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Campus continues to expand To accommodate growing art, music, engineering programs, the university purchased two properties on Shelby St. Hanna Avenue

3750 Shelby Street is currently occupied by

CTP Corporation CTP Corporation is a designer and manufacturer of metal fabrications and machined components for aerospace and gas turbine applications.

Fifth Third Bank

Greyhound Village

The building is approximately 6,500 square feet.

Shelby Street

3750 Shelby Street

UIndy plans to have it renovated in time for Fall 2020.

3750 Shelby Street

National Avenue

The owner has the building leased until November 2019.

3800 Shelby Street

Canteen Vending Services provides snacks, drinks, fresh food and more through vending, refreshment services and dining.

The owner has the building leased until February 2019.

3800 Shelby Street

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR For the last 10 years, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art & Design Jim Viewegh and Chair of the Department of Music Brenda Clark have been asking the University of Indianapolis for additional space to accommodate their growing programs. After looking at the projected growth of the R.B. Annis School of Engineering’s programs and 10 years of trying to find more space for the growing fine arts departments, a solution presented itself, according to University President Robert Manuel.

Approximately eight months ago, the university approached the owners of the CTP Corporation, a factory located across the street from Greyhound Village on Shelby Street, and conversa-

UIndy plans to have it renovated in time for Fall 2019.

Campus Police

UIndy paid

3800 Shelby Street is currently occupied by

Canteen Vending Services

The building is approximately 1,800 square feet.

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The Department of Art & Design and the R.B Annis School of Engineering will be moved into the buildings Information from: Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Jeanette DeDiemar; www.tubeproc.com; www.canteen.com

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tions began about potentially purchasing the property. On March 6, it was announced that the Board of Trustees had agreed to purchase the two buildings for a total of $3.1 million, a majority of which came from the R.B. Annis Fo u n d a t i on , according to Manuel.

The acquisition of the buildings will add space for expanding programs as well as parking. The university worked with the Board of Trustees, the affected departments and the community throughout the process.

“We work with the departments that would go into those properties to find out what their educational needs are,” Manuel said. “...We work with the com-

munity to make sure that they understand what we’re trying to do and how we’re trying to do it. And we basically make sure that the need and community impact are all in the right direction.”

The university predicts that Art & Design and the School of Engineering will be able to move into the buildings by January of 2020.

Until then, the university will be working on renovating the space to fit the needs of the programs.

Viewegh said that he, Director of Engineering Programs and Associate Professor of Physics & Earth-Space Science Jose Sanchez and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Travis Miller worked together over the course of six months to create several drafts of a preliminary design to show how the space can be used. Once the design is approved by architects and the current occupants move out, renovation can begin.

According to Clark, as Art & Design prepares to move, the Music Department will begin plans to renovate the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center to better accommodate the needs of music students and faculty. They will potentially have to rebuild the walls out of a new material and widen them to prevent sound from bleeding out and are looking at purchasing updated equipment as well, Clark said.

Currently, music students are sharing 10 practice rooms, with two designated for piano, two ensemble rooms and some courses are meeting in the basement

commute back and forth between the campus and the hotel. Residents who did not have a car to commute were placed in other dorms, and everyone who stayed at the hotel had a means of transportation to campus. Clark said he believes that university has done a good job at accommodating the residents. “[They] made sure the accommodations that they are giving us were appropriate and that we would be reimbursed for all our stuff,” Clark said. “The day it happened, they bought us all lunch. The plan right now is to provide dinner for the residents for a few nights, just for the convenience factor. The university is doing a pretty good job trying to accommodate us because they realize that it’s put us in a difficult situation.”

According to Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli, UIndy's main priority is making sure affected students feel they are being taken care of.

"We’re working hard to make sure that we’re staying in communication with the students and with families and will continue to do that until the time [when] they get back into their rooms," Vitangeli said.

Clark and Cravens RA and sophomore engineering and computer science major Chase Frazier were responsible for all the residents in the basement. According to Clark, flooding is something for which RAs are not trained, but he said training for every situation is impossible.

“It’s something that we were not planning for,” Clark said. “So you can’t really ever be prepared for a situation like this, and so it’s all of us thinking on our toes.”

Clark said he is responsible for the men staying in the hotel and is acting more as a liaison between the hotel and the university for the residents. Although circumstances have changed, Clark said that his responsibility as an RA has not. He is still expected to work the desk at Cravens and enforce the rules at the hotel.

According to Maloney, Moore Restoration Incorporated sent a crew within half an hour of the basement beginning to flood, but because of the continuous rainfall, the company ran into issues, such as not being able to get all the water out of the basement until the rain subsided. Students were encouraged to box up their personal items, and furniture was moved to the center of the room to assess the drywall of the basement.

Moore Restoration removed the baseboards from the drywall in all the rooms to ensure all the moisture was out of the walls so that no mold growth would occur, according to Maloney.

However, Maloney said, more damage was done than originally suspected.

Twelve inches of drywall had to be cut out because of water damage and must be replaced, patched and painted before students can return to their rooms.

“When the water comes down that quickly, it’s really just an act of God that you can’t do anything to prepare for or prevent,” Maloney said. “When something like this happens, the more quickly you can respond, the better your efforts are to be able to contain it and get it remediated.”

Some personal items were also damaged during the flooding.

According to Maloney, expenses for renovations will come from the University of Indianapolis’ insurance, but does not cover the expenses for personal items that were damaged. Maloney said the university will reimburse students for personal damages. There is no exact estimate of how much the damages will cost the university, but Maloney said the amount will be substantial.

Freshman finance major Michael Knutson was one of the students whose property was damaged during the flood.

Knutson’s wireless keyboard was on the floor when the flood happened.

“My roommate actually woke me up... and said there was water coming in through the windows,” Knutson said. "At first, I didn’t believe him, but as I got out of bed and put

my foot on the ground, the ground was wet.”

Knutson said that the morning of the flood was stressful for him and, while he is thankful that the university is being accommodating, he was a little frustrated the day of the incident due to lack of communication.

“Tuesday, when it happened, was really stressful,” Knuston said. “We were told that we would know around 2 o’clock that we would know when we would be moving. And we weren’t told until around 5 or so. And so in the process that entire day, I was more worried about this. I probably should’ve gotten more studying in, but I wasn’t able to.

I didn’t go to a class or two because I thought, ‘Hey, I should stay here so I can move all my stuff ’ but we weren’t told at 2. . . .they didn’t tell us just [to] be patient and keep waiting, so that was a little bit frustrating.”

However, Knutson said he understands that the university was trying its best with the limited resources available.

Like Knutson, freshman business administration major Myles Cunningham missed his classes that day. The water from the hallway flooded Cunningham’s room rather than pouring in from his windows as it did in other rooms.

“I didn’t know how to react, but we found it funny. We started playing songs to go with the water,” Cunningham said.

“At first, we didn’t have any water in our room. I said, ‘I’m gonna go back to bed.’

Well, I didn’t get to go back to bed.”

Despite all that happened that morning, Clark said that the residents made the best of the situation by playing in the water and sliding down the hallway on tote tops. Cunningham said when water started coming into his room, as a joke, he played “Drowning”

by Kodak Black and was having a good time with his friends.

“The guys handled it really well,” Clark said. “I couldn’t have asked the building to have handled it any better... Of course it’s going to be a minor setback. They’re taking it in stride.”

“...Space has been something that we needed desperately for a long time...”

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IU McKinney creates UIndy Law Scholar Program

By Shayla Cabalan STAFF WRITER The University of Indianapolis and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis have partnered up to create an award that will give the pre-law students of UIndy more professional opportunities.

According to Assistant Professor of Political Science and Pre-Law Advisor David Root, the award, titled the University of Indianapolis Law Scholar, consists of two major components. First, the chosen scholar receives a minimum of a half-tuition scholarship to the IU McKinney School of Law at IUPUI. Second, the scholar is guaranteed participation in an experiential learning opportunity.

This learning opportunity can come in the form of a clerkship with the Indianapolis Bar or a research assistantship with a professor at IU McKinney.

“For students, it guarantees at least half of your law school is going to be paid for. It also goes on your resume, which looks good when you go out and apply for jobs,” Root said. “And if you take the clerkship, chances are that’s going to open up doors to career opportunities through the people you meet.”

According to Root, to be considered for the award, a potential candidate must fulfill three major requirements.

First, the candidate must demonstrate visible leadership abilities in various student organizations. Second, the candidate must maintain a 3.5 GPA and score 150 or higher on the LSAT. The final requirement is to be a member of the Pre-Law Student Association and regularly participate in its activities. As a recipient of the award,

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Flooding in Cravens Hall displaces students

By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR

The last thing junior nursing major and Resident Assistant Nik Clark expected to happen on a Tuesday morning was to wake up to the sound of water dripping in his room. He got up from bed, put his feet on the ground and realized the floor of his dorm room was covered with water. Clark quickly went into RA mode and began waking up the other men residing in the basement of Cravens. Clark and others tried scooping water into the drains of the bathroom, but to no avail.

Residents in the basement of Cravens were flooded out of their dorm rooms on April 3 around 5 a.m. after Indianapolis received record-setting rainfall that night, according to the National Weather Service. Backed up storm drains caused the water to pour through the basement windows, according to Executive Director of Facilities Management Layne Maloney. Clark estimated there was about an inch of standing water was on the floor.

Residents of the basement camped out in Cravens lobby while Student Affairs figured out temporary living arrangements for the students, according to Clark. He said about 50 residents were displaced as a result of the flooding.

Some Students were relocated to empty rooms in other residence halls, including East, Warren and Roberts. But because of limited capacity, others stayed in the Holiday Inn on East Street or at home.

Students’ families were notified of the incident in order to confirm appropriate accommodations, according to Clark.

As of Sunday, April 8, students were expected to return to Cravens on Tuesday, April 10, but there was a possibility that their stay would be extended because of unexpected damage, Maloney said.

About 20 students were relocated to the hotel, according to Clark. Part of the process for deciding the placements required Clark to determine who could

April 3rd 5 a.m.

Flooding started in the basement of Cravens.

April 3rd 2 p.m.

Residents expected to learn of their relocation.

April 3rd 5 p.m.

Residents were told where they would relocate.

Students are currently staying in: Warren Roberts Holiday Inn East Students were expected to return to Cravens on April 10th.

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APRIL 11, 2018

DEATH PENALTY PRO OR ANTI Graphics by Johana Rosendo

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR As inhumane and morbid as it may sound, the death penalty is something that should remain in the United States.

