Nothing can keep Libby Hysell away from softball.

As a star pitcher at Colfax-Mingo High School, she underwent major back surgery. She went on to become an all-state player.

Before her senior season at Central College, she had serious surgery on her pitching shoulder. She came back with a perfect 17-0 record with a 0.41 ERA. She pitched the final three innings of Central’s 2003 NCAA Division III championship, earning the save and propelling her to the Honda Award Division III Female Athlete of the Year award.

Now, two years removed from playing, Hysell’s making another comeback as the new assistant softball coach at Drake.

"It's a dream come true," Hysell said of her appointment. "Since I've been out of college, I haven't been associated with softball other than individual pitching lessons and I'm so happy to take this position at Drake. I feel my passion and enthusiasm for the game will be one of my strengths."

Hysell will work with Drake’s pitchers, which include junior Kristin Birocci, a former Des Moines Lincoln High School standout.

"We are extremely excited to have Libby on board," said Drake head coach Rich Calvert. "She brings great energy and passion for the game that should rub off on the rest of us."

Hysell brings a star-studded player’s resume to Drake. She earned Division III first-team All-American and 2003 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Player of the Year honors, was Central's leading pitcher from 1999-2003, taking the Dutch to the 2003 NCAA National Championship where she was named to the all-tournament team. She was named the Iowa Conference Most Valuable Player and earned national recognition as the NFCA Pitcher of the Week during the season. She was a three-time All-American, earning third team honors as a sophomore, second team honors as a junior and first-team honors as a senior.

Hysell holds a bachelor's degree in general studies from Central College. She previously served as assistant coach and head pitching coach at Pella High School in the summer of 2002. She also has been a volunteer pitching coach for her alma mater for the past two seasons, while also coaching at youth camps for five years.
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Players try to navigate the bizarre course at the annual mini-golf event at Olmsted last week.

Olmsted Center became something more than Ted’s Golf-A-Ramma – but something less than the Master’s at Augusta – when the All Staff Council’s annual mini-golf competition rolled into the Pomeranz Student Union on Wednesday, June 22.

Sponsored by the council’s Special Events, Community Service Committee, the strange course offered 16 holes with everything from hockey sticks to virtual reality helmets.

Competition was tight this year for the award for best hole. Some favorites included Facility Services’ water-hazard, and Drake TeleMedia Center’s virtual hole challenge. Participants were asked to use a special putter with a camera attached to the head while wearing a helmet with a screen showing the ball’s perspective.

Various obstacles included a salt pit on Sodexho’s course, and a Wiffle-ball/hockey stick setup by Rec Services/Athletics Department, and an Information Technology Center hole featuring swinging computer mice.

Winners and prizes included:

• Hole 1 School of Education - Most Drake Paraphernalia: Gloria Lawless won SOE bag & DU items
• Hole 2 Law Library - Closest to hole/Hole-in-One drawing: Matt Miller
• Hole 3 Admissions – Hole -in -One: Ryan Thompson won a t-shirt
• Hole 4 Pharmacy – So Close Yet So Far: Dannie Crozier won bag & pharmaceuticals
• Hole 5 Sodexho – Numerous prizes given out to those qualifying throughout the two hours
• Hole 6 DTC –Best Virtual Hole: Ginnie Nevins won a Drake Diner Gift Certificate
• Hole 7 Residence Life – Most School Spirit : Sentwali Bakari won a sweatshirt
• Hole 8 Advancement – Numerous prizes given to all who shot 3 & under, Andrea McDonough won the hole-in-one
• Hole 9 Information Tech. – Funniest golf joke: Ericca Saddoris won Flash Drive
• Hole 10 Student Life – Most Strokes won by Sentwali Bakari, Ginny Camden, Carrie Koenigsfeld & Melissa Sturm-Smith won T-shirts
• Hole 11 Facilities - Drawing for Hole -in-One won by Sean Kehoe won the Steeple Chase
• Hole 12 LRI – Most Strokes: Ginny Canden won a gift certificate to Noah’s Ark Rest.
• Hole 13 Rec. Services/Athletics – Longest Shot: Mike Cigelman won the most unique shot and Ericca Saddoris the longest
• Hole 14 Kelly Insurance – Highest Score: Total of 10 winners FIRST hole-in-one was Ruta Seskis who won a ‘vacation piggy bank’
• Hole 15 D-Shoppe Bookstore – Unique Technique: Two Drake key chains & one Relays t-shirt given at the time of winning
• Hole 16 CBPA – Best Strategic Putting: John Brown won a MPA sweatshirt and Jill Duffy won a set of books

The University's Business Continuity Plan for Information Technology calls for development of a "warm-site" in Jewett Hall that will help minimize the downtime caused by damage to Dial Center. The warm-site is an equipment room where major servers in Dial Center are duplicated and can be pressed into service within two to three days of a disaster.

