Apr. 11, 2018 | The Reflector

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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.

Books and Brews

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

$3.1

million

to purchase both buildings

Graphic by Zoë Berg

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,

> See IU Law on page 4

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. Graphic by Johana Rosendo


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