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“He’s on Tinder,” she said. “He’s single!”

What the heck was Tinder? Was it some psychedelic drug, or a new medication?

After further exploration I learned that it was not a danger-ous street drug, but rather a dat-ing app that used GPS to locate

Dating in the palm of your hand

Leah [email protected]

other Tinder-users nearby, and there was no random messaging from creeps. One simply views a profile, and if they like what they see, they swipe right. If not, they swipe left. If the other person also swipes right, it’s a match. Simple? Absolutely.

Like all dating apps, politics are involved. With Tinder, there are two kinds of users. Half the popu-lation of users are looking for an

easy hook-up, while the other half are looking for a real life re-lationship. That leads to the main issue with Tinder (and in life?): finding a person who wants the same thing as you. Chances are that half the time you make a match, he other person will want casual sex while you are looking for someone to wine, dine and marry you.

The same issues that exist with

A real-world dating app that matches you with nearby singlesreal dating exist within Tinder, except with Tinder you have nothing to lose. Many students use Tinder to strike up conver-sations with singles nearby, and then meet them later on a date. Like all dates, some end in disas-ter, and some end in love.

Readers submitted stories of Tinder failures, successes and downright weird conversations they’ve had.

Story continued on page 6

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3OPINION

With four albums under her belt, Swift has finally moved away from hopeful “Juliet in search of Romeo” inspired songs. Instead, she’s trading them in for more mature,

darker lyrics with a hint of funky, electropop that we haven’t heard before. Albums previ-ously laden with first kiss ballads have morphed into “1989,” which is Swift’s first exclusive pop album. With each lyric of the 13-song album, Swift embraces a “haters gonna hate,” reck-less abandon that was all but expected of her new album.

With synthesizers and drum machines galore, the new tracks are multi-layered. “Out of the Woods” is particularly hard to sit through, as Swift repeats “Are we out of the woods yet?” a whopping total of 29 times in a style that is reminiscent of Enya and some African war chant.

Part of me wonders if she’s just conforming to the pop music that bogs down my radio, or if she’s actually twisting pop music into something different, something new. Unlike most, Swift uses her swing to pop music as her declaration of independence, when it’s usually the other way around.

While a few songs on the album are difficult for me to listen to as a Swift fan, others fulfill everything I ever thought I needed from her. They’re poppy, electric and the real-life lyrics that made her famous have done anything but disappear.

From disappointed to impressed, my journey with Taylor SwiftLeah Kelley

Editor-in-Chief

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Dear Mandy,

How do I get Justin Bieber to notice me? I’ve sent him e-mails and letters and commented on all his Instagrams, no response. I’m anxious for the day I can gently caress his firm glutes and tell him that he’s my love. How do I remain patient until we meet and he realizes his mutual feelings for me?Give me advice, please!

Suburban Suzy

Disclaimer: Ask Mandy is satirical and intended for humorous purposes. The views and opinions reflected are

those of Mandy, not The Guardian as an organization.

Dear Suburban Suzy,

Let’s begin with the obvious question: Why on earth would you want to touch Justin Bieber’s butt—sor-ry—his glutes? How do you know his bottom is firm since it’s hidden so well behind that baggy denim? Maybe your imagination is playing tricks on you, and you somehow are seeing a butt oasis that isn’t there in real life. It’s really just a shimmering mirage, far in the distance. A butt mirage. It’s time to take a long, cold drink of reality and get back to civilization.

Love,Mandy

ask.fm/mandyadvice

I love “1989” because it makes me want to dance. The CD player in my car has truly nev-

er been happier. The windows are down, the vol-ume is up, and all the drivers in the cars at every stoplight are staring because I am singing at the top of my lungs and I’m dancing as much as I can behind the restraint of my seat belt. The catchy tunes run through my head all day and I seem to annoy everyone around me by singing “Shake It Off” constantly. I’ve enjoyed watching Taylor’s transformation over the years in her lyrics and style, and her new CD does not disappoint.

