Indiana Statesman For ISU students. About ISU students. By ISU students.
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016
Volume 123, Issue 44
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Event series promotes student wellness Kourtney Miller Reporter
The Office of Student Health Promotions at Indiana State University is offering a series of events that cover a wide range of health topics, which include fitness, domestic violence, tobacco use and more. “Wellness Wednesdays” begin Jan. 27 and run every other Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. in the Sycamore Dining Hall. Janet Weatherly, the associate director of Student Health Promotions, said, “Our Wellness Wednesday events cover such topics as ‘Intimate Partner Violence,’ which can affect one’s social, emotional and intellectual wellness negatively. ‘Sexual health’ and ‘Eating Disorders’ deal with physical and emotional wellness. Another topic, ‘Brain Awareness’ can show students how what they think can affect their physical health —
negative thinking and worrying can alter one’s immune system, causing them to get sick more often. It can also lead to overeating or undereating, both of which affect our health.” Student Health Promotions is planning other events as well. There will be a Pillow Power program at the end of January for students, faculty and staff. Anyone who attends the 10-minute presentation about sleep hygiene (healthy sleep behaviors) will receive a free pillow. SHP will present “Smart Approaches to Marijuana” with Ben Cort, director of professional relations for the Center for Dependency, Addiction and Rehabilitation in Denver, Colorado. The keynote address will take place at 7 p.m. in Tilson Auditorium on Feb. 11, with other activities following on Feb. 12. The event offers workshops
that the campus community can attend if they want to ask Cort questions, debate the issue of legalization or talk to him about prevention methods. There will also be free HIV testing through Positive Link in the Student Health Promotion office (Student Recreation Center, Suite 131) once a month, on the third Tuesday of every month except March, because of Spring Break. SHP offers Certified Peer Educator training in late March. Anyone interested in being trained as a peer educator can contact the Office of Student Health Promotion to sign up. There will be tabling about various health topics as well as information on all other SHP programs every Thursday in the HMSU (near the elevators) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There are other resources available on campus for health topics on campus from the
Student Counseling Center, Employee Wellness, Student Recreation Center, UAP Clinic, Assistant Dean of Students Office, Allied Health Sciences Department, Nursing Department and Physician Assistant Program. SHP is a division of the Student Counseling Center. They specialize in the prevention of issues that affect students’ academic success and ability to graduate. If you need to speak to someone one-on-one in their office, you can call to make an appointment. They also offer prevention presentations and programs for the classroom, residence halls, sororities and fraternities, athletics and any student organization, as well as design large programs that students can participate in throughout the school year. Weatherly said SHP offers these services to help students
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better themselves before or outside of counseling. “The more we can prevent student issues from being seen as insurmountable obstacles, the less likely a student will need to see a counselor. From alcohol abuse to homesickness, from stress management to sleep management, from roommate conflicts to safer sex, our services are far-reaching,” Weatherly said. “Whatever affects your physical, intellectual, spiritual, social, occupational, emotional, financial and environmental wellness also affects your academics. We hope to teach students that wellness isn’t just about what you eat or how much you exercise. Wellness includes your mental, social, spiritual, financial, environmental and emotional health. So the programs that we conduct are to make students aware of how all these dimensions interconnect to create your overall wellness.”
