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WHY DON’T WE DO IT IN THE ROADFRIDAY | APRIL 19, 2013

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Sunny Strader

Little 51951Indiana University holds the first Little 500

1956DePauw holds it’s first

Little 500.1959

Little 500 covered by Life magazine.

1966Faculty bicycle race added to Little 500.

1970Race lengthened to 40 min.

1973Mason Hall, an all women’s

dormitory, created a team and entered the race.

1976Freshman rider Peter Weaver is killed in a bicycle-car collision while training with Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers on a one-lane country road.

1993Freshman Eric Brewe

shocks crowd, riding Little 500 naked.

1997DePauw’s Little 500 changes name to Little 5.

2006First alumni race is held.

2008Phi Gamma Delta frater-

nity win the overall men’s competition, ending Delta

Upsilon’s 14-year run as champions.

memories through the years

a brief history of...

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Senior Quinn Carrico competes on behalf of Delta Upsilon in the Little 5 Time Trials at Calbert Way Wednesday evening. The top sixteen finishers will race in street sprints on Anderson Street Friday at 5 PM. THUY NGUYEN / THE DEPAUW

By NICKY CHOKRAN news@thedepauw.com

Police officers from Greencastle Police Department and the Putnam County Sherriff’s office will join forces this weekend with DePauw Public Safety to help regulate events on cam-pus during Little 5.

According to Angie Nally, Direc-tor of Public Safety, the university will contract off duty police officers from these departments to help on race day Saturday.

“[We] are looking for people who are really drawing attention to them-selves,” Nally said. “If people are act-ing within reason then we’re not go-ing to know they’re drinking anyway.”

All officers will be dressed in their own uniforms, and incidents between students and officers from Public Safety, the GPD, and the Sherriff’s office will be referred to community standards.

Because Little 5 is posted on the university’s public calendar, Nally said that there is a chance that Excise of-ficers will be present on campus over the weekend.

“I haven’t heard anything from them,” said Nally. “[But] I would nev-er say they wouldn’t be there. They know it’s our Little 5.”

Saturday’s races will take place on 4/20, an unofficial holiday celebrating marijuana.

“We are aware of the folklore around that number,” Nally said about 4/20.

Nally said she cautions students not to participate in 4/20 celebrations, as possession and consumption of illegal substances is an arrestable of-fence.

Nonetheless, Nally communicated confidence for the weekend.

“We are prepared for a large crowd, [and] interacting with people who have chosen to become really in-toxicated,” said Angie Nally, Director of Public Safety. “As well as provide a safe course for the Little 5 riders.”

During the race, crowd control barricades will be set up at points around the course where increased pedestrian traffic is expected. Officers will also be placed at busy crosswalks to help facilitate safe crossings.

However, there will be areas of the course that are less regulated and will require more caution by pedestrians.

“It is very important that students are aware of the racers when they choose to cross the street,” said Nally. “Students will have to be individually responsible.”

By NICKY CHOKRANnews@thedepauw.com

DePauw will compete against Indiana University for student attendance this week, as both schools host their traditional bike races Saturday.

According to the Indiana University Student Foundation, IU’s Little 500 is the nation’s largest bike race. The race attracts over 25,000 spectators annually.

“At IU [Little 500 week], every single night something is going on and everybody gets into it,” DePauw senior Erin Cockrum, who attended Indi-ana University for her sophomore and junior years, said. “It’s a huge campus of everyone collaborating

for an entire week to party.”There are many competing factors pulling some

DePauw students to IU during Little 5 week.“[Little 500] is a lot bigger at IU and there are

different opportunities during the week,” senior Maggie Cohen said. “The concerts they have are re-ally fun, and they have more school spirit.”

Cohen has been to IU’s Little 500 twice since freshman year. She plans to return to Bloomington on Thursday night to celebrate IU’s Little 500 at the Krewella concert, and return to DePauw for class Friday.

An advantage of IU’s larger student body is the presence of a larger social scene.

Senior Sam Oliveri said he and some friends are going to Bloomington on Thursday. From there

they will take a bus with IU students to Bounce Mu-sic Festival.

“Nothing like this comes to Greencastle,” Oliveri said. “There’s no opportunity to go to a 10,000 per-son plus party here on Thursday of Little 5 week.”

