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Senior Colton Nelson performed at Doane’s Got Talent last Friday. The Student Programming Board sponsored the annual event, and 13 students performed various acts in Common Grounds.

‘American Idiot’ to premiere at Doane

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Doane, Wesleyan biology departments team up

JAKE WHITECopy Desk Chief

Doane is going punk rock for this year’s spring musi-cal.

The theater department will be premiering “Ameri-can Idiot” at 7:30 p.m. March 20 in Whitcomb Lee Conservatory. It will run un-til March 23.

Theater Director Rob McKercher said Doane was the irst college to “legiti-mately” get the rights to pro-duce the show.

McKercher knew he was going to bring the show to Doane last March when Mu-sic Theater International (MTI) said they were going to release the rights to ama-teur theater groups—which included college programs.

“It wasn’t important to me to be the irst to get the rights,” McKercher said. “I just wanted to do the show. The types of shows I like to direct are kind of in your face, with an aggressive message. I remember when the Green Day album came out, and I thought, ‘This is a show. I’ve got to do this show.’ I’ve been itching to do this show forever.”

The show follows the lives of three men who are look-ing to ind something more

than suburban life. It fea-tures all of the songs from Green Day’s album “Ameri-can Idiot,” as well as some tracks from previous albums and one later album. McK-ercher said there would be small adaptations in Do-ane’s production because of the logistics behind building the set.

Freshman Bret Andrews portrays Johnny in the show. He said it was surreal inding out that he was one of the lead characters.

“I woke up to two texts that said congratulations, and I thought I was dream-ing,” Andrews said. “I walked over to see for my-self, and it still took about an hour for it to sink in that it was real.”

Andrews said he was most excited to “rock out” and to see his family in March.

“It’s another excuse for my family to come out and see me,” he said. “Being from Wyoming, I don’t get to see them much.”

Freshman David Be-ran portrays Tunny, one of Johnny’s best friends, in the show. He said he felt blessed that he was able to be a part of the cast.

see AMERICAN IDIOT, p. 3

(Above) Sophomore Bran-

don Watson and junior

Kendra Ritter rehearse

for ‘American Idiot’ in the

Whitcomb Lee Conserva-

tory. Both are members

of the ensemble for the

production.

(Below) Junior Lizzy

Pegler practices a dance

move for the show. Do-

ane was the irst college to obtain the rights to

produce the show. ‘Amer-

ican Idiot will premiere at

7:30 p.m. March 20.

Wesleyan might be Doane’s biggest rival on the football ield, but they put their diferences aside for the love of biol-ogy.

Doane College teamed up with Nebraska Wesleyan Uni-versity to put on a research symposium after both biology de-partments started similar courses for their freshmen.

“We kind of thought, ‘Why not just have a celebration ev-ery year of the projects that are going on at both colleges?’” Biology Professor Tessa Durham Brooks said.

Research is something that is very attractive, Durham Brooks said.

“It’s a very good professional development area,” she said. “It really tells employers this is what a student does on their own - outside of the classroom. It’s kind of a demonstration of what they can do.”

Two keynote speakers will address those who attend the symposium. Dr. Pamela Small from the University of Tennes-see studies soil microbes and bacteria phage and Dave Wedin from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln is an Ecosystem

Ecologist. “We’re hoping students really geek out during the key-

notes because they spent a whole semester studying those things,” Durham Brooks said. “They’re going to get to hear from a real scientist who studies this stuf and (it will) really kind of lock them into the scientiic community.”

There will be a poster session where students from both schools will share what they learned through their research irst semester. Posters are an advertisement of the work stu-dents have been doing, Durham Brooks said.

“It’s going to be a very interactive, engaging, kind of fun environment,” she said.

Five Doane alumni will judge the students’ posters during

the presentation: Dane Bowder, Grant Dewey, Sarah Gen-rich, Autumn Longo and Hailey Smith. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive cash prizes.

“That will give students a chance to get their work assessed but also to network with the alumni if any of those areas are of interest to them or they just want to hear about what Do-ane looks like from the outside,” Durham Brooks said.

Freshman biology and psychology major Callie Jane Vick-ers studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, in Intro-duction to Biological Investigation.

“We’re basically bringing two schools together and (it is) kind of like a show-of of their students,” Vickers said.

Freshman biology major Michael Shavlik studied brome grass, an invasive species that afects prairie environments.

Shavlik thinks the joint research symposium is a great idea, he said.

“What makes scientiic discovery so worthwhile is the abil-ity to share the newfound knowledge with the surrounding community,” Shavlik said. “By working with Wesleyan, we can kind of create this neat scientiic connection between the two institutions.”

