the
BACHELOR
the Voice of Wabash since 1908
November 15, 2001 Volume 111
Issue 10
The Bell
Is Home
On the last catch of his career, on the last
play of the game, senior receiver Kurt Casper
brought the Monon Bell back to Wabash College.
In dramatic fashion, the Little Giants fired
the same play they had worked on time and
again in practice - a designed tipped pass from
Ryan Short 03 - fell into Casper's waiting arms
to give Wabash a 27-21 victory in the 108th
Monon Bell Classic.
Officially it was a 52-yard completion from
Jake Knott ’03, but the only number that mattered was 300 - the weight of the Bell as it
returned to Wabash.
Wabash led 14-7 at halftime after TD passes
from Knott to Nick Dawson ’04 and Short.
DePauw drew even in the third quarter before
the Little Giants regained the lead on a six-yard
completion to Short. The reception was the 13th
touchdown catch of the season for Short, tying
the Wabash and NCAC single season mark he
set last year.
DePauw answered with 14 seconds left in the
game, tying the contest at 21-21 to set up the
heroics.
Eddie Garza ’05 returned the Tigers' kick to
the Wabash 39 yard line. Knott hit Casper for a
short gain to the 48 with three seconds showing
on the clock.
Knott rolled right on the final play of the
game, fired the final pass toward the end zone,
and awaited the outcome along with 7,300 fans
and two anxious teams.
The ball was tipped by Short to Casper, who
made the game-winning grab and was immediately mobbed by his teammates.
“The best thing about being a coach is that
it’s about the players,” first year coach Chris
Creighton said. “I’m so excited for the seniors:
to see Kurt Casper crying and to have our guys
believe even when we were down.”
The win ended a five-year drought in Bell
games for Wabash. The Little Giants trail in the
overall series by just one game, 50-49-9.
TODD VOGEL
Seniors CHRIS FUTSCHER (98), CHRIS FABINA
(95). NICK GUZIK (56), and ERIKS JANELSINS
(51) carry the Bell out of Grencastle. After three
years, these seniors, and their fellow classmates,
finally have the Bell back at Wabash.
NEWS
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On Saturday I witnessed my
fourteenth Monon Bell Classic.
In that time I’ve been privileged
to see the game through three
very different lenses—media
member, development officer,
and alumnus. “The Catch” certainly makes the view from the
first two lenses more palatable. I
have bragging rights over my
DePauw media counterparts.
When I hit the road to raise
money I know everyone on
whom I call will be in a good
mood.
The game’s impact, though,
resonates most with the Wabash
man in me. As the ball nestled
into Kurt Casper’s arms Wabash
men at 40 telecast parties around
the country wildly celebrated
around DePauw alumni who
wept in their Perrier. Monday
morning Wabash men everywhere gleefully collected on
bets with their DePauw business
associates.
A Wabash victory, even one
as dramatic as Saturday’s,
means more than bragging rights
for alumni. It offers a chance to
celebrate great memories from
our student days. My class, like
the class of ’02, lost its first
three Bell games. In ’91 we used
a fourth quarter drive to return
the Bell to Crawfordsville. Saturday’s post-game celebrations
took me right back to that
November day in 1991—I could
almost taste the brass-flavored
beer that poured from the Bell!
Every Wabash man, regardless
of graduation year, was taken
back to a beloved moment from
his undergraduate days.
Congratulations to Chris
Creighton and his players—
especially Kurt Casper—for
reminding Wabash men everywhere of the things that engender a life long love for their alma
mater.
(Joe Emmick ’92 is the
Director of Major Gifts and
Gift-Planning. He is also a
member of the Monon Bell Television Network’s announcing
team. This was his fourteenth
Monon Bell game on radio or
television.)
NEWS
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
Knott: Reflections On New
Coach, Bell Game, 2001 Season
Jacob Pactor sat down with
Junior Quarterback Jake Knott
and discussed this season.
ence and get in playoffs – that’s
what I want to be remembered
by.
What were you expectations at
the beginning of the year?
Coach Creighton started in
January, and we expected to be
pretty good. Aside from a few
players, we were returning the
core of our team. We expected to
win the conference championship.
Was there a monkey on your
back?
I don’t know; maybe there
was. I hadn’t played really well
in the previous two Monon Bell
games. It’s nice to win one. Now
we have a conference championship and playoff [berth] to
accomplish.
