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According to the American Cancer Society, 46 million adults smoke, 90 percent of whom began smoking at or before the age of 19.
Packaging won’t deter smoker While the government rallies for gruesome images on cigarette packaging, one student claims this new campaign against smoking won’t cause him to kick the habit As long as there are cigarettes, cigarette smokers will be treated at a level on par with, if not worse than, drug dealers. From the looks I get from parents on the street when I light up, you’d think I was wearDENNISON ing a trench coat and offering candy SLEEPER to their kid. In the past 10 years, the government has banned indoor smoking, increased the prices, increased the taxes and is now attempting to change the packaging. Ever see the show “Mad Men”? The main characters are the epitome of a man for the ’60s : salesmen who chain smoke like they’ve got beef with their lungs. Cigarettes were seen as an everyday necessity; nobody was judged for smoking. But since then cigarettes and their buyers have been vilified, and are now faced with seeing images of death and disease every time they want a smoke. On Nov. 10, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) announced that it wants And as a smoker I have to say, to begin updating the warning America should love us. labels of cigarettes. Every day we pay too much Graphic pictures of dead money for a product that generbodies, coffins, diseased lungs ates billions for the economy, and mouths and other disturbing plus the jobs opened for health images would be displayed with care, and we can’t even smoke new warnings. The plan would inside. take effect in 2012. Smokers do it because cigaObviously, cigarettes are terrettes are a vice for them; everyrible for you. They can kill you one has theirs. Customers don’t if you use them, they cost a lot want pictures of obesity on their of money, a lot highly addicof people hate tive and deadly the scent, they fast food, and “And as a smoker I kill your lungs, I don’t like it etc etc. But you have to say, America when drunken know this if you should love us. Every frat boys start don’t smoke, high-fiving too day we pay too much and you know loudly at a bar, this if you do I have to money for a product that but smoke. smoke outside, generates billions for the and they can Since the fifth grade when knock wings economy.” I was first inover while troduced to the watching ESPN highly unsuccomfortably incessful Drug side. Except my Abuse Resistance Education cigarette lasts five minutes, and I (D.A.R.E.) program, I’ve known have to watch you be fat and/or that cigarettes are terrible, and I drunk for much longer. never intended to smoke. Harlan Page, freshman In fact, I’m still surprised I athletic training major and a do. But life has funny ways of non-smoker, thinks that the new working out and now I smoke. campaign will be effective.
“It could work because people don’t want to pay for a picture of a dead guy on the pack,” he said. But smokers, like undecided major Andrew Moore, think it is useless. “If you don’t know that smoking is bad for you by the time that you’re 18, then you’re dumb and have other problems.” The pictures are aimed at giving smokers a visual daily reminder of the effects of smoking. The U.S. has been criticized before for not having more graphic warnings like other European countries, and researchers believe that pictures are more effective for deterring young smokers than just text. I know the effects of smoking. Everyone I know who smokes does, too. Eventually I hope to quit, and I’d like to think that I can. But until then, if I’m going to pay $7 to inhale deadly chemicals, at least let me do it without seeing some of the morgues’ best highlights. t&c DENNISON SLEEPER IS A FRESHMAN ENGLISH MAJOR AND IS A CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR THE
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Hiring is under way for the replacement of Otterbein’s provost BY LINDSEY HOBBS ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Before the end of the academic year, there will be a vacancy in the Otterbein administration. Otterbein Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Abiodun Goke-Pariola said in an e-mail over break that he has “accepted the position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina, effective late spring 2011.” In light of this announcement, Otterbein has hired Larry Christman, a senior consultant for the higher education search council RH Perry & Associates to find a new provost for Otterbein when Goke-Pariola leaves for North Carolina. According to Christman, he has received “tremendous feedback” from faculty and students during small-group forums held during his two visits to campus, the most recent on Jan. 4. Christman said that his visits to campus were meant to be
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used as discussion forums to see what the Otterbein community is looking for in the next provost. In conjunction with Christman’s efforts, Otterbein assembled a search committee, which includes two students, to develop an idea of what they will be looking for in candidates.
