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'The Reflector' strives for access
By Mia Lehmkuhl EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & CO-NEWS EDITOR
Editor’s Note: Tis story is a followup to a story titled “‘Te Reflector’ denied access to university meeting” published on Nov. 25, 2024.
On Nov. 19, 2024, part of “Te Reflector” staff was asked to leave a University of Indianapolis faculty senate meeting as it attempted to cover its proceedings.
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first paragraph of UIndy’s Faculty Constitution states: “The Board ofTrustees,the Administration, the Faculty, the Staff and the Students are the five major constituencies that play significant roles in the functioning of the University of Indianapolis. Although the successful operation of the University depends upon the coordinated efforts of all five of these groups, each has their own particular functions, rights and responsibilities that differ from those of the others.”
UIndy operates under a shared governance model, meaning that certain items, like curriculum changes, are decided upon by faculty. According to Associate Professor of Communication,Faculty Senator and former Faculty Senate Vice President Darryl Clark, with many issues falling under faculty governance, the university administration serves in an advisory capacity. Clark said it works both ways.
“Te administration has the power of the purse,” Clark said. “Tey get to decide where money gets spent, how it gets spent, et cetera. But the faculty, through the Faculty Senate, can have advisory authority.”
According to the faculty constitution,issues falling under faculty authority include, but are not limited to, standards for student admission, retention and academic conduct, creation of new academic programs, academic freedom and freedom of expression.
Additionally, the constitution defines who is permitted to attend university meetings such as the Faculty Senate, and students are permitted to attend at the senate leadership’s discretion. Generally, private universities like UIndy are not required to uphold First Amendment protections or state open meetings laws the same way public universities are, according to PEN America.
“Te Reflector” Editor-in-Chief Mia Lehmkuhl engaged in a 5-month exchange with parties such as Faculty Senate President and Professor of International Relations Jyotika Saksena and the rest of the senate’s executive committee. After an inperson conversation with the executive committee, Lehmkuhl was permitted to attend part of the faculty senate meeting on April 15 to pilot a scenario in which student media could be regularly allowed to attend.However,at this time,it is unclear whether this will extend beyond the April 15 meeting.
In addition, “Te Reflector” has a history of attending meetings in the past, according to previous reporting — one of which is titled, “Faculty Senate approves alternate grading options,” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, a student in COMM 120:Experiential Journalism attended a senate meeting on Sept.17, 2024. In terms of what influenced the senate decision in November,Assistant Professor of Sociology and Member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee Liz Ziff said she thought it was a surprise for senators that “Te Reflector” was present.
“I think given that people weren't familiar with what the process could be,and also,because it is a forum where we can talk about a lot of potentially sensitive information, I think people were just trying to be extra cautious before deciding how to move forward,” Ziff said.
Clark said the senate has discussed the possibility of “Te Reflector” staff attending meetings since January and believes there should have been a definite decision by this point. Additionally, Clark said he considers the student newspaper a crucial part of documenting UIndy’s history.
“Not only do I feel like it's kind of disrespectful to the students on ‘Te Reflector,’but we're debating this over and over again,” Clark said. “We're beating a dead horse in the senate and wasting time of not only the senators, but all the administrators who attend these meetings.”
In terms of university administration’s involvement in the senate, Provost and Executive Vice President of UIndy Chris Plouff said he attends and participates in senate meetings to be the liaison between administration and faculty as an exofficio member. Being an ex-officio member means he attends meetings,
responds to questions and adds to discussions but does not vote on items.
“I work with the faculty senate to make sure that they're kept informed, understand the things that we're doing as an institution, so that they are knowledgeable about things that we're considering, to bounce ideas off of them and get their feedback on things …,” Plouff said.
We're beating a dead horse in the senate and wasting time ...."
Plouff said discussions involving “Te Reflector’s”presence at meetings, as well as student presence at large, have been robust and have included differences in opinion. According to Plouff, some believe students should have a place at senate meetings broadly; however, others believe that since potentially sensitive information, like discussing the potential of a new academic program, is discussed at said meetings, the press should not make such information public through publication and thus may not be let in.
“If students aren't going to be there, that's fine, but it will probably change what I'm able to share publicly, and that's what I've shared with them, is that I can be more or less transparent,”
Plouff said.