There are some crimes that are, frankly, so terrible that there is no other suitable form of punishment.

Aside from my own moral beliefs on the death penalty, it is not fair that taxpayers should have to pay for a murderer to live the rest of their life out in prison.

A 2016 report by the Federal Register shows that the average cost of incarceration per inmate is more than $30,000 a year. There is no argument to be made that this money could not go to something that improves our society, such as education and health care, instead of prolonging the lives of those who have decided their own fate.

An argument can be made that death row inmates cost more taxpayer money during their time on death row, considering that criminal cases involving the death penalty cost taxpayers about $90,000 more per year than the average prison inmate, according to deathpenaltyinfo.org. This cost could be balanced out, or at least lessened, by limiting the amount of time inmates spend on death row. In some cases, death row inmates can spend decades in prison before they are finally put to death.

While this does serve to ensure that the chances of executing an innocent person are minimized, there is no reason this process needs to be drawn out over a period of decades. There should be a span of three years after the initial sentencing during which the inmate on death row has to appeal the death penalty, with either one or two appeals in a front of jury or a court with several judges each year, which will give the inmate more than enough time to come to terms with their fate. If each appeal is a unanimous decision then the execution would follow.

Another solution to help lower the amount of taxpayer money being devoted to death row inmates would be to integrate them with the rest of the high-security prison population.

One of the largest expenses in regards to death row inmates is the

fact that they are kept in separate facilities which require additional upkeep and security, according to criminaljusticedegreehub.com.They should be subject to the same rules as other inmates, and if they became too dangerous, they could be placed in solitary confinement.

I have heard opponents of the death penalty argue that, rather than being sentenced to death, it would be better to put those guilty of murder into solitary confinement. While the death penalty may be cruel and barbaric in some ways, it is much less cruel than putting someone into solitary confinement. Although death isn’t nice, I would prefer it over spending the rest of my life in solitary confinement, if I ever were to be put in that situation.

Many will argue that the death penalty is not a deterrent for crime, and I actually agree. Many of the infamous school shootings in recent years have ended with the shooter committing suicide.

The people who commit these acts often do not expect to live or already have it planned to take their own life.

The death penalty, however, is not a social experiment to see whether it will stop people from committing crime.

It needs to be reserved for those who choose to commit crimes against humanity as a form of punishment, not a deterrent for future crimes.

Although I am in favor of the death penalty, I do not think it should not be decision taken lightly or thrown around liberally. It needs to be reserved for those who have, undeniably, committed acts that break all moral codes. There needs to be absolutely no doubt in the mind of the jury or judge that the convicted person has committed the crime they have been accused of before being sentenced to death.

With that being said, for those who are willing to commit such atrocities, I would almost consider them to not be human. They could have robbed parents of their children, children of their parents and even robbed society of someone who could have gone on to do great things for the world. As far as I’m concerned, the death penalty is not about revenge or closure for the family, it’s about taking out the trash in our society; the people, who out of their own selfishness and malice, have cut short the life of another individual and scarred that person’s family and friends for life.

By Zoë Berg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Gone are the days when people were publicly hanged for their crimes, but we don’t live in a better society. Just because criminals’ deaths aren’t on full display doesn’t mean they are no longer being slaughtered for something they probably did, but may have not done.

Since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, about 1,500 people have been executed, according to an article from CNN. The Death P e n a l t y Information Center notes that there are over 2,800 people currently on death row, which is far too many. That number should be zero.

Society and the law agree that killing someone is wrong and that no one should be able to decide when to end someone's life, but capital punishment does just that. It’s not any better for a group of people to decide someone deserves to die anymore than it is for one person to make the choice to kill someone. Sentencing someone to the death penalty is no better than killing them yourself.

A big problem I have is if a person is wrongfully convicted and actually innocent. From 2000 to 2011, there was an average of five exonerations per year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. That margin of error is much too large for me to feel comfortable seeing anyone sentenced to death.

Lethal injection is the most common form of capital punishment, and includes anesthesia, so the experience will be a painless and acceptable to the public. A study published in the medical journal, The Lancet, found that most of the people who administer the anesthesia are not medically trained and often do not monitor the amount of anesthesia administered. This means some inmates might experience awareness and suffering during execution. It doesn’t matter what a person did to be put on death row; no one deserves a painful death.

When I express my views on capital punishment people always ask me, ‘If it were you, and someone killed your whole family? Wouldn’t you want to see them die?’ I don’t believe that seeing another human beings life end

would bring me comfort. According to deathpenalty.org, studies have shown that it is not the best way for families to get closure. Court cases seeking capital punishment can carry on for years and go through a lengthy appeals process, as opposed to one trial that can result in a life in prison. Deathpenalty. org also noted that victims families were more satisfied with the criminal justice system and experienced higher levels of physical, psychological, and behavioral health when the convicted was sentenced to life in prison rather than death. I’ve never once thought the world would be better if we just murdered a person, and if they’re locked up in prison and will never be released, is it really that different? A better alternative is life without parole, which is also less expensive. According to the Death Penalty Information Center a capital punishment trial costs 300 percent more than a normal one, in Kansas.

In California, which has the largest death penalty system in the United States, it costs $90,000 more per year to house, feed and guard a death row inmate than a general population prisoner.

Furthermore, it is also expensive to obtain lethal injection drugs, and the cost is increasing. According to an article from the Associated Press, the cost to obtain the drugs in Virginia increased from $525 per execution to $16,500 in just a year. If a prisoner is sentenced to life without parole, they will never get out and taxpayers won’t have to pay for death row’s pricey housing costs or the medication needed to kill someone. That saves a lot of money, and a lot of lives.

Finally, there is no proof that having capital punishment will lower the homicide rate or deter murder, according to a study by the National Research Council of the National Academics. So if it doesn’t help to kill people, money and resources should not be wasted to do so. Not to mention, killing someone in any sense is wrong. If we as a society find it acceptable to kill someone who we deem has done something punishable by death, that could signal to the average person that they can do the same, and that’s how we got in this situation in the first place.

Taxpayer money shouldn’t buy tables

By Tate Jones STAFF WRITER

Higher-ups in the federal government have been cashing in on taxpayer money for their own personal benefit for years. It is a disrespectful way to treat the public’s money.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson’s office ordered a $31,000 customized dining set with government funds, according to usatoday. com. Honestly, no one really needs a dining set that costs more than my semester at college. According to the Office of Personnel Management’s Executive Pay Schedule, Carson makes $210,700 annually. With the amount of money he makes, he could have purchased the table out of his own pocket instead of taxpayer money.

Carson made an official statement saying “We were told there was a $25,000 budget that had to be used by a certain time or it would be lost. “ I find two problems with this: First, the budget was exceeded by $6,000 when the table was purchased; Second, there was a budget for $25,000 in the first place.

Carson claims that he had no idea the table was purchased, but that is no excuse. He is still responsible for his staff members.

However, Carson is currently trying to cancel the table order after an investigation was opened, according to The New York Times. Although the cancellation may not be processed because the contractor who is building the table already spent $14,000 on it.

Unsurprisingly, this is not the first irresponsible use of taxpayers’ money.

Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price resigned amid criticism of his use of taxpayer-funded chartered flights that cost roughly $400,000 for Price and his staff members.

When facing scrutiny, Price apologized and promised to back pay the government funds. However, according to The Washington Post, Price paid back approximately $52,000 in a check to the federal government which only covered the cost for his seat on the flights and not his staffs.

Officials such as Carson and Price are part of the reason that taxpayers are losing trust in the federal government.

I would not fault anyone for believing that we are misrepresented by our own government after stunts like these.

All of their issues would have been easily solved if they had just learned to write checks from their own bank accounts. Taxpayers would probably prefer that rather than almost overspending just because Carson had worn out chairs in his office.

Our hard-earned money should not be used to buy things like overly expensive furniture and chartered flights. Officials need to learn to spend tax dollars ethically and responsibly, or spend their own money.

LGBT media: Vital to youth

Representation in mainstream media is vital to young people because it normalizes LGBT culture and encourages the youth to accept their identity

By Shayla Cabalan STAFF WRITER My first crush was on Velma Dinkley from “Scooby Doo,” an innocent crush that was abandoned immediately when I was told, in no friendly terms, that my feelings were incorrect because she was also a girl. I was five.

Despite being explicitly reprimanded for those feelings, they obviously did not go away. I reached adolescence in an almost permanent state of cognitive dissonance, trying to reconcile my queer identity with the one that wore pleated skirts and went to Catholic school. Isolated from any explicit exposure to the LGBT community, I thought I was the only one in the whole world who felt same-sex attraction.

A Time magazine issue from 2010 changed that. The cover detailed Gay Days, an event hosted by Disney World that focused on LGBT visibility, which, according to the article, rapidly became one of the largest gay-pride events in the world. I remember keeping this particular issue from my mother, tucked away beneath my bed, some nights I would pull it out and re-read it, fixated on the word “gay” and my sudden attraction to it. I was 12.

From then on, I held onto any piece of LGBT representation that I could.

Back then, representation for a queer youth was sparse. Most of what I had was representation from darker TV shows that either killed off their LGBT characters or neglected them entirely. As the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has repeatedly pointed out, this type of representation is negative, and perpetuates the idea that there are no happy endings for queer characters— and by extension, queer individuals.

I tell this story because times have changed. March 16 saw the release of “Love, Simon,” a coming-ofage story focused on a gay character, marketed specifically towards queer youth. This is staggering because many queer individuals didn’t have representation like that growing up.

As Nick Robinson, the actor for the movie’s main character, told Fox News, “I think representation is crucial. It’s so important to see people who look like you, and act like you. To see stories that you can relate to because it’s what makes you feel not crazy or not alone.”

As a testimony to this, a girl I mentored in high school came out via social media after seeing “Love, Simon.” She said that seeing herself represented on the big screen gave her the confidence to unabashedly be herself.

Queer representation is necessary for situations like this. However, while LGBT representation is important in general, representation for youth is in-

From then on, I held onto any piece of LGBT representation that I could.

finitely more so.

Today, numerous children’s shows have LGBT representation, such as Cartoon Network’s “Steven Universe” and Disney Channel’s (admittedly more subtle) “Star vs the Forces of Evil.”

Queer musical artists like Hayley Kiyoko and Kehlani are climbing the

music charts. Video games such as “The Sims” and the most recent “Harvest Moon” feature options that allow the player to be queer. The rise of digital media has resulted in easier access to queer content for queer individuals. It’s a very different environment from the one that made me hide magazines under my bed.

