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Deniosn’s new partnership with Say Yes to Education will have two results, according to President Adam Weinberg, and both of them good. Weinberg says that Say Yes will bring “some really amazing seniors” to the student body, as well as “raise… visibility in other parts of the country.”

A new full-tuition scholarship

Alumni, family, and friends all gathered to watch the Denison football team win its fourth victory of the year during Big Red Weekend.

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By Carole BurkettNews Editor

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The theater department has taken significant steps this year to increase student opportunity to participate in its productions. The most significant of these steps comes in the form of the Fall Festival.

Usually the theater depart-ment does two full-scale “main stage” productions each semes-ter, but this year there will only be one main stage production. The other has been replaced by the Fall Festival.

The Festival consists of three productions: two abridged ver-sions of Shakespeare’s work,

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By Curtis EdmondsForum Editor

Two weeks ago, students re-ceived an email at 11:30 p.m. from campus security that stated that a male student awoke early that morning “to witness a male touch his genitals” and that he believed the man was video re-cording the incident. Some stu-dents thought the email was a hoax, and made light of the inci-dent on social networks such as Facebook.

While he denounced mocking sexual assault, Denison’s head of security, Garrett Moore, said he understood why some students thought the email was fake. “It came out late at night because we were working on it for hours a!er the incident occurred,” he said.

Moore said that security alerts normally come out earlier in the day, but he added that waiting until the next day would have been “negligent under federal law.”

"e incident occurred between 3 and 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Another East Quad resident says a man with a #ashlight entered his room early in the morning on Sunday, Sept. 21. "is time, the resident awoke and chased the

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTS & LIFEFEATURESFORUM SPORTSKennedy shares new alcohol data

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In-Depth: the Granville Inn story

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Fall Theater FestivalVail Series: Ethel interview

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Volleyball team wins 14th victory

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will come to campus through Say Yes to Education, a non-profit organization that aims to bridge the achievement gap be-tween urban and suburban stu-dents, according to their website sayyestoeducation.org.

To achieve this, Say Yes men-tors students in Harlem, Phila-delphia, Buffalo, Hartford, and other areas from kindergarten through their senior year and then, through scholarships, work with colleges to enable

them to attend the school of their choice.

Jacques Steinberg, the Senior Vice President of Higher Edu-cation at Say Yes and a former New York Times education edi-tor, knew President Weinberg before he set foot on the hill. “That’s probably how we got on their radar screen,” Weinberg said. “He knew I was coming to Denison and just inquired whether Denison would be will-ing to participate.”

He next presented the idea to Perry Robinson, the director of admissions. “Adam asked me about it, and I talked to some of my colleagues, and we all de-cided this would be a good step to take,” Robinson said.

On Sept. 18, Say Yes an-nounced their eleven most re-cent partner schools, a list that includes Denison alongside Vanderbilt, Rice, Princeton, and Cornell Universities. Students

“Taming of the Shrew” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” and a Denison original “Familiar Strangers” written by Hongyi Tian, a 2013 graduate. These plays will be performed during early October.

Some students are excited to see the Fall Festival. Junior Em-ily Smith, an English major from Mars, Pa., said, “I think it’s nice there are more opportunities to get school credits, particularly in acting.” And current sopho-

According to Hanna Rosin, women are rising above men in the workforce.

Although she spoke about femi-nist topics and about women, she focused on women rising to the top and not on men being shoved to the bottom, as the title may sug-gest.

Rosin came to Denison on !ursday, Oct. 26, becoming the year’s "rst speaker for the Laura C. Harris Symposium series. !e event was titled !e End of Men, based on her book, “!e End of Men: And the Rise of Women.”

!e main point of the lecture was to explain the change women

By Ali MillerSpecial to !e Denisonian

have gone through in society over the years. Women, for example, used to have the job of taking care of the home while men were the breadwinners, or money-makers, of the household. Today, however, the majority of women are the household breadwinners. !is has occurred for a variety of reasons: women aren’t getting married as early or at all, women are more likely to get a college degree, and women didn’t take as much of a hit during the recession.

Rosin also talked about the change in men. Stay-at-home dads are more common and more ac-cepted today, for example. Men are also more content with making less money than their wives. How-ever, despite the higher positions

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women hold in society today, they still face problems. !ere are very few women in executive positions in business, creating a higher, but still solid glass ceiling. Women are also still expected to be passive and docile in most places; not only in the home, but also at work and in business positions.

!eater year changes, allowing students more roles

Without new information, East Quad sexual assaults will become cold case

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1,000Alumni, Parents, and Friends

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!e Newark Advocate Licking Memorial Hospital is struggling to retain inde-pendence, to provide on-site services in Newark and Heath, as one in eight hos-pitals in Ohio have or will join a larger hospital system.

!e Columbus Dispatch Police have is-sued a warrant for the arrest of 18-year-old Jeremiah Ross Howard, Jr., who is suspected of having shot 16-year-old Isaiah “Zay” Jones on the Far East Side of Columbus on July 15.

NATIONAL

Politico "e suspension of non-essential services by the federal government has entered its second week as lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue $nger-pointing and inactivity.

INTERNATIONAL

Al Jazeera "e Department of Defense con$rmed Sunday that early on Saturday an elite Delta Force team captured Anas al-Liby, suspected of orchestrating the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tan-zania and Kenya.

BBC "e Gambia, a nation on the west-ern coast of Africa, announced its with-drawal from the Commonwealth of Nations on "ursday, calling the Com-monwealth, an international association of former British colonies, a “neo-colo-nial institution.”

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DCGA Weekly Report

Dean Bill Fox opened the Oct. 1 DCGA meeting with an update on the campus climate. Discussion and review of the DCGA Senator retreat resulted in a conversation about the Constitution and Mission Statement. A reallocation request from Sus-tained Dialogue was brought to the senate by Finance Chair Kiara Sims. A discussion of ways to improve class dialogue, including forums and in-formal events, was lead by Vice Presi-dent Hung Tran.

A handful of Denison students, faculty, and community members came together on Saturday, Oct. 5, to celebrate the com-pletion of a new building recently added to !e Homestead.

!e celebration kicked o# with the plant-ing of a tree to commend the newest addi-tion to this environmentally friendly living space. !e Homestead is located just down the road from campus, past the bio reserve, and serves as home for eleven Denison stu-dents. It is a unique residence positioned in a secluded area, away from the majority of society, and it has a lot to o#er.

Student residents enjoy an environmen-tally friendly lifestyle and learn to take care of their needs within their local surround-ings. Four buildings sit upon the hill of this area, two of which are currently being used as living space, and one that serves as a kitchen and storage area.

!e Homestead is available as a living option for any Denison students who are at least a sophomore and want to become part of this unique community. !e stu-dents are completely self-su$cient as they grow their own food, maintain the area, and even walk at least twenty minutes to class every day.

Sophomore Alex Tybl from Pittsburgh, Pa. described the Homestead as “one of

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PHOTO POLL: What did you do this Big Red Weekend?

Current homestead residents (from left) Tory Scott ‘15, Ryan Liedke ‘16, Alex Tybl ‘16, Jane Windler ‘14, Ryan Culligan ‘14, and Conner Toth ‘15, pictured in front of the new cabin, celebrated the completetion with others over Big Red Weekend.

the coolest places at Denison, [because it has] such a strong sense of community.” He lives in the building referred to as ‘Cabin Phoenix’, which was rebuilt a%er an acci-dental "re in 2000. !is type of building is called an ‘earthship’ because it is built into the ground and lined with dirt and old tires, which provide it with natural heat.

Another current resident, sophomore Ryan Liedke from Chicago, Ill. chose to live at the Homestead a%er several visits and dinner. He described this place as one

where community “is the pervading cul-ture, [and it is] just a great environment.”

!e students who live here grow their own fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices, many of which they bring and sell at the weekly Farmers Market in Granville.

!is place is a unique environment that o#ers students the chance to break away from the mainstream stress of society, learn to be self-sustainable and live in an environmentally focused community.

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who are in the Say Yes program and are interested in Denison will go through a normal application process, and when accepted, they will receive a full-tuition scholarship according to Director of Fi-nancial Aid Nancy Hoover.

Denison currently provides seven other full-tuition scholarships, as well as the Posse scholarships, each of which of-fers a $40,000 value each year. According to Hoover, the reduced tuition revenue from these is made up by other sources, partly from endowments. “The university is willing to reduce our revenue from that source to help make the student be able to afford Denison,” Hoover said.

This has been the case with the Posse Foundation, who send groups of 10 stu-dents from specific cities to the same school. At Denison since 2000, there are currently 79 Posse scholars on campus,

one of whom is Sindy O. Pimentel, a ju-nior from Boston majoring in sociology and anthropology.

“I came to Denison because of Posse,” she said. “The fact that there were oth-er students also coming and that there were previous Posse scholars here made me feel a bit more comfortable.” The Posse Foundation builds on this, using the principles of community to enable students to succeed. Pimentel said, “My posse is very involved on campus in such different areas… sometimes we bump into each other and it gives, at least me, the best feeling in the world to see a per-son that I know I love and loves me back.”