For Plouff, there is a place for “Te Reflector” and students in general to be a part of the governance process. Plouff said there are many things for students to be engaged with and report on and that student presence at faculty governance meetings is decided by faculty. However, he said he does not see this as an issue involving free speech or press freedoms broadly or at private universities.
“At a private university, like any kind of a company or a private organization, the press doesn't have just whatever access they want to any kind of discussions, whatever they go on in that organization,”Plouff said.“I mean, even within a public entity, you have some limits there to that. I mean, that's much more of a difference.”
Ziff, however, said she finds it difficult to make decisions on a local or community level about issues like these without attaching it to what she sees happening on a national level.She said everything is connected and that now is not a time to put parameters on the press.
Tis is the time where I think we really need to stand behind the members of our community who are committed to the ideals of transparency …,” Ziff said. “It's not everything we need, but it's a step to getting into things like equity and justice, uncovering things that are happening, or even just talking about things that are happening.”
Clark said issues of free speech and press freedoms apply to all universities. He cited what is happening between the federal government and the press as an example of tension regarding access to information.
“Look at our national situation right now, and the issues of news or organizations getting kicked out of the White House or getting kicked out of the Pentagon,” Clark said.
Both Plouff and Ziff spoke about the potential for a collaborative relationship between “Te Reflector” and university governance. For Plouff, he said the work of the Faculty Senate is important and often goes unrecognized,and that there is an effort to work hard to make relationships between different entities at UIndy to be much more collaborative than it has been.
“I wouldn't want anything to damage that ability to be as transparent as possible in all of us working collaboratively towards our common goal and our mission as an institution,” Plouff said.
ForZiff,shesaidthisisanimportant conversation to have in order to evolve and build something new.
“... It's important to really think about this and what we want UIndy to look like, what we think shared governance really looks like in general, but I think in this time now more than ever,” Ziff said.
Singh, Graycarek talk money
'The Refector' talks with university leadership about tuition raise, fnancial status
By Luke Cooper ONLINE EDITOR
Te University of Indianapolis announced via an email from University President Tanuja Singh that tuition and fees would increase by 3% for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year.
Tuition was increased by 3% for the current 2024-25 academic year, according to previous reporting by “The Reflector.” Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration Rick Graycarek said the 3% increase is to ensure UIndy can continue to provide services to students.
“Whenever we evaluate what the tuition-rate change should be for the
next year,affordability is always top of mind, and then secondly, we have to make sure that we're providing, as an institution, all students with a good or great experience of being here and that means faculty,” Graycarek said. Tat means making sure the campus is safe and secure,and we've done lots of things in those spaces.”
UIndy continues to expand programs under Singh’s leadership, according to her bio on the president’s webpage. UIndy Online, Sease Institute and Women’s Executive Leadership Institute are all additions under Singh. She said the expansion of programs is strategic due to the rise of lifelong learning, and believes the programs will have a positive impact on the university’s financial status. For the 2022-23 academic year,
the university reported a negative net income of more than $7.6 million on the IRS 990 form, according to ProPublica. In the prior year, the university reported a negative net income of over $2.6 million. Despite this,Singh is not worried about where the university stands financially.
“Te university is in a significantly stronger position today than, of course, those previous numbers indicate,” Singh said. “The way you mitigate those challenges is to ensure that ultimately the students that come here, we retain them, we graduate them and that the tuition revenue and our expenses in other areas where we have control, that they are all directed towards making sure that the students are being successful.”
Te university has seen positive changes in the 2023-24 fiscal year, which will be reflected in the newest Form 990 releasing in June, Graycarek added. University spending accumulated prior to Singh’s arrival, Graycarek said, but those investments have since turned around.
UIndy currently ranks 16th out of 67 for the highest in-state tuition for universities in Indiana, according to CollegeSimply, which provides college rankings by using data from the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics. UIndy’s $36,504 tuition for the 2025-26 academic year puts UIndy between Manchester University and Anderson University.
“There's the sticker price,”
Graycarek said. “I always laugh at Kohl’s because nobody ever pays full price at Kohl’s. It's the same thing here. People don't pay the full price.” Graycarek said around 99% of UIndy students receive some kind of financial aid, the outliers that typically do not get aid are international students. UIndy’s financial aid website cites the number from the 2022-23 academic year with “Common Data Set” as the source. class for the 2024-25 academic year, students in need of financial aid were typically offered around $30,000 of the roughly $37,000 full tuition price at UIndy for an academic year, Graycarek said.