This queer representation in all forms of media is important and should continue to grow in the future. Young queers deserve to have themselves represented in media in a positive light, deserve to have their identities normalized, and above all, deserve to know that things truly do get better.

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Stephen “Stevoncé” Cox performed “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” by Shania Twain and emceed the show.

Photo by Kyle McGinnis

Zech “Miraja Monet” Saenz performed as Sandy in a “Grease” remix. This was his second performance.

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Destiny Heugel (left) and Clayton Rardon (right) performed “Bop to the Top” from “High School Musical” and were also taught to emcee the event for next year.

Bruno and the Boyz was one of two groups that competed for the Best Group award. They performed a “Finesse” mix that included songs like “Finesse “ by Cardi B and Bruno Mars and “Bump and Grind” by R. Kelly.

Cody “Pri Mary” Coovert (center) performed “Bossy” with two drag kings, including OJ “Damon Dukes” Moor (left). Coovert regularly performs and dresses in drag.

Drag show highlights talent and diversity The 12th annual Drag Show featured stand-up comedy acts, musical performances by drag kings, queens to raise money for Indiana Youth Group

By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR Blue and green lights illuminated the stage as Beyonce’s “Run the World” filled the Ransburg Auditorium. Stevoncé, clad in a yellow dress, appeared before the crowd for his third year as emcee.

The crowd gets bigger and better each year according to third year graduate Anthony Jackson, and every year the drag show gets bigger and better.

UIndy PRIDE and Alpha Psi Omega came together to host the 12th Annual Drag Show on March 23. The 12 acts were a combination of stand-up comedy, dancing and lip syncing while in drag.

Audience members were encouraged to tip performers during the show, and the $680.20 raised was donated to Indiana Youth Group, a nonprofit LGBT organization, according to PRIDE CoPresident Noah Hinkley.

The show opened up with a dance and lip sync to a “Finesse” mix from the group Bruno and the Boyz. Other acts included Miraja Monet and Vic Titious, who performed a “Grease” remix, a stand-up routine from Missy Shades and Clayton Rardon and Destiny Heugel performed “Bop to the Top” as Ryan and Sharpay from “High School Musical.”

The show also featured a special guest performance from professional drag queen Boy Gorge who lip synced and

danced to a Lady Gaga mix.

The event was emceed by APO president and senior theatre major Stephen Cox, whose stage name is “Stevoncé.”

This year, he based his entertainment on the fact that it would be his last year hosting the drag show. He was joined by Rardon and Heugel to “teach” them how to emcee.

Cox said the positive reaction from the crowd inspired him to continue hosting the drag show and that emceeing is special to him.

“I will absolutely miss hosting the drag show,” Cox said. “Making people smile and laugh is a very special thing, and I will miss that greatly.… I’m confident that Clayton and Destiny will be able to make the drag show their own.”

Each year, the drag show is judged by a panel of UIndy faculty, alumni and professional drag queens, who choose winners in a variety of categories. This year, a new award for fan favorite was introduced, and audience members were encouraged to vote online for their favorite act. Cody Coovert, known as Pri Mary, performed “Bossy” and became the first drag queen to win the award for fan favorite. Daisy Gray, also

known as Will Power, won the Best King award, while Cox won the award for Best Queen. Cox said that winning the award was just a cherry on top to his great time at the drag show, and the win came as a surprise.

“Winning actually felt kind of odd, because even without the title and the crown, I felt like a winner from the very beginning,” Cox said. “The love and positive energy I receive from the audiences before, during and after the show is a one-of-a-kind feeling.”

This year, Jackson’s group, Areola Grande and the Tits, won the Best Group award by performing “One Last Time/All My Love.” Jackson said that winning felt like the world to him.

“Winning Best Group made me re-appreciate why I was doing it [the drag show],” Jackson said. “My friends are awesome, and we made a great team effort to give that awesome product.”

Traditionally, the decision to dress up as a king or queen is based on gender. For other performers, such as junior visual communication design major OJ Moor, the choice to dress as king or queen is up to the performer. Moor said that for a non-binary performer like themself, the

decision is not any easy one because of gender identity. Moor said that the drag show is a way to help performers explore their gender, but is also a way for them to educate others in a fun way. Moor typically dresses up as a drag king. This year, Moor, known as Damon Dukes in drag, performed a classic rendition of “Stacy’s Mom.” “For non-binary performers, such as myself, it’s more so just an entertainment persona and the gender is up to them,” Moor said. “There are even performers who don’t identify with a gender that’s just a bigger version of who they see themselves…I know a lot of individuals who float the gender spectrum.”

While the drag show raises money for at-risk LGBT youth, it also allows students such as Cox and Jackson to express themselves. Jackson believes that the drag show is special. He has been participating in the drag show for seven years and said that he spent a little over a month and a half practicing and choreographing a routine with his friends this year. The drag show is something that he looks forward to doing every year, Jackson said, because it allows people to see how accepting the university is of the LGBT community. However, Jackson said that he does sometimes face criticism for doing drag, but he’s learned to accept the negative comments and questions and continues to have fun.

“I’m just a gay man. That’s literally it.

And I have fun dressing up like a woman once a year,” Jackson said.

Like Jackson, Cox said he believes that the drag show is important to UIndy and its community. Cox has been participating in UIndy’s Drag Show for three years. Because he came from a small, conservative town and struggled with his sexuality in high school and his first year of college, Cox said the drag show allows him to express himself in ways that he cannot on a day-to-day basis.

“Drag to me is like a safe space,” Cox said. “One of the biggest things I love about UIndy is that it’s a space to allow you to be who you are and live out who you are.”

Cox believes that being involved with the LGBT community is important for those in it and the people outside of it because of the hardships and discrimination that they face every day. Cox said one of his favorite aspects of UIndy is how diverse the campus is, not just because of the LGBT community but also because of the number of international students who attend the university and the different religions at UIndy.

“I think it [the drag show] is a commitment to a promise of diversity on campus,” Cox said. “The drag show highlights how incredibly diverse the university is. And it shows the positive impact [it has] to our students and our faculty.”

was to teach people to make smart decisions and learn why it is not safe to drink and drive.

“Even though people [students] are laughing at this event, in real life those are not going to be laughs but hurt families and people,” Mobley said. “I think it’s a great program to show people what damages [drinking and driving] can cause.”

The campus police instructed students as they went through various drinking tests wearing goggles of different ranges from under to over the legal drinking limit. The drinking tests were known as sobriety tests and the purpose was to see if the students could pass without receiving a ticket.

According to Mobley the highest tolerance of goggles they provided was .17 percent to .20 percent blood alcohol content, which is about three times the legal limit. The lowest was a .07 percent, which is one below Indiana’s legal limit of .08 percent. Mobley said that students struggled with the lowest set of goggles, which proves that it only takes a little bit of alcohol to cause issues.

Students started at the driving course where they had to drive a golf cart through an obstacle course wearing the goggles. After completing the

course, participants were directed to an officer running the sobriety tests. First, they would start off with walking heel to toe in a line, then balancing on one foot until the officer told them to stop. According to junior communication major Madarrell Murphy, he struggled with the course but still enjoyed the event.

“Driving the golf-cart [was] the hardest [and] best part,” Murphy said.

“I think it was a fun event. I had on the goggles that were over the legal limit and I couldn’t even see.”

Moelk said that the tests were difficult. She tested the driving course and hit one cone, despite wearing goggles below the legal limit.

“I did the driving test, I passed,” said Moelk. “I was pretty proud of myself but it’s difficult for sure and I think it’s a good lesson for anyone who takes part in drinking and driving.”

According to Mobley, the dangers behind drinking and driving are more severe than they were portrayed during the event. People can lose a lot from just driving under the influence. “[Students] don’t want that day to come where they regret their decision,” Mobley said. “I’ve had to go to families and let them know that a love one has died because of drinking and driving.

They have to go to jail and face that for the rest of their life. They have to sit in a cell and think about that, rather than be free [and] have a career. It’s not worth it.”

Moelk said that it is not in the interest of the school to prevent students from going out but to keep them safe while they are in the school’s care.

“I think making good decisions before you even go out for a night with

your friends [is smart],” Moelk said.

“Making sure that you have a designated driver or making sure that you have the number for Uber or Lyft. Obviously, the safest would be not to drink at all.

I don’t think that necessarily realistic.

And for people who are 21 [years old], it’s legal and enjoyable so, I’m not trying to make anyone not have fun. I want to make sure people are being safe with what they are doing.”

“The love and positive energy I receive from the audience...is a one-of-a-kind feeling.”

Event teaches dangers of drinking and driving

By BreAnnah Nunn STAFF WRITER

In hopes of keeping students safe on and off campus the Title IX team put together the Impaired Driving event to teach people about the effects of drinking and driving. The event was held by Director of Student Support and Title IX Coordinator Anne Moelk and Campus Police.

The campus police led the event by running participants through sobriety tests and monitoring them as they drove golf carts through the obstacle course wearing drunk goggles.

According to Moelk, the event was held to encourage students to protect themselves and others around them as part of the protect, advocate, communicate and transform (PACT) aspect of the Title IX program.

“Drinking and driving is not a healthy thing to do,” Moelk said. “We want to make sure people [students] can get an understanding of what it might be like to drink and drive, and realize what a bad choice is it without actually getting injured or arrested.”

According to Campus Police Officer Matthew Mobley, the goal of the event

Photo by BreAnnah Nunn

At the Impaired Driving Event, students, like junior communication major Madarrell Murphy (above) wore drunk goggles and attempted to drive a golf-cart through a course and complete a variety of sobriety tests.

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of the Sease Wing of the Krannert Memorial Library. Faculty members are also in need in space, as many do not have an on-campus office, Clark said. With Art & Design moving into their own building, the additional space in CDFAC will allow for additional classrooms, practice rooms and faculty offices and will also help with recruiting.

Clark said that she is thrilled that university is listening to the needs of its departments and programs.

“We’ve been talking about it for a long time,” Clark said. “But to actually see the university take the next step is a vote of confidence, for one thing, that they believe that we do need the space.

That they see how diligently we work, the quality of the students that we are able to graduate and get out and get jobs in the profession and who are making a difference out there. It’s just a great next step for the university.”

Viewegh said that he is looking forward to having the room for each concentration to have their own space so the program can expand and students can work on a larger scale. Currently, some of the classrooms are being used for multiple courses, levels, concentrations and as spaces for students to store their ongoing projects and materials.

