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Valparaiso University's 2007, 2008 & 2009 Indiana Student Newspaper College Weekly of the Year —— Senate motion aims to jostle responsibility

we are going against our own by­ Executive power laws," Kus said. "Who will police the senate? Who will stop and say, to remove senators 'No, this is wrong?' This is where the president comes in." would be revoked Student body vice president Alex Smith Danny Lewallen cites other rea­ Torch News Editor sons that the current process is lu4-A:Legai better for senate than the pro­ Environment t cess would be if the motion were Business) Student Senate discussed a passed. Home Page I No course art motion Monday night to approve "The current capability stream­ a bylaw would limit the processes lines everything, especially when Disci;- by which a senator might be re­ dealing with underqualified sena­ 'My Tasks moved from office. tors," Lewallen said. "Being able to \ No tasks du<>. At-large senator Alex Johnson use the power that (student body presented S.R. 89- a resolution president Courtney Heitkamp) that would require senators be re­ has is valuable and is easier on moved only by means of impeach­ everyone. The president won't re­ ment or resignation. move someone on a whim, only "Basically (the resolution) says those who are unqualified due to that senators can only be removed GPA or bylaws." by the grievance process or res­ Lewallen also indicated that Rebecca Barnes / The Torch ignation," Johnson said. "That by usually a senator would be asked itself doesn't sound inflammatory, to resign before an executive or­ The Blackboard interface, shown here, is the main location from which VU students access online classes. but it removes der would have the president's to be enacted. ability to remove The position is "Some people good way to earn easy credits and ence," said Tom Boyt, Dean of the a senator by ex­ have concerns," Online classes learn something but still not have to College of Business Administration. ecutive order. student body Heitkamp said. be in the classroom." "That's where we're going and we're That's what the president, not senate "I'm just try­ continue to grow One problem that Faust, a public actually pretty close ... hopefully by contention is president. ing to take into in popularity relations major, did come across in next semester." about." consideration her most recent online class was the Online courses do not work Johnson said Alex Johnson of all the situa­ Brendan Kinney inability to quickly consult with her for every class, according to Boyt. he believes that tions that would professor after class. Graduate classes are typically easier senate should At-large senator require this Torch Staff Writer "My current class is pretty writ­ to administer online as opposed to be able to gov­ power. It will be ing intensive and the only issue that I undergraduate courses. Within the ern themselves an interesting Receiving an education over the really have run into was talking with next five years, Boyt hopes to have without intervention from the debate." World Wide Web was widely consid­ the professor after class," Faust said. most of the graduate level classes president. "This is rarely used," she added. ered an uncommon practice a mere "Instead I have to make arrange­ that take place on VU's campus both "The position is student body "(Former student body president) 15 years ago. Today, those vying for ments to find out her office hours, in person and online in order for president, not senate president," Liane (Joshua) used it only once." an education with families, jobs and but thankfully she is usually there students around the world to reap Johnson said. "No legislative body Another reason Johnson thinks other commitments in life are turn­ and available. This is a required class the benefits of a VU education. is a legitimate legislative body un­ this bylaw amendment is accept­ ing to online courses. for my major so it is pretty impor­ "Anything is possible," Boyt said. less they can govern their own able is that if a senator has been Valparaiso University's depart­ tant." Strasser said the online process members." placed, the president still has sev­ ment of communication was the first Sandy Strasser, professor of in­ offers a glimpse of the future of edu­ Senior senator Alan Kus, cur­ en days to veto that placement. to offer an online course. Douglas formation and decision sciences, has cation. rent chairman of the grievance Johnson has been hinting at Kocher, chair of the department of developed a new master level class "I have a lot of students who really committee, agreed with Johnson's the importance of this resolution communication, was the instructor in the College of want to be in the sentiment but said he sees merit for "a while." of his Introduction to Internet Com­ Business Adminis­ I think what you're classroom; they in allowing the current proce­ "Hopefully it gets taken care of munication class that was first of­ tration. The college don't want to be dures to remain. In extreme cir­ before my time is done," Johnson, fered in the spring semester of 1995. is experimenting going to find are in their room, cumstances where a senator needs a senior, said. Kocher required an initial meet­ with this innovative instructors wanting and I have oth­ to be removed because of lack of Senate will vote on the resolu­ tion at Monday night's meeting. ing with his class to go over the con­ course that incor­ more transparent ers who I've qualification, Kus believes inter­ tent of the course and to see the faces porates video, audio never met them vention can become necessary. Contact Alex Smith at torch@ of his students. In 1995, people were and a PowerPoint ways of delivering before. I don't "If senate refuses to act, then valpo.edu. not necessarily aware of what an on­ presentation that material so that you know what they line class was, so Kocher had to ex­ the instructor pro­ look like and plain to his students that he would vides in advance. literally could see it I've never physi­ not be present for the duration of the This is all a part on your cell phone. cally met them class. of an online course because they've Strategic change "A lot of the learning burden is that allows students been off site the transferred to the student because to see what notes Douglas Kocher whole time," This announcement comes in the teacher is not there admonishing the instructor is Chair, department of Strasser said. Vice president of light of a strategic planning process you in class," Kocher said. writing down on communication "I think that's to determine the vision of VU. At the end of the first meeting, one portion of their where educa­ institutional Right now, according to Mad­ Kocher said he vividly remembers computer screen and at the same tion is going, that customization is dox, "We're halfway through the saying to his students, "That's it, and time be able to see the professor on what we really need to do more and advancement steps strategic planning process." I'll see you online." another portion of the screen. If the will do more of." He so far has led the university Times have changed and tech­ student did not understand the ma­ Kocher agreed that online cours­ aside from position in the search process for determin­ nology has dramatically progressed terial the first time, the program of­ es are going to evolve with the in­ ing its vision. to improve the online course experi­ fers a rewind feature. structors. Paul Rubio "The vision is where we want to ence. "Where we're trying to get with "I think what you're going to Torch Staff Writer go, and the strategic plan is how we Junior Lexi Faust has encoun­ this, and we're getting pretty close, find are instructors wanting to find get there," Maddox said, referring tered a few of these technologically is for a faculty member to have a easier and more transparent ways of An announcement made last to what the members of the VU advanced classes over her years on class, be able to just walk into the delivering material so that you liter­ week initiated a shift in leadership community want the university to campus, one of which was taught by classroom, teach their class like they ally could see it on your cell phone," positions at Valparaiso University: look like in the years to come. "The Kocher. would any other day and have it be Kocher said. Richard Maddox announced his strategic plan will be presented to "I took his online course because online - video, audio, everything's decision to leave his current po­ the community starting in Febru­ I wanted to acquire a few extra cred­ being taken care of and the faculty Contact Brendan Kinney at sition as vice president of institu­ ary." its," Faust said. "They seemed like a member doesn't notice the differ­ [email protected]. tional advancement. See Maddox, page A5

Index A&E B7 Campus News A3 Opinions A7 The Torch "We will strive increasingly to Announcements A2 Features B3 Sports A9 On Guard for 95 Years quicken the public's sense of civic duty." - The Athenian Oath Calendar B2 Flicker A7 Weather B6 Volume 103 :: Issue 17 The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 Campus News A2 Campus Announcements We've got

VUDU VU covered.

VUDU Comedy is hosting a "VUDU Challenge" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Neils Science Center room 234. Admission is free, and all students are welcome to bring on the showdown. Theta Chi 24 Hour Basketball Game

Theta Chi will host their 2nd annual "Theta Chi 24 Hour Basketball Game" beginning at 9 p.m. tonight and ending at 9 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Hilltop Gym at the Athletics-Recreation Center. Originating in 1977 to help support a fellow brother suffering from cancer, the brothers will work around the clock to continue the tradition. Each round is a half hour, and the cost is $25 for one team. All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. For more information contact Mitch Secrest at (630) 621-6767 or [email protected]. Winter Dazzle

The Valparaiso Community Festivals and Events will host "Winter Dazzle," an event that will offer fun wintertime activi­ ties. Beginning Feb. 5 through Feb. 16, ice skating in Central Park Plaza in downtown Valparaiso will highlight the celebra­ tion and live ice carvings will be featured throughout down­ town starting at noon. Special promotions and menus will be available at participating downtown restaurants and business­ es as well. For more information, visit www.valparaisoevents. com. Sibs and Kids Weekend

VU's Union Board will host "Sibs and Kids Weekend" on Feb. 5 through Feb. 6 as a way for VU students' families to have an on-campus overnight experience as well as an inside look into college life. There will be free admission into all of the events as well as a meet and greet with the VU men's bas­ ketball team. Registration begins on Friday at 4 p.m. For more information and scheduling, visit www.valpo.edu/student/ unionboard/sibskidsregform.php. Cost is $30. Study Abroad

Applications are now being accepted for fall 2010 study- abroad programs in the Office of International Programs, Harre Union 209. Call ext. 5333 for further information or visit www.valpo.edu/studyabroad. The deadline is Feb. 15. Chicago Abstractionist Exhibition

Valparaiso University's Brauer Museum of Art will feature an exhibition from abstractionist Thomas Kapsa­ lis. An art educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for more than 50 years as well as carrying the honor of being a World War II veteran, Kapsalis shaped his experiences into a type of cubism as well as other art forms in an innovative manner offering a fresh prospec­ tive to the world of abstract art. The exhibit is compiled of pieces drawn from the Kapsalis' personal collection and from respected public and private collections. "Thom­ as H. Kapsalis: Artist's House, Paintings and Sculpture, 1947-2008" will be on display through March 21 at the Brauer Museum of Art. For further information, visit www.valpo.edu/artmuseum. Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship

Submissions for the chance to present research projects, scholarly work and creative activities for the Celebration of Hayden O'Shaughnessy/ The Torch Undergraduate Scholarship are due March 17. The presenta­ Members of the French Club sell crepes to famished students on Wednesday to raise money for Valpo Has a Heart for Haiti, a relief cam­ tions must be in a poster format and will take place April paign created by the Social Action Leadership Team. Other organizations such as VuVox, Acabellas, Hooked on Tonics and students from 21 in the Harre Union, Ballrooms B and C. For submission the law school participated in effort to raise money. instructions, visit www.valpo.edu/osur/conferences. Will Write for Money

The Writing Center will host a session entitled "Job Objec­ «Jr m m Oil tive: Will Write for Money" that will feature recent graduates If 1 * W* UP who will speak on their experience writing for a living. The event will last from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 in the Brown and Gold Room in the Harre Union, followed by a social hour and re­

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The Torch corrects its mistakes. If you see something you believe is a factual error, contact Editor in Chief Kathryn Kattalia at [email protected]. The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 Campus News A3 The American Home architectural history, social history, Opportunity ensues Class creates the relationship between students and faculty and Mclntyre Court's Senior Alex Lau interest toward place in a more general history of American housing. receives esteemed houses, study of After assembling the papers written by the class, four seniors fellowship for VU local community - Hannah Johnson, Kathryn Kat- talia, John Linstrom and Kati involvement Zach King Schmidt - volunteered to collect Torch Assistant Editor the papers together into one uni­ Ashley Halsten fied document and present the pa­ Torch Staff Writer For 21 Valparaiso University per to the public. students last semester, history was "I wanted to give as much as Senior Alex Lau is one of 26 just a few doors away. I could to the project," Linstrom Indiana college graduates that These students enrolled in said. "A big part of it was the per­ were awarded the prestigious a course called "The American sonal connection with people on Governor Bob Orr Indiana En­ Home" and undertook a semester- the street, which makes commu­ trepreneurial Fellowship. This long study of Mclntyre Court, a nity history different from book fellowship offers a two-year Street on campus located just east studies." program where candidates can of the Athletics-Recreation Cen­ Schmidt volunteered after be­ work with other companies to ter. coming enamored with the topic. gain entrepreneurial experience. "At the start, it was not clear "I took the class because it Each year, a different group how all the pieces would fit to­ sounded interesting, and I ended of gifted graduates are selected gether," said Gretchen Buggeln, as­ up falling in love with it," Schmidt from thousands of applicants sociate professor of art history and said. "I was really interested and and partnered with a host com­ humanities in Christ College. "The didn't want the class to be over." pany. Host companies are some challenge was to take those pieces This integrated paper was pre­ of Indiana's fastest growing en­ and fit them together." sented last Thursday as an entry in trepreneurial -companies. These As instructor of the course, Christ College's Symposium series. candidates serve a two-year Buggeln assigned "I feel very commitment, where host com­ each student to strongly that stu­ panies allow them to be involved write a history of lirlve up and down dents, through in innovative projects while giv­ a house on Mcln­ Mclntyre every day, their work, can ing them the opportunity to tyre Court, specifi­ be accountable work closely with company ex­ cally covering 18 of and I noticed houses to a larger com­ ecutives. the 30 homes still disappearing. munity," Buggeln The fellowship program's standing. said. "Too many purpose "is to give young pro­ "I drive up and students write fessionals the opportunity to down Mclntyre Gretchen Buggeln work that never gain exposure to the leaders of every day, and I Associate professor of art sees the light of the fastest growing companies in day." Kyle Whitgrove/ The Torch noticed houses history and humanities, the Indianapolis area," Lau said. disappearing," She added, Lau has a two-year agree­ Christ College Alex Lau, engineering major and the recipent of the Governor Bob Orr Indiana Buggeln said. "The "I just really be­ ment after he graduates with the Entrepreneurial Fellowship, works on his computer in the computer lounge in the preservationist in lieve in public company Apparatus, an infor­ Harre Union. me said, 'Someone has to tell this presentation of student work." mation technology consulting story before it's gone.'" The symposium, held in the service. Lau said he is excited While most of the work for the Harre Union Ballroom, was well- because this fellowship will give prepare him for the workforce after explained, "I was excited to be a part project was done outside of the attended; Buggeln suggested there him the opportunity to gain ex­ graduation. of the fellowship and the Apparatus classroom, class time was devoted were at least 100 people in atten­ perience in sales and marketing "The rigor of the engineering company to further develop my to synthesizing the project as a dance. and information technology program gave me the confidence technical aptitude while currently whple. "I got incredible feedback on consulting. that I would be able to perform in developing my business skills." "Periodically, we would take how clear and audience-friendly He will also be able to work various roles in a company," Lau Hundreds of fellowship candi­ a class period to brainstorm and the presentation was," Buggeln directly with the company ex­ said. dates participated in an in-depth share research to see where the said. "I was very proud, and it was ecutive officers and learn from Lau thanked his electrical and five-month selection process, which project was going and what we nice to see so many people there." them how they run their busi­ computer engineering professors concluded in a final day of inter­ were learning," Buggeln said. Buggeln had previously taught ness. for all of their help. views with company executives. Near the end of the semester, the course in the spring of 2005, "This fellowship is a great "They have taught us everything Each year, approximately 12 fellows the papers were subdivided into With student research focusing on networking opportunity for un­ from the foundations of electri­ are chosen based on academic per­ four group projects, organized the- dergraduates just out of college cal and computer engineering, to formance, extracurricular involve­ matically around Mclntyre Court's See Home, page A 5 to build a foundation," Lau said. acting professionally and ethically ment, leadership potential and pre­ Lau's experience with VU's when we enter the industry," Lau vious job experience. electrical and computer engi­ said. Contact Ashley Halsten at torch@ neering program has helped to After receiving the award, Lau valpo.edu.

