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UIndy grads have the base to be successful in the job market but could still learn a few things

By James Figy EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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were enrolled full-time in graduate school, versus six percent nationally. With all the numbers counted, the percent of UIndy alumni who are unemployed but seeking As graduation nears, many Univer- work is 3.1 percent, versus six percent sity of Indianapolis seniors are trying to nationally. figure out what their next steps will be.

The average starting salary for UIndy But senior creative writing major Wade alumni living in Indiana is about $44,000 Thiel already knows. one year after graduation, according to Thiel will work full-time for an alumni- university data. After five years, that avrun copywriting company where he has erage increases to about $55,000, which worked for the past year. And although is slightly lower than the overall national he would prefer to write poems or novels, average of $57,600, according to the BuThiel said that this is a good reau of Labor and Statistics. way to put his creative writAlles said that the salary ing skills to use, and much figures are encouraging, but better than having nothing. there is not enough data to “I never expected to come compare the figure to the out of school with a job. I nation overall, even though expected to be bar tending cost of living is typically or working at a restaurant lower in the state. or wherever I was going to “While it’s encouraging be working—in a factory or based on what we know for something. But it’s weird to those working in Indiana, think that I’m actually going we also know that Indiana’s to start a career,” he said. salaries compared to the “... You end up with the things nation are not quite as strong ALLES that you need by chasing the as some other areas,” he said. things that you want.”

“So I think if we had data on graduates Although simply graduating from outside the state, those numbers would UIndy does not guarantee students will probably go up noticeably or substantially.” find a dream job right away, alumni are Logically, some majors start out on the able to find work with compensation that higher end of the average and some are is competitive with national averages. lower. However, Alles said that a UIndy A university study showed that UIndy liberal arts education gives graduates alumni have a higher employment rate the base that they need to change posithan other college graduates. The study tions during their careers. According compared itself to a national survey by to Alles, that and personal satisfaction Rutgers University, and found that 70.7 are as important in choosing a career as percent of UIndy alumni are employed researching how much certain majors full time, versus 51 percent nationally. make starting out.

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CFO explains budget, revenue

By Leeann Doerflein NEWS EDITOR Just like students, faculty and staff, ff, the ff University of Indianapolis also must make a budget. The main difference, however, is the size of the budget and the number of people it affects. ff ffects.

According to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Michael Holstein, UIndy’s budget is $84.8 million for the fiscal year ending on June 2014. He said that there is also another $2 million for capital expenditures.

Holstein provided a rounded breakdown of budget expenditures. Far and

away the largest expenditure for the university is instructional expenses at 41 percent of the budget, according to Holstein. He said that instructional expenses are all of the expenses associated with instruction, such as salaries and benefits for faculty, deans and administrative assistants.

The second largest expense is instituTh is tional support at 16 percent, he said. This area, Holstein said, encompasses all of the things that make UIndy function as a business, including the expenses of the president’s office, the cabinet, marketing, fund raising, human resources, general counsel and many other areas.

A close third is student services, at 15

percent of the budget, Holstein said. He said that student services are all of the things that benefit students but are not connected directly to academics, such as Offi ces of Admissions and Financial Of the Offices Aid, the Professional Edge Center, athletics and many other areas.

Nineteen percent of this fiscal year’s budget is reserved for various maintenance and debt repayments for building on campus. Operations and maintenance of plant is 10 percent of that expenditure.

Holstein said that these are expenses that are associated with maintenance, utilities, housekeeping and repayment of debt for buildings that are not residence

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Display promotes suicide awareness among students

By Kylee Crane ONLINE EDITOR

Photo by Ben Zefeng Zhang

Active Minds placed 1,100 backpacks across Smith Mall to represent the number of students who die by suicide each year on April 9.

As University of Indianapolis students walked around Smith Mall on April 9, they discovered 1,100 backpacks lying across the grass as part of the Active Minds traveling exhibit “Send Silence Packing.”

The backpacks represent the number of college students who die by suicide each year. Each backpack is donated and made personal with stories written by family or friends who have lost a loved one to suicide.

Anna Bersin, an Active Minds road trip staffer, travels with the exhibit to different universities across the country. Bersin said that while Active Minds works to erase the stigma around all mental health issues, Send Silence Packing is used specifically to educate students about suicide prevention.

“The exhibit’s main purpose is to provide a very powerful visual so that once they [students] see the backpacks, it starts the conversation. One of the objectives of Active Minds is to open up the conversation and erase the stigma around mental illness, and this one is specifically suicide prevention,” Bersin said.

“It also provides people with resources to show that suicide is very preventable. And as long as they have the proper resources, they can get the proper help and get through whatever it is they are going through.”

Because the resources available along the display’s route are school specific, the handouts at each stop come from the respective university’s counseling center. Representatives from the center come to the event, talk to students and show their presence on campus. Pamphlets with warning signs for suicide as well as mental illness brochures are available.

Before becoming a road trip staffer, Bersin also created the Active Minds’chapter at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, while she was at school.

According to Bersin, many of those who became involved in mental health awareness did so after being personally affected as she was.

“I started getting involved in mental health advocacy in high school, after my brother’s good friend took his life. He wasn’t a heavy presence in my life.

But to see how much it affected me—more than I could imagine—I started to get the ball rolling and stepped up to do something. Before that, suicide was

Commencement to see major changes

By Tianyang Miao STAFF WRITER

The upcoming graduation ceremony at the University of Indianapolis will include several changes to what the format has been in past years. The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. on May 3.

Instead of having two ceremonies at Nicoson Hall there will be one combined ceremony at Key Stadium. In addition, there will also be peer-picked student speakers rather than just the traditional celebrity speaker.

Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli said that Indianapolis Student Government was instrumental but not singularly involved with the changes to graduation. She said that ISG saw a need to allow students more flexibility to invite more family members to the ceremony.

“There was a committee that was put together to look at options and ultimately it was decided, ... working with the committee and the president’s cabinet, to move the ceremony—to combine the ceremony

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Senior marketing major Christian for graduates and undergraduates together Valdez said that he is more optimistic than over at Key Stadium,” Vitangeli said.

She said that the administration is many graduates and that he looks forward optimistic that the changes to graduation to all of the possibilities the future holds.

“Although many people say that will be executed smoothly and will also earning a college degree have benefits for students. isn’t worthwhile these days, “This is the first time I still believe that having that we [will] have outdoor a college degree has many graduation. We are hoping benefits, such as getting a for good weather, and I think professional job, a higher it will be good for students, earning potential and many in the sense that they can other opportunities,” he said invite their families and they “After four years of studying don’t have to decide whom and taking all of the classes they are allowed to invite,” needed, I am ready to get my Vitangeli said.“I think it will degree and hunt for a job.” be very nice to have graduate Senior English major and undergraduate students VITANGELI Youyuan Kong said that together in one ceremony.”

According to the statistics from the studying abroad at UIndy has prepared Office of the Registrar, the total number her for the future.

“I’ve learned a lot of academic skills of graduates for the 2013-2014 academic year is 1,380. This number includes 79 and necessary skills in these years studying doctoral students, 366 master’s degree stu- in UIndy,” Kong said. “Now I think I’m dents and 935 undergraduates. Members ready for the next step in my life.” of the graduating class come from diverse Vitangeli also described how graduate backgrounds and have their own sets of physical therapy student Peter Brown and concerns and optimism for the future. undergraduate communication major

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Will Schnabel were chosen as the student speakers for commencement.

“Since being a commencement speaker is a job that needs courage and positive attitude, a new tradition will be added to the graduation [ceremony],” she said.

“This year, we asked graduating students to nominate peers that they would most like to hear speak. Through a process of collecting nominations and placing top students in each category up for a vote, we were able to determine the inaugural student speakers during the May ceremony.”

Reflecting on her own graduation from UIndy, Vitangeli said that it will be a joyful time regardless of the changes.

“I think graduation is such an exciting time, so it’s kind of a combination of your experience ... and graduating,” Vitangeli said. “I think graduation is always happy time no matter where it is held.”

Although Kong will miss her friends and UIndy, she said that taking the next step is important for students.

“I would have to say, it’s hard to say goodbye to my college life and my friends as well,” Kong said. “But everybody has to move on.”

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at reflector.uindy.edu Student research institute to begin Starting this summer students at the University of Indianapolis will be able to do independent research as part of the Student Research Institute.

Campus copyright infringement doubles There has been a recent uptick in pirated movies on the University of Indianapolis Wi-Fi network. This semester’s numbers have doubled last semester’s numbers of about three to four notices of copyright violation from the Motion Pictures Association of America a week, according to Application Support Specialist Shawn Austin.

Female place kicker speaks on campus Former college football place kicker Katie Hnida visited the University of Indianapolis to speak to students on April 8. She spoke about her experience with sexual harassment and rape at the hands of a former teammate.

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APRIL 16, 2014

Parting words from The Ref lector senior staff

I don’t like to preach. In fact, I shy away from didacticism in my creative writing, academic writing and journalism to a point that often drives people crazy.

However, when I look back on my time at the University of Indianapolis, I feel compelled to point out two almost equally important lessons I learned.

First, people think differently—and that’s okay. Sure, this sounds simple. But it is fundamentally important to seeing what makes other people tick, then being able to work with them no matter what your difference of opinions. Some people are closed-minded—whether they’re conservative or liberal. I’m not denying that.

But that doesn’t make them subhuman.

The important thing is figuring out your own values, then learning the difference between standing your ground and simply being noisy.

Second, you can’t better yourself if you’re not trying to better the world around you. It’s impossible to fix the whole world, but you can significantly improve your own community. Don’t assume that just being at UIndy will make you a better person. If you want to make yourself better, work to make the campus community and surrounding neighborhood better.

So get involved. Take the lead. Continue the legacy that we seniors—and many more before us—have worked so hard to uphold. Because whether you are finishing your freshman year or graduated 20 years ago, you can still live by the motto: “Education for Service.”