Everything and moreLindsey Roberts

Contributing Writer

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4 NEWS

The College of Liberal Arts (CoLA) offers a

variety of internship oppor-tunities that can offer a po-tential prelude to students’ future careers.

COLA students might be unaware of the internship opportunities available to them, as Vice President for Career & Workforce Develop-ment Joseph Slater explains.

“Clearly, professional de-grees do specify the types of jobs they are going to do. The other degrees have broader more generalist takes, and there are a slew of different opportunities jobs for them, and these employers come looking,” said Slater. “Often, when an employer comes looking for students, they are not necessarily looking for the kinds of students that we assume.”

If a student, no matter the major, struggles to obtain an internship, learning an ap-propriate strategy is vital, ac-cording to Slater.

“If students are having dif-ficulty finding internships, they often need to become more proactive and resilient. You need a multi-pronged strategy. Career services of-fers a number of ways to help people get here,” Slater said.

One source that CoLA stu-dents and any other student could use is Wright Search, which offers internship and resume posting.

The Communication De-partment offers a number of internships, according to communication internship

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL),

meant to provide faculty the resources they need to ef-fectively teach their material, have reconfigured their staff-ing to allow teachers more time to be teachers. This means better, more fluent interaction with colleges and students.

The center, which engages in faculty Pilot training, in-structional design for teach-ers who aren’t trained to teach their material in spe-cific ways, teaching learning circles and distance learning, has appointed a new staff director, Terry Klaus, and a new faculty director in an ef-fort to idealize the way the organization is run.

The Faculty Advisory board is also new for this Decem-ber. It consists of one faculty member from every college, who will make recommen-dations for activities in the Center. These members will also take information back to their colleges.

Chris Roberts, associate director for CTL, has high

Liberal arts students given internship opportunities

Changes in the Center for Teaching and Learning affect teachers and students alike

director Scott Peterson.“Currently, we have stu-

dents interning with the Day-ton Better Business Bureau, Green Country Libraries, and Cox Media,” said Peterson. “In the near future, we will have students working with the Dayton Demonz hockey team, Miami Valley Hospital, and the Society for the Im-provement of Conditions for Stray Animals (SICSA).”

Peterson expects to see ten to 12 students interning in the spring, with a poten-tial to see even more in the summer. Communication in-ternships give students that opportunity to improve their skills.

“As interns, students ben-efit by getting experience in the workplace, sharpening the skills they have learned in writing, public relations, or social media classes, while also putting theory into prac-tice,” said Peterson. “Another benefit is that the internship

gives employers the opportu-nity to evaluate the students as potential employees.”

In the 2013-14 academic year, 150 internship partners in the community and inter-nally at Wright State offered CoLA students internship opportunities. Around 200 CoLA students participated in an internship and logged nearly 25,000 hours outside the university during the same academic year.

hopes for the new system.“It makes our faculty sup-

port unit way more in-touch with faculty, simply because there are now reps from each college who can let us know what’s going on in their col-leges,” Roberts said.

The primary push for the reconfiguration arose when it became apparent that fac-ulty appointed to the CTL staff positions were not spending all the time they should as teachers. They were handling duties meant for a staff person—managing staff, filling time cards, etc—while sacrificing their time as teachers.

“Instead of having faculty members do that, we now have a staff director,” said Roberts. Now, faculty can provide their staff time at the CTL without dealing with the day-to-day functions of being a director.

“When faculty were com-ing into position as direc-tors of CTL in the past, it was foreign to them,” said Terry Klaus, the appointed staff di-rector. “It’s a culture shock,

Alan HieberNews [email protected] Dylan Dohner

News [email protected]

“Often, when an employer comes

looking for students, they are not neces-

sarily looking for the kinds of students that

we assume.”

“The internship gives employers the

opportunity to evalu-ate the students as

potential employees.”

different to what they were expecting.”

Klaus believes the faculty should be in the classroom. “We want to reduce the amount of time they spend here as staff, and promote their time here as teachers,” Klaus said.