Many Posse scholars have gone on to achieve remarkable success within the Denison community. DCGA president Ana Morales, ‘15, is a Posse scholar, as was Abdi Ali, ‘13, who returned to cam-pus yesterday to discuss the results of his Davis Project for Peace grant. These ac-complishments bring to mind those of

Say Yes scholarship recipients, including Ben Burdick, a senior at New York Uni-versity who has interned at the CERN international research center, and Am-ber Jackson, a 2012 graduate of Syracuse University who is teaching English as a second language in Ireland.

“Posse has… demonstrated to us the power of what can happen when we part-ner with innovative organizations that are working on issues we care about,” Presi-dent Weinberg said, and others seem to share his optimism. Hoover said, “It will enrich the fabric of diversity that already exists at Denison.”

The access that Say Yes promotes is a priority for Weinberg and an ongoing part of Denison’s mission. “We’re very proud of what we’ve been able to do,” Robinson said. “College is an expensive and very significant sacrifice. We always keep in mind affordability and access for all.”

“We’ve been eating. We went to

Broadway Pub, the art shows, and

rugby. It’s been a lot about rugby.”

“Emily plays softball in the Ohio

Collegiate Charity Classic, so we

come every year to see that.”

“We ate lunch, went to the football

game, went to Whits, saw Much Ado

About Nothing, and did laundry!”

“I wanted to see the campus again

and I wanted to see Granville.”

Emily Lipsitz ‘15, with parents Ann and Rich Lipsitz

Teddy Eley ‘17, with mother Victoria Eley

Elizabeth Rosenkrantz ‘17, with parents John and Jeri Rosenkrantz

Dr. Tim Nice, ‘76 Alumnus

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Got safety? Denison does. The safety fair took place Thursday,

Sept. 26 outside of Slay-ter. Students that attend-ed were looking for not only a chance to get in-formation on how to stay safe here on campus, but also to win cool prizes in-cluding a Kindle Fire and an Apple TV.

The event had eight ta-bles, which all provided in-depth information on how to keep students and their peers safe on- and off-campus.

The counseling servic-es table gave tips on how to manage well-being here on campus. There was even a table with several lap-tops where students could play educa-tional games on keeping themselves safe while browsing through the World Wide

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For a review of Familiar Strangers, see Arts and Life, page 8

Web. At the Licking County Sheriff ’s table,

Deputy Robert Barr handed out pam-phlets and bookmarks with information pertaining to Ohio’s new texting law:

Under the age of 18, it’s illegal to use any mobile communic at ion device while driv-ing in Ohio. Any-one in violation of the law will be fined and suffer license suspen-sions.

“I think that the Safety Fair is a fun, interactive way to encourage members of our community to re-

flect on our well-being from a number of different perspectives,” said Director of the Center for Women and Gender Action Marci McCaulay. “It helps make us aware of things that we can do to sup-

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I think everyone knows that security is here, but no one really sees them. Seeing more security might actually make people feel more secure.

port and promote our own safety as well as that of others. It reminds us of the importance of approaching these issues collectively.”

“We’re always told we can always con-tact security, so I feel very safe knowing that if something happens there’s always somebody I can contact,” said Jeannette De Neui, a first year student from Chi-

suspect out of his room. "e suspect was described in the email as “a black male, slim build, approximately six feet tall and college-aged.” Because both situations in-volved a dark room, neither victim was able to give a more detailed description.

Some students thought the racial de-scription caused an unnecessary issue on a campus where there are few African-Americans and they thought racial pro$l-ing could occur.

“I think it’s problematic because it puts the speculation on black people on cam-

pus when the person could have been a di%erent race,” says Kiara Sims, a senior from Chicago, Ill. “"ey should have just said dark-skinned.”

“I understand the frustration people have when they see the description of the race of a suspect,” says Moore. “Being a black man myself, I know what racial pro$ling is and we have to be concerned about it.” In the future, Moore thinks it would be a good idea to use the complex-ion of suspect rather than their race.

Regarding the investigation, Denison security has teamed up with the Granville Police Department. Moore says that they “have no idea if the person was a student,

a community member or a visitor.” He says that they have interviewed the people who reported the incidents and looked at information from the card readers to see who entered the dormitories around the time the incidents occurred.

“We have exhausted our investigative e%orts,” said Moore. He believes the end result will be a cold case unless someone steps forward with more information.

Jack Olmstead, a sophomore from Charlotte, N.C. appeared on Columbus’ 10TV news to talk about the incident last Wednesday. He says that a!er he got the email, he realized a man “matching the same kind of credentials” had entered his

more Michael Somes from Kirtland, Ohio, said, “For the play I’m in, I really enjoy going to rehearsals; they’re a lot of fun.”

However, many students have voiced frustrations toward some of the facets of the festival’s organization. Junior Will Brackenbury, from Cincinnati, Ohio, is producing the entire festival and direct-ing “Familiar Strangers,” as well as acting

in another production. He said, “Logisti-cally, this has been far more challenging than expected.” While most theater pro-ductions have around 12 actors, the en-tire Fall Festival has almost 50.

Compounding this logistical challenge is the limited budget and departmental resources afforded to the Fall Festival productions. Compared to most main-stage theatre productions, whose budgets can be as high as several thousand dol-lars, the three productions were given a shared budget of 500 dollars. In addition

In the Mitchell gymnasium, varsity sports teams, clubs, and Greek life orga-nizations from around campus gathered to hear nationally-recognized anti-haz-ing spokeswoman Kim Novak speak on Sept. 30 about the prevention of hazing on Denison’s campus.

Novak takes an original approach to discussing this sensitive subject, using her humor, charisma, and liveliness to encourage students to reconsider their understanding of hazing. Her method starts with recognizing the integral part that ritual and tradition play in the bonds formed between members of an on-campus organization, and empha-

sizes the importance of recognizing and adhering to these fundamental prin-ciples.

The students at Denison come from “values-based backgrounds,” Novak not-ed in her speech, but questioned why it is that our students – and others around the country – so often subject them-selves to the dangers of hazing. Denison is “a national leader in education,” she said, “and it needs to be at the forefront” of this pertinent dialogue.

“People feel that everything is haz-ing,” she joked, but defining the term was not at the vanguard of her presenta-tion. Novak challenged her audience on multiple instances to take pride in the customs that define each organization on campus, and for each student to be

conscious of how those traditions bond the group together.

Posing questions to start the conver-sation, Novak intrigued her audience while raising poignant ideas concerning ways students can engage our “risk vul-nerable community” in dialogues that will help prevent the dangers associated with hazing. “Why would you gamble?” she asked her audience.

Novak also invited her listeners to think about their experiences join-ing Denison’s different organizations. “What does it look like to be a rookie? How does one get involved in these tra-ditions?”

Her approach to this hypersensitive issue acknowledges the importance of conserving the bonds that bind our

social groups together; but whether a sports team or a Greek organization, Novak made clear that the most impor-tant thing is to “take care of each other.”

“Your administration is behind you,” she concluded, “but the line is drawn at hazing. Your obligation is to engage in this conversation.”

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cago, Ill. “I think everyone knows that security is here, but no one really sees them. Seeing more security might actu-ally make people feel more secure.”

The importance of safety is stressed by events like the safety fair, which help promote useful tips to prevent mishaps.

Security’s Safety Fair in full swing on Thursday Sept. 26.

to this, directors were given minimal ac-cess to costume shop and scene shop ma-terials.

The Fall Festival addresses the com-plaint made by many that participation in departmental theater has been ex-tremely competitive in the past, but it may take a few iterations to iron out its various kinks.

room a few days earlier with a #ashlight. Olmstead sits on the Security Council, and said he wanted to go on the news to talk about what happened to him “to put pressure on the administration to say that something did go wrong” and “to pressure the [suspect] to stop doing it.”

Still, the same problem of identi$cation arises. Olmstead said if the man was in a line up, “I probably couldn’t identify him.”

If you have any more information on these incidents, you can submit anony-mous tips at http://denison.edu/forms/anonymous-tips.

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By Jessie MackManaging Editor

DEditor’s Corner >>Network with alum for the future

OUR VOICE >>

Networking, making connections, and contacting alumni is consistently emphasized throughout our Denison careers. Many times students will com-plain about not having particular re-sources but when the resources come to campus, students don’t utilize them to their fullest potential. Yes, there are some students who are taking full ad-vantage of the advice offered through the office of Career Exploration & De-velopment.

However, there are other students, who, during their time at Denison, don’t attend any of the events offered to gain the necessary tools needed dur-ing the preparation process for life after Denison. The concept of networking is critical because, if done correctly , it could benefit your future.

Nonetheless, this past weekend, we had Big Red Weekend with an enor-mous amount of alumni who returned to campus to offer words of wisdom and guidance to current students.

Yet, there were some alums who felt that some current students have no respect for them. One alum posed a question: “Why should we come back if you’re not going to take advantage and learn from us? How we made it to where we are and how you can be better prepared for after college.”

