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Plans for Doane's track facili-ties are being revised after lead-ers on campus saw a need to ad-dress new concerns.

Doane President Jacque Carter said since the original plans were drawn to simply ex-pand Fuhrer Fieldhouse to fit a full size track. After analyzing the plans once again with an eye for new opportunities, Carter said the plans needed to be re-viewed to ensure a proper in-vestment for years to come.

“We found things that we should probably fix or improve that weren’t in the original drawings,” Carter said.

The boilers, chillers, roof, and locker rooms were all things that

Carter said were reevaluated. Most recently, the reviews were taken to the Board of Trustees who authorized the new recom-mendations to be sent to the ar-chitects for redrawing. Follow-ing that, Carter said meetings would be held to approve the new designs.

The bidding process for con-struction will begin once the new drawing are approved by the Trustees.

“The potential is there to be-gin construction over the sum-mer or next semester,” Carter said.

Athletic Director Greg Heier said he looked forward to all of the improvements that would go into Fuhrer.

“The track surface is showing lots of wear.” Heier said. “Re-gardless of what we do, that sur-

face needs to be replaced.”Heier said the attendance at

indoor track and field meets was impacted by the quality of the Fuhrer track.

“The number of teams that are coming are splitting between us and Concordia. That hurts at-tendance – that hurts the com-petition of the meets.” Heier said.

Both Heier and Carter said one of the principle motivators to renovate Fuhrer was to at-tract people. By expanding the track and implementing other improvements Doane hoped to keep a large track team happy, appeal to prospective students and provide opportunities for recreational use.

Do-a n e estab-

lished i t s f i r s t graduate program for adult and non-traditional learners in Lincoln in 1981 and opened a second in 2003 in Grand Island. The college is now discuss-ing the possibility of another program in Omaha.

“We think that our kind of adult programs and graduate programs are actually better for students to take than other schools’ programs because we emphasize the importance of liberal arts,” Doane College President Jacque Carter said. “So we fig-ure why should we not offer students in the Oma-ha region the same quality program that people in Grand Island and Lincoln can take?”

The programs in Lincoln and Grand Island have been successful, so the college felt there might be students interested in a Doane education in Omaha, Carter said.

Students in the graduate program take Doane Plan classes and classes that are focused on their profession, said John Burney, academic affairs vice president.

Carter said the college was considering Omaha as the location for another graduate program be-cause it was the largest city in Nebraska, which provided a large market of students.

A marketing study would be done before Do-ane made the decision to start a graduate program in Omaha, though, Burney said.

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Student Congress is pursuing a declining balance meal plan that would give Doane students more control over the cost of food on campus.

The new system would al-low students to carry money on their ID cards that could be used for purchasing sole items as op-posed to using a meal credit for an entire meal. The money could be used at Tiger Inn and Com-mon Grounds to purchase food and drinks separately, allowing students to buy only what they need.

Kim Jacobs, student leader-ship vice president and StuCo adviser, is set to meet with the managers of Sodexo over

spring break to discuss the pos-sible plans. She said she would then meet with StuCo to discuss the options offered to the school and to get their feedback before the information would be made available to students.

“I’m hoping to provide StuCo with three options, and then they will ask the student body which is preferred,” Jacobs said.

The main reason for the change would be to give stu-dents more options and a great-er sense of control over what

they buy, Jacobs said. She said a new plan would help students feel that they are getting a better value.

Laura Jacob, StuCo presi-dent, said the plan would save students money because they would now pay for what they wanted.

“Instead of paying $7 for a scone and coffee, you’ll pay

whatever a scone or a coffee is worth,” Jacob said.

Currently students are get-ting a good deal at the caf-eteria with the all you can eat option, but downstairs they are losing money, Jacob said. With a declining balance plan if you don’t want a drink but you want two muffins, you wouldn’t be limited to using two

meal credits, she said.The decision to look at al-

ternative meal plans was the first step in a process that could take years, Jacob said. She said it all depended on the cost of updating the software currently installed on cam-pus. It is not yet known wheth-er the meal plan software is capable of handling such a change, Geis said, and updating the software could be a very ex-pensive process.

“If (the software) is incom-patible, it is highly doubtful we will have a declining meal plan by next year,” Geis said. “Anytime you undergo a huge

change, it takes time.”Next year the 21 regular meal

plan would still be in place due to the number of incoming stu-dents who have already been promised this in their financial aid package, Jacobs said. Most schools that have a declining balance meal plan also have a 21 meal plan, and Jacobs said that Doane would also do this because the college had already been advertising it.

“Looking at meal plan op-tions is something schools do on a regular basis,” Jacobs said. “A lot of different pieces have to come together, but we are in the process.”

Declining balance, declining chancesBY ALEX DAWSON

Staff Writer“Instead of paying $7 for a scone and coffee, you’ll pay whatever a scone or a coffee is worth.”

Laura Jacob-StuCo President

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Doane is developing its stra-tegic plan, outlining its goals for the future, and the restructuring of administration positions is part of that future.

The major changes to admin-istration will include the expan-sion of Joel Weyand’s role as Admission Vice President to En-rollment Services and Market-ing Vice President.

The Office of Communica-tions and Marketing and Ath-letics Department will now work under Weyand, President Jacque Carter said.

“This will create some ef-ficiencies, working with Greg Heier, Jacque Pomajzl, and kyle McMurray,” Weyand said.

Carter said the expansion of Weyand’s role would allow for better communication and plan-ning when recruiting new stu-dents, since both departments played a big role in recruitment.

“It just made a lot of sense to align those offices behind the admissions office so that when parents and students look at Doane College to attend that all of our materials are lined up to

help them make the decision,” Carter said.

Weyand will also be appoint-ed as the Chairman of the Finan-cial Aid Award Committee.

Weyand would not be able to oversee these new duties on the Crete, Lincoln and Grand Island campuses without additional as-sistance, Carter said.

Either an assistant or associ-ate vice president or a director will be appointed to help Wey-and.

The organizational structure of the Academic Affairs Office will also change.

In order to ease the workload of Academic Affairs Vice Presi-dent John Burney, the college plans to hire an associate vice president in he department.

Burney said one duties the new administrator would focus on would be developing experi-ential learning programs.

“Experiential learning is a broad term we use for things where students get outside the classroom, but it is credit bear-ing still,” he said.

Undergraduate research, study abroad, service learn-ing and credit bearing in-ternships would be the types of programs the academic affairs associate vice president

would fall into the category of experiential learning, he said.

The associate vice president would also work to develop learning assessments.

Burney said the learning as-sessments developed would measure the effectiveness of Do-ane’s programs.

“In the Doane Plan we’ve said we’ve taught students about critical thinking, cultural issues, writing--can we demonstrate that?” He said. “Are our pro-grams as a whole doing their job?”

Burney said he thought the new hire would be a good thing.

“A lot of faculty have been telling me I need a person to help out,” he said.

Burney said the new addi-tions to administration would not be hired right away, though.

“It’s a couple of years out before this would be put in place,” he said. “We need to be able to fit it into our budget.”

Carter said the changes that Doane will make, though, would help Doane become an even stronger college.

“This is a new chapter in Do-ane’s story that we’re experienc-ing right now and it’s an oppor-tunity for Doane,” he said.