Was Wittenberg the turning
point?
That game showed us what we
were capable of doing. After the
game, we made a commitment to
each other to run the table the rest
of the season. We wanted to go 70 after that.
Did you think the play was
going to work?
I know it could work; I knew
we had a a chance. I knew Short
could tip it. I knew I could get it
there.
Coming out of the timeout,
Short said, “I’m going to tip it,
you [Casper] just get behind me.
You [Knott] throw and we will
do the rest.” I just chucked it to
where Short usually is, and then I
got hit and didn’t see it.
What difference does it make
to have a running game?
It makes it a lot easier on me.
I don’t have to rely on a spread
offense all the time. We can play
action sometime. A couple times,
we hit a few deep balls when
their safeties and linebackers
were expecting the run.
How does it feel to hold
Wabash’s all-time passing
record?
I put a lot of hard work into, so
I’m proud of it. But, I have had
two coaches, three really good
offensive lines, and some pretty
good college football players
playing receiver for me. Now
that we won the bell, next year I
want to win it again, win confer-
Did you know the ball was
caught?
There was a split second when
no one knew what to do. Then,
everyone just ran and screamed. I
just went nuts with everyone
else. It was a great feeling. It will
probably be remembered as one
of the greatest games ever.
What is it like to hear that bell
on campus?
It sounds pretty good. …
There is nothing more I want to
do now than beat them again next
year.
Wabash v. DePauw
Monday, 11-26 @ 7:30 PM
Pacemates Will Be There Too!
THE BACHELOR • PAGE 3
Worden Highlights Shady Political Ads
Paul Jansen
REPORTER
Chris Worden returned to
Wabash Monday, a relieved
man. He had sworn not to
return until the Bell was
brought home. His oath was
fulfilled when two days after
capturing the Bell, he returned
to Wabash for a College
Democrats sponsored speech.
Worden, the current Parliamentarian for the Democratic
Party in Indiana, graduated
from Wabash in 1991 with a
political science degree. He
went on to receive his JD and
MPA from Indiana University.
He came back specifically to
speak on a case he is litigating
against the United States
Chamber of Commerce for
campaign finance violations.
Through the United States
Chamber
of
Commerce,
unnamed donors anonymously
supported the Republican candidate, Steve Carter, over the
incumbent Karen FreemanWilson in the race for Indiana
Attorney General. By law, corporations can donate no more
than $5000 to a political cam-
paign.
Due to current election law,
additional monies may be supplied anonymously if they
sponsor messages that leave
out specific words meant to
“call for the election or defeat
of a candidate.”
According to the Indianapolis Star, “[The Chamber]
spent as much as $300,000 on
“This suit is about
keeping large
corporations out
of public office.”
the ads.” These ads were
released in the final 10 days of
the campaign.
With this knowledge, anyone can work around campaign
finance laws in order to demonize candidates, as long as
there is no contact between the
candidate and anonymous
spender. Worden noted if you
should have to use the words
cited in current statutes during
a campaign, “you people just
aren’t clever enough.”
This wasn’t a single occurrence into election fund mismanagement; the same tactics
were used in other states in
exactly the same manner.
According to Worden, “The
whole campaign could have
been financed by a single
North Carolina tobacco company that was upset because
the prior Attorney General
joined the national tobacco litigation.”
Worden’s goal is to make
sure voters know who is funding campaign ads. He is also
making sure that every
Hoosier knows the donors
behind all campaign dollars.
Through speaking out, Mr.
Worden hopes to dispel the
seemingly partisan nature of
the suit. He notes that if the
current
policies
aren’t
changed, both parties will use
this same type of illegal
financing in years to come.
According to Worden, this suit
is about keeping large corporations out of public office.
THE BACHELOR • PAGE 4 • NOVEMBER 15, 2001
EDITORIAL
THE BACHELOR’S OPINION
Mike LoPrete
managing editor
Jeremy Vaughn
campus corner editor
Kyle Nickel
opinion editor
Jacob Pactor
editor in chief
Sean Gallagher
news editor
Bring Back the Dialogue
There is a certain attractive quality about idleness. We can
choose to wait until there is a problem to attack, and return to ignoring it as soon as the crisis has passed.
Last year, the Multicultural Concerns Committee (MCC) sponsored two Dialogue for Diversity sessions in response to racial tension on campus. Future sessions, the organizers promised, would be
proactive rather than reactive. We have yet to see that promise fulfilled.