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Good Hall pictured April 11. The Faculty Senate meets in Good Hall Room 105, where “The Refector” was asked to leave a senate meeting on Nov. 19, 2024.
OPINION
By Olivia Pastrick MANAGING EDITOR & CO-NEWS EDITOR
The Trump administration has made its goal very clear — to support freedom of speech — when it works in their favor.
In one of her very first press conferences, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the Trump administration would now have control over deciding which journalists can and cannot be in the Oval Office, Air Force One and any other White House press events. This overturns almost a century of precedence where the White House Correspondents’Association decided the press pool for the administration.
According to WHCA’s website, it is dedicated to ensuring our democracy through an independent press. Without this buffer, the press pool is decided on the whim of the Trump administration which has already proved it will remove
journalists who do not comply with its agenda. For example, the Associated Press has been removed from the regular press pool in the White House because it referred to the Gulf of Mexico as such, instead of President Donald Trump’s new name for it. Although the naming of a body of water is not a major issue, the Trump administration banning AP, the industry-standard writing style journalists use, from the press pool because of this sets a dangerous precedent: The current administration will not allow any coverage of the White House that does not agree with them.
In addition to limiting the press coverage of the White House, the Trump administration has cut funding from most Ivy League universities, according to ABC.
For example, $510 million of research funding was suspended from Brown University due to an investigation into pro-Palestine protests on campus that allegedly made Jewish students feel unsafe.
Screen time: The silent killer
By Allison Dininger STAFF WRITER
A new drug is plaguing Generation Z, causing rapid declines in their mental health and obsessive behaviors. Screen time addictions often go unnoticed but can become detrimental.
Social media can act as a distraction from reality, but — instead of fixing the problem — it makes it 10 times worse. Mastermind Behavior, a group that specializes in therapy of youth with autism diagnoses, noted Gen Z spends two hours more on their phones than the average American, leading to higher levels of anxiety and depression. People resort to doom-scrolling as shelter from their lives, plunging into concerning headlines and fading trends, ratherthanfacing problems and having genuine interactions. The constant barrage of noise becomes a hiding place as viewers pursue the pictureperfect feed. These perfectly curatedfeedscreate an echo chamber of influencers who preach what we already believe in, increasing polarization and ignorance toward different viewpoints. When viewers do not hear contradicting beliefs,they take these words as fact, making them vulnerable to the lies sold by influencers. Over time, consumers lose the capacity to see the world clearly without the filter of perfected videos and can even lose their sense of self. Deep down, this generation knows the harm they are causing themselves with jokes about touching grass rather than a screen, but few do anything to remedy the problem. So why do people keep returning to their screen like it’s a toxic ex? They are addicted. Humans gain dopamine when
connecting with others and experiencing new ideas. Stanford Medicine explains this process is accelerated with social media and causes consumers’ minds to become addicted to the dopamine their phone gives them in the same way others get addicted to drugs. People enjoy looking at the perfect lives of others and pretending the same perfection is attainable. Consumers crave the entertainment and the feeling of being in the know.
Unplugging means allowing silence to replace the noise of everyone else’s thoughts, giving space to the feelings that make people run to their screens in the first place.
Silence may be scary, but facing reality is the only way to break this addiction. We must force ourselves to step away from our screens and find a balance between the online and real world. Breaking through the noise allows people to have genuine conversations without distractions where real progress can occur rather than doom scrolling and avoiding reality.
I say all this as someone whose job is social media management, so I know the value of marketing on social media, using it as a platform to promote ideas. As much as I love working in social media, I cannot ignore the spinning in my head when I spend too much time on it, nor the fact I find it difficult to spend more than a few minutes in absolute silence without wanting to rip out my hair.
This is a deep-rooted internal conflict in our culture. People crave peace and quiet but cannot seem to drop their screens long enough to see if a screenless life could be the remedy they have been searching for.
According to Fox News, the Trump administration promised to be more aggressive in ending antisemitism, claiming that former president Joe Biden did not do enough. While antisemitism is a very serious issue in America, it is so clear to me that this is not an initiative to actually help Jewish Americans, but rather
... It is not surprising they are making moves to erase other people from American history.
punish those who showed their support for Palestine.