GABRIELLA MONTEMARANOStaf Writer “By working with Wesleyan, we can kind

of create this neat scientiic connection

between the two institutions.”

Michael Shavlik-freshman

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Forensics team prepares for stateBAYLEY BISCHOF

News Editor

One speech at a time.One speech at a time they

inspire, they educate and be-come better people.

One speech at a time they are changing the world.

On February 14th, the forensics team will have an-other opportunity to share their passions and impact their audiences at the Ne-braska Intercollegiate Fo-rensics Association, (NIFA), state tournament.

For Doane’s forensics team, competition is impor-tant, but not nearly as impor-tant as performing with pas-sion, head coach Nathaniel Wilson said.

Competition is what push-es the team to success, and

their competition is ierce, especially when it comes time for the state competi-tion, Wilson said.

“State provides a really unique opportunity for us to go up against all of the best stuf from the region,” Wil-son said. “The state is one of the most competitive in the nation, with four of the top 20 teams in Nebraska.”

Other top 20 teams in the state include University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Univer-sity of Nebraska at Omaha, and Hastings College.

With that challenge ahead of them, team members are spending a lot of time work-ing with coaches and peers to perfect their events for state, junior Delta Wilson said.

“The biggest challenge go-ing in to NIFA is not getting too much in our heads,” Delta

Wilson said. “A lot of people are like ‘oh it’s so scary, it’s so competitive, oh we’re not go-ing to do well.’ But a lot of the challenge is just overcoming that, you know we’ve been performing really well these last few weeks so if we just keep up that momentum.”

So far this year, the team has 36 events qualiied for nationals, said Nathaniel

Wilson.“It helps that we have four

seniors so they’re super com-petitive, but we’ve had a very good year,” West-Warren said. “We’ve deinitely made a national impact with our competition. Our name has gotten out there and more schools, like Bradley Uni-versity, who is one of the top two teams in the nation, is

starting to recognize Doane as competition, as real com-petition.”

The seniors strengthen the team, but the eight under-classmen are also extremely competitive as they put in a lot of time preparing their events, West-Warren said.

“All of them have deinite-ly reached a point where you can’t tell who is a freshman

and who is not,” West-War-ren said.

The team’s goal for state is second place, a pretty lofty goal with the level of compet-itiveness at the state compe-tition, Delta Wilson said.

Speech is about much more than winning, though, Nathaniel Wilson said.

“My main goal is for the students on my team to be-come better people, and bet-ter scholars and citizens and competition is fun,” Nathan-iel Wilson said. “It’s the thing that kind of drives us each week, but at the end of the day, to me it’s just a vehicle to what’s far more important and that’s them learning and inding voice, and becoming empowered or empowering other people with the mes-sages they get to share.”

“My main goal is for the students on my team to become better people, and better scholars and citizens; and competition is fun--it’s the thing that drives us each week--but at the end of the day, to me, it’s just a vehicle to what’s far more important and that’s them learning and inding a voice, and becoming empowered, or empow-ering other people with the messages they get to share.”

Nathaniel Wilson- head coach

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Courtesy Photo/Doane Forensics

(Above, from left) Sophomore Caitria West-Warren, co-team captain, freshman Kayla

Starbuck and junior Delta Wilson prepping extemporaneous speeches at a speech

tournament. In extemporaneous speaking students have 30 minutes to prepare a

seven-minute speech over an international or domestic issue.

(Right) Freshman Rachel Jacobsen performs poetry interpretation at a tournament. She

also competes persuasive speaking, prose interpretation and informative speaking.

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Self defense class creates conidenceThere are no fair ights if

your life is threatened.That’s what Jack Coch-

nar, owner and chief instruc-tor for Crete ATA, American Taekwondo Association, said during a self-defense class Sunday.

The class was brought to campus by Doane’s Ameri-can Association of University Women. It was to follow-up a irst class that was taught in November. Senior Lau-ren Taylor, co-president of AAUW, said that this session would focus more on physi-cal contact.

Cochnar, a ifth degree black belt, taught the class with the help of his daugh-ter, Alyssa, his wife, Suzy and Information Technol-ogy Professor Mark Mey-senburg. They taught a wrist release, palm heel strike, el-bow strike, groin strike, knee strike and a ‘buck and roll.’