We should begin with a bit of history. Last spring, in the wake of
“dirty rush” claims by some within the IFC, the MXI moved to
defend its character. The MXI met with the Deans, Admissions officials, and professors to discuss these events. Because of those meetings, three things occurred.
First, a conversation commenced. Instead of simple criticism, the
two sides discussed grievances, perceptions, and possible solutions.
According to some within the MXI, the administration understood
the frustration of its members.
Second, the MCC organized the two “Dialogue for Diversity”
sessions. The informal but candid discussions afforded us an opportunity to examine the diversity already present at Wabash. It also
foreshadowed a commitment by students, faculty, and staff to further
discuss the issue.
Third, people—even those who did not attend private MXI meetings or the public Dialogues—began talking about racism, diversity,
and other related “hot” topics.
With Thanksgiving upon us, and finals soon after, it does not
appear that a Dialogue will occur this semester.
There are some possible reasons for this, centered on the fact that
last year’s tension is no longer strongly felt. More black freshmen
joined fraternities. Almost all fraternities experienced an increase in
rush and retention. The MXI, IFC, and MCC have chosen not to
press the issue.
Nonetheless, we ought to have another Dialogue. Even if the
MXI is not facing the same turbulent times as last year, the Dialogues were designed to be for more than just resolving conflicts.
Those Dialogues were as healthy and productive for fraternities and
MXI members as they were for those people who weren’t involved
in the tension. They gave us focus and a tangible goal we could
work to achieve together.
Immediately following September 11, our community pulled
together and shed worthless stereotypes, prejudices, and generalizations. Around homecoming, our divisions became more divisive and
appear ant through !students e-mails; however, we soon came
together as one. At the Monon Bell game, we again fought side-byside for a common cause. We have already worked to achieve a common goal together, and the Dialogue for Diversity will allow us to
continue that tradition.
There is never a better time to discuss the present than the present. We cannot remain idle. We cannot merely wait for a problem
to appear before we take action. We must have honest and frank discussion now.
This is a call for action—for all of us. We can do more than coexist peacefully. Continuing the Dialogue sessions will only help us
achieve our goals.
Reject The Return To Normalcy
Jacob Pactor
EDITOR IN CHIEF
I initially sat down to write
this and found myself creating
a most-thankful list: winning
the Bell, Thanksgiving Break,
leading my fantasy basketball
league, family and life. However in comparison, I have little to be satisfied about.
There is no satisfaction in an
American Airlines plane crashing and “news disseminator”
encouraging Americans to
believe another terrorist attack
occurred. There is also no satisfaction in the government
wanting us to return to our normal lives and activities.
What I mean is that there is
no satisfaction in continuing
everyday practices such as
incarcerating a disproportionate amount of Blacks in our
jails. The government wants us
to continue building more jails
for these blacks while still
under-funding our schools.
They want us to ignore complains about the poor education
our children receive. In actually, what the government wants
us to return to is racism, bigotry, and misogyny.
Do we really want a return
to normalcy? Instead, I anticipate the day when we condemn
our past, acknowledge our mistakes, and progress forwards.
Too often, we bog ourselves
down with miniscule and
unimportant details. We allow
petty differences to outweigh
multiple similarities. If America truly is the country of liberty that it claims to be, we
should not return to normalcy.
Does anyone really strive to
be normal or to be average? If
so, students should receive
benedictions and accolades
when they post a 2.0 GPA. The
basketball team should strive
for a 10-10 record. America is
not an average nation. America
is a beautiful country, a land
for all peoples, beliefs, and
ideals. More so, Americans
expect and idolize the extraordinary.
If we were a nation with
high expectations, the actions
of firefighters and rescue workers on September 11 would not
have garnered airtime because
they would have been perceived as mundane.
As the Statue of Liberty
exclaims to the world, America
wants your tired, poor,
oppressed, refuse, and homeless. America will “lift [its]
lamp beside the golden door!”
Instead of returning to normalcy, I believe we should return
to this ideal. This ideal is not
normal; when in practice it
makes America a magnificent
country.
Founding and preserving a
country is no easy task. However, founding and preserving
the idealistic America is near
impossible. Our forefathers
shaped this country. We owe it
to them, ourselves, and our
descendants to make this country better off today than it was
four years ago – and, to make it
better than it was on September
11.