Carter plans growth and improvement

Doane looks at Omaha to grow

President Jacque Carter’s plan focused on reorganizing, improving, and growing Doane

Fuhrer renovations revamped

BY ERIN BELLStaff Writer

BY JAY GROTEStaff Writer

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Doane graduate Sarah Beas-ley never thought being a music teacher would make her rich.

But $70,000 of student debt later, Beasley would have done things differently.

“I feel like I was sold the Do-ane Dream,” Beasley said. “Now I’m working a minimum wage job.”

Beasley graduated in four years with a music education degree. She currently substi-tute teaches two to three times a week for Crete and Lincoln Pub-lic Schools. Despite monthly payments, Beasley said she had not made much progress in re-ducing her debt.

“Technically, I’m on a ten year plan, but it will take lon-ger,” Beasley said. “I’m going to be paying until I’m dead.”

The average debt of a Doane graduate was $20,748 in 2010, according to The Project on Stu-dent Debt. In the same year, 77 percent of students left Doane with some student debt. The same source reports that the Ne-braska colleges average $21, 227 in student debt with 61 percent of students in debt upon gradu-ation.

To Beasley, those numbers don’t mean much.

“I was told that Doane had a 98 percent job placement in my field of study. I fall in that 2 per-

cent,” Beasley said. “It’s all just a lot of numbers.”

Beasley said she hasn’t given up on finding her dream job, but she has given up on finding all the answers.

“I just don’t know where I went wrong,” she said.

Beasley isn’t alone. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the unemploy-ment rate for recent college graduates is 8.3 percent.

Looking back, Beasley said she should have convinced her parents to take out low fixed interest rate Parent PLUS loans instead of taking out high-inter-est rate private loans. She said she would have also sought out a larger scholarship package from other schools. Most important-ly, Beasley would have kept bet-ter track of her debt.

“I didn’t really calcu-late how much money I was taking out each semester,” Bea-sley said.

Numerous interviews, count-less applications and a brief stint as a Target employee have given Beasley time to reflect on the value of her Doane education.

“I’m prepared to teach,” Beasley said. “It’s a quality edu-cation, but it’s not worth that much.”

BY JORDAN JOHNSON

Staff Writer

Alumnus lives Doane

Doane College Relay For Life is on track to cross the fin-ish line ahead of Nebraska Wes-leyan once again.

Doane has raised $9,507 compared to Wesleyan’s $8,036 as of March 5.

“Nobody wants to lose to Wesleyan,” senior Relay Mem-ber Jessica Brown said. “Espe-cially with something as big as Relay at Doane, it’s not a ques-tion of whether or not we’ll win; it’s a question of how greatly we will beat them.”

A twist has been added to the rivalry as the radio station KFRX will broadcast both Do-ane and Wesleyan’s events live on April 13.

Junior Nicole Tegtmeier, executive co-chair of Doane Re-lay, said she was both excited and nervous about the broad-cast.

“It (the broadcast) will be going back and forth between Wesleyan and Doane,” Tegt-meier said. “Everybody will know.”

Tegtmeier said last year, Do-

ane’s fundraising efforts barely fell short of its $70,000 goal, and this year the group set a goal of $75,000.

Community support has been the key to reaching the goal so far.

Relay recently hosted a spa-ghetti feed and a benefit night at Noodles and Company in Lincoln.

Tegtmeier said the spaghetti feed raised $1,006; about $150 more than last year.

Brown said the spaghetti feed served more than 120 peo-ple.

“It was great to see the com-munity supporting Relay,” Brown said. “It (the spaghetti feed) is always a great commu-nity event.”

While the exact amount of money raised from Noo-dles and Company is still being calculated, Brown said she was optimistic about the results.

Another fundraiser will be held today at Kava House Café.

Brown said Relay mem-bers will serve the customers in the café and Kava House will donate ten percent of their sales from the entire day to

Relay For Life.“Everyone needs to go there

to not only support our com-munity and Kava House, but to support Relay for Life,” Brown said.

Brown said this was the first year Relay hosted an event at Kava House, and it would hope-fully be the first of many.

Relay Adviser Jay Fennell said he encouraged students to raise money for Relay before the event, and it was not too late to sign up for a team.

Fennell said you can sign up by visiting relayforlife.org/doanecollegene and clicking the purple button marked “sign up.”

While Relay has raised 12 percent of their goal, there is still work to be done.

Tegtmeier said the majority of the money raised for Relay takes place at the actual event, but she encouraged teams to have fundraisers prior to the event.

“The key is getting the com-munity involved,” Tegtmeier said. “Teams must fundraise outside the event and contact family and friends to get people there.”

Doane alumnus and Crete resident John Mekota helped with D-Day, cor-rected a gross typographical error made by MIT, fell in love and received an award named after himself all in just 90 years.

Mekota, who now re-sides in Garden Square As-sisted Living Center, loves to see visitors and speak to students.

“People will visit think-ing they’re doing him a favor,” Alec Engebretson, professor of science and technology, said. “But re-ally there’s so much to learn from him that he does them the favor.”

Despite his life full of learning and ever-lasting projects, Mekota said he was far from finished.

Mekota said a future goal of his was to work with Do-ane instructors Mark Plano Clark and Engebretson to learn more about comput-ers on campus.

“He’s an individual who is always thinking,”

Engebretson said. “He just turned 90 this past year, so even after he retired, he came back to Doane. He’s always been a wonderful alumni and friend of the college.”

One of his current proj-ects is trying to make trains more efficient, Plano Clark said.

“He has this great idea that if you just had these trains, you could put your car on a train and travel that way.” Plano Clark said. “He just thinks that would be a really cool thing to have in this country, which would conserve en-ergy and basically save on infrastructure. But it’s a pretty big project.”

Engebretson said Meko-ta has been back in Crete for about five years.

In the 67 years Mekota lived outside of Crete, much was spent in and around Boston.

Shortly after he gradu-ated, Mekota was an officer for the U.S. Navy, worked for Submarine Signal Com-pany, Raytheon Corpora-tion, and served as an in-dependent consultant and

system design reviewer, according to an alumni awards paper written by Joyce Colleen Jeffries.

Mekota said he chose to go to Doane because he already lived in the com-munity and knew half of the professors before he even enrolled. He said he kept busy with his studies at Doane, triple majoring in physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

“That’s very unusual,” Plano Clark said. “We’ve had one student other than John that I know of that tri-ple majored in the sciences, you have to be pretty dedi-cated.”

Mekota enjoyed his time at Doane and has given back to the college with both his time and his gifts, accord-ing to Engebretson, and re-ceived a Builder Award in May 2003.

Shortly after, Mekota re-ceived the John E. Mekota award for computer sci-ences.

“He’s been really good at coming to talk to the computer science classes,” Plano Clark said. “He loves to talk about his experi-

ences with computers and their impact on society as a whole.”

Although Mekota enjoys speaking with students and faculty at Doane, he has not come to visit recently, Enge-bretson said.

“He used to walk over here regularly,” Plano Clark said. “But I really can’t re-member the last time he was here. It seems like it’s probably been a year.”

Mekota is becoming less and less mobile, now that he’s reached 90, Engebret-son said.

“John (Mekota) loves to have conversations with others,” Engebretson said. “He would love to have stu-dents visit him.”

Engebretson said Me-kota loved the education he got at Doane.

“He really does capture the expectation that Doane has of all of its graduates to be a life long learner.” Enge-bretson said. “He captures that experience.”