,4 ;; ?<-*St ' *'. 'Casas for Kids' project kicks off : §fU|n Infantil Cristiano Nicaraguense, or phanage in Nicaragua over spring !* "•&' t «* Social justice CICRIN orphanage. break of 2009. The necessity for foster homes "The poverty (in Nicaragua) is ministry builds resulted from a law the Nicaraguan so shocking," Schaefer said. "Just -•£-"' "•* government recently passed ban­ providing for their children is hard foster homes in ning all orphanages. Their inten­ (for the families)." tion in doing so was to send the Putting the children back in Nicaragua children back to their birth homes their original homes would be a or to foster homes, where they setback in the areas of their devel­ Emily Nelson would receive better familial sup­ opment concerning physical care Torch Staff Writer port. and health. Abby Lange, However, as The Social Action Leader­ the World Relief |r||st children do not senior Tiffany ship Team on campus has been Campaign chair have places to go Forte, an active working for many years on for SALT, exam­ back to. They would member of SALT, worldly projects to provide aid ined this problem. pointed out, "Es­ and relief to underprivileged "Most children be at a loss for home, pecially in Latin groups of people. (at the orphan­ safety and family. American cul­ i '*"•: Each year, SALT undertakes ages) do not have ture, they cherish

:•;. a different World Relief Cam­ places to go back Abby Lange family support." paign project, raising money to," Lange said. World Relief Campaign The orphan­ for an array of causes ranging "They would be Chair, SALT ages were seen by from water pipelines through at a loss for home, the government a Chinese town to a nutrition safety and family." as insufficient project in Uganda. This year's The children were initially in providing what they viewed as project, named "Casas for Kids" placed in orphanages because their most important, a structural up­ with the tag line "From House families were unable to provide bringing. to Hope," is to provide funding them with sufficient shelter, food However, not all of the orphan­ for the construction of foster and care. ages of this country were being homes in Los Angeles, Nica­ Krista Schaefer, international run inappropriately. The CICRIN Kyle Whitgrove / The Tcrch ragua, a village located on the advocate for SALT and co-chair was just one of many successful or- The corner of Chapel Drive and Mclntyre Court is the origin of the course entitled island Ometepe in Lake Ni­ for the World Relief Campaign, "The American Home." caragua to replace the Centro had taken a trip to the CICRIN or­ See Nicaragua, page A4 A4 Campus/Nation The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 No longer student's first choice United States in 1994 - 78 percent "We've been receiving an in­ ing cited as another factor in the with more than 800 students dust­ U.S. not as alluringo f all overseas students that year. creasing number of questions about decline in the United States' popu­ ing off their passports, according However, this figure had gradually countries where it's cheap to study" larity as a study destination. to Kenji Shibata, the administrative to Japanese fallen to 35,282, or 46 percent, in Tsuchiya said. "Many students say, David Satterwhite, executive director of the university's Center 2006, according to the Education, 'My parents are paying, so I want director of the Japan-US. Edu­ for International Education. college students Culture, Sports, Science and Tech­ my overseas education to be as cational Commission, which is "One benefit of these exchange nology Ministry. cheap as possible."' known for its Fulbright Program, systems is that the procedures Kumiko Ono The Open Doors 2009 report According to the U.S.-based said: "In earlier decades, there was aren't as complicated as conven­ Tan Tuang Joo published by the U.S.-based Insti­ College Board's "Trends in College a sense of adventure, (with stu­ tional overseas study programs be­ McClatchy-Tribune News Service tute of International Education also Pricing 2009," the average cost of dents feeling) that T want to expe­ cause Waseda already has systems underscored this trend, noting that tuition for one academic year at rience something new.' But lately, I and networks in place," Shibata TOKYO - Had Koichi Murata the number of Japanese students a four-year public university was think there's been a trend... of not said. and Shoko Wadano been univer­ studying in the United States fell by $17,460 for out-of-state students, wanting to take a risk." In addition, students on these sity students two decades ago, they 13.9 percent to 29,264 in the 2008- while the figure for four-year pri­ "The kind of trend that we've programs generally pay less than likely would have followed the es­ 2009 academic year from the previ­ vate universities was $25,177 in the seen over the past decade is a crisis they would if they arranged their tablished trend for studying over­ ous academic year. 2008-09 academic year. over the long term for Japan's fu­ studies independently because seas by plumping to spend a year In contrast to the sharp decline In contrast, the average cost for ture," Satterwhite said. some partner universities include in the United States. in the number of Japanese students one year of undergraduate tuition Satterwhite called on young food and accommodation in their Though the two Waseda Uni­ heading for the United States, young at a public uni­ Japanese to seek program fees, according to Shi­ versity seniors confess to having men and women keen to widen versity in China is The number of new horizons by bata. considered the United States as a their knowledge are increasingly studying over­ For Murata and Wadano, the de­ about 500,000 yen Japanese students study destination - as most Japa­ heading for alternative destinations ($5,450), while seas. cision to graze in less conventional nese students did toward the turn - most notably, China. private universi­ studying in China Waseda Uni­ educational pastures has paid divi­ of the 20th century - they decided In 1994,5,055 - or 9.2 percent - of ties generally start looks set to keep versity's Murata dends. In the spring, Murata will instead to jet off to alternative des­ Japanese students studying overseas and Wadano start work at a trading firm and has from 800,000 yen increasing and could tinations. made China their temporary home. ($8,721), accord­ were able to been told he likely will be posted Murata, 23, has just returned In 2006, however, this number had ing to the Web site even exceed the complete their to China in the future. Wadano, from a year studying at China's increased to 18,363, or 24 percent, of the Japanese United States. yearlong studies who wanted to learn more about prestigious Peking University. "My according to the council's report. Embassy in Bei­ through the uni­ the European Union, has secured a parents wanted me to study in the Kazuko Tsuchiya, chief adminis­ jing- Kazuko Tsuchiya versity's exchange job with a manufacturing firm and United States," Murata said. "But I trative officer of the Japan Student Though stu­ program, which likely will have frequent contact Japan Student Services chose China to help land a job that Services Organization, which pro­ dents also must helps cut both with European firms. would allow me to work with a ris­ motes overseas study, said China cough up univer­ Organization paperwork and Both have profited from seeking ing economic powerhouse." is on the verge of becoming even sity entrance fees costs. out their own respective land of op­ Wadano, 23, said, "Since I was a more popular as an overseas study - about 300,000 yen ($3,270) on Although fewer Japanese stu­ portunity. middle school student, I've wanted destination. average - tuition in China is a frac­ dents have been heading for the Shibata concedes that studying to get a job that requires me to use "The number of Japanese stu­ tion of the cost of that in the United United States over the past decade, overseas can be fraught with such English." Wadano explained that dents studying in China looks set States. it remains a popular destination issues as financial concerns and the United States had been on her to keep increasing and could even Shoko Hosoi, director of Inter­ among those who participate in differences in lifestyle. Even so, he short list, but she eventually opted exceed the United States," Tsuchiya national Marketing at Ale Global six-month or yearlong exchange continues to encourage students to to study in Britain. "Because most said. Inc., which provides information programs. venture abroad, as such experiences people go to the United States, I According to the ministry, Brit­ on studying abroad, said an increas­ The number of Waseda students can sow the seeds of their future wanted to do something different," ain ranked third among Japanese ing number of students are lugging availing themselves of the school's success. she said. students studying abroad in 2006, their suitcases to cheaper countries, exchange programs has grown "Don't just think about, really go Murata and Wadano are far with 8.1 percent heading there. such as Fiji, the Philippines and threefold over the past 10 years, for it," Shibata said. from alone. In recent years, there Next, in order of popularity, were Singapore, to has been a dramatic decline in the Australia, Germany, Taiwan, France help brush up number of Japanese students study­ and Canada. on their Eng­ ing in the United States. Educational costs are likely one lish. According to a report by the reason for the recent diversifica­ Meanwhile, Central Council* for Education, tion, with many aspiring overseas an apparent at­ Immediate, Convenient an advisory panel to the educa­ students keen to source cheaper titude change tion minister, there were 42,843 destinations amid the economic among young Japanese students studying in the downturn. Japanese is be- Healthcare!

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Hussain Aljassim / The Torch Members of the Social Action Leadership Team (SALT) meet in Huegli Hall this week. HOURS Monday - Friday Nicaragua, from page A3 der par." 8 a.m. -6 p.m. This had been enough for them to create phanages forced to be shut down. a "blanket law," she explained, including all Sat 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. "The structure of the (CICRIN) orphan­ of the Nicaraguan orphanages. age is wonderful," Schaefer said. "It offered The CICRIN orphanage's solution to the such a great living condition with a nurtur­ law was to build foster homes nearby the or­ ing community." phanage to accommodate the 30 to 40 chil­ Occupational Medicine services available Forte, having been to this orphanage dren currently living there. as well in a spring trip in 2008, added, "It "The people who are in charge of the 219-476-8855 was nice to see that the kids were genuinely orphanage understand that these children happy." need a safe place to live," Forte said. "They Lange, however, pointed out the reason are choosing families with good values that 2307 LaPorte Ave., Suite 8 (across from Target) for the government's action, saying, "(The Valparaiso, IN 46383 government) had seen some orphanages un­ See Nicaragua, page A6 The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 Campus/World A5 Helping file taxes for free Elderly and low to help prepare the tax returns for "Some people don't want to taxpayers with annual incomes of know the mystery that is the IRS," $49,000 or less. The program is ev­ Yaeger said. "We run a diagnostic income taxpayers ery Saturday and lasts until April on the forms so we know all the 10. forms are correct." receive assistance Christen Commers, lead site Once the final review is made, coordinator of the school's VITA the finalized tax forms are submit­ Mike Jakubisin program, said ted electronically. Torch Staff Writer each tax return "Tax laws takes about an We try to make it change each year," Starting Saturday, Feb. 6, ap­ hour for a student as pleasant for the Commers said. proximately 70 students from the to complete and client as it is for the "If you don't Valparaiso University's School review. The forms keep up on them, of Law will once again offer free are reviewed three volunteer. they can be over­ aid to elderly and low income times by more site whelming." taxpayers to help prepare their coordinators. Christen Commers She said that it state and federal tax returns. Rosa Yaeger is Lead site coordinator, is easy for some­ Last year, VU law students helped Brit Wagoner / The Torch a second-year law VITA program one to make a file about 700 tax returns and VU law students help members of the community with their taxes this week. student and a site mistake on their logged close to 1,500 volunteer coordinator. Her tax return. The hours. job is to review and explain to the students are trying to file the most The program is supported by a Service Volunteers in Tax Assis­ completed five hours of training client what changes were made, grant from the Internal Revenue tance (VITA). Law students have with software provided by the IRS only if they want to know. See Taxes, page A6

Maddox, from page Al university, to be determined at the vancement. end of the strategic planning pro­ So far, the search committee Maddox and University Presi­ cess," he said. "One thing that will hasn't determined what kind of dent Mark Heckler had been dis­ not be changing for me is that I'll person they seek in a candidate for cussing this strategic planning keep working at Valparaiso Uni­ this position. process and determined now was versity, a place I've come to love "We're in the process right a good time for him to announce and cherish." now of working out the posi­ that he would resign, so that a The university has formed a tion description, speaking to . search effort could initiate soon. search committee to find his re­ many who have a deep interest in "We want to diligently pursue placement, which is headed by Jay academic development," Conison this search until we find the best Conison, dean of the VU School said. candidate for Valparaiso Univer­ of Law. Though no one can yet state sity," Maddox said. "The best time According to Conison, this anything specific being sought for doing that is now and not lat­ search effort will involve some of in the candidates, Maddox said, er." the members of the board of direc­ "They have to be a good fit with However, Maddox won't be tors, the president, the provost, the the president and the mission (of leaving the university. vice presidents, the deans of the the university). We need a profes­ "The president asked me to colleges and the leadership and sional for this position." stay in a leadership position at the staff of the office institutional ad- Conison further added, "There are some ob­ vious quali­

"'.'•. ties we'll be Abby Gilchrist / The Torch looking for: Someone with Vice President for Institutional Advancement Richard Maddox announces his substantial resignation from his position but will remain at VU in a different leadership role. fundraising experience, strong leader­ dates." versity leadership. ship and stra­ According to Conison, student "It will be working closely with tegic skills." participation the president, the As for the will be a signifi­ I expect we will have vice presidents and search pro­ cant part of the the deans in the cess, Coni­ selection pro­ quite a diverse pool strategic planning son expects a cess. of candidates. process," Maddox broad range of "When we do said. candidates. searches at this Maddox is glad "There is a university, we'll Jay Conison that Heckler val­ tremendous be particularly Dean, School of Law ues his leadership variety of skill interested in abilities enough and back­ students because they'll be future to keep him in such a position at ground," he donors to this university," he said. VU said. "I expect As for what he'll do in his new "I'm really pleased by his trust we will have position, though he does not know and confidence," he said. quite a diverse anything specific yet, Maddox rea­ Contact Paul Rubio at torch@ pool of candi- sons he will still be part of the uni- valpo.edu.