It makes sense doesn’t it? Why should they waste their time coming back if

we aren’t going to ask them questions? Many alum regret that they had not taken advantage of those opportuni-ties to connect with alum or work with CE&D because there were some ob-stacles they had to face, which they felt could have possibly been avoided with one conversation.

Having a conversation only for what you can extract rather than the knowl-edge you can gain. The mentality of having a conversation driven by per-sonal goals is meaningless.

A suggestion CE&D offers students provides guidance on how to approach an alum. Yes, they are willing to assist you but your approach is everything, whether it’s via email or in person. You can’t think you know everything as a student preparing for graduation when you don’t have the slightest clue of your plans after Denison.

As students, our approach should be as learners, who want to learn how Denison Alumni have arrived to where they are and what we can do to be suc-cessful in our own individual career paths.

It’s really true what you learn as a first-year student: ask questions, make connections, and get involved. All of these components work together to cre-ate the college experience.

We ask questions as a form of obtain-ing knowledge, making connections will provide you with the opportunities to expand your horizons and try some-thing new, and getting involved will equip you will skills and bring forth talent that you did not realize you pos-sessed.

We have to understand that every-thing happens for a response. No, we don’t have to be goal driven.

However, if we put forth the effort as active learners, our future will not be seen as much of a burden; but some-thing that will work itself out because the hard work has been done for the past four years.

As the President and Speaker of the Denison Campus Governance Association (DCGA), we, Ana Morales and Meghan Pearce, would like to address the editorial published in the September 24, 2013 issue of !e Denisonian, “A vote against insen-sitivity.”

!e DCGA holds student elections to the highest standards. Occasionally, can-didates use tactics that are not consistent with the DCGA Election Procedures and Rules, the DCGA governing documents, or University Policies.

In these situations, the Elections Board of the DCGA is well equipped and backed by these policies to address and prevent the use of inappropriate material or cam-paign tactics. Such is the case with the Class of 2017 elections for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Upon being noti"ed of their campaign materials, the four candidates mentioned in last week’s paper were "rst instructed to remove their campaign materials from any place of existence on campus, which they immediately and respectfully did.

Directly following, all four candidates met with the DCGA President, Ana Mo-rales, ’14, to discuss the implications of breaking the expectations and rules of DCGA elections and as well as future ac-tion resulting from the content of their materials. !e DCGA Elections Board, Ex-ecutive Committee (which consists of the

DCGA President, Vice President, Speaker, Treasurer, and Chairs of the DCGA Fi-nance, Policy, Rules, and Public Relations Committees), and the DCGA Advisors, Dean Bill Fox and Professor Michael Brady were all noti"ed of this situation.

Our purpose and hope in addressing this article is two fold; "rst, is being transparent with our student body who understands that the Denison Campus Governance Association has considerable measures in place to prevent any potentially hazardous campaigning in any election.

Second, that the candidates, while ex-hibiting inappropriate behavior in this election, are protected by the policies of the DCGA.

Meaning, although action steps are taken to condone inappropriate campaign behavior, they are also taken to equip can-didates with knowledge to refrain from such actions in the future and with tools and support from their student body rep-resentatives to move forward.

!e DCGA promotes the educational value of student elections and strives to represent the student opinion through clear communication and understanding.

Sincerely, President Ana Morales ‘14

Speaker Meghan Pearce ‘16

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As someone who greatly values how the community views measures taken to bene"t the environment, I found the editorial arti-cle from the Sept 14th issue quite upsetting, not only because it was inaccurate, but be-cause it implies that it’s okay not to take the composting program seriously. To begin, the claims made about time in the article are simply outrageous: I have yet to ever see anyone spend anything over 10 seconds at the compost station a far cry from the 30 second average used in the article.

It’s really a simple setup: we all know what’s recyclable (at least I would hope so by now, college students), and unless you brought in something that’s plastic 1-7, pa-per or metal, you don’t even have to worry about that station, as the dining halls don’t give you anything recyclable. Meats and plastic wrappers go in trash, and all other food goes in compost. Done. It may seem complicated the "rst couple run-throughs, but, coming from a freshman who eats ev-ery meal in the dining halls, you catch on pretty fast.

My hope is that the student body won’t see this new composting thing as a joke simply because one person wrote an article about it (here’s one person writing an article for it!). Considering all Mother Earth has given us, the least you could give back is a few seconds.

- Jake Dennie ‘17, of Indianapolis, Ind.

!rough the columns of your esteemed newspaper I would like to bring to the no-tice of all the environmental groups, con-cerned students and faculty of Denison, the complete disregard shown by students and administration alike towards the issue of rising electricity consumption on our cam-pus.

Students of residence halls have turned a blind eye towards a sustainable lifestyle and use the resources provided to them in an ir-responsible manner.

Rooms are o#en seen lit to their fullest and stu$ed with various appliances, work-ing simultaneously almost all the time.

!ere has been no e$ort to make a change despite receiving messages from the Energy Management and Campus Sustainability O%ce regarding overuse of energy and pos-sibilities of blackouts.

Perhaps, if students realized that a high energy bill this year, will only lead to the rise of tuition would help spark a change. As a concerned student, I urge the Denison com-munity to be more aware of the negative ef-fects of irresponsible energy usage.

Every Denisonian should play their part in the college’s mission to be more e%cient and sustainable, not because it’s a good thing to do, but because that is what’s ex-pected from them.

- Ridhim Seth ‘17, of Kolkata, India

Composting Saving electricity

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YOUR VOICE >>Kennedy: ‘A very good start’

By Laurel KennedyVice President of Student Development

What a di!erence a year makes. At this time last year, we had done several commu-nications with the campus and key constit-uencies to say that alcohol and vandalism were presenting unusual problems.

In fact, the sixth week of school last year was the "rst week of the year when we did not transport at least one student to the hos-pital. #is year, most weeks have been with-out any transports.

Alcohol has not, of course, disappeared from campus. Far from it. #e number of students walking around with open cans of Natty Light is, well… an embarrassment to anyone who appreciates good beer. It’s been a lot of students.

But consider that while students continue to be stopped with open containers, the number charged with disorderly conduct has dropped from "ve last year to just one so far this year. We have had not a single report of students being abu-sive to medical person-nel.

#ese are all good signs. #ey correspond with a di!erent campus vibe. To have so few sirens is itself a notable di!erence.

What accounts for these changes? It would be great to hear what students’ thoughts are about this. I’ll suggest a few possibilities.

First, we think that the Class of 2017 was better prepared to encounter the college al-cohol scene. More of these students—93%--completed the on-line alcohol course we expect students to take, for example. We know that the course is not the most excit-ing use of one’s time, but we also know em-pirically that it makes a di!erence in what happens for "rst-year students. (By the way, we are reviewing options to see if there is a more interesting course out there.)

Second, we know that most students who choose to drink do so moderately, and most don’t particularly like or want an unhealthy alcohol environment. #eir moderation is more evident this year than last. #is is bet-ter not just for them, but also for students whose idea of fun doesn’t include alcohol at all, or not always. #ese students seem to be cra$ing the social environment they want, too.

#ird, it appears that hosts and serv-

ers are acting with greater responsibility, perhaps in association with Party Regis-tration or perhaps because they feel better equipped to look out for their guests’ safety and wellbeing. One of the best attributes of Denison students as a whole is how they look out for each other. Fewer students may be reaching the point of overdose.

And fourth, friends and neighbors may be intervening earlier, before a medi-cal emergency becomes dire. Having an

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) on campus makes everything related to medical intervention easier. When most students are being sent to Whisler rather than LMH, students contemplating a call for assistance can feel comfortable that there won’t be unnecessary expense or other re-percussions.

#is is especially important in situa-tions of uncertainty: Is the situation “bad enough” to ask for a medical assessment? Barriers to calling are lower when you know your friend won’t go to the ER unless medi-cally warranted. #is is how our Medical Assistance program is supposed to work. (A post next week on the Student Devel-opment blog will share "ndings from an evaluation of the Medical Assistance policy: http://blogs.denison.edu/commons/.)

Finally, there has been a lot to do on cam-pus on the weekends. #is continues to be an area that we’re working on, with partners across campus. October o!ers no shortage of entertainment with an Inaugural Ball and D-Day still ahead.

It’s a very good start.

Bridging the racial divide

By Dylan Weinand ‘16Special to !e Denisonian

On a cloudy fall day, an international friend and I were studying on the fourth floor of Burton Morgan.

As I peeked out the window, I noticed six African American guys walking in front of the admissions office, as well as a group of 3 or 4 white males walking in front of them, separated by about 15 yards.

As usual, I attempted to desensitize myself from this image. It’s Denison! Liberal arts, diversity, all encompassing.

It then hit me - I have no black friends. Not one. There are black people on campus - isn’t that enough? When my parents come and visit, they will see black people. Thats good enough, right?

Maybe not. Lennon Johnson is the Vice President

of the Black Student Union and NPHC. He won the Posse scholarship, an in-credibly prestigious scholarship for in-dividuals that is awarded based on aca-demic excellence and leadership.