According to senior studio art major Auna Winters, the ceramics studio is utilized by non-majors and beginning and advanced level students. Junior studio art major Lauren Raker said that the woodworking studio is crowded by the necessary equipment and that students usually choose to work outside when possible. She said that it is difficult to work in spaces shared by so many students.

“There’s just no separation between different levels and different courses and people who are art majors versus not,” Raeker said. “It’s hard to keep track of our things sometimes because there’s so many people in and out of the room.”

Because of the lack of space, the department has to use every available room that they have. According to senior studio art major Kalia Daily, the Community Immersion in the Arts course takes place in the only space available in the building, a closet on the first floor. Several other concentrations have to share spaces. According to Daily, the drawing and printmaking

studios share a room, which makes it difficult for students to find the time and space to work.

There is no designated space for photography students either, junior studio art major Kyle Agnew said. They share their space with the animation program and have limited access to the Mac lab in the building. Daily said that the new space has been a long time coming.

“Even before we were here, space has been something that we needed desperately for a long time...we’ve shoved just about as much as we can into the space we’re given,” Daily said. “And it’s really not just about us. We’re sharing the [new] building with engineering and that way music can have this building because they’ve grown just as much as we have. I think it’s definitely a good thing and hopefully it attracts more people to not only our undergrad program but our master’s programs as well.”

Even though they will not be able to take advantage of the new spaces, Daily, Agnew, Winters and Raker all said that they are excited for students to have the opportunity to create without being crowded into rooms or having to work around other concentrations’ class schedules.

The School of Engineering will also be able to expand their programs into the new spaces, which will help to accommodate the projected growth in their enrollment. When contacted, Sanchez was unavailable to comment due to new faculty interviews.

Overall, students and faculty in the affected departments are excited to have the space to work, practice, learn and expand their programs. Viewegh and Clark said that the purchasing of the two buildings shows that the university is supporting and listening to the needs of growing programs.

“I think these new buildings show a real commitment of the university to programs that are growing and have potential,” Viewegh said. “ The president has seen that and he’s acted upon that and he’s helping us do what we can do, which is we need space, because we’re already being successful as a program, as you can see by our growth, so he’s understood that potential and now he’s helping us by giving us a space that we can grow into.”

the candidate also has obligations to both universities.

“The UIndy Law Scholar is expected to serve as a liaison between UIndy and IU McKinney,” Root said. “This mainly means participating in campus visits and promoting IU McKinney as a UIndy alum, but could also include other events such as representing IU McKinney at IU Law Day.” The process of establishing the Law Scholars program occurred in the fall of last year. Root, an alumnus of IU McKinney, had developed an integral relationship with their assistant dean of recruitment, who told him about other law scholar programs they had established with other schools.

When asked by IU McKinney if he wanted to establish one at UIndy, Root immediately said yes. Dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Andrew Klein said he agrees that the establishment of the program will benefit both universities.

“Our institutions have a lot in common,” Klein said. “...We both have a tradition of trading students who engage in public service, and so I think it’s an excellent match between our institutions.”

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P. Young fellowship from Breadloaf, according to his biography.

His poetry collection, “Hustle,” received the New England Book Festival prize in poetry, the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award and $10,000 as an honorable mention from the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral Prize.

In March 2018, Martinez published his second collection of poetry, “Post Traumatic Hood Disorder,” which incorporates themes such as masculinity through his use of alliteration and form.

Martinez read two unpublished poems, “Dad Joke” and “A Letter from DTM,” which encompasses his idea of masculinity being benign and non-toxic. “[Masculinity] is a big part of “Hustle” and “Post Traumatic Hood Disorder.” I think particularly right now it is important, as a man, to address and investigate what masculinity is,” Martinez said. “I don’t believe in toxic masculinity. I don’t think masculinity

is a bad thing but the implementation of masculinity can be harmful when it is used to control or oppress others. It’s [masculinity] benign. I’m not afraid of my masculinity but that doesn’t mean I have to adhere to a strict sense of it [masculinity].”

According to sophomore psychology major Dioneth Salas, hearing Martinez’s performance was a very unique experience. She said that listening to Martinez read his work captured her interest in poetry.

“The reading was very fresh and unique,” Salas said. “Most people don’t speak that informally [with profanity] and it made it to where readers could relate more to his work. I really loved the topics he addressed in his poetry.”

Junior professional writing major Joe Fields said that it was interesting to listen to Martinez read his poetry because it helped create a connection between the written word and the backstory of the poem.

“Hearing Martinez’s inflections and tone throughout his poetry really brought out the story behind the meaning of the poem and [the reading] did it justice,” Fields said. “My favorite poem from Martinez is Fractal [from Post Traumatic Hood Disorder]. It was as if you were looking through a kaleidoscope. He created a cascade of nature, memories and self-reflection. It was extraordinary.”

Both Fields and Salas said that the ability to engage with published authors is important because it gives readers an opportunity to learn more behind the collection of work as well as the author.

“Not many people get to experience that,” Salas said. “Having the Kellogg’s Writers Series on campus is incredibly important because [by] hearing the author talk and explain their work, you are able to understand the true meaning of the work, which could have been interpreted differently than they [the author] intended and not many have that type of opportunity.”

For the last Kellogg’s Writers Series event, the 2018 Whirling Prize winning authors Phillip B. Williams and Alexander Weinstein will read on Wednesday, April 18 on the Krannert Memorial Library second floor at 6:30 p.m.

“...To actually see the university take the next step is a vote of confidence...”

Photos by Cassie Reverman

Students like senior communication major Michael Schindel (top) and junior Kiley Harmon (bottom) attended the timeline portion of the event, which aimed to share stories of immigration from the campus community.

By Alexis Stella BUSINESS & DISTRIBUTION MANAGER The University Series Lectures and Performances hosted “Finding Our Places in the Story of Immigration,” and “Hearing the Voices of Dreamers” in the Schwitzer Student Center McCleary Chapel on March 20. Both events focused on the continuing debate about undocumented immigrants and the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program rescinded

by President Donald Trump last year.

University of Indianapolis alumnus Isaias Guerrero and guest speaker Guadalupe Pimentel shared their personal stories of being undocumented immigrants as well as discussed the importance of speaking out and being a voice for other undocumented immigrants.

“We speak for the voiceless,” Pimentel said. “We want to help you find your voice so that you can share your voice. Because we all have voices that we really believe the empowerment of it.”

The University Series Lectures and Performances focus primarily on two learning goals this year: critical thinking and social responsibility, according to Vice President of Mission and co-chair of the University S e r i e s Committee M i c h a e l Cartwright.

Cartwright said that the committee hopes that by selecting themes that raise awareness of emerging trends and ask critical questions regarding the issues of DACA, new expectations and social responsibility will be addressed on a grand scale.

“What the unexpected turns of the conversation about immigration has taken is about what we understand the citizenship to mean, where the conversation is dominated by legal versus illegal,” Cartwright said. “The struggle ends up seeming like it’s all or nothing. However, when we refocus the conversation around what is—as Guerrero calls it—a cultural definition of citizenship, then we can begin to see how some undocumented Americans already exercise their responsibilities of citizenship and where we have friends and neighbors who are undocumented who are already exercising the responsibilities of citizenship.

We cannot help [but] to see ourselves as like them, culturally speaking citizens, and in that context understand.”

Pimentel was born in Cordoba, Veracruz in Mexico and migrated to the United States on her seventh birthday with her family in hopes of a better future. Pimentel said she was unaware of her status as an undocumented immigrant until she was filling out her 21st Century Scholars application.

Through the help of a scholarship, Pimentel graduated last fall with a degree in media and public affairs from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Pimentel is a founding member of the Indiana Undocumented Youth Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on providing resources to undocumented youth. She also works as a legal assistant specializing in immigration law.

Pimentel talked about how she and

a few peers fought and advocated for the Development, Relief, And Education For Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act. Pimentel said that she and other advocates went to speak with former governor Mitch Daniels to discuss the issues with past legislation that prohibited colleges from providing scholarship or grant aid to undocumented immigrants. “[On] May 9, 2011, six individuals— including myself—participated in a civil disobedience and were arrested in the office of [former governor] Mitch Daniels because we asked to meet with him,” Pimentel said. “We wanted to meet with him so he could see our stories, because we wanted him to see that those bills would directly affect us, but he refused to meet with us.”

Pimentel said that many undocumented immigrants find sharing their experiences and personal stories difficult.

“I think that a lot of those who are undocumented go through this struggle of sharing the aspect of their story, because our stories are criminalized,” Pimentel said. “And there is a negative connotation with individuals that cross the border. Trump ran his campaign on that basis.”

Guerrero said he migrated from Colombia with his family when he was only 15 years old, attended school in Greenwood and graduated from UIndy in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and international relations. He said he currently works at the Center for Community Change, for the coalition of 44 immigrant rights organizations across the United States that protect the dignity and policies that help undocumented immigrants across the country.

Guerrero spoke about the responsibility he feels as an undocumented immigrant to speak for the estimated 800,000 undocumented immigrants in the United States. He said speaking out helps provide hope for a better tomorrow. Guerrero also said that it is important for those who are undocumented to respond in a way that does not mitigate the bigger issues of current immigration laws and not focus solely on DACA. Junior biology major Auy Rueangnopphasit attended “Finding our Places in the Story of Immigration,” an interactive timeline that presented immigration history spanning back five generations. At the event, students shared their own stories of immigration by placing sticky notes on the dates when their families immigrated to the United States. Rueangnopphasit said that it is important for students, regardless of where they are from, to pay more attention to others’ stories and be aware of the ongoing immigration situation.

“The timeline pushed a more positive aspect of DACA because it showed that immigration isn’t focused only on Hispanic immigrants but allows us to see that we are all immigrants at one point or another,” Rueangnopphasit said. “We all need to pay more attention to these issues because it [immigration] affects more than just one life. It affects thousands.”

“...There is a negative connotation with individuals that cross the border.”

ROOT Candidates for the Law Scholar award must have completed an application for both the award and for IU McKinney by March 1 of the year in which they are applying to law school. From there, the Law Scholar Committee, which consists of three members, will submit its nomination to IU McKinney by April 1.

For the 2018-2019 academic year, two UIndy 2017 graduates, Jason Marshall and Jimmy Sedam, have been named Law Scholars.

“I am proud,” Klein said. “Two really strong Indianapolis institutions have come together and found a way to join forces and encourage people to pursue paths that will create leaders in our community and do good things for the public.”