If you’re interested in finding out more about Doane alumni like Mekota, check out www.doanealum-ni.com.

BY AILEEN GELBStaff Writer

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Doane Relay For Life on track to beat Wesleyan

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Last year’s Miss Relay Host Jason Helgren (left) interviews Ryan Schilling during the Relay For Life event. The contest requires participants to dress as women and compete to raise money for Relay.

Doane graduate struggles to find dream job, pay back debt

Bubble blowing, bake sales and BLT’s are ahead for Doane’s Queer-Straight Alliance (QSA). The members of QSA met last week to discuss the upcoming Love Week.

During Love Week, the mem-bers of QSA will put on differ-ent events and reserve the green desk outside of the cafeteria in order to raise awareness in the community, Courtney Bashore, QSA vice president said.

“Love week is a week of won-ders where basically we all come out of our little Curtis Room and we say, ‘here we are world!’” QSA President Bri McGuffey said.

The activities for the week include BLT’s on the Perry pa-tio, a questionnaire with prizes,

a screening of “For the Bible Tells Me So” and a bake sale.

The goal is to educate stu-dents and to see where Doane is as far as students’ attitudes,

McGuffey said.“We’re giving out a question-

naire for students to answer,” McGuffey said. “Then we’ll show the results.”

The results and stories pro-vided by the questionnaire will be made into a collage and pre-sented to the students.

Love Week will be the week after spring break this year, ju-nior Kayla Tindle said.

“It’s a great way to start af-ter spring break,” Tindle said. “It’s like crazy Greek Week stuff, then spring break, then Love Week.”

QSA hopes to gain more sup-port and awareness through Love Week, and the group is

hoping to make educational pamphlets on how to deal with sexuality readily available throughout campus, Bashore said.

Before Love Week, QSA will attend a speech by Ryan Sallans, a transgendered speaker. At 11 a.m. on March 15 in the Whit-comb Lee Conservatory, Sal-lans will come to speak at Doane about the issues of gender and sexual identity in society as well as his transition from female to male.

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QSA President

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Expect to receive more e-mails from the Safety Office as it tries preventative measures, based on three years of crime statistics, to keep you safer on campus.

“Now that we actually have a Safety Office, and this will be our fourth year, we now have three years’ worth of data re-lated to crime across the entire campus that really Doane Col-lege had not had before,” Russ Hewitt, student leadership as-sociate dean said.

Hewitt said the Safety Of-fice would use this data to make things safer on campus by fo-cusing on the most important issues.

For example, the Safety Of-fice has noted during the past three years that burglaries in-crease in the spring as weather improves. Students leave win-dows open and fail to lock their dorm rooms.

Hewitt said the Safety Office worked with Doane Mainte-nance to seal windows closest to doors to reduce these burglaries.

Before the Safety Office was established in 2009, crimes would have most likely been reported to custodians, which

would have been relayed to the Business Office until it reached the Crete Police Department, Hewitt said.

But now, the Safety Office is notified immediately of crimes and it is keeping records.

“I think that (communica-tion) is really what drives down crime rates because the people who are potential victims are more aware,” Hewitt said.

The Safety Office uses many avenues of communication, such as sending campus alerts through e-mails, mobile phones, pagers and the Doane website.

“It is awareness and the com-munity being willing to look out for each other,” Hewitt said.

Senior Adrian Draney agreed, but thought other fac-tors were also involved.

“I would say education and the presence of the Safety Office have had an influence,” Draney said. “It could also be a matter of a decreased party atmosphere on campus, which (I think) leads to less of these crimes.”

Doane’s crime report will show an increase in burglaries for 2011, Hewitt said.

Hewitt said there were 20 reported burglaries for this last year; most of them happened in April.

“Every time someone breaks into a room individually, even if

it’s one group of people doing it, it counts as a separate bur-glary for a separate location,” Hewitt said.

For example, a year which has 71 reported MIPs could have 20 to 30 of them occur in one day, Hewitt said.

“Thefts have been the big-gest issue for this academic year,” Hewitt said.

Hewitt said that unlocked doors and windows, or per-sonal belongings left in pub-lic areas unsupervised made theft easy.

“A majority of our crimes are crimes of convenience,” Hewitt said.

None were forced entry thefts, he said.

Hewitt said that if every door was locked, crime could probably be reduced by 90 percent.

“A lot of them (Safety’s sug-gestions to prevent theft) should be common sense pieces of advice, but I still find myself leaving my stuff out because I feel safe in this environment,” Draney said.

The number of liquor and drug violations increased from 2008 to 2010, but could drop for 2011.

“For what I’ve seen this year (fall 2011), we’ve had very few judicial affairs cases related to

alcohol violations,” Hewitt said.Hewitt said he thought the

new alcohol policies for this year had driven down these numbers because student confusion de-creased.

The new policy allows a room of 21-year-olds to apply for alco-hol tolerant room status and for 21-year-olds to move off cam-pus.

“The students are doing a great job with complying, and that’s probably 99 percent of it (alcohol policy violation reduc-

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“I feel like, while there are a lot less (alcohol violations) happening on Doane’s campus, it’s because a lot of people have taken their drinking off cam-pus,” Draney said. “While this might potentially lift liability off of the college, I feel like it’s actu-ally putting students in greater danger.”

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Heier said that additional recreational opportunities would be created for the whole campus by utilizing more effi-cient designs and use of space.

By building a larger track to have four courts parallel to each other, Heier said the recreation-al use of the field house would be increased. By doing that Do-ane would be in a better posi-tion to compete for prospects looking for a modern track pro-gram.

Freshman track athlete Kay-la Ambrose said that while Do-ane's facilities did cause some

concern in choosing which school to attend, she chose Do-ane for the coaches.

“For me it was about the coaches and people that occu-pied these facilities that really impacted my decision,” Am-brose said.

Concerning the updates, Ambrose said she liked how convenient the track currently was, but the larger track was a definite priority.

“The field events, as well as other sports that practice in there, wouldn't be cramped and have more space and probably better equipment to work with,” Ambrose said.

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Student Congress removed two senators in Sunday’s meet-ing.

Junior Joe Knott and senior Dustin Schwartz will no longer serve on StuCo.

“I’d rather function as 14 peo-ple who do want to be here than 16 who don’t,” StuCo President Laura Jacob said.

StuCo was supposed to have 17 members, but was reduced to 14 because of the removal of Knott and Schwartz along with the resignation of another sena-tor.

Junior Nicole Tegtmeier re-signed from StuCo a few weeks ago because her schedule was too full, Kim Jacobs, student congress supervisor, said. Ja-cobs said Tegtmeier gave the de-cision a lot of thought, and that it was a hard decision for her.

“(Tegtmeier) fulfilled her re-sponsibilities,” Jacobs said. “She did that (resigned) in a very re-sponsible, deliberate way.”

StuCo voted to allow Jacob to appoint new members within the next two weeks. Jacob said she wanted to appoint at least one member to help with Stop

Day activities.“It would be an ideal spot for

someone who wants to run for StuCo next year,” Jacob said.

Jacobs said she thought sometimes students didn’t un-derstand how much time a posi-tion on StuCo would take.

StuCo Vice President Adam Hunke, said he thought there was a lack of commitment in the members that were removed.

“They didn’t know what they were signing up for,” Hunke said.

