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298 dead There were no survivors on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was was shot down over eastern Ukraine July 17.
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Naperville, Ill., car crash kills IU student Syed FROM IDS REPORTS
IU student Sajaad Safiullah Syed died in a car crash in Naperville, Ill., early Saturday morning. “We are unable to confirm specific identities at this time,” DuPage county coroner’s office said. However, according to a press release issued by the Naperville Police Department, Syed was one of three people involved in the crash, which occurred approximately at 1:59 a.m. Saturday morning. Michael T. Szot was driving a 2007 Chevy Impala while intoxicated. Syed and 21-year-old Mihirtej Boddupalli were passengers in the car, according to the release. The car crashed into several trees, and then landed in a quarry. Szot, the driver, was able to swim free. Syed and Boddupalli were unable to escape the car and were recovered by fire and police department divers and transported to Edward Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Szot was also transported to the hospital, where he was treated and released. He was then placed under arrest upon his release from the hospital for four counts of aggravated
IU is aiming to streamline the class registration process this academic year with the creation of the Office of Completion and Student Success. Physically based in Indianapolis, the new office will be present statewide at all IU campuses primarily through the use of electronic devices. “IU is adopting a lot of new tools and technology in order to help them better work with students,” said Rebecca Torstrick, director of the new office and assistant vice president for University Academic and Regional Campus Affairs. “The new office is a recognition that that is a valuable process.” The main initiative of the Office of Completion and Student Success is to foster communication across all IU campuses, Torstrick said. She said it would be valuable to connect the IU campuses so that people working across the state can share knowledge and information. If one campus tried something and it worked, that success does not have to stay on that campus — it could be shared. “The role of the office is to foster that cross-communication,” Torstrick said. The office also helps the University fulfill its agenda of increasing the rate and speed of degree completion. Among its functions, the office will be responsible for the Interactive Graduation Planning Success System, a new tool that will handle all functions involving class registration, planning and the student information system. Torstrick describes iGPS as a tool students can use to visualize their education. Students will be able to download a four-year degree map to start, then specialize their map to their wishes. If a student wants to see what their course load would look like to graduate on time with a major and minor or a couple of minors or even a double major, they can,
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10 Britons 4 Germans 4 Belgians 3 Filipinos A friend of IU student Sajaad Syed sent the IDS this photo of him.
driving under the influence of alcohol causing the death of another, a class two felony. Szot was also charged with two counts of reckless homicide. Syed was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, a member confirmed. The crash site is still under investigation, the Naperville police said. Evan Hoopfer
New IU office to aid in improving class registration process BY ANICKA SLACHTA aslachta@indiana.edu
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Torstrick said. The map also works for students who want to pursue a heavier workload, accommodating fiveor six-year plans, as well. iGPS also contains a feature that is connected with the Fostering Learning and Graduaton Success program. FLAGS is an application that analyzes student activity such as attendance and underperformance to identify students that are at risk of not succeeding academically. Advisers, students and the directors of academic support centers are alerted of the behavior to work together in addressing the issue. The program, Torstrick said, also prides itself on being flexible, accurate and accommodating. Students who work part-time in addition to taking classes will be able to block out their work schedule online so they can schedule classes more easily. This year will be important for getting the office up and running, Torstrick said. It officially opened July 1, but will take some time to be in full operation. Hopefully, she said, students will soon be more involved and the office will continue to build more positive relationships between students and advisers. “The most important piece of this is to allow the time you’ve got with your adviser to be better spent so that you’re not always so focused on course selection, but you can talk to your advisers about study abroad or undergraduate research, internships, job shadowing, right?” Torstrick said. “Other important things.” John Applegate, IU executive vice president for University Academic Affairs, said in a press release that there is room for improvement everywhere in the University system. “This new focus on information and best practices should give advisers the tools they need to help more students achieve their degrees more quickly and more affordably,” he said.
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IU student Karlijn Keijzer remembered for her smile, fun-loving personality BY EVAN HOOPFER AND SARAH ZINN ehoopfer@indiana.edu sjzinn@indiana.edu
“Karlijn wasn’t on that plane, right?” IU student Meghan McCormick read this text message when she was running errands the afternoon of July 17. When she dropped Karlijn Keijzer off at the airport in May, she knew Keijzer was headed home to Amsterdam for the summer on a Meghan McCormick sent the IDS this research grant. McCormick had no photo of IU student Karlijn Keijzer. idea Keijzer had decided to take a mid-summer vacation via Malaysia picture on the national news in the future. Airlines. But not like this. Keijzer was one of 298 people to The news hit Keijer’s workout die when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine July 17. buddy Myrick hard. “I thought in a couple decades Keijzer, 25, was Dutch-American, a member of the IU rowing team dur- we would see her picture on the ing the 2010-11 season and a doc- news because she found some cure toral student at IU studying chem- for cancer,” Myrick said of her friend Keijzer. istry. Myrick paused, trying to comAfter rushing home, McCormick saw Keijzer’s sister had posted Kei- pose herself. “It was hard to see her picture up jzer’s flight information on Facebook. It matched the plane on the there,” she said. “But even just looking at her picture, you could see that news. McCormick knew before the smile and what kind of person she was.” confirmation. *** One of Mark Sprowl’s coworkers saw Keijzer post pictures of herself and her boyfriend at the Amsterdam airport. The couple was getting away for a vacation and posted a selfie the morning before the flight. Then Sprowl, who was a graduate student with Keijzer studying chemistry and had known her for three years, saw the news. A plane flying from Amsterdam had crashed. “We thought, ‘There’s no way this one plane coming from Amsterdam was the one she was on,’” Sprowl said. He looked on her Facebook page. Her sister had posted her flight information. It was Flight 17, Malaysia Airlines. *** Jessica Myrick thought she would see her friend Keijzer’s
*** Keijzer had a slight Dutch accent. She was a workout fiend. She didn’t like getting up early in the morning. She liked getting pizza and beer with her friends. Sometimes she played her music too loud and annoyed her co-workers. Keijzer studied inorganic chemistry under Professor Mu-Huyn Baik. Baik is the principal investigator and adviser in a research group of Ph.D. candidates, undergraduates and high school students he calls “Baik group.” They used computer simulations of molecular models to test their own hypotheses, working towards large goals like turning carbon into fuel. The chemistry department at IU is so intensive that many people jokingly say they could call their advising doctors “father,” Baik said. But spending almost 50 hours a SEE KARLIJN, PAGE 7