-James Figy, Editor-in-Chief Everyone is probably telling you right now that these will be the happiest four years of your life. What they probably aren’t telling you is that these also will be some of the worst years of your life.

Sometimes the path will be clear. Some days you will stray. There will be times when you feel on top of the world, and times when you will feel utterly defeated (sometimes in the same day). So just try to

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remember that you’re not doing anything wrong if you’re having a hard time. And before you jump to any conclusions about how much happier everyone else is, and how much more fun they’re having than you, stop and take a closer look at those around you. You’ll be surprised by how many people feel lost and directionless.

-Kyle Weidner, Editorial Assistant Now that I am graduating from UIndy in May, I am looking back at all the things that I have been involved in. I am thankful for those who helped me realize my potential and let me grow in these four years. My best advice is to get involved on

campus: join an organization, participate in campus activities, take multiple applied courses and take the next step in being a campus leader.Those are the opportunities that can help you even after graduation.

-Stephanie Kirkling, Art Director I’m stealing this advice from my boy Bueller (as in the one who took legendary days off ), but it captures the fleeting four years of your college experience: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Seriously, time flies, but college flies faster. Unfortunately, you are never going to experience anything like college again. College is a bubble detached from “real life,” its own happy alternate universe,

Cartoon by Stephanie Kirkling

The world, especially the business world, is buzzing with technology—technology that is be-here, need-this, now.

So often we look to LinkedIn, email and other social media as our main tools for networking. In such a fast-paced environment, have traditional networking methods been made obsolete?

While one might think that a day on the golf course or meeting for coffee have become obsolete practices, in reality technology has made these types of networking even more essential.

As an article in the Pittsburgh Business Times notes, a four-hour meeting with a boss probably would not be accepted enthusiastically. However, four hours on the golf course is a very different story.

Jerry Hoagland, adjunct professor in the business department at the University of Indianapolis, is a proponent of golf as

walking, and potentially running into our fellow pedestrians as a result. It’s hard not to wonder what it means for us as a species. Do we really think our thoughts are so important that everything and everybody else should step aside while we transmit them?

My favorite personal example of the latter was a student in the hallway one morning, furiously texting away, while barreling straight ahead, only to look up suddenly and angrily reprimand me with an “excuse YOU!” for not clearing her path. It seems that owning a smart phone has a distorting effect on some people’s sense of entitlement.

Will public sidewalks some day be adorned with accommodating signs for people who need their texting fix? At least that way the rest of us could walk safely

and engage with the real world. It would look like this: street, bike lane, texting lane, sidewalk.

Consequences of texting while walking include, but are not limited to, bumping into walls, falling down stairs, tripping over clutter or stepping into traffic. This is why I feel we should just leave it to natural selection.

In all seriousness, this is truly a problem. Texting and walking may seem harmless, but prioritizing a phone may not stop with texting and walking. It can spill over into texting and biking, texting and driving and many other extremely dangerous activities.

We seem to have switched from stopping to smell the roses to ... smelling the phone screen. Which is fine. After all, there is an app for that.

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Texting and walking Bird flu. Spanish flu. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Smallpox. Zombification. These diseases strike fear into the hearts of hypochondriac humans everywhere. We live on an overcrowded planet teeming with drug-resistant bacteria and a CDC that, let’s be honest, probably plays an office-wide game of infectious disease roulette on the first Friday of every month. But there is a recent epidemic that has left all of humanity terror-stricken.

Raise your hand if you have ever had someone run into you while they were texting.

We have all been guilty of texting while

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the above-ground version of a pineapple under the sea. The cliché is true: These are some of the best years of your life.

Now, as I look forward to graduation, I do so with the bittersweet hope that the years ahead will be even better than those I am leaving behind.

-Abby Gross, semester I Editor-In-Chief When I first came to college, the depression and feelings of being an acned, shrinking violet of a high schooler came with me, and I was determined to blossom into something better. Smarter, hotter, more accomplished—you name it, I probably dreamed of it and strove toward it. Four years later, I can’t honestly

My fellow Greyhounds, to you I say do not procrastinate. As I am sure you have your eyes set on the glorified senior year, do not forget you are not there yet.

Senioritis is real and burdensome. Do not let yourself be weighed down by lack of motivation. Get things done early, so you can chill. Go out with a BANG.

-Ayla Wilder, Editorial Assistant In my four years at UIndy, I have learned a lot, but one thing I have learned is to enjoy many interactions with people from all walks of life. Some experiences have been good, some have been bad, but everyone I’ve come in contact with has taught me something new.

My advice to anyone in college or getting ready to go to college would be to embrace those interactions. You never know where they can take you and how they will help shape your life. Don’t be afraid to take chances. I never would have gotten to where I am now if I hadn’t taken a chance on something.

-Ally Holmes, Business Manager

Golf as a networking tool

By Scott Mitchell OPINION EDITOR

By Kyle Weidner EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

tell you if I’m “smarter” without sounding arrogant or “hotter” without a co-worker laughing out loud, but I can say I’m more accomplished in a leadership capacity.

And with the opportunities I’ve had on The Reflector, with CPB and in the jobs I’ve held on campus, I have learned one thing. College brings a lot of great times; it also brings a lot of crazy ish, which more often than not leaves me scratching my head saying, “WTF?” My parting advice to everyone reading this: laugh at the ish as it comes. Laugh in its face. Not only are you keeping your sanity, but in essence you’re saying to yourself and to life, “It’s difficult now, but I am not letting this steal my long-term joy, spirit and determination to come out on top and better than ever.”

a networking tool.

“I was given a position at the NCAA and also my current position due to some of the networking I had done at different golf tournaments,” Hoagland said.

Hoagland shares with his class at UIndy the impact of golf as an equalizer in the business world.

“In a round of five hours or so, you’ll watch everybody hit a tree or go in the woods or hit a ball in the water, even the really good players,” Hoagland said. “It’s really a great equalizer seeing everybody, especially a senior-level manager, come down to your level.”

Obviously, golf is not an easy sport to pick up the first day. People who think so have probably never played. Up until recently, I had no idea how frustrating golf really is. But while you can’t pick up golf overnight, it is possible to learn some things in just a couple of hours that will help improve your golf game.

“Even if you’re not that great at golf,

you should at least learn all the etiquette,” Hoagland said.

Don’t talk when people are putting.

Don’t walk on their putting lines. Don’t forget to yell “fore.” Golf is a gentleman’s game, and these are just a few of golf ’s rules of etiquette. Before you utilize golf as a networking tool, become a professional, even if you’re as bad at golf as I am.

Did I say a gentleman’s game? That was a huge mistake. According to Hoagland, golf is extremely important for women in business as well.

A lot of business occurs on the golf course, and learning the game can prevent missed opportunities. Don’t bury yourself behind a screen just because you don’t know how to play. Learn the etiquette, practice your short game, and embrace networking away from your smart phone.

This is the age of technology, but shaking hands after a good shot or laughing off a bad one could still go further than an email.

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Standards remain consistent Campus community offers opinions on grading international students

By Hannah Nieman STAFF WRITER

grammatical difficulties to focus on the Chen said that when he came to UIndy strengths of the content and obvious- from China, he was concerned that people ness of effort extended on drafting and would not understand him and that he research.” would not be able to meet the requireLike many international students, Fiorilo supports this idea of grading ments for papers. However, when he has when freshman entrepreneurship major papers based on the development and a rubric, Chen feels he is able to better Mateo Fiorilo decided to leave Bolivia to support rather than grammar. understand the assignment. go to school at UIndy, he felt confident “When you’re grading a paper, in “It tells me what the professor’s focus about his college preparedness but was my opinion, you have to grade it for the is,” Chen said. “It will let me know how concerned about the language. content,” Fiorilo said. “It doesn’t matter I can get a better grade, and it will make “It was challenging because here I how good or bad you explain it, as long my paper more clear.” would have to talk to everyone in English,” as you make yourself clear.”

Because Knapp has not personally Fiorilo said. “That was something that However, Amano feels that there heard of any issues, he said that he is was very difficult for me at the start [of should be no differences in grading for not sure that there is a true problem in the semester].” international students and native English- regard to grading differences. However, Similarly, when junior chemistry major speaking students within her department. he recognizes that students possess difAbdullah Alalharith left Saudi Arabia for “I mean, we are ferent skills. school in the United States, he also was teaching English, “Every student worried about his fluency in English. r ight?” Amano is unique in terms Although he does not have many said. “We have to of the support they complaints about the grading of his keep that stanneed, the help they assignments, Alalharith believes that dard.” need, [and] the international students’ abilities mandate Junior finance kind of questions special considerations. major Jiaxin Chen they ask,” Knapp “I think there should be more flexibility feels that internasaid.“The variance with international students than English tional students can really comes in on [U.S.] students,” Alalharith said. benefit from teachers grading grammar the kind of support they need, but the Alalharith said that this flexibility is and content using the same standards that assessment should be exactly the same. necessary because international students are in place for native students.

Standards are standards.” have more difficulty meeting guidelines “If teachers do this, it can improve our Alalharith believes that the time reand criteria for assignEnglish, because if we cannot quired to complete assignments may be ments at a level that the meet the requirements, our another barrier for students from abroad. instructor finds satisfacgrade will be low,” Chen said.

“Usually international students or natory.

“We try to improve the grade, tive students have plenty of time when it “I think international so we have to improve our comes to a report or something like that,” students need [to put English.”