Home, from page A3 "There was so much to learn talk about the city." on the street." "Valpo residents have a lot Linwood House, formerly Linstrom agreed, point­ to offer," he added, "and a lot a home for VU's presi­ ing to the limited perspective they'd like to share, but there's dents and currently the that some VU students might no forum for that." headquarters of the Lilly have. Schmidt said that the proj­ Fellows Program. "I think we're naturally ect taught her the hidden Buggeln chose Mcln­ isolated from the city just in worth of a neighborhood. tyre Court for its prox­ terms of geography, so there "Neighborhoods have imity to campus and also aren't many streets we can value," Schmidt said. "Even because of the sometimes just walk through," Linstrom if they're not big or magnifi­ contentious relationship said. "This project shows that cent, they still have a story to between the university and the neighborhood has a lot of tell, and that story is inter­ the residents of the street. integrity as a community." connected because of how the "I hope the university Linstrom was so taken people related to each other." can think creatively about with the project that he be­ Buggeln said that the real what to do with Mclntyre lieves more students should lasting value of the project Court and think beyond do this kind of research, sug­ was the way it changed stu­ the easiest solution," Bug­ gesting a "City of Valpo" unit dent learning habits. geln said. for the Freshman Core pro­ "What pleased me most Schmidt said she was gram. was seeing students get ex­ surprised by how much "It's very difficult for stu­ cited about houses and local the street had to offer her dents here for four years to history," Buggeln said. "And as a researcher. connect with the communi­ to hear them say, 'I'll never "It's important to look at ty," Linstrom said. "I wonder look at houses the same way things you might not think how possible it would be for again' is very gratifying." VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY — STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS of as interesting right off students to be required to do www.valpo.edu/studyabroad the bat and see what they some community research, to Contact Zach King at have to say," Schmidt said. meet with someone and just [email protected]. A6 Campus News The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 Nicaragua, from page A4 will provide safe, loving homes." The orphanage will provide suitable foster families, chosen by the local community, for those children with no home to return to. "This orphanage is privately run through a church organization. These families will come from the church," Schaefer said. The poverty factor still plays a role in the capability of these fami­ lies to provide for the children. This is where SALT's efforts come into play. "We will hopefully raise $12,500 BETTER BOWLING NAME: or more," Lange said. All of the money will be used directly in the building of the fos­ ter homes for the CICRIN orphan­ age. Kick-off week for this World Relief Campaign officially begins Feb. 5. James Strasburg, chair of SALT, described some of the events soon to take place to get the cam­ pus involved in this project. "There will be a coffee house to help raise funds, along with an educational dinner where students COBRA and staff can learn more about the World Relief Campaign," he said. Schaefer added, "In years past, we always have a 5K run/walk. Also, there will be different activi­ ties and competitions on campus to raise money." Based on past performances, SALT's projected success in reach­ ing their goal this year is quite rea­ sonable. "The World Relief Campaign has always been very success­ ful and has met all of its previous goals," Lange said. Choosing this specific project was also helpful in SALT's vision D^^longa.^^ gCall4 to provide long-term assistance. "(This project) is such a sustain­ able thing to raise funds for," Lange said. "Once the children get older ^^Sr^ntKepHone^re, and move away, the foster homes will still be used. There will be a constant cycle of kids." So nearly halt vne Strasburg added, "Hopefully it will have a long-term impact on getusc.com the children living there. They're going to go on and make a change and a difference in their own way." Contact Emily Nelson at torch@ valpo.edu.

Taxes, from page A5

accurate and beneficial returns for their clients. Many law students use the pro­ gram as part of their pro bono re­ quirement for graduation. "We try to make it as pleasant for the client as it is for the volun­ teer," Commers said. Volunteers sit face-to-face with clients and talk over the changes they make with their tax form. "As soon-to-be lawyers, client interaction is important," Com­ mers said. One of the stipulations of the VITA is that volunteers are not to accept any money or gifts from cli­ ents. Even though clients would be ^USCeUidf; paying up to hundreds of dollars to thing better get their taxes filed elsewhere, they f believe in somethir have only been allowed to send let­ ters of thanks in past years. VU's law school has been par­ ticipating in the VITA program since 2005. Although there are many community organizations that offer the same aid, VU has the only law school in Indiana that has IRS certified tax preparation. Commers said that in the past, volunteers have helped out VU faculty and staff in addition to members of the public. All infor­ mation is kept confidential be­ tween the clients and volunteer. More information about making an appointment can be found on the law school's Web site.

Contact Mike Jakubisin at Free Incoming claim based on combined voice, Text and Pix usage by typical U.S. Cellular customers. Other restrictions apply. See store for details. ©2009 U.S. Cellular. [email protected]. The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 A7 "I thought I'd get some applause on that one." - President Barack Obama during his State of OPINION the Union Address after announcing tax cuts. STAFF EDITORIAL Torch endorses S.R. 89

This coming Monday, Student on efficiency. Though they might Senate has an opportunity to vote be slow and tedious, there are sys­ on a meaningful piece of legisla­ tems in place to deal with the re­ tion, an action that could leave moval of senators for any reason. a lasting and powerful legacy on To allow a student body president senate's future. this power for the sake of expedi­ It is an opportunity that sena­ ency would be to sacrifice proper tors must take. and necessary protocol for conve­ S.R. 89, presented to the floor nience. at the Jan. 25 meeting of student The removal of a senator is no senate, would small issue and amend the cur­ as such should rent process S.R 89 must be not be afforded of removing a haste and ease. senator, placing passed to preserve S.R. 89 still this power sole­ the integrity of future grants a presi­ ly in the hands student senates dent seven of the senate as days to veto a a whole - and and ensure that candidate for a stripping the the removal power senate seat, but president of his is not misused in the veto power or her removal belongs to the powers. subsequent senate entire senate Our en­ sessions. that approved dorsement of a given senator, MCT this amend­ not to a single ment should in no way reflect on individual whose executive orders student body president Courtney require very little formal proce­ The Short Take Heitkamp's tenure as student sen­ dure beyond a signature. ate's leader, nor should it suggest Again, we have no reason to that Heitkamp has misused this believe that President Heitkamp State of the Union and the state of discourse power. Heitkamp has done a fine will let down the student body job thus far, and her conduct has by misusing her removal pow­ The speed with which our tech­ ers are between the ages of 18 and 35 been more than respectable. ers. Before choosing to endorse nology is evolving and the ability of years of age. But S.R. 89 must be passed to Heitkamp for president last year, the masses to harness it, is truly as­ It's clear that social media is cata­ preserve the integrity of future The Torch thoroughly vetted all tounding. YouTube had more than lyzing political socialization among student senates and ensure that candidates and found Heitkamp Torch Opinion Editor four million live viewers of the State young people. the removal power is not misused to be the best fit for student body of the Union. Twitter threads bear­ All this technology and all this in subsequent senate sessions. president. Like a responsible newsman, I ing the hash tag "SOTU" received software must be tended to proper­ Doubtless this amendment Had Heitkamp given any in­ watched President Obama's State of nearly 300 tweets per minute dur­ ly and immediately. It will be much stems from last year's removal clination that she might abuse the the Union address last Wednesday; ing the address and Facebook's live easier to groom and nurture this debacle, in which then-president removal powers of the president, like a responsible college student, I feed was rife with Obama-talk. So­ infant of social media as it grows. Liane Joshua removed minor­ our endorsement would have watched it streaming live on You- cial media brought about massive For when it hits its adolescence, we ity senator Tia Kolasa from her gone to another candidate, but Tube while tweeting and debating public discourse on a scale that no must be prepared for more turbu­ position after determining that regardless of Heitkamp's conduct, with a friend about the substance of town meeting, no newspaper col­ lent times, ones that may put today's Kolasa, based on her sexual ori­ S.R. 89 must be passed before the Obama's speech via Facebook. This umn could match. media to shame. entation, did not meet the criteria amendment becomes a tragic ne­ is all happening, of course, in multi­ Considering the demographics The views expressed are those of for being a minority. Pressured cessity. ple tabs of Google Chrome, shifting of social media users, we are given the writer and not necessarily those by administration, Joshua issued Once senate has passed S.R. between these sites with the dexter­ even more reason for encourage­ of The Torch. Contact Derek Schnake an executive order that inflamed 89, it must communicate this ac­ ity of an Italian cab driver. ment. Nearly half of all Twitter us­ at [email protected]. campus and struck her term with tion to its constituents. Senate has controversy. long promised to increase com­ S.R. 89 would prevent admin­ munication with the student body "Headline: 'Systems now "I don't care what systems istrations from personally com­ at large, and The Torch has often operational on campus.' Are we Clean Access supports now. The pelling a single individual into called for senate to live up to this trying to sound like the Death administration and IT should acting contrary to senate's own ac­ promise. Star?" focus on getting the whole campus tions and would restore autonomy Student Senate should fulfill -January 24 wireless." to one of senate's most potentially its long-time vow to correspond -January 27 inflammatory abilities - the re­ with its constituents, but before "By the way, London is, in fact, moval of a senator. it shows how it is using its power, part of Europe." "I think therefore I am Schubert. If The bill's opponents cite re­ it must take steps to ensure that -January 24 only it were that easy." dundancy as a reason to shoot such power cannot be misused. -January 27 down the bill, claiming it strips This is a unique opportunity "Every time I read the VUPD the president of a power he or she for the student body's legislature report, I can't help but hear the "Of all the names they could've rarely uses. Yet if this power is to take measures to preserve its sound of money being wasted." chosen, they chose iPad. I thought only exercised infrequently, what own autonomy. Senate should -January 25 they were supposed to be smart need would the student body have faith in its own ability and FLICKER over there at Apple." president have of such an ability? prudence to remove senators by BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS AN OPINION "Pietrzak missed the point. Avatar' -January 27 Furthermore, senators should re­ its own will, through its own pro­ is about the giant Smurf version of frain from centering the debate cesses. Hi! I'm Flicker, the true voice of 'Pocahontas.'" Valparaiso University. Something -January 25 bothering you? Send me an AOL Staff editorials are written by an editorial board selected from the staff Instant Message at VUTorch. "I don't think there is anything Hey VU! Flicker is now on of The Torch. They represent the official position of the newspaper. 'timely' about the photo in the Twitter. Tweet the Torch @ I'll make sure it shows up on the A&E section's main article. I'm a ValpoTorch and I'll make Opinion pages every week. 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No letters will be by-laws. block after block of could afford to leave (the middle can develop urban gardens within ing too much of everything. that Burger King gathers together decrepit, disintegrating structures and upper classes, which are pre­ the many abandoned lots around Worst and most damning of and injects with ammonia (ac­ strewn across a malodorous land­ dominantly Caucasian). Since i960 the city. Really, there are no limits all, we are all out-of-shape fat folk. cording to "The Natural News"). scape, scores of poverty-stricken Gary has become much of a ghost to what can be done. Approximately 127 million adults Ammonia is a chemical that families who no longer have the town, losing around 60 percent of When speaking of such ideas, in the U.S. are overweight and 60 makes bleaching solution and is option of choosing where to live, its entire population, with numbers I should make clear that this task million people are obese. Obesity found in urine. unemployment, still dwindling. will not be painless, so this mindset is associated with more than 30 It's more than just fast food; crime and a bank­ Evidence of should not be romanticized. medical conditions, and scientific it is a reflection of what we, as rupt government We in Valparaiso how hard Gary Any such project requires tre­ evidence has established a strong Americans want. that is in no posi­ have a community in has fallen can mendous patience - quite possibly relationship Both cor- tion to solve the with at least 15 desperate need that even be seen a lifetime's worth. It is not easy to p orations and problems of this on the History go into a city that has a murder of those condi­ There are a variety Americanswant once-proud city. is literally a few miles Channel. Just last rate nearly nine times higher than tions, according of things that the convenient and As t on i sh- from our campus. year, the show the national average, but it can be to the American inexpensive ingly, this city is "Life After Peo­ done. Obesity Asso­ government could do food; fast food not earthquake- ple" took a visit These suggestions do not need to ciation. to provide affordable provides just prone, nor is it in the Caribbean. It to Gary to demonstrate the effects occur tomorrow, nor do they have Within at health food. that. does not have the attention or affec­ that abandonment has on urban ar­ to occur during our student years, if least the past In the super­ tion of the global community in any chitecture. at all. Nonetheless, through Haiti, I five years, the ficial scheme way at all. This city was not hit by Though the present situation have seen the potential. Valparaiso media has made it apparent that of things, though, it almost looks a natural disaster, and its problems looks grim, our community's recent University students care. obesity is a huge problem in the as though Americans want to eat did not arise in one day. Nonethe­ reaction to the disaster in Haiti of­ Gary, Ind., changes lives. I would United States. The media exposed unhealthy food because it tastes less, this city moans for help. fers optimism. know; I have spent time there - al­ fast food restaurants such as Taco good. This city is Gary Ind., and it is Over the past two weeks, I have beit only a few Saturdays. Even so, Bell, Burger King, Wendy's and But America wants to eat up to our local community to aid observed tremendous support my desires in life have been firmly McDonald's. healthy, which is one of the rea­ thousands of its unfortunate resi­ within the Valparaiso community impacted. The media were not the only sons fast food places now all pro­ dents, who have been disregarded for victims of the earthquake in Who knows, maybe I will some­ culprits of exposing these restau­ vide 160 percent Angus beef and by society year after year. Port-au-Prince. In doing so, my day spend a stint of my life in Gary, rants, but their competitors, such white meat chicken. Desolation has not always been spirits have been uplifted, but I can­ helping the ghost town flourish yet as Subway, often presented their Is it too much to ask for healthy synonymous with Gary, Ind. In fact, not help but wonder how again. strong distaste for unhealthy fast and convenient foods? this northwestern Indiana city was phenomenally amazing it So as the sun sets on another food through television commer­ Yes. Healthy food does not a booming industrial force for near­ would be if even a slice of * „ pollution-filled hori­ cials. \ come cheap, but there are a vari­ ly three quarters of the 20th cen­ that generosity could zon in Northwestern After these fast food restau­ ety of things that the government tury. Ever since the United States be steered toward Ya~£*i$^%£: ^~^5) Indiana, my heart is rants were exposed for contribut­ could do to provide affordable Steel Corporation founded the city Gary. warmed by the resil­ ing to America's obesity, as well health food. in 1906, there has been abundant We in Valparaiso -y" ience of Gary residents as other illnesses and sicknesses, America could provide reso­ work available in the steel mills - have a community in msLP and the generosity of they did their best to arrange their lution to this problem by taxing up until the 1960s. During these desperate need that is ( SUPWt fellow students. menus to cater to people with a unhealthy foods and using those active decades, the city continued literally a few miles The world will con­ healthier lifestyle. tax dollars to lower the price of to grow and employ, providing an from our campus. tinue to help those Although these alternatives healthy foods. adequate safe-haven of income for Though several communities in the were provided, obese America was Americans are fat and greedy; thousands. faculty and stu­ spotlight, but for our still unaware that these "healthy we are unable to make a trip to Since then, however, the situa­ dents have worked Megan Williams / The Torch northwestern neigh­ choices" weren't so healthy. Whole Foods and spend six dol­ tion has been anything but prosper­ toward bettering bor that spotlight will Many of McDonald's salad dress­ lars on a single loaf of bread. The ous. Beginning in the 1970s, United Gary, there remains an enor­ never come. It's up to us, ings' main ingredients are sugar. demand of American fast food is States international trade policies mous need for more help - magni­ and only us, to help the once-fabled Burger King's salads are as high a cry for economic help as indi­ were eased, which allowed inter­ tudes greater. land of Gary, Ind. in calories as a Whopper. The so­ viduals and as a country. national competition to more eas­ Students at Valparaiso Univer­ The views expressed are those of dium and fat content of a chicken The views expressed are those of ily take ground in the steel market. sity have a diverse assortment of the writer and not necessarily those salad are even more than that of a the writer and not necessarily those This resulted in wave after wave of practical skills, which we continual­ of The Torch. Contact Ted Pietrzak Whopper sandwich. of The Torch. Contact Ava Meux at layoffs for workers in the American ly develop every day. The ways these at [email protected]. These restaurants complete a [email protected]. Cultural Correspondence NBC fires Conan, angers fans and practices poor business policy stone, and Conan will not be re­ viewers. This will make it one of the turning to NBC; neither, it has lowest rated networks in a talentless been announced, will the running circus led by the insect president and CEO of NBC, Jeff Zucker, all in Torch Opinion Writer bits that he has had since he hosted "Late Night." an attempt to fill the void that Co­ Last week, Conan O'Brien had Not only has NBC forcefully nan left behind him. his last "Tonight Show," viewed by pushed Conan out of the job that Though this was an unfortunate over seven million people. Before he rightfully inherited, they are situation, we can all agree that Co- having a "Free Bird" jam with Will prohibiting him from taking any nan's final week of shows was the Ferrell, he ended it on a classy note, material written while with NBC to best he has ever done. It was filled reminiscing about his 20 years with another network. with great jokes that unmercifully NBC. So in seven months, when ridiculed NBC and its program­ As most of us know by now, NBC O'Brien is allowed to return to an­ ming. He was back to his old self, and Jay Leno tried other network, a bringing back the edginess that to muscle their large amount of made him popular. way into O'Brien's NBC has really his material will NBC will never lose this image time slot. Refus­ screwed itself over be missing. That of being a crooked business that has ing to bump "The means Conan developed over these past weeks. Tonight Show" by firing Conan, and fans need to say Corporations should not be able to up to a later time, they are definitely goodbye to such "own" the intellectual properties of their employees. It represents the Conan was given going to lose a lot of late night staples the cold shoul­ as "Conando," the corruption that runs through the der. He struck a viewers. "Masturbating veins of business. NBC has really deal with NBC Bear," "Triumph dug itself into a hole that not even last week, settling the Insult Comic a ladder built by Jay Leno can get on a multi-million dollar deal to Dog," the "Interrupter," "Twitter them out of. leave "The Tonight Show," which Tracker" and many others. Even though NBC is not letting he had only been hosting for seven NBC had no problem firing Co­ him bring his material with him, months. nan and now they refuse to allow Megan Williams / The Torch Conan O'Brien will not disappoint I, along with other fans of Co­ him to keep the material that made his fans. He will create a new reper­ nan, was outraged at this outlandish him famous and made NBC a lot of their ratings will plummet because this controversy came to light, a toire of memorable characters and disrespect - especially when it was money. of O'Brien's hardcore fan base. very strong outpouring of respect in sketches, bringing along his estab­ announced that Jay Leno would be This is outrageous. It took me a What's the best way to do that? To the form of rallies sprouted in sev­ lished fans and wrangling in new returning as the host of "The To­ while to accept the fact that O'Brien take away everything that has made eral cities across the nation. As fans followers of Coco. night Show." was leaving his show, but now he the man who he is today - to elimi­ of Conan, we are not going away. The views expressed are those of Complete corruption in show has to leave behind the fruits of his nate everything that established his NBC has really screwed itself the writer and not necessarily those business has never been this pub­ labor. NBC is just afraid that, when following. But here's a surprise for over by firing Conan, and they of The Torch. Contact Rob Onofrey licly blatant. But the deal is set in Conan moves to another home, NBC: It is not going to work. After are definitely going to lose a lot of at [email protected]. The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 A9

