News

· January 30

What's Your Flavor?

What is your flavor? "Dr. Pepper, all 23 flavors" Name? Duce Black Year? Junior Major? Art Ed. Hometown? Westerville What are you wearing? Puma jacket, blue jeans and some fresh kicks. What is your favorite book? Fight Club Favorite Band/Musician? Incubus Favorite Movie? Ricky Bobby-Talladega Nights Favorite Quote? "You shut your mouth when you're talking to me".

· January 30

Say What?

What was your longest car trip? To where, and how long, why? "Disney World, Florida- Because it's the happiest place on earth! We were in the car two to three days." - Cameron Conard, Freshman, Life Science "Florida and Georgia- 14 hours in a car to visit relatives.

· January 25

Protect Yourself

On Thursday February 7th the Ohio AIDS Coalition will be hosting National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness day at Otterbein College, providing free confidential AIDS tests for all students and faculty. From 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, representatives from the AIDS Task Force will be in the Campus Center handing out free condoms, and general information on HIV, AIDS and other STD's.

· January 25

Security Prepares Students For The Worst

Although most statistics show a steady decline in the rate of school violence, the Otterbein security department is doing it's best to make sure students are prepared. The active shooter program was introduced to Otterbein last quarter as a way to prepare students, faculty and staff should a shooting incident ever happen on campus.

· January 25

What's Your Flavor?

Name: Briana Batesole What's your flavor? mint chocolate chip Favorite song: "Welcome to my Life" - Simple Plan Favorite activity: horseback riding Random fact about you: I drove under a fire truck Lucky number: 2 Hometown:

· January 24

Cardinals Hold Their Own At Kenyon Invitational

The men's and women's indoor track and field teams weren't intimidated by Kenyon College's $70 million athletic center at last Saturday's meet. The men's team took second place out of eight teams at Saturday's meet. Ohio Wesleyan took the first-place spot with 234 points.

· January 24

Westerville Overflows With Coffee Choices

It's 8 a.m. You have to roll out of bed in order to stumble to your morning class. By skipping out on makeup or editing that paper, you decide you have time to grab a cup of coffee. Surprisingly enough, you might have to make a difficult decision when it comes to where you buy your coffee.

Lucas Buck · January 24

The Definition of a Cardinal

It's early afternoon in Lemay Auditorium. Dr. Uwe Tritman is conducting a final for over 40 Otterbein students in his INST: Our Place in The Universe (astronomy) class. Palms are sweating, eyes are blinking rapidly in an attempt to fend off the sleepiness caused by zero hours of sleep and endless cramming of notes from the 10 weeks that sit in the rearview mirror.

· January 24

MLK Convocation

Kevin L. Boyce, a Columbus city council member and delegate to the Democratic National Convention, was the keynote speaker at yesterday's Martin Luther King convocation, held in Cowan Hall. Boyce, a Democrat, encouraged all students, regardless of their political allegiances, to register to vote and go out to the polls on election day.

· January 24

Security Prepares Students For Worst

Although most statistics show a steady decline in the rate of school violence, the Otterbein security department is doing its best to make sure students are prepared. Security introduced the active shooter program last quarter as a way to ready students, faculty and staff in case a shooting incident were to occur on campus.

· January 24

OC Cans Cross-Town Rivals

Laura Roth was determined. She was determined to end a three-game skid and she was determined to shoot down a hated rival. The shooting guard scored a game-high 24 points, including 19 in the first half, as the Cardinals put to rest a three- game losing streak Saturday with a 77-69 victory over cross-town nemesis Capital.

· January 24

Mental Hospital To Be Built Nearby

Otterbein College will soon have a new neighbor. Last night, the Westerville planning committee unanimously approved the construction of a psychiatric hospital to be built at the corner of County Line Road and Africa Road. A timetable has not been set for the construction of the facility, which will be called Westerville Hospital.

Rachel Scali · January 24

Scoreboard

Women's basketball at Capital W 77-69 Men's basketball at Capital L 86-57 Indoor Track at Kenyon 2nd of 8 Women's basketball 01/26 at John Carroll Men's basketball 01/26 vs John Carroll Men's and women's track 01/25 a

Mallory Alexin · January 24

Cloverfield Crushes NYC- Part 1

I have been waiting for the release of "Cloverfield" for six months. I forwarded everyone I knew to a YouTube link to look at what I called "the coolest trailer I have ever seen in my entire life." Could I have been any more disappointed? The movie was all right.

· January 24

Athlete of the Week

Otterbein College senior point guard Ross Banaszak scores points not only for the Cardinal basketball team but on a more personal front as well. The young athlete balances a full and demanding home life with girlfriend Jessica O'Conners and son Andrew Lawrence Banaszak.

· January 24

Cloverfield Crushes NYC- Part 2

In "Cloverfield," directed by Matt Reeves, the majesty of New York City's skyline is on full display - when it gets destroyed by a giant monster. There has been somewhat of a moratorium on baking the Big Apple since the events of September 11, especially when compared to its heyday in the 1990s, but New York has still seen its fair share of celluloid action.

Mallory Alexin · January 24

What's Next?

ON CAMPUS Friday, January 25 CPB free movie 11:30 p.m. Hollywood Studios Theater Sunday, January 27 Music of the Arab world 7 p.m. Riley Auditorium Tuesday, January 29 CPB knitting night 4 - 7 p.m. Campus Center lounge Wednesday, January 30 Student/alumni networking event 6 - 8 p.

· January 23

Area scares

Dead Acres (best known as The Haunted Hoochie) Dead Acres was voted one of America's top 13 haunted events by "Haunt World" magazine. Hauntedhousetour.com describes the Haunted Hoochie as a "...sensory overload and in-your-face type of haunt." Location: 13861 E.