Apr. 26, 2006 | The Reflector

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VOLUME 84, ISSUE 11

APRIL 26, 2006

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■ UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS INCIDENTS

Police respond to incidents near campus involving UIndy students Ruth Shirley Staff Writer

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Gun shots, reported assaults and an arrest resulted from two incidents in the University Heights neighborhood in the early hours of Feb. 26. According to police reports, Indianapolis Police Department officers were dispatched to 1255 Lawrence Ave. about 1 a.m. in response to shots fired inside the residence. While responding to the call, IPD Officer Chad Dailey came into contact with a minor, at the intersection of Edwards Avenue and Bowman Avenue. The minor told Dailey that his friend had been stabbed at 1305 Lawrence Ave., just next door to 1255 Lawrence Ave., and that the subject who shot at them and stabbed his friend remained at 1305 Lawrence Ave. According to UIndy Chief of Police Keith Smith, the wound allegedly inflicted by a knife was later determined to have been caused by the subject’s quick exit through a broken window. While Dailey spoke with the minor at the intersection of Edwards and Bowman, another 911 call came reporting a fight at 1305 Lawrence, according to the police report. Dailey and IPD Officer Keith Cutcliff then responded to this address. According to Dailey’s narrative in the police report, as he and Cutcliff approached the residence, five males were standing on the front porch, and one—later identified as University of Indianapolis senior James Rust—began yelling, questioning the officers’ presence on his property.

keep their hands in view. Dailey asked Rust to move twice, but according to the report, Rust continued ranting, CAMPUS refusing to allow Dailey to secure the Feb. 26, 2006 1533 scene. When Rust Hanna Ave. 3:30 a.m. Castle Reported fight between four males was asked to move Ave toward Cutcliff, he did, but when Windermire St. Cutcliff then asked his name, Daily Castle Ave. said in the report that Rust “became University Heights Edwards Ave. verbally aggressive in tone, and Mills Ave.. physically tensing up, saying, ‘What’s Markwood Ave. your name,’ and ‘I’m not telling you Lawrence Ave. my name.’” The report stated N 1305 that the remainder Lawrence of the group re1255 Ave. Feb. 26, 2006 W E Lawrence mained calm. Not 1:00 a.m. Shooting and alleged stabbing Ave. knowing if there was still a firearm S present, Dailey reGraphic by Emily Scott ported, he attempted to handcuff Rust The info graphic above details recent police reported incidents in the to prevent any escaUniversity Heights neighborhood. The incidents involving university lation of violence. He said Rust acstudents have prompted investigations by the IPD and responses from tively resisted his university administrators. attempts to restrain Daily said in his report that because them, all complying except Rust, who him, jerking, pulling away and being of his knowledge of the possible pres- continued to verbally challenge Dailey’s verbally aggressive. ence of a firearm, he then told the group presence. Dailey said he continued to Dailey reported that he and Cutcliff to put their hands up where he could see approach cautiously, telling the group to then physically controlled and eventually

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handcuffed Rust. Rust was transported to the Arrestee Processing Center by patrol car and arrested for resisting law enforcement by force, according to the police report. During the struggle to restrain Rust, Cutcliff reported that he sustained minor abrasions to his left knee and was transported to Methodist Occupational Health Center. He was able to return to duty with no restrictions and no return visit necessary. The police report stated that the commotion during the incidents caused neighbors to later approach the officers, telling them that the group needed to leave the neighborhood because they repeatedly cause trouble. Regarding the discharge of the firearm earlier that morning which originally prompted the officers’ response, there is a warrant out for the arrest of Brian Jenkins for a Class D felony of criminal recklessness, according to Smith. According to Indiana state law, a Class D felony for criminal recklessness is charged when a person recklessly, knowingly or intentionally performs an act that creates a substantial risk of bodily injury to another person and is committed while armed with a deadly weapon. The same morning at approximately 3:30 a.m., IPD dispatched Cutcliff to a fight at 1533 Castle Ave., according to police reports. Once on the scene, Cutcliff spoke with UIndy students Cody Metzger and Robert Schmidt.

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$5,000 authorized for campus IRL visits campus smoking ban implementation Shelly Grimes Opinion Editor

Cessation classes formed for faculty, students for summer, fall Katy Yeiser Managing Editor

University of Indianapolis President Beverley Pitts has authorized $5,000 from the university budget for the implementation of the campus-wide smoking ban. Pitts announced that the campus would be smoke-free on Jan. 18, 2006, through a campus-wide e-mail. David Wantz, vice president for student affairs, has been in charge of implementing the smoking ban. “The president has said she wants the campus to be smoke free, and I intend to make it true that her wishes are fulfilled,” Wantz said. Wantz said the $5,000 budget will not have its own line in the university’s budget, but will instead come from excess money in the budget. While the exact dollar amounts have not been delegated, the budget will be spent on purchasing signs and plaques for campus buildings to indicate that UIndy is a smoke-free campus. Wantz also said that temporary smoking urns may be bought and placed on the east and west ends of campus, near the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center and Nicoson Hall, to help the transition to a smoke-free campus. If purchased, the urns would be removed by December. The money also will be spent on forming smoking cessation classes for the summer and fall. William Essman, assistant professor in the School of Psychological Sciences, will direct the classes and is currently in the beginning stages of implementation. Essman has not been a supporter of the university’s smoke-free