Alalharith said. “But sometimes in exams forth] more effort to While he believes the ... the international student has difficulty make it [assignments] emphasis should be on the understanding questions.” complete,”Alalharith said. students’ ideas, Fiorilo feels However, Alalharith does not necesHowever, Acting Dean that grading in an English class sarily feel that this would require the of the School of Business is different. professor to give only the international and Associate Professor “Each class is different,” students time extensions for exams. of Business Karl Knapp Fiorilo said. “If it’s biology, I “I think the teacher will put in his KNAPP said that he believes there don’t know. But if it’s English, [or her] expectations: ‘I have internashould be no difference in you have to lose points if it’s not tional students, so I’ll extend the time grading—a process he calls assessment. [grammatically] perfect.” [for exams] for about 20 minutes for all “We have to remain consistent in our Knapp said that the students,’” Alalharith said. standards of assessment no matter who difference exists between Chen said he and other the student is or what their background courses rather than departChinese students have a culis,” Knapp said. “They have to be able to ments. Therefore, Knapp tural barrier to worry about. perform in the class to earn the grade that said, the professor must set He said that he and oththe assessment methods would dictate.” his or her own standards ers from China prefer just Neither Knapp nor English Depart- based on the individual to email a professor and ment Chair and Associate Professor course. complete assignments rather Kyoko Amano have heard any complaints Knapp and Amano both than participate in class disregarding grades or assessment. Amano believe that certain meacussions. believes the problem may arise from sures can be implemented Fiorilo said that, overall, grading differences between different to prevent students from professors should consider departments. feeling as though they have the implications of having “Generally, in the English department, been graded unfairly. international students in their AMANO we are saying that we cannot have a difAmano said that she uses classes. ferent standard for international students, rubrics and writes comments to describe “If you’re an international student, but it is possible in other departments,” why the student’s work received certain the teachers should know that it [the asAmano said. deductions. Knapp also advocates the signment] is not going to be as good as Reading an email she had recently use of these rubrics and other materials a native speaker’s,” Fiorilo said. received, Amano said that some interna- to provide clarity.

Knapp said that each situation and tional students in the English department “That’s the key tool in assessment— each class are different and that the cases feel that they are graded more harshly than making sure that expectations of the must be viewed individually. students in other departments. students are clear,” Knapp said. “Then “There really is no one-size-fits-all, According to the email, professors there is less room for complaints, and cookie-cutter answer,” Knapp said. “Each in other departments may “overlook students know exactly what is expected.” class is unique, and it’s up to the professor.”

“... But the assessment should be exactly the same.

Standards are standards.”

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Author Jennifer Percy reads from her book “Demon Camp” at the Kellogg Writers Series reading on April 3.

Author speaks about exorcism and PTSD

By Ally Holmes BUSINESS MANAGER

Fiction and nonfiction writer Jennifer Percy read from her recently published nonfiction book “Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism” at the University of Indianapolis’ Kellogg Writers Series event on April 3.

In “Demon Camp,” Percy describes her experiences with a veteran of the Afghanistan war and the time she spent in a rural Georgia faith community that performs exorcisms on veterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Sophomore professional writing major Kayleigh Jordan said that as soon as Percy got up to speak, she was automatically listening.

“It was the way she talked. It really fed into her reading,” Jordan said. “She didn’t talk all happy and giddy. She had a depressing and monotone voice, which really went with what she wrote.”

Percy said that she started researching in 2008 between the surges in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was appalled by the statistics on the number of soldiers who were committing suicide after coming home.

“I felt that I hadn’t been reading a story that really told the narrative of homecoming for our current wars through a character, and followed one man’s story from the beginning to end, and was not interested in the language of PTSD that was mired in psychological terms or political terms,” Percy said. “I sort of wanted to hear what people were talking about when they were talking about PTSD that didn’t really care about that vocabulary either and wanted

to understand what it was like to come home haunted by the past.”

Percy said that when she first started looking for people who would be willing to talk to her, she went to different veterans associations and friends who were veterans or knew veterans, until she found “Caleb.”

Percy said that she changed the name to keep him away from criticism.

“Through word of mouth, I met a friend who knew someone who knew someone who knew ‘Caleb,’” she said. “I immediately got in touch with him, and he was much more willing than other vets to talk. So I kind of took a chance, drove down to Georgia and met him.”

“Demon Camp” is a nonfiction book, and Percy said that she likes writing nonfiction because it is an exciting genre to explore right now and that she likes to let her imagination rise out of personal interactions.

“I think that there is really interesting territory to be explored, especially in telling stories that are personal but have political resonance,” Percy said. “On a more practical level, I just like going out and talking to people and seeing the world and being out in the world, and that gives me energy, as opposed to sitting in my room and trying to imagine the world.”

Jordan said that she has never read nonfiction before, but after the reading, she now has plans to read “Demon Camp” during the summer.

“I thought the way she [Percy] wrote it was more like fiction,” Jordan said. “She told a story, and it wasn’t like a biography.

It was dark. It dealt with PTSD, and I’m interested in that, psychological disorders and the war.”

board, utility expenses, cost of health care as well as the economic climate.

Holstein said that the administration looks at requests from the departments across campus for its primary source of budget planning. Vice President of Communications and Marketing Mary Atteberry explained this process in detail.

“Everybody around campus filters those needs up,” she said. “… The administration looks at everyone’s needs from the different departments and everyone’s wish list. [Then] the president’s cabinet and a smaller budget committee determines what the priorities are for the following year.”

Atteberry said that the administration looks at not only the immediate needs, but also the grander ideas for budget concerns.

She gave the example of the Vision 2030 ideas from students such as extending the hours at The Perk.

At the end of the day, Atteberry said, the budget is formulated to help students have a better experience at UIndy, both inside and outside the classroom.

“Our priority is always spending on those activities that will enhance the student experience and develop and grow academic programs,” Atteberry said. “Budget decisions are made based on those priorities.”

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halls, as well as the expenses of the Physical Plant.

According to Holstein, auxiliary services make up the other nine percent or maintenance and debt expenses. Holstein said that this category is for maintenance and debt repayment that is specific to the residence halls. He also said that these expenses are paid for by room and board charges.

The bottom 10 percent of the budget is made up of three categories: academic support, community services and the expenses associated with the Athens campus. The lion’s share of this goes to academic support, at eight percent of the

budget, Holstein said. According to him, this category comprises student services that are not directly involved with instruction, such as the library, student media outlets and the writing lab.

According to Holstein, all of this is paid for with four sources of revenue: tuition, room and board, the endowment and “gifts, grants and miscellaneous income.”

The largest share comes from students, creating 94 percent of the revenue for this fiscal year. Of that, 79 percent comes from tuition dollars, and the other 15 percent comes from room and board.

Four percent of this fiscal year’s revenue came from returns on investment

from the endowment. And the last two percent came from the gifts, grants and other sources of revenue, Holstein said.

Some tuition dollars from students go to pay for student financial aid. Director of Financial Aid Linda Handy said that a percentage of every tuition dollar goes to merit and need based aid for students.

“It’s called a tuition discount,” Handy said.“You can assume that for every dollar you collect in tuition, 30 cents of it is going to be used for merit and need based aid.”

Holstein said that a number of things are taken into consideration when the budget is planned—the number of students enrolled, the cost of room and

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SPORTS

4 THE REFLECTOR

Track and Field sets provisional marks

By Kylee Crane ONLINE EDITOR The University of Indianapolis men’s and women’s track and field teams left the Little State Championships on Saturday, April 12, victorious on both sides. The men’s team claimed the win with a point total of 164, while the women easily won over its competition with 216.5 points.

Along with the victories, both teams posted a historic performance at the championships, claiming 20 NCAA marks and three new program records.

The men claimed 12 of the provisional marks, while the women posted the three records, along with seven marks, including an automatic qualifying mark by senior Tatiana Zhuravleva in the discus.

During the weekend before, both the men’s and women’s teams competed April 4-5 in Louisville, Ky., where they achieved nine NCAA provisional marks and one automatic mark at the Bellarmine Invitational.

Graduate student Jermel Kindred ran a 400-meter hurdle race in 52.64 seconds for a first place finish and a provisional mark. In the hammer, senior TJ Lovejoy threw a distance of 59.71 meters and sophomore Vincent Ziraldo threw 54.45 meters, both earning marks. Sophomore Josh Bass achieved his mark in the long jump, jumping a total distance of 7.26 meters.

For the women’s team, junior LaTisha Martin earned first place and a mark in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.57.

In the 100-meter hurdles, junior Camille Edwards also claimed first place and a mark with a time of 14.20. Senior Abby Rotach tied the school pole vault record and achieved her mark with a height of

3.35 meters. In discus, Zhuravleva threw 53.01 meters, providing her with an automatic mark. She also earned a mark in shot put with a throw of 14.35 meters.

Sophomore Lissette Mendivil threw a distance of 47.47 meters in discus for a mark, and junior Farin Hickman achieved first place and a mark with a toss of 52.16 meters in the hammer.

According to Hickman, focusing on achievements is something that helps her continue to earn provisional marks and improve every week.

“Throwing is a mental game. It’s all about staying focused and looking to improve at the next meet,” Hickman said. “We are taught to move on from a bad throw or meet and just stay focused on what we are capable of. If we focus on what is bad, we will keep practicing those bad habits. If we focus on the good, then the improvements start to show.”

While nine provisional marks at an invite may appear to be a large number, Head Track and Field Coach Scott Fangman said that it is a pretty average number for the teams. Despite some difficulties thus far in the season, Fangman said expectations for the teams are no different.

“Our expectations haven’t changed in the sense that they are no higher than they were, but they aren’t lower either. We always want to continue to see improvement, keep achieving provisional marks, get as many people to nationals as we possibly can and to place [inside the] top ten in the nation,” Fangman said. “We’re coming off of injuries and red shirts.This has been a strange year, so everyone has had to grow up, and life is taking its course on us. Both teams have adapted well to the difficulties. That’s the neat thing about a team. When one [person] falls, another person steps up.”

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Graduate student Jermel Kindred jumps a hurdle during an outdoor event last year. Kindred claimed a conference Track and Field Athlete of the week honor last week.

Despite the challenges, Hickman said that the team puts in extra work and time to make it past the outdoor conference championship.

“Compared to other seasons, the team is more united in wanting to compete. So we are practicing longer and lifting harder.

We are starting to look past just winning conference and working to compete at a national level,” she said.

Following the Bellarmine Invitational, the only Greyhound to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor National Championships at the time was Zhuravleva, in

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Fangman said that competing against Division I schools such as Cincinnati is beneficial for both teams and helps push them to excel individually.