Poet reads from new collection

Award winning poet David Tomas Martinez performed his poetry collection on April 4 in Schwitzer Student Center Trustees Dining Room. Assistant Professor of English Barney Haney began the event by thanking those involved in the Kelloggs Writers Series program and introduced Martinez and his poetry collection.

“David Tomas Martinez’s poems are a shrive of culture and craft,” Haney said. “He questions Mexican masculinity, what is Mexican enough [and] who loves enough. Masculinity is viewed through irony’s lens. ” Martinez was born and raised in San Diego, Calif. and is the recipient of the 2017 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Verlaine Poetry Prize and the Stanley

Photo by Kiuno Cann

After the reading students like freshman psychology major Mariana Rosendo (right) had a chance to meet David Tomas Martinez (left). Rosendo said she related to some of his subject matter and enjoyed the reading.

SPORTS

THE REFLECTOR

5 APRIL 11, 2018

Softball gets back to the basics Frost says that the team is working on getting back to the basics after recent losses to UIS and plans to continue focusing on the post season

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR After falling to the University of Illinois-Springfield Prairie Stars in both games of the double header on April 7, Head Softball Coach Melissa Frost said that the team is getting back to the basics. Both teams were tied for first in the GLVC, each with 10 wins and two losses in conference games.

After giving up both games in the double header, UIS took the first place slot in the GLVC and left UIndy with an overall record of 26-8.

In the first game, the Hounds fell 7-1 to the Prairie Stars. The Hounds scored their lone run in the 3rd inning with an RBI by senior outfielder Jessie Noone, while Illinois Springfield scored all seven of their runs in the 6th inning.

In the second game of the day, the Hounds put more runs on the board, but still fell to the Prairie Stars. The Hounds led for most of the first five innings, before the Prairie Stars pulled ahead, winning 11-8.

Junior infielder Taylor Podschweit said that the Prairie Stars are a strong hitting team, which made it difficult to hold their number of runs batted in.

“I know in the past, they were hitting us last year, so they have some really good players on the team,” Podschweit said. “They have a really good pitcher, coach [Frost] said. So we’re really just dialing in, making sure that we keep hitting the ball hard, putting the ball in play, and letting them make mistakes.”

On March 30, the Greyhounds played two games against the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Rangers, who going into the games, Podschweit said was on a winning streak.

“We came in, we knew that they were beating good teams,” Podschweit said.

“Coach [Frost] said they’re an average team at best, but they were doing well.

They were on the up and coming.”

UIndy scored first in game one, loading the bases and scoring two runs off an RBI walk from freshman infielder Gianni Iannantone and a sacrifice fly from Podschweit in the bottom of the second. The Rangers responded at the top of the second, scoring three, and the Hounds tied the score at the bottom of the fourth off a double from Noone and a single from Podschweit.

An unearned run from Parkside at

the top of the fifth put them in the lead.

With the following three innings scoreless, the game ended 4-3 in favor of the Rangers.

According to Podschweit, the team was hitting, but leaving too many runners on base. Frost said that the team played less than average in their first game.

“We just did not play well,” Frost said.

“We just did not play UIndy softball and it really showed and, unfortunately, on the scoreboard it showed as well.”

The Hounds came back in their second game of the day, defeating the Rangers 5-4. Once again, the Hounds scored first in the bottom of the second with a home run hit by freshman catcher Taylor Danielson, but allowed the Rangers to earn four runs at the top of the third. The remainder of the game remained scoreless for the Rangers, but UIndy added four at the bottom of the 6th off a home run from Iannantone and hits from Danielson and freshman pitcher Haylie Foster.

With four weekends left in the regular season, the team has started to look forward to the post-season. Podschweit said that she is looking forward to seeing the team compete.

“I don’t want to think too far ahead, but I have all the confidence in the world that this team is going to make it far in the postseason, as long as we keep doing our thing every single weekend, each game,” Podschweit said. “...This is a fun team to be on. Everybody gets along well. Everybody is so positive. And everybody works their butt of every single day, so I’m looking forward to that.”

On April 14, the Hounds will face the Truman State University Bulldogs at Baumgartner Field. The game also coincides with the annual Team Liam Day, played for Liam Ealy, the nephew of alumna Megan Slightom, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Frost said that she hopes people come out to support Ealy and the team.

“What a great day and a great cause to play for,” Frost said. “[You] really just realize how lucky student athletes are to be able to participate once you see this young man who is just amazing, and his family is amazing, so hopefully people just come out and support.”

Next the Hounds will travel to Romeoville, Ill. for double header against the Lewis University Flyers. The games will begin at 1 p.m.

Photo by Kyle McGinnis

The University of Indianapolis softball team supports the Muscular Dystrpohy Association through its annual Team Liam Day. The team honored Liam Early, nephew of alumna Megan Slightorn, who suffers from the disease. The team sells shirts, wears special jerseys and raises funds to donate to those with muscular dystrophy.

Photo by Kyle McGinnis

Sophomore pitcher and utility Lauren Honkomp led the team, pitching all seven innings of the first game of the double-header against Bellarmine University and racking up four strike outs and winning 2-1. The following game, the women won again with a score of 6-3 with five strike outs from freshman pitcher Haylie Foster.

Upcoming Games

Greyhound Sports Update

Baseball April 12: Ohio Dominican University

April 17: Purdue University Northwest

Men’s Golf

April 22-24: GLVC Championship Tournament

Photo by Cassie Reverman

Photo by Brenden Melvin

Women’s Lacrosse

Men’s Lacrosse

L 9-15 W 20-11 W 20-11 L 9-15

L 4-13 March 28 against Lake Erie College W 12-2 March 31 against The University of Montevallo W15-4 April 7 against Maryville University “I think the guys are trying to learn from the mistakes that they’ve made,” Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Greg Stocks said. “I don’t think we’ve had the season we would have liked to have had so far. We’re going back and trying to make the changes and adjustments that are needed to improve on what we’re doing.”

March 31 at Tiffin University

April 4 against McKendree University April 8 at Concordia University St. Paul

Photo by Kyle McGinnis

Baseball

0-4 March 30-31 against Bellarmine University 0-4 April 7-8 at University Illinois-Springfield

April 6: Northern Michigan University

“We’ve had a very smooth sailing so far, with this past weekend we’ve had a little adversity, but great teams have come from losses,” Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach James Delaney said. “It’s [the season] isn’t the way we scripted it, but we’ve definitely grown and become better from the two losses. We’re looking to get back to what made us successful and be a little more blue collar and have more of a grip.”

Men’s Tennis Women’s Tennis

“I’m proud of the guys and the way we’ve started off this season,” Assistant Baseball Coach Al Ready said. “I can’t say enough about this group of guys. They’re good kids.

This season is going to be a special one for us.”

Men’s Golf

Women’s Golf

W 8-1 March 25 against McKendree

W 9-0 March 25 against McKendree

1st /23 March 26-27 at Findlay Spring

2nd/17 March 26-27 at The Barry

W 9-0 W 8-1 April 6 against Lewis UniverW 9-0 April 7 against University of

L 3-6 W 6-3 March 30 at Bellarmine University W 8-1 April 7 against University of

5th/14

1st/6

“I think we are having a great season,” Head Tennis Coach Malik Tabet said. “The players are meshing, they are competing tough. I think we have a big shot at winning the regular season, eventually conference.”

“We talked about changes we need to make, mainly mental changes,” Head Tennis Coach Malik Tabet said. “I felt good after the meeting and felt the players were very receptive to changes that we expect to get back to our level.”

The University of Indianapolis men’s golf team is looking toward the GLVC Championships on April 22-24, where they placed 2nd out of 14 teams.

University March 30 at Bellarmine University

Illinois-Springfield

University April 6 against Lewis Univer-

Invitational April 1-2 at University of Wisconsin Parkside Spring Invitational

Invitational

April 2-3 at The Fort Wayne Spring Classic

Illinois-Springfield

The women placed first in each tournament of the season, until The Barry Invitational where they tied for second place. The team is looking toward another trip to the NCAA DII Championships in May.

Women’s Golf April 14-15: Lady Buckeye Spring Invitational April 27-29: GLVC Championship Tournament

Men’s Lacrosse

April10: Linenwood University April 21: Rockhurst University

Women’s Lacrosse

April 13: Grand Valley State University April 15: Tiffin University

Men’s Tennis April 13: University of Southern Indiana

Women’s Tennis

April 13: University of Southern Indiana

Softball

April 11: Ohio Dominican University April 14: Truman State University

FEATURE

6 THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 11, 2018

New opportunities for a new generation With nearly 40 percent of the incoming fall class being first generation college students, UIndy plans scholarships, programs and special attention

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR With approximately 40 percent of the incoming class of 2019 being first generation college students, it is imperative that the University of Indianapolis offers the proper outlets and materials to help those students succeed, according to Executive Vice President and Provost Stephen Kolison.

“The challenge and opportunity for first generation college student is that you don’t have that natural cushion before you come to college,” Kolison said.

“For example, say your parents went to college, that push; it’s almost an expectation [to go to college]. So you don’t have that [if your parents did not go to college]. You get that from other places. That can impact the ambition to get a college degree, as well as if you succeed once you get to college. Those are things that studies have shown. First generation students have those unique challenges, but that’s not to say that they cannot be successful.”

Sophomore psychology major Brooke Lightfoot said that she is a first

generation college student, and although her parents did not have the opportunity to go to college, they pushed her to keep up with her grades and participate in extracurricular activities so that she would have that opportunity when the time came.

“My family was never really forced or given the opportunities to go to college, but when I was growing up my parents made it a goal of theirs to make sure I went to college,” Lightfoot said. “They kept up with my grades and helped me on visits to find the college that was perfect for me. But even if I wasn’t encouraged through my family to go to college I would still go on my own.”

With first generation students taking up such a large population of campus, Registrar Joshua Hayes said that it is important to have resources in place to assist these students, and to understand what their needs are. Hayes did a study

over the course of five years, where he surveyed first generation students and their decision to choose a private school over a large public school. During his study, he surveyed 20 first generation students at Millikin University about their experiences at school, and their decision to complete a post secondary education.

“I don’t think it’s shocking for parents to want better for their students.

So they think, ‘Is there something in my own life that I want for my child that I didn’t have?’” Hayes said.

“So in my study I found that family members of first generation students were very supportive of them going to college. Because they wanted better for their children, or maybe not exactly better, but a different kind of experience for them.”