This benefits the students. “Faculty teaching their courses will be more aware of some of the options we of-fer in the CTL,” Roberts said. “With representation from every college, we get to know what the faculty needs are, which would naturally meet student needs.”

Faculty will still influence and guide the CTL, said Klaus.

“CTL is never going to be successful without a faculty member at the helm, wheth-er it’s partially or wholly. They have to be involved.”

Some of the existing faculty will also be trained in an ex-posé run by Roberts for the upcoming Active Learning classrooms in the New Class-room Building, currently un-der construction by Univer-sity Hall.


5NEWS

Weirdest classes of the spring semesterZara QureshiFeatures [email protected]

Most of the classes offered during the spring semes-

ter are typical college courses in math, biology, English and other subjects, but there are some classes on the list that stand out as unique.

One of these classes is “Scuba and Skin: Open Water,” where students can learn how to scuba dive and also skin dive, using a snorkel to breathe while un-derwater instead of an air tank, through the classroom and pool work. Kenneth Charpie, who will teach the class next semes-ter, talked more about what the class entails.

“The class involves learning about the physics of breathing compressed air at depth, the physiological effects that has or can have on your body and how to safely manage the dive time and amount of time spent on the surface between dives,” Charpie said.

After students complete the class, they will have the op-portunity to obtain a scuba

certification from the National Association of Underwater In-structors. The class is open to all majors and anyone who is inter-ested in scuba diving. Charpie also explained though, that the class is useful for some specific careers.

“The experience can be use-ful in a number of career fields,” Charpie said. “Marine biologists are well-served to be divers. Other career fields include pa-leontology, marine archeology, police and fire fighters.”

Another class that is unique this upcoming semester is “So-cial Media and Brand,” a com-munications course on social media offered to juniors and se-niors of all majors.

In the class, students learn about a variety of social media information such as blogging, marketing and social media analytics for their personal and business brand. They also will have the opportunity to create a social media campaign. It is probably one of the only cours-es that encourages being on social media during class time. Ike Brunner, who co-teaches the

Wright State University utilizes two programs,

Course Studio and Pilot, for pro-fessors to provide course infor-mation to students. Chris Rob-erts, associate director for the Center for Teaching and Learn-ing, discussed the different as-pects of each program.

“Pilot is a full-fledged course management system that offers content delivery, online test-ing, assignment submissions, a grade book and communica-tion tools, such as e-mail, dis-cussions and Pilot Live. Pilot is also a flexible system and can be used to meet a variety of teach-ing needs. Faculty can use it to post a syllabus or other learn-ing materials for their students; they can provide a grade book or facilitate a discussion board, or they can teach a totally online course with it. Course Studio of-fers some of these options like e-mail, message board, content postings and announcements, but it was not designed to be a complete course management system,” Roberts said.

All you need to know about Course Studio and PilotTaylor McKinleyNews [email protected]

Although there has been talk about Wright State utiliz-ing a single program as its sole provider for online access to courses and course material, there have been no official plans made yet. Roberts, like many others, thinks it would be valu-able to the university.

“I believe it would be benefi-cial for faculty and students to have one course management provider, so hopefully the uni-versity will move in that direc-tion,” Roberts said.

Wright State’s Computing and Telecommunications Services, or CaTs, has informed faculty that Course Studio would be dis-continued, according to Dr. Lars Soderlund, assistant professor in the department of English.

“We faculty were told by CaTS that they were discontinuing Course Studio a little while ago, so we’ve all been encouraged to get off of it to make the transi-tion easier. I think CaTS tried to hang onto it as long as they could, but it does not seem sus-tainable when most people have switched to Pilot and most stu-dents know Pilot’s interface bet-ter than CaTS,” Soderlund said.

Because of this information,

course with Russ Shirley, said social media posting is a major part of the course.