“The chemistry department is not focused on the freshman; they are focused on the chemistry major, and that’s the kid who is taking those 400-level classes.

I’ve got to get our track kids in 400-level classes, so that means we’re going to run

against the Big Ten, the MAC, the Big East and the SEC. Those are the best of the best. You want a Ph.D. in track and field? You are going to get one there,” he said. “So then for those who are the 100-level kids, this is where they open their eyes and hope they do well in their heat. I think that is a fair analogy, and that is why we run at places like Cincinnati and Ohio State [University].”

Both teams will compete at the Jesse Owens Track Classic at Ohio State on Saturday, April 19, at a time to be determined.

Football preps for new season Greyhounds begin 2014 with spring practices

By David Daniels STAFF WRITER

Graphic by Kyle Weidner, photos by Ben Zefeng Zhang

With the school year coming to an end, the University of Indianapolis football team has returned to the gridiron. From six o’clock in the morning sprints to five o’clock in the afternoon meetings, the Greyhounds are constantly preparing for their upcoming season.

On Saturday, April 12, the Greyhounds showcased a preview of the upcoming 2014 season in front of a crowd of more than 2,000 fans for their annual Spring Game. Rather than following its traditional offensive players-versus-defensive players system, the Greyhounds divided into two separate teams for a team blackversus-team white game.

After four 12-minute quarters of action with a running clock, team black emerged victorious over team white, winning by a final score of 21-6.

After suffering a loss to West Texas A&M University in the first round of the postseason last year, returning redshirt junior quarterback Connor Barthel said that there have been gradual improvements during the offseason.

“Everything seems to be going well,” Barthel said.“Offense, defense and special teams have some great players on it, so we’re looking forward to next year.”

There will be players from last year who are no longer going to be with the team because of graduation, and players such as Barthel will knowingly take the reins from week one. Last year, senior quarterback Chris Mills was the starting quarterback heading into the season, but this year is Barthel’s chance at the helm from the start.

“Everyone knows I’m going to be the man now,” Barthel said. “I am enjoying the fact that I get to take control and be so close with everyone.”

According to Barthel, the offense seems to have potential heading into next season, and there is much to look forward to.

Another returning player is junior de-

fensive lineman Lee Campbell. Campbell said that finding success in both the regular season and postseason is the only thing on his mind for the upcoming campaign.

“I want to lead this team to the national championship,” Campbell said.

Campbell also mentioned that there have been many changes on defense, and that the road to strengthening it and maximizing its full potential will be challenging. But according to Campbell, the players are on the right course for doing just that.

“Our offense is a little better than our defense right now,” Campbell said. “But our defense is starting to pick it up.”

Along the way, helping to build the defense to its full potential, are players that played last year but did not start. Those players now have to step into completely new roles to get the defense back to where it needs to be. “[Sophomores] Sam Daggy and Tommy Taylor, who are both defensive tackles and defensive ends, have stepped up a lot,” Campbell said.

He also mentioned sophomore linebacker Rob Dury as one of the up and coming impact players for the upcoming season.

Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo said that he feels the offseason is going well and that all of the players have been stepping up.

“I think I’d be negligent if I started pinpointing guys,”Bartolomeo said.“Our kids that we redshirted last year have done a good job buying in to what we are doing.”

According to Bartolomeo, a lot of hard work and dedication has been put into this offseason leading up to next season’s tough schedule. Bartolomeo talked about the opponents and the tough upcoming schedule, saying it was not what he envisioned.

“The first three [games] are away, and that isn’t the way we wanted it,” Bartolomeo said. “For a situation beyond our control, that’s the way it shook out.”

UIndy will open its 2014 season on Sept. 6 at Saginaw Valley State University.

Kickoff will take place at 7 p.m.

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Tennis competes on road in GLVC

Greyhounds travel to Lewis and Saint Joseph’s

By Kameron Casey STAFF WRITER Both the University of Indianapolis men’s and women’s tennis teams wrapped up regular season action over the weekend, competing at Lewis University on Friday, April 11, and on Saturday, April 12, at Saint Joseph’s College.

The men’s team claimed both competitions over the weekend, winning 6-3 on the first day and 5-2 on the second.

The women’s team split their weekend, however, losing the first day, 6-3.The team rebounded on the second day, winning a shutout victory 8-0.

For the women, according to sophomore Allie Smith, the match against Lewis was a big focus.

“I wanted to beat Lewis on Friday. But for the team, we want to win conference, because we think we have a really good shot,” Smith said.

The men’s and women’s tennis teams both came away with victories against the Bellarmine University Knights on Friday, April 4. Both squads improved their winning streaks, as the men grabbed their fifth straight victory, and the women attained their sixth.

The men’s team defeated the Knights 8-1, taking wins in the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles matches, as well as in all the singles matches throughout the day. The only loss was in the No. 2 doubles, as sophomore Fausto Cordova and freshman Marco Torres were defeated 8-2. Freshmen Nico Kastunowicz and Fernando Taricano, sophomores Ryan Frankel and Luke Hubert, Cordova and Torres each grabbed victories in their singles matches.

After their victories, Hubert, Kastunowicz, Frankel and Cordova each reached double-digit wins in singles matches on the season and helped the Greyhounds achieve a 4-0 record in conference play (the first time the Greyhounds have won four conference matches since 2008-09).

Senior Caleb Fellers attributed much of the team’s success to hard work in the offseason ffseason and extra time dedicated to ff

weight training and practice. Fellers also gave credit to strong singles play from many of the younger team members.

“Fernando [Taricano] has been really good. Marco [Torres] has been solid, and Luke [Hubert] hasn’t lost a singles match,” Fellers said.“I think we are more confident than we were last year. Everything has been clicking as we go along, especially in the last few matches.”

The women’s team defeated the Knights 7-2 on Friday. Sophomore Macey Speer and freshman Selenay Heper lost in No. 2 doubles, and freshman Maria Mendes came up short in No. 2 singles.

But senior Taylor Eckert, Smith, Heper, Speer and junior Brooke Boyts each clinched victories in their respective singles matches.

Eckert, Heper, Smith and Speer each had double-digit victories in singles on the season, following their win over the Knights. With their victories against Bellarmine, the women improved their singles record to 53-24, passing the previous season’s mark of 50-23.

Smith also attributed the women’s recent success to dedication. She said the team has been putting in more than 25 hours per week on practice, weight training and matches.

“I think this year we have been a lot more prepared and know what to expect,” Smith said.“Especially last year, [with] me being a freshman, I didn’t know what the competition would be like. Now I know that, playing the No. 1 spot, everyone is going to be good.”

Looking ahead on the men’s side, according to Fellers, the team is holding high hopes for a bid in nationals, as opposed to other seasons, when the team was just looking to make conference.

“The team we’re looking forward to meeting is Drury [University],” Fellers said. “They are always good, and we feel like we will have a good opportunity when we meet them.”

The Greyhounds will be back in action in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship Tournament April 18-20 in St. Louis, Mo.

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Senior Amy Thompson takes a swing during a recent event earlier this season. Thompson and the women’s team have finished no worse than fifth all season long.

Golf ends regular season Both men’s and women’s golf teams move on to GLVC Championships

By Mercadees Hempel ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR The University of Indianapolis men’s golf team placed eighth at the third Midwest Regional of the season April 5-6 in Batavia, Ohio, while the women’s golf team won the IPFW Spring Classic April 6-7 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Out of the 29 teams that participated in the regional, the Greyhounds tied for eighth place with three other teams.

Junior Tucker Guisewite was the only Greyhound that claimed a spot inside the top 20, tying at 15th place with a final score of 149 (70-79).

Freshmen Evan Stoker and Andrew VanAelst tied for 24th and 36th, respectively, while senior Max Bowling placed 46th.

Stoker said that while the team’s scores were a bit high, he was overall happy with both the team’s and his own performance at the event.

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The men’s team traveled to Batavia on Friday, April 4, to practice shooting on the golf course during the day. Stoker said that the same routine will be used when preparing for the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships this upcoming weekend and at the NCAA National Championships, which will take place May 19-23.

Stoker said that he hopes to lower his scoring average, keep his position among the top five players and look forward to improving in future seasons.

“Getting older and better, that can be done definitely,” he said. “I am excited to help the team out and see where we can go.”

As for the women’s team, five players from UIndy placed in the top 12 in its first place finish. Senior Jenny Konop tied for third, while senior Brianna Scheidler tied for sixth. Junior Chanice Young placed 12th, while sophomore Molly Ward tied for ninth and junior Regan Pittard also placed 12th. Senior Amy Thompson came

in 20th, while junior Jaclyn Schindler followed at 37th and sophomore Zoey Freese took 42nd.

According to Young, the team practiced every day in advance leading up to the classic in order to bring the victory back home to Indy.

“My team played very well overall,”she said. “The first day was a little smoother, but we had much more wind the second day.”

With the season coming to an end next month, Young has begun setting high goals for next year, because as a senior it will be her last.

“I’d like to play the one or two spot for my team, since our top two are seniors,” she said.“Then I will have goals individually for myself in each tournament, to play better than the previous year.”

Both teams will prepare for postseason play in the GLVC Championships. The men’s championships will take place April 20-22 at the Otter Creek Golf Course in Columbus, Ind., while the women’s championships will take place April 26-27 at the Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill. Tee times for both events have yet to be determined.

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By Scott Mitchell OPINION EDITOR Impatiently, he waits at the plate. His brother and teammate stares at him from second base, yelling, “Get me home!”

Adjusting his hands at the urging of his father, he swings and misses. Once again, instructed to adjust, he makes a serious effort to keep his back foot planted for the next attempt. I left the ball a little bit too much over the middle, and he made me pay. He drove the ball deep to rightcenter, and the sphere ricocheted off the detached garage towards the right field foul line. The runner sped home from second, easily safe. With haste, the hitter rounded a piece of concrete, headed for a piece of wood, touched the picnic table with his right hand and sprinted towards home. The throw from our only fielder came to me at the plate, not in time.