When standards mandate
high expectations, the people
achieve amazing results. If
Creighton’s crew stopped
believing and fighting we
would still live minus the Bell.
When a group believes in
itself, sets lofty (and achievable) goals, anything is possible.
So reject a return to normalcy and complacency. Like the
football team winning the bell,
America should strive for a
higher goal than average. We
expect, as do football players,
to go 15-0 next year and show
Mount Union (a perennial
Division III powerhouse) what
Wabash Always Fights means.
Have a great break, but do
not return to normalcy.
No Thanks For Indulgence
Kyle Nickel
OPINION EDITOR
A week from now I’ll be standing on my grandparent’s back
porch lifting a cigarette to my
mouth that will only be accepted
on the condition that nothing goes
beyond my lips. The thought of
another morsel venturing down to
my stomach will be nauseating.
The turkey will be left on the table
to be battered and torn by those
brave enough to rip on last piece
from the bone, Casserole dishes
scraped bare, the sink overflowing
with plates, a room full of middle
aged men watching football. It
happens every year in nearly every
home in the United States.
Thanksgiving. Thanks giving.
How odd it seems to me that
our celebration of gratitude is
marked by indulgence. I know the
“Our culture has
changed without
any evolution of
tradition.”
story. The natives, wise to the way
of the land, teach the pilgrims the
essentials of agriculture and hunting. Happy Happy. They throw a
big party and a few hundred years
later Lincoln makes it a red-letter
day. That’s how it was told to me
in pre-school anyway.
In a culture of uncertain crop
yields, questionable hunting skills,
and a lack of effective food preservation, a feast would seem appro-
priate. Eat it while you got it.
However, our culture has changed
with out any evolution of tradition.
If there is any truth to the myth,
those settlers no doubt cherished
each ounce of food. It was nourishment, not an act of excess. Can
we now how good the turkey
would taste if we were not certain
where the next bird would come
from?
Giving thanks implies that there
is a recipient of the thanks. Assign
that role to the divine, parents,
teachers, good fortune, or fate.
Should not gratefulness to these
entities be manifested by sacrifice
rather than greed? If not in action,
let us sacrifice somehow. I don’t
know the answer to how, but I’m
certain eating until we are lulled to
sleep on the sofa by the voice of
John Madden is not the way.
OPINION
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
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MONON BELL
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
You Are Some
Little Giants
“Men of Wabash: You did
yourselves proud yesterday in
Greencastle. Congratulations to
all of you—to the team on your
performance, to the Sphinx
Club for your leadership and
spirit, to all students for your
classy behavior.
We cherish a meaningful
phrase, usually reserving it for
individuals who have performed well in a particular
moment or over a long period
of time. Appropriately, I send it
out to all of you today: you are
some Little Giants!!!”
Dean of Students
Tom Bambrey
(from a !students e-mail)
“We scored in the last second
10 yards away from Bell. Our
guys had enough class to go and
shake their [DePauw’s] hands
and then go get the bell. Our
guys are first class guys.”
Coach Chris Creighton
ALL PHTOS BY TODD VOGEL
RICK STRASSER ’02
(above) leads the Sphnix Club and fans in
cheers.
(right) Punter and
back-up quarterback,
JOE LONNEMANN
’03 (15) leads the Little Giants into the
108th Monon Bell
Game.
(far right) RYAN
SHORT ’03 makes a
leaping catch near
midfield.
The Wabash defense
(right) prepares to
attack DePauw’s
quarterback.
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
MONON BELL
THE BACHELOR • PAGE 7
TODD VOGEL
(above) After CASPER’S catch,
the crowd stormed the field,
reaching CASPER before some
football players.
Wabash Retains
Bleed For The
Bell Trophy
BOTH BY SHAY ATKINSON
(above) KURT CASPER celebrates his game winning catch with Coach BJ HAMMER ’01. (below) The Sphinx Club hazes its new mascot.
According to the Central
Indiana Blood Center, Wabash’s
APO chapter will keep the
“Bleed for the Bell” travelling
trophy. For the fifth straight
year, a higher percentage of the
Wabash community has given
blood than DePauw.
At Wabash, in a one day
drive, 95 (11.28 % of student
body) students donated. That
does not include about 15 men
who were turned down at the
end of the day because the staff
couldn’t handle any more
donors!