“Posting is a big part of the class,” Brunner said. “We have a hashtag for the course, which is #DDWSU. We generate hun-dreds of posts a week. The class helps students learn to use so-cial media in a more productive way, which is one of the main points of the course.”

“Zombies and Gender in Pop Culture” also sticks out from other courses. The women’s studies course will focus on how zombie TV shows and films explore gender and other top-ics.

“We will be exploring how zombie tales in television and film are participating in social discourses of gender, race, class, sexual orientation and nation-ality,” said Andrea Harris, the course instructor.

Some of the works students will watch in the class are the TV show the “Walking Dead” and the films “Resident Evil” and “Night of the Living Dead.”

Soderlund explained his pref-erence for Pilot. “For my part, I found Course Studio to be much easier to use, but I’m now finding a way to use Pi-lot’s features since learning of Course Studio’s imminent demise. Software is not always chosen because of a universal need for it; sometimes it is chosen because it is available and the greatest number of people are basically okay with it,” Soderlund said.

Although the trend seems to be that most professors and students prefer Pilot, some still choose Course Studio as their preferred method of course communication due to its simplicity. A faculty mem-ber in the department of Eng-lish explained their preference for Course Studio.

“Since Course Studio meets my instructional needs—post-ing course documents and the occasional link to a website—I see no reason at this time to switch to Pilot, which seems to be plagued by major technical problems at the start of every semester. I also think Pilot has an unnecessarily complicated interface,” the professor said.

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6 WRIGHT LIFE

“American Horror Story” is in the fourth year of its

run, but this season might just top them all. The season opener,

Review: “American Horror Story: Freak Show”

Hannah HendrixFeatures [email protected]

“Monsters Among Us,” intro-duces a vivid cast of characters settling in Jupiter, Fla., in 1952. Among the members of a carni-val-style sideshow are charac-ters played by AHS regulars like Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Jessica Lange, but the truly chill-ing part of the story is the other new arrival: Twisty the Clown.

For those who don’t have even the slightest twinge of clown anxiety, the name sounds slightly ridiculous. How could anything be that scary? Though disgustingly stereotypical, Twisty is indeed an evil clown, though his motives remain un-clear. Does he just like to mur-der people or is he in search of a captive audience for his new act (or both)? While the “evil clown” is done to death, it seems to fit with the carnival theme of the new season, even though Twisty isn’t part of the

Banana Hammock

“One time I was messing with this guy I met on Tinder and he was obviously into it because he said, “This would be easier on Skype.” I was sending VAGUELY dirty messages. When I went home and went to bed and I got a text that said, “Hurry babe, call me,” and I got him to send me a photo of him in his bright yellow underwear.”

sideshow and it’s almost too much of a coincidence that he shows up at the same time to terrorize the town.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect so far is the introduction in the third episode “Edward Mordrake,” of Emma Roberts as Maggie Esmeralda, a faux-fortuneteller who appears to be casing the joint. In the first installment of this Halloween two-parter, Esmeralda and her partner, Stanley, are con artists looking for their next “authen-tic” museum piece—a subject that takes on a particularly sin-ister tone, since it is first dis-cussed in a gallery of bones and suspicious-looking jars. While Esmeralda seems uneasy around the other performers, Stanley worries only about “the size of the jar [he] has to get.”

The members of the troupe are a mixed bag. The back-

Boyfriend Material

“I got Tinder because all my friends were getting it. I matched with three guys, then handed the phone to my brother and told him to choose one for me to start talking to. The guy he chose is my cur-rent boyfriend!”

Neither Here nor There

“I met a girl on Tinder, but there was no chemistry between us. We ended up going out for drinks, and we’ve actually become pret-ty good friends.”

Not what I expected

“There was a guy in one of my classes who I thought was really cute. We matched on Tinder and started talking, and I was super excited, but he started getting a lot dirtier than I expected. When we went out for drinks, he was nothing like I hoped. We left that date, and I don’t miss him one bit.”