Hayes also found that the students he surveyed were oftentimes dedicated to their academics as much, if not more than students whose parents went to

“The challenge...is that you don’t have a natural cushion before you come to college.”

48%

of the first-generation students enrolled in a two-year school, compared with

32%

of students whose parents had at least a bachelor’s degree.

48%

of first-generation students attended college part-time, compared with

38%

of students whose parents had at least a bachelor’s degree.

19%

of first-generation students enrolled in for-profit school, compared with

8%

students whose parents had at least a bachelor’s degree.

Sources: http://pnpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ First-Genearation-Students-FINAL-2016.pdf

Graphic by Johana Rosendo

college. He said that the surveyed students felt a sense of pride in that they were not only the first in their family to go to college, but also that they were going to a private university. Hayes also said he found that parents were extremely supportive in their students academic achievements and were willing to support them in any way that they were able, even if not financially.

“Parents who didn’t go to college and are trying to help their student navigate the bureaucracy of college, might not know how to help,” Hayes said.

“They may want to help, but they may not know how. They have very supportive people in their family, but that don’t have that actionable advocacy. So that can be a challenge for first generation students.”

Lightfoot said that having a large family that is invested in and supportive of her success is a big factor in her dedication to her studies. Many of her younger siblings look up to her and admire her academic achievements, according to Lightfoot. It is important to her to set the standard for her siblings to be academically successful so that they follow her example.

“My parents want me to have a better life with better opportunities than them so they still encourage me to go to college even though they didn’t,” Lightfoot said. “My drive to finish college is impacted by the fact that I have little sisters who look up to me. It makes me want to finish and make my family proud and be a good role model.”

Junior art education major Harley Engleking said that her parents were also very academically oriented, despite not attending college themselves. According to Engleking, in her hometown of Seymour the two options are to get out of the town and go to college, or stay for factory work.

Engleking said that she wanted to pursue art education since she was in first grade, and her teacher inspired her through encouraging her in her work.

Even at a young age, her teacher found qualities within her that showed that she was artistically inclined. Engleking said that her passion for education and art drove her to leave her hometown after graduation and pursue higher education so that she could someday become an art teacher.

“I’ve pretty much always wanted to be an art teacher so that’s kind of what made me want to branch out [from my hometown],” Engleking said. “But I did work the factory life for a while over the summer because that was the best work we had, and it had the best pay, so I’ve actually experienced what they’ve done and I can see that it’s something that I don’t want to do for my whole life.”

Engleking said that the effects of watching her parents struggle for money was also a major factor in driving her to

go to college.

“I know that we’ve struggled our whole lives for money, so just knowing their financial situation,” Engleking said. “It was definitely a big push for me to go to college just so that I would have a better job.”

Although her parents are very supportive in her pursuing higher education, Engleking said that she is solely responsible for the financial expenses of college. She said that her family provides the most moral support that they can, but in order to support herself financially, she still has to go home every weekend to work so that she can afford to continue to go to school.

“Coming from the family I do, I have had zero [financial] contribution the entire time I’ve been here, I’ve had to do it all myself,” Engleking said. “I have scholarships, I have loans in my name and everything else is out of my pocket.

So that’s why I work so much. I do the factory thing [over the summer] because aside from being there for me as people, it’s not anything.”

Kolison said that UIndy has multiple programs in place to help students out financially, academically and emotionally, whether they are first generation students or not. He said that programs like the academic success center can help students with their academic state, while scholarships and other financial aid can help students afford the university.

According to Kolison, the way that UIndy is designed—with small class sizes, programs to aid students in multiple ways and professors that are invested in the students—makes it almost impossible for students to slip through the cracks or get lost in the crowd.

“If your parents do not have the level of income that can help you to enroll and remain a student, it’s going to be tough because now you’re not only thinking about your academic success, you’re thinking about your finances,” Kolison said. “So what UIndy does is that it tries everything it can to find financial aid for almost all of our students.

The University is involved in fundraising for scholarships and all other kinds of financial aid to do that. That helps, but it does not mean that the worry is still not there.”

According to Hayes, the programs in place for students at UIndy directly impact and assist first generation students.

“I think the fact that we’re a smaller [school] and we have faculty that are really dedicated and really focused on students success is probably the biggest thing,” Hayes said. “We have caring faculty and staff and we have various programs in place for any student that needs assistance. It’s not actually normal for small private schools like UIndy to have an advising center… I feel like we have some kind of magical recipe for success here.”

Pre-law students earn honors for graduate studies

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR As the semester comes to a close, three of the seven Greyhounds who plan to attend Indiana University McKinney Law School in the fall received exceptional scholarship opportunities this semester.

Senior history and political science major Schuylar Casto received a Kennedy Scholar scholarship from IU McKinney, located on the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Casto is the first UIndy student to receive the honor, which is the top scholarship offered by the law school.

The Kennedy Scholarship, named for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, consists of one year of full tuition, plus an additional $6,000 stipend for living expenses and spring break trip to Washington, D.C. “This came out of left field, honestly,” Casto said. “I was incredibly surprised and blessed. I don’t think I spoke intelligible words when they called to tell me I got it.”

Prior to receiving that call, Casto went through a day-long competition in which 18 candidates were selected to attend the event at the IUPUI campus.

According to Casto, the attendees underwent five rounds of interviews and a dinner at the Skyline Club downtown as part of the assessment.

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Pre-Law Adviser David

Root said that although many students focus on interviews as the most important part of the evaluation process, each event required of students considered for the Kennedy Scholars program is equally important because judges are constantly observing the candidates throughout the day.

According to Root, Casto’s intelligence made him an obvious choice for the Kennedy scholarship.

As a student with a pre-law concentration, Casto said that although he met all the academic qualifications necessary to be eligible for a Kennedy Scholars award, he did not expect to receive one, particularly after meeting his competition.

“There were definitely people [at the competition] where it’s like, ‘Okay, you’re very impressive, I can definitely see you getting that, I definitely want to buddy up to you during this time’ CASTO and make sure I have a study partner later on,” Casto said. “It was very surprising [that I won], and it was kind of nice because I didn’t expect to get it and so I kind of went in with less pressure than a lot of the other people did.”

Like Casto, political science major and December graduate Jason Marshall will attend IU McKinney in the fall.

Marshall, however, was the first recip-

ient of a new partnership program between UIndy and IU McKinney known as the UIndy Law Scholar award.

The partnership was spearheaded by Root, who used contacts from his time studying at IU McKinney to create the scholarship. According to Root, aside from academic achievements, campus leadership is the main prerequisite for the UIndy Law Scholar award.

“The biggest thing for that [UIndy Law Scholar] is campus leadership.

How do you get involved on campus and demonstrate leadership capabilities?” Root said. “He [Marshall]

MARSHALL is a quintessential campus leader. He was involved as the Pre-Law Student Association President, he was President of Indianapolis Student Government, he sat on various committees that were commissioned by the president of the university and the provost. So he was involved in big campus leadership opportunities.”

Due to a conflict with another

scholarship that Marshall received from IU McKinney, however, he will not receive the financial award that comes with winning UIndy Law Scholar. He does, however, retain the title and will act as a liaison between UIndy and IU McKinney.

“Basically, [my responsibility is to] retain that relationship with the school, with the professor, Dr. Root, the prelaw student association,” Marshall explained. “So any events that are linked between UIndy and McKinney, UIndy visits there or McKinney comes and visits the school, and as a representative to talk to the students that are here on campus and to the professor, to keep them informed of what’s going on at that law school to give students perspective on what that law school really is and what’s going on and what it takes to be a student.”

Due to Marshall’s situation, a second SEDAM UIndy student, James Salam, was chosen to also gain the title of UIndy Law Scholar and the monetary award. Salam graduated from UIndy in 2017 as a political science major and plans to enroll in law school at IU McKinney in the fall. Salam said that he was honored to receive the award not only because of t what the UIndy Law Scholar title represents.

“The honor of, first of all, being rec-

ommended to apply [was an honor].

And then being able to be a person who can be a representative of UIndy at IU McKinney as a law student there,” Sedam said. “I don’t take that lightly; I see that as a pretty prestigious honor that I could represent the University of Indianapolis as I go out and continue to work with school. And what it represents to be a Law Scholar means that there was an academic accomplishment and then there was a leadership component that was talked about in the application that does not stop when I leave here but it’s required to continue once I’m at the school.”

Root said that the UIndy Law Scholar award is an opportunity for students and important recruitment tool for the pre-law program on campus.

As the only law school in Indianapolis, IU McKinney allows UIndy students to complete their degree in the city and increases their chances of local job placement.

According to Root, the future alums who will represent UIndy at IU McKinney are an exceptional class, and the three students that earned scholarships are prime examples of that.

“Schuylar, Jason and Jimmy have each earned tremendous awards,” said Root. “They represent a fantastic group of pre-law students moving on in their legal education and professional careers thereafter. We are immensely proud of them and look forward to watching and helping them develop into great lawyers, community leaders and distinguished UIndy alum.”

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Princess program pushes leadership

By Carly Wagers STAFF WRITER

Photo by BreAnnah Nunn

Joseph began running at UIndy in 1978 while training for a marathon and continues to work out on campus.

He said that he returns to campus because of relationships he has made with Greyhounds he has met.

Photo contributed by Rex Joseph

From left: Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard, Carol Joseph, junior center Milos Cabarkapa and Rex Joseph on senior night on Feb. 24. Joseph serves as team chaplain for the UIndy men’s basketball team.

Honorary alumnus staple of UIndy community

By BreAnnah Nunn STAFF WRITER

For the past 40 years, Rex Joseph has been a member the University of Indianapolis community. When Joseph first stepped onto UIndy’s campus in 1978 for the preparation of a marathon he planned to participate in. Joseph, who keeps track of how many miles he runs and walks, has run 10, 500 miles and walked 16,000 miles on UIndy’s campus since 2015.

According to Joseph, he was looking for a place to train when his wife, Carol, told him about Indiana Central College.

The campus was close to his home on the south side, where he still lives today.

Joseph said that he felt welcomed from the moment he stepped onto campus— it was not only a place to exercise, but to make long lasting relationships.

Joseph said that he initially set a goal to run a marathon in all of Indiana’s 92 counties. Only 91, however, held marathons. Joseph said in November 1984, he completed that goal for all of the 91 counties of Indiana and managed to set up his own race for Ohio County in order to achieve his goal.