Besides concerts, bars are also involved in IU’s Little 500 celebrations.

“I think what makes IU’s Little 5 better is that IU has a lot better of a bar scene than we do,” Cockrum said.

During the week leading up to the races, bars all over Bloomington have various specials to cel-ebrate Little 500.

“Also, IU’s Little 5 race is taken a lot more se-riously,” Cockrum said. “The riders train all year round, not just a couple months.”

Yet despite IU’s big school advantages, most all students are staying at DePauw for the actual race day on Saturday.

Cohen said she couldn’t imagine missing De-Pauw’s Little 5 race because she doesn’t want to miss the opportunity to hang out with friends and watch classmates race.

“[Saturday’s races] are a DePauw tradition,” Oli-veri said. “I don’t want to miss it.”

Cockrum expressed similar reasoning.“Even though [IU’s] Little 5 might be crazier, I

don’t want to miss this experience with my closest friends,” Cockrum said. “DePauw is my alma mater and my home.”

Students face choice as Little 5 matches with IU

By NETTIE FINNfeatures@thedepauw.com

Since 1956, students on campus have been pumping up bike tires and donning helmets to race each other to the finish line during one of DePauw’s most celebrated weekends and longest running traditions.

Now closing in on 57 years, Little 5 has remained, in essence, the same. Through spiking and waning interest, changes to the race itself and even life-ending injuries to its riders, the race has remained.

Little 5 has long been a tradition of boasing athleticism and entertainment, though in its advent race riders did not appear to have fully comprehended how demanding the event could be.

“Out-of-shape fraternity men found too late that being in prime physical condition could mean a great deal in the grueling thirty-five contest,” the ’57 “Mi-rage” wrote.

The events prior to the 1979 race were many and varied, including burri-to-eating, pie-eating or pyramid building contests. According to the Mirage, there was even a “Cyclerama Sing.”

Then, in 1993, freshman cyclist Eric Brewe combined the Little 5 with a boul-der run when he shocked spectators by competing naked.

It is also true that Little 5 has had its share of tragedy. In 1976, Pete Weaver was killed by an automobile while train-ing for the race. The April 30, 1976 issue

of The DePauw included Weaver’s obitu-ary and noted that he had been training for that year’s race since September 1975.

The 2000s were a time of big changes to Little 5. Kent Menzel, Little 5 advisor and communications professor, has been at DePauw since 1993 and has been heavily involved in the race since the beginning of his time here.

When Menzel arrived in 1993 he said, “the race had settled into a relay format.”

However, in 2001, the Little 5 steer-ing committee made a decision to change the overall structure of the race. The event had been losing popular-ity and it had become a struggle to find enough competitors, not to mention spectators.

Within the old format, the criterium race was done as a relay over a stretch of 160 laps.

“The spectators really didn’t under-stand what they were seeing, and the race was unintelligible sometimes even to the racers,” Menzel said.

The changes, discussed in 2001 and put into effect in 2004, left the old for-mat far behind and transformed Little 5 from a weekend to a week. Instead of a relay, racers would all take to the track at once and the addition of the time trials and street sprints was made.

“Ever since we made that change it’s grown in popularity,” Menzel said.

Also in 2004, the Little 5 racing loop was moved from the track onto campus,

where, after a brief stint back at the track due to construction on the GCPA, it has stayed ever since.

“That’s the original loop as well, so it’s kind of back to its roots from where the race was held in ’56,” Menzel said.

Another big change to the race, in-volved its name—and a possible lawsuit.

“Indiana University got wind of what was going on and threatened to sue us if we didn’t change the name of our race,” Menzel recalled.

DePauw’s cycling race, which until that point had been called “Little 500” adopted a new name in 1997 in response to IU’s claims: “Little 5”.

“Up here nobody really fussed about it. We were happy to keep our race and we had been calling it Little 5 anyway,” Menzel said.

No matter the name, Little 5 has managed to remain a tradition at De-Pauw for nearly 60 years. However, Men-zel still feels there are some changes for the better that could be made.

“I think Little 5 can be made more of an overall festival through adding more events. I would love to see a big name concert go along with Little 5,” he said.

While Little 5 might not yet be of-fering the carnival-like atmosphere that Menzel feels it should aspire to, that won’t stop students, faculty and alumni from piling onto the sidelines to watch as cyclists pedal their hearts out this Sat-urday.