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and-forth between Bet and Dot, a pair of conjoined twins with warring personalities, is particularly well-written and Lange as Elsa Mars, the show-runner with dreams of fame, leaps from achingly sad to ruth-lessly professional. Kathy Bates plays Ethel Darling, the troupe’s “bearded lady.” Her accent, frus-tratingly difficult to place and, at times, to understand, takes away from her sensitive por-trayal of a mother struggling with guilt.

Creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, who also created “Glee”—go figure—may have outdone themselves with the setting. The circus is eerie and opulent, just run-down enough to be stunning. However, AHS is known for its title sequences, and this season’s is a bust, us-ing lots of obviously CGI effects when there are few in the actual

show.Overall, “American Horror

Story: Freak Show” is a good thrill with a talented cast of characters, though at times the writing can be a little clichéd.

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7WRIGHT LIFE

Known for their delicious breakfast menu and warm

hospitality, the Blueberry Café is frequented by all kinds of people. From Dayton television anchors to local farmers, the Café is en-joyed by anyone and everyone.

On its simple and fairly priced menu, the restaurant offers typical breakfast items, omelets, Mammoth Muffins and fresh- baked quiche, among other items. When visiting the Blue-berry Café for lunch, be sure to try a “BBC signature,” a freshly chopped salad, or a sandwich with a side of homemade potato chips. Just be sure to get there early enough to grab a seat: tables at the Blueberry Café fill up fast.

Blueberry Café and its owners have been in business for over 10 years, keeping their food fresh and their customers com-

The Blueberry CaféAndrea SchaafContributing [email protected]

ing back. Although it may seem that they always have a full house for breakfast and lunch, the Blueberry Café successfully maintains a small dining room of approximately fifteen tables, allowing for a more home-style dining experience.

Students appreciate the Blue-berry Café for its delicious food and reasonable prices. Sarah Spitzer, a Wright State junior, is in agreement.

“Eating at the café is always enjoyable, it is a quaint restau-rant that just seems to keep becoming more and more popu-lar,” Spitzer said.

Though small, the Blueberry Café is a treat for the Dayton community. Open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day of the week and during evening hours from 5 to 8 on Fridays, the Blueberry Café offers fantastic service, though sometimes a bit of a wait.

The newest sorority to join Wright State’s Greek life

is Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII). The organization’s national philan-thropy is arthritis research, but WSU’s chapter of AOII will espe-cially focus on helping veterans and wounded soldiers. Current president of AOII Haley Mruz explained why it is important for the chapter to support mili-tary individuals.

“We are right next to the mili-tary base and veterans are a big part of people’s lives here,” Mruz said. “They are the heroes of our community, so we want to something really big in support of them and their families such as a ‘Wounded Warrior Dash,’ a big field day.”

New Greek org to focus on helping veterans, wounded soldiersZara QureshiFeatures [email protected] AOII was selected in April

2013 to become the university’s seventh sorority. It joins Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta, Phi Sigma Rho, Theta Phi Alpha and Zeta Tau Alpha. President of the Panhellenic Council (PHC), the governing body of WSU so-rorities, Katie McGrath talked about what it’s like to have AOII become part of WSU.

“Having AOII come on campus has been really exciting,” Mc-Grath said. “I feel that our com-munity has really come together in support of something bigger than ourselves. We all want as many women as possible to find a home away from home, and AOII has opened another door to making that happen.”

AOII recently became a full chapter with the induction of 54 members. Members pledged to AOII and were pinned with sorority badges and at the Colonization Ceremony on Oct. 8. After that, AOII will have an installation ceremony, where members will be officially initi-ated by the international presi-dent on Jan. 24. AOII also plans to participate in Raiderthon, a

“I feel that our community has re-

ally come together in support of something

bigger than our-selves.”

“They are the heroes of our community,

so we want to some-thing really big in

support of them and their families .”

dance marathon at WSU which raises money for the Dayton Children’s Hospital, and has al-ready raised over $700 for the event. Mruz hopes to have more on campus events and include not just fraternities and sorori-ties, but many other organiza-tions, students and community members as well.