Lennon hangs out primarily with Af-rican Americans, but has a few close

relationships with white people. ‘‘You’re going to go where you feel more com-fortable,’’ he says.

He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically African American frater-nity. He is the president and the fra-ternitiy’s lone member on campus this year.

Alpha Phi Alpha’s philanthropy is, ‘’Go to High School, Go to College,’’ which is a program that supports young African Americans in their education. Every month, he visits the sick and el-derly in nursing homes and gives them company. By himself.

Earlier this month, Lennon was walk-ing from a Black Student Union meet-ing and crossed paths with three white males outside of Smith and Shorney. It was a walk Lennon usually takes after his meeting, a walk he has taken hun-dreds of times in his four years on cam-pus.

This time, though, was different. He was called a horrendous slur and

accused as the man who has been sexu-ally assaulting boys on East Quad. It was tough, but Lennon doesn’t want sympa-thy. He’s too strong and smart for that.

By the end of our interview, I was fighting back tears. This man, who has been marginalized by our community, has transformed our campus.

When asked about what the adminis-tration could do in regards to diversify-ing campus, he said: ‘‘It has to happen by the students.

Dylan Weinand is a political science and religion double major from Oak Park, Ill.

Laurel Kennedy is from Minneapolis, Minn. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from Ohio University.

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#e drop in the percentage of students recieving alcohol-related

medical care as compared to this time last fall.

45#e percentage of students recieving care as the result of another student’s

call.

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versus Whisler for alchol-related treat-ment. Last year, the ratio was 1:3.

93#e percentage of freshman students

that completed the online alcohol course.

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!e number of students walking around with open cans of Natty Light is an embarrassment to anyone who appreciates good beer.

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Shared Granville Inn, Denison history proves “inextricably intertwined”By Bridget Diana and Erin WordenSpecial to !e Denisonian

In the early 1920s, John Sutphin Jones made a deal with the Granville community: if it acquired a sewage system, electric lights and a water plant for the town, he would build a grand hotel.

And sure enough, in 1924, he built the Granville Inn.

!e history of the Inn and Denison Uni-versity, less than a mile up the hill, have always been “inexplicably intertwined,” ac-cording to Dena McKinley, the current Gen-eral Manager of the Granville Inn.

In fact, Jones’ summer home was Monomoy Place, the current President’s home.

According to McKinley, Jones hired well-known architect Frank Packard to build the Inn on the property that Jones acquired. !e land was formerly owned by the Gran-ville Female Academy, which closed in 1898. Jones’ wife, who attended the Female Acad-emy, convinced her husband to preserve part of the original structure that currently houses some guest rooms, the garages and the wine shop.

Currently, the Inn consists of 30 guest rooms, seven special event rooms, a restau-rant and adjoined pub, a garden and a (re-cently added) wine shop.

McKinley said the 2008 economic reces-sion “dug [the Inn] into a very deep hole” that “compounded "nancial problems that were already in place” before business began to recover from a “very low point” in 2010. Public record shows that the Inn was be-hind on its mortgage, and the bank "led for receivership, a court order that appoints an outside authority — a receiver — to oversee operations when "nancial obligations are not met.

!is is where Denison eventually stepped in.

Saved by the bell

Denison University President Adam Weinberg admitted “important conclusions” were already reached by the time he arrived on campus this past July. He said Denison had planned on letting another entity pur-chase the Inn if they would keep it at the quality “Granville deserves.”

!e other company seriously considering purchasing the Inn was a Columbus-based "rm called Urban Restorations.

Denison “wanted [Urban Restorations] to be successful” in purchasing the Inn, ac-cording to Vice President of Finance and Management Seth Patton, because of its past of successfully renovating historical proper-ties. “Our initial thought was that we’d love to have someone like Urban Restorations buy it

and restore it. !at would have been ideal,” he said.

Only days before the deadline, Urban Res-toration decided not to buy the Inn. Patton speculates that Urban Restorations’ inexperi-ence with renovating inns was a deal-breaker.

“We weren’t seeking that as an investment opportunity, but it came our way,” Patton said.

When the purchase is "nalized in about a week, Patton said the university will be the fourth owner of the Inn — the original own-ers, the Kent family, the investment group and now the University. !ough he could not disclose Denison’s o#er, Patton did say the University’s bid was “not as good” as Urban Restoration’s $1.3 million.

Jessica Hankes ‘17, an aspiring physics major from Minneapolis, Minn., admits she’s “not terribly concerned” with "nancial as-pects of the purchase. Hankes said she feels comfortable enough with the University’s decision to not be worried about the Inn’s "nancial impact.

Weinberg said the Inn purchase is not in-tended to “be a drain on Denison resources."

To accomplish this, he said Denison will “most likely hire a management company that has expertise in running inns of [com-parable] size.”

Patton echoed Weinberg’s statement add-ing that the University has interviewed “three or four” potential management com-panies. Patton said Denison is “pretty close to making a decision on that,” anticipating that it should be con"rmed in less than two

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The main hall of the Granville Inn revels in curiosities and historical memorabilia from its storied history. Among the plethora of

events hosted by the Inn are the weekly meetings of Granville's Rotary and Kiwanis Club chapters.

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months.He said “the [management company]

we’re talking most seriously to [has a vision] that is not all that dissimilar than when Bon Appetit changed from Sodexo” concerning the status of current employees.

!e process, according to Patton, typically entails the new company interviewing all of the current employees and “[hiring] most of the people they want to continue.” He said management employees normally don’t stay because of di#erent visions for the operation.

McKinley said that “the Inn [currently] employs between 60 and 70 people,” most whom are part-time restaurant sta# who comprise a “pretty good cross-section of people” from throughout Licking County.

Regarding retaining the Inn’s current em-ployees, Patton said, “Obviously, their em-ployment is important to them, and we want them to be treated well.”

“We care just from the standpoint that these are local people,” he said.

Self-su!ciency amid challenges

Weinberg and Patton agree that the Inn will be as a self-su$cient business, and thus will not diminish resources available to the students or faculty.

“What it will do is increase social oppor-tunities for students and increase what are important revenue streams for the college, both in terms of admissions but also in terms of alumni engagement,” Weinberg said. “We are not taking money away from current re-sources to do that.”

Patton said the purchase of the Inn “shouldn’t have any bearing on” student tu-ition and costs. “We are taking a risk just like anybody who starts a business; we are not going into it with a game plan on losing money,” he continued.

All parties agree that signi"cant capital investment is required to bring the building “back to prime condition,” as McKinley said.

“!e Inn has really su#ered from many, many years of deferred maintenance,” McKinley said, hoping Denison will main-tain the Inn in the way “it should have been maintained all along.”

!e Kent family, a Granville clan whose patriarch is a Dension alumnus, bought the Inn and “lovingly restored it in the 70s, which was really the last time a signi"cant amount of money was [invested] in the building,” she added.

Chief Investment O$cer Adele Gorrilla said, “It’s an old beautiful building and it’s time for some of these things to be replaced.”

She said, “We recognize that it needs sub-stantial work,” noting that a “bad stay” can “a#ect the way you feel about Denison...and the reputation of the school.” She added, “If you’re used to staying in a modern hotel, it feels very di#erent.”

Gorrilla said Denison will strive to retain the original character, so hopefully it will look “remarkably similar” in the future — just “refreshed,” as Patton added.

“I think that Denison will be an excellent steward of the building,” said McKinley.

McKinley said Denison has agreed to in-stall a much-needed elevator to making the Inn more handicap accessible, as it is cur-rently “not really ADA compliant.”

Unlike the expense of the elevator, McKin-ley said the process of changing the exterior will not be a problem for Denison because the Inn is “similar to other buildings Denison has remodeled.”

Patton and Gorrilla think otherwise, as they explained that Denison does not have experience with renovating historic build-ings. !e administration is currently educat-ing itself and working on bringing in prop-erly experienced professionals to get the job done well.

Despite this potential challenge among others, Patton remains optimistic.

Jokingly, he admitted that “every time somebody gets a bad meal down there, I am afraid somebody’s is going to start calling me. !at’s the biggest problem.”

While Weinberg recognizes the challenges that Denison may face in renovating the inn, he looks forward to the Inn’s future impact on Denison students.

Weinberg said he hopes the Inn strength-en the Admissions experience and alumni networking that enable students to interact with Denison in “important ways.”

In addition, Weinberg said he hopes the Inn will be a unique social space that he feels Denisonians crave; he said that the “Inn could provide a really nice venue for stu-dents.”

He wants to the endeavors to achieve this to be “student-led and student-driven to en-sure the entrepreneurial part of our culture.” He added, “I think we can think about really creative ways that students might want to use those spaces for social life and other things

they want to do.”Hankes said Weinberg’s vision for student

involvement in the Inn “sounds like a good idea.” She added, “I could see myself going there. We need more stu# to do on campus.”

Beyond these bene"ts, Weinberg said the purchase exempli"es Denison’s “deep civic roots.”