And, as if these things did not make the president’s stance on freedom of speech clear, he and his administration have changed or taken down several web pages on government websites that refer to
LGBTQ+ people,gender or diversity, according to AP. For example, the page titled “Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth” on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website has a banner across the top stating the page is being modified to comply with Trump’s executive orders. Ironically, it is not surprising to me that even though this is the candidate that ran on a “pro-life”platform, the Trump administration continuously holds no regard for the lives of anyone that is not a white, straight, cisgender man. Unfortunately, it is not surprising they are making moves to erase other people from American history. Additionally, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued an order to the military stating that time and federal funding will no longer be permitted to go towards the celebrations of any “identity months” such as Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month and several more. It truly takes a special kind of person with narcissistic tendencies, which
all of these men in power seem to embody, to feel so threatened by the celebration of diversity to legislate it out of existence.
Also in compliance with Trump’s executive orders, the Department of State’s travel information website has renamed its formerly titled “LGBTQIA+ Travelers” page to “LBG Travelers.” This is yet another attack on the transgender community, following up on Trump’s “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” executive order from Jan. 20. In the order, Trump refers to transgender people as a “fundamental attack” on women and that they have a “corrosive impact” on the entire country.
Truthfully, Trump and his administration not only make me feel less safe than any transgender person I have ever met, but are also having a far more “corrosive” effect on the country they are claiming to “make great again.”
Transferring and transforming
The transfer portal, its effect on college basketball
By Olivia Pastrick MANAGING EDITOR & CO-NEWS EDITOR
This has been fact-checked per The Reflector Press Time.
Since the NCAA tournament has ended, over 1,200 total athletes from the men’s and women’s leagues have entered the transfer portal, stirring up controversy within college sports.
at will. I agree that it would absolutely improve the politics of the game to hold off on opening the transfer portal until at least
The transfer portal was created in 2018 in order to give student athletes authority on transferring and what school they transfer to, according to NBC. In recent years there has been more and more athletes entering the portal, which, along with name, image and likeness, raises questions about whether the NCAA should be treated as a professional or amateur league, and what rights the student athletes should have. While there has been a lot of controversy over the legitimacy of the portal and how it is impacting the competitiveness of the game, I think the transfer portal is absolutely necessary, although it could be adjusted.
one day after the championship games in order to keep every player contracted by their team and loyal for one year.
that Indiana University men’s basketball has no returning scholarship players after former Head Coach Mike Woodson announced midseason that he would not be returning to coach the Hoosiers next season. It is possible that with the transfer portal now, we will never return to the era of die-hard team loyalty, but it is good that student athletes can look around and find a new or better situation for themselves.
While I do think college basketball should go back to more team loyalty, the coaching carousel has made that nearly
The 2025 transfer portal opened on March 24 two weeks before the national championship games were played. This led to players entering the portal within minutes of their loss in the tournament, which has brought loyalty and effort into question — if the athlete was so ready to leave, how hard were they working for the team they are leaving? According to sports-editorial news site Clutch Points, Women’s Basketball Head Coach at the University of Connecticut Geno Auriemma said there needs to be a gap between the end of the season and the opening of the transfer portal. He added that every collegiate athlete is functionally a free agent, meaning they are not contractually bound to any coach or team and can transfer
impossible — if a coach leaves the program that an athlete committed to as a senior in high school, it does not make sense
for that athlete to stay at the university and play for a coach that did not recruit them. For example, it is not at all surprising
One of the clearest pieces of evidence toward the transfer portal’s effect was this year’s men’s March Madness tournament where there was no true “Cinderella team” in the Sweet 16. While this may have been disappointing to viewers, a graphic posted by NCAA Buzzer Beaters and Game Winners on X highlights how many transfers there were on each of the 16 remaining teams, six of which had more than seven transfer players on their rosters. Even more interesting to me is the amount of former mid-major players that have “transferred up” to a Power Five school. So while there was no small school that nobody had heard of before making a big run in the tournament, a lot of the players that ended up in this year’s Sweet 16 transferred from those schools. Everyone loves a Cinderella team, but with the transfer portal becoming bigger every year, it is possible we will see more mid-major schools represented by the players that have transferred out of them.