“We want to be a very inclu-

sive organization,” Mruz said. “Everyone here is impacted by military life in some way, so we want to involve all WSU stu-dents and the community. AOII is more than just a sorority. We are a group of people who want to be leaders and bring change on campus.”

“We are an opportunity for students to get more involved and make connections on cam-pus,” Mruz said. “Students who did not find a fit with the other sororities may find a place in AOII instead. As a new organiza-tion, we can do something new and different on campus. We want to bring a new perspective on campus and just keep evolv-ing Wright State.”

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Diwali: The hinDu fesTival of lighTs

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9SPORTS

In a contest that Wright State head coach Pat Fergu-

son said his squad had to win, the Raiders dispatched first-year Horizon League member UIC 2-0 Saturday in WSU’s 2014 home finale.

The Raiders outshot the Flames 25-5 for the contest with 17 of WSU’s shots attmpeted in the first half.

“I put pressure on them and for the young kids, the kids coming back next year, it is good to be put in that position,” Fer-guson said. “We have to win, there is no tomorrow.”

WSU’s Bryce Hueber scored off a free kick from 20 yards in the eighth minute after team-mate Paige Aguilera drew a foul. Hueber’s goal held up as match’s lone goal for the major-ity of the match.

WSU struggled to match the same intensity it had in the first half when the Raiders outshot the Flames 17-1 in the half. While UIC had a lot of the pos-session in the second half, the Flames were unable to get any quality chances on goal.

The Wright State men’s and women’s cross country

teams will be traveling to Keno-sha, Wisc. this weekend for the Horizon League Championships and will look to finish the year strong and place high in the conference.

Both teams are young, but have shown improvements throughout the year and bright moments showing a promising future for both teams.

One of those bright moments was the meet in Peoria, Ill. at the Bradley Classic. Nick Durkee led the men’s team with a time of 26:57 in the 8K race. Durkee is a sophomore who walked-on the team as a freshman and now, according to Coach Fabien Corbillon, has become the No. 1

Women’s soccer: Raiders win home finaleJustin BoggsSports [email protected]

“We had about an 18 minute lull in the second half,” Ferguson said. “We’re still learning how to play calm and finish a game and not panic.”

It was not until the 84th min-ute when senior Natalie Sed-lock put the game away with a breakaway goal to lift WSU to a 2-0 advantage.

“It felt like we were panicking so that goal put us at ease,” Sed-lock said.

Last Saturday’s win keeps the Raiders tied for sixth place in the Horizon League standings. WSU is one of five teams bat-tling for the final four spots in the Horizon League Champion-ships.

Wright State’s regular season finale is Friday at Oakland. If the Raiders win, they will clinch at top-four seed and host a first-round match in the Horizon League tournament. A tie en-sures both Oakland and WSU a spot in the conference tourna-ment. A loss means WSU’s sea-son likely comes to a close.

“It is a big one, it will be in-teresting,” Sedlock said. “The se-niors would really like [having another home game]. It would be an advantage having it here.”

runner on the team.The Bradley Classic was a

high point for the women’s team who is hitting its stride of late. WSU finished the race with three of its runners posting top 10 times in program history for the 6K. Sophomore Alexandra Brown led the way with a time of 23:01; the third fastest time in WSU history. Corbillon said Brown has been the MVP of the team so far this season, and has a really good chance of being a first-team all conference runner this season.

Brittany Bailey followed Brown at 23:13 and Vanessa Hopwood at 23:33, who Corbil-lon also expects to have a chance at being honored this year.

“They’ve already done more than we could hope for. The girls are very young, we have no seniors. But I think this year

Cross Country: Raiders ready for HL ChampionshipsGreg FelderSports [email protected]

Wright State clinched a berth into the Horizon

League Championships follow-ing the Raiders’ 2-1 win versus UIC last Saturday that marked WSU’s first win over UIC in a decade.