Jacob said Knott hadn’t been to any of the five meetings so far

this semester. All senators signed an ex-

pectations form when they agreed to serve on StuCo, Ja-cobs said. The form said each member was permitted two unexcused absences per semes-ter and that exceeding that limit would be cause for evaluation and removal from the Congress.

Schwartz said he was aware of the policy, but was unable to attend StuCo meetings because of his weekend obligations to rodeo.

“I was expecting it because you’re only allowed to miss two

StuCo meetings every semester, and I do rodeo on the week-ends,” Schwartz said.

Jacob contacted Knott and Schwartz before she announced their removal on Sunday.

“I’m really appreciative of all the people in this room that work really hard and know the time and dedication it takes,” Jacob said.

Schwartz said his experience with StuCo was a good one.

“I found out a lot of things about StuCo that I didn’t know before,” Schwartz said. “I re-alized that they do more than what people think they do.”

Schwartz said he would continue to pursue the rodeo club project he was working on.

Hunke said he would vote for someone with commitment and work ethic.

Jacobs said she would en-courage students to elect sena-tors that were serious about put-ting their name on the ballot.

“They have to have the moti-vation because it is a significant responsibility,” Jacobs said. “It’s the responsibility of the student body to choose who will have their best interests in mind.”

Knott did not respond to e-mails from the reporter.

DUSTIN SCHWARTZJOE KNOTT

Courtesy Photo/Doane.eduFloor plans of Fuhrer renovations. “They didn’t know what they were signing up for.”

Adam Hunke-StuCo Vice President

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Switch to DcTV, channel 21, on Sunday March, 11 at 5 p.m., to watch The Community of Underage Drinking. This discussion with com-munity officials, Peer Judicial Board members, and students will discuss on and off campus un-derage drinking. You can also tune into 91.9 KDNE or stream it live at www.doane.edu/kdne. It will air again on Monday, at 7:30 p.m. following Do-ane Weekly.

The study would assess the competition in Omaha, the mar-ket for Doane’s type of program, the availability of qualified facul-ty to hire, the degrees the major-ity of students in Omaha wanted and Doane’s ability to provide them.

“After looking at all that, we will make our decision,” Burney said. “Does it make sense to try to expand to Omaha?”

Janice Hadfield, undergradu-ate studies director at Doane Lincoln, said if the program seemed feasible then it would go on the strategic plan to be ap-proved in May.

Julie Schmidt, treasurer and finance and administration vice president, said if the graduate program in Omaha seemed fi-nancially viable, there would be no reason not to open another program.

Schmidt said the Lincoln and Grand Island campuses current-ly provided an additional source of revenue for the Crete campus. The Crete campus benefited the other campuses by providing its services in the Business Office and other areas, so the Lincoln and Grand Island campuses had fewer employees.

However, introducing a pro-gram in the largest city in Ne-braska could help spread Do-ane’s name, Carter said.

“In order to get the attention of the nation, we have to get be-yond Crete,” Carter said. “I fig-ured on our way to the world, we could stop off in Omaha.”

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Not many companies can say they lift local economies, reduce greenhouse gases, make homes more efficient, provide jobs and make a profit.

Energy Pioneer Solutions can.

And, on Tuesday night, CEO Scott Kleeb explained how the company could do it in Crete in front of Crete City Council.

Energy Pioneer Solutions’ (EPS) business plan revolves around energy savings. Basi-cally, they energy audit homes, fix them up so they are energy efficient and collect 50 percent of the profit from the savings.

All of the energy upgrades and improvements are paid for with a portion of the homeowner or business owner’s energy sav-ings. This represents a win-win situation for EPS and the home-owner and has been successful in many cities across Nebraska and the country.

Over the period of a year, EPS improved 71 homes and saved families $8,872 in Broken Bow, Neb. In Central City, Neb., 25 homes were improved saving $7,091 and remitting 32 tons of carbon dioxide. For these two communities, EPS invested $50,000 and will recover that through energy savings in less than 5 years.

This is possible because our homes are vastly inefficient. Ac-cording to the company’s web-site, the average home loses

20 to 30 percent of its energy because of poor insulation and other efficiency issues. These percentages are particularly high in very old homes, which makes Crete a great candidate.

According to city-data.com, nearly 70 percent of homes in Crete were built before 1980, preceding many of the energy regulations home builders are

subject to today. This age likely means inefficiency and, for EPS, this means profit.

Kleeb said his company hoped to invest $2 million into Crete and improve over 3,000 homes. This money would pay for the energy audits and im-provement work; the home-owner would not pay a dime. The money will be replenished

and drive profit by taking a por-tion out of the energy savings. Not only will the company help homeowners, it will stimulate business as well.

According to Kleeb, EPS will work through local contractors and purchase supplies locally, which will help Crete’s economy grow, according to Kleeb, to the tune of $12.2 million over a five-year period.

EPS has been recognized for its efforts by the Clinton Admin-istration as a model program for energy efficiency and job cre-ation.

In order to get out of reces-sion and decrease our carbon impact, our country needs to make innovative companies like Energy Pioneer Solutions the highest priority.

Thumbs up to the possibility of a new Doane campus in Omaha. Expansion to such a big city like that can only help promote the wonderful things a Doane education has to offer. We hope the process goes smoothly.

Thumbs up to raising more funds for Relay For Life than Wesleyan University. Hopefully our success continues through the event, and we can raise more funds for the American Cancer Society than our rivals.

Thumbs up to the men’s and women’s track and field teams for their success at the NAIA Indoor Championships. Your No. 6 and No. 14 finishes make us proud to be Tigers.

Thumbs up to Sophomore Tim Carlson for his success in the baseball season so far. We hope your pitching continues to shut out the competition, and the team continues to win.

Thumbs up to the proposed updates to Fuhrer Fieldhouse. The renovation will be beneficial to a large number of stu-dents on campus who participate in athletics.

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It’s extremely difficult these days to find someone who has not been personally impacted by cancer. Whether it be through a di-rect connection, a family member, a friend or simply an acquain-tance, the disease has altered the lives of millions.

According to the Relay For Life website “no matter why you take part in Relay, however, one thing is clear: with every step you take, you are helping the American Cancer Society save lives. With your help, we aren’t just fighting one type of cancer – we’re fight-ing for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every com-munity. Each person who shares the Relay experience can take pride in knowing that they are working to create a world where this disease will no longer threaten the lives of our loved ones or claim another year of anyone’s life.”

No matter what the reason is, Doane needs to fight harder for donations.

If you’re not motivated by the idea of raising money for the American Cancer Society already, maybe our competition against Wesleyan University will motivate you.

Wesleyan is holding its Relay For Life event on the same night we are. The radio station KFRX will be broadcasting live from both locations and updating listeners on the progress of both events.

Do we really want all of Lincoln and the surrounding areas to know we are slacking compared to Wesleyan? Definitely not.

If you haven’t started fundraising already, you should start now. Send letters to family, friends, coworkers, old teachers and everybody else you could think of. Heck, open up a phone book and send letters to random people. Chances are, they have a story to tell and they may even have an extra dollar or two to give to a great cause. Worst case scenario is that they’re a Wesleyan gradu-ate and support that Relay For Life instead of Doane’s. Even then, at least you got the word out about the event and supported the American Cancer Society- even though it wasn’t through the route you desired.

Our football team blew away the Prairie Wolves 27-3 at the Wesleyan Homecoming game this year. Our volleyball team beat Wesleyan twice in the regular season. Our track and field teams continue to outscore the Prairie Wolves at numerous meets.