Debating whether Pro Bowl is worthwhile SPORTS game to play, A10 THE SPORTS MAVEN ROWDY' ATHLETE Substance Broekhoffplaying 6-of-8 shooting from downtown. not found Add to that Rowdy's recently displayed tenacity on the boards, big role in VU rise and you have yourself a star in the ESPN exemplifies making. to Horizon League "He's a competitor. He works arrogance while hard at everything he does," success this season said Crusader senior Brandon providing viewers McPherson. "We see it on the floor David Schroeder in his shooting and his defense. He bad sports coverage Torch Staff Writer literally comes in every day and gives it everything he has." Tuesday was Australia Day, and In addition to giving the team all of Valparaiso University should his all on the floor, he adds a great have celebrated. dynamic to a Crusader bunch Why? riddled with foreign players. Torch Staff Writer The simple answer is VU In addition to Broekhoff and freshman basketball standout Ryan Witt, the Crusaders keep things How many hours of ESPN Broekhoff, an Australian native and cultured with Jamaican Michael commentary will you watch to sharpshooter who has caught fire of Rogers, Croatian Hrvoje Vucic prepare for Super Bowl XLIV? Let late. and Montenegro native Milos me guess: 210. Broekhoff has recently been as Milosevic. Try less than one. cool as the other side of the pillow, "I definitely think it makes us Don't you want the full and his 10 points and six rebounds more cultured," McPherson said. breakdown? per contest over While Hoosiers I can read any publication the last two like McPherson without having an ultra-refined ex- weeks have been We're learning to find themselves jock tell me what to think. a big reason for play with each other benefitting But don't the ESPN commentators the Crusaders' from the global have the greatest insight? resurgence. as a team. collection of They do when muted. Without "I'm definitely talent that VU the audio element, Mark Schlerth is feeling more Ryan Broekhoff has amassed, a Nobel Prize laureate. From his lofty comfortable," Broekhoff himself perch, Trent Dilfer pronounced that Broekhoff said. Freshman enjoyed the the Saints' key to victory is stopping "We're learning to experience as the Colts' short-range passing. I play with each other as a team." well. feel so surprised that it seems like a Unlike the majority of his "Everyone is really nice around chimp is eating my face. teammates, Broekhoff came to here and easy to talk to. I have How can you hate ESPN, the campus just three days before a great time around campus," greatest invention since sliced bread? classes started last fall and has had Broekhoff said. John Webster / The Torch God never commanded, "Thou to adapt to the more physical style The freshman considers himself Freshman guard Ryan Broekhoff looks to make a move in VU's Dec. 5 match shalt view ESPN and enjoy it." of basketball played in America. relatively quiet and feels he is just against Butler. Broekhoff, who came from Australia, has become a steady Lacking better inscriptions for "He's had to adjust to the starting to come out of his shell. contributor for the Crusaders this season. my gravestone, my epitaph may college game because it is so Rowdy's teammates, however, read, "One day at age 17, I awoke different from what we're used find that his trademark moniker to a portrait in my mind-of quality to back home," said teammate is an adequate vocalization of the year. haven't seen is that he looks like sports coverage. ESPN was not it." and fellow Aussie Cameron Witt. truth. The 2009-2010 Crusaders have Paul McCartney of the Beatles," Isn't ESPN a sports fan's paradise? "Then he had to find his role in "I'm a little bit quirky and a stormed back, already surpassing McPherson said. Can't you leave it at that? the team as well." little bit funny," Broekhoff admitted last year's total of nine wins. All joking aside, Broekhoff Perhaps, if Chris Berman had not It seems that Ryan, or "Rowdy" when prodded. McPherson, as a fifth-year senior, has become a cherished and grabbed my burger out of my hands as he goes by on the team, has One thing4 is for sure: Those has seen a lot of players pass valued addition to the rest of and eaten it, I might. While ESPN found that role lately in coming off quirks are not just limited to through the halls of the Athletics- his teammates and the Crusader still broadcasts enough sporting the bench. mannerisms, as the Australian's Recreation Center, but he sees faithful. events to persuade men never to Last Saturday against Loyola, style of play has kept the rest of the something special in Broekhoff. Contact David Schroeder at leave home, the boo-yah network Broekhoff went off for 20 points on Horizon League off-balance this "One thing he brings that I [email protected]. has become a hulking behemoth stinking of arrogance. Why refer to ESPN as the boo- yah network? I adopted the phrase from a caller VU preparing for conference with meets to a sports talk show who referred to ESPN, as the "boo-yah-back- in the 200-yard butterfly in 2:19.28. Junior leader David Sivak gained nine events before taking back-back" network, combining Majercik, Sivak "Everyone is a lot more excited the sole Crusader victory as VU exhibition times in the last three "boo-yah," the tired catchphrase of and confident," said junior Amy placed third out of three teams on swimming events. hackneyed "SportsCenter" anchor gain sole Crusader Andracki. "Everyone is feeling a lot Sunday at Butler in Fishers, Ind., Sivak placed second in the Stuart Scott, with "back-back-back," more prepared for conference." and lost to UIC Saturday. 100-yard butterfly in 52.43, the sanctimonious home run call wins last weekend VU (0-7) garnered 271 points "For the team, there is nothing while sophomore Austin Hunter used by "SportsCenter" anchors on in the meet, while Ball State won negative to be looked at," Sivak finished third in the 50-yard home run highlights. Tom Firme with 833 points. Horizon League said. freestyle in 22.44 seconds. What does it mean? Torch Staff Writer foe Youngstown State took second Sivak won the 200-yard butterfly Sivak noted that the team had The term "boo-yah network" with 493 points, and Eastern Illinois in Fishers in 1:56.50, touching the yet to ease into its late-season captures the ruthless arrogance of Senior Rachel Majercik earned placed third with 375 points. The wall .33 seconds ahead of Cardinal taper, which it uses to prepare every personality on ESPN, from the only Crusader victory by Crusaders ousted only in-state rival Chris Krupa. for conference. the mouth-breathing anchors to winning the 200-yard freestyle Butler, which earned 139 points. "I don't know what I'm going to "We'll start taper, along the so-called expert analysts to the at Fishers, Ind.,.as the Valparaiso VU fell to UIC 143 to 76 on see at conference personally, but with rest and recovery after ex-jock commentators who thumb University women's swimming Saturday as things are working the next meet," Sivak said. "We up their old buddies playing the team placed fourth out of five teams UIC won each very good for me," should really perform well at games. at Butler on Sunday and lost to UIC of the first nine pf§ryone is feeling a Sivak said. conference." Aren't those analysts, like Tim in Chicago on Saturday. events before lot more prepared for Freshman The Crusaders will dive back Kurkjian and Mel Kiper Jr., experts? "Saturday, we were getting taking exhibition Kevin Fedde into action at 1 p.m. Feb. 6 at If you believe them, then I our speed back," said head coach times in the last placed second in the Athletics-Recreation Center wonder how you rise from bed in Howard Hunte. "Sunday we were three swimming the mile swim in against Butler and Western the morning. Kurkjian is a true getting a better feel of it." events. Still, UIC Amy Andracki 17:17.02. Illinois for the final home meet mouthpiece, like many ESPN Majercik completed the 200- swimmers had VU scored 339 of the season. There, Sivak plans analysts, who believes that steroid Junior yard freestyle in Fishers in 1:56.45,' the best time in points as Ball State to break the 30-year-old 400 abusers belong in the Baseball Hall .21 seconds before Cardinal every event. won the meet with individual medley record, set at of Fame because, Kurkjian said, "We Elizabeth Spilman. Majercik placed Senior Kristy Shew placed 644 points. Eastern Illinois placed 4:10.96 by Seth Bretscher. just don't have all the information." third in the 100-yard freestyle in second in the 500-yard freestyle second with 571 points. "I swam it once last season Kiper is screaming mad, crafting 54.08 seconds, .21 seconds behind in 5:24.84, and Andracki had the "Sunday was very good overall," and was aiming for it at the NFL mock drafts from December the lead, and fifth in the 100-yard second fastest time in the 100-yard Hunte said. beginning of the season," Sivak to April, compiling as many pages butterfly in 1:01.79. breaststroke with 1:10.08. On Saturday, the Flames said. "I'm right on track right as "War and Peace," but far less Freshman Justine Barnes nabbed "I had strong swims," Andracki scorched the Crusaders 159 to 69, now." significant. the only other individual top-five said. "My 100 breaststroke is claiming the best time in every Contact Tom Firme at torch@ finish for the Crusaders, placing fifth especially on track." event. UIC won each of the first valpo.edu. See Maven, page All A10 Sports The Torch | Friday, January 29,2010 McGwire's decision -•THE RED ZONE*- Readers need to think about choice superstar made Debating Pro Bowl's merit before criticizing Manning were going to start the Discussing value game until their teams made the Super Bowl. Since they still have ofNFLs annual one more game to play, they are mark sitting out the Pro Bowl to rest up. all-star contest They are not the only stars you Torch Staff Writer won't see on Sunday. Tom Brady and Brett Favre have injuries to nurse. You have a choice: Be the best in Defensive studs Darren Sharper and the world, or be irrelevant. What do • ryan Dwight Freeney are not going to suit you do? JfcO'GARA up until the Super Bowl. How can Torch Staff Writer Put yourself in Mark McGwire's the Pro Bowl claim to be an all-star spikes. You have the option, a simple game if the two best quarterbacks of yes or no decision, to inject yourself eh ris the year are not playing? with steroids and remain one of the KLEINHANS To make matters worse, the game greatest home run hitters on the has been moved from exotic and planet or do what is ethical, push Torch Staff Writer exciting Hawaii to Miami. Seriously? the drugs away and retire early due Half the NFL visits Miami any to piled-up injuries as a result of a The Super Bowl is arguably given year. Going to Hawaii is fun 162-game season, plus playoffs. the biggest sporting event of the and different. I have no inclination What do you do? year, but it has not always been of watching a watered down all-star You have the choice between the final game of the NFL season game in a generic location: success and failure; decide between - at least until now. Overall, the NFL has enough fame or solitude; pick wealth or This year, for the first time in excitement during its regular and middle class pay. Listen to the fans: football history, the NFL Pro Bowl postseason schedules. No one needs Be good, be the best in the world. will be played the week before the the Pro Bowl regardlessof where or But please don't use drugs to get Super Bowl. when it is played. there. In addition to the change in McGwire hit 583 home runs date, the 2010 Ryan O'Gara: in his career, including 70 in 1998 Pro Bowl will In every and 65 in 1999. Yeah, he was using be played in Overall, the NFL has sport, players steroids. Can you blame him? Miami's Sun enough excitement are rewarded Honestly, the media is handling Life Stadium during its regular and ^ for having McGwire's steroid admission instead fabulous seasons appropriately. Baseball analysts of Aloha postseason schedules. by competing and former players are scolding Stadium in in an all-star McGwire for destroying the sanctity Hawaii. Chris Kleinhans-Schulz game. Each year, of the game, and he may never make It would analysts and fans it into the Hall of Fame, having seem as if this year's game lacks lobby for the NFL to just do-away cheated to formulate his success. the mystique that any other all- with the Pro Bowl. But it would be But the question isn't whether star game has. Does the NFL need just wrong to take that away from or not he should be publicly the Pro Bowl? Our guys debate. the players because they deserve to humiliated. It isn't whether or not be recognized more than just being he should be in the Hall of Fame. Chris Kleinhans-Schulz: on the All-Pro team. The question is simply this: What Any all-star game has a very The main issue with the Pro would you have done? simple appeal: The best players Bowl is that not all of the stars play. Let us note that McGwire was play on the same field for a star- NFL players endure a long and MCT - one of the greatest collegiate home studded day of action and fun. grueling season that takes a toll Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco celebrates after scoring a run hitters ever. He smacked 32 The NFL will fail to do that this on their bodies. As a result, many touchdown during a Pro Bowl practice this week. The year's Pro Bowl will be home runs out of the park as a year. played a week before the Super Bowl, but whether the Pro Bowl should even be USC Trojan in 1984, setting a Pac- Drew Brees and Peyton See Debate, page All played is debatable, s 10 record that still stands. He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics and hit 49 home runs in his second season with the As in 1987. And then, he started using Track jumps to solid performance steroids, after the broken records. There is no overwhelming scientific evidence that either proves in the triple jump." On Saturday, both teams turned Alyssa Bradford finished seventh in or disproves that steroids allow Strong triple jump Moore added, "They're a lot in solid performances from the the 800-meter with a time of 2:21, hitters to increase distance on hits. more explosive off the boards. Chris distance and sprints. On the men's just under two seconds from her Baseball fans often look at great showings among Haven is a first-time jumper. I've side, Jarrett Mickens and Eric Slenk personal record. Sara Christensen players from the past to which they seen a lot of improvement in him; led the way with top 10 finishes in finished eighth in the 3000-meter can compare hitters from the steroid highlights from he will be having a decent mark." their respective events. Mickens with a time of 11:18.60, and Jorie era. It's true that Babe Ruth, Hank Other notable results on Friday finished 10th in the 200-meter with Ballun finished seventh in the Aaron and Ted Williams weren't previous weekend were Babbitts throws, his best being a time of 23.60 seconds, and Slenk 400-meter dash and 11th in the hitters with brute strength. The a 49-6 1/2, good enough for a sixth- finished ninth in the 400-meter 200-meter dash. common perspective is to claim that Alec Johnson place finish. Mickens also finished with a time of 51.81 seconds. He ran "Alyssa Bradford's performance it isn't fair for hitters like McGwire Torch Staff Writer seventh in the long jump, with a 7.88 in the 60-meter, but it wasn't was really good," Moore said. "I to hold his statistics as legitimate, a distance of 20-10 1/2. Andrew enough to make the finals. was very happy. This meet gave us knowing that he was twice the size The Valparaiso University Rixon finished seventh in the shot "Saturday went fairly well," a preview of the conference meet, of these players. men's and women's track teams put with a mark of 39-10 1/4. Moore said. "Eric Slenk got in the and it gave them an idea of what But isn't the fact that hitters like went to the Simmons-Harvey On the women's side, Gianna record books the week before; it would be like and gave them a Ruth, Aaron and Williams hit home Invitational at the University Mirabelli placed fourth all-time he did well going against U of M chance to compete." runs at their size, evidence that size of Michigan last weekend in VU history with a 10-6 jump (Michigan) and bigger programs. Moore said he continues to isn't what makes a home run hitter? and turned in some top in the pole vault He's not afraid to see progress being made in his Playing 162 games - four hours performances. and eighth in compete. runners. every night for six or seven months On Friday, Jarrett Mickens the Friday meet. Jlf§ performances In the distance "I see them continuing to get - wears on a player. So McGwire had jumped 45-5 1/4 to finish second Only a freshman, reflected a hard week events, Derek better. As we get closer to conference, to decide whether he was going to in the triple jump, and Steve she's six inches Schnake finished we'll back off our training. I'm have a short career due to physical Schubert was right behind him away from tying of training. 19th in the looking forward to seeing what they breakdown, or if he would cheat in with a jump of 44-8 3/4 to finish the school record 800-meter with can do as conference gets closer," order to continue to play a 15-year third in the event. The marks put of 10-11 3 1/4. Ryan Moore a time of 2:07, Moore said. "For the season, our Major League career. the two in VU's top five of all Ini Umana also and David Carter goals for the men are to finish in the Head coach What would you have done? time. placed on Friday finished 26th in top half of the conference, and for We can consider his appearance "I was pretty excited to see for the Crusaders, the 3000-meter the women, I don't know what to before Congress in 2005 as well. what the teams did," said head finishing 11th in the shotput with a run with a time of 9:28. expect. I hope to see them cultivate Why didn't he come clean then? coach Ryan Moore. "On Friday, toss of 34-11/2 and 14th in the weight "The distance group was solid," into good runners who can compete Would you have? Nick Babbitt had his best series throw with a toss of 39-21/2. Moore said. "The performances for regional berths." Would you have presented a of throws, personal bests for him; "Gianna Mirabelli is starting to reflected a hard week of training. The Crusaders compete at 10 statement that allowed members he's got some big throws left in catch stride after coming back from Hopefully we'll go healthy into the a.m. today in the Findlay Classic. of Congress to interview your him. Jarrett Mickens and Steve surgery," Moore said. "(Freshman) next meet." Schubert moved up to third and Kara Connelly was impressive, too, On the girls' side Saturday, more Contact Alec Johnson at torch® See McGwire, page All fourth place on our all-time list in the jumps." quality performances were made. valpo.edu. The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 Sports All