The irst ive moves are considered ‘gross motor skills,’ Cochnar said. They do not involve a lot of technical skill and are easier to remem-ber when a situation presents itself to an untrained person. He taught the class to be ag-gressive, but only if need be. He said the goal was to get out of a situation without having to physically ight, if possible. If not possible, the

goal was to learn to ight back because that increased the chance of survival of an at-tack, Cochnar said.

The class taught a lot on physical defense, but Coch-nar and Meysenburg said their main goal was to raise awareness and create coni-dence for the students.

“Great skills overall in terms of the messages…[it creates] the conidence in self, in physical being, in the ‘what would I do’ situations,” said Heather Lambert, psy-chology professor and faculty sponsor of AAUW.

To show the importance of knowing how to defend your-self, Cochnar shared statis-tics, including that every two minutes a person is sexually assaulted, 54 percent of cases are not reported and 97 per-cent of rapists spend only one day in jail.

‘Hot Spots’ are places and times when a person is more likely to become victimized, Cochnar said. Some hot spots are parking lots, alleys, public restrooms and parties. Meysenburg later empha-sized his point as the session was ending.

“On a college campus, people are nice,” Meysen-burg said. “Groups are less nice, and drunk groups are not nice. That is your biggest worry.”

Senior Brandy Singleton, secretary of AAUW, and Tay-lor said that they have not

heard of many incidents of sexual assault around Doane. But both said they thought it was underreported and most likely happens more than students think.

Senior Lindsay Wilson at-tended the class and agreed with Singleton and Taylor.

She said she has never heard of sexual assault from the source but suspects it to be unreported.

“I was shocked by how many students have been afected by sexual assault at Slut Walk the past couple of years,” Wilson said.

Wilson said self-defense classes are important be-cause people should always know how to shield them-selves from attacks. She said she learned to be more aware of her surroundings. She said she learned that wearing a ponytail or listening to head-

phones can make her more vulnerable to attacks.

One in ive women and men have either been raped or sexually assaulted, and this is followed by a statistic that shows only 13% of sex-ual assault cases are brought to police.

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Jack Cochnar, Crete ATA instructor, assists senior Lauren Taylor in a self defense move. Doane’s American Association of Uni-

versity women brought a self defense class to Doane where students can learn various self defense moves.

CASSANDRA KENNEDYStaf Writer

“I was absolutely honored to get a part in the show,” he said. “I’ve been obsessed with the music from this show for a while now, and it’s incred-

ible that I get to be a part of the collegiate premiere. I am just excited to perform. I am pumped to be able to share the stage with this phenome-nal cast and spread this mes-sage with this music.”

Rehearsals for the show are every day for three or

more hours, Beran said. He said that although it was ex-hausting, it was worth it.

“The show is thrilling,” Beran said. “It’s certainly exhausting, as well. With as much singing as this show has, it’s important to keep your voice healthy. Not to

mention the dancing. This show has a lot going on, and it requires an immense amount of time and efort. It’s a good thing this show is as fun and exciting as it is—it keeps us coming back.”

McKercher said every-body could relate to “Ameri-

can Idiot” no matter how old they were.

“I think the show speaks to so many things,” McK-ercher said. “It speaks to a generation. It says so much about—where is your life go-ing to take you? It speaks to everyone who knows people

who are still kind of lost or haven’t moved on from when you knew them.

It shows a journey that everyone can relate to about getting a sense of who we are.”

AMERICAN IDIOT, p. 1

Durham Brooks encour-ages students not to waste opportunities to network with other students, she said.

“You just don’t know how those interactions are going to afect your future,” Dur-ham Brooks said. “Even if it doesn’t appear to be the clear

next step in your career path, it’s really important to spend time on that as an under-grad.”

Not only does Vickers think the project is fascinat-ing, but she knows the con-nections she makes with oth-er scientists are important, she said.

“I suggest that kids go be-cause the kids who are going to be here are the kids who are going to make a difer-ence in the science world and who have a passion,” Vickers said.

“So those are the names of the people you want to know because those will be your

connections. And those are the people you want to hang out with if you have similar passions.”

Doane College’s First An-nual Freshman Research Symposium will be held in Perry Campus Center on March 6.

“Ultimately, we want to

highlight the freshmen’s ac-complishments,” Durham Brooks said. “But we’re also inviting upperclassmen to present, and then we are en-couraging/coercing as many of our majors to attend.

We’re having it at Perry on purpose because we would really like everybody on cam-

pus to feel welcome to come see what students are doing and to really take advantage of the keynote speakers be-ing here just to learn a little bit about the science behind what students have been working on here at Doane.”

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Many students at Doane are from small towns.Coming from a rural area, you may be used to

leaving your house or car unlocked, or leaving things unattended because you’re from a commu-nity that feels safe.

