing gun control over hungry children looks morally reprehen-sible when 19.5 million children are “food insecure” (that’s a government term). For the rest of us, it means that one out of four children under the age of 18 are hungry, as reported by the Food Research and Action Center.

Newtown, Conn. residents still in shock over the teachers and children killed in the inci-dent at Sandy Hook Elementary School have yet to get answers to their questions about the reason why a young man would kill innocent adults and chil-dren. We may never know. As of today, as reported by the FBI and Newtown police officials, there has been no specific evidence — electronic or otherwise — that gave signals that Adam Lanza would be the perpetrator of the United States’ worst unprovoked mass homicide since Columbine. Unsubstantiated speculation around the Newtown incident sent U.S. lawmakers and the liberal mainstream media into a feeding frenzy about gun con-trol, the size of magazines and somehow inserting the mental illness piece into the equation on gun control.

In Nov. 2012, when President Obama was re-elected and after the Newtown incident, gun sales in the U.S. rose significantly. Smith & Wesson’s quarterly earnings skyrocketed sharply. The Wisconsin Marshfield News-Herald reported, “Back-ground checks for firearms are done through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The FBI com-pleted more than 2.7 million background checks in December 2012, the most for any month since the FBI starting collecting background check data in 1998.” If 2.7 million weapons get on the street legally, America should brace for a revolution.

Right here in Minnesota, the DFL-controlled legislature took gun control to a new extreme. The Star Tribune reported Dem-ocrat state senator Barb Good-win of Columbia Heights wants individuals convicted of violent crimes to have to go before the state Board of Pardons before they are granted the legal right to own firearms. Felons who have served their time would find it much harder to regain the right to possess a firearm under the first of what is expected to be several gun bills proposed at the legislature.

We come to the point now where the pivot takes place in the U.S. political and social bam-boozlement on gun control: it’s not felons shooting up the malls and elementary schools.

In reviewing U.S. mass shoot-ings, we find an interesting thread. Mother Jones has com-piled a list of 62 mass murderer shooters, the total in the US during the thirty years between 1982 and 2012. It says, “Many shooters do not have a history of violent crime that might help predict such an incident. Unlike serial killers, mass murderers do not often have previous mis-demeanors or a felony.” So why would local and U.S. lawmakers focus on making it harder for someone with a felony to pur-chase a weapon? The psycho-logical profile of a mall or school shooter is almost impossible to determine pre-crime.

Why the focus on mental ill-ness?

There are many myths about gun control being married to mental illness. Dr. Richard A. Friedman, M.D., contributor to the New York Times wrote, “There is overwhelming epidemiological evidence that the vast major-ity of people with psychiatric disorders do not commit violent acts. Only about 4 percent of vio-lence in the United States can be attributed to people with mental illness.”

The mental illness of gun con-trol is nothing more than politi-cal rhetoric at it’s best.

DON ALLEN

CAL SARGENT

‘What I want to know is, how do you foster a community in a place where a large portion of the population doesn’t feel safe or comfortable in a building that is integral to Hamline’s campus? Building community in a place that you pay $33,000 a year to be at should be a priority for everyone. Not just the women on campus.’

10 Sports The Oracle | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013

MEDIA

Athletics website receives makeover

As fall semester came to an end, Hamline’s athletic department promised a big development on their social media accounts. On Dec. 18, they unveiled a new web-site, hamlineathletics.com, that is the new online home for news and information on the department.

Sports Information Direc-tor Dave Wright confirmed that Hamline’s athletic department had been pushing for a new design for a while.

“The original didn’t fit the needs for athletics,” Wright said.

Chris Hopkins, assistant sports information director, said they were looking for something dif-ferent.

“Something with some color, to catch your eye,” he said.

He added that the department wanted to make it easy to navigate. He said Athletic Director Jason Verdugo had been pushing for this, and the PAA (Piper Athletic

Association) helped fund it.The previous website was

attached to the Hamline Univer-sity website and used the same graphics. The new site is under their own domain name and has a different look.

SIDEARM Sports was the com-pany that created the new web page design. Now the athletic department has full control over the editing process. Hopkins said that editing on the original website was a 12 to 15 step process; now with the new web page, edits are submitted instantly.

The athletic web page is an essential device that serves as a means for mass communication.

“It’s how we recruit students,” Wright said.

Often when coaches are recruiting players out-of-state, they first refer them to the athletic website so they can gain insight on Hamline. Wright said he works closely with coaches to address their needs and wants for their team’s page.