As a fan, it is exciting to see what players will choose once they enter the portal, but it is also bittersweet when my favorite players leave great teams. Overall, the transfer portal has not ruined college basketball, but it has certainly changed the way teams and players function and are recruited.
The Reflector acknowledges its mistakes. If you catch a mistake, please contact us at reflector@uindy.edu.
The opinions in this section do not necessarily reflect those of The Reflector staff.
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PAVING A WAY FOR CHANGE
Protesters gather at Indiana Statehouse on April 5 to protest Trump administration
By Olivia Pastrick MANAGING EDITOR & CO-NEWS EDITOR
Americans across the country gathered on April 5 to protest and tell the Trump administration to keep its “Hands Off” of American Democracy.
In Indiana, people gathered at the statehouse for a similar protest held by the 50501 movement, called “Remove, Reverse, Reclaim.” 50501 stands for “50 states, 50 protests, one movement,” and has had protests throughout the past few months of President Donald Trump’s current term, including a march for women at the Indiana State House on March 8.
The “Remove, Reverse, Reclaim” protest held on April 5 fully stands for “Remove corrupt politicians from office, reverse the damage and reclaim our democracy,” according to the movement’s Facebook page.
aren’t working and the GOP is kind of failing at their job. It’s really not red or blue anymore, it’s rich versus poor, and it’s obliterated the middle class, and I want my children to have a better go at things than myself and protect the most vulnerable of our society.”
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the Trump administration has violated the Constitution in addition to breaking several other laws. For example, Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship via executive order, which was subsequently blocked by the First Circuit Court of Appeals and several federal judges in different states, according to the Associated Press and National Public Radio.
It's really not red or blue anymore, it's rich versus poor."
According to ABC, at the “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., made the distinction that the U.S. Constitution does not begin with “We the dictators.”
According to USA Today, more than 500,000 people RSVP’d to attend one or more than 1,200 protests nationwide.
Several Hoosier protesters at the event spoke about their desire to uphold the United States Constitution and hold their government accountable.
“The biggest thing to me is the voiding of the Constitution,” one protester, Tonya, said. “We’re not following the constitution that our Founding Fathers put together … it’s supposed to be checks and balances, but those
“We just have to win over evil,” Karen Steurwald, another protester at the statehouse, said. “It's insane how far it's gone and how quickly it's gone, and we’ve got to do something. Decent people have to do something … but today has been really positive. I'm glad to see so many white, middle aged men and people standing up with us.”
UIndy hosts tenth Fairbanks Symposium
By Ella Shelburn STAFF WRITER
Te University of Indianapolis held its tenth annual Richard M. Fairbanks Symposium on April 9, this year’s topic being “Civic Spirit: Religion and Leadership in Indianapolis.”
Te event is put on through a collaboration between the university and Indiana Humanities, and planning begins well before the actual day of the event. According to Edward Frantz, chair of the department of history and political science and director of the Institute for Civic Leadership and Mayoral Archives, they try to find a topic that is relevant to civic leadership. Tis year,Frantz said,they wanted to focus on how religion and leadership interact, especially in Indiana.
“What we try to do together with our partners,Indiana Humanities,is to think through vital issues for the greater metropolitan area,” Frantz said. “We had not tackled the idea of religion and leadership, and in particular, thinking through both the positives of the ways in which faith and religion shape people's interaction with communities, and then also the limits of that and the ways in which polarization and politics is both exacerbated by at times and overcome by at other times.”
Frantz said he believes religion’s connection to politics is especially relevant after the 2024 election. He said that when planning the symposium, he had the most recent election and the polarization that it has brought in mind.
“Any year you have an election year in your lifetime, if you're planning big public events, you're wise to think through what might be happening then,”Frantz said.“In doing so, we thought … about not just what divides us, but what can unite us, bring us together and call us, hopefully to serve.” Associate Professor of Political Science Gregory Shufeldt said he thinks the topic of religion and politics will be especially relevant to a college campus, as students are navigating their own relationships with faith while becoming independent. Shufeldt spoke with Professor of American Democracy at the University of
Notre Dame David Campbell during the symposium.
“Historically, college is a time where students walk away from the faith tradition that they might have been raised in,” Shufeldt said. “ Tis is a time where students can choose and kind of explore their faith tradition on their own, and so some students learn more about and actually get more religious or spiritual in college.”