It took DePauw two days to
have 113 donors (5.2% of its
student body).
The FIJIs had the most
donors with 9 men, while College Hall had the highest percentage of donors (39%) with 7
men.
PAGE 8 • THE BACHELOR
Narcolepsy
Attacks Wabash
Philip Goldstein
CAMPUS CORNER
The Reasons I Am
Glad I Am A Man
ALLEGED HUMORIST
From my observations over
the past few weeks, Wabash is
in trouble. All one needs to do
is glance around the classroom
to see that many people are
experiencing symptoms similar
to those of narcolepsy. While I
have not checked with any of
the experts yet, I am very certain that the cause of this sudden outbreak of sleeping disorder is caused by a hideous disease.
Although I have no real
proof, I believe it is the squirrels who are spreading the disease.
I do know, however, that
this disease is transmitted
through the ink of our textbooks and in our pens. I
noticed several people who
were falling asleep were face
down in their books. Others
started to pass out as they were
writing their notes.
Most of the current cases are
students, but an occasional
professor has been spotted
falling asleep both in the office
and in the classroom. However,
the majority has built up
enough tolerance to be immune
to most of its effects. Of
course, the professors who disagree with my theory are in
fact in on the conspiracy to
afflict us all with this disease.
Trust no one. The truth
probably is not out there, but
the fiction is worth reading.
Some claim they might simply be falling asleep for other
reasons like exhaustion, but
mass exhaustion makes very
little sense. That would require
everyone to be getting very little sleep and to be working all
the time, but that simply cannot be true. If everyone were
doing that why would they all
be asking for extensions on
their papers? Furthermore,
why would any Wally do that
to himself? It would have to be
some sort of mass masochistic
tendency. We all know this
quite simply does not stand to
Occam’s Razor. Very simply,
which sounds more reasonable
to you: people are really tired
because they don’t sleep or an
evil plot to cause everyone to
suffer from narcolepsy is being
put forth by squirrels in order
to take over the world by overresponding to grade inflation.
Jason Palin
HUMORIST
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
CavemanGrunt
What Is A Politically Correct Alternative
To “DePauw Swallows?”
I couldn’t help but look around the field after we
won back our bell and have a deeper appreciation for
being a man. Below I have run down some of the
things I think we can all agree give us pleasure about
Lonnie Heck ’03
being men.
When I talk about my time of the month, more likeMartindale
ly than not I am referring to the 2 days before and the 3
days after the arrival of my new Club International
magazine. The best part is that within this time frame,
I don’t get all upset and cry every time I see they are
playing You’ve Got Mail on some channel.
I appreciate pornography in any and all of its forms.
Be it VHS, DVD, magazine, Internet, or even a dirty
limerick. I don’t know why women seem to be so
offended by porno; I know that, like all men, I think it’s
the greatest thing since nudity itself, and I will continue to celebrate it.
I am a proud member of the century club. I take
Robert Alexander ’05
great pride in the fact that I can sit down and consume
a shot of beer every minute for 100 straight minutes,
College Hall
and still walk (somewhat upright) over to the neighbor’s fence and write my name on it. Women don’t
seem to have the slightest bit of drive to attempt either
of these feats. Men, however, will spend great amounts
of time to come up with new inventive ways to declare
our drinking dominance.
Loud stereos make me happy. Women do nothing
but bitch about the fact that car stereo is so loud it
vibrates the rear-view mirror to the point where they
cant make out what’s behind them. As men, we strive
Nate Boulais ’03
to achieve just such a feat, and the fact that women hate
it make it just a little more desirable.
Phi Delt
I know it is perfectly appropriate to greet a fellow
man by blowing a belch in his face and punching him
in the arm. In a way its like the ceremony of bowing
Grunts compiled by Marty Schap
before the emperor, but women don’t seem to get the
subtle courteousness behind it. We take great pride in
these actions, and are always more than happy to return fire and
prove that we are superior.