“Safe!” declared the hitter.

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Here in his own backyard, he is safe.

But when this great hitter all too quickly grows up, he, like millions of other children in the United States, will probably play an organized, competitive sport. And this sport will require him to face one of the greatest threats to the physiology and psychology of an athlete— injuries. There is not a day that goes by without hundreds of sports injuries; it’s something to which we subject ourselves because we believe the benefits outweigh the risks. Something about competing is so important to the very nature of our being that we are willing to chest up a baseball and then later proudly show off the marks left by the seams, to dive for a basketball and endure burns from the court on our legs and elbows, to take a hit in football and then hop back up as if nothing happened, to look at the bruised and reddened arms that have just been beaten by a volleyball and say proudly that we led our team in digs. But when the pain is too much, who will pick up that young hitter so he can move on in sports or in life?

According to an August 2013 article published by USA Today, more than 1.35 million young people suffered a sportsrelated injury in 2012. Much like a Hunger Games scenario, the longer you play, the less the odds are in your favor.

I began playing organized sports at the age of eight and, for almost a decade, I avoided any serious injuries. But for me, that moment millions of athletes face came my senior year of high school in a basketball game, when my right ACL decided it didn’t want to go in the same direction as the rest of my body. A snap, crackle and pop later, I was facing six months of rehab.

Luckily for me, I had an excellent surgeon, quality support and patient, intelligent therapists who were able to get me back to playing my sport.Three years later, my right knee is stronger than my left.

This success story is one in millions, but to me it is special. To every athlete, their recovery is likely special and their return to sport likely brings an almost childlike joy. It is a moment of remembrance and unique in its emotions. All of us in sports would be remiss if we did not recognize those who put work into injury prevention and recovery.

UIndy is privileged to have one of the best physical therapy programs in the nation. Upholding and furthering the high standards of this profession is an everyday task that those involved complete with resolution. Sports would not survive without them. So, to the doctors, surgeons, researchers, trainers, psychologists and therapists who work on recovery and the strength coaches, trainers, researchers and athletic coaches who work on prevention, remember to say thank you.

Although I wish I could always shield him, the odds are not in favor of that young hitter in the backyard. If he should go on to play organized sports, he will subject his body to a high risk of injury. Luckily, for his safety and my peace of mind, there are many people who work to prevent and defeat injury. People he does not know yet are working to get him from the backyard to the field and finally back again—safe.

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>>Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mar vel Studios has worked its magic again with “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” In the second installment, we see Captain, aka Steve Rogers, learning how to adjust in the new world after being frozen since World War II. Following the events that took place in “The Avengers,” Rogers joins S.H.I.E.L.D, an organization that battles threats to the world.Yet when a new villain known as The Winter Soldier begins hunting Rogers and those he is closest to, the first avenger is faced with his most difficult mission yet. This installment in the Marvel cinematic universe is a nonstop thriller that will take you on an emotional roller coaster from start to finish. I recommend seeing it while it remains in theaters for the best viewing experience. The next opportunity to see the red, white and blue superhero on the big screen will be May 1, 2015, in the sequel, “The Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

>> With Christina Perri’s tour kicking off this spring, her single “Human,” released on Nov. 18, has set the tone for the entire “Head or Heart” album, released April 1. On her Facebook page Perri said,“Because I continue to fall in and out of love, I find myself often at those massive highs and lows.” While falling in and out of love with this album, I realized that time is everything. While the first listen through wasn’t anything to get excited about, by the third time, it was obvious how much the lyrics and melodies stuck. Perri has put a lot of strong emotions into this album, with tones of hope and desperation. So if you are a fan of heartfelt lyrics and emotional melodies, then check out this CD. The song that really caught my attention was “Burning Gold.” Although the album is not one I would go out and buy for my own collection, it does do a fantastic job of asking an important question: “In matters of love, should you rely on your heart or your head?”

>>The budget of a typical college student is a strict one. Luxuries cannot be afforded, and any night out to eat makes you feel like a king. Fortunately, Maria’s Original Pizza is here. Located in the heart of Fountain Square, this charming restaurant caters to the pennypinchers looking to unload the change jar. The restaurant is complemented by old posters and mismatched chairs, but it still has the feel of refinement in some unexpected but pleasant way. We ordered an extra large meat-lovers pizza and an order of mozzarella-filled bread sticks, which were coated with an exquisite blend of spices and a generous layer of melted butter. Then the glorious pizza came, a balance of gooey cheese, flavorful meat, and tomato sauce so fresh I felt like it had been made from tomatoes that had just ripened that day. The price for the meal was more than reasonable for most students. This restaurant is a charming place with great food and great service.

>>“Dear Killer,” written by Katherine Ewell, offers insight into the life of a notorious serial killer. Kit, a 17-year-old high school student, looks just about as normal as anyone else but has a horrific secret: she is the notorious “Perfect Killer,” who has been murdering numerous people in London. She picks her victims by reading letters sent to her in a mysterious secret mailbox, letters that address her as “Dear Killer.” When Kit receives a letter that could ruin her perfect streak of murders, she must make a decision to follow the rules or challenge the rules she has known her whole life.

This book, although somewhat graphic, includes numerous elements that urge the reader to continue until the very last page. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a thrilling ride through the life of an unknown killer. Obviously horror lovers will enjoy it, but even if you are not into horror, this book provides a detailed plot that is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time reading.

>> I was a little leery about trying a Taco Bell breakfast, but as I pulled up to the drive through window, I started looking at the small menu at the bottom of the board. I stayed a little safe for my first time and ordered Cinnabon bites, a bacon crunch wrap, hash browns and an orange juice. The hash browns were similar to many other fast-food chains’ breakfast hash browns, which honestly I enjoy. The Cinnabon bites were sweet and mouthwatering.The cinnamon sugar coating covering the doughy ball is only the beginning. It’s the cream cheese frosting melted in the middle that makes the bites so amazing. The wrap was good, with hash browns on the bottom and egg, bacon bits and quesadilla sauce piled on top then wrapped and grilled in a soft tortilla shell. It was good, but not the amazing meal that the commercials had made me think it would be. Overall, it wasn’t bad, and I’ll probably have it again, but it wasn’t something to sing about.

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Tragicomedy ‘Love Song’ takes stage

By Robbie Hadley STAFF WRITER The University of Indianapolis Theatre Department premiered “Love Song” by John Kolvenbach on April 11.

“Love Song” centers around the story of Beane and Molly, who develop a relationship that is more than a normal relationship. At the same time, the audience sees the story of Beane’s sister, Joan and her husband, Harry.

“The play explores the idea of what love really is and how it affects people,” said junior theatre major Nate Coder, who plays the role of Harry.

Coder said his character, Harry, is a caring person whose good intentions sometimes get in the way of his relationships.

“He sometimes likes to play devil’s

advocate,” Coder said. “However, he still cares about the people around him and really wants what’s best for everyone. But sometimes that gets in the way of him and Joan’s relationship as a married couple.”

Coder said that the interesting thing about working on this type of play is how the actors can relate to their characters. “ We u s u a l l y work very much on separating ourselves from the character,” he said.

“But with this play, we worked so that the character was still established, but we still tied ourselves into the character more. So in addition to the care that Harry has for others, I’ll find that in myself as well.”

“Love Song” earned an Olivier nomination in 2010 on the London stage and has received many positive reviews from Chicago to Broadway. Show times are at 8 p.m. April 24-26. Tickets are free for students.

“The play explores the idea of what love really is and how it affects people.”

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Sophomore theatre major Justess Hurst, who plays Molly, and senior theatre major Ross Percell, who plays Beane, perform a scene during rehearsals for “Love Song.” The play officially opened on April 10 and will run through April 26 in Ransburg Auditorium.

Students’ compositions make debut

UIndy Student Composers Forum gives students the chance to tell their stories with music

By Hannah Nieman STAFF WRITER Student composers showcased their work at the UIndy Student Composers Forum on April 2. This event presented electronic and live pieces composed by students for class assignments or for personal reasons.

Before the performance, audience members had a chance to meet the composers and performers and even hear samples of their previous performances.

Then the audience members filed into Ruth Lilly Performance Hall to hear the first piece, “Calls,” composed by senior Amber Beams and performed on flute by Music Faculty Adjunct Anne Reynolds.

The piece consisted of three movements, each of which had “its own story to tell,” according to the program description.

The next composition was “Twelve Sweets for Piano,” by junior music education major Daniel Watson and junior James Loughery, followed by the first electronic piece of the night, “The Oncoming Storm,” composed by senior music technology and recording major Petra McGow-Russell. After the

electronic piece came “Radio Play,” by senior music recording and technology major Johanna Bauchle, then junior music education major Daniel Dorsett played his composition“Etudes Op. 1: Mosaic” on the marimba.

This was followed b y L o u g h e r y ’s electronic piece, “Bardo.”

Next, came “Requiem for a Child,”a composition by s o ph om o re vo c a l per formance major Andy Wegg with vocals

by Wegg accompanied by Watson on piano. Wegg said that this piece was inspired by a parent’s fear of losing a child.

“I tried to write it like a lullaby, as if they were laying the child down to sleep one last time,” Wegg said.

After a brief intermission, Elaine Toon on clarinet, Chandler Appleby on cello and Jessica Spiars on piano performed “Requiem f o r t h e ith k Sm r xis y Cla e l r A i h h a Sar to by K Pho

S e a rc h i n g Heart,” which was composed by Toon.

The audience then listened to “Cardiac Arrest,” another electronic composition by Beams. Next came Watson’s electronic piece “As the Lone Singer Walked through the Park, the Late Evening Whispered to Her and She Dreamt of Beauty.”

Next, Spiars took the stage to perform two compositions using voice and piano. The first piece, entitled “Chocolate Hearts,” was written for a former boyfriend the night before Valentine’s Day, according to the

program’s description. The second piece, “Just Now,” was written collaboratively with Spiars’ friend Erin Reed.