At the symposium, Shufeldt and Campbell spoke about how religion and politics have intersected historically, how they currently intersect and ways for both religious and nonreligious individuals to promote a healthy civic life in the
Shufeldt said religion and politics often collide in Indiana, especially since Indiana has both a Christian and Republican majority.
“In Indiana, we do have a dominant political party,and we also have a dominant religious group,” Shufeldt said. “Overwhelmingly, more Indiana residents self-identify as Christian than other groups, so how do those that don't self-identify as Christian see themselves as being Hoosiers?”
Shufeldt said to answer this question and understand other perspectives, people across different religious backgrounds and denominations need to be in conversation with one another.
Apartment ownership changes at UIndy
By Gabriel Tice STAFF WRITER
Students who are living in campus apartment complexes may notice a new name on their leases. Te university announced that the three campus apartment complexes had been purchased by a new owner. Despite the shift in ownership, the university says that students will not see many changes in the day-today operations of the apartments. Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration. Said that,
“The property management group is still there,” Graycarek said.“…Leases for students did not change. Lease rates that students were already signing back in February and January and March all say the same, nothing changes from a student perspective.”
Graycarek said the new ownership agreement gives the university a path to full ownership of the apartments. Graycarek also said that the conditions of the contract between the university and the new owners state that once the debt on the buildings is paid off, the university will take over full control of the apartments.
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Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame David Campbell and Associate Professor of Political Science Gregory Shufeldt speak on stage at the tenth annual Richard M. Fairbanks Symposium on April 9.
future.
Photo by Mia Lehmkuhl Protestor Megan dressed in “The Handmaid’s Tale” attire holds up a sign at the 50501 Movement’s protest at the statehouse on April 5.
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Two protestors walk along the Indiana Statehouse sidewalk. Hoosiers spoke throughout the day about their anger toward the Trump administration.
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A protestor at the 50501 Movement’s “Remove, Reverse, Reclaim” protest at the statehouse on April 5 waves an upside-down American fag. Across the nation, more than 500,000 people RSVP’d to attend protests.
Spring sports await the postseason
UIndy baseball, lacrosse, golf, tennis are finishing out their spring seasons strong
By Hunter Baker STAFF WRITER
Statistics and standings are per Reflector Press Time.
With spring officially starting and the semester coming to a close, the University of Indianapolis currently has 10 teams competing during this season.
Women’s lacrosse
Women’s lacrosse is currently ranked eighth in the country, according to the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association, and last year the team finished its season with a 14-6 record and won the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship. The Greyhounds opened conference play with a 22-1 win over the Lewis University Flyers. The team had two more conference games over the weekend of April 11-13. Students are encouraged to attend its game against Quincy which is its Back the Pack game on Friday, April, 25. Back the Pack games are an initiative by the athletic department to increase game attendance, according to UIndy Athletics. This means there will be designated games for certain teams where attendance by all students is highly encouraged. According to the article,the games are meant to be similar to what Homecoming is for football and Pack the House for basketball.
five top-25 ranked opponents this season, and are currently 5-6. They beat No. 14 Newberry early in the season before falling to three ranked opponents in Lenoir Rhyne,Seton Hill and top-rankedTampa.The Hounds are currently 1-1 in conference play and will host its Back the Pack game on April 26 against No.11 Maryville.The team is led by senior attacker Triston Schaffer,who is currently averaging just under three goals per game, according to UIndy Athletics, with his season high sitting at eight against Davenport.
Softball
Softball is currently 25-16 on the season and has fallen from national rankings after coming into the season ranked third. The team is 12-8 in conference play with big wins coming over Quincy and Rockhurst.
Softball will hold its Back the Pack game on April 19 against Truman University. The team will also be celebrating its seniors with a ceremony before the game. Sophomore Cara Cooper leads the team with 40 runs with her season high of four coming against Lake Erie, according to UIndy Athletics.
ahead to a home series against Drury, according to UIndy Athletics.
Track and Field
After wrapping up the indoor season where the men’s team placed 13th at nationals and the women finished 26th, the team has been competing outdoors since their first meet on March 27 at the Wash U Distance Carnival. The team’s next meet will be the Gibson Invitational at Indiana State on April 17-19 and will begin its GLVC conference meet on May 1.