Wright State avenged its loss from the Horizon League semi-finals last season against UIC.

WSU head coach Bryan Da-vis said he was happy to finally beat UIC, but the program’s history versus the Flames was not something he emphasized before Saturday’s match. It was Davis’ first win over UIC since joining the program in 2009.

“We have had great years and lost to them,” Davis said. “They have done well historically. For me, I pulled the monkey off my back; it is nice to finally beat ev-ery team in the conference.”

The Raiders and Flames played an evenly matched first half that gave way to an ener-getic second half.

“I can’t be more proud of the energy and the belief of this group,” Davis said.

After a 1-1 score at halftime,

Men’s soccer: Raiders clinch tourney spot in dramatic winJustin BoggsSports [email protected] the Raiders played a dominat-

ing half of soccer outshooting the Flames 13-4 in the second

culminating in a Peguy Ngatcha goal. Ngatcha took a cross from Eric Lynch and beat all UIC de-fenders to lift WSU to a 2-1 lead in the 68th.

“I am killing him, getting in

his face at halftime and he is talking to me and he is uncon-fident and you know what he does? He puts the game-winner away,” Davis said about Ngatcha. “That is belief.”

“This game was really im-portant for us,” Ngatcha said. “I really liked the group and how we reacted. The first half wasn’t quite what we expected. We came back, got our confidence back and we finished the game well.”

Davis said the team received a spark off the bench from Avery Ball who assisted Ngatcha in his

goal.“It was a team effort,” Ball

said. “For us, it was a must win. We wanted to control our own fait that we’re going to be in the tournament. That was extreme-ly important to put everything on the line.”

Wright State got on the board first as Eric Lynch’s free kick bounced off the crossbar but landed on the foot of defender Jake Stovall who buried his fifth tally of the season in the 29th minute. UIC responded eight minutes later with a goal of its own as Sergio Fuentes tallied from inside the box to knot the game at one.

UIC outshot WSU 5-3 in the first half.

Wright State concludes its Horizon League slate Saturday at Oakland. A win gives WSU a good opportunity to host a first-round matchup on Nov. 10.

“Definitely having another game here at home is extremely important,” Ball said. “We are so used to our field and we have a great record at home.”

The Raiders went 8-1 at Alumni Field during the regular season.

“I can’t be more proud of the energy and the belief of this

group.”

we have the potential to finish higher than any women’s team has ever finished at the League Championships,” said Corbillon.

The runner to keep an eye on for the Raiders at the League Championships this year is freshman Andrew Lake. He has led all runners for Wright State at a couple of meets already this season.

“I think that within the next couple of years, Andrew will be the number one runner in the Horizon League, and he may eventually be the best runner ever at Wright State,” said Cor-billon.

The Raiders took a short-handed roster to the Cedar-ville Open this past Friday as a warm-up meet before the League Championship. The Ho-rizon League Championship will be held this Saturday at noon.

Photo By: Nick HoffmanWSU vs UIC

Photo By: Johanna SchmitzEllie Ganz


10 SPORTS

Volleyball: Raiders suffer from growing pains

While Wright State is no longer in a multiple-

year conference losing streak, the Raiders are still looking for their first Horizon League win in McLin Gym since 2011 after WSU fell to Cleveland State 3-0 last Saturday.

Wright State is tied for last place in the Horizon League with a 1-8 record. As the sea-son is slipping away, short-term goals such as reaching Hori-zon League Championships are starting to fade. But WSU head coach Susan Clements said she is seeing progress from her young players.

“We’re very competitive,” Cle-ments said. “(Against CSU), if we had some plays go our way or better serving opportunities, I think the match could have ended up differently. You can see that progression with this group but we just have to pound home the consistency.”

Senior Ashley Langjahr said the young players around her are starting to step up. Langjahr

is the only senior and one of three upperclassmen regularly in WSU’s rotation.