“We’re really looking for someone who can come in and change with Otterbein’s changing.” Chelsea Jenney junior, molecular biology One of the search committee members, junior molecular biology major Chelsea Jenney, said, “There’s so much that goes into searching for one (a candidate), let alone finding one.” Rich Rice, junior international studies major and the other
student on the committee, said that he is specifically looking for a candidate who is “visible on campus for the students and someone who is an advocate for the students.” According to Jenney, the committee’s focus is on finding a candidate who is adaptable. “Sometimes people come in and interview and have their own plan,” she said. “We’re really looking for someone who can come in and change with Otterbein’s changing.” During the final open forum on Jan. 4 the topic of Otterbein’s current changes and growth brought about some opposition regarding whether or not the changes are for the best. Devin Fraze, junior secondary math education major, said Otterbein needs to stick to its liberal arts roots instead of branching into more professional programs. “Job training can be given anywhere you go, but college is more experience of growth as a human being, at least in undergraduate degrees,” Fraze said. t&c
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Editor’s Note
Week 10 of last quarter, the Tan & Cardinal ran “At risk: The land next to the Center for Equine Studies ‘could be harmful,’ and a settlement regarding clean-up costs is still in the works.” The printed story reported that one of the two parcels of the land had “not been cleaned since it was the home of Kilgore Manufacturing’s operations.” The land has not been approved for use (“cleaned”), but work has been done on the property. According to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, “In 1962, the Ammunition and Supply Procurement Agency from Joliet, Ill. supervised a cleanup at the site where buried materials, approximately 120 tons of explosives and flares, were removed and destroyed on site. In 1985, an Otterbein board member discovered about 70 flare canisters at the site. These were taken by the Ohio Fire Marshal to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB) for disposal. In 1986, additional canisters were found and removed by WrightPatterson AFB.” Jennifer Pearce was incorrectly associated with Brown & Caldwell, an environmental consulting firm. Pearce is executive director of Marketing & Communications for Otterbein. The story also reported that both parties involved in Otterbein College v. United States of America, et al., must file a Joint Status Report regarding settlement negotiations by February 2011. A report was due to the United States District Court for the Southern District Court of Ohio at the end of November 2010.
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The parties in the ongoing case, Otterbein College v. United States of America, et al., have requested proceedings to continue to be stayed. Further, the parties intend to file a status report regarding the progress of settlement discussions, including a proposal for further proceedings within the end of this month.
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According to the WPD and the Otterbein Security Log, the following has been reported from Nov. 19 through Dec. 31.
1. 11/19 A green banner was stolen from outside the Otterbein University Bookstore between 5-8 p.m. The banner, donning the words, “The most cash for books,” was hanging on the outside of the store’s front window. The store manager said the banner cost approximately $50.
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2. 11/20 A Westerville police officer responded to a call from Otterbein Security at 12:40 a.m. about students smoking marijuana in Engle Hall. After the officer informed the students that they could be searched, one student pulled a small bag of marijuana and a package of cigar wrappers from the student’s jacket. Inside the package was a partially-smoked blunt. Only the student who produced the marijuana was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and drug abuse through Westerville Mayor’s Court.
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The Five Cardinal Experiences guide students toward successful futures after college.
A vision for Otterbein More ideas for a new and improved Otterbein are in the works BY KAITY VORBROKER AND FALLON FORBUSH Assistant Business Manager and Contributing Writer
Three schools, a university, semesters — undeniably the old Otterbein doesn’t exist. That was all in the plan. “To assure future success … continuous planning and adjustments to changing environments are needed,” reads the introduction to Otterbein’s Strategic Plan, written in 2007. Otterbein’s vision for its students is to transform the school into a “nationally recognized comprehensive liberal arts college whose hallmarks are: graduates who are knowledgeable, intellectually curious, ethically driven, who can and will act with a global understanding informed by a commitment to social justice to improve the world; and who are empowered to accept personal responsibility for learning and for planning their lives holistically as global citizens.”
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Otterbein is well on its way according to its peers. Otterbein University premiered at No. 7 on U.S. News & World Report’s “Up-andComers” list, which recognizes institutions that have recently made the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus or facilities, as determined by their peer institutions. Aside from changing the hierarchy, structure and name of the institution, Otterbein and its higher-ups have been working on other changes to meet their vision: the “Five Cards.” The Five Cardinal Experiences consist of Community Engagement, Global and Intercultural Engagement, Undergraduate Research and Creative Work, Internships and Professional Experience and Leadership and Citizenship. Otterbein was one of six institutions chosen to be awarded a $100,000 grant from the Association of American
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Check out www.otterbein360.com on Friday for an interview with Otterbein University President Kathy Krendl about her opinion on the strategic plan and the Five Cardinal Experiences.