Finally, the Monon Bell is not a hunk of metal. It is a symbol that
encompasses all of the above things, and it gives a reason to conweekend. I want to move them,
Chris Languna
tinue through day-to-day life. As long as we have the bell (and
not just give them something to
GUEST CRITIC
DePauw continues to swallow) the universe is balanced and life
get out of study tables or fill a
Is there a point to what I do?
shall continue. One Pledge.
weekend. I want to make them
That question was shoved into laugh, make them cry, but most of
Now that we are in agree- To them, I beg that we remem- my face this past weekend when I all, I want to make them think
ment that the critters are trying ber that while some sacrifice is went to see Anton in Show Busi- about who they are.
to sabotage our educational necessary, to make too strong a ness, a play. It asks a pretty tough
I want to take someone on such
system to destroy us all, I am move leaves us just as expend- question for an actor: Is the the- an emotional ride that they come
sure you want to know how to ed and just as used by the atre really worthwhile?
out reeling from the one, two
It’s a hard question for an actor punch of my acting and my interfight it. First, we should change enemy acorn-slingers.
the grading system. From now
The only other possibility of because you can’t see the results pretation. I want them, at some
on above forty-eight percent cure I have seen is the Monon of entertainment like you can, say, point, to cry because I’ve just
should be an A. Forty-seven to Bell. I have noticed that as long those of a doctor or an auto moved them so much more than
forty-two should be a B. Below as an individual is ringing the mechanic.
they have ever been moved.
It’s so hard for me because
forty-one is a C. While this will Bell or listening to the Bell
That’s what happened to me
not solve the problem of the ring, they seem to stay awake. often times I can’t see the results over the weekend. I thought about
disease, it will confuse those As a last suggestion, I recom- of what I do. Oh sure, there are the who I was. I asked myself the
who began this operation and mend that WNDY play a people who say that they really same question that Anton asked:
will eventually cause them to recording of the Bell ringing enjoyed my play. But more often Is the theatre worthwhile?
look for a new tactic.
non-stop twenty-four seven. than not, the round of applause at
The answer I came up with
While I recognize that not Sure, then no one will sleep, the show’s end is all I can judge may not surprise you, but I bet the
all will support this idea, par- but from the look of it, at least how someone liked what I did.
reasons will.
I want to do to my audiences
ticularly those who would pre- they will be having a good
what was done to me this past
fer a more powerful movement. time.
SEE PLAY ON 9
“Your teeth are white.”
There is no other way to say
what is so true.
“DePauw performs superb
fellatio.”
Let My Play Entertain You
CAMPUS CORNER
Shallow Hal Has Deep Heart
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
Jeremy Vaughn
CAMPUS CORNER EDITOR
The Farrelly Brothers: two
men who strike fear into prim
and proper individuals around
the
world
have
launched yet another
missile into the state
of good taste. And it’s
a big one…
Shallow Hal, as the
previews
indicate,
focuses on a mild
manner guy named
Hal with one major
flaw; he’s ungodly
shallow.
By his
descriptions, many of
the world’s most
beautiful women are
not good enough for
him physically. This Achilles
heel is blocked out when he is
stuck in an elevator with a selfhelp psychology guru, who
gives him complementary hypnotherapy to see only the inner
beauty of others.
Hal immediately begins
meeting all kinds of “beautiful”
women, who surprisingly
respond to his quirky personality
and advances. Unbeknownst to
Hal, the women he is meeting
are less than the models he
believes them to be; however
not even the most vehement testimony from his closest friend
(played by Jason Alexander) can
sway him away from his new
perceptions.
The plot becomes more interesting when Hal meets RosePLAY FROM 8
What I do is worthwhile,
because even if I can only move
one person to tears with my performance, even if I only make one
person truly glad that they came,
even if I can only reach one person in my audience, I feel like I’ve
done my job.
Anton moved me to tears. I
actually cried because this play
got to me that much. I’ve had to
deal with being unappreciated,
with people thinking that what I
do is just playing around, that it
doesn’t take any real work to do
what I do.
Unfortunately, it takes more
work than anybody can ever
know. It takes hours upon hours of
commitment. It means leaving
your girlfriend earlier than you’d
like on the weekend. It means
nights of no sleep and no food. It
means having to pull an all nighter
mary at a department store.
Gwyneth Paltrow shows her
range and ability as an actress in
her, quite frankly, amazing portrayal of a 300lb woman. She
spends most of the film in her
natural slender form,
the same form Hal
percieves Rosemary
to be. Yet she still
conveys a wounded
sensitivity
of
a
woman who has been
shunned,
ignored,
mocked, and isolated
for most of her life.
The sheer amount of
empathy
Paltrow
brings to this film is
most unusual for a
Farrelly
Brother’s
film, which typically
rely on sight gags and onedimentional characters.