Let’s continue the tradition of victory at Relay For Life this year.Go to Kava House Cafe tonight for Zesto’s ice cream or some

delicious wings. Ten percent of their proceeds from the day will go to Doane’s Relay.

Don’t stop there. If you haven’t made a team, start one or join one with a friend. If you have a creative gift to share with the rest of the world, start thinking of ways to utilize it and raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Or start collecting donations from businesses around your hometown to create a basket of goods for the silent auction the night of the event.

And definitely mark your calendars. April 13 will bring hun-dreds of people into the Fuhrer Fieldhouse and you don’t want to miss out. It’s our chance to do something for the world; and a great opportunity to kick Prairie Wolf butt.

Thumbs down to students who have not taken time to understand more about the gay community. Good thing Queer Straight Alliance will be hosting a Love Week after spring break to inform students in a fun way.

Thumbs down to the heavy workload of music education professors. Hopefully, the addition of Lance Nielsen in the fall will help relieve some stress for the other professors, and the department can continue to grow.

Thumbs down to Student Congress members not show-ing up to meetings and representing the students of the college. Hopefully the new members to replace junior Joe Knott, and senior Dustin Schwartz will have time to be involved in the group.

Thumbs down to an increase in the number of burglaries over the course of the past few years. We should all be old enough to know that we should respect the privacy and property of others.

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Doane should freeze tuition for current students.

Last week a story was pub-lished pertaining to the increase in tuition for the 2012-2013 aca-demic year.

The article noted that Vice President of Finance and Ad-ministration Julie Schmidt said, “If you think that it (Doane) has a lower price, you think, ‘well it must not be as good.’”

In response to Schmidt’s assumption, Doane is already known and noted for it’s quality education. One of the most well respected rankings list, Forbes, notes that Doane has continu-ally been ranked in the top tier of private colleges, currently standing at No. 2 in Nebraska, and in the top 25 percent in the entire United States. Forbes also ranks Doane at No. 95 in the na-tion for ‘The Best College Buys,’

a list that ranks each school with respect to Who's Who in America citations, salary data from PayScale.com, course evaluations from RateMyPro-fessor.com, the awards received by students and faculty and the graduation rate variables used in the Best College rankings.

Considering Doane’s reten-tion rate is 77.6 percent and current students are already up in arms about tuition rates, you would think that Doane, as an academic institution concerned about the integrity and well be-ing of it’s students, would be willing to adapt a behavior simi-lar to many of its “peers,” and to freeze tuition rates for current students.

Several competing schools give a four-year guarantee on tuition prices in the students’ first year. Although the school raises tuition almost every year, it has no affect on the current students. Incoming students’ financial aid is based on the new tuition rate, and yet, these

competing colleges of academic excellence still have incom-ing students, and manage to have higher retention rates, on average, than Doane. Concor-dia University’s retention rate is 78.8 percent and Nebraska Wesleyan University is current-ly sitting at 80.2 percent reten-tion. These tuition rates will do nothing to show that Doane is a more valued academic insti-tution, and instead will simply drive down retention rates that actually do prove this.

This raise in tuition isn’t the first. With an average increase in tuition of 6.4 percent over the past 10 years, it is quickly becoming impossible to be a full-time student at Doane, es-pecially given the current econ-omy. In comparison, Concordia has an average annual increase of 3.67 percent, and Wesleyan

has an average annual increase of 5.953 percent.

So where is the money from the raised tuition going? Ac-cording to Schmidt, 63 percent of the increase is going to “in-struction and instruction sup-port.” That basically means professor salaries, supplies and field trips. The other 37 percent is going to preparations for next year. It is still unknown as to what exactly the whole 37 per-cent will be used for.

By raising our tuition once again, and refusing to re-evalu-ate students’ financial aid pack-ages, the Board of Trustees is severely debilitating our aca-demic body and institution as a whole. From here, our retention rate and rankings will only go down. It is in this manner that your abuse of our funding will single-handedly show that in-stead of suspecting that because our tuition rates are lower we are of a lesser academic caliber than our competing colleges, we will prove it.

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Dear Owl Editor:Owl Reporter Hannah Bau-

er’s Feb. 23 story covering the current faculty “tenure-line”/“of practice” appointments discus-sion is commendable.

The Owl editors’ suggestion that students value in profes-sors what they teach rather than what degrees they hold, in the same issue of the paper, reveals insight and understanding.

However, a couple of things reported or said in both the ar-ticle and editorial need slight clarification. First of these is that, in the faculty discussion, it was made clear we should never

lose sight of how important the terminal degree is in any field of specialization. The characteriza-tion of the terminal degree as a “barrier,” a characterization that arose in the discussion, was per-haps an injudicious word choice since the terminal degree, usual-ly the PhD, represents the high-est intellectual achievement one can attain in one’s field while still a student.

It is for this reason Doane, like most other colleges and uni-versities, has historically identi-fied attainment of this intellec-tual milestone as the sine qua non for tenure consideration.

Tenure, the other matter needing clarification here, is not a guarantee for making more money or of job security as it is often misperceived to be. Ten-ure in higher or collegiate edu-cation, as opposed to tenure in public elementary, middle and secondary education, is the re-ciprocal relationship between the institution and the faculty that the institution, through its officers, faculty and members of the Board of Trustees, has

deemed worthy of “trust and commitment,” a distinction that appears in The Faculty Hand-book and one that reflects a gen-erally held view of tenure’s im-portance at the collegiate level. where the institutional gover-nance structure is not corporat-ist or hierarchal but academic and horizontal or constituently established.

This condition of trust and commitment is expressed at Doane and elsewhere in the con-

tinuous renewal of faculty mem-bers’ appointments after proba-tion and the award of tenure. In exchange for that renewal, the reciprocal relationship is com-pleted by faculty members’ con-tinuing contributions to the in-stitution, both in meeting daily obligations, such as teaching, service, etc., and in conduct-ing research, the purpose of which is to increase knowledge through advancement of learn-ing in faculty members’ fields of specialization, which usually re-sults in the collateral benefit of improved teaching in the class-room.

It is not incorrect to con-clude, thus, that tenure is a very important thing on the college or university campus--both in the greater knowledge it insures faculty members will attain and thereby impart to their stu-dents, and in the work faculty members complete profession-ally that redounds to the institu-tion’s benefit, both immediately and in perpetuity.

Sincerely yours,L. O. PurdonProfessor and Chairman of

EnglishChairman, Faculty Affairs

I think I speak for the whole student body when I say I was pretty surprised to read Doane is raising tuition for next year. Thoughts like “will I be able to come back next year,” “how am I going to afford schooling,” and “how many of my friends won’t be able to come back next year” rushed through my head. After completely reading the article and the following letter from Doane President Jacque Carter, I knew I had to let my voice be heard. Every single student I talked to about the issue was concerned, and this wasn’t just coming from one group either. My friends in theater, music, speech, athletics, Greek groups and leadership groups all voiced concern. So to bring the stu-dents voices to the forefront, I

decided to do some research, and here it is.

First, let me just start by say-ing that the letters, quotations and statements made by the col-lege staff are complete bullshit! I am sorry to say that in a newspa-per, but I feel like that is the only word to describe what has been said. We are all mature enough and smart enough to realize when we are being totally taken advantage of.