“It’s like the Daily Paper now,” he said. “My job is to be a reporter.”

Wright’s responsibility is to update the page on a daily basis with news inserts and photos; he

wants to keep the stories up-to-date and relevant.

He said the purpose of the webpage is to communicate to the athletes’ families who live across the country so they can follow the athletics at Hamline. He revealed that just a few years ago, the only way people out-of-state would know the result of a game was by word of mouth.

Wright said the live stats and live streams have become an important feature on the web-site because it provides instant communication: followers know exactly what happens when it hap-pens.

When Wright has to cover a home game and there is another game that day on the road, he contacts the sports information director of the school that hosts Hamline to get insight on the game so that he can post on the webpage, and returns the favor when another school needs infor-mation on games that Hamline hosts. He said that all the sports information directors, specifically in the MIAC, frequently contact each other to get information.

Another thing that has changed over the years is the amount of coverage a sport receives. Wright

mentioned that in past years, only the popular sports such as football or basketball would get cover-age on every event. Now that has changed, and every sport is equal and receives news inserts for every event. He added that particularly this time of year is the busiest because there are now 13 active sports, and some sports, such as basketball, may need to have their page updated two to three times a week because of how often they play.

Wright admitted that he didn’t grow up in a technologically advanced time period, but added the new web page is easy to navi-gate.

“[The new website] makes it easier for everybody,” Hopkins said.

He shared that they’ve gotten over 150,000 views over the first few weeks. Wright said they’ve received many compliments for the web page’s graphics, smooth navigation and instant access.

Hopkins said their goal now is to go in-depth with player biog-raphies (particularly the Hall of Fame players), more information and possibly adding pictures.

New site makes recruiting easier for coaches and finding info easier for fans.

Gino Terrell gterrell@hamlineoracle.com

After 113 days and the cancellation of 250 games, the NHL lockout came to end on Jan. 6. A revised 48-game schedule (compared to the usual 82) began Jan. 19 with the Minnesota Wild beating the Colorado Avalanche 4-2.

Hamline women’s hockey player and NHL fan, first-year Chelsea Koehn was one of many frustrated by the lockout.

“They were fighting over money, but it’s the fans that pay to go. So why not make the fans happy?” Koehn said.

Koehn’s teammate, first-year Mary Shefveland, was glad when the lockout ended but said it encouraged her to support a team even closer to home.

“The NHL lockout made me want to go to Hamline hockey games more,” Shefveland said.

NHL owners were originally worried about fans not returning to support their teams after frustrating the fans for four months during the lockout, but the Minnesota Wild had a unique circumstance that couldn’t keep fans away.

On July 4, 2012, the Wild signed the two biggest free agents of the year, goal scorer Zach Parise and all-star defenseman Ryan Suter. Each player will make $98 million over the next 13 years.

The promise of the new Wild roster had the fans lining up to buy tickets. The season opener sold out in less than two hours, and the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Wild, has aver-aged 18,253 fans per game, according to ESPN.

“This is where we can hopefully spend the rest of our careers and have a lot of success,” Suter told the Star Tribune at the beginning of the

season.The Minnesota Wild provides a

special offer to college students on chosen weekday home games. College students can purchase lower-level tickets for $35, but with the short season and an all-star roster, tickets are going fast.

With a college budget, not all students can afford to make their way to the Xcel Energy Center, but some students have found other issues that prevent them from supporting their favorite teams.

The Wednesday night rivalry game against the Chicago Blackhawks was broadcasted on national television, but Hamline students on campus were unable to watch because NBC Sports Network is not included in the dorm cable package.

This is not much of a problem in the regular season, when only two more games will be on the NBC net-work. However, a majority of playoff games will be on the NBC Sports Net-work, making them difficult to view

for Hamline students on campus.As of Sunday, the Wild were one

point out of first place in the North-west division with a record of 4-3-1. Wild center Matt Cullen told the Star Tribune that expectations are high for this season.

“There’s definitely a different atmosphere as far as expectations, and I think that they’re warranted expectations,” Cullen said. “Anything but making a serious playoff run would be a disappointment.”

Wild games can be watched most nights on Fox Sports North, but hope-fully it doesn’t distract Hamline stu-dents too much from their studies.

“Having hockey to watch every night is distracting, but it’s something to look forward to,” Shefveland said.

Students anticipate season as NHL lockout endsFans on campus are excited for a season that looked like it would not come.