If you’re from a big city, coming to a town like Crete you may have a similar feeling - that bad things rarely happen here.

But every 107 seconds someone is sexually as-saulted, and just because you’re in Crete doesn’t mean you can’t become part of this statistic.

And according to 2012 FBI crime estimates, Nebraska ranks 9th in number of reported rapes among states.

That’s why it’s important to know how to defend yourself.

Doane’s American Association of University Women brought Crete ATA instructors to campus this week to teach students to do just that.

During the class, students were taught “gross motor skills,” which is something all students can learn and should learn.

They don’t require a lot of technical skill and are easier to remember.

Hopefully no one at Doane will ever have to uti-lize such skills, but simply knowing that you are able to defend yourself if you had to can boost con-idence.

Information is also provided at these classes, which is important to know as well.

For example, students at Sunday’s class learned that common areas where sexual assaults can hap-pen are parking lots, alleys, public restrooms and parties. So students should be extra vigilant in these places.

And it’s not a skill that will only be necessary in college. When students branch out and move to new - possibly bigger - cities, knowing how to de-fend yourself will always be a valuable no matter your gender.

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Breaking down Obama’s

2016 budget proposal

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Obama’s 2016 budget proposal will run a deicit of $474 billion, with deicit increases until 2020. Passing the budget with a Republican-controlled Congress is going to be the biggest challenge for President Obama moving forward.

Last week, President Obama unveiled his 2016 budget proposal. A presidential budget proposal never makes it through Congress without some major alterations. Obama doesn’t have another term, so he has no reason to hold back in his budget proposal. And he didn’t. The major downfall to this budget proposal is that it will steadily increase the budget deicit over the next decade. Just when our government was getting so close to balancing the budget, this proposal puts a screeching halt to that progress. Below are the highlights of the $4 trillion budget, and whether they stand a chance of approval in the Republican-led Congress.

DEFENSE:Under the plan, the de-

fense budget would in-crease….again, reaching an all-time historic high. $534 billion would be sent to the Pentagon. And sadly, this will probably be the one thing Congress won’t ight. If approved, Obama calls for $5.3 billion to ight ISIL and an extra $51 billion in “war spending.”

TAXES ON THE WEALTHY:

In what will probably be the most disputed section of the proposal, Obama calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, and tax beneits for the mid-dle class. While this sounds reasonable, the Republicans won’t let this ly. Opense-crets.org states that the me-dian net worth of Republi-cans in Congress is above $1 million – or the highest tax bracket. There are Demo-cratic millionaires in Con-gress, but their median net worth does not reach $1 mil-lion. So it makes sense that the Republican party would idealize Bush-era tax breaks for the America’s ultra rich.

But suppose this section of Obama’s proposal makes it past Congress. We can ex-pect to see the Bufett Rule enacted.

Five years ago, Warren Bufett famously stated that he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary and suggested millionaires begin picking up the tax tab.

The rule would enact a 30 percent tax on anyone mak-ing over $1 million. Consid-ering most millionaires pay 20 percent or less on their income, this rule will likely meet resistance in Congress. Obama has tried to slip this rule into nearly every budget proposal, and it has never made it past Congressional approval. Imagine what this country could do if the ultra rich paid a higher tax rate than middle class families. Forbes estimates that the Bufett rule would generate an extra $35 billion over the next decade.

CAPITAL TAX GAINS:

Obama is attempting to close the trust fund loophole.

Capital gains describe the diference between the price paid for an investment and the sale of that investment.

It can be a positive – capi-tal gain in money, or a nega-tive – capital loss in money. This tax targets inherited money, or trust funds.

Obama proposed to raise the capital gains tax from 20 percent to 28 percent for those who make over $500,000 per year. The capital gains tax is really only for the ultra rich, as there are many stipulations that protect middle class in-heritance from the tax. The top 400 taxpayers with the highest income in the United States. currently receive 68 percent of their wealth from capital gains, and that’s a huge source for the widening wealth gap in America.

The capital gains tax has historically been criticized by Republicans and cham-pioned by Democrats. The tax would raise $203 billion over the next 10 years and is a great start to reform our tax code, but it doesn’t go far enough. When the top one percent in the United States controls nearly half of the country’s wealth, this cre-ates a dangerous trend. The capital gains tax has the po-tential to slightly redistribute the wealth in an increasingly lopsided country.