Second, with the increase in tuition, Doane’s total costs per student without financial aid would be $32, 220. In the news-paper article Julie Schmidt, treasurer and vice president of finance and administration, noted that Doane was cheaper than both Hastings College and Wesleyan University. With the

increase in cost, Doane would be more expensive than both of them: Hastings, $30, 514 and Wesleyan, $31, 558. This is based on all the institutions’ tuition prices for next year. I think any business major could tell you that being the most ex-pensive is not necessarily being competitive.

Third, Kim Jacobs, vice president for student leader-ship, stated that not raising the tuition could have negative ef-fects. Let me pose just one ques-tion for her; how much are you willing to give up by raising the tuition? Let’s be honest, raising the tuition is simply going to de-

crease diversity. I am extremely proud to say we have a very diverse campus; more diverse than many other campuses I’ve visited. If you raise the price of tuition, you are limiting the groups of people that can come here. Two of my great friends already had to drop out this year because they couldn’t af-ford to go here. So, Kim Jacobs, if you want all your “leaders” to be from the same demographic, then go ahead raise the price, but I feel like a real leader would be against discrimination even in the slightest sense.

Fourth, Joel Weyand, vice president for admission, said

that Doane helped “ease the cost” of its education by award-ing financial aid. I just have one question for him; will more fi-nancial aid be awarded to cur-rent students to help “ease the cost” of their educations?

Lastly, I am so proud to be a Tiger, and I think I speak for the whole student body, again, when I say so. But, it’s not the price that makes the college, it’s the students. People aren’t going to want to come to Doane simply because it looks better on pa-per. When I chose to come here, Doane was less expensive than both Hastings and Wesleyan. I came here because of the award-winning forensics team, the in-spiring music program and the wonderful staff. I’m sure every student could name off the rea-

sons why he or she came here, and I will bet you not one says, “because it was more expensive than Hastings College, so obvi-ously it was better.” I urge the administration to take pride in our college and the successes the students have brought to it. That’s right, I said students. You wouldn’t have all the awards, titles and trophies without the students, so I urge the admin-istration to humble themselves a little bit. Take a step back and remember what it’s like to have Tiger Pride. And last, if you are going to raise tuition price, don’t try to bullshit your way around the truth. Remember, we are nationally ranked, so we aren’t stupid.

Sincerely,Tyler Strobl- Freshman

To the Doane Board of Trust-ees:

Guys...STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

The reasoning behind the 'an-nual tuition raise' is (pardon my french) pathetic. If you are try-ing to position Doane's educa-tion as a value proposition, why not try to highlight the school's strengths, not the weaknesses? If potential students truly think that our education is inferior to other colleges based on price, why not show them our ranking in the Forbes, Princeton Review, and US News top college lists, especially in comparison to all other Nebraskan colleges? Or show them our 11:1 student to teacher ratio. Show them our newly renovated Cassel Theatre or Frees, Sheldon and Smith Halls. Or show them our state of the art George and Sally Haddix Recreation and Athletic Center. Or our award winning theater

program. Or how we offer all of these features, and more, at a lower price than the competi-tors!

I think I can speak on behalf of most students at Doane (and potential students) that the cur-rent debt we have from tuition is plenty. If the money was go-ing to fund an actual service the students would receive, I would be more willing to accept this. I would like the Board of Trust-ees to reconsider this decision to raise tuition, if at all possible, and look into more "cost effec-tive" ways to get students en-rolled.

Sincerely,Stephen Papstein- Sopho-

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Over the past two years, I’ve seen a lot of things go wrong on Stop Day.

From MIP’s at the softball fields on Stop Day Eve to kids passing out before 11 a.m. on Stop Day morning, ruining your Stop Day could happen to any-one who is planning on drink-

ing heavily.No worries. This year you

have a guide to get you through the notorious day. So pull out a pen and paper and start taking notes every issue of the Doane Owl until Stop Day. Whenever that is.

The best way go about not ruining your Stop Day is by be-ing smart, especially if you plan on drinking.

Safety Administrators and Residence Life can be pretty

sneaky when it comes to alcohol on Stop Day.

Last year I was up at 9 a.m. on Stop Day. I went outside and sat at the picnic table with some of my roommates and talked to some of the Residence Life Di-rectors.

At first, I was confused to why they were standing outside the quads, but within 30 min-utes of sitting there, I realized they were waiting for students to try and sneak beer inside.

The first kid, who was 21, tried to carry a .175 liter of vod-ka into the quads. Right away, Res Life noticed he had a bottle in his hand.

They confiscated it and cited him for a liquor violation. Not only did he lose some dignity, but he also lost a whole $10 worth of alcohol when Res Life confiscated the vodka. That’s what you get for buying cheap vodka!

The next two who tried car-rying two cases of beer into one quad were minors, and they also had their beer taken away.

In their defense, who would have thought Res Life would

be hanging outside the quads policing the area for suspicious alcohol activity?

Safety and Res Life may also choose to smell your cup (if you’re walking around campus with a cup). Then there’s a good chance that someone will ask what’s in your cup.

Unfortunately that’s their job to follow the rules on cam-pus, and the only way you can protect yourself from getting busted is by being creative.

I can’t give you any tips in here, but check out www.Do-aneline.com, for some creative ideas to stay fine-free this Stop day.

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Stop Day Guide: 2012

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Professors Heather York and Barb Clement compete in Stop Day canoe races. Events span all of Stop Day. Archived Photo/The Owl

Students should be cautious of liquor violations on Stop Day by being smart

Let me just start by asking you this: Are you a Kid Cudi fan? If you said yes, then stop reading this and go buy WZRD (Double-U-Zee-Are-Dee) right now. If you said no, then continue reading to find out why WZRD is the alterna-tive...to everything.

WZRD is a two-person rock group consisting of hip-hop artist Kid Cudi and his longtime producer Dot da Genius.

The two have collaborated on several of Cudi’s past re-cords like his first hit “Day ‘N’ Nite,” the fan favorite “Dose of Dopeness” and the head-banger “Cleveland Is The Rea-son.”

There are a couple of details you should know about this album before you blindly dive into your first listen. Num-ber one: Nothing I’ve ever heard before sounds like this al-bum. The way that Cudi’s guitar riffs and Dot’s beats align is a new sound of its own.

Number two: Even if you are a die-hard Cudi fan, you have to listen with an open mind. Because it is so different, you can’t compare it to anything from Cudi’s past work.

Number three: Prepare yourself for a different Cudi. This Cudi is mature, sober and more focused on appreci-ating life than doing drugs. Although the album is only 11 tracks long, it has several standouts.

“Teleport 2 Me, Jamie” is the first single off the album and for good reason. It focuses on an idea that everyone can relate to: missing someone so badly you wish they could teleport to where you are. It’s by far the best song on the album both instrumentally and lyrically.

On “Live & Learn” we hear a Cudi who is reflecting on his past experiences and in turn learning from them.

The song provides two of the best lines on the entire al-bum, first by talking about his mother’s past guidance, “My mama told me live my life and learn from lessons/I’ll teach my daughter the same.”Then he switches it up and goes all self conscious on us, “I like whiskey, black leather, and dia-monds...sue me! I like bein’ fresh.”

Don’t get me wrong, this album is far from perfect. Cudi keeps his lyrics too simple at times, leaving songs with overreaching instrumentals and weak . Also for an 11 track album, a $9.99 price point is a little much.