Sarah Schneekloth sschneekloth@hamlineoracle.com

HOCKEY

“They were fighting over money, but it’s the fans that pay to go. So why not make the fans happy?”Chelsea Koehn

First-year

NEW SITE FEATURESThe new Hamline Athletics web-site has made our lives easier here at The Oracle. Here are some of its new features:

Improved statistics: Finding stats on the old site could some-times take a lot of clicks and have outdated numbers. The new site has cumulative, game-by-game, and season high pages with eas-ier access.

Athletes of the week: The site now showcases a men’s and women’s athlete of the week on the main page, complete with photos.

Scores ticker: The bottom of the site has a scrolling scoreboard of Hamline events, inspired by ESPN’s “bottom line” feature.

Info for recruits: Having a sepa-rate athletics website allows easier access to information for potential recruits. The recruits tab contains links to all the in-formation they will need.

Sta! directory: Finding contact info for sta! members is much easier now thanks to the direc-tory page.

MIAC Overall Concordia 15-2 16-4Saint Benedict 14-3 16-4Saint Mary’s 14-3 17-3St. Thomas 13-4 15-5Gustavus 11-6 12-8Hamline 10-7 10-10St. Olaf 9-8 11-9Augsburg 5-12 7-13Carleton 4-13 4-16Bethel 3-14 4-16Macalester 3-14 4-16St. Catherine 1-16 2-18

MIAC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

EDITOR’S DESK

The Manti Te’o story qualifies as one of the wildest in recent memory. But beneath the surface-level craziness involving his fake, dead girlfriend, another story has played out.

The story was broken by deadspin.com on Jan. 16, which raises an obvi-ous question: how did Deadspin beat every major news outlet, including ESPN, to this story? And how was the sports media duped so easily by Te’o’s tall tales of loving a woman who clearly did not exist?

A lot of it comes down to a simple con-flict of interests. Outlets like Sports Illus-trated and the South Bend Tribune, both of whom published high profile pieces on Te’o and his fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, had a clear desire for the story to be legitimate. It’s the kind of sob piece that was perfect for creating a narrative.

The story was so good that reporters who worked on it never thought to check into it much. And if they did, they chose to ignore the obvious signals.

Sports Illustrated reporter Pete Thamel, who wrote a cover story on Te’o, admit-ted later that he checked into her his-tory and found no record of a funeral or her attending Stanford. But he went ahead with the story anyway, due to a tight deadline and the fact that he felt it was true.

Obviously, it’s hard to predict that a star player is going to make up a story about his girlfriend dying in a car accident. But Kekua being a hoax wasn’t di!cult to figure out – in fact, the Deadspin writers realized she was fake mostly through simple Googling and fact-checking.

As for ESPN, their reasons for not pursu-ing the story are obvious. They had a lot invested in Notre Dame football, as they were airing the national championship game that Te’o was playing in. They had no interest in potentially blowing up one of the game’s top storylines and making themselves look bad in the pro-cess for having believed Te’o’s story.

Deadspin has become a valuable source of investigative journalism because, as their name suggests, they have no bias. They have no investment outside of the stories. In this case, it allowed them to break one of the most fascinating sports stories of all time.

Te’o story keeps media fooled

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Sports 11The Oracle | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Last year’s assistant coach is today’s head coach.

Last Thursday, Jim Weyandt was officially named the head coach of Hamline’s men’s baseball team by Athletic Director Jason Verdugo, who coached the team for several years until taking his new job.

Weyandt played baseball for Hamline as a student, and after he graduated in 2003, he became a part of Hamline’s coaching staff. He feels that having played the game helps a coach understand what the players go through.

On a scale of one to five, one being tough and five being easy, Weyandt rated the transition of being a head coach a five.

He has worked with Jason Verdugo for the past nine years and explained that he was a key component in teaching Weyandt. Verdugo has been teaching him the ins and outs of the day-to-day operations.

Weyandt believes that the 13 seniors on the roster will help him adjust to his new position as well.

“[They] know exactly what we expect,” he said.

Weyandt plans to keep things similar to what Verdugo has cre-ated. The team’s six pillars are no exception: hustle, enthusiasm, intensity, communication, disci-pline and loyalty.

“If we live those out every day, then we will be where we want to be,” Weyandt said.

The team’s goal is to finish in the top four in the conference and win the conference championship.

Last season, the team finished 18-22, but 14 of those losses were decided by a one-run margin.

Weyandt feels that his team is mentally tougher than they were last year.

“We are ready to go. I think we will flip that switch,” he said.