Colleges and Universities in order to bring the “Five Cards” to life. Amy Jessen-Marshall, associate vice president of Academic Affairs and dean of College Programs, and Melissa Gilbert, director of the Center for Community Engagement (CCE), will spend the next two years working toward organizing “Card-tables” to discuss the experiences with the community with a goal to “see the Five Cardinal Experience opportunities as curriculum.” The major question most students are asking is when the Five Cardinal Experiences are going to become a graduation requirement. “Never say never, but, never,” Gilbert said. There are currently no plans to make the Five Cardinal Experiences a graduation requirement, but things could change in the future. According to Jessen-Marshall and Gilbert, the Five Cardinal Experiences will not replace the Integrative Studies (INST) Program and Senior Year Experience (SYE); rather, the INST and SYE programs will begin to incorporate the Five Cardinal Experiences in their curriculum. t&c
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Singing comedian to visit Otterbein The past few years have definitely been exciting for musician/comedian Evan Wecksell. He was named Hot Comedian for 2009 by Campus Activities Magazine, performed on “America’s Got Talent” and participated in VH1’s “I Love the ’70s: Volume 2,” “I Love the ’80s 3-D” and “I Love Toys.” Currently, his comedic journey has him traveling throughout the country, making stops at college campuses including Otterbein.
Your online biography compares you to Adam Sandler and Stephen Lynch. Do you see the comparison yourself? When I tell people about my act, that gives them a reality of who I am, because those people are out there. My main influence was actually Jon Bon Jovi. I’m a huge Bon Jovi fan. That’s how I started playing guitar, and the comedy thing didn’t happen until a few years after. I kind of wanted to be a funny Bon Jovi. You were into sports marketing before comedy. How did you end up becoming a comedian? I really didn’t know where my life was going after college. I just finished an internship with the National Hockey League in New York City. At NYU, I took a sports marketing seminar and for my final presentation, I talked about the WNBA and I was really funny about it, using hand puppets and all these silly things. The professor liked the presentation, but he really thought that I should be on stage. I love comedy and every club anywhere has a class, so I took a class at a club on the Upper East Side to learn stand-up itself. It taught me things that I still use today, even though I play more songs. You do parodies of “bad music”? I did a parody of Bowling for Soup’s “1985,” and I actually just finished a
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parody of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” just because they’re on tour again and I kind of just wanted to have some fun with it. What I really love doing recently is bringing people on stage and making the show personal.
You’ve done work for VH1 with “I Love the ’70s: Volume 2” and “I Love the ’80s 3-D.” What was that like? It was cool, and it was weird how I actually got the job at VH1. I was actually at a job for the New York City Marathon, and I was in the fundraising branch and all the people were helping us fundraise. And this one lady from VH1 found out I was a comic. Sometimes they spoon-feed you what you need to say, and depending on when you go in, they just need certain things. You’re pretty much answering questions from a producer, and there’s a green screen behind you. Is it intimidating knowing that you’re going to have a large audience through TV or a live performance? Well, TV’s easy because you write down your thing and then you hand it to the editors. I guess a lot more can go wrong with a live performance. I used to do crazy things during my live performance, whether it was chasing after students who left during my show, or calling people silly things. Just being like a kid. I get nervous when it’s a little more than what I’m used to, like when I did “America’s Got Talent” a year and a half ago. Do you think that a sense of humor helps relieve the stress of performing? Yeah, I like to interact. I don’t want to just go up there with my script. I know what songs I’ll do, but I want to keep it conversational. I like to have fun with it. It’s just about being topical and making it personal so that you kids know what I’m talking about. I have to stay current. I’m probably ... 10 years older than all of you guys, but I still know about “Jersey Shore” and Four Loko and all of that stuff. What is your best performing experience? I think the best was Missouri State because it was the first time that I performed in front of about 650 people. It was really packed. It just played really well and I guess they really liked me.
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And worst? I got kicked off the stage once. I did a show for North Dakota State, and it was really unfortunate because I know that there was something in the contract about an obscenity law. Like, in the state of North Dakota, you can’t curse and you can’t reference sex. They wanted PG and I may have brought PG-13. Can you describe your college experience? I went to Tufts University, near Boston. I ran on the cross country track team, and in my sophomore year, I pledged to a fraternity because I was injured. I didn’t expect to pledge, but I knew some of the guys. It was interesting. It gave me another group to be a part of. And I think that Greek life helped my career more than anything.