McGwire, from page A10 Maven, from page A9 instance, every week when the Debate, from page A10 see is the switching of locations new college basketball rankings from Hawaii to Miami. Like Chris family and friends, pressing your Aren't the "SportsCenter" are released, "SportsCenter" back out due to the wear and tear said, Miami is too generic of a loved ones for answers about your anchors cool? reports the ESPN/USA Today of 16 games, not to mention four location. But when the game was mistakes? Or would you protect They were in the 1990s poll, but not the Associated Press preseason games. in Hawaii, players could treat it as them by making a statement that when the likes of Dan Patrick, poll, which is the primary poll for On Monday, there were 17 a vacation with their families. Since would force yourself into a shadow, Keith Olbermann and Rich college basketball. This disgusting additions made to the rosters. We practice is very light, the players can a cloud of scrutiny, while leaving Eisen provided breathless mode of self-promotion does a won't see Manning, Brees, Favre relax on the beach and just hang your family out of the situation? entertainment. Now, every disservice to viewers. or Brady, but we still do get to see out in a place they rarely have the McGwire admitted that his anchor is a self-congratulatory Don't you like anything on legitimate quarterbacks in McNabb opportunity to visit. It's a great way actions were foolish. He admitted imitator of that ESPN? and Romo as replacements. for the players to end their season. that taking steroids was a mistake. generation, "Outside The NFL made a few changes to But if he were taken back to 1988 treating every 'Outside the Lines' the Lines" is a the game this season - some good CKS: after hitting 49 home runs as a line they spit is a fine half-hour of fine half-hour and some bad. I love that they are I won't argue how fun it is for 23-year-old, with his entire career in as gold. Scott, a of journalism, if playing the game the week before the players to get one final game, front of him, records waiting to be holdover from journalism, if only only you wake the Super Bowl instead of the week especially in a place like Hawaii. As broken, salaries waiting to increase, that class, is you wake up by 8 up by 8 a.m. on after. In previous seasons, it was like fun as the Pro Bowl might be for the fans waiting to be pleased, seats now just a hack a.m. on Sundays to Sundays to see it. an afterthought to NFL fans as they NFL's superstars, it does not hold waiting to be filled, one might say who writes in The views have already had their closure with enough significance for the fans. that he would probably do it again. jive to prove he see it. expressed are the NFL season. With this format, it As Ryan brought up already, Would you? is black. those of the serves as an appetizer for the Super the Super Bowl has provided The views expressed are those of What is the writer and not Bowl. Fans are surely still interested enough closure for fans to not give the writer and not necessarily those biggest problem with ESPN? necessarily those of The Torch. in football since the big game is still a lot of attention to the Pro Bowl. of The Torch. Contact Mark Schoeck The boo-yahs value the bottom Contact Tom Firme at torch@ to come. The championship is designed at [email protected]. line more than journalism. For valpo.edu. One change I was unhappy to to end the season, and anything afterward seems superfluous. The NFL has moved the Pro Bowl in front of the Super Bowl in order to regenerate interest that has been lacking for a long time. OK, SO MY SUBS REALLY AREN'T GOURMET AMD ESTABLISHED IN CHARLESTON, IL WE'RE NOT FRENCH EITHER. 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Another Aussie joins the Crusader SPORTS basketball team, A9 Making strides VU GETS CLAWED minute stretch midway through the Crusader women second 20 minutes that sparked a Mens basketball in 9-0 run. fall to Milwaukee Kenney posted 19 points in the tie for third with second half to tie a career high with while shooting 26 points and 13 rebounds in her win against Loyola first double-double in almost two Chris Trapasso under 30 percent months. Torch Staff Writer "She did a good job of scoring Keaton Cory inside," Freeman said. After a 19-point thumping of Torch Staff Writer With seven minutes to play the Loyola Ramblers, their most UWM held a 13-point lead before dominant performance of the The Valparaiso University the aforementioned run. Freshman season, the Valparaiso University women's basketball team fell Laura Richards and senior Whitney men's basketball team sits in third in a tough defensive battle in Farris each had a steal and fast break with three other teams at 5-4 in the Milwaukee against the Panthers layup during the run. Horizon League. 54-48 Thursday night at the VU scored 14 points in the final They've been getting steady Klotsche Center despite a pair four plus minutes while holding production from their leading of double doubles from junior UWM without a field goal, but the scorers Brandon Wood and Cory Kelly Watts and senior Lauren Panthers knocked down 13 straight Johnson, but freshman Ryan Kenney. The Crusaders could free throws to hold on to the lead Broekhoff broke out to add a not overcome a 0-16 night from and the win. career-high 20 points against the three and a 15-point first half. Senior Lindsey Laur finished Ramblers. His shooting precision "We missed a lot of easy with a team high 19 points and was ,on full display, as he finished shots," said head coach Keith seven rebounds powered by a 6-6 6-of-8 from downtown. Freeman. performance from the free throw "The young players have really VU held UWM to just one line, including four with under a blended well with the upper field goal over minute left to classmen," said head coach Homer the final 11 seal the Panther Drew. "The team has really played minutes but It took us a long time victory. well together, and the chemistry could get no to get into the game The Crusader has been exciting to see." closer than four defense had Howard Little kept the as the Panthers mentally. another stellar statisticians busy, scoring 15 points, led from start night forcing 19 snatching 14 rebounds, thieving to finish. Keith Freeman turnovers with 11 three steals and assisting on three "Its terribly steals. Through baskets. The Crusaders held a 43-23 frustrating," Head coach the first seven rebounding edge, a breakthrough Freeman said. minutes of the Brian Koch / The Torch for a frontcourt that's had its issues Freeman said that VU beat game the Panthers scored just Senior forward Lauren Kenney looks to take a shot in the Crusaders' Jan. 23 on the glass this season. Milwaukee in bench points, fast six points However, it took the match against Wright State. The Crusaders won 59-52. "To come in and out-rebound the break points, second chance Crusaders nine minutes to score six best rebounding team in our league points, points off turnovers and points. by this much is just a testament points in the paint. "It took us a long time to get into not come in the paint or from the the ARC to keep VU from letting a to how hard our guys worked "We didn't make enough the game mentally," Freeman said. free throw line where the Crusaders double digit lead slip away. underneath the basket," Drew said. shots," Freeman said. "It's really VU pulled to within two points went 8- ii. Adams, Kenney and Watts will They've won four straight, hard to win with a 29.9 percent 11 minutes in, thanks to eight The Crusader's leading scorer, each have to put together a strong bouncing back from a losing skid field goal percentage." straight points by Kelly Watts. sophomore Betsy Adams, scored performance on Saturday when when they lost five of six games Despite VU's worst shooting Watts finished with 12 points and just two points on a steal and fast VU battles nationally ranked No. dating back to mid-December. performance since Jan. 4 in a win 11 rebounds in her second double- break layup with 4:41 to go. 24/22 Green Bay on the road before The win against the Ramblers against Loyola, the Crusaders double of the year. The loss gave VU a 1-1 week after a three-game home stand to open last Saturday was the first win in outscored UWM by two in the Unfortunately for Crusader fans, pulling out a close 59-52 win at the the second half of Horizon League Loyola's arena in 35 years, and more second half. Kenney kept VU VU could not get anything going Athletics-Recreation Center last play. importantly, it kept the Crusaders in the game, scoring 10 straight outside of the paint. Just two of Saturday. Betsy Adams posted 22 Contact Keaton Cory at torch@ unscathed on their treacherous four- points for VU over a seven- VU's 48 points Thursday night did points on 6-9 shooting from beyond valpo.edu. game intra-conference road voyage that wraps in Wisconsin next week. VU visits Wisconsin-Milwaukee tonight at 7 p.m. The Panthers are looking to avenge a one-point loss in the Athletics-Recreation Center a Bad attendance at games month ago. A Brandon McPherson steal and layup as time expired sealed the victory for the Crusaders. almost 20 years, due in large part to If VU fans want to see this success atmosphere. The winning school The game is vital for both squads as Poor fan showing injuries that put just six scholarship continue, they need to come out will be awarded the first No. 1 the Panthers nip at the Crusaders' players in uniform at times. and support their fellow classmates. Student Section Trophy. This is a heels, a mere game behind in the at mens basketball As we turn the calendar to a new There will be no better time than Feb. traveling trophy that will be passed Horizon League standings. decade and a fresh start, so does 6 when VU hosts the Detroit Titans, each year from winning school to The Crusaders conclude their contests this year the men's basketball program. Now who are tied with the Crusaders for winning school. road swing with a match-up against needs to change in their fourth season as a part of third place in the Horizon League. When the judges are at the the second place Wisconsin-Green the Horizon League, the Crusaders At Detroit earlier this year, VU ARC Feb. 6, they will choose one Bay Phoenix at 1 p.m. Sunday. Green are getting better. held a double-digit fan to represent VU's student Bay slipped past VU as the visiting Any program that lead at halftime on section. That lucky fan will be team in early January. The Crusaders is making the jump If VU fans want to national television. rewarded with a $50 gift card and trailed by three at the half, but cold, from the Mid-Con The Crusaders an on-camera interview at halftime, see this success 8-for~32 shooting in the second Torch Staff Writer to a much stronger lost that lead and which will be featured on the stanza led to their 64-58 defeat. conference in the continue, they need the game. VU Horizon League Network's blog. In "It's a tremendous challenge Valparaiso University men's Horizon League, to come out and has since learned addition to the fame and fortune, going up to Milwaukee and Green basketball games used to be which placed two how to close out the Crusader fan will be entered Bay, both of them are playing very marquee Thursday and Saturday teams in the NCAA support their fellow tight games' with to win the HLN Premium Prize well," Drew said. "We would like to night events. The student section tournament last classmates. three single-digit Pack, which includes two tickets return the favor to Green Bay. It will was loud. It was full of college season, is going to wins during their and hotel accommodations for the be a very challenging trip but one men and women heckling, have some growing winning streak. Horizon League Men's Basketball our team is excited to participate howling and chanting away the pains. Besides the revenge, and the Championship Finale March 9. in." stresses of class. With strong veteran leadership conference standings, the reason So next week, when the men The Crusaders return to the Recently, the student section in fifth-year senior Brandon this game is so important is because return home from a weekend in ARC Feb. 4 to square off against a at the Athletics-Recreation McPherson, exciting new transfers the Horizon League Network will Wisconsin, let's get out to the ARC Wright State team they currently Center has been quiet. Too often redshirts sophomore Brandon be there, judging the VU student and support our team. Get loud, get share the third spot with in the have there been just three or four Wood and junior Cory Johnson section in the inaugural HLN crazy and get the inaugural No. 1 conference. The ARC has become students sitting, not standing, and a strong freshman class with Student Section Challenge. Student Section Trophy. a safe haven for the Crusaders. next to the always enthusiastic Tommy Kurth and Ryan Broeckoff, Each week, staff and league They've compiled a 6-1 record at pep band. The frustration of the Crusaders are riding a four- officials will travel to one school The views expressed are those of the ARC this season. Crusader fans is understandable game winning streak and tied for to judge the student section on the writer and not necessarily those Contact Chris Trapasso at torch@ as Homer's Heroes are coming third in conference heading into their enthusiasm, originality, of The Torch. Contact Keaton Cory valpo.edu. off of their worst season in Friday's matchup at Milwaukee. good sportsmanship and overall at [email protected]. forte occasions for thought on campus and abroad friday, January 29,2010