“Ohio county never had a race; I put on my own race and got 25 people strange enough to come,” Joseph said.

“I still remember we came to the

University of Indianapolis for all of us to get in my van and [travel] down there. It was here [UIndy] where I really got my workout to get ready to do that goal.”

Joseph’s family has continued to encourage him throughout his training.

Joseph said that he has spiritual support from his wife, of more than 50 years, and three children. He said he hopes that he has passed something down to them.

His daughter, Rebecca Wood, has begun to take after her father’s marathon running and said he has encouraged her change her fitness activity in her life.

“Dad has inspired me as a runner,” Wood said. “I am currently trying to run in all 50 states, a marathon or half marathon. I have completed almost half of the states. I love that my Dad has maintained a healthy lifestyle, and he has made exercise a priority in his daily routine.”

According to Wood, while walking around the track has been physically beneficial to her father, the true value of his time at UIndy are his relationships with the students and staff he sees regularly in the fitness facility.

“I believe that his time walking [and]

running around the track has been therapeutic and enjoyable for him,” Wood said. “I know he also enjoys seeing the usual crowd at the fitness facility. Those folks have turned into his family away from family. I know he has always treasured his time at the university.”

When Joseph is not on the track, he works as UIndy men’s basketball team chaplain. For the past five years, Joseph has traveled to home and away games so that he can pray for the team before and after games and support them from the stands.

According to the Head Men’s B a s k e t ball Coach Stan Gouard, Joseph’s influence has had a great impact on the team’s life as well as his own. Gouard said that sometimes he joins Joseph during his walks on the track to pray with him and clear his own mind.

Joseph said that Gouard is one of his closest friends and that the two have always been bonded through their faith.

According to Gouard, this was the reason he asked Gouard to be the team chaplain.

“Five years ago, when I had a daughter who was going through some health

“Those folks have turned into his family away from family.”

problems, he [Gouard] sat down and prayed with me,” Joseph said. “I knew he was a Christian man and he said to me, in 2013, “Would you like to be the team chaplain?” So, for every home game and all the away ones, I’d go into the locker room beforehand and give the devotion.”

Gouard said that in addition to his personal bond with Joseph, he is appreciative of the guidance and support that Joseph makes available to the team.

“Rex serves as our team’s chaplain and my brother in Christ,” Gouard said.

“He’s a really good friend of mine and we often share some good times together. There’s been times where we’ve had guys that needed an outside ear to listen to.”

Over the decades, Joseph has left his mark on UIndy’s campus. Consequently, according to Joseph, he was named an honorary UIndy Alumnus in 1986. According to Joseph, his relationship with UIndy has contributed massively to the life he lives today beyond just his physical wellness.

“It was exercising here at University of Indianapolis and alternating my diet that led me to be where I am today,” Joseph said. “The connection has been all the coaches, the students, the administers, and I have just been so blessed to know so many of these people.”

This year is the 102nd anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, an annual three day event that takes place in late May. When the winning driver enters the Victory Circle, cheering from the sidelines will be friends, family and a few princesses—33 princesses to be exact.

Each year, 33 female college students are selected for a scholarship program called the “Indy 500 Princess Program.”

This spring, one of the princesses is senior biology and psychology major Lauren Bryant.

The winners serve as ambassadors for Indianapolis at the festival, and each receives a $1,000 scholarship for her education alongside networking and volunteer opportunities. What makes this pageant stand out, according to Bryant, is that the qualifications are not based on physical appearance—the contest has no pageant portion.

“They [the judges] really just cared about why I wanted to show people basically that I love Indiana, I love my city, I love my state,” Bryant said, “and how I’ve shown that in the past through my service, through my dedications in my studies, through how I’m trying to reach goals to eventually better Indiana.”

Former 500 Princess and University of Indianapolis alumna Madi Kovacs agreed that the program shows a unique dedication to leadership.

“The most important thing I took away from the Princess Program was how to be a strong leader that is not overpowering,” Kovacs said.

“The Princess Program is a leadership development program. We were able to sit down with top leaders from all over the state and broadened our networks a lot.”

Bryant said that the 500 Festival was in fact not at all what she had originally envisioned, but that is surprised her in a positive way.

“I would say that so far it’s completely defied ever expectation I’ve had, but in the best way,” Bryant said. “Anything I thought it was going to do well, it’s done above and beyond.”

More information about the 500 Fest Princess Program can be found at www.500festival.com.

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Performance puts spotlight on consent Sapphire Theatre Company, Planned Parenthood bring interactive program to facilitate discussion about sexual assault, victim blaming to campus

Photo by Zoë Berg

Photo by Zoë Berg

Members of the Sapphire Theatre Company said that audience members were both responsive and engaged with the performance. Before the performance, audience members could take bracelets that said “NO More.”

By Zoë Berg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually assaulted, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, and college aged women are at an elevated risk of sexual violence. Because April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the University of Indianapolis is hosting a number of event to raise awareness about sexual assault and the importance of consent.

“The Power of Consent: Empowering Students to Prevent Campus Assault” is a 60-minute interactive performance with guided conversations performed by Sapphire Theatre Company and came to UIndy on April 4.

The performance consisted of four scenes in which actors Aaron Grinter, Joshua Short, Vicky and Sarah acted out scenarios that could happen to any college student, including talking about sexual assault with a sibling and making questionable choices at a party. Between scenes the audience was asked to discuss what they saw and how the characters could have handled the situation differently.

Education Program Manager for the

In the scene pictured above, (from left) Sarah, Vicky, Aaron Grinter and Joshua Short played college students at a party. Vicky was trying to get Sarah to leave because she was very drunk, but Sarah did not want to go.

Sapphire Theatre Company Andrea Lott Harvey and Corporate Programs Manager for the Sapphire Theatre Company Nick Carpenter acted as narrators for the scenes and facilitated the conversations with the audience. According to Harvey, sexual assault is a societal problem and victims should not be blamed for being assaulted. Carpenter said the goal of the performance was to raise awareness about consent and to reduce the misconceptions.

“So much of what we hear, from the male perspective, is that there is so much fear around consent and ‘Am I going to get accused?’”

Carpenter said. “If you know what [consent] is and you are willing to communicate, then it’s not going to be an issue.”

The final scene focused on a man who was sexually assaulted and was trying to tell his best friend about it. Sophomore music education major Emily Larmore attend the performance and said the performance was good because people could learn that men can also be victims of sexual assault.

“I think that whatever gender you are, sexual assault can still affect you and I think everyone should know that,” Larmore said. “It could happen to anybody.”

Sapphire Theatre Company partnered with Planned Parenthood for the performance. Senior Educator and Youth Specialist for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Candice Gary helped write the performance and research various policies about sexual assault. “ We w e n t over a variety of different combinations of the roles,” Gary said.

“We wanted to look for a variety of genders and sexualities and ages [and relationships, which included] having parent relationships… siblings, friends talking to each other, folks who are honestly just acquaintances.

[We wanted to show] how all of those interactions are real and take out that whole stranger danger level of it and connect it with real folks that people can relate to in their own individual lives.”

Grinter said the actors may not have

experienced some of the situations personally, but that they try to make them feel as real as possible. Short said he has been able to learn from the experience and put himself in the shoes of someone who may experience them.

After each scene the audience was given the chance to interact with the actors and ask them questions. Short said the actors try not to agree with the audience members because in life there may not be a clear solution.

“We always try to play the devil’s advocate and never really agree with what the audience is saying because it makes them think deeper about a more realistic solution,”Short said. “It’s really fun being up there knowing we’re not actually going to get a solution.”

According to Grinter, the actors try to make the scenes feel as realistic as possible and often push back so that the audience sees that life is not always black and white as they may want it to be. Larmore said all of the scenarios felt very realistic.

“I saw some scenarios that have probably happened right in front of my eyes and haven’t even realized it,” Larmore said. “If I go to a party, I am going to be more aware of what people are talking

about and how body language happens and look out for people around me.”

Grinter said even though there was a small audience for the performance, they were very receptive and responsive to what was happening on stage. According to Carpenter, once the audience relaxed, there was a lot of participation and people were engaged in the discussions.

“People were trying to problem solve all together, to come up with better solutions, to make a situation better,” Carpenter said. “The people who were here were really smart about taking the responsibility off of the victim, which is one of things that we were really try to teach. Stop trying to make everything about what the victim responsibility is.

What we can do as bystanders and people to make not just the victim better but make the culture better around everybody on the college campus.”

UIndy hosted and will be hosting more events to raise awareness about sexual assault and consent. On April 13 at 4 p.m. in the Schwitzer Student Center Engagement Center, there will be an event called ‘The Consent Game’ where students can compete and answer questions about consent in sexual relationships and healthy relationship behaviors.

A QUIET PLACE MOVIE

RICH THE KID "THE WORLD IS YOURS" ALBUM

THREE CARROTS RESTAURANT

WILD WILD COUNTRY DOCUMENTARY SERIES

There are many justifiable complaints about the horror genre, and I have never been hesitant to make them—most modern horror films are simply depleted copies of repeated tropes, operating mainly on clichés and low-budget television actors looking to break into the movie scene.

“A Quiet Place,” however, re-energizes a tired genre with originality, heartfelt performances and skillful direction.

The premise of the film is that the world has been overrun by creatures that attack based on sound. The only way to survive is to stay quiet. The film follows a family doing their best to look after one another.

As far as storyline, this is what prevents the movie from making the same mistake as countless post-apocalyptic films—it actually makes the viewer care about the characters, an effect hugely accentuated by all-around strong performances from the cast.

There are some cheap jump scares built into the movie, but they are forgivable side effects given how much of the narrative relies on silence. The bulk of the scares come from tension, and there is plenty of it. It has been a long time since I felt so genuinely invested in and stressed out by the events of a horror film. John Krasinski, the lead actor and director, lets the pressure build, and the audience feels it.

Aside from this aspect, it is just a great horror movie, and a fantastically original film. It delivers some of the most heart-pounding suspense and directorial creativity of the year. It’s in a class of its own.

“The World Is Yours” is one of the most disappointing albums I have heard this year. While there are some positives sprinkled throughout the album, overall what I got was a generic, contemporary rap album that lacked any real substance or originality.

I was drawn to the hype of the album by some of the big-name, hip-hop heavyweights including: Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, Future, Chris Brown and Rick Ross as well as new, popular artists like Offset, Quavo and Khalid. The biggest disappointment of the album, however, is that the features outshine Rich the Kid in just about every song.

The best song on the album is by far “New Freezer”featuring Kendrick Lamar.