From then to now, the history of Little 5 DPU teams up with law enforcement for weekend

TEAM MOTTO: “I got you from behind.”

WHY WE RIDE: “We want people to be afraid of how much they love us.”

WHY WE’LL WIN: “Because everyone loves an underdog.”

IF WE COULD BIKE ANY-WHERE: “We’d bike to bed.”

PI BETA PHI

HOW WE TRAIN: “We ride bikes.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “Edward 40 Hands.”

WHY WE’LL WIN: “Are we?”

IF WE COULD BIKE ANY-WHERE: “We’d go to SAE.”

KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA

HOW WE TRAIN: “We were supposed to train?”

WHY WE RIDE: “Because Logan Patterson needs a formal date.”

SIGMA CHI

HOW WE TRAIN: “Ride fast, turn left.”

WHY WE RIDE: “First team in two decades.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “It’s all about the pre-game.”

PUMP UP SONG: “Around the world by ATC.”

PHI DELTA THETA TEAM MOTTO: “Don’t crash again.”

HOW MUCH WE TRAIN : “Only a lot.”

HOW WE TRAIN: “Better than DU.”

FIJI

HOW WE TRAIN: “We started Wednesday.

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “Listen to Daft Punk and/or T. Swift and fist pump.

FAVORITE ROAD TO RIDE: “Ander-son Street (back and forth)

WHY WE RIDE: “We’re still trying to figure that one out.”

BETA THETA PI

TEAM MOTTO: “I get knocked down but I get up again (in 30 seconds for Menzel)

WHY WE RIDE: “Love me some thunder thighs.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “Tour de Franzia.”

PRE-RACE RITUALS: “Yes - Theta busi-

ness.

KAPPA ALPHA THETA

TEAM MOTTO: “BYOB - Bring your own bike.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “We watch Miracle.”

HOW MUCH WE TRAIN: “Does going to NCAA swimming nation-als count?”

PUMP UP SONG: “The DePauw Toast.”

HOW MUCH WE TRAIN: “We don’t. We don’t need to.”

WHY WE RIDE: “We were forced to.”

FAVORITE ROAD TO RIDE: “A flat one or downhill.”

PUMP UP SONG: “Thrift Shop.”

DELTA GAMMA WHY WE RIDE: “Independent domination.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “Thinking about overthrowing the system.”

PRE-RACE RITU-ALS: “Nervous vomiting.”

WHY WE WILL WIN: “Because we have two teams.”

INDEPENDENTS

M E E T T H E T E A M S

PUMP-UP SONG: “I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bon Iver”

IF WE COULD BIKE ANYWHERE: “Go back to PCB.”

SIGMA CHI HOW MUCH WE TRAIN: “LOTS.”

WHY WE RIDE: “To get out of Little 5 sober duty.”

PRE-RACE RITUALS: “We poop.”

PUMP-UP SONG: “Big Papa by the Notorious B.I.G.”

DELTA UPSILONHOW WE TRAIN: “Like champions.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “Clear our minds and get cool, calm, collected and clear.”

PRE-RACE RITUALS: “Get Weird. No restrictions.”

IF WE COULD BIKE ANYWHERE: “We’d circumnavigate the earth.”

DELTA TAU DELTA

HOW MUCH WE TRAIN: “Annually.”

HOW WE TRAIN: “With shake weights.”

WHY WE RIDE: “We like the way we look in bike shorts.”

WHY WE WILL WIN: “We want the bell!”

SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON

WHY WE RIDE: “Because Arezoo tells us to.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “We drink, we cry, we have a really really really good ride.”

PRE-RACE RITUALS: “Chase raw eggs with muscle milk.”

PUMP UP SONG: “Country Grammar by Nelly.”

ALPHA PHI

HOW MUCH WE TRAIN: “As much as it takes to make the ginger a little less pasty.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “Sling as many insults as possible at the ginger.”

PRE-RACE RITUALS: “Ritualistic five stars.”

PUMP UP SONG: “Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson”

ALPHA TAU OMEGA

PRE-RACE RITUAL: “Beer showers and abstaining from urination before racing so as to encourage a quick finish.”

FIJI

TEAM MOTTO: “Shake and bake.”