The rest of the film, while
predictible, is still enjoyable to
watch. Of course Rosemary and
Hal fall in love. Of course Rosemary happens to be Hal’s boss’s
daughter. Of course Hal’s hypnotic suggestion breaks…Yet
despite these rather obvious
plotlines, the film retains it’s
empathic force. Even though we
know how it’s going to end long
before the final credits, the film
is still entertaining.
In short, Shallow Hal is a
remarkable break from the Farrelly Brother’s traditionally
shallow films. With quirky
characters, novel sight gags, and
pure heart, Shallow Hal is the
feel-good comedy of the season.
to finish that paper for class the
next day.
I’m pretty sure that at some
point, I’ve moved someone as
much as I was. I have to believe
that, because the only time that I
get any extreme of emotion from
people is when they hated what I
do. That’s the worst time for me.
Those are the times when I really
wonder if there’s a point. Thankfully, it doesn’t happen often.
I often wonder what it would
be like to be someone who isn’t an
actor. Whose bread and butter
doesn’t lie in the entertainment of
others. I can’t do it. I can’t see me
doing anything but entertaining
other.
Next time you go to a play,
which I hope is soon, don’t just
look at it as filler for your evening.
Look at it for what it is: an
attempt by a small group of people to move you. To entertain you.
THE BACHELOR • PAGE 9
TODD VOGEL
(above) KRIS KLIPPEL ’03 continues to push the ball even as a DePauw players rips his ear. (below) MELECIO GONZALEZ ’03 tries to run through another DePauw player. The rugby club lost the Monon Keg
game again on November 9, but according to BEN KESLING ’02, they were all happy to win back the Bell.
SPORTS
PAGE 10 • THE BACHELOR
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
“We Believe,” was the season’s theme. The
2001 Little Giants did believe, posted an
8-2 record, and brought the Bell home.
TODD VOGEL
TODD VOGEL
BLAIR HAMMER ’04 (54) and the defense forced six
DePauw turnovers, two interceptions and four fumbles.
(below) RYAN SHORT ’03 (88) is congratulated after
one of his two touchdown receptions. SHORT finished
with 102 yards receiving and HAMMER had 1 tackle.
108th Monon Bell
2001Little Giant
Football Results
Wabash College v. DePauw University
(Nov 10, 2001 at Greencastle, IN)
FIRST DOWNS...................
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Sacks By: Number-Yards........
WAB
21
9
12
0
45
134
14
120
381
46
26
2
91
501
5.5
2-1
8-70
5-135
27.0
2-12
3-28
2-30
0-0
0
38:53
9-20
1-5
1-2
BRANDON CLIFTON ’05 (82) runs after his only catch, a 25-yard romp. NICK DAWSON ’04 (81) had
43 receiving yards on 6 catches. He also hauled in a touchdown.
DPU
16
3
13
0
27
84
15
69
299
43
25
0
70
368
5.3
4-4
4-36
5-154
30.8
2-19
4-78
2-23
0-0
0
21:07
6-14
0-2
0-0
8-2 overall
6-1 NCAC, tied 2nd-place
MANCHESTER
WHEATON
Wittenberg
Oberlin
WOOSTER
EARLHAM
HIRAM
Allegheny
Denison
DePauw
45-21
35-58
3-14
56-26
35-7
41-7
56-7
41-20
49 -12
27-21
Offensive Season Leaders
Chris Morris ’03: 819 rushing yds.
Jake Knott ’03: 2908 passing yds.
Ryan Short ’03: 901 receiving yds.
Kurt Casper ’02: 899 receiving yds.
Olmy Olmstead ’04: 40-44 PATs
Defensive Season Leaders
Artie Montes ’04: 5 interceptions
Nate Boulais ’03: 55 tackles
Josh Stanton ’03: 10 sacks
Blair Hammer ’04: 9.5 sacks
SPORTS
NOVEMBER 15, 2001
THE BACHELOR • PAGE 11
Tankers 2-0 After Transylvania
The Wabash College swimming and diving team won its
second straight dual meet of the
season with a 170-64 victory
over Transylvania University
on Friday evening.
The Little Giants took first
place in 10 of the 13 events.
Zach Sundstrom ’05, Colin
Fahey ’05, Brandon Peacock ’04,
and
Bernie
Manker ’02 combined to win the
first event of the
meet, the 400-yard medley
relay, with a time of 3:45.70.