C O R P O R A T E TAX RATES:

As I’ve talked about in previous columns, the cur-rent U.S. corporate tax is 35 percent - one of the highest in the world. In this bud-get proposal, Obama calls to lower the corporate tax rate to 19 percent on worldwide income. A lower corporate tax like this one could in-centivize major companies to bring all that untaxed, ofshore cash back to the United States, and would generate $205 billion in rev-enue. As last week’s column explained, Obama plans to enact a one time 14 percent tax on all money sitting of-shore, untaxed. This simple one time tax would gener-ate $268 billion, but may be a source of friction in Con-gress.

EDUCATION, I N F R A S T R U C-TURE

Obama plans to use the money earned from higher taxes on the wealthy and the one time ofshore corpora-tion tax to fund our failing infrastructure and pay for his two-year free community college plan.

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By the time you are read-ing this I will be long gone from Doane’s campus in Crete. This semester, I am student teaching in Panama City, Panama, and as I was preparing myself to leave, I began thinking about my time at Doane.

I have been one incred-ibly lucky kid to have had such amazing opportunities aforded to me. The educa-tion and experiences I have received at Doane are un-matched, and will undoubt-edly help me be successful in the world.

I then immediately think about the students I have worked with at Crete High over the past two years. Many of them exemplify a rapidly growing population of students that many of you who are reading this may

actually be a part of: irst-generation and low-income students. I myself belong to this group, as do many of my close friends.

First-generation and low-income students are often the irst in their family to get a higher education and deal with many problems their other peers do not have to even think about. Thank-fully for me and many of

my friends, we have had re-sources to help us, yet many students coming to college do not have these resources.

The fact is, in this day in age, a college degree is almost a necessity to get a decent-paying job, so students who have not traditionally sought an education will be doing so. Many colleges across the nation are preparing to help these students succeed, some are not. In preparation to write this article, I talked to many people across the cam-pus that were passionate and doing amazing things to help

at-risk students succeed in school, yet I’m still worried.

It seems that right now Doane College is absorbed with expanding and bringing in more students, yet the suc-cess of their students could sufer as a part of this push.

This year, I tried to talk to individuals from the Admis-sions department to see if they were interested in help-ing with the College Bound Cardinals program at Crete High. Unfortunately, “help” for them meant recruiting students at whatever cost.

It seems as if helping stu-

dents succeed has fallen to the wayside. Yet, talking with individuals from Financial Aid, I was invigorated with hope. It seemed that the department there had high priorities to help at-risk stu-dents succeed, but then again there are only three people working in the department.

Overall, my time at Do-ane has taught me that while I have received an amazing education and opportunity from being here, it is because I was privileged enough to be a part of their idea of what a student should be. Yes, schol-arships are readily available, but tuition rises almost every year, room and board prices are a rip of and the meal plans are outrageous.

It seems to point out who Doane is trying to recruit and keep and who they don’t care that they are pushing away. It may be OK now, but in the future, Doane is going to have to let go of their “tradi-

tional college student” men-tality.

More and more students are moving of campus, working jobs to get by and iguring out that Doane may not be the place that allows them to do that. If Doane wants to keep up with their student base, they must ac-knowledge who their new students are. Expand and support programs like aca-demic support, inancial aid, the food pantry, etc. The na-tional government has begun this process by understand-ing the shifting proile of stu-dents in hoping to ofer free community college--a revo-lutionary step in assistance. I urge the administration to also take steps as well. In the very least, make at-risk, irst-generation and low-income students feel like they belong on campus and not that they don’t it the “traditional col-lege student” proile that Do-ane so desires.

TYLER STROBLSenior “It seems that right now Doane College is

absorbed with expanding and bringing in

more students, yet the success of their stu-

dents could sufer as a part of this push.”

Tyler Strobl-senior

Rethinking the ‘traditional college student’Senior urges Doane administration to reach out to irst-generation students

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If you’re not coupled up this Valentine’s Day and you’re bummed about it, you’re not alone. While 60-80 percent of college students have had hookup experienc-es, 63 percent of college men and 83 percent of college women would prefer a relationship to keeping it casual, according to a 2013 American Psychological Associa-tion study. Don’t worry if Cupid’s arrow has missed you; here are ways you can still celebrate Valentine’s Day (or at least survive Singles Awareness Day) if you don’t have a signiicant other.

1. Celebrate with friends.Take a page out of Leslie Knope’s (“Parks and Rec-

reation”) book and have a “Galentine’s Day” with your girlfriends, or enjoy a casual gaming night with your bros. Whether or not your friends are single, getting to-gether to celebrate your friendships will probably make for a much more memorable time than another dinner date at an overpriced restaurant.