“When the community needs us to step up and do something that bene"ts both Denison and the community, we do so. It says something nice about the way Denison thinks about its relationship to the commu-nity — the way we take seriously our civic connection to the community [and] moral responsibility as a large organization in town to make sure that the whole community stays strong,” Weinberg said.

Maria !eresa Barney Professor of Phi-losophy Anthony Lisska, who counts the his-tory of Granville among his intellectual in-terests, said he thinks the village appreciates Denison’s willingness to step up: “!e people I know in Granville are just as excited as can be about Denison owning the Granville Inn because it has some sense of permanence now,” Lisska said. “!ere was some talk out there on the streets that someone was go-ing to buy the Inn and turn it into an old age home,” he added.

McKinley con"rms that this sense of per-manence bene"ts the community.

She said, “From an architectural and his-toric perspective, [Denison’s purchase] en-sures the future of the Inn, and I think that’s really critical. I don’t think there’s another group or individual who could really say that.”

Beyond historical permanence, Hankes said that the purchase of the Inn will hope-fully encourage a healthier relationship be-tween Denison and the community. She said, “It feels like there’s a ri% between what stu-dents are doing and [what] the town wants from students.” Hankes said she hopes the purchase of the Inn will begin to mend this “ri%” by promoting more regular, positive in-teractions with Granville residents.

In addition, Patton said the Inn purchase was a means of supporting the Granville Schools through tax revenue, given the lim-ited number of large commercial, taxable properties. He said, “One of the early calls I received was from the Superintendent of [Granville] Schools wanting to know wheth-er this was going to become a non-pro"t. We assured him it was not; we’ll pay property taxes just like any other business.”

Weinberg remarked, “I think when it’s all said and done, students will "nd that the Inn will do two signi"cant things for them. One is it could provide a destination place for stu-dents, who are looking for a meal, looking to do things on the weekends, looking to host a social gathering,” said Weinberg. “I think the other is — and I think we tend to forget this — the healthier the Inn is, the healthier downtown Granville is…. If we can dress it up a little bit, it’ll be a destination place for all types of people to come to Granville and spend their weekend, and help populate our restaurants and businesses,” he added.

Patton said, “As long as we’re taking care of it, [Granville is] going to be pleased.”

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Denison’s administration underwent a true vernal renewal last spring with the retirement of longtime President Dale T. Knobel and the departure of Provost Bradley Bateman, leading to important changes in the leader-ship of the college’s executive and academic branches.

Associate Professor of Physics Kim Cop-lin’s new role as provost is, perhaps, second only to the ascendancy of Adam Weinberg. Coplin, an alumna (class of ‘85), spoke to !e Denisonian about her time on the Hill, her scienti"c research, and family life.

Coplin grew up in a small town in eastern Ohio near Akron. “Only about a quarter of my high school classmates went on to col-lege,” she says. “Most people went to a two-year college or to the University of Akron.”

Via a scholarship from a local foundation, which stipulated that she attend a liberal arts college, Coplin’s options opened up. “I kind of restarted my college search in May of my senior year,” when she received the scholar-ship, she says. She applied and was accepted to Denison, inducted in 1981.

Nonetheless, she says, “I was not the typical Denison student... I’m not sure I had the typi-cal student experience.”

At the time, Greek life was at a historic high, which was a campus element Coplin did not participate in. “I struggled to "t in socially,” she says, “because being part of the fraternity and sorority life wasn’t anything that I knew about from my background... [I]t was foreign to me... and that was very much a dominant part of the social culture.”

In contrast were her professors. “What real-ly got me through my early years at Denison,” Coplin says, “were the relationships that I was able to develop with a number of faculty members.”

She tells the story of a handwritten note from Dr. David Woodyard she received alongside her grades at the end of fall semes-ter her freshman year. “!at just said to me that, gosh, there’s someone at Denison who noticed me, who’s paid attention to me,” she says. She would go on to meet her husband Rick, a member of Kappa Sigma, at Denison, although the two did not meet through the Greek system.

Coplin received her B.A. in 1985; she would go on to study for an M.A. at Johns Hopkins University and for her doctorate at Ohio State

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University. She returned to Denison in 1993 as a pro-

fessor in the physics department.

Before her administrative work, Coplin was engaged with research in the "eld of polymer physics, in which she did her gradu-ate work.

In her work she looked at novel electro-conductive plastics. Although “you could think of all kinds of applications” for such materials, Coplin herself uses the example of an ultra-lightweight plastic airplane that can nonetheless conduct atmospheric electric-ity to prevent injury to passengers and crew. Her research focused speci"cally on the opti-cal properties of these polymers.

Her research interests at Denison later shi%ed toward the physics of anatomical movements such as dancing and athletics, motivated at "rst by Melanie Lott, a fellow Denison alumna now professing in the physics department.

!is research asked the question of “how does physics describe di#erently the motion of a ballet dancer doing a jump called a grand jeté with the motion of a hurdler trying to get over a hurdle? On a surface level, they’re very similar.” Coplin would go on to research dance and athletics from a physics perspec-tive, especially as a means to “engage students to use physics to study things they’re familiar with.”

Coplin began working in an administra-tive capacity under David Anderson, who preceded Bateman as provost. Coplin served as the chair of the physics department under Anderson and also sat on the Presidential Advisory Board.

When Anderson le% Denison to assume presidency of his alma mater, St. Olaf College in North"eld, Minn., in 2006, Coplin began tenure under Bateman as associate provost. It was Bateman’s departure last spring to as-sume the presidency of Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va. that saw Coplin’s installation in her current role, initially as interim though later extended by President Weinberg.

Coplin’s undergraduate experience on the

Hill has helped de"ne her views on the role of intellectualism and academics at Denison. “We have to think very carefully right now about... providing multiple ways for students to "nd their community,” she says. Com-menting on her own time as a Denison stu-dent, she says, “I felt like I was able to connect to the community of faculty members I had in class... I didn’t "nd that in the fraternity and sorority system... So I think that while the fraternity and sorority system isn’t quite as dominant [now] in the "rst semester... we need to make sure we are providing a diver-sity of opportunities for students to "nd that community where they’re comfortable.”

“[T]here are examples where the social culture or what happens socially can have a direct impact on what happens in the class-room,” Coplin says. “It takes time away from students doing homework if students are out partying or just up late."

Believing that students are engaged seri-ously intellectually inside of the classrom, Co-plin also questions ways to improve Denison's academic atmostphere even outside of the classroom.

"I think the question I have for our students right now,” she asks, “is what happens intellec-tually outside the classroom? And if the social culture dominates the outside-the-classroom experience then I think that we maybe need to ask...should we do more to enhance the in-tellectual culture outside the classroom?”

Coplin explains that she and President Weinberg have undertaken an initiative to

learn more about the intellectual habits of stu-dents outside the class-room.

“We need to do a bet-ter job, I think, as faculty modeling for our stu-dents how you become comfortable interacting with... people who are di#erent,” she says. An important part of this is engaging in “topics that are going to be contro-versial to discuss or di$-

cult to discuss,” which she thinks Denisonians generally already do — inside the classroom.

“But, somehow, we need to do a better job of translating that into outside the classroom,” she continues. “Classrooms at Denison are integrated spaces, but when you go outside the classroom, they’re not, and I think that says something about the academic health of this community.” She thinks that challenging students to engage critically in the Denison community and publicly displaying intel-lectual disagreements among faculty are two ways that professors can encourage this &ow-ering.

“We kind of close down at "ve and move on to other things,” she says, “and I don’t know if that’s what we want.”

Outside of the classroom, Coplin enjoys spending time with her family. Her husband Rick is with TechColumbus as a venture de-velopment specialist, working with local start-ups that have a technological edge. Her eldest son Daniel, 18, is a freshman this fall at the College of Wooster. !ey also have 15-year-old Jacob and 10-year-old Lia, who is adopted from China. Beyond the gold-brick walls of Doane, “I’m involved in my church and I’m involved in my kids’ activities,” says Coplin. “I like to be with my family, and I watch my kids pretty much participate in everything.”

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To Granville and back again

From the lab to the boardroom

Phillip Knox/The DenisonianHistoric photographs of Denison are featured in the Inn's collection in the lower-level

Denison Room. This piece from 1938 features faculty and students socializing on the

front steps of the Doane Academy building.

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2013 - 2014 Vail Series debuts with string quartet ETHELBy: Sam Taggart and Golzar MeamarArts and Life Editors

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Two violins, a viola, and a cello? With these instruments in tow, Ethel, a New York-based string quartet, took center stage in Swasey Chapel for the !rst Vail Series per-formance of the semester this past Friday, Sept. 27th.

"e four musicians - founding members, viola player Ralph Farris and cellist Dorothy Lawson, with violinists Kip Jones and Tema Watstein - gave a rousing performance, !ll-ing the performance space to capacity, and receiving standing ovations a#er their origi-nal performances and !nal curtain call.