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'No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." features -Voltaire Student pays tribute to Springsteen

or sociological or spiritual issues," David Masciotra Masciotra said. Springsteen's music, Masciotra takes look at claimed, has an explicit political and social message, which is often political legacy of ignored or misunderstood. "Because (Springsteen) is such 'The Boss' a charismatic and captivating entertainer, people often relegate Emily Thompson him to that role," Masciotra said. Torch Staff Writer "But there's also such complexity to his music and an uncompromised Bruce Springsteens optimistic message of political dissention song "Working on a Dream" and trying to reorient the social declares "Though it can feel so order." far away . . . Our love will make it Masciotra claimed society often real someday." David Masciotra, distorts the message of those who a graduate student at Valparaiso attempt to change the social order. University, has experienced a dream Thus he applauded events like those made real in his recently published on Martin Luther King Day, which book, "Working on a Dream: The allowed discussion of true social Progressive Political Vision of Bruce significance. Springsteen." "King is obviously someone Masciotra is pursuing his who is much more important than masters in English Studies and Bruce Springsteen," Masciotra said. Communications at Valparaiso "He's the leader of the greatest social University. He finished "Working on movement in American history, but a Dream" in one year, however. He Hussain Aljassim / The Torch even with Dr. King, a lot of people explained that this book has been a "Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen" is a new book by VU graduate student David miss his message, attempt to co-opt long time in the making. Masciotra. him into a kind of benign Santa "I became a (Springsteen) fan Claus figure when he was not only when I was 13," Masciotra said of a fierce critic of racism, but he was Springsteen. "What grabbed me message about neglected individuals returns home, and "American Skin," unemployment epidemic - all of the also a fierce critic of war, of poverty, about him was the music. He creates in American society. about a West African immigrant problems that we know very well and he was demanding justice on all a really unique and exciting hybrid "His music places at the front who was killed by New York City exist in the inner city that are again of those fronts." of 1950s rock, 1960s soul music and and center of the way he views the police officers in a case of mistaken often ignored," Masciotra said. Thus, Masciotra hopes his book timeless folk music. And that was world everyday identity. He added, "And all the song will draw attention to the important really fun for me to listen to." people, who are Masciotra does, like many of Springsteen's issues listeners might otherwise Masciotra received his often suffering and Once I got into his wrote a chapter songs, is just tell the story. But miss. undergraduate degree in political often ignored by the lyrics, I started on poverty in the through the story, you're moved to "It's hard for alternative voices science From the University of American political inner city, an issue think about the countless children to get through. Even though St. Francis. He claims his interest system, by the to think about he says Springsteen who are undergoing this tragic life (Springsteen's) voice is powerful in Bruce Springsteen heavily American media," these deeper, addresses right under our nose in the richest culturally and musically, its influence Masciotra said. repeatedly. country in the world." influenced his interest in political larger issues and is very particular and slight," and social issues. "Working on "One particular His discussion of Springsteen's Masciotra said. "To be realistic "At 13, I wasn't thinking deeply a Dream" uses I wanted to learn song that's very work from a political and social about it, he's not Barack Obama, he's about politics and culture and specific Springsteen more about them. moving is called standpoint is what makes his book not even a newspaper columnist for sociology, but I began to shortly songs to address 'Black Cowboys,' unique. the New York Times. But he does after that, and it began with Bruce particular social David Masciotra and it's about a "All the books about Springsteen have a deep and profound effect issues. A few of the teenage boy who that have come before this have on listeners who take his music Springsteen," Masciotra said. "Once Graduate student I got into his lyrics, I started to think songs Masciotra lives in the Bronx. been biography. So mine is really seriously." about these deeper, larger issues and discussed included The Bronx is the the first to tackle his work from a His book, he explains, should I wanted to learn more about them." "Born in the USA," which is about poorest congressional district in thematically analytical point of view help listeners do the work required Masciotra explained that a Vietnam veteran who is struggling the country. There are bullets flying and draw out all of these themes and Springsteen delivers an important to find work and comfort when he and families collapsing and an connect them with a larger political See Springsteen, page B4 Chili cook-off provides food and fun

recipes that were served up to 300 how simple it was. There were other tell every single soul that walked not have been all shiny steel Chicago native carnivorous chili lovers. I was also people, mostly men, who laughed past my table that I ran out. Some countertops like what you see on the youngest contestant and the only when I said it was vegetarian. After people laughed, others were simply the Food Network, and it was in a comes up short one to bring my parents for moral I assured them that it wasn't scary getting seconds and most people dive bar rather than a state of the support, which was comforting. vegetarian food with fake "meat," scoffed and drew a big 'X' on their art kitchen, but it was fun to hear but has good time, I arrived and first met a cook they took a spoonful and even asked scorecards for my chili. I watched as everyone's opinions on a recipe that that has competed for the last for seconds. But it was the spice that other cooks brought out four or five has been a staple in my house for in competition three years and has gotten second impressed most people. additional pans of chili and poured years. place each time. Other cooks were My chili has a heat that doesn't them into their crock pots as I stood There are two things that I will Lilia DelBosque Oakey shuffling carts full of pans loaded sting the tongue; it hugs your there scrapping the last bit of beans definitely change for next year. Torch Staff Writer with chili, and there were even heart. It is a warmth that floats in with my ladle. 1. I will not label it vegetarian. I four local restaurants that were your chest, and it After the honestly believe that if I didn't tell There is one food that tears competing against simple home always reminds two and a half everyone that it was meatless, no mankind apart. The one food that kitchen cooks like myself. me of hugging a Of everything I hours of tasting one would have guessed. In fact, turns neighbors against neighbors, I had a rocky start. After stuffed animal. learned last weekend, finished, I waited I have fooled friends and family mother against daughter. That food warming up for an hour and a half, After only an nervously for the members. is chili. What is the perfect chili my chili was cold. And the other hour of the the most important results. In truth, I 2. I will wear an apron. I really made of? Some say beans; others recipes were full of oddities that competition, thing was that I love wasn't expecting don't have any educated reasoning say no beans at all. Some put in outshined my simple chili that had I collected 14 much. I ran out except that all the cooks that won pasta, others even add chocolate to just four different types of beans, business cards to cook for large of chili and was wore aprons. And mine has ruffles, their bowl of red. tomato paste and lots of chili and from women groups of people. instantly labeled which are always a plus. This past Saturday, I competed cumin. The cook next to me had who wanted my as inferior But out of everything that I in the Chicago Chili Cook-off. bacon and two different types of recipe. because my chili learned last weekend, the most Armed with two crock-pots full of sausage in his chili; another down But then terror struck. loves living animals. important was that I love to cook my Vegetarian Texas Style Chili, I the table used buffalo meat; and on I ran out of chili. It was a rookie I didn't place in the top three, for large groups of people. Nothing took on 14 other recipes that were the other side of me was another mistake. I have gone over the hours but I wasn't very surprised. The is more satisfying than hundreds of selected out of a flood of entries. vegetarian chili but with espresso in my head many times: Did I give winning chili was a pulled pork smiles from complete strangers. I walked into the competition beans and chocolate - it tasted just too large servings? Did someone chili which I was told tasted just like extremely nervous. Not only was as awkward as it sounds. take a large spoonful when I wasn't pulled pork - it was bean-less and The views expressed are those of I facing recipes that have won But my vegetarian chili held its looking? Did I really simply not not spicy at all. the writer and not necessarily those of this competition before, but I was own. There were some people eager have enough? I do know that I will definitely The Torch. Contact Lilia DelBosque also one of only two vegetarian to try it and were impressed with I had to stand for 45 minutes and try to compete next year. It might Oakey at [email protected]. M [events] Friday, January 29, 2010 | The Torch BECKERS BANTER Camps come to campus Jon Becker: Behind the music

based camps to camps about nature, it wasn't like that, and I got to find And we did. This led me to be a Union hosts fair education and confidence building. God at my own pace. And after natural fit to play the glockenspiel, Many of the camps spread out working with special needs people, jpnathon or "bell kit," in sixth grade band. highlighting geographically all over the United you find that it has changed your fcECKER. I was a percussionist who could Torch Features Editor States, as far as northern Wisconsin life." kind of read music. potential summer and California. All the camps While most of the summer From the fifth grade, I have I rented a glockenspiel from require students to work the entire camps are geared toward children, enjoyed playing music in some school and began practicing. Later job opportunities summer, although days off will be there are also camps specifically for way or another. on in my life, I got a marimba, mandatory, but the responsibility people of special needs, including Toward the end of my which is like a really big, more Natalie Zibolski of caring for children and teenagers adults as well as whole family fourth grade year, I went to an awesome xylophone, and returned Torch Staff Writer ranging from first to 12th grade, retreats. informational band meeting the bell kit to the school. 24/7, is an enormous undertaking. Wickstrom related how daunting where we got to try out different Through the years, I continued Often the stereotypical "We've found Valparaiso it is to work with people with special instruments to see what we might to play in school bands and version of summer camp includes students to be above average," said needs or disabilities, especially want to play in band the next expanded my percussion arsenal. "Kumbaya" around the campfire, Eric Kretzmann, recruiter for the when it comes to adults over age 50. year. My senior year in high school, oodles of s'mores and a lakeside Lutheran Outdoor Ministries in In the end though, she agreed it was If I remember correctly, I was I was section leader in our beach. However, the camp job fair Ohio. "It's a an experience pretty much bad at everything, school's Wind Symphony and that visited Valparaiso University's way to put she would never but I was least bad at percussion. also a member of our jazz band. campus this Tuesday revealed that your faith into ing the experience forget. So I went for it. Starting in fifth I stopped taking piano lessons in there is a lot more to the concept action and for of serving someone It may seem grade, I played snare drum in my about eighth grade. of summer camp than most people students to test one-on-one is humbling that working school's band. I had my very own I was also in a couple rock have ever realized. out a significant at a camp is snare drum, and I would practice bands. In my rebellious middle- In fact, working at a summer leadership role. and awesome. something it in my room, and it would annoy school years, I played in the camp is so much more than a It's a positive designated for everyone in the house. punk band "Watergate." We had summer job - it's an opportunity experience." Vicky Hathaway students with My mother would ask questions one original song, mainly played to meet hundreds of people, live Chip May, Graduate student majors related to like, "How do Blink-182 and in a friendly community and find director of education, social you even know Rancid covers out a great deal about oneself as a Camp Arcadia work ' or others you are playing Jr%ny rebellious and broke up person. in Michigan, agreed that students related specifically to working the right thing middle-school years, when we offended "Having the experience of who enjoy spreading faith and being with children. All of the recruiters, when all of the some parent with serving someone one-on-one is role models and leaders should however, strongly disagreed with notes sound the I played in the punk something that humbling and awesome," said definitely work at a camp. this reasoning, stating that students same?" band 'Watergate.' we posted on Vicky Hathaway, three-time "God doesn't speak any louder at of every major can be camp The family the Internet, or summer camp leader and graduate camp," May said. "It's just easier to counselors. was generally something like student in the clinical and mental hear him there." "There really is no need for a supportive, however, and that. It was fairly traumatic. health counseling program. "I did However, one doesn't have to be (certain) major," said recruiter Bret eventually I moved on to playing In high school, I was in a much horseback riding and cave climbing. openly religious to enjoy a faith- Bowers. "It's a chance to experience other percussion instruments: more chill band called "Klug's You take risks on things that you based camp, even as a leader. a group dynamic that you could Suspended cymbals, crash Mojo," and we later changed our wouldn't normally do." Experienced camp leader and not get anywhere else and the cymbals, triangle, etc. name to "The Mojo." We played The camp job fair on campus 2008 Valparaiso graduate Heather ability to learn reliability. I think About a year later my family shows about once a month and offered many different and unique Wickstrom said, "I was kind of working a summer camp should be moved houses, and we had room even recorded an ER camps to consider. This ranged expecting 'super-Christians,' you a requirement for college students." to place the piano that my mother After high school, my music from a large majority of Lutheran- know with sandals and Bibles. But While most of the camps offered a had always wanted to buy. The playing pretty much fell off the faith-based curriculum, many of the problem was that none of us knew planet. I would form an occasional other camps at the job fair focused how to play the piano. The solution band with my friend to play covers on returning to nature, special was my mother "encouraging" my at a show or jam out for a bit, but needs and creating a good learning younger siblings and me to take environment, including programs piano lessons. See Banter, page B5 offered by the Indiana Dunes Learning Center, Timber Ridge Camp in West Virginia, Wisconsin TECH TALK WITH JEFF Badger Camp and WeHaKee Camp for Girls in Wisconsin. Many of the nature-based camps, such as those Underwhelming iPad unveiled offered by the Dunes Learning Center, focus on getting back to the already in full force when Apple earth and learning about nature's jeff announced its MacBook line. reusable resources. LANGE Everyone under the age of Some camps, like WeHaKee Torch Staff Writer 30 owned cell phones when the Camp for Girls, focus especially iPhone was announced. These on building strong relationships I had five Web sites open and products had a very easy time and positive attitudes. Although I was refreshing them every 30 entering the market. technically a Catholic based seconds. Gizmodo, Engadget, The reason a tablet computer camp, the greater focus is on Facebook, Twitter and the stock has a small demographic is building confidence in these young price of Apple were my resources. because of the size, usability and women. Two friends and I were constantly shape. The size is in between "It's about developing a close, updating each other on the status a laptop and a cell phone. Cell strong team bond," said recruiter of the biggest technology event phones are useful because they fit Bob Braun. "If you like small and of January. The event was the in your pocket. Laptops are handy personal, it's worth considering." announcement of the iPad. because they fit in your backpack. Dan Lund / The Torch Although I do own an iPhone While it's true that netbooks Students look at the opportunities different summer camps have to offer Contact Natalie Zibolski at and MacBook Pro, I don't consider have seen success in the market, Tuesday in the Harre Union. [email protected]. myself an Apple fan by any means. they also have a built-in keyboard I also use Windows products on a and fold on themselves to protect regular basis. the screen. The iPad has neither of Springsteen, from page B4 is focusing on his book release. In to the political development of the Although I feel the iPad could those features. the meantime, he has been writing society locally," Masciotra said. be extremely useful, I think that it Imagine you had an iPad and to understand the message behind articles for Web sites such as The While his plans after acquiring is not going to you used it for the music. Of Springsteen's music Daily Yonder, which addresses his master's degree depend partially sell very well class. Sure, it he said, "It's like all art. It's not concerns of rural America, and on the success of "Working on The reason g^iough I feel the iPad would fit in a spectator sport; you have to PopMatters, a Dream," I make that your backpack, be willing to invest thought and dedicated to he hopes to judgment is could be extremely but there is energy of your own into wrestling discussion and Writing is my passion, continue writing based on a few useful, I think that it is nothing to with what the work is really about." criticism of pop and I'll always be and enjoying key points. not going to sell very protect the Due to its political message, culture. language. First, there screen from Masciotra claims his book offers He is also dedicated to it. "Writing is is no tablet well. breaking into a something even to readers who are working to set my passion and market right million pieces. not Bruce Springsteen fans. up a blog on David Masciotra I'll always be now. If you The iPad "Let's say that you knew his TrueSlant.com, dedicated to it, don't believe me, try to think will work with a separate keyboard, Graduate student music but weren't a fan, and you which features and that's what I of five people that use a tablet but who wants to bring a keyboard were forced to read this book writers on a want to do most," computer regularly. Compare that with them? I have room for it for some horrible reason. I think wide variety of topics, including Masciotra said. "And if I could to those who own cell phones or in my bag, but let's be realistic that you would get a lot out of it business, the environment and compliment that by being around laptops. here. because the music is only used as entertainment. words and being around writing While other Apple products Now, it should be said that the a predicate to get into these larger "Focusing more with the and reading, I would be very have been successful, there was iPad has an on-screen keyboard issues," Masciotra said. articles, I've been writing recently happy." a huge, global market for the that uses the same multi-touch While Masciotra has a few ideas on community and getting more Contact Emily Thompson at devices that they were producing for future projects, right now he involved locally and contributing [email protected]. at the time. The laptop market was See Tech, page B5 Friday, January 29, 2010 | The Torch [culture] B5