After Dorsett’s electronic composition “Sur Les Rails Empruntés Auparavant,” music education major Emily Townsley performed “The World You Gave Me.” Townsley told the audience that her piece was written in memory of her father.

The next piece, entitled “Lost Signals,” was a composition by Sarah Alexis Smith.

Smith played guitar for her piece and also provided vocals with freshman music recording and technology major Quin Wezeman.

Smith then played guitar and provided vocals for her piece “Winter.”

Finally,Wezeman returned to the stage to sing his composition “Falling Back.”

Smith assisted with vocals and guitar.

This opportunity to perform and present their own compositions was very exciting for some of the students. Spiars, a self-proclaimed new composer, felt that the opportunity has taught her about herself as well as about composing.

“I haven’t thought of myself as a creative person,” Spiars said. “But I’ve definitely realized that I’m more creative than I ever thought I was.”

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Second semester departmental recitals begin

By Annisa Nunn DISTRIBUTION MANAGER The University of Indianapolis music department held two departmental recitals on April 2 and April 9.

The recitals are either written note recitals or spoken note recitals. The written note recitals have brief summaries of each composer available in the program, while the spoken note recitals have the students performing say a short summary.

The written note recital on April 2 showcased seven students who performed a single selection each. The selections varied among voice, string, piano, flute and trombone.

Sophomore history education major Stacy Anibas was in the audience and enjoyed the performance.

“I liked [the performance],” Anibas said. “I like hearing classical music.”

The musical selections included “The Awakening,” by Eric Coates; “Pie Jesu,” from “Requiemi,” by Fritz Seitz; “Intermezzo I,” by Bohuslav Martinu; “How Could I Ever Know,” by Lucy Simon; “Sonatina,” by David Uber; “Suite Modale,” by Ernest Bloch and “Concerto No. 5 in D Major,” by Fritz Seitz.

Senior music tech and recording major Tiera Davis, who performed Martinu’s “Intermezzo I” on the piano, said that it was one of the hardest pieces she has learned.

“This piece was one page and had no time signatures,” she said. “It was very dissonant and a hard piece to play.”

According to Davis, the piece has no meter signature and only three bar lines, which is why it is difficult to perform.

The spoken note recital on April 9 showcased seven new students. It included the compositions “Fantasy Piece,” by Robert Schumann; “Pavane Pour une infante défunte,” by Maurice Ravel; “Picnic on the Marne,” by Ned Rorem; “Gaelic Suite,” by R. Bernard Fitzgerald; “Waltz in A Flat,” by Johannes Brahms; “Tableaux de Provence,” by Paul Maurice and “Dante for Marimba and Piano,” by Peter Tanner.

Another recital will take place at 12 p.m. on April 23.

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What is an adjunct?

THE REFLECTOR

By Jake Fritz FEATURE EDITOR

Adjuncts—they are at campuses all across the country and often their status is not recognized by the students they teach. Chances are many students at the University of Indianapolis have had an adjunct in class and did not even realize it.

This past January, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Democratic Staff published a study about adjuncts that stated, “In 1970, adjuncts made up 20 percent of all higher education faculty. Today, they represent half.”

The increased use of adjuncts has caught the attention of media outlets such as The New York Times, which has published several articles about how these part-time faculty members often struggle to get by. One such article that caught quite a bit of attention was a profile on March 27 about Mary-Faith Cerasoli, a

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homeless professor in New York.

With debates about the role of adjuncts on college campuses, it is important to understand exactly what role an adjunct fills.

According to Professor of History and Faculty Senate Executive Committee Member James Fuller, adjuncts are part-time instructors who are hired by the course and used to supplement the full-time faculty. Fuller’s knowledge of adjuncts not only comes from working with them in his department but also having been one.

“When I first came out of graduate school and I was looking for a job, the summer before I got my job, I was adjuncting around and taught a couple of different classes at different places,” Fuller said.

He also discussed how the job kept him afloat during his graduate studies.

“When you are a grad student, what is really a fairly small amount of money for that class is a big deal for you, especially

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freshmen were accommodated.”

Unlike many of the schools that are currently being discussed such as branch campuses of state schools, Sondhaus said that all of the adjunct positions in his department are seen only as temporary positions usually filled by graduate students who need additional income.

“They also need and want experience teaching in a place other than where they are getting their degree, in which case I would also observe their teaching and write a letter of recommendation for them,” Sondhaus said.

The other type of people who get hired as adjuncts are professionals with real-world experience in the subject being taught.

“One class I always use adjuncts for is state and local government. I usually can get somebody from the state and local government to teach that class,”Sondhaus said. “… Most of those people are doing

it because they really love to do it. They want to try and give back, to share their knowledge with students and not so much because of the money.”

Even with the required graduate degree or desired real world experience to get hired, Sondhaus said that most adjuncts at UIndy are used exclusively for introductory-level courses with a few exceptions made for special circumstances or high-profile people.

In this issue, The Reflector focuses on some of the adjunct professors on campus and the courses they currently teach. Beyond the three adjuncts highlighted, there are many teachers who fill the adjunct positions on campus.

Make sure to take the time to let the adjuncts teaching courses know that even though they are part-time professors, they are much appreciated for what they add to the campus community and valued for their knowledge and skills.

Professional actor shares his skills

By James Figy EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

By Anna Wieseman MANAGING EDITOR

Seventeen years ago, Art Faculty Adjunct Michael Schwab was put on the spot by one of his former University of Indianapolis professors, after suggesting the department could make some changes.

The professor replied with a proposal of put up or shut up and offered Schwab a job filling in for a professor who could no longer continue teaching.

Schwab currently works as creative director for Llamar Advertising Indianapolis. Llamar is an advertising agency that creates billboards for clients. He is in charge of creating concepts for clients who do not have other resources and reviewing every design before it goes to print for the billboards. Before this, he took on many internships while at UIndy to gain experience.

“I owe a lot to my professors at the time who steered me towards terrific internships. My senior year, I did a number of internships. The last one was for an advertising agency,” Schwab said. “...They kept me for the summer and from there hired me full time. I was there for five years and worked my way up from entry level to senior art director.”

Before coming to teach at UIndy, Schwab spent 15 years working as a professional. He said that his work experience only partially prepared him for teaching.

“This [teaching] was a whole new level,” Schwab said. “So the first year was a learning experience for myself. Then I got a handle on it and have enjoyed it ever since.”

Associate Professor of Art and Design Julia Taugner has been working with Schwab since she began teaching in 1999.

She said he brings new perspective to her department.

“Mike is very knowledgeable about the design industry, since he is working as an art director and now a creative director,” Taugner said. “He interacts with clients.

He knows the changing trends in the design industry.”

Schwab said that while his experience within the advertising world helps him

if you don’t have funding,” he said. “It pays the rent.”

Knowing what position adjuncts fill, the next question would be why colleges need to use them.

“It’s beneficial to have adjuncts teach a certain number of classes because you never know when things might change,” said Chair and Professor of History and Political Science Lawrence Sondhaus.

“Enrollments might go up or down. The core curriculum might change.”

Sondhaus explained that adjuncts serve to keep a balance in an ever-fluctuating academic system by making sure required courses can be offered and students are able to take the courses they need.

“It is not really possible for most schools to meet their staffing requirements entirely with full-time faculty,” Sondhaus said. “There were years that I ran as many as 26 sections of a class in an academic year just to make sure all 800

SCHWAB teach, his students help teach him to improve relations with his clients. He sees many similarities between his two jobs.

“That [experience] kind of relates directly to dealing with experienced students who are learning the process and hoping to further their knowledge to be able to be hired in the field but similarly to clients who are experienced in certain software and design in general,” Schwab said.

According to Taugner, Schwab brings to the art department knowledge that helps keep courses current with what is happening in the professional field. She often consults with him to make sure the curriculum is staying current.

“I think they [adjuncts] also help us keep up with the industry trends because they’re there in the middle of those things,” Taugner said.“So sometimes I’ll ask Mike, ‘Does this or that in the curriculum seem as relevant as I think it is?’”

She also sees that Schwab is interested in his students’ success. According to Taugner, Schwab helps students gain insight into how to be successful in the industry.

“He’s always really professional in his manner, really business-like. And yet, he’s very interested in the students. That’s always clear from talking to him,” Taugner said. “Because adjuncts don’t make a lot of money, he doesn’t do this for the money.

He does this because he cares about the program. He cares about the students.”

Taugner talks to students frequently and sees the impact that Schwab has on her department.

“One student just told me that he’s been working for a few years, and he told me it was Mike who first brought it home to him that he needs to think about when he is going to get a job,” Taugner said.

“Because Mike would say, ‘When you’re working’and ‘when you get a job in design.’

And it kind of dawned on him, ‘Oh, I’m going to actually be working as a designer, and this is going to be a transition.’”

The curtain opens on the Speech for the Stage class. The setting is the black studio theatre in the basement of Esch Hall. Junior theatre and creative writing double major Elise Campagna just finished her monologue from Shakespeare’s “Richard III,”when her professor,Theatre Faculty Adjunct Robert Neal, says it was good, but wants to try something different.

Neal makes junior theatre major Eric Brockett stand next to her in the middle of the stage. Great, Neal tells her, now do the speech again, and this time push him around the room.

This is nothing out of the ordinary, Campagna said, at least, not in one of Neal’s classes.

“I did a ‘Richard III’ scene in Movement [for the Stage], and he wanted me and my scene partner to play [tag],” she said. “He threw a bunch of chairs in the middle, and we were supposed to play tag while we were doing the scene to get that idea of cat and mouse.”

Neal has developed his own style of teaching through years of working as a professional actor in Indiana, as well as in New York and Chicago. At the Indiana Repertory Theatre alone, he has performed in 30 plays during the last 13 seasons. He also is a regular performer in Heartland Actors Repertory Theatre’s Shakespeare on the Canal.

“I don’t believe that old adage that ‘those who can’t, teach,’” Neal said. “I think for me, uniquely, as a teacher, because I work as a professional actor, I’m able to bring a unique perspective into the classroom.”