Their self-titled album managed to sell close to 70,500 copies in its first week. After you read this review, I hope

BY JASON LUONGStaff Writer

WZRD releases unique new album

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LINEUPTHE

FRIDAYSoftball

@McPherson Tournament

Sertling College10:30 a.m.

Friends University12:30 p.m.

Bethany College4:30 p.m.

Baseballvs. Sterling College

3:30 p.m.

Softball@McPhersonTournament

Bethal College8:30 a.m.

Tabor College2:30 p.m.

SATURDAYFRIDAYMen’s Tennis@Buena Vista

University/Cornell College

11:30 a.m.

Baseballvs. Sterling College

12 & 2 p.m.

SATURDAYSoftball

vs. BellevueUniversity3 & 5 p.m.

TUESDAYSoftball

vs. Peru State College2 & 4 p.m.

WEDNEDAY

By the time you read this, senior Nate Teten could already be packing lunches for elementary children.

It’s just a typical Thursday afternoon for Teten, with some of his friends. He could even already be practicing for track & field or in class working on his already commendable GPA.

A seven-time national qualifier in the pole vault, Teten was voted one of three team captains for the Doane track & field team by his peers. He is a 2011 Academic All-American and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership honorary society.

“He’s gonna give you a heck of an effort in whatever he chooses to do,” Head Track & Field Coach Ed Fye said.

Pole vault coach Ryan Dorshorst said Teten also valued his teammates and peers.

“He’s very determined and team oriented,” Dorshorst said. “He’d much rather see the team do great things as much as he would like to do great things himself.”

This was the case last weekend at the indoor track & field nationals, where Teten didn’t per-form as well as he wanted. Both coach Dorshorst and Teten said they attributed this to the amount of pressure he put on himself.

Every year Teten comes extremely close to gaining the All-American honor, but unfortunate-ly misses out by one or two places, Dorshorst said.

“He still supports his teammates, even if he is hurting inside,” Fye said. “It’s his role.”

Teten isn’t the type of person to let disappoint-ment keep him down, Fye said. Instead, Fye said he used it as motivation to reach his goal of being in the top eight in the nation for pole vault, a feat

that would credit him an All-American. “He has the desire, determination, and athletic

ability to get that accomplished,” Fye said.Teten said he enjoyed keeping busy, and he

also understood the importance of academics. “Academics have always been one of my big-

gest priorities,” he said. He said that it was easy to stay focused because

members of Delta Kappa Pi, the fraternity which he is a member of, value a similar academic ap-proach.

His efforts off campus do not go unnoticed. Ev-ery Thursday Teten goes with a group of friends to Crete Elementary where he stuffs food into the backpacks of children eligible for aid. The food is donated by the United Church of Christ in Crete and allows children to eat over the weekend when school meals are not available. He has done this for three years. He was also a part of a charity run, along with other Doane track & field athletes, which helped raise donations for the church. Ef-forts such as these helped the Doane track & field team win the NAIA Indoor Track and Field Cham-pions of Character Team Award earlier this year.

Dorshorst said he believed Teten had great po-tential to do well in the upcoming outdoor track & field season, which begins March 31.

“He’s going to be a hard worker,” Dorshorst. “He’s going be that stand out person.”

In his final year at Doane, Teten said he would miss Doane and the track & field team greatly, es-pecially the sense of competition. He said he was excited to get out and work, and given the oppor-tunity, if he were to work in the nearby Crete area, he would love to come back and help out with the track & field team at Doane.

“He handles himself with a great deal of matu-rity,” Fye said. “On the road and on campus, he is a great facilitator for Doane. He represents Doane and his family very well.”

Pole vaulter does good in community

“All-American” is a term given to athletes who have proved themselves through competition to be the best in their position or event. Edwin Ronoh, a senior who runs on Doane’s track team, is a three-time All-American that he earned at one national track meet. He is not an Ameri-can.

Ronoh was born in the small town of Kericho, Kenya. It is a small city that people hardly ever leave.

“People are born, live and die there,” Ronoh said. “I wanted a better life. I wanted to be something for my fam-ily.”

Ronoh is the oldest of five children. He spent all his life up through high school in Kericho. Eventually, he started applying to colleges in the United States but only for aca-demic scholarships. The only sport he was involved with before college was soccer.

“My mom and my siblings have never seen me run,” Ronoh said.

Ronoh first went to Dickinson State University but did not stay there long. He first got involved in track because some of his friends did and qualified to go to nationals his freshman year. It was there he saw Doane’s large track team. He learned about Doane’s business program, which Dickinson did not offer, and transferred to Doane the Spring semester of his second collegiate year so he could get a degree in Business.

“He was pretty persistent about coming here,” Ed Fye, the head coach of the track team, said.

Coming from Kenya and transferring schools is just as difficult process as it sounds.

“Nothing’s given to him,” Fye said. “He’s here in the United States with what he brought.”

Ronoh supported himself for a while only with money from the work study program.

“He’s earned every penny,” Fye said.But even though he was helped financially by track and

cross country scholarships, he was not always the success he is now.

“He was a pretty average athlete at that time,” Fye said. “Now he’s a team captain. I think that says a lot about his character and work ethic.”

Ronoh attributes his success to two things. First, he said he wants to inspire his siblings. The other one is much simpler.

“I hate losing. When I get into anything, I want to win it.”

Ronoh’s attitude has had a great influence on his teams as well as his coaches.

“He obviously has a different way of looking at things,” cross country coach Brad Jenny said. “You would expect that, knowing how and where he grew up . . . I think that our team has learned a lot from being around him.”

At this year’s national track and field conference, Ronoh competed in an unheard of three races in a single day. It is unusual for an athlete to compete in two a day.

“I was only doing it for the team,” Ronoh said. “I want-ed the whole team to get the trophy.”

With Ronoh’s accomplishments, Doane finished No. 6 in the nation.

In his three races, Ronoh came in first in the mile as well as the 600 meter, and he came in third place in the 1,000 meter. Runners were expected to check in an hour before each event, but between his second and third race, he only had forty minutes.

“I had to get done (with the 600 meter),” Ronoh said, describing an encounter he had between the races. “When I was jogging back a guy on a team from Texas asked me, ‘Do you have a brother that goes to Doane?’ And I was like, ‘No, that was me . . .’ He thought I was crazy.”

Ronoh is planning on graduating in May 2012. He is currently interning with the company Kenexa in Lincoln.

“I like it,” Ronoh said. “There’s a good chance that I’ll apply for a job there.”

He currently lives in Crete with his wife, who works in Lincoln. But he said that he still has no defined plans. But if he does stay, he said he would like to stay involved with the track program that gave him so much.

“It’s nothing I’d thought about before,” Ronoh said. “But being part of the team has been helpful to me. It’s made me disciplined, so I can help other people.”

BY KEVIN ANDERSONStaff Writer

Track and Field All-American from Kenya

The Doane Track and Field teams both finished in the top fifteen last week in the NAIA Indoor Championships in Ge-neva, Ohio. The men finished No. 6 and the women finished No. 14.

Assistant Coach Brad Jenny said he was disappointed in the way the meet turned out for both teams.

“We wanted more,” Jenny said. “We had a string of top ten finishes and didn’t do as well as we expected.”

The women’s goal going into the meet was to finish top ten, Jenny said.

“We knew we had a young team nationally going into the meet,” Jenny said. “We had a lot of depth at the conference level, but not a lot of experi-ence at the national level.”