HOW WE TRAIN: “Jazzer-cize, two times a week and yoga at dawn.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “Sit in a room with all our gear on for an hour in silence. Meditating.”

PRE-RACE RITUALS: “We tron for a good hour.”

PHI KAPPA PSI

TEAM MOTTO: “BYOB - Bring your own bike.”

HOW WE GET PSYCHED: “We watch Miracle.”

HOW MUCH WE TRAIN: “Does going to NCAA swimming nation-als count?”

PUMP UP SONG: “The DePauw Toast.”

ALPHA CHI OMEGA

M E E T T H E T E A M S

What advice would you give to new riders?“Train a lot. Being comfortable on the bike is the most important thing that can help you. Most new riders aren’t comfortable.”

What’s your favorite part of the race?“The atmosphere is cool. Campus out cheering makes the pain worth it.”

What’s the scariest thing that’s happened to you during a race?“Freshman year I was run over by the majority of the field. I suffered a major concussion. None of that was cool.”

What motivated you to ride senior year?“I was guilted into it by most of the fraternity. I’m glad they convinced me to do it. I’m less slothful af-ter two months of training.”

Best memory of Little 5?“Hopefully that’s yet to come.”

WIll you come back and ride in the alumni race?“Never say never. But it may be a few years before I return.”

How have you changed your training methods since freshman year?“Not much. We’ve had pretty good regimen. I’ve always been in pretty good shape come race time.”

MAX BLANKENHORN

What advice would you give to new riders?“Be confident. Try not to be super nervous. It’s all about having fun and being safe.”

What’s your favorite part of the race?“Competing and working together with riders from other teams. It becomes a collective effort towards the end of the race.”

What’s the scariest thing that’s happened to you during a race?“Falling last year in the last turn unexpectedly. Luck-ily, I wasn’t hurt.”

What motivated you to ride senior year?“Helping to teach new riders in my chapter and giv-ing it one last go around.”

Best memory of little 5?“Winning last year in the time trials. And overall, us winning as a team on the actual race day. It proves hard work pays off.”

Will you ever come back and ride in the alumni race?“Once I buy my own bike I would love to one day.”

How much have you changed your training methods since freshman year?“I recognize how much effort it takes to be success-ful. I am safer and more conscientious. The more ex-perienced you are, the better off you are.”

ABIGAIL GINN

Learning from ExperienceTake a word of wisdom on riding Little 5 from veteran

senior riders Max Blankenhorn and Abigail GinnBy JIM EASTERHOUSE

On a special weekend like Little 5, emotions run wild. They can range from motivation before the race, excitement during it and euphoria while celebrating afterwards. There are many upbeat songs that can apply to each of these. I chose 20, ranging from rap to alternative and indie to elec-tronic, that epitomize these feelings. This variety of classics and new-coming gems can make your Little 5 a jam-tastic time.

Little5Jams

1 “Jah No Partial”— Major Lazer

2“B.O.B.”— Outkast

3 “Joy Ride”—The Killers

4“Swerve”— Baauer

“Go Outside”— Cults

6“Summer Mood”— Best Coast

7 “You Only Live Once”— The Strokes

8“Naked Kids”— Grouplove

9 “Drunk Girls”— LCD Soundsystem

10“Don’t Stop (Color On The Walls)”

— Foster the People

11 “Barely Standing”— Diplo

12“Consolation Prizes” — Phoenix

13 “Campus”— Vampire Weekend

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18

“Road to Nowhere” — Talking Heads

“Wild For The Night” — A$AP Rocky ft. Skrillex

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19

“Dissolve Me”— Alt-J

“Backstreet Freestyle”— Kendrick Lamar

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20

“Yoga Pants” — Minnesota

“Take Me With You When You Go”

— Jack White

17“Words”

— Givers ft. Theophilous London

PUMP IT UP

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21 and older? Try our Little 5 cocktail

The Road Rash

• 1 part vodka•1 dash of pepper• Tomato juice• 1 celery stick• 1 dash of tobasco...ice would be nice.

Enjoy!

When cyclists approach a gravel-covered section of road, they are taught to keep their front wheel straight. If riders keep their line and maintain a light grip on their handle-bars, they can prevent swerving or los-ing control. Meanwhile, they must also be aware of their surroundings, par-ticularly obstacles on the road ahead.