Most recently, Neal was the lead in the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s production of “Kurt Vonnegut’s: Who Am I This Time? (and other conundrums of Love).”

However, he said that his favorite role, if he had to choose, was playing food magnate James Beard in the one-man show.

Before he got into acting, Neal said that he was a tall jock in his hometown of Brazil, Ind. According to Neal, no student as tall as he is can get passed over by the school basketball coach. He was never in any high school plays because his sports schedule aligned with the plays.

However, Neal joined the school’s thespian club, “Stage and Stammer,” because one of his English teachers—“a little spark plug of a woman”—dragged

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Junior theatre and creative writing major Elise Campagna listens as Robert Neal teaches. him to the club’s meetings.

“She was a huge influence on my life.

I mean, she made me feel like it was okay to be a jock and to do this as well,” he said.

“My football coach was that way, too. He was like, ‘I want people to see our athletes have other interests.’ So they were both really good influences in that regard.”

When he graduated, Neal went to Indiana University. He began studying telecommunications, then did business for a year before he finally settled on a major.

“I ended up majoring in English because I always had this love of reading and language and that kind of thing. I found out what I really loved and what was great about that [studying literature] was it taught me the power of sound and meaning together,” he said. “Then when I ended up in acting, it really coalesced for me in that I loved language, but I love the sound of language, too. So I was using both things.”

Neal taught high school English for a few years, acting in community theatre at night, until he went back to school to get his master’s of fine arts in acting from Pennsylvania State University.

Director of Theatre Brad Wright said that because Neal is such a prolific performer, students have many opportunities

to see him model the things that he talks about in class.

“He is able to teach some of our more specialized courses in movement and speech for the stage,” Wright said. “Furthermore, because of his link to the professional theatre world in Indianapolis, he is a great resource for our students in terms of networking. He has helped a number of our students make connections with the professional theatre in Indianapolis.”

One of these students is senior theatre major Ross Percell, who will be performing with Neal in HART’s production of “The Tempest” this summer. Neal said that many other students have done internships with IRT. Watching the students progress into professional theatre, Neal said, makes his job the best of both worlds.

“I love the teaching, not that it doesn’t come with its own frustrations, and certainly adjuncting has its frustrations because you don’t make as much money.

The positive side of it is, however, you don’t have to go to meetings,” he said. “... The positive thing for the university is I’m bringing all of my experience from professional acting and connections to the theatre, getting kids in there to intern and things like that. So I think it’s a really good, symbiotic relationship in that regard.”

“It’s a good university. It anchors the South side of Indianapolis. I had good experiences here. [I had] good professors here who were very patient with me,” Bailey said. “I may have had some deficiencies as a student, but they were patient with me. They taught me what I needed to know and taught me how to learn [and] how to appreciate an education. I guess ... in some small way, you feel like you need to give back.”

Judith Apple-VanAlstine, the dean of the School for Adult Learning, enjoys working with Bailey.

“A lot of things make it fun,” AppleVanAlstine said. “First of all, he is incredibly sensitive to the needs of adult learners.

Second, he is very passionate about what he teaches. Third, he has this incredibly dry sense of humor that you have to pay really close attention to, because it’s an intelligent dry sense of humor.”

On Tuesday nights, Bailey teaches conflict management for the School for Adult Learning.

Susan Rider is pursuing her master’s degree in strategic leadership and design.

She is currently taking Bailey’s conflict management course.

“He makes you think outside the box for alternative ways to manage conflict,” Rider said.

Rider also said that Bailey made the class focus on ways to communicate in order to resolve problems.

Laura Ash also is pursuing a master’s degree in strategic leadership.

“I like Dr. Bailey. When I grew up, things were a little different. You didn’t speak up or speak out. So I’m learning how to use that more effectively,”Ash said.

According to Bailey, helping students, such as Rider and Ash, is one of the main reasons that he continues to teach at UIndy.

“The [School for Adult Learning] provides a great opportunity for people who ... haven’t been able to go through what would be consider the traditional travels, as far as education is concerned,” Bailey said. “Anytime someone is willing to spend their time and energy to learn and improve themselves ... you can’t hardly turn your back on folks like that.”

State appeals judge supports his alma mater by teaching

By Michael Rheinheimer EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Few of School for Adult Learning Faculty Adjunct Lloyd Bailey’s students know that the man who now teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in government and conflict resolution came from humble surroundings.

Bailey was the youngest of four children on his family farm in St. Paul, Ind. His family attended Union Chapel. Bailey said his family and his church instilled in him a sense of fairness.

“Growing up on a farm, you see things from a business side that you don’t think are necessarily, properly fair,” Bailey said.

A desire to help people led Bailey to a career in law. Bailey came to the University of Indianapolis, then Indiana Central College, when he was just 17.

After his first few weeks of college, he began calling law firms from the phone book to try to find a job.

“Fortunately, not everyone hung up on me,” he said. “One person that I spoke

“Anytime someone is willing to spend their time and energy to learn and improve themselves and get a better understanding of life ... you can’t hardly turn your back on folks like that.”

-Lloyd Bailey to specifically asked me if I had a strong back ... [because] they needed somebody to move files around the closed files department, which was fine with me. That was a great introduction for me.”

While working, Bailey continued his studies at the university. He graduated four years later with a bachelor’s degree in political science.

In the late 1990s, he received his master’s of business administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. While working

on his M.B.A., Bailey was appointed to the Indiana Court of Appeals and had to defer some of his courses.

“I had to set priorities, and I was in the middle of the M.B.A. when I was appointed to the Court of Appeals,” Bailey said. “So that was my first and foremost responsibility, to try to make certain that I became competent at my job as soon as possible.”

In 2005, Bailey returned to the UIndy to teach for the School for Adult Learning.

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Students elect new ISG board

By Jake Fritz FEATURE EDITOR Many registered student organizations are finalizing their leadership for the upcoming 2014-2015 school year. However, unlike the UIndy Francophone Club, UIndy Gamers Club and other RSOs, where only members vote for new leaders, the Indianapolis Student Government’s elections are open to all students because ISG represents the student voice at the University of Indianapolis.

To ensure that students were aware of their voting privileges, ISG kept to its yearlong theme of making everything it does bigger and better by creating awareness about its annual elections.

“This year, one of the things we have been working on is branding, putting our names out there, making people realize how big of a deal student government is,” said senior communication major and current ISG President DyNishia Miller.“We needed to voice that with elections, with bringing on a new executive board. We needed people to realize how important the people you elect are to the school and to student government.”

Pre-election residence hall visits with free pizza, info sessions in the Schwitzer Student Center and an election kickoff event on March 24 that featured giveaways such as T-shirts and cupcakes were all part of a plan to make students more aware of the ISG election process.

UIndy’s mascot Ace appeared at the kickoff event to get the campus excited about ISG election week, and candidates were asked to speak and explain why they deserved the students’ votes.

“They [ISG] took the time to make the candidates more visible and highlight their platforms,” said Director of Student Activities Stephanie Barry. “I think they definitely put more effort into elections

PACKING from page 1 a foreign concept to me, and then when that happened, I realized how much of a problem it really was.”

Besides hosting “Send Silence Packing,” UIndy’s Active Minds chapter also hosted its fourth annual Stomp Out Stigma 5k run/walk on Saturday, April 5, on campus.

Some 41 runners and walkers participated in the race, and $684 was raised.

Amanda McErlean, a graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program, said that the event went very well overall and that a local organization would benefit from the money raised.

“We had beautiful weather for the race, and the runners and walkers seemed to enjoy participating in the 5k,” McErlean said. “Half of this year’s proceeds will go to Outside the Box, a local mental health organization that provides day and employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities.”

Representatives from Outside the Box and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention were present at the event to provide information regarding

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Students wait in line to vote on Greyhound Link during the ISG election kickoff event on Monday, March 24.

so students will take student government more seriously. And I think that is what this year’s group really wants is to be taken seriously and get people to care and contribute to improving campus.”

The election ran March 24-28, and ISG had election tables in Schwitzer the entire week to guide students to the Greyhound Link webpage, so they could cast their votes.

“I think it was a success,” Miller said.

“Of course, we would love for it to be bigger and better, but as with a lot of our goals this year we are setting a foundation. There was no precedence set before this. So if there is no comparison, there is nowhere to go but up.”

Election results for the 2014-2015

ISG Executive Board were announced on March 31: President Tyler Offutt, Vice President Mizraim Lorenzo-Aguilar, Secretary Henrieta Emmah Muradzikwa and Treasurer Larry “Willie” Bryan.

Offutt will step up from the ISG Public Relations position, and he is the only board member from the 2013-2014 school year to carry over and continue working on the goals that have been set this year. Miller said she feels good about Offutt taking the helm.

“My role has been to lay a foundation,” Miller said. “I feel very comfortable passing off the torch, especially passing it off to Tyler. I know that he can handle this position, and I know he will be successful with it as well.”

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the services and events that they offer.

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s website, the prevalence of serious psychological disorders in 18-24 year olds is the highest of any other group.

However, they also show the lowest rate of help-seeking behaviors.

McErlean said that it is imperative that college students know that they have plenty of resources to help them and that being able to assist in that is why Active Minds is important to her.

“College is an important and exciting time for exploration and growth, but it can also be a stressful experience. It is essential for college students not only to have knowledge about mental health but also to feel comfortable seeking support for themselves or reaching out to a friend who may need support,”McErlean said. “Active Minds has provided me with an opportunity to promote mental health awareness, so that the students of UIndy can be advocates for themselves and their fellow students in relation to mental health.”

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“That’s a very practical approach, but that minimizes and really kind of denigrates the real purpose of going to college. The purpose of college is that for the next 30 to 40 [years] or however long, really a lifetime, that you’ve got something you can use,” Alles said. “... You now have a capacity to learn things in a quicker and deeper way than you would have otherwise, so that in five, 10, 20 years, when you have to change careers, you can do it—you can do it fairly quickly.”