"e theme of their performance was cen-tered around the idea of “grace,” described

as an ability to interpret the music with an open mind, accepting the discordant, yet harmonious sounds of the four uniquely trained musicians. Ethel strove to explain these common themes throughout their Vail series performance, using each musicians’ distinguished style to play renditions of clas-sic rock pieces alongside original composi-tions arranged by the members.

In an interview with the performers before their concert, this cohesiveness on the stage was a topic of much discussion, described eloquently by founding member Dorothy Lawson, “I think there is a nice thing to observe about music and collaboration in music. You literally experience ‘allowing the di$erences’. You don’t have to homogenize down to one decision. You can actually reach ways of respecting each other’s perspectives

while still standing together and having an e$ective voice, a shared voice.”

But playing instruments together on a stage is an experience unto its own. Violinist Kip Jones commented, “"e stage is a place of ceremony. When we are on stage there is something di$erent happening. Whoever we are is blown as wide open as we can blow it open, and other people are invited to take part in the things that make us who we are and make us do the things we do.”

Consistently throughout their perfor-mance, the quartet played songs that were unexpected. “We play music that we own. It is ours. We have complete ownership of it. We are standing up on stage, and we know exactly what we are trying to express. It just feels like this is what we are supposed to be doing,” founding member Ralph Ferris said.

"eir variations on classic rock pieces in-cluded classical components, and, to the de-light of the audience, their modern sounds seamlessly mixed the old and the new.

Notably, the performance’s !nale was a song written by the members of Ethel. Laced with various cultural and musical in%uences - mainly that of Native American styles of music - the piece featured whistling by the violinist Kip Jones and thunderous stomp-ing towards the end of the song, maintaining the classical and folk foundations through-out.

Ethel premiers its !rst collaborative proj-ect, Documerica, a documentary on “Amer-ica’s relationship to our land, our resources, and ourselves,” later this week.

!e Beck Lecture Series brings in poet Dana LevinBy Kalyn DunkinsSpecial to !e Denisonian

Renowned poet Dana Levin embraced our campus with some of her greatest works "ursday, Oct. 3, a presentation part of the ongoing Beck Lecture Series here at Denison.

From the story she told of her mother’s funeral depicted in that of a sky burial (Ca-thartes Aura) to the apocalyptic tale she narrates from the depths of a dark cave (At the End of My Hours), Levin spoke with a tone that drew everyone in the room in.

Levin is the author of three award-win-ning collections of poetry, including “In the Surgical "eatre,” “Wedding Day,” and “Sky Burial.” "e basis of her writing is brought through the deaths of her closest family members. However, she has certain-ly turned her tragedy into triumph through the successes of her poems. She recited sev-en of her published poems, along with four new ones to be included in an upcoming collection of hers.

"e audience was glued to each word she spoke and the energy, aside from the topic of some of her poetry, was lively. amd as was she. Her humor and wit were both

remarkable. Levin spent some of her time before the program in the classrooms of as-piring writers here on campus. “I have been impressed with the students here that I have met,” she commented. “"ey seem cu-rious and serious about what they’re doing

in creative writing and I really like that. We did writing in class today that was great. I was really impressed.”

I myself had to let Levin know what an honor it had been to listen to her works and the impact they had on me as a writer. She

replied, “I’m always delighted when an au-dience says, ‘A#er your reading, I wanted to go write’—or even ‘During your read-ing, I started thinking about my own work and things I’d write.’ I think that’s awesome. Writing sparks other writing.”

Lia Windt/ The DenisonianStudents and faculty gathered in the Barney-Davis Board Room to listen to Dana Levin’s interesting recitations over coffee and light

refreshments.

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By Grant VeltmanSpecial to !e Denisonian

For some, the natural allure of moviego-ing is the escapist prospect of being trans-ported into another reality. !is stimulating sensation is most enjoyable when it results from entering a truly unknown place, one that inverts our individual perceptions of existence. Especially in the last decades, with visual e"ects from movies like Avatar or Inception, the creation of an eerily au-thentic world is now a familiar phenome-non. !is year, director Alfonso Cuarón has raised the bar.

Rarely has a #lm captured a more so-phisticated and awe-inspiring visual pre-sentation than the aesthetics on display in “Gravity.” Dubbed an “astro-thriller” by the media, “Gravity’s” story unfolds en-tirely outside the realm of our atmosphere, spare one or two minutes. As space shuttle Explorer sits suspended in the vacuum of space, Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), a witty veteran spacewalker on his last mis-sion before retirement, hums around the shuttle, propelled by his jet pack. Kowalski is heading a mission to make repairs on the

shuttle, overseeing the work of Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a medical engineer on her rookie mission. Stone is uneasy from the beginning, foreboding the ensuing drama. Initiated from a self-destructed Russian satellite, a cloud of debris hurtling through space towards the Explorer sets the narra-tive in motion.

Ironically, it is the terri#c chaos caused by the debris’ destructive power that makes for the most beautiful segments of “Grav-ity.” Unlike the explosions from your typi-cal Hollywood blockbuster, carnage from the shuttle decimation proceeds sound-lessly. !e silence peppered throughout “Gravity” is uncomfortably broken only by the heaving breaths of Stone, one of #lm’s many stress-inducing mechanisms. Cuarón expertly interjects this mute terror amid moments devoted to the vast openness of space, making the peril of Stone and Kow-alski appear meaningless in the scope of the universe.

!e sheer visual feat of “Gravity” does not stand alone. Inside Cuarón’s production lies a compelling narrative driven by Stone. Early on it becomes known that Stone, hav-ing lost a daughter, and Kowalski, a divor-

cee, endure inner turmoil. With their vul-nerability exposed, philosophical tone seeps through screen as the camera tracks the duo with glides and twirls. As the astronauts peer down on Earth, their isolation and revelation of their minuscule value claws at their will to survive. In the culmination, the tale becomes just as much about the person-al transformation of Stone as it is about Cu-arón’s visual prowess. !e balance achieved between the two is an accomplishment that makes “Gravity” all the more majestic.

“Gravity” arrives during an age when

streaming movies and TV shows, whether illegally or not, is making a noticeable dent in the box o$ce success of #lms. Certainly, waiting to view the latest Adam Sandler rom-com until it hits Net%ix is a worthy way to spend your time. Nonetheless, in the case of “Gravity,” where intergalactic satellite col-lisions recklessly spew in your face through 3D goggles, the necessity for a silver screen is there. If your thirst for sci-# thrillers must be quenched, visit Cuarón’s “Gravity” and submit yourself to a truly cinematic experi-ence.

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Gravity: A new !lm and a spacewalk to remember

A cappella groups kickstart Big Red Weekend

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Everyone loves to bellow their favorite songs in the shower, no matter how good or bad their voice may sound. Now, imag-ine singing in front of a packed house #lled with peers, alumni, and parents. Not many have the ability to stand up and reveal their voices to their friends, let alone a packed Swasey. !at is why the men and women that comprise Denison’s a cappella groups are students whose talents should be ad-mired, as they were on Saturday during Big Red Weekend’s Student A Capella Concert.

!is annual showcase of a capella talent always draws a large crowd, packing Swasey Chapel from the stage to the door, and this year was no exception. “Tehillah,” the co-ed gospel group, started the night o" light, drawing in the crowd with its strong vocals and smooth energy.

!ey were followed by the all women a cappella group Ladies Night Out, who sang a mix of easily recognizable LNO classics and some new numbers like the very popu-lar “Royals” by Lorde. !ese ladies never disappoint and their beautiful voices were relaxing.

By Hillary ReddSpecial to !e Denisonian

When DUWop took the stage, it ener-gized the room and performed very well. Every performance was fun and energetic. !is talented group de#nitely had a blast performing songs such as “Rumor Has It” by Adele and even a tribute to Michael Jack-son.

Decked out in their traditional navy blaz-ers, khakis, and red Denison ties, !e Hill-toppers ended the night the only way these men know how. Classic songs, powerful vocals, and a bit of light humor makes up the talent that is the Hilltoppers. As always, the boys invited any Hilltopper alums to the stage for their #nal song, and while none joined them onstage, one couldn’t help but miss former Hilltopper and Denison Presi-dent Dale T. Knobel. Maybe he’ll make a surprise appearance in the future.

!e student a cappella concert is a great way to kick o" Denison University’s Big Red Weekend. !ese singers, no matter which group they belong to, are all extremely tal-ented. Many even surprised the crowd with how far they could take their voices. !is year’s concert topped those in the past, and will leave future Hilttopers with big shoes to #ll.

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Apple Pie

Senior Recipe

Apple Pie What’s better on a fall day than a slice - or two - of a hom-

made apple pie? Not much. This past weekend, after I was unable to attend a fraternity

apple picking event with the lovely ladies of Pi Beta Phi, I was inspired and decided to pick my own apples and trans-form them into scrumptious apple pie!

Baking has always been a hobby of mine, although it is not the easiest of endeavors. Just the slightest mishap can significantly alter the taste and appearance of a dish. Fortu-nately, I have made myriad pies in my day and know what flavors work well together. For this pie, I wanted a balance of spice and flavor in every bite. In my opinion, the mixture of brown and white sugars really brings out the flavor of the apples, and the addition of pecans to the mixture adds a nice twist to a traditional apple pie.