foC/i fia/4-*^ Time to get 'Lost' Exploring Chinese food Lilia DelBosque Oakey pleasant place. There is a fountain Ave. next to Town and Country, Torch Staff Writer in the entryway, lights across New Dragon is about a 10-minute wooden awnings that shadow the drive from campus. tables and Chinese music playing in New Dragon's menu is expansive Chinese food is a staple of every the background. and includes staples such as fried college student's diet. It is cheap, can Dynasty has many Chinese rice, which is $3.55 for a small with be ordered in take-out form and is food staples, such as fried rice, egg any meat, chop suey for $3.85 for a always made in bulk even when and rice noodles, different types of small, kung po chicken for $8.85, ordering the smallest size. chicken, stir-fry, as well as a sushi and General Tso's chicken for $8.35. I went into this week's Food bar. But there were also many New Dragon also has combination Fight not expecting much from non-Chinese plates, which Valparaiso's Chinese restaurants foods such as feature popular Valparaiso's quintessential pizza, garlic Contrary to its shady dishes served Midwestern small-town image just bread, cheese with fried rice MCT doesn't seem like a breeding ground exterior, Dynasty and broccoli, and an egg roll Fans debate if the final season of "Lost" will bring back many of the for fine Chinese establishments - but onion rings and Buffet is a very clean for only $5.95 to deceased or missing characters from the first season of the show. hoping to be pleasantly surprised. mostaccioli that and pleasant place. $6.55, depending My first stop was Dynasty Buffet, was labeled as on the item. which is across Lincolnway and is a mac and cheese. Regular meat heartbreak, therefore siding with quick walk from campus. Dynasty's The Chinese food was nothing to dishes, costing almost $9, seem 'Lost' recap in Kate (is Sawyer really that big of close proximity to campus and be desired, but Dynasty is what you pricey at first but come in massive a loss?). surplus of food has made the would expect it to be - lots of food portions that constitute two or three preparation of Jacob has been meddling with restaurant a student hotspot, but its for cheap. Before 4 p.m., Dynasty is meals. My vegetable chop suey was the fates of virtually everyone on many not-so-appetizing nicknames $6.84 per person. After 4 p.m., the good and was packed with a variety final season the island, proving not only that have kept me away from Dynasty price rises to about $9. of veggies, but it wasn't very saucy. he's a particularly powerful indi­ for four years. New Dragon, the second stop, The last stop was The China vidual, but also very sneaky. He's Contrary to its shady exterior, was a definite improvement from House, located down Lincolnway also got someone on the island Dynasty Buffet is a very clean and rphpf rpi Dynasty. Located at 1615 Calumet next to Lifestyles. The staff at SJ1QEMAKEB out to kill him, but we're not really The China House was the worst sure who it is, apart from Locke. aTorc h Staff Writer restaurant staff I have ever Speaking of Locke, is he dead encountered. When I went to pick "We have to go back." or alive? We've two options to up my order, they refused to let me And indeed we will - "Lost" choose from: He's either lying life­ The Contenders look at a "sit in" menu and said they fans will have the chance to revive less in a coffin or walking around, didn't have a carry out menu for me their addiction to J.J. Abrams' hit determined to assassinate Jacob, The China House to see. show on Feb. 2. therefore putting him in charge They also wouldn't tell me the At 8 p.m. Central Standard of the island and all its mysterious Address: 120 East individual prices of my order; I was Time, the survivors of Oceanic goings-on. This plan, by the way, is Lincolnway only allowed to know the total. My Flight 815 will return to ABC for a success, ending in Ben stabbing small order of shrimp fried rice and their final season, scheduled to Jacob, who lives long enough to Pros: Not too far from campus two spring rolls cost $8.75.1 caught air until May. For most dedicated mutter the words, "They're com­ a glance of the handwritten receipt fans (who can only be described ing," whatever that means. Cons: Unhelpful staff; before the waitress hid it from me as fanatics), four months is a tight In a tragic turn of events, Fara­ expensive; bad food and I am sure that my two spring schedule if Abrams is to answer all day is killed by his own mother in rolls cost $3.50 - they cost only $1.80 the questions raised throughout 1977, breaking the hearts of those at New Dragon. the show's first five seasons. who found his quirky personality The food was just as bad as the Nevertheless, season six's first a nice respite from the gloom and Dynasty Buffet service. My fried rice tasted sweet, episode, "LA X," will be the first of doom of Jack, Kate and Locke. which was unusual and difficult to a purported 18 episodes seeking to Many minor plotlines also re­ Address: 1805 Lincolnway, get used to. My spring rolls were unravel the twisted plotlines that ceived some closure in the season Suite 1 terrible. The outside also tasted resulted in one gigantic knot by five finale, but the biggest one was Pros: Clean; welMtecorated; sweet, and the vegetables tasted the end of season five. denied such treatment. The epi­ cheap; wide variety of food rotten. One can hardly even begin to sode ended with Juliet setting off There are a few places in summarize the series in print - the bomb, and fans everywhere Cons: Chinese food not very Valparaiso to satisfy your take­ that's what all the recaps you see were left groaning in despair, as good out fix. Even though The China prior to season premieres are for we've no idea if Jack's plan worked. House is nearby, I would avoid it - but I can state some basic facts, Did the explosion reset time to altogether. Dynasty Buffet is a good starting with where the series 2004, before the crash even hap­ New Dragon deal but does not have authentic stands at this point. pened, or was Jack just crazy? food and should only be visited So here's what we know: Jack, We're sure to get some answers Address: 1605 Calumet if you are hungry for more than Kate and Sayid have returned to in season six, hopefully revealing Avenue Chinese food. The best bet is New the island with some guidance the true nature of the island, Jacob Pros: Large portions; pretty good Dragon. With its large portions and provided by Daniel Faraday's and maybe even the smoke mon­ food consistently good food, it is worth mother, Eloise. They've also trav­ ster (or should I say, Cerberus). the drive. eled back in time to 1977 (the same A number of religious themes Cons: Far from campus; fairly The views expressed are those of year "Star Wars" was released). have arisen throughout the show expensive the writer and not necessarily those of This sets off a number of chain re­ - will Abrams expand on that idea The Torch. Contact Lilia DelBosque actions, including Kate shattering or throw us another curve ball Oakey at [email protected]. the somewhat awkward pairing of and leave us scratching our heads Sawyer and Juliet. in complete and utter confusion? Also, Jack suddenly buys into Either option is equally likely, Tech, from page B4 online to check your e-mail and regardless of any money or question the idea that the island is his des­ but ultimately it all boils down to update your Facebook with your about the ability of it. tiny and is on a sort of madman's this: Whatever happens, happens. style keyboard that any iPhone or latest pictures. The shape is awkward for typing mission to explode a hydrogen "Lost" fans are merely along for iPod Touch user is familiar with, but When the iPad was shown for and holding while walking. The bomb, with the hopes that doing the ride. the thumbs do the typing for those game playing, the graphics looked usability of the iPad is limited to so will reset time before the fateful The views expressed are those of devices. amazing for such a thin device. those who can see the screen and crash of Oceanic 815. Kate wants the writer and not necessarily those The iPad requires the use of your However, most action games are those who can type without tactical to stop him, Sawyer couldn't care of The Torch. Contact Rebecca other fingers. Until I try it for myself, going to be awkward to play. If you feedback. less and Juliet just wants to avoid Shoemaker at [email protected]. I can only imagine the typo turmoil needed both hands While the that would unleash once I start for the controls, you price seems low, typing on the iPad. would likely need While the product is the base memory Banter, from page B4 at last week's Battle of the Bands. A case for the iPad will be a must to set the iPad on ambitious, I think it is only 16GB, so I As I was feeling great about for anyone who will use it for more your lap or use the couldn't imagine that was about it. myself and my return to musical than five minutes. special case to hold will flop. only having that The only musical purchase life, I thought things couldn't Here are a few scenarios that it up. little ; storage I've made since graduating high get any better. And then, out of would be perfect for the iPad. You're Sure, driving space. The iPad is school was a djembe and a $20 nowhere, I saw a tiny blue case: going on a long trip and need a map. games or board games will be better available up to 64GB, but those can glockenspiel. I have become My glockenspiel, the prodigal The iPad has a built in GPS and because of the larger screen, but most cost anywhere from $699 to $829. rather attached to these, my last son, had been hiding in my house compass, has Google Maps, is easily games will have to be rethought. I In the end, I didn't have that tie to a former musical life. the whole time. read from the driver's seat, holds a commend Apple for making a tablet sense of "Wow!" like I did after the Before the summer, I lost my I rejoiced. The musical Jon nice charge and can entertain the that plays games well, and it can only iPhone launch. While the product is glockenspiel in the tragic event Becker has returned. kids when you're stuck in traffic. help them control the mobile device ambitious, I think it will flop. of moving out of my house. This The views expressed are those Another scenario that would market. The views expressed are those of was devastating. of the writer and not necessarily showcase the iPad would be if you After the drama and suspense of the writer and not necessarily those Fast forward to this week: I those of The Torch. Contact were on a long trip and wanted the announcement, I quickly realized of The Torch. Contact Jeff Lange at just played a real-live drum set Jonathon Becker at torch@valpo. to read a book, watch a movie, go that some people would buy the iPad [email protected]. in a real life band, The Good Life, edu. B6 [classifieds] The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010