As part of the preparation of the Jewett site Drake needs to re-position network fiber within the equipment room. This operation will take place on two consecutive weekends in July and will create substantial down time for some buildings.

The schedule of downtime and service outage is detailed below:

Monday, July 4, 7-10 a.m. – Drake will be disconnected from the Internet. People on campus will be unable to reach off campus services; people off campus will be unable to reach Drake services (e.g., Banner, E-mail and Blackboard). Drake services will be available to people on campus.

Saturday, July 9, 6 a.m. – All network service will be briefly interrupted in: Cartwright, Carnegie, Cole, Cowles, Howard, Meredith, Olin and Opperman, while they are placed on an alternate connection path.

Saturday, July 9, 6 a.m. through Sunday, July 10, noon – There will be a complete disconnection of all services for: Cline Hall, Fitch, Harvey-Ingham, Old Main, Jewett (including The Point), Morehouse, Harmon (including Security) and the Field House (including Bell Center, Knapp Center, Tennis Center and Physical Plant).

Service will be restored to connection points in the order given. Plan on 30-60 minutes for each of the 8 connection points. Thus, Cline would be back 30-60 minutes after the restoration process begins; the Field House would not be back for four to eight hours. There will be pauses of unknown duration throughout the re-location process to deal with myriad issues that may arise.

Sunday, July 10, noon – All network service will be briefly interrupted in: Cartwright, Carnegie, Cole, Cowles, Howard, Meredith, Olin and Opperman. Dial Center services (Banner, E-mail, Blackboard, etc.) will be briefly unavailable to everyone.
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Judge Eliza Ovrum issued a ruling last week reversing a wastewater discharge permit issued by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to Agriprocessors Inc. of Postville, Iowa. The permit had been challenged by Northeast Iowa Citizens for Clean Water (NICCW), a citizens group organized to protect Hecker Creek and the Yellow River, into which the wastewater would discharge. The group was particularly concerned about high chloride levels, which it said would potentially harm aquatic life and impact groundwater.

NICCW is represented by Midwest Environmental Justice Advocates, including Drake University Law School professor Jerry Anderson.

The court found that the department violated state law in issuing two variances from water quality regulations. Specifically, the court found that IDNR failed to make a required finding of “necessity” before issuing the variance. Moreover, the variances were permanent, in violation of state law requiring them to be temporary if possible, and the IDNR did not make a finding that the variance was the narrowest exception possible. The court therefore reversed the permit and sent the matter back to the IDNR

NICCW had raised several other issues of state and federal law, which the court held would have to await trial to determine, given unresolved factual issues.

NICCW members were pleased with the ruling. David Smith, president of the group, said: “We have said all along that we just wanted the IDNR to follow the law. We think if they do that, these important resources will be protected.”

The federal Environmental Protection Agency and NICCW have also sued Agriprocessors in federal court in Cedar Rapids, seeking penalties for numerous alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. That suit remains pending. NICCW is represented in both cases by Midwest Environmental Justice Advocates.

The next issue of OnCampus will be Monday, July 11.
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• First MBA term ends.

• Second MBA term begins.
• Drake Neighborhood Farmers' Market will feature free ice cream samples from Anderson Erickson Dairy and information about the Children of Families of Iowa Family Violence Center, First Christian Church parking lot, 25th Street and University Avenue, 4 to 7 p.m.

• Presentation on "Astro-illusions," Drake Municipal Observatory, Waveland Park, 9 p.m.

• Independence Day (classes do not meet).

• Drake Neighborhood Farmers' Market, First Christian Church parking lot, 4 to 7 p.m.

• Four-week and five-week terms end.
• Last of the summer presentations at the Drake Municipal Observatory: "Telescopes are Your Friends," Waveland Park, 9 p.m.

• Second five-week and four-week terms begin.

• D-Shoppe tent sale, Pomerantz Student Union, Olmsted Center, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Ice Cream Social, east side of Olmsted Center, 2 to 3 p.m., 50 cents.

Brad Tice, associate professor of Ppharmacy practice and director of the Drake/Albertsons Community Care Initiative, was recently installed as vice-speaker of the House of Delegates at the 2005 Iowa Pharmacy Association Annual Meeting in West Des Moines. The installation occurred during IPA’s House of Delegates session on June 12 at the Sheraton in West Des Moines.