According to a study by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, 80 percent of employers think “all students should acquire broad knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences.” The study also states that 93 percent of employers think a candidate’s ability to think critically, communicate clearly and solve problems “is more important than their undergraduate major.”

One UIndy grad who exemplifies this is Juan Paz, president of the Alumni Association and a member of the board of trustees. His position as senior property tax manager for Simon Property Group Inc. requires him to value Simon shopping malls throughout the Midwest.

“When I went to the University of Indianapolis, they didn’t have real estate classes, and I’m working for the largest real estate company in the world,” he said.

Although he had to take some courses in between, Paz believes that his time at UIndy gave him the base that he needed to get from where he started to where he is now.

Paz was born in Peru and came to the United States when he was a sophomore in high school.

He earned three degrees from UIndy, one bachelor’s degree in the now defunct paralegal program, another in business administration and a master’s in business administration.

Paz said that he would hire only UIndy graduates if possible, because he has worked with enough alumni and seen their drive and tenacious work ethic.

“They do whatever it takes to accomplish their work. If it is staying, for example, time that they may

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not get paid, they’ll do it, because they want to finish the task, and finish the task correctly,” he said. “...

That is something that you just don’t see anymore.”

Paz said that alumni have benefitted from personal attention from professors with real-world experience, rather than huge lecture halls and professors with only theoretical knowledge. Paz spent a year at a large Indianapolis college, and he said that the small class sizes were one of the reasons that he

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The fiction winner this year is Frederick Pelzer with his collection entitled “Static: Stories.” Etchings Press will be launching his collection later in May. “The experience we received through this class is immeasurable. We were able to read like writers and publishers, collaborate on a winner, and now we have the chance to design a cover.”

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“Let’s face it, there is no way that during a semester a professor can manage 100 people,” he said. “... Now you condense it down to your 10-15 people, and you’re able to not only know them by name but know where it is that they need extra help.”

However, although graduating students are prepared, as Paz said, many have yet to secure a post-graduation job.

In a recent informal online survey conducted by The Reflector, 91 percent of undergraduate seniors graduating in May or August said that they felt their UIndy education had prepared them for a career in their field of study. However, 45.5 percent said that they had a job lined up for after graduation, not taking into account those continuing on to graduate school. Of those who had a job lined up, 83 percent said that it was in their major area of study.

One key to breaking in to a desired field is having someone, whether an internship supervisor or a UIndy alum, who can vouch for you, according to Director of the Professional Edge Center Corey Wilson.

“Just as important as what you know is who you know,” he said.

Wilson added that, in addition to registering with the Professional Edge Center, students should seek out people in their desired field. Professionals are busy, he said, but everyone has to eat, so asking someone to get lunch or just coffee is a good way to make connections.

Wilson also said that creating a LinkedIn profile that looks professional and doing as many internships as possible are both important. He added that there is nothing wrong with students doing internships after graduation, but the internships should be in the field that they want to break into, rather than exploring options.

“Any additional experience and exposure that you have, the more marketable that you will be to the world of work,” he said.

According to Wilson, however, one of the most important things for students to know is how to pitch themselves quickly to a reference or potential employer. Whether part of the graduating class or the freshman class, Wilson said that every student should start thinking about this.

“You can’t spend an hour or 45 minutes just trying to step through who you are,” he said. “You need to be able to succinctly say who you are, what experience you have and what you’re thinking would be your desired next professional outcome.”

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Democrats hope equal pay issue NEWS BRIEFS will mobilize women voters this fall

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Obama signs executive orders to help workers

By Lindsay Wise & David Lightman MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON (MCT)—A Democratic blitz for new orders and laws promising equal pay for women is a key agenda item the party hopes will boost turnout this fall among its most loyal voters—a crucial strategy in a midterm election, when turnout tends to drop.

President Barack Obama signed two executive actions, which will bar federal contractors from retaliating against employees for comparing salaries and require contractors to report compensation data to the government by gender and race.

At the same time,Democratic lawmakers launched an assault on Republicans in Congress for opposing legislation that would expand measures to prevent gender-based pay discrimination nationwide.

That bill, the Paycheck Fairness Act, failed a procedural vote April 9 in the Senate.

“Republicans in Congress have been gumming up the works,” Obama said April 8.“They’ve been blocking progress.”

By reviving a familiar line of attack from the 2012 campaign—that Republicans are waging a “war on women”—the president and fellow Democrats aim to capitalize on the party’s longstanding edge among women voters in this fall’s elections for control of Congress.

They also hope to force Republicans to oppose popular measures and thus alienate women voters. One senior Obama administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy, said it was unclear if the push for equal pay would help Democrats but said it was likely that “opposition will hurt the GOP.” Motivating women to come to the polls in November could be pivotal in Senate races in the South, where embattled female incumbents Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and Mary Landrieu, D-La., face tough re-elections.

A strong women’s turnout also would help Democratic candidates Michelle Nunn in Georgia and Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky, both seeking Senate

seats now held by Republicans.

“Several of those states are going to come down to a few percentage points, so anything that would shift one or two percent in your column could be the difference between winning and losing,”said Darrell West, vice president of governance studies at the Brookings Institution.

“Pay equity is a great issue [for Democrats] because women now are a majority of voters and they’re politically active,” West said.

Nathan Gonzales, deputy editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, noted that Democrats tend to attract single and minority women, while married women tend to trend Republican.

But he was skeptical that it would make the difference in close races, whether or not a woman was running.

“The election is not going to be about this one issue,” he said.

The push for pay equity is part of an overall effort to position the Democrats as champions of the middle class.

Early the week of March 31, Senate Democrats won passage of extended jobless benefits, a bill that has no chance in its current form in the Republican-led House of Representatives.

Later this spring, Democrats are expected to renew their call for a vote on raising the minimum wage to $10.10.

Another proposal would make child care more affordable.

Republicans dismiss this “fair shot for everyone” agenda as little more than posturing. “Political show votes,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. But Republicans were careful April 1 to stress they are all for equal pay for equal work. After a meeting of the House Republican Caucus, Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia said that rather than support the Democrats’ legislation, “it’s probably better for us to sit down and see how we can make sure that the law is being properly implemented rather than play politics with this.” © 2014 McClatchy Washington Bureau Distributed by MCT Information Services

Drinking coffee has its benefits Indulging in daily coffee habit linked to lower incidence of liver cancer, according to recent study

By Karen Kaplan LOS ANGELES TIMES In their continuing quest to prove that coffee is indeed a health food, medical researchers analyzed the health records of nearly 180,000 Americans and determined that the ones with a daily java habit were less likely to get a common type of liver cancer than their less-caffeinated counterparts.

The study, presented last week at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting in San Diego, may not be enough to get your coffee break covered by your health insurance, but the results were striking.

Compared with people who drank no more than six cups of coffee per week, those who drank one to three cups per day were 29 percent less likely to develop hepatocellular carcinoma, or HCC, which is the most common form of liver cancer. Serious coffee drinkers—those who downed four or more cups per day—were 42 percent less likely to be diagnosed with the disease.

“Now we can add HCC to the list of medical ailments, such as Parkinson’s disease, type 2 diabetes, and stroke, that may be prevented by coffee intake,” study leader V. Wendy Setiawan, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California’s Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, said in a statement.

Though she is not a physician, she added: “Daily coffee consumption should be encouraged in individuals who are at high risk for HCC.” Hepatocellular carcinoma accounts for about 85 percent of all liver cancers in the United States, and kills about 16,000 people a year, according to 2008 review

article in the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 3.2 out of every 100,000 Americans is diagnosed with HCC each year, while researchers at the National Cancer Institute say the rate is 4.9 cases per 100,000 Americans.

Setiawan and her colleagues decided to look for a link between HCC and coffee consumption after epidemiological studies from other countries suggested that the drink could reduce the risk of the cancer.

They examined data on 179,890 African-Americans, Native Hawaiians, Japanese Americans, Latinos and Caucasian adults who enrolled in the Multiethnic Cohort Study in the 1990s.

The study participants reported their coffee-drinking habits (along with lots of other dietary data) when they joined the study.

Eighteen years after the study began, 498 of the volunteers had developed HCC. But the risk wasn’t spread evenly among coffee drinkers and non-drinkers.

Although the researchers controlled for factors such as the volunteers’ body mass index, drinking and smoking habits, ethnicity and other factors, they found that these things didn’t affect the relationship between coffee consumption and HCC. Setiawan said she was not sure why coffee seems to protect the liver, but the research team intends to investigate the link (if any) between java and chronic liver diseases.

And in case you were wondering, the study was not bankrolled by Starbucks.

Funding came from the National Cancer Institute. ©2014 Los Angeles Times Distributed by MCT Information Services

Pope apologizes for past sex abuse

President Barack Obama signs executive orders on equal pay, Tuesday, April 8 as women, including Lilly Ledbetter, left, look on at the White House in Washington. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis said April 11 that he felt responsible for the child sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church, and issued an unprecedented apology.

“I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil, which some priests, quite a few in number, obviously not compared to the number of all the priests, to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children,” Francis said.

He made the remarks during a meeting with the International Catholic Child Bureau, a non-governmental organization.

—dpa

Scottish consider independence ABERDEEN, Scotland—The referendum on Scottish independence planned for September is “the opportunity of a lifetime,” Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond said April 11 at the party’s last conference before the vote.

The poll would give Scots the chance “to take this country forward, to build and achieve the society we know we can be in Scotland, the prosperous, just society,” the Scottish first minister told delegates in the city of Aberdeen.

Scots are to vote on whether to end 300 years of union with the rest of Britain on Sept. 18.

—dpa

Venezuela conflict at a stand still BOGOTA, Colombia—For more than six hours, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition traded barbs and recriminations during a nationally televised event aimed at ending the country’s nine-week long-civil conflict.

But by the time the meeting ground to a halt early April 11, no concessions had been made except a promise to meet again on April 15.

Even so, some saw the encounter as a positive step in a country where the government and opposition rarely meet, much less exchange ideas.

—The Miami Herald ©2014 McClatchy Tribune News Service

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