2. Treat yourself. Buy yourself something nice, eat a delicious meal, go

workout or do whatever else you feel like. Take a per-sonal day to do something that you enjoy or something that’s good for you. Once you take the focus of inding somebody to love (sorry, Queen) and put the focus on loving yourself, you’ll likely ind that your relationships with others are smoother. According to Psychology Today, a recent study by a psychology professor at the University of New York in Bufalo recently found that college students who scored low on measures of self-es-teem were far more likely to feel rejected or angry when their partners were upset, even if they had nothing to do with the cause.

3. Spread the love.You don’t need another person to give you that warm,

fuzzy feeling. Volunteering and giving back to a good cause will not only take your mind of your fear of even-tually owning 18 cats and dying alone, it’ll make some-one else’s day, too. Even if you don’t have the time (or motivation) to spend the whole day volunteering, you can still get a good karma boost by performing a ran-dom act of kindness.

4. Wallow. Maybe all your good friends are coupled up for the

irst time this year, or maybe you just got dumped. May-be the person you’ve been casually-but-not-so casually texting has stopped responding in a timely manner, or maybe you’re just sick of being a solo act. If you’re feel-ing extra-bitter about your singleness, embrace it, just for a day. Make a playlist of “screw love” songs (anything by Kelly Clarkson will be a safe bet), watch sad movies and ugly cry, eat a pint of Ben & Jerry’s (we recommend Half Baked) or just get drunk alone. It’s okay to be bitter every now and then, and if V-Day is that day, so be it.

5. Cleanse your relationship roster. Use the day of love to purge your life of unloving re-

lationships. In 2012, the experts at YourTango.com say that half or more of people are in some kind of toxic re-lationship. Whether that means burning the box of stuf you have left over from your last lame or saying sayo-nara to that one friend who always manages to subtly make you feel like crap, it’s time to let go. Replace those negative relationships with positive ones, and whether or not you’ve met your mate, next Valentine’s Day is sure to be an improvement.

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Doane Tigers realize the importance of displaying good sportsmanship on the playing ield and how sports-manship can be improved in all athletes.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) lists sportsmanship as one of the ive core values in its ‘champions of charac-ters’ motto.

Champions of character focuses the NAIA’s purpose of building character through sports.

The NAIA deines sports-manship as bringing your best to all competition by being cooperative, fair, gra-cious, honorable and hum-ble.

Assistant men’s basketball coach Nate Wahle said the team incorporated sports-manship into their program by focusing on the process of what it takes to become suc-cessful in basketball. A lot of that is respecting the game and having appreciation for the other teams in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) compete.

Tiger coaches and players have experienced bad sports-manship throughout their athletic careers.

“I see bad sportsmanship when guys are arguing with the umpires, rooting against

the other team,” sophomore Logan Fast said. “When guys are playing for themselves instead of the team.”

But if students come into their respective sports with poor sportsmanship, ath-letes and coaches alike said they believed sportsmanship could be improved over time.

“I think (sportsman-ship) can be improved, but it’s not something that can be improved very quickly. With (Doane) being a four-year school, if a kid comes in with poor sportsmanship, I think by the time he comes to (his) junior (or) senior year, I think they can get better,” Wahle said. “The biggest mo-tivating factor a coach has is the bench. A player can sit on the bench if he’s not gonna play with good sportsman-ship.”

Junior Kayla Bamesberger said that improving sports-manship had its limits.

“Good sportsmanship can most deinitely be taught and improved for that matter, but in the end it won’t hap-pen unless the athlete is in-ternally motivated to do so,” Bamesberger said.

It’s important under-standing the importance of having good sportsmanship and how having it or not hav-ing it relects on the school, Bamesberger said.

“Having good sportsman-ship is something every ath-lete must possess,” she said.

“When you are out there playing, you are represent-ing something bigger than yourself, whether that is Doane College or something else, you need to show others

what kind of person you truly are.”

Wahle said sportsmanship is what helps both coaches and athletes remember why they compete in college ath-

letics.“It goes back to having a

respect of the game and a re-spect for the process,” Wahle said. “When you get caught up in wins and losses, I think

you lose the main focus of why you compete in athlet-ics, and sportsmanship gives you the right perspective of why you compete in athlet-ics.”

RYAN MILLERSports Editor

Sportsmanship displayed across Tiger athletics

Cheyanna KempelStaf Writer

Doane Athletic Director giving athletes a voice

Doane Athletic Director Jill McCartney has been on cam-pus for about ive months, but she is already working toward giving athletes a voice in the athletic department.