How do you develop your jokes? It could happen at any time, anywhere. It can be externally motivated. I don’t really write from my soul, per se. One time, a person asked me if I had a song about “Jersey Shore,” and I said yes but I didn’t. So I had to write a song that night about how the “Jersey Shore” was so bad that I killed my grandpa. I saw the Backstreet Boys at the American Music Awards, and I wanted to write a song about them. Instead of “I Want It That Way,” it’s “We Need the Money.” Any advice for current college students? A career is just a job. Your first one will not be your last. If you have that itch to do something that will shake people up a little bit, you should do it before you get some cortisone cream for your itch. t&c
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WHAT CHILDHOOD TOY DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD? “My stuffed dog called Lucky. I couldn’t have pets so I really liked this stuffed dog.” –Faith Efetevbia freshman international studies
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Freshman learns the sentimental value of her childhood memories and most importantly, High Stepper, the electronic walking horse made for Barbie. After the final load of items was carried downstairs, I decided to reward myself with a trip to the movies with a group of friends. The selected movie was, of course, “Toy Story 3,” which addressed the fate of old toys as their owner departed for college, on a path toward adulthood. How appropriate. Little did that I know that during my absence, my wonderful, well-intentioned mother had mistakenly carted off nearly all of my childhood toys to the local Goodwill. When I returned home to find the area that had been devoted to sorting items entirely empty, I was struck with terror. Felicity and High Stepper and even Robbie the little yellow money-eating robot bank were doomed to spend the rest of their inanimate lives with small children with sticky hands tearing off their limbs without a single thought as to the actual sentimental value that they had in their previous life at the Paulsen home. In an effort to undo her mistake, my mom took me to Goodwill the next day at the crack of dawn so that we could search through the latest batch of donated goods before they reached the shelves. We managed to uncover a few books and Robbie the Robot, but to my dismay, that was all there was to be found.
For a while, my devoted mother religiously scoured the shelves of that Goodwill in search of High Stepper and even posted a reward for her return. I eventually came to terms with the loss of some of my most-prized childhood possessions by hoping that they could bring more joy to a new child than they could have brought to me by sitting in my attic. Things changed this past Christmas when I received a 1994 edition of High Stepper. It was not mine, but opening it for the first time conjured up the same feeling that I had when I opened my original High Stepper. It even made the same annoying mechanical sound as it walked. The new High Stepper is certainly no replacement for the old one, but it’s more of a tribute to all of the good times that I had shared with the original. More importantly, it’s a reminder that the same kid who nearly wet her pants seeing that plastic horse for the first time still lies deep within me somewhere. Knowing that part of my identity still lingers allowed me to embrace the person that I have come to be and the changes that lie ahead of me. So I am a reformed pack rat. Not so much by my own choice as that of the universe, but nonetheless, I’ve shed a bad habit. t&c LINDSAY PAULSEN IS A FRESHMAN JOURNALISM AND EQUINE BUSINESS AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT MAJOR AND IS A STAFF WRITER FOR THE
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Kristi Kotterman wasn’t going to lose another heartbreaker. Days after being announced Otterbein’s athlete of the week, the senior guard delivered in what could be remembered as the turning point of the team’s season. Her game high 27 points and late-action heroics helped the Lady Cards take down Capital 88-81 in overtime last night, giving the team its first conference win of the season. “I didn’t even think about (the award), winning is the most important thing … this win against our rivals will definitely boost our confidence,” Kotterman said.
The Cardinals, (5-8, 1-5 OAC) found themselves down two with four seconds left in regulation when Kotterman took an inbounds pass at half court. “When I got it I thought, ‘I’m going to the hole,’” Kotterman said. Fighting through a foul, she got a layup to fall with one second left. The game was sent to overtime after Kotterman missed her free throw, but she quickly redeemed herself, hitting a three on the team’s first possession in OT. From there, Otterbein outlasted Capital largely thanks to Kotterman and junior guard Shea McCoy who scored nine of her 23 points in overtime. Otterbein outplayed Capital in the first half, but poor transition defense kept the Crusaders in it. “At halftime we said we have to stop messing around with the rebounder and keep back … play the ball,” Kotterman said. In the second half, the Lady Cards were able to minimize fast
break buckets, but their own offense was stagnant at times. “They changed up their defense to focus on me and Shea in the second half,” Kotterman said. “Other people stepped up, which was important.” Kotterman said that the win can turn the season around for the Lady Cards, who have been on the losing end of several close games this season. The team has dropped three of its conference losses by a combined nine points in addition to taking Baldwin-Wallace to overtime before losing 72-63. “We’re a team with a losing record but have scored more points than we have allowed,” assistant coach Jeff Blunt said. “Every close game we have lost … it’s nice to get one, especially Capital.” Senior guard Tara Harper played 41 minutes for the Crusaders, putting up 18 points and seven rebounds. However, she also recorded seven turnovers. Sophomore forward Stacy Timmerman led Capital with 23 points. Both teams will travel Saturday as the Lady Cards will visit Muskingum while the Crusaders will play 10-2 Baldwin-Wallace in Berea. t&c
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