Doane experienced great individual success at nation-als, awarding 16 All-Americans and two relay All-Americans. Junior Brijesh “BJ” Lawrence repeated as the 60 meter and 200 meter champion, and se-nior Edwin Ronoh was named All-American in three races; the 600, 1,000 and 4x 800 me-ter races.

BY ALEX DAWSONStaff Writer

- IN BRIEF -

Doane Track and Field men’s and women’s finish towards top in NAIA

Senior Nate Teten approaches the pole vault pit.

Courtesy Photo/Nate Teten

Senior Edwin Ronoh poses with his All-GPAC trophy. He is male athlete of the year.

Courtesy Photo/Edwin Ronoh

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A three run walk off home run gave Doane’s softball team their first win of the season.

Freshman Nichole Diaz hit the home run over the left field wall to give the Tigers a 13-10 victory in the second game of a double header over the Kansas Wesleyan Univer-sity Coyotes.

Doane lost the first game of the double header 5-3. In the first game, Doane jumped out to a 3-0 lead before

the Coyotes scored five runs in the sixth inning. The Tigers couldn’t rally afterwards, and neither team scored again, which made the final score 5-3.

Besides the Coyotes coming back from a shut-out game to taking the lead in one inning, the most notable moment of the game was when junior Alyssa Maraia scored the first runs of the game in the second inning with a two run home-run.

Head Coach Barry Mosley said that the first game’s loss may have been due to the fact that it was the first time they set foot on their home field, and it was the first collegiate game for many of the players. There were three freshmen in the starting line-up.

“We had a little nervousness out there,” Mosley said. “I think that led to the little fundamental things we didn’t do at critical moments.”

The second game was much closer and went into extra innings with both teams tied at eight at the bottom of the seventh inning. In the eighth, the Coyotes pushed ahead by two runs but the Tigers rallied.

Junior Andrea Gonzales hit a double, then stole home

shortly later, tying up the game yet again, 10-10. “We are a talented team that feed off of each others

drive,” Diaz said. “When one of us are pumped up, we all become excited.”

“I think what helped us was that we learned from the first game and kept learning from the second game,” Gon-zales said. “We were able to learn the pitcher after the first game.”

The game looked like it would go another inning until Diaz stepped up to the plate with two outs and a 2-0 count. She hit a walk off home run that cemented the Tigers’ vic-tory, 13-10.

“You can't go up to bat with the intentions to hit a home run every time,” Diaz said. “You have to go up to bat with the intentions to get a base hit . . .”

“The kids we recruited are tough,” Mosley said. “True athletes have a competitiveness inside them. After the loss of the first game, they rose to the challenge. They really got into it.”

The team is enthusiastic at the start of their season.“The first game is a complete learning experience for

us,” Gonzales said. “As long as we continue to get those kinks out, we will continue to become a solid ball team. More solid than we are right now.”

The Doane College Men’s Tennis team will fin-ish this season with a better record than it has in the past seven years.

The crazy part is, it won’t be because of the top three players.

In the past seven years, the men’s tennis team has a total record of 14-46 (8-41 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference). That is a win average of 23 percent.

Anyone can tell you that is not a good record.The problem might be coaching.Head Coach Pete Fiumefreddo took over the

program in 2000 as the coach of both the men’s and women’s teams. In his final two years coach-ing both programs in 2005 and 2006, Fiumefred-do won a total of two games, and those were from the women’s team.

Since then, he has taken over solely as the men’s head coach. Fiumefreddo has a current to-

tal record of 14-32; a win percentage of 30 percent.While the coaching is sub par, this year’s team

has started undefeated. The men are currently 3-0, defeating Simpson College, Midland Univer-sity and Bethal College.

Normally, one might think the success has to do with the teams top player, or, its “number one.”

I happen to disagree.The top three players on the team, Ross Schul-

enberg, Sam Tipton and Chance Hoheusee, have played well. They have a combined record of 5-4, which isn’t bad. In the three matches they have played, Schulenberg has won two of his matches, Tipton has won one and Hoheusee has won two.

But the real story is the team’s bottom three players.

Last year alone, the bottom three players had a combined record of 15-30, throughout their sea-son.

In its first three matches, Doane’s bottom half of the team, the No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 players, have a combined record of 9-0.

Freshmen Dylan Ramey, Joe Carey and Tyler Johnson, and sophomores Muijj Ghani and Phil

Cook, have all spent time this season playing as No. 4- No. 6.

In the last match versus Bethal, Johnson, Ra-mey and Carey were the bottom half. Yes, all fresh-men.

Not only is this year’s team off to a hot start, the best start it has had in the last seven years, but the schedule is in the team’s favor.

Doane’s opponents have a combined record of 16-35 so far this season. A winning percentage of 31 percent.

If Doane is able to keep up with this hot streak it has started on, the team has a real chance at competing in the GPAC, something that has yet to be done since Fiumefreddo took over as head coach.

I predict that Doane will finish in the top three of the GPAC, and have a chance at winning the conference championship.

Doane plays their next match against the Bue-na Vista University (2-3) and Cornell College (7-4) at 11:30 a.m on March 10 in Storm Lake, Iowa.

Pitcher has 16 scoreless innings, 3-0 record

Sophomore Pitcher Tim Carlson first picked up a baseball when he was four years old. At age 19, he is now one of the most successful pitchers in Doane’s lineup.

The Tigers are 11-4 on the sea-son, and Carlson has a record of 3-0, contributing to 16 scoreless in-nings. Carlson said his off season and winter work benefited his per-formances early this season.

“I lifted a lot more in prepara-tion for this season than I have in the past,” Carlson said. “I feel that has given me better endurance throughout my starts, allowing me to pitch the way I have.”

Sophomore Pitcher Elliot Engle said Carlson has used the off-sea-son to become a smarter pitcher.

“Tim’s early season success is due to him spending more hours in the weight room,” Engle said. “He has learned how to pitch smarter.” Head Coach Jeremy Jorgensen at-tributed Carlson’s early season suc-cess to his day to day approach this spring.

“He has come in this spring with a great approach,” Jorgensen said. “He has been working hard in be-tween his starts, becoming more professional about his work.”

Having success did not come without adjustments Carlson said. He worked with the coaching staff to change his mechanics, along with learning a new pitch.

“This January I worked on my mechanics with Coach Jorgensen,” Carlson said. “I also learned a new change up that has been really ef-fective for me early on this year.”

Jorgensen said Carlson’s work ethic and ability put him in the spot where he was now.

“He is a very good pitcher and athlete,” Jorgensen said. “Tim (Carlson) is having success because he looks to get better and fine tune his craft.”

BY AUSTIN BENSONStaff Writer

“I lifted a lot more in preparation for this season than I have in the past.”

Tim Carlson-Sophomore

- OPINION -

BY RICHARD CREEGERSports Editor

Men’s tennis could finish best ever at Doane

Walk off home run clinches Doane winBY KEVIN ANDERSON

Staff Writer

“You can’t go up to bat with the intentions to hit a home run every time.”

Nichole Diaz-Freshman

Junior Alyssa Maraia is waiting for the ball to reach her at first base.Ryan Corrigan/The Owl

Courtesy Photo/Tim CarlsonSophomore Pitcher Tim Carlson has started the baseball season strong. His preparation and commitment during the off season helped him improve during the season.