This is a perfect recipe for a group of friends or family on a crisp fall afternoon! Ingredients:

8-10 apples 1/2 cup light brown sugar

1/2 cup white granulated sugar 1/4 cup flour

3/4 tsp. cinnamon1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. saltJuice of 1 lemon

1/2 cup chopped pecansDirections:Peel and slice the apples and transfer them to a bowl. Imme-diately add the lemon juice to prevent apples from browning. Next, combine the sugars, flour, and spices in a separate mixing bowl. Add the dry spices to apples, in addition to the pecans. Toss well and pour into a piecrust shell. Cook at 375˚ for one hour. Pie Crust Ingredients:

3 cups flour1 tsp. salt

1/3 cup chilled vegetable shortening3/4 cup chilled butter

1/2 cup ice waterPie Crust Directions:In a food processor (or in a bowl if you don’t have a food pro-cessor), combine all the ingredients and pulse until there are clumps of butter and shortening in the batter. Next, gradually pour in the ice water and continue to pulse until the dough forms into a ball. Finally, remove the dough ball from the pro-cessor and work into a disc shape, which should be placed in the refrigerator for at least half an hour. This batch will yield two batches of dough. One should be used for the bottom crust, and the other can be used as the top for a double crust, or (as I like to do) a lattice-top crust. Don’t forget to send us your recipe to denisonian@denison.edu

Contributor of this recipeJIMMY CONROY ‘14

Petali Teas: Locally mixed teas now served in SlayterBy Caroline McCauleySpecial to !e Denisonian

This year, Jazzman’s Café & Bakery in Slayter Student Union is now serv-ing tea. Apart from that white chocolate mocha and that jumbo chocolate chip cookie, you can order hot tea. And the new selection of teas at Jazzman’s is not your average Lipton.

The teas are from local provider Petali Teas. This artisan company specializes in loose-leaf teas that are a natural blend of fruits, barks, leaves, roots, sugars, candies, flower petals, nuts, chocolate and other flavorful ingredients. Gran-ville is fortunate enough to house one of the two quaint teashops that Petali Teas has in Ohio.

The owner of Petali Teas, Joy Wu-jek, has had a passion for tea since she was a child. Wujek is very involved in the creation process of Petali Teas. Her interest in the crafting of teas began

in the woods of Michigan outside her childhood home. As an intelligent and curious child, she would spend hours in these woods gathering and drying leaves, barks and roots and turning these woodland plants into delicious herbal teas or natural dyes. Under the tutelage of her grandmother, who was an artist and wildflower photographer, Wu-jek went on various wildlife excursions and began to pave a career using nature as her muse.

Wujek is now helping people, includ-ing college students, live a healthier and happier lifestyle with her tasty, special-ized teas. The Petali Teas that Jazzman’s offers are specifically catered to the de-sires and needs of Denison students.

Take, for example, the college blend, a black tea blend that is invigorating as well as energizing. Equally motivat-ing, is the blood orange. This tea has the strength of coffee yet the health benefits of tea. Not only will this tea help with

those late nights, it will strengthen your immune system. Along with keeping you healthy, this tea, with the euphoria of chocolate and with undercurrents of apple and orange flavorings, will satisfy your taste buds. The cranberry blend is also a rich, luxurious blend that will curb that sweet tooth. It is a black tea made with sour cranberries and apples with an earthy infusion of rose hips and hibiscus. Cupid’s blend is another tea that is sweet with hints of rose hips, but this rooibos tea also has the calming and mentally stimulating tastes of pep-permint and spearmint. Another great choice for maximum focus is the tradi-tional green tea of Morocco called Mo-roccan Mint. Lastly, if your looking for some sugar and spice and want the caf-feine level of coffee, choose the roasted, almond chai rooibos. This tea is a glori-ous mix of ginger, cinnamon, star anise, licorice, apples, almonds, cloves, fennel, anise seed and cardamom.

Though it seems impossible that Ms. Wujek could invent more colorful and brilliant blends, there is always some-thing new. Just last week, I discovered the delicious hazelnut pear blend. This green tea is sweetened with vanilla, cin-namon, roc sugar, hazelnuts, and apples.

Throughout the school year, Jazzman’s will be receiving new Petali Tea blends that will keep Denison students healthy, happy and craving more!

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013Page 10 SPORTS

Bringing you the box scores from the past week in

Big Red athletics.For game recaps, visit:

www.denisonbigred.com

FIELD HOCKEY10/5OWU 1Denison 2

VOLLEYBALL10/5Allegheny 0Denison 3

MEN’S SOCCER10/04Hiram 0Denison 2

WOMEN’S SOCCER10/5Hiram 1Denison 3

MEN’S FOOTBALL10/5DePauw 21Denison 42

WOMEN’S SOCCER10/4All-Ohio ChampionshipDenison 10th Place

FIELD HOCKEY10/4Oberlin 0Denison 5

WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY10/4All-Ohio Championship Denison 6th Place

WOMEN’S SOCCER10/2Oberlin 2Denison 0

VOLLEYBALL10/1Wooster 1Denison 3

WOMEN’S GOLF09/30Allegheny Invitational Denison 6th Place

WOMEN’S SOCCER09/29OWU 41Denison 47

FIELD HOCKEY09/28Kenyon 1Denison 3

MEN’S SOCCER09/28Allegheny 2Denison 1

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WEEKLY ROUND-UP

Big Red Weekend Edition

By Stephanie AntonettiSta! Writer

!is past Saturday the Big Red women’s rugby team took on the Ladies of Kenyon College. !ough DU was taken o" guard by Kenyon’s competitiveness, the women still came out on top with a #nal score of 30-10.

When the game started Kenyon came out relentless but the Big Red women gave it their all in the #rst half of the game.

During the middle of the #rst half, though, players Caroline Sabharwal and Skarlyn Rodriguez recieved yellow cards resulting in DU playing down two mem-bers for the next ten minutes.

“!is was quite a test for our team giv-en that one of the players that were sin-binned was our captain,” Senior Jill Lind-bergh said, “[But] Chelsea Boutin pulled the team together and stated that we were not going to accept defeat, or even a close game.”

At half time DU women’s coach, Gar-rett Fisher, gave the girls an inspiring speech.

He presented the girls with a challenge for the second half: to play together as a family and to play with heart. !e Big Red women’s motto is “One Love,” which was created a few years back by Fisher. He wanted the girls to “channel that mantra onto the #eld,” explained Lindbergh.

A$er losing nine starting seniors last year, a lot of this year’s focus has been on the rookies of the team. Fisher decided to put some new fresh faces out for the second half of the game along with some vets, and the girls began crushing Kenyon le$ and right. A$er Hannah Roadhouse scored twice, Kenyon’s opportunities seemed to dwindle.

!e win against Kenyon was huge for DU considering their recent success the past few years, including the 2011 and 2012 Division II Ohio state champions, the 2012 Ohio Classic Champions, back-to-back undefeated league seasons, being invited yearly to compete in Division I, and making it to the elite 8 of the Mid-West in the 2013 National Championship Tournament.

Understandably, !e girls were a little worried about their success this year.

“Coach says, ‘We aren’t re-building, we are reloading’ and I stand by that 100 percent,” Captain Skarlyn Rodri-guez said. “We have a lot of great athletic, hardworking, committed girls on

Women’s rugby shines against rival Kenyon

our team and that is showing on the #eld. Overall, we have been doing really well

[and] our record speaks for itself so far.”

!e women are determined to work as hard as they can this year to make it to the playo"s again. !is year, their goal is to at least make it to

the #nal four. “As a senior, who has been

on the team since freshman year, I would love to end my last year of college rugby being number one in the nation,” Rodri-guez added.

Lindbergh agrees with Rodriguez, even though she has been on the sidelines with an injury for the beginning of the season. Regardless, she has a lot of hope for her fellow teammates and family.

“!is team is incredible. Every year we get an array of players, some of which have never played rugby and even some of which have never played a sport, and still we come together on the pitch, every game: 15 as 1.”

Lia Windt / The Denisonian

Courtesy of Hannah Roadhouse

“

”- Senior Jill Lindbergh

!is was quite a test for our team given that one of the players that were sin-binned was our captain.

The Denison Women’s Rugby Club has been one of the most dominating teams over the last few years with back-to-back undefeated seasons.

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By Xavier VargasSta! Writer

Denison men’s football torches DePauw 42-21

With the start of this fall football sea-son came a plethora of new coaches.

The new coaching staff includes Bert Bathiany ‘09 (linebackers), Chris Curtis (tight ends), K.B. Justus (wide receivers), Todd Londot (running backs), Doug Pryor ‘04 (defensive line), and Ryan Stewart (cornerbacks). The Denisonian had the opportunity to learn a bit more about some of these individuals.

Coach Bert Bathiany grew up in north-ern Kentucky in a small town called Fort Thomas. He came to Denison and played football for the Big Red, graduating in 2009.