policy since its development. “My objections to the smoking ban originally were only because I heard people using science that was wrong to try and justify it,” he said. “I think we should not try and tell each other what to do… I decided that if I am going to say that I’m not necessarily for this thing, I felt I had a responsibility to try and bring what little bit of training and expertise I had to try and help the transition.” Essman had experience running a smoking cessation class as a clinical intern at a veteran’s assistance hospital in Jackson, Miss. He said he would try to model UIndy’s classes on his experience in Jackson, Miss. “The classes will be based on a series of steps that are defined on pretty well understood behavioral and psychological factors that help people to decrease their dependence on nicotine, control the signals they have on cigarettes and manage the stresses and constraints that come when they actually quit,” Essman said. Essman will purchase equipment to measure the body’s chemical reaction, and carbon monoxide emission levels, from smoking. Wantz said the programs will not provide prescription drugs (i.e., nicotine patches, nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler) to class participants, but the university directors of the course may suggest that participants seek prescription drugs through their physicians. Essman will use graduate students from the school of psychological sciences as class facilitators and hopes to work with the university’s Health and Counseling Center for the cessation classes. “[The graduate students] have received extensive training in different therapy

techniques. They’ve been on practicum placements already and [have] direct experience in professional settings,” Essman said. “I have no doubt at all that they’ll be fully able to carry out this program.” Before Wantz was given the budget to implement the smoking ban, he was in charge of forming a task force to help execute the policy. The consensus of the task force was formed by the opinions of students and faculty who responded to the policy by attending task force meetings, or by simply voicing their opinions. “Anybody who wrote to me, I said, ‘you’re now on the task force,’” Wantz said. “I deputized them because they obviously had some concern for it. What I would do is when I would hold meetings I would take notes and then I would send the notes out to anybody who was on the task force.” He said the initial opposition to the policy was strong but has since declined. The number of people present at the task force meetings also has dwindled. “I think that it has dwindled because people realize the train has already left the station,” Wantz said. “So much of the country is going smoke free. It’s just the way the world is turning these days.” Wantz also noted that although the campus will be smoke free, people can still smoke in their cars or on a public street or sidewalk. However, he is confident that smoking on campus will decline. “I am confident that when people come back in the fall, and in this time of year from now, you won’t see people smoking on this campus,” he said. “I think that cigarette smoking is eventually going to be déclassé.”

The Indy 500 Fan Tour was on campus Monday, April 17 to give students, faculty and staff the opportunity to experience a taste of the Indianapolis 500. A 35-foot trailer-turned-museum included track memorabilia, a driver’s fire suit and helmet, televisions showing clips of past races, life-size cardboard cutouts of the famous Borg-Warner Trophy as well as of drivers such as Danica Patrick and free posters, magnets, CDs and calendars promoting this year’s 90th running of the Indianapolis 500.

The Fan Tour also included a fullsize Indy Racing League IndyCar Series simulator that allowed participants to test their racing skills. “It was a lot more difficult than I imagined it to be,” junior Amy Briggs said after taking a test drive on the simulator. “I kept hitting the walls on the curves.” Mike Montani, who works for the company that built the simulator, Sinden Racing, said event turnout was “so-so” and that many students “looked as they passed by but didn’t stop.” The Fan Tour, which goes all over the state of Indiana, will continue until May 27. More information can be found at http://www.Indy500.com/fantour/.

Photo by Megan Komlanc

Amy Briggs drives the car simulator outside of Ransburg Hall on the lawn by the bell tower. The Indy Racing League was on campus April, 17.

News at a Glance

Mayor speaks 30-year art professor, Dee Schaad, named Teacher of the Year on campus Crystle Collins News Editor The mayor of Indianapolis, Bart Peterson, will be speaking at the University of Indianapolis today for the “Indiana Live” guest lecture series hosted by the Institute for Emerging Careers in partnership with the Center for Business Partnerships. The event will take place at 12 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. A reception will be held following the presentation in the Christel DeHaan foyer. L/P credit will be available.

Abby Adragna Staff Writer

Dee Schaad, professor and chair of the art department, was presented the Teacher of the Year award at the University of Indianapolis Honors Convocation on April 4. “I think that there are a lot of really good teachers at this university. To be selected as Teacher of the Year, especially at a place that values teaching, I’m just greatly honored,” Schaad said. “I get goose bumps about it. I don’t know how anybody could feel any other way.”

Schaad has been a professor in the art department for 30 years. He has taught almost every course in the department except for art history and art appreciation. According to Donna Adams, assistant professor of art and design, Schaad is a great asset to the department. “He’s very creative with his students, and he encourages them to be risk takers,” she said. Schaad said he is grateful for the enormous amount of support that his current and past students have shown him in regard to receiving the honor of Teacher of the Year. Many of his current students volun-

teered to write letters of support for him, and several alumni indicated the impact that he has had on their lives over a long period of time. “I can’t express how touched I am by the fact that so many of my former students have said, ‘Hey, it’s about time,’” Schaad said. “It just makes you feel good to know that, somewhere along the line, you’ve had an impact on people.” Professors are nominated for this award by their deans. The deans select nominees based on the professor’s course evaluations, teaching materials, and student descriptions, among other things. According to Mary Moore, vice presi-

dent for research, planning, and strategic partnerships and professor of sociology, a small committee selects the Teacher of the Year. The committee consists of three faculty members who have previously received the Teacher of the Year award, the president of Indianapolis Student Government, and the student with the highest grade point average. According to the Teacher of the Year committee, the award is presented to the faculty member who demonstrates excellence in classroom teaching and superior performance in individual and group interaction with students.


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