McCartney and Assistant Athletic Director Cody Vance are advising the Student Athlete Leadership Team, (SALT), a new group focused on giving student-athletes a systematic way of being represented in the department.

SALT is made up of two representatives from each sports team. These representatives are selected by the head coaches of each sport.

“When I got here,” McCartney said, “I sensed that there was not a systematic way for student feedback to be voiced and for student-athletes to have representation.”

Inspiration for SALT came from McCartney’s past experi-ences with similar organizations at other schools.

“I have met enough student-athletes here to know that there are some great leaders,” McCartney said. “They can just take things and go with it.”

SALT is having their second meeting next month, but the students are self-administered and already making progress

McCartney said. SALT President Drew Hostert said members of the group

voiced their opinions on goals for all student-athletes. “We deinitely want to fundraise,” Hostert said. “We also

want to get the athletes more involved in the community and increase attendance at Doane athletic events.”

“We want to connect Doane athletics with the community more through service projects,” SALT Co-Secretary Marissa DeWispelare said. “The Crete community supports our ath-letics quite a bit, and so we want to show our support back.”

Representatives from SALT already volunteered last se-mester by delivering donated canned foods to the Blue Valley Community Action Center. The group also planned a “pack the house” night for the Doane basketball games against Con-cordia.

“A lot of what we want to do requires looking ahead to next year,” DeWispelare said. “But we have some good things started.”

“When I got here I sensed that there was not a systematic way for student feedback to be voiced and for student-athletes to have representation. ”

Jill McCartney- athletic director

The men’s basketball team shakes hands with conference opponent, Northwestern College, after a tough loss on Saturday.

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When athletic teams com-pete, each player wins and loses together.

When athletes of individ-ual player sports compete, they do it alone.

But Doane athletes com-peting in individual sports feel the connection of a team even if their teammates can’t be in the arena with them.

For most events in track and ield, athletes compete on their own for personal records or points toward the team score.

It is generally considered an individual sport.

Senior Karissa Blank dis-agrees.

“Track and ield at Doane is deinitely a team sport,” Blank said. “It’s a team with 130 kids on the roster. Giving anything less than your best in any sport is a letdown to the team.”

Teammates of individual sports practice with each other every day, but when one of them competes, the others can only cheer from the sidelines.

“Individually, it’s hard to win in track, but that makes it all the more special when you do win,” sophomore

Zach Hickman said. “I love me some winning, and I like being there with my team-mates when they win a race or event, and I especially like when the entire team wins.”

Unlike team sports, there is no one competing with the individual to help pick up slack or be an encourage-ment, but this does not mean that teammates of individual sports don’t help each other in their own way.

“I like the team aspect where you deinitely depend on your teammates to do their part in making a play,” Blank said. “It’s the same in track, but we depend on our teammates to score as many

points as possible and knock rival team members out of contention to score points.”

These athletes have to be mentally and physically tough in order to compete on their own.

“I enjoy the individuality of tennis because the pres-

sure is really all on you, at least in singles,” senior Nick Hamilton said. “During a match you can only count on your own abilities and skills in order to succeed. In my opinion, college tennis is ex-tremely competitive. It can be exhausting both mentally

and physically, so I ind it a little annoying when some-one makes fun of the sport as a whole.”

Hickman said individual sports succeed because of the competitive culture created by the Doane coaches.

Blank said she credited the coaches, captains and previous teammates for be-ing the example of how ath-letes as individuals can make a team-like atmosphere.

“As long as winning, competing and doing your best for the team is the real goal,”Blank said. “Individual efort is the same for track and ield as it is with any team sport.”

CHEYANNA KEMPELStaf Writer

Winning is all the same, no matter the sport

ALEX DAWSONStaf Writer

Let the games begin

The Doane baseball team needs players to step up and ill spots on the roster left by last season’s graduating class of seven. The opportunity will come this weekend as the nationally ranked Tigers (No. 14 in the National As-sociation of Intercollegiate Athletics) open their season in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Tiger softball team looks to prove its critics wrong after being ranked sixth in a preseason Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) coaches’ poll. Its op-portunity to do so will also begin this weekend in Fort Worth.

Head Baseball Coach Jer-emy Jorgensen expected both returning players and incoming recruits to ill posi-tions on a team that inished undefeated in GPAC play last year.

“(Our) success depends on how well those guys step up,” Jorgensen said. “I like our talent, depth and our athleti-cism and feel like if we stay healthy we will be competi-tive.”