Unfortunately, this is only due to Lamar’s ability to make any song he touches into gold. Offset and Quavo have a few good verses in “Lost It,” along with Future in “No Question,” but Rich the Kid seems content with letting others carry the weight of this album for him. It’s not a good sign when an artist creates an entire album only to be outperformed by every other artist featured on it.

In an age where hip-hop has become a platform for social and political commentary, this album completely disregards that to create boring mumble-rap tracks.

The only time I could find myself enjoying most of these songs is after I’ve already had a few drinks. Other than that, the songs are so repetitive and irrelevant that I would have a hard time remembering that I even listened to this album.

I have never been one to have had much experience with vegetarian or vegan food, so I was looking forward to trying out Three Carrots. From the atmosphere, to the staff and the food, I was extremely pleased with my visit there.

Three Carrots is a vegetarian and vegan restaurant, with food for whichever one would prefer. The walls inside the restaurant were painted all white, with all sorts of succulents and colorful paintings hanging up around. My friends and I were greeted and sat down almost instantly.

We asked our waiter what he recommended as he named off some of his favorites from the menu. After much hesitation, I decided to order the Banh Mi sandwich, which included seitan, which is a high-protein vegetarian food made from cooked wheat gluten.The seitan was marinated in ginger, soy sauce, and lime juice served on a baguette with pickled carrots and daikon, , cilantro and avocado mayo.

As soon as our waiter brought our food out, I knew I was going to like it. I took my first bite and I was hooked. It was definitely one of the best sandwiches I’ve ever had and I managed to finish the whole meal.

I was very impressed with everything about Three Carrots from the location, the atmosphere, the workers and especially the food. I would recommend this restaurant to any vegetarians, vegans or even non-vegetarians and non-vegans like myself who just want to explore new food.

“Wild Wild Country” is, without a doubt, one of the best documentary series I have ever watched. The Netflix series tells the story of a little-known cults from the 1980s: one that was run by Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his secretary Ma Anand Sheela in Oregon in the 1980s.

The show’s ability to tell the story of the cult’s followers, which were called “Rajneeshees” and those who lived near the group, is one of the best aspects of the program. The six-episode series uses interviews from former cult members, and those who lived near them, that were taken in the present day and combines them with footage from around the time of the original events. These interviews of the “Rajneeshees” and law enforcement, provides a full and accurate picture of the cult.

Visually, the series is spectacular. The graphics that are used are only on the screen for a second, allowing the viewers to focus on the most important part of the documentary: the people who are being interviewed. “Wild Wild Country” does use archived footage of the cult, but they don’t use it to tell the story, they use it to supplement it which makes it a much more rich experience for the viewer.

I think this documentary is a mustwatch for those who love documentaries about cults. It tells the story of a cult that is mostly unheard of today and provides an insightful look into the culture and environment of a cult and how it affects those around it.

CHECK OUT THIS MOVIE IF YOU LIKED: IT FOLLOWS (2014)

A BETTER ALBUM WOULD BE: ”BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM”

BY KENDRICK LAMAR

920 VIRGINIA AVENUE INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46203

“Whatever gender you are, sexual assault can still affect you.”

REVIEWS

Entertainment reviews, by Greyhounds for Greyhounds!

THE REFLECTOR RATING SYSTEM AMAZING An unforgettable experience in its category.

The highest of recommendations. Extremely satisfying and entertaining, with few (if any) issues worth noting.

VERY GOOD Incredibly well-done, engaging, and stands above the crowd. Perhaps a few minor grievances, but nothing that substantially takes away from the overall experience.

DECENT May have some worthwhile positives; makes for a good experience, but perhaps brought down by frustrating issues. Entertaining on a basic level.

MEDIOCRE Maybe moderately entertaining to the right crowd, but too riddled with elements that don’t work or aren’t original/interesting enough for most audiences.

BAD Poorly executed on almost every level. Any positive notes are a chore to find amid the abundance of mistakes and frustrations. Not worth anyone’s time, except someone with a special interest in the subject matter.

WORTHLESS Nothing positive worth noting in the slightest.

Difficult to endure, annoying and generally mundane. No reason to experience this, unless to witness how awful it is.

Abby Land • Feature Editor

Erik Cliburn • Managing Editor

Cassandra Lombardo • Editorial Assistant

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Noah Crenshaw • Entertainment Editor

PLATFORM: NETFLIX CHECK OUT THIS SHOW IF YOU LIKED: MAKING A MURDERER (NETFLIX)

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Protesters march at Indiana Statehouse The Indiana March for Our Lives rally drew students, adults and other citizens on both sides of the gun control issue

By Maia Gibson & Sophie Watson NEWS EDITOR & SPORTS EDITOR Students took to the streets of Washington, D.C., and other cities across the country on March 24 to support the March for Our Lives movement and protest the epidemic of school shootings across the United States. Following the lead of the Parkland High School shooting survivors who organized the MFOL movement, more than 800,000 people joined them in Washington, D.C., to show support for the victims of gun violence and push legislators to make a change in the gun laws. In Indianapolis, people from across the state gathered at the statehouse to show their support and call for change.

Warren Central High School senior Brandon Warren organized the protest in Indianapolis with the help of many high school and college students in the area. Schools such as Ben Davis, Franklin C e n t r a l , Lawrence North and Carmel, among others, showed their support and reached out to Warren to assist with the rally, or came to march to show their support for victims of gun violence and advocate for change.

Other citizens from across the state also attended the march. Elizabeth Herrington participated with her daughter, Kiara Hafen, to celebrate Hafen’s 18th birthday and to show their support.

“I came because it breaks my heart seeing the parents that don’t get to go home with their children tonight, that don’t get to have their children in their arms,” Herrington said. “...Just realizing, in the U.S. that that is a gift that some parents don’t get. They don’t get to see their child’s next birthday.”

Warren said that he founded We LIVE, an anti-violence movement centered at Warren Central, after a recent tragedy involving a shooting when his friend and teammate Dijon Anderson’s life was taken. As the director of the

Indy MFOL, Warren said that he was in constant contact with students from other schools to set up the event.

“My work never stopped. I was constantly in contact with every town, every day,” Warren said. “[I was] organizing meetings, and meetings with other organizations, and creating relationships with politicians and inviting them.”

Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly (D), Indiana Representative Andre Carson (D) IN-7 and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick (R) attended the protest. McCormick said that she attended because it was an event involving school safety and included the voices of students and educators.

“I’m not a big one to attend rallies, to be honest with you. But with this one, the message is strong,” McCormick said.

“The purpose is strong. The organization and the people behind it—it’s very bipartisan, which I think is extremely important to get anything done. So it’s nice to see that. But it’s really just the whole point of student safety and security that is so extremely important.”

University of Indianapolis j u n i o r psychology and religion major Natalie Benson said that she and others organized a bus to take a group of UIndy and high school students to the rally. Benson said that she feels passionate about the subject of gun violence, which was why she jumped at the opportunity to join an active group involved in making a difference.

Benson said that her personal experience with an active shooter in her school happened when she was a student at Normal Community High School in Illinois inspired her to take action against gun violence. According to Benson, the student was stopped by a teacher who tackled him and knocked the gun out of his hand.

“It was definitely a heroic moment [for the teacher], and the day could have gone very differently. We were on lockdown for a while,” Benson said “I just remember the unity that my school showed afterward and the courage that

“...It breaks my heart seeing that parents don’t get to go home with their children tonight...”

ONLINE THIS WEEK at reflector.uindy.edu “Render” exhibition features senior talent

Professor gives lecture on China, a ‘leading brand’

The “Render” exhibitions showcased the work of senior visual communication design majors Andy Carr, Kieffer Simpson, Fatem Alzayer, Alexandria Pesak, Torie Pena, Hajar Aldawood, Jenna Krall and Juliana Rohrmoser on March 22 at the CDFAC Gallery.

On Mar. 27, University of Indianapolis School of Business professor led a lecture over one of the most popular labels on consumer goods. Associate Professor of operations and supply management Craig Seidelson explained the reason people see ‘made in China’ at local stores.

Speech team sends students to nationals

Event educates students about service animals

The University of Indianapolis Speech and Debate team sent both varsity and novice members to national tournaments, some of whom returned home with Quarter-Finalist titles.

The Indianapolis Canine Assistant Network visited campus on April 3 with a group of service dogs as part of an event to help students to learn more about service animals.

APRIL 11, 2018

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The March For Our Lives movement was organized by students from Parkland, Fla. in response to a shooting at their high school. The Indianapolis rally took place at the Statehouse and was organized by high schoolers. everybody had to be able to speak up that the legislation will begin to infringe and support each other.” on their Second Amendment rights.

According to Benson, the MFOL Outside the statehouse in Indianapolis, took place on what would have been a group of citizens protested the MFOL Parkland High School student and fu- with signs and flags. ture UIndy swimmer Nick Dworet’s An Indianapolis resident, who iden18th birthday. Benson had been on the tified himself only as Tim, was one of swim team for two years, and though the individuals protesting the march. she did not get the opportunity to He said that he protested because he felt meet Dworet, she said that many of her it was important to show the legislature friends and teammates knew him. that there are people who do not want “Being a voice for him [Dworet] and gun control laws passed. his family [was important]....” Benson “I believe that my right to bear arms said. “The Parkland students are doing and my opposition to gun control and a really good job of making sure that everything, my side of the issue, is bethe conversation isn’t stopping here. ing threatened by these people,” Tim They have a checklist of action plans. said. “When they show up, I’m going to So they had the walkout on the 14th [of show up. So when somebody shows up March], which was awesome, and that to attack gun rights, whether they know was a good first step. But then they got they’re doing that or not, I’m going to back together, and we had the march. show up to protect gun rights.”

They’re talking about making sure that In the weeks after the MFOL, Benson every elected official hosts a town hall is promoting campus conversations to on the 7th [of April] to talk specifically discuss what can be done to continue about gun violence. So I think they’re the fight against gun violence and push doing a really good job of making sure for more gun legislation. According that everybody’s voices are encompassed to Benson, to get the laws changed in this conversation.” systematically is sometimes a long and Though the MFOL movement is fo- difficult process, so it is important to cused on universal background checks, continue the discussion about how to banning assault weapons and high-ca- prevent school shootings and general pacity magazines and funding research gun violence. into gun violence according to the “The conversation cannot stop after MFOL website, some individuals feel the march,” Benson said. “It has to keep that their rights are being violated or going.”

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