Tennis
Women’s tennis is currently 6-5 this season and will hold its Back the Pack game on April 18 when they play Missouri-St Louis. Junior Tyffaine Pais is ranked 16th in the country individually, according to the InternationalTennis Association.Men’s tennis is 12-3 this season with big wins coming against Butler and IU Indy. The men are on a eight match winning streak and ranked 17th in the country, according to ITA team rankings.
Golf
Men’s lacrosse
The men’s lacrosse team has played
Baseball Baseball is not ranked nationally after starting the season No.3,according to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. The team is currently led in hits by outfielder Austin Node, and shortstop Easton Good broke the record this season for all-time steals at UIndy. With a record of 16-15, the team looks
After winning last year’s national championship, the women’s golf team has won two invitational meets this season so far.Their last meet before this year’s nationals is the UMSL Spring Invitational. Mens golf’s highest finish this season came at the Indianapolis Intercollegiate Invitational March 31 through April 1, where they came in second. Both teams will compete in its conference meets April 20-22.
Results for all GLVC games, meets and matches can be found at athletics. uindy.edu. All dates for Back the Pack games are also highlighted on each team’s schedule.
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Photo contributed by Dylan Euler
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Sophomore midfielder Jason Davide scoops the ball at a men’s lacrosse game on April 5. The team will host its “Back the Pack” game on April 26 against Maryville University.
Women’s lacrosse head coach Peyton Romig speaks to players at a game on Feb. 21 in Key Stadium. The team is currently ranked eighth in the country.
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Bigger than the game
UIndy baseball rallies around teammate Dawson Gabe in his battle against cancer
By Allison Cook PHOTO EDITOR
Starting his baseball journey at four years old, graduate business administration pitcher Dawson Gabe has continuously found his home and community on the baseball field.
Gabe said he has always played as competitively as possible.
According to UIndy Athletics, he began his collegiate baseball career at Baldwin Wallace University before transferring to the University of Indianapolis for his graduate studies. Since joining the Hounds in 2024, Gabe has pitched 57.1 innings with 62 strikeouts, according to his season statistics.
My team has been an amazing rock for me ...
His passion for the game persisted all the way up until his last game on March 15. Being diagnosed with testicular cancer last fall threw a wrench in his plans, Gabe said, but it was nothing he was unable to play through. He said his first surgery in October removed the initial mass, and from there it was a “monitor game” to see if the cancer returned.
After finding out in February the cancer came back, Gabe knew he had a limited time left on the field. He threw his last pitch at Greyhound Park with his team ready to run out of the dugout to surround him.
To show their support for Gabe, UIndy baseball held a “K-Out for Cancer” event on April 11. T-shirt sales, local food options and an MLB ticket giveaway were all available, and all proceeds went to support the Gabe family as the pitcher undergoes more treatment.
Hundreds of students and community members came out to the field to watch the game against Truman State University, with Gabe in attendance.
it’s really helped me get through this.”
Thank you for coming.”
“This is just a great event,” Head Coach Al Ready said. “I’m very, very happy to see everybody.
As for the future, Gabe said he is looking forward to recovering from his next surgery and hoping to stay in the sport. Falling in love with baseball and finding the friendship within it at a young age has been his support throughout his life, and now in his journey fighting cancer.
“My team has been an amazing rock for me,” Gabe said. “The support that they’ve shown me and the things that they’ve done for me over the course of my diagnosis and all my surgeries and whatnot, it’s really helped me mentally just get through this tough time.”
“I didn’t want to come out of the game, I wanted to finish it myself,” Gabe said. “I’m really glad that I had the opportunity to do that. It wasn’t until I threw the last pitch and I saw Dom Brown [senior catcher] coming out to give me a hug to where I really started to feel the emotions, and that was really great.”
March Madness
Editor reviews this year’s NCAA tournaments
By Olivia Pastrick MANAGING EDITOR & CO-NEWS EDITOR
This year’s March Madness tournaments had just about everything — close games, buzzer beaters and, of course, two champion.