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Rather than just stick­ The Still Life rippled through the crowd. the crowd and the judges. ing to violin loops, he has expanded The judges chose the seven fi­ "The music is folk-inspired, under own name to include woodwind and brass in­ among winners nalists Saturday afternoon: Wil­ drawing from many different in­ struments, as well as drums. loughby Sprig, Screams of Winter, fluences in high school," Nicholas Chris Zaplatosch It often sounds like these are Eric Koestner Rosebud, Tripolar, The Glory Hal­ Burrus said. "We got into progres­ Torch Staff Writer short pieces of orchestral work that Torch Staff Writer lelujah, Angels Don't Lie and The sive rock and Jethro Tull, interna­ you'd be more likely to hear in a Still Life. tional music. We found ideas from If I were to say "Final Fantasy," concert hall rather than on an iPod, From the long-haired, heavy Angels Don't Lie appealed to the books . . . William Blake, by his what would be the first thing you but there's a certain hint of experi­ metal-inspired performances to crowd as they played dueling gui­ poetry." would think of? mentation that draws you in. Also, harmonies as smooth as Simon tar solos and a cover of the Green Jeremy Caywood, Laura Hewitt For many, the answer wouid the fact that most songs stick to a and Garfunkel, this year's Battle of Day song "Basketcase." The band and Paul Walter of The Still Life probably be the popular video game very normal average of four min­ the Bands hosted an array of musi­ members were Doug Wilburn, came in second place. They have franchise of the same name. Such is utes long keeps them from becom­ cal talent. Despite the variety, the Nick Cross, Jake been playing to­ Owen Pallett's problem. ing boring or sounding too much top three spots in the competition Cross and Joe gether for about For at least five years now, Pal- like a 20-minute orchestral work. were awarded to acoustic groups, Estep, all from in all my four years three years, with lett has been creating music under There's some kind of consistency all with members who played mul­ Chesterton. The at the Battle of the Simon and Gar­ the name Final Fantasy. Pallet said, in lyrics, too. You wouldn't know tiple, often non-traditional instru­ energetic four­ funkel, Bright "I named the band right off that this is ments. some won the Bands, this was the Eyes, Nickel Final Fantasy as the a concept album, ac­ Organized by Valparaiso Uni­ audience's popu­ best. Creek and Bob experience - and the tually. It's not some­ versity's Music Enterprise Student lar votejSaturday Dylan as musi­ tone of the material thing like The De- Association, "Battle of the Bands evening. Joe Flatt cal influences. - was reminiscent of cemberists' "Hazards 2010" hosted 16 bands Jan. 22 for In the first out The band cited the hours and hours I of Love" that argu­ MESA President the preliminary round of the com­ of the top three a unique way of had spent as an ado­ ably went too far for petition. spots were Wil­ knowing when lescent playing those many people. Songs Each of the bands' goal was to loughby Sprig, a two-man band of the music is just right. epic JRPGs." are apparently about be voted in by the three judges - juniors Christopher and Nicholas "Balance off each other, a spark To help distin­ a farmer named Lew­ professionals in the music indus­ Burrus. The duo brought their folk is in a world named from within," Caywood said. guish himself from Photo Provided try - to play a second round. Seven music and small talk on stage. "When it's a spark inside you, it's the video game series, Spectrum as he be­ finalists moved on to play Saturday This very original folk-inspired just right. Look at what we have: A as well as to avoid confusion and comes aware of his creator, which night, and eventually three were twosome played an acoustic set complete circle." potential lawsuits, Pallett decided is Pallett. voted the best of the pack. with a vintage European flavor to Original duo Rosebud took to drop the Final Fantasy name and As odd, exhausting or annoying Friday night began with The a mesmerized audience. The song third place in the event. Sis­ release his newest record, "Heart­ as that may seem, it really works Andrew Davis Band, a rock and "Preposterous Nalitock" infused ters Ciara Reyes, a junior, and land," under his own name. just fine. It would take many, many blues band and ended with Screams the Burrus brothers' deep voices Jazmine Reyes, a freshman, have Pallett is a talented violinist and listens to try to get at what Pallett of Winter, a hard rock heavy metal and sweet sounds of strings and a been taking the stage together singer whose work stretches far be­ is trying to describe here, and you for about a year and a half. Ciara yond his own band. Most notably, can actually even listen to it without has been performing for eight he's composed for and played with paying any attention to the story. years as recording artist Ciara the greatly popular Arcade Fire, but As the character comes to terms Carmel. he's also done collaborative work with different themes of the human "We were influenced by mul­ with Mika, Mountain Goats, Stars condition, of which there are many, tiple genres; we have an eclectic and Grizzly Bear. there are moving instances that lis­ style," said Jazmine Reyes. "We like You might expect that with so teners can relate to, such as the rep­ to include unique -instruments like many projects going on at once, Pal­ etition of."I'm never.gijxnna give it to the ukulele, melodica, the Cajon lett's solo work would be neglected you" on the song "Lewis Takes Off and the harmonica." and lacking. You'd be wrong. His Shirt." Members of MESA were Along with the name change, Coming from a guy who used pleased with the event's turnout. Pallett seems to have ushered in a to make simple music titled from a "In all my four years at the new confidence. Pitchfork states it video game series, this is truly fan­ Battle of the Bands, this was the well by saying, "Stepping out under tastic work. It's leaps and bounds best," MESA president Joe Flatt, his own name feels like an acknowl­ better than his past albums and is said. "A big thanks to all the help­ edgement of this, as if Pallett's ready a deep work that rewards with mul­ ers and the bands for making this to cast aside the modesty of having tiple listens. possible." a project' - 'it's just this thing I've The views expressed are those of been working on - and present the writer and not necessarily those Dan Lund / The Torch Contact Eric Koestner at torch@ himself, fully upright, as an artist." of The Torch. Contact Chris Zaplato­ Nicholas and Christopher Burrus impress at Battle of the Bands last weekend. valpo.edu. Pallett really pulls out the stops sch at [email protected].

TYLER'S in shiny boxes and gather several lecture: "Shiny Rocks and Doodles on the globe, I leapt at the chance tried to balance a music education TRAVELS thousand of them up in one place. are Okay, but What's Up with the to take on a few more showcases major's schedule, hoping we would No amount of travelling in Eu­ Egyptian Dead People?"), so we had of old things. I went along with a have better luck the next day. rope would be complete, then, field trips to museums that counted small group of the ValpOSSE plan­ In short: We didn't. We even Putting the work without a few visits to museums. It as days of class. It seemed the per­ ning to see several museums in one went to the kid-friendly Museum is the only chance one may get to see fect way to see old things. I could weekend trip. The plan was to head of Science and we were still ex­ in works ofarf great art (art you have heard of be­ save money, get cultured and have to Hyde Park in London, a small hausted. We weren't even looking fore and that you want to brag about less school all at once. section of the city that had at least at old things that were that old, but seeing to your friends), and it is one I was not disappointed. My fel­ twice as many museums as Cam­ we couldn't cover the five floors of the best ways to learn about his­ low members of the ValpOSSE (Val­ bridge, and to visit five of them over and countless exhibits like we had tory without having to do any work paraiso Overseas Students Study­ the course of two days. planned. I did, however, learn sn besides going on vacation. ing in England) and I first went to We all learned that weekend that important fact from this museum, Torch Staff Writer Of course, I thought of all this Kettle's Yard, a our brains, much declared on the wall of a kid's ex­ before I set foot on tea-drinking, back-alley muse­ like those of teen­ hibit on the moon landing - "Space Europe is old. People have lived queen-loving soil, so I had already um set up inside I also learned that age American ... is Dangerous!" there for a long time. The seat of intended to see a few museums be­ someone's house the history-oriented high school stu­ More seriously, I learned a few Western power has been there for a fore I got here. However, distance al­ that lost brag- dents, can only lessons about the way museums long time. Heck, it's been old for a lowed me to set unrealistic of goals, gability points lobe of my brain is take so much. and their old things should be long time. and I found no problem fantasizing for its small size still only as mature We ended up treated. As an English curator of Such things are difficult to ap­ about my trips to the National Gal­ and modern art as I was in the 11th going to only two old once said, it would be better to preciate from across the Atlantic; lery, the Tate Modern, the Louvre (nobody knows museums that spend 10 minutes looking at one America's relatively short history and the Prado until I bought my any of the art­ grade. weekend. The thing in a museum instead of try­ can still fill years of secondary first train ticket to London. ists) but regained Victoria and Al­ ing to see the entire museum in two school education if we let it (and Suddenly, I discovered that trav­ them with the bert Museum was hours. I also learned that the histo­ boy, do we let it), so I imagine that el may, in fact, cost money. I also seemingly innocent objects placed our first stop, and it was absolutely ry-oriented lobe of my brain is still if most teenage American brains would discover that some of these around the artwork that made these enormous. It had as many rooms as only as mature as I was in the nth received a syllabus covering history places may, in fact, not be in Eng­ not-old things more "artsy." Hyde Park had museums. My small grade. at least five times as lengthy, they land. We later trekked over to the ValpOSSE group and I saw Greek I am still determined to chal­ would simply shut down. I knew I would have to find a Fitzwilliam Museum, a monstrous­ sculpture, a stained glass window lenge the museum circuit again. However, if you travel to Europe, way to cope. Fortunately, I am liv­ ly museum-y museum filled with showing history's cleanest behead­ After all, there are still far too many you are likely going because you ing in Cambridge, a large town that marble, Greek columns and paint­ ing, bronze statues, woodwork, old things left to see, and I don't want to see old things. Americans, is old, academic and European, so ings of dead aristocrats. Easy brag- columns ripped right out of some have enough braggability points yet like anybody else, love history, age that means it has as many museums gability points there. I felt like I was ancient civilization's backyard, jew­ to get away with wearing a beret in and the authority that comes with as a similarly-sized American town on my way to buying my right to elry, computerized artwork, three public. it. Europeans know this and, given would have gas stations (about one wear a monocle or to walk with a floors and several bathrooms, but The views expressed are those of that one of their greatest natural hundred). cane. there was far too much to cover. the writer and not necessarily those resources is their elderliness, they Also fortunately, I am taking a Feeling warmed up and ready We went back to our hostel as of The Torch. Contact Tyler Gegg at also know how to place old things course on art and museums (next to take on any overgrown gallery mentally exhausted as if we had [email protected]. The Torch | Friday, January 29, 2010 B8

"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what a&e you give." - Winston Churchill CHARITABLE VOICES just over an hour. A cappella groups In addition to raising money for a just cause, the concert also rally to raise funds, managed to entertain - contain­ ing several dance numbers and awareness of Haiti one particularly noteworthy coffee jingle. earthquake victims The all-male VuVox sang four songs in total, with the simple ar­ Julia Trowbridge rangement of "The Man Who Can't Torch Staff Writer Be Moved" by The Script standing out as an audience favorite. While In a world where it seems a dif­ the song's lyrics are really talk­ ferent disaster is in the headlines ing about a woman, the sentiment each day, some might think that the seemed fitting of the humanitarian public at large has grown indiffer­ purpose. ent to worldwide crises. This is not The second group, the co-ed so for the a cappella groups of Val­ Sweet Wine, added a little spice paraiso University, however. to the concert by accompanying After hearing about the 7.0 themselves with guitars and tam­ earthquake Haiti suffered on Jan. 12 bourine. Third was the Acabellas, (the death toll of which is expected who sang in fitting red, white and to exceed 200,000 people), four blue outfits. Their first song was a cappella groups - VuVox, Sweet an arrangement of Colbie Caillat's Wine, the Acabellas and Hooked "Bubbly," but the all-female group on Tonics - decided to hold a Haiti also impressed with an improvised Benefit Concert in cooperation voice/guitar solo. with VU's Social Action Leadership The last act of the night was VU's Brit Wagoner / The Torch Team and donate 100 percent of newest a cappella group, Hooked on Valparaiso University's newest a cappella group, Hooked on Tonics, takes the stage in the Harre Union Cafe. the donations gathered to the relief Tonics. They started off with a thor­ effort. oughly entertaining arrangement of "The purpose of having this con­ "Put Your Records On" by Corinne great way to bring people together cert was to really Bailey Rae, fea­ and in this case gave SALT an op­ promote aware­ turing a solo from portunity to share what an impact ness of what is It was awesome freshman Lena Valpo as a campus can make." happening in Walsh. Hooked The Haiti Benefit Concert pro­ Haiti and then that all four singing on Tonics ended vided lots of laughs and toe-tapping raise some money groups were able to their set and the but also served to communicate the to ease the suffer­ share their talents in concert with a reality of the crisis in Haiti to VU ing of those that playful arrange­ students. have been affect­ a collaborative way. ment of The Hush "I do think that the concert was ed," said VuVox Sound's "We In­ successful in raising awareness," member Justin Hannah Bloomquist tertwined." Thompson-Gee said. "I think that Thompson-Gee. Freshman Overall students were surprised to find "Money is the ,the Haiti Ben­ something of this caliber organized number one item efit Concert in such a short amount of time. The that any relief organization needs." was an entertaining and fitting concert's partnership with SALT re­ He added, "With money the way to raise money for a worthy ally helped to bring more awareness organization can assess what the cause. to the camps." needs of the Haitians are and use "The concert was a really unique For more information on the the money to buy what is neces­ way to raise both awareness and earthquake or how to donate, con­ sary." money for the current disaster tact SALT in the Office of the Cha­ The concert raised just under in Haiti," said freshman Hannah pel of the Resurrection, or go online $850 over the course of one night, Bloomquist, member of the Aca­ to unicef.org and redcross.org. which according to unicef.org bellas. "It was awesome that all VU students can also donate $1 means 425 collapsible water bottles, four singing groups were able to each time they use their meal card four tents, 70,666 water purifica­ share their talents in a collaborative at Grinders. Brit Wagoner / The Torch tion tablets and 280 blankets - not way." Contact Julia Trowbridge at Katie Harris sings with the Acabellas during the Haiti Benefit Concert last week­ bad for a single concert that lasted She added, "Overall, singing is a torch@valpo. edu. end. The event raised just under $850 for relief and supplies. Writer balances introspection with wit

and "Iconography: A Writer's Medi­ tiae most people dismiss as unin­ Northern Indiana, whose landscape she treats her audience warmly Creative nonfiction tation" - as well as various collected teresting. She has found beauty in she hopes to explore in forthcom­ and her own accomplishments short fiction. She has been lauded it since she started writing in grade ing work. bashfully. author reads from with the Flannery O'Connor Award school. As for being an Indiana writer, "Throughout college I thought for Short Fiction and the Richard "Writing makes you more alive Neville said that there is an expe­ I was going to be a musician," collection of stories Sullivan Prize. to things," she rience unique to she said, referring to her own Her expertise was welcomed said. "(It) makes Indiana but one experience as a student, "but observing Indiana by an upper-level creative writ­ you notice things, Writing makes you that resonates then I found that I wasn't really ing class where she spoke about really look at with the ru­ good." more alive to things. Becky Christopher "Iconography: A Writer's Medita­ things, even if you ral Midwestern Neville's observation-based Torch Staff Writer tion" and the importance of care­ don't want to." (It) makes you notice community as a writing, contextualizing self-reflec­ ful observation in introspective At Wordfest, things, really look at whole. tion constantly with her surround­ Valparaiso University's depart­ writing. she read aloud She compared ings, can be impenetrably thick, ment of English continued to cele­ "Most people don't really notice from some of things, even if you this shared sense but is balanced with her charm­ brate Indiana writers during Word- things," she said, while leading the her short nonfic­ don't want to. to the experience ing, unpretentious wit. The experi­ fest this week, with guest nonfiction class in an observation exercise in tion - a collection of the English ence of her reading was a welcome writer Susan Neville. the classroom. She remarked on the of observations Susan Neville naturalist Thomas one in the English department's Wordfest. Currently teaching at Butler symmetry and rareness of seem­ about factories Nonfiction Writer Hardy: Lives that University, Neville is a lifelong Indi­ ingly common details. across Indi­ are "Agricultural, The next Wordfest event will ana native and revels in detailed and Neville's work reflects that she ana - and a lon­ rural," where wit is be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. contemplative exploration of her observes her own surroundings ger work-in-progress about "self-effacing." 11, featuring poet Cornelius experiences. voraciously. She still lives in the In­ a suburban animal control Her performance at Wordfest, Eady, in the Refectory of Mueller She is the author of four works dianapolis neighborhood where she man. charming and personable, was a Hall. - "Indiana Winter," "Fabrication: grew up and finds fascination and Neville, whose grandmother was precise reference point to what Essays on Making Things and Mak­ inspiration in it still, with wonder­ a VU alumna, was excited to see the she described. Though Neville is Contact Becky Christopher at ing Meaning," "Twilight in Arcadia" ment about the suburban minu­ campus and experience more of a celebrated and informed writer, [email protected].