“They have been really great about stepping up into a role,” Langjahr said. “It is not easy where they’re literally half of our team and all of them play. They have done a great job and being a part of the team to help us win.”

As her time at WSU comes to a close, Langjahr said she could help this team build for the fu-ture in the final three weeks of the season.

“Knowing that we’re help-ing to build something for the future,” Langjahr said. “As they say, ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day.’ With such a young team, in the next few years, once they get an

actual team settled in, they will be really good.”

Cleveland State presented the Raiders with a tough challenge, as the Vikings were aggressive off the serve. CSU had six aces in Saturday’s contest compared to three from the Raiders.

“We have to pinpoint our passing because they have a lot of veteran play with their setter and outside hitters,” Clements said. “We didn’t do that well.”

The Raiders were competi-tive in the first set leading at one point by five. With WSU up 16-13, CSU had a trio of service aces and a kill that took the lead away from WSU. CSU took the opening set 25-20.

After never leading in the sec-ond set, WSU responded with a good start to the third set with nine ties and a pair of lead changes. With the third set tied at 17, CSU went on a 7-0 run to put the set and match out of reach.

For the first time all season, WSU stays home back-to-back weekends. The Raiders host Oakland on Friday.

“We have been pretty road worn this year,” Clements said. “We can get our legs back under us.”

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“With such a young team, in the next

few years, once they get an actual team

settled in, they will be really good.”

Raider Spotlight: Megan Hopkins

The Wright State volleyball team is one of the young-

est teams in the Horizon League, and only having two seniors, head coach Susan Clements has had to rely on the youth of her squad led by freshman Megan Hopkins.

Hopkins has always had a de-sire for athletics, however vol-leyball is the sport that she fell in love with early on.

“I am just a really competi-tive person and volleyball really brought that out in me. I love the sport and I love being a part of a team that is so close. It’s just such a fun sport and that’s why I love it,” said Hopkins.

Hopkins played basketball and volleyball at Westfield High School in Carmel, Ind., where she was a four-year letterman in both sports. As much as she en-joyed playing basketball, Hop-kins believed that volleyball was her calling. After an eye opening conversation with a club coach during her sophomore season, she knew she was correct.

“My sophomore year in club season. That’s when my coach talked to me and asked if I was serious about it and if I wanted to play in college. That’s when it opened my eyes and was like ‘Wow I can actually play in col-lege,’ so that’s when I started looking at schools and getting serious in the whole recruiting process,” Hopkins said.

A lot of Division II schools showed interest in Hopkins ear-ly on and even a couple of Divi-sion I schools like Bradley and Miami (OH) University. Once Wright State became interested, Hopkins said that it was a no brainer where she wanted to play.

“A lot of other Division II schools came out but Wright State was definitely my number one focus and my number one choice. When they came out to me I was so excited because it was everything that I wanted in a school. I didn’t really look at anyone else because Wright State was it for me I guess,” said Hopkins.

Closeness to family and the size of the school were the two main factors that led to Hopkins decision to become a Raider.

“My goal was to play DI col-lege volleyball and that’s what Wright State offered me. Its only two hours away from my home and it’s the perfect size for me so it was honestly the perfect school,” Hopkins said.

Being a freshman, Hopkins has already made an impact and her talents have already been recognized as she was named to the Chattanooga Invitational All-Tournament Team earlier on in the season.

Hopkins credits some of her success early on fellow team mate, Haley Garr, who has pushed her and inspired her to play at such a high level.

“I looked up to Haley Garr the most because she was such a competitive person and she has such a drive to win and she does whatever it takes. She just in-spired me to also play like her,” Hopkins said.

As talented as the 6-foot freshman is, Hopkins knows that it is not just her talents that will turn WSU’s volleyball team around. With many people pointing to ‘youth’ as a factor for its current record, Hopkins be-lieves that its ‘youth’ is what is going to make the program bet-ter as time goes.

Justin KinnerWWSU Sports Director [email protected]

Photo By: Justin Boggs

Photo By: Justin Boggs

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