The DePauw, March 3, 1998

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Members of the DePauw's women's basketball team, after a 45·minute wait, finally see they will get a bid and a bye In the NCAA Division III
Tournament. The team gathered in the Did Gold Room to watch the NCAA press conference announcing their invitation.
DePauw to play for the I '
National Championship
by Scott Weaver
, The DePauw women's basketball team
rini shed out the regular season with a
record 14·game win ni ng streak which
earned the 14th ranked Tigers a spot in the
national tourname nt. That wasn't a sur·
pnse.
Neither was the first round bye they
received.
''That gives us a lillie more time to pre·
pare," coach Kris Huffman said. "When
you're playing on Wednesday, you're
scrambling. It's nice that the we have a lit·
tic bitillore time to get ready for the ball·
game. The kids can rest their bodies.
They're kind of banged up, so we'll piece
them together, hopefully a few more
times."
The team found out that they would he
playing in the national tournament
Sunday night. They all sat in the Old Gold
room in the Lilly Center and watched the
.. drawin gs on TV.
The announcement was a bit less emo·
tionalthan two years ago, when the Tigers
were on the bubble. With their 22·4
~ See game story, page 16.
~ See photo spread, page 15,
record and 14th nati onal ranking,
DePauw was almost ass ured of a tou rna·
ment birth.
The Ti gers earned the number two
ranking in the Great Lakes region, and
along with it a bye. DePauw plays the
winner of the Hope College and Baldwin·
Wallace College game Sat urday at 3 p.m.
at DePauw.
"We're excitcd to be playing at home,"
Huffman said. "We've had great fan sup·
port all season. I hope they come out and
do it again with us."
This is the second time in three years
that the Tigers have made the national
tournament. 1\1'0 years ago, DePauw lost
in the first round to the eventual national
champions, Wisconsin ·Oshkosh. But
being winless in the tournament isn't wor·
rying the Tigers.
"We have a very good chance of mov·
ing on." said junior back.up point guard
Paula Boback. "We' re not sati sfied with
just being there."
Boback made the trip to Wisconsin in
1996 to play the Titans. After the loss and
the long bus ride home that same night,
$he learned how DePauw wi ll have to
approach their first post·season game.
"You have to play every practice like
it's your last," she said.
Coach Huffman gave the team
Monday ofT, but the Tigers will be busy
preparing the rest of the week for
Baldwin· Wallace, a heavy favorite to beat
Hope. The Baldwin· Wallace Yellow
Jackets spentmosl of their season ranked
third in the Great Lakes Region.
Conversely, the Tigers rode a late·sea·
son jump in the rankings to grab their
number two Great Lakes ranking. The 14·
game win streak combined with a surprise
loss by once number two ranked Capital
helped the Tigers secure H first·round bye.
DePauw finished their season with two
wins in the conference tournament. After
SEE TOURNEY, PAGE 15
IFC, Panhel
to vote on
SRC changes
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by Rebecca Ellis
After a barrage of alcohol· related
incidents, accidents, arrests and bad
publicity on campus, the Panhellenic
and Interfraternity Coun ci ls arc
reforming their social rul es.
Over the past several weeks, mem·
hers and pres idents of all greek orga·
nizations on campus have been meet·
ing to develop a new set of partying
rules. Panhel and IFC wi ll vote on the
new policy tomorrow ni ght.
Tbis academic year fi ve houses
have been put on soc ial probation for
alcohol·related vio lations. A Monon
Bell weekend party was mentioned in
a .US News and World Report article
on binge drinkin g, and the offi ce of
student se rvices put on an all·campus
convocation on alcohol abuse in the
wake of alcohol·related deaths on
other campuses.
Junior Jen ny Kline, Panhel pres i.
dent, said Panhel and IFC arc tryi ng
to reform their soc ial policy to
respond to campus concerns about
aleohol·related dangers.
"We don't need a deat h to wake up
this campus," Kline said. "We can
either take charge and be leaders and
stop some of this from goin g on, or
we' re going to lose our greek system.
If we don't do Ihis now .. . tru stees
wi ll step in and make it a dry cam·
pus."
The goals of this policy are sim·
pic, said Kline: to make campus par·
tics safer, to reduce fraternities' and
sorori ties' li ability and to put the
responsibility back in the hands of the
individual.
The proposed policy would bring
two major changes to fraternity par·
tics. First, parties would be BYOB
(Bring Your Own Beverage). Second,
fraternity houses would be monitored
by a chapter visitor team (CVT) of
three members each weekend. The
team would be drawn from all frater·
nities' risk management commillees.
Kline said sorority women will not
participate in CVTs because the
National Pan hellenic Council rules
prohibit members from monitoring
parties.
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