Last season’s graduating class included All-American and Lincoln Journal Star’s Male State Athlete-of-the-Year Elliot Engle and Aca-demic All-American Nathan Roth, both major compo-nents to the pitching rota-tion. The two combined with fellow seniors Rolando Celis and Jacob McCord for 19 wins and 10 saves of the Ti-ger’s 42 victories, pitching in almost half the amount of total innings the team played in for an ERA of 1.77.

Jorgensen said he looked toward returning senior pitchers Brandon Stennis, Ryan Bergstrom and Joshua Hayden along with junior Austin Caspersen, to carry on the tradition of success, in addition to transfers junior Spencer Pugh (St. Charles CC) and sophomore Ty-ler McKee (Patrick Henry H.S.) and freshman Andrew Hodges (Valencia H.S.). Freshman Tommy Anderson (Oak Hills H.S.) and transfer Adam Touhey (Univ. of Hart-ford) will be turned to for the shortstop and third base po-sitions respectively.

The team goal this year was to improve on its already commendable achievements after reaching the opening round of the national tourna-

ment qualiiers three of the past four seasons, Jorgensen said. Despite the praise of be-ing picked irst in the GPAC and No. 14 in the nation for preseason rankings, the team was more focused on the fu-ture.

“Preseason rankings are based on what we did last year, it’s great recognition for what the guys have done in the previous season,” Jor-gensen said. “But for this year’s team it’s all about what we do going forward.”

Hayden said he had a similar mindset, noting that while the team has received its highest acknowledgement ever this preseason, the suc-cess of the team will be de-termined on the diamond. Hayden was conident in the mentality of the team and said everyone was aware that there was a need for players to step up.

“We have a group of guys who aren’t satisied with me-diocrity,” Hayden said. “It’ll be fun to go into battle with them.”

Head Softball Coach Re-nae Littrell said the team was not satisied with its pre-season ranking and looked to challenge critics from day one.

“We as a team feel that we’re a lot better than that,” Littrell said. “We have a lot of things to prove.”

Senior outielder Am-ber Alvarez, one of the four team captains, was equally disappointed with the pre-season ranking of sixth, the worst the team has ever been picked to inish in her four years as a Tiger. The new ap-proach of having ‘faceless op-ponents’ was a mentality the team adopted in order to suc-ceed this season.

“We don’t worry about numbers or polls and we

don’t worry about who we’re playing and where they’re ranked,” Alvarez said, in-stead the team would take each game as it came.

Eight of the nine starters from last season returned to the team, Littrell said, including sophomore Sam Valadez who made the All-GPAC team at third base as a freshman.

The team would rely on the same three pitchers as last year consisting of senior Kelsey Huenink, junior El-lie Doughty and sophomore Taylor Muehlich.

“Each of our kids can bring something diferent to

the table,” she said of a pitch-ing rotation that she hoped would work better as a staf in every game.

Inielder Nicole Fernan-dez (Otay Ranch H.S.) would hit leadof for the Tigers as a freshman this season, Littrell said, setting the stage for the lineup with her speed.

A change in scheduling this year meant the team was more anxious to get out on the diamond and play. No games were played in the fall this season following the situation last year when the team “peaked at the wrong time”, Alvarez said.

Heading into conference

play the team was having a record setting season at 17-4 before it lost 13 of its remain-ing 25 games.

Senior Harley Horner, also a captain, said the lack of fall games enabled the team to bond more and strengthen the cohesiveness between players, an impor-tant aspect for a team to suc-ceed. Horner, who stepped up into a leadership position at shortstop last season fol-lowing the injury of Shelby Mendlik, hoped to fulill a spiritual leadership role on the team while motivating her teammates.

Horner viewed the low

preseason ranking as an op-portunity for the team, “We know our potential and have a powerful team this year,” she said, “(The preseason ranking) gives us an advan-tage to take our opponents of guard.”

The baseball team opens the season with two double-headers against Texas Wes-leyan University beginning Feb. 14 in Fort Worth, Texas.

The opening pitch is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. The softball team faces Belhaven University and Texas Wes-leyan University Feb. 13 with the irst game beginning at 10 a.m.

Senior Brandon Stennis

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season ranked No. 14 in the NAIA.

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Sophomore Malory Chris-

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son’s inal home game.

“I like the team aspect where you deinitely depend on your teammates to do their part in making a play. It’s the same in track, but we depend on on our teammates to score as many points as possible ”

Karissa Blank- senior

“Our success depends on how well those guys step up. I like our talent, depth and our athleticism and feel like if we stay healthy we will be competitive.”

Jeremy Jorgensen-head baseball coach

he Doane baseball, sotball teams begin their season in Texas