Coach Bathiany is very passionate about Denison sports and loves to sup-port all the teams here at Denison. He works with the football team on strength and conditioning, and also specifically with the linebackers.

“I always wanted to have a positive in-fluence on young men and that turned into young athletes,” Bathiany explained. “I like to help athletes physically mature and become better at their craft, also to increase their intangibles, to increase their competitive drive, their team work, their accountability.”

Bathiany believes fundamental work with linebackers are important because, as he explains, “if you can do the small things then they help you do the big things”.

Coach Chris Curtis grew up in Great Falls, Montana. During his senior year of high school his family moved to Con-necticut, where they currently reside.

In college, Curtis walked on to the

football team at Utah State. Ever since, he has wanted to be around the game and he loves to work with players.

Curtis is passionate about seeing ath-letes improve. He loves going through the drills with the players and seeing them utilize the drill work during the games. He works with the running backs, full backs and tight ends, not only keeping them in shape, but with their endurance and the skills they need to be successful.

He is moved by how the students can be athletes and have so many extra-cur-ricular activities.

Coach Ryan Stewart is from Knox, In-diana. He served in the army in both in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He was on a parachute team called the Golden Knights (where he had 4,680 jumps). He got to intern and coach at Boise State for 4 years and has always worked with defense and signaled plays.

Steward moved back to Indiana and coached at Valparaiso University after his time in Boise, coaching there for two years.

Later on, he was a graduate coaching intern at Ohio State. OSU put his name out after two years, and Denison contact-ed him where he was offered a job.

He has been very passionate about coaching his whole life, because even while in the army he still coached local teams. He is working with young second-aries and particularly loves how the play-ers are mature and respectful.

Coach Todd Londot grew up in Utica, Ohio and attended Miami University of Ohio.

He has another job outside of coach-ing as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for SOAAR, located in New-

New football coaching sta! show passion on and o! the "eld

ark, Ohio. Londot actually played 3 sea-sons with the New York Giants, though his career was cut short after an injury, prompting him to move back to Newark in 2008.

He works with Running Backs, Tight Ends, and Full Backs, helping them to improve technique and knowledge of the game. He really loves how Denison in-vests in their sports teams by providing amazing facilities and he loves the people he works with because they genuinely love being at Denison.

Coach K.B. Jutus is from Lancaster, Ohio. He coaches football because he has a huge love for the game; he feels if you cannot play anymore you may as well coach.

His family all has coaching experience and his father still coaches at the college

level. He is passionate about teaching stu-dents the game and sharing experiences that can better help them as athletes.

He works with the Wide Receivers and he feels that each week they are develop-ing a new strategy for the specific team.

Coach Doug Pryor is from Columbus, Oh. He graduated from Denison in 2004 and played football for the Big Red.

He coaches for “the love [of] the game. I am passionate about the game because I feel football and sports in general teach you how to overcome adversity,” he ex-plained.

As the defensive line coach, he cur-rently stresses pass rush moves and play-ers being aggressive up front. He really loves the landscape of Denison and loves the energy at the night games so far this season.

Courtesy of Sports Information

Back Row (L-R): Bert Bathiany, K.B. Justus, Jack Hatem, Chris Curtis, Ryan Stewart. Front Row (L-R): Zack Brent, Frank Little, Todd Londot, Doug Pryor, Austin Holter.

TOP LEFT: (Left to right) Dylan Hinde ‘14, Pat Foley ‘15, Joey Lopez ‘15, Emerson Thacker ‘15, Cameron Kahl ‘16, Teddy Kuntz ‘16. Right: The team prepares to start the second half. BOTTOM LEFT: President Adam Weinberg makes a speech during the half-time of the football game. BOTTOM RIGHT: Riley Tight ‘14, Zach Pewitt ‘16, Joel Elliott ‘14. Denison grabs their fourth win of the year, and matches their win total all of last year, in only their fifth game. Next weekend they take on #18 ranked Witternberg to try to notch their fifth win of the year. Junior Brandon Sklenar threw for four touchdowns and ran for two touchdowns.

Philip Knox / The Denisonian

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“

”- Senior Andrew Marczak

I think it’s always a great win when a team has a leader play well.

DTHE INDISPENSABLE COLLEGIATE LIFE FERVOR

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!e Big Red men’s tennis team wrapped up its fall season at the USTA/ITA Central Region Championships last weekend in Ka-lamazoo, Mich.

Unlike the team’s dual matches against ri-val colleges that take place in the spring, the ITA tournament is an individual competition with no team scor-ing.

Yet, the tourna-ment does serve as a useful barom-eter in assessing the team’s talent and potential for the upcoming spring season.

Junior co-cap-tain Grant Veltman (pictured) described his two hopes for the fall season as “coming away with results to be proud of” and "nding “knowledge of our weaknesses.”

One nice result came from senior co-captain Andrew Marczak, who won four matches en route to a semi"nal showing in the backdraw.

“I think it’s always a great win when a team has a leader play well. It can inspire some of the younger players on the team,” said Velt-man. New faces for the Big Red this year are Owen Smith, Ryan Bibo, and Ben Short.

Perhaps drawing inspiration from Mar-czak, Smith easily dispatched a notoriously "erce competitor in his "rst round of the main draw. A#er a "rst round loss in the B

draw, Bibo found his game and won the back-draw of the B singles.

Recently, the Denison men’s tennis team has been known for its strong doubles play. !is was seen when the Big Red "elding two seeded teams in the doubles main draw.

Veltman and fellow junior Shankar Raju-pet entered as the "#h seed, and lived up to that billing by advancing to the quarter"nal round.

Senior Juan Guerra paired with junior dou-bles a"cionado Je$rey LoDuca as the "#eenth seed, but they were mired in what Veltman called “de"nitely the most com-petitive portion of the bracket.” !e duo battled v two tough victories be-fore falling to a talented third-seeded team.

Veltman was satis"ed with the team’s per-formance and happy that the team had ac-complished both of its goals of posting good results and identifying weaknesses to im-prove for the spring season.

!is year, the Big Red have presented themselves with a more challenging schedule featuring a spring break trip to California.

But with the leadership of elders like Mar-czak, Guerra and Veltman and an infusion of young talent, the team hopes to take advan-tage of all possible advantages possible.

And a#er a promising start like this, the Denison Men’s Tennis team may just be on a path to excellence.

By Cameron WilliamsSta! Writer

Hope is born during Men’s Tennis’ Central Region Championships

By Luke BelechakSports Editor

Volleyball continues success with shutout at home

Halfway into conference play, the Big Red volleyball team is looking strong in the NCAC. !is Saturday, Denison shut-out the Allegheny Gators 3-0, improving their record to 14-5 overall and 3-1 in the NCAC.

!e victory was almost guaranteed a#er two dominating early sets. !e Big Red outdid the Gators 25-15 and 25-11 in the "rst and second set, respectively. !ey

closed out the game with a 25-17 set, their seventh shutout of the year.

Per usual, the Big Red o$ense was domi-nant. Senior Lauren Gustafson, sophomore Brittany Perry, and freshman Rachele Lock had quite an a#ernoon. Gustafson, who re-turns to the court a#er missing the major-ity of last season due to injury, and Perry each posted 8 kills while Lock continued to make a name for herself in her rookie year with seven kills.

Junior Emily Marguerite was also a standout. She led DU with an impressive

three serving aces and 34 digs. !e team also bene"tted from the work of junior Jessica Borsani, whose 32 assists were a team high.

Denison needs to continue with this win-ning streak in order to compete against their remaining NCAC competitors. !e Big Red’s sole NCAC loss came at the end of Septem-ber against Hiram, who shutout DU 3-0. Hi-ram is still undefeated in conference play.

October will be a crucial month for the Big Red to work out any remaining kinks. !ey face Wittenberg away at the end of the month. Not only is this Denison’s "nal con-

ference game, but Wittenberg will prob-ably be one of the more di%cult teams. Wittenberg is currently ranked 12th in the AVCA Division III Coaches Top 25 Poll thanks in part to their perfect 4-0 record in the NCAC and 11-5 record overall.

!e women take a break from confer-ence play this week, though they face Muskingum away this !ursday evening. At 10-8, Muskingum should not be much a problem for the Big Red, especially con-sidering their recent 5-game string of loss-es at the end of September.

Luke Belechak / The Denisonian

The BIG REDFinal Word

With the fall intramural sports in full swing, !e Denisonian would like to con-gratulate “Mike and Friends” on capturing the so#ball championship. !ey defeated “!e Has Beens” 9-8, holding o$ a late comeback in the "nal inning.

!e highly anticipated men’s and wom-en’s &ag football season begins today. Check out future "e Denisonian issues for updated coverage and Player of the Week spotlights.

Philip Knox / The Denisonian

Back Row (L-R): Matthew Agvent, Mac Dolan, Jeremy Tirado, Samuel Peterson, Michael Freyre, Chris Kusminsky, Jack Ford.

Front Row (L-R): Reid Worrel, Max Morimoto.