Freshman Brad Williams was
one of two double winners for
the Little Giants. He took first
place in the 200 freestyle
(1:50.59) and the 500 freestyle
(5:08.72). Junior diver Nick
Roersma won both of his
events, scoring 239.02 points
on the one-meter board and
240.15 points on the threemeter board.
Four other Little Giants won
individual events. Brett Findley
’04 won the 200 butterfly
(2:04.20), Sundstrom was first
in the 200 backstroke (2:02.42),
Manker won the 100 freestyle
(51.40),
and
Peacock took
first place in the
50
freestyle
(22.82).
Dean Fox ’04
joined Williams,
Findley,
and
Peacock to finish first in the 400
freestyle relay with a winning
time of 3:26.39.
Wabash will compete against
ten other teams from four states
in the 2001 Wabash Invitational
Swimming and Diving Meet on
Saturday, November 17 at the
IU Natatorium in Indianapolis.
The Swimming and Diving
team is 2-0 this year.
The team has
outscored
opponents:
425 to 139.
TODD VOGEL
Smit Advances
To Nationals
As Red Pack
Finishes Ninth
At Regionals
Wabash senior Jared Smit
will advance to the NCAA
Cross Country National Championship meet for the third time
in four seasons by virtue of his
eighth-place finish in Saturday’s
Regional at Kalamazoo College.
The Little Giants finished
ninth in the team scoring with
255 points.
Smit toured the course in
25:42 to earn his top-ten finish.
He missed making a trip to the
Nationals as a sophomore due to
a knee injury that forced him out
of competition for the season.
Junior Mark Sherer was 30th
(26:37), sophomore Dan Ruge
finished 38th (26:47), freshman
Sean Dillon was 83rd (27:42),
Dan Sweet ’04 finished in
102nd place (28:00), and Brandon Shipp ’03 was 140th
(28:44) in the 210-runner field.
The NCAA National Championship meet will take place on
Saturday, November 17 at
Augustana College in Rock
Island, Illinois.
The Indianapolis Association of
Wabash Men
Says
Congratulations to the football team
on beating DPU and regaining the
Bell, and on a great season.
Continue to believe!
W
Good Luck Jared Smit at Nationals.
Have a safe and enjoyable
Thanksgiving Holiday.
TODD VOGEL
(above) JAKE KNOTT ’03 takes the snap from center TOM
MEEKER ’03 (63). (top) During the game, the sideline and
fans provided much encouragement in the 27-21 triumph.
WABASH ALWAYS FIGHTS!
THE BACHELOR • PAGE 12 • NOVEMBER 15, 2001
CAMPUS CORNER
After Bell Game,
Students Focus
On the Fine Arts
IU Baroque Orchestra
Entertains Music
Enthusiasts And Laymen
Jeremy Vaughn
CAMPUS CORNER EDITOR
TODD VOGEL
(right) TIM DOREMUS ’05 and JUSTIN DIRIG ’03 perform in the
Student One-Act plays. The plays will conclude tonight at 8 pm in the
Experimental Theater (Fine Arts Center).
(above) The Indiana University Baroque Orchestra performed on Tuesday, November 13 in Salter Hall. The Orchestra features the music and
modified instruments of the Baroque time period, 17th and 18th century.
The orchestra may be
baroque, but there’s no need
to fix this music.
The Indiana University
Baroque Orchestra, under the
leadership of conductor/violinist Stanley Ritchie, performed Tuesday evening in
Salter Hall. The performance
was enjoyable, attended by
both faculty and students,
music majors and laymen
alike; it basked spectators in
the sounds of the 17th and
18th centuries.
The orchestra effectively
replicated the look and sound
of Baroque and 18th century
classical music. The celli
were played without their
endpins, and the physical
arrangement of the performers was also historically
accurate.
The pieces were played in
chronological order, beginning with Johann Heinrich
Schmelzer (1603-80) to
Johann Joseph Fux (16601741) and Arcangelo Corelli
(1653-1713). After that, the
program
shifted
from
Baroque to Classical music
from Willem De Fesch
(1687-1761), George Frideric
Handel (1685-1759), and
Franz Joseph Hayden (17321809).
Surprisingly absent from
this performance was the
composer Johann Sebastian
Bach.
Nonetheless, an
impressive performance was
rendered unto the Wabash
audience by a truly gifted
group of musicians.