Sister of man who fell from frat house roof says no one called for help Thomas Peele
The Oakland Tribune (TNS)
“When Student Affairs was approached by the Center for Global Engagement about co-sponsoring the flag display, we jumped at the opportunity to collaborate on this important initiative,” said Willie Banks, vice president for student affairs. “We want all of our students to feel connected to Indiana State and displaying the flags of our international students is just one way to demonstrate the institution’s commitment to including our international students in the Sycamore family. We are thrilled that the rec center will be hosting the flags on display and as one of the most used facilities on campus, we know that a large part of our student body will get to see these beautiful flags on a daily basis.” The flag display also will add to the visual appeal of the rec center, a popular place for both domestic and international students, said John Lentz, campus recreation director. Lentz offered to make the Rec Center home to the flag display after he proposed the idea during a discussion about helping students embrace diversity at a student affairs retreat at the start of the academic year. “We want to show students that we’re
BERKELEY, California — A 22-yearold man who died after plummeting about 30 feet from the roof of a University of California, Berkeley fraternity house last week had been found alive after his fall, but the people who discovered him didn’t know he’d fallen and didn’t call for an ambulance, his sister said late Tuesday. Instead, thinking he was just drunk during a Christmas party, they helped him inside, where he lay down. The next morning he was dead. Jeff Engler was alone when he fell sometime Friday night, Caity Engler told The Oakland Tribune. While some people attending a party at the Pi Kappa Phi house knew he’d gone to the roof, those who found him on the ground didn’t know what had happened, she said. “There was a disconnect.” Sharing information she said Berkeley Police provided her family, Caity Engler said her brother was conscious and spoke with friends after his fall. Police were called at about 7 a.m. Saturday, but Jeff Engler was dead when they arrived. Jeff Engler was a fraternity member but didn’t live at the house and had not attended classes at Berkeley since 2012. “The roof was one of his favorite places,” Caity Engler said. “He’d go up there to write or play his guitar.” Her brother “was with people he loved, at a place he loved. Unfortunately on this night, all that love involved too much alcohol. And a roof.” A Berkeley Police spokeswoman Tuesday evening declined to comment on Caity Engler’s version of events and only said they were still investigating. There was no answer to repeated phone calls to the fraternity house Tuesday. A spokesman for Pi Kappa Phi’s national office said prior to Caity Engler’s statement, that members of the Berkeley house had been urged to fully cooperate with the police investigation. Jeff Engler’s death was the third attributed to alcohol in the past 13 months in a neighborhood near Cal’s Memorial Stadium, dominated by fraternity and sorority houses. “We are investigating the incident and awaiting autopsy results,” Robert Sanders, a university spokesman, said Tuesday. He was not immediately certain where the school’s probe could lead. “Obviously, much depends on the cause of death.” Pi Kappa Phi, the school’s third oldest fraternity, has a troubled past. News reports show it was suspended for a year in 2005 as part of a deal with the university after three members hazed a pledge by shooting him 30 times with a pellet gun.
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Kellie Shlangen | Indiana Statesman
Students don inflatable “bubble suits” to battle it out in bubble soccer this weekend. This activity was one of several that occurred in the Dedes to help students unwind and have a good time over the holiday weekend.
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ISU to embrace its many cultures with hanging of national flags Betsy Simon
ISU Communications and Marketing
When almost nothing seems familiar in a foreign land — not the food, language, dress or even the climate — there’s a sense of comfort when someone eyes their native flag flying high. The Center for Global Engagement hopes to bring that pride and recognition each day to the hundreds of international students studying at Indiana State University during the installation of a permanent national flags display from 3-4 p.m. Jan. 20 at the Student Recreation Center. “It makes you feel like your presence has been acknowledged and it reassures you that you made the right choice,” said Zachariah Mathew, associate director of the Center for Global Engagement, who first came to Indiana State as a student from India. “This is a symbolic gesture that shows international students that ISU is welcoming. Being inclusive is the key because it is what we stand for and it represents our mission, as a center and as a university.” The event, which is being funded by the Center for Global Engagement and the Division of Student Affairs, will in-
clude a simple ceremony where a group of Indiana State students from various cultures will hang the national flags of nearly 80 countries that have had student representation at the university, plus the U.S. and Sycamore flags, on the railing around the walking and jogging track. As the flags are being placed, the School of Music’s brass quintet will play an ensemble written by Grammy Award-winning composer Libby Larsen. “To my mind, when international students see their flags on campus it means that they are welcome at Indiana State University and they feel acknowledged by the ISU community,” said Polina Kaniuka, a teaching English as a second language/language studies major from Ukraine and a graduate assistant at the Center for Global Engagement. The ceremony will include remarks from Indiana State President Dan Bradley, Mike Licari, provost vice president for academic affairs, Brooks Moore, associate dean for student engagement, student activities and organizations, Chris McGrew, director of the Center for Global Engagement, Vernon Cheeks, Student Government Association president, and Lola Akinlaja, a Nigerian native and December 2015 Indiana State graduate.
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