Weyandt recognizes that all eyes will be on him as the head coach and the responsibility falls on his shoulders for the wins and losses. “Hard worker” was the term he used to describe himself.

“Nobody will work harder than me,” he said.

Hamline’s season opener will be Feb. 21 at Mall of America Field against Northwestern-MN. Wey-andt urged fans to come.

“I always want support," he said.

As for his expectations con-cerning the 2013 baseball team, Weyandt hopes to instill his hard-working attitude into the players.

“They will work hard and rep-resent [Hamline] University on and off the field with the highest standards,” Weyandt stated.

New coach is ready to get to workFormer assistant Jim Weyandt takes the reins of Piper baseball.Gino Terrell gterrell@hamlineoracle.com

BASEBALL

SUPER BOWL

Ravens defeat 49ers

“If we live [the six pillars] out every day, then we will be where we want to be.”Jim Weyandt

Baseball coach

SUPER BOWL XLVIIBaltimore Ravens (AFC) - 34 San Francisco 49ers (NFC) - 31Both teams coached by brothers: 49ers coached by Jim Harbough while older brother John Harbough coached Ravens.

Location: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Oreleans, Lousiana

MVP: Joe Flacco, Ravens QB, who completed 22 of 33 passes for 287 yards and three touchdowns.

National Anthem: Alicia Keys

Half-time performance: Beyoncé Knowles, featuring former Destiny’s Child groupmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

The Ravens had 21-6 lead going into half-time. After a power outage following half-time, the 49ers pulled o" impressive come-back, although Ravens managed to maintain lead and secure their second Super Bowl title.

PHOTOS | ANDREW MAAS, ORACLETop: Students react to a touchdown in The Heights Super Bowl watch party. Bottom: Sophomore Emma Scott (far right) watches the game in Manor with other residents.

12 Variety The Oracle | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Jena Felsheim jfelsheim@hamlineoracle.com On the road:

1 Leave about 20-45 minutes earlier than normal, depending on severity of weather.

2 Keep a full or near-full tank of gas.

3 Increase stopping and starting distances and leave extra room between your car and others.

4 If you get stuck in the snow, straighten your wheels and accelerate slowly.

5 In a storm, don’t leave your car. If you can’t see, put on your emergency lights and pull over to the side of the road until visibility improves.

6 Avoid using cruise control.

How to drive in MinnesnowtaGetting your car ready for winter:

1 Be aware if your car has anti-lock brakes, four-wheel or two-wheel drive, and traction control. These features will change how you will drive in the winter.

2 When the snow starts falling, swap out your normal tires for all-purpose or snow tires (just don’t put studded tires on your car – those are illegal in Minnesota!)

3 If you drive a truck, keep items in the bed to weigh down and balance out the vehicle – trucks are prone to skidding.

4 Refill your antifreeze so you’ll have plenty for winter.

Skidding: There are two kinds of skids, straight-line (where the front wheels of the car tilt to one direction) or fishtail (where the back wheels tilt while the front wheels remain forward). Correcting a straight-line skid:1 Take your foot off the accelerator.

2 Wait for your car to begin to right itself, then gently turn the wheel until you’re driving straight again.

3 If you continue to skid after taking your foot o! the accelerator, tap the brakes lightly.

Correcting a fishtail skid:1 Don’t panic, just focus on correcting the skid.

2 It may seem weird, but turn into the skid, not in the other direction. If you turn your wheel the opposite way, your car could spin out of control.

3 Gently push on the brakes to slow acceleration. If you have anti-lock brakes, the brakes will start to vibrate – this is normal, keep the pressure on. If you have standard brakes, slowly pump the brakes to slow down your car.

With the temperature stabilizing around zero degrees, there has been a revival of the winter wonderland of St. Paul. For out of state students, the first round of snow and cold may have seemed like a short-lived battle. But with the weather returning to its familiar freezing pattern, driving can be a concern. A couple of warm days followed by a cold one can make for the perfect conditions for black ice and contrib-ute to many car accidents, delays, and white knuckles on the steering wheel. Fortunately, there are Minnesotans used to this bombard-ment of unpredictable road conditions who have come up with driving and winter safety tips.

INFO COURTESY OF | www.hamline.edu, beprepared.com, minneapolis.about.com, travelweather/a/winterizecar.htm, www.weather.com, find-a-driving-school.ca/how-to-prevent-and-correct-skidding-in-bad-weather-conditions/

Shovel

Ice scraper/ brush

Fuel stabilizer

Jumper cables

ILLUSTRATION | BRE GARCIA, ORACLE

The essentials for your car

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