In many ways, planning Little 5 week is akin to riding a bike. That’s not to say that either of us claim to be expert cyclists. Rather, the stages required for planning campus events parallel those required for competitive riding.

Unlike many campus leader-ship positions, co-chairing the Little 5 Steering Committee is a two-year commitment. Thus, we used last year’s events as a “test run” for this spring, trying to understand how to organize one of the most anticipated spring weekends. But as anyone who has ever been on a bike knows, it takes some time to get comfortable in a new position. There are times when you should speed up, and times when it’s best to slow down.

With comfort comes confidence. In the fall, we began to envision what changes and improvements we want-ed to make to the 2013 Little 5 week. While some of these ideas were more realistic than others, we entered the spring semester with Little 5 on our minds. We wanted to put on a series of events that made our classmates excited about the sport of cycling, the month of April, and the 57-year-old campus tradition.

This year, it’s become apparent that even the best cyclists encoun-ter obstacles on their rides. These

include, but are not limited to, poor road conditions, sharp objects, aggres-sive dogs, parked vehicles, as well as the consistently inconsistent Indiana weather. While Paul and I would have loved to cruise through our Little 5 responsibilities, on-campus construc-tion and spring storms created some challenges.

Riders know that accommodat-ing obstacles often requires shifting gears. During the planning process, we’ve had to make countless adjust-ments to our event line-up. That said, these changes would have been nearly impossible without the flexibility and support of our 2013 Steering Commit-tee members: Clarke Brennan, Patrick Carter, Laura Gerhardstein, Jake Hem-rick, Lizzie Hineman, Kylie Maloney, Stephen McMurtry, Alex Landreville, Braydon Lucas, Connor McAndrew, Anna Gawlik, Doug McCrary, JD Pow-ell, Meredith Reed, Aubrie Scott, Drew Stutzman, and Kyle Zachary.

Yes, there are obstacles involved in riding and event planning. But there are also opportunities to sit back and enjoy the ride. Most students will be experiencing Little 5 as spectators, not cyclists or crowd control monitors. Re-gardless of how an individual chooses to embrace the Little 5 fever, we en-courage everyone to relax and take in their surroundings. Just keep a close eye out for gravel. We hear it causes a pretty bad road rash.

— Seniors Margaret Distler and Paul Dugdale are co-chairs of the 2013 Little 5 Steering Committee.

A word from your co-chairs

Paul Dugdale & Margaret Distler

RACE COURSE

GRAPHIC BY ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW

SPECTATORS

W O M E N ’ S M E N ’ S

1. Nicole Rossillo AXO 1:04:42

2. Kara Caskey Alpha Phi 1:05:37

3. Amanda Repass Alpha Phi 1:05:38

4. Erin Komornik Independent A 1:06:43

5. Chrissy Wildt Kappa 1:07:96

6. Abbey Ginn Theta 1:08:08

7. Abby Prine AXO 1:08:12

8. Jordan Roller Alpha Phi 1:09:77

9. Katie Thrapp Theta 1:10:10

10. Stephanie Sladnick Pi Phi 1:10:66 11. Paige Sandgren Independent B 110:77

12. Caitlin Hickey Theta 1:10:92

13. Hannah DeLucio Theta 1:11:50

14. Emily Weber AXO 1:11:64

15. Jocelyn Jessop Independent A 1:12:25

16. Clark Edwards Independent B 1:12:66

1. Troy Stratford Delt 57:46

2. Forrest Kunkel Delt 58:41 3. Connor Miller ATO 58:86

4. Max Blankenhorn ATO 59:82

5. Andrew Ledbetter Phi Delt 59:88

6. George Morrison Sigma Chi 1:00:47

7. Aaron Krabill DU 1:00:53

8. Chris Roslender Beta 1:00:53

9. Grant Clary ATO 1:00:57

10. John Bennett ATO 1:00:97

11. Luke Miller Beta 1:01:27

12. Chase G. Hall Sigma Chi 1:01:45

13. Christian Rector Sigma Chi 1:01:90

14. Ryan Heeb Phi Delt 1:01:96

15. Mitchell Reavis Phi Psi 1:02:33

16. Rob Watson SAE 1:02:61

Wednesday’s Time Trial results