The University of Connecticut Huskies women’s team won their 12th NCAA championship this year, with the dynamic trio of Paige Bueckers, Sarah Strong and Final Four Most Outstanding Player Azzi Fudd leading the way. The Huskies dominated the tournament easily with their closest game being a 14-point victory over the University of Southern California. Bueckers had over 100 points in the span of three games during the tournament, proving that she was hungry for the win and ready for the biggest stage in college basketball despite the injuries she has gone through in her career at UConn. Strong, who is a freshman this year, was absolutely the most impressive player to watch throughout UConn’s championship run. Even Head Coach Geno Auriemma said before the tournament that he was unsure how Strong would perform since she is a freshman and there was a lot of pressure on her, but she set the tournament record for points scored by a freshman and is the first freshman since 2010 to have four doubledoubles in a tournament. Although I picked South Carolina to win it all, I was thrilled to see Bueckers finally get a title after battling so much adversity, and this team really worked hard all season to get to the championship.
last few minutes of action.This is Florida’s first championship since they went back-to-back in 2006 and 2007. The Gators trailed by as many as 12 points throughout the game, and it seemed like they had lost their steam with eight minutes to go. They proved me wrong and were led by Final Four Most Outstanding Player Walter Clayton Jr.,who scored 11 points in the second half after getting shut down in the first to lead the Gators to a two-point win over Houston. While there were complaints about the lack of a Cinderella team this year, players like Clayton Jr. are a prime example of how the transfer portal has allowed players to move up in the NCAA and perform at a higher level. Clayton Jr. started his collegiate career at Iona University and then transferred to Florida in 2023, representing former midmajor players in a huge way.
Overall, for the women’s tournament, the only thing that could have made it better would have been a Paige Bueckers versus Juju Watkins rematch. Watkins, the Naismith Player of the Year, tragically tore her ACL in USC’s second-round game against Mississippi State. I watched as many games as possible, and almost every one was incredibly competitive, even if the score did not reflect that, which I think is something unique to women’s basketball that I enjoy seeing.
On the men’s side, the championship game was much more exciting with the Houston Cougars falling to the Florida Gators in the
The rest of the men’s tournament was lots of fun to watch this year — as a diehard Kentucky Wildcats fan, it meant the world to see Mark Pope lead the Cats to a Sweet Sixteen appearance in his very first year at Kentucky. After losing in the first or second round to Cinderella teams for the last three years, it was so exciting to finally see Kentucky show up in the tournament. Other teams that stood out to me were Auburn, and frankly I am still shocked that Florida was able to overcome them, but that is this year’s Southeastern Conference for you. Throughout the season they had incredibly strong offense and defense, and really their only weakness was their semi-reliance on senior forward Johni Broome. Auburn, Florida, Houston and Duke made up the Final Four this year, marking the first time since 2008 that every top-seeded team made it to the Final Four. While I prefer years when there is more diversity of seeds in the later rounds, this really proves how strong the one seeds were this year. Additionally, although all one seeds in the Final Four can be seen as boring, every team had at least one game that was not only close, but that they were in danger of losing.
Overall, this year’s March Madness was everything I always hope for; the only thing that could have made this year better would have been some winning brackets, but I will try again next year.
Graphic by Olivia Pastrick
Photo by Allison Cook
Graduate business administration student and pitcher Dawson Gabe walks to the dugout at the K-Out Cancer event at the April 11 baseball game. The support of the team has helped Gabe through his fight with cancer.
Photo by Allison Cook
Photo by Allison Cook
Meet the faces behind UISH
Long time, high school friends reunite to create content bigger than themselves
By Mia Lehmkuhl & Allison Cook EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & PHOTO EDITOR
You may have seen them on campus interviewing people with a fishing pole, filming videos around the canal, in the stands at home games with walkie-talkies or on the court interviewing coaches: Meet UISH.
UIndy Sports Humor, or UISH, is a growing social media account on campus. Sophomore communication and political science major Chris Hammer and sophomore business administration and management major Jose Cheshier are longtime friends and the account’s founders.
As Beech Grove High School students, the pair, along with their friend Chase, created a “BG Student Hive” Instagram account. When Hammer and Cheshier realized they both chose to attend the University of Indianapolis, the concept was reignited, and UIndy SH was born. Cheshier said he considers himself on the managerial and post-production side of things while Hammer is the personality behind the account.
“One day we just decided to get Photoshop,” Hammer said. “He [Cheshier] learned a lot of the editing stuff, he was really good at that. A lot of the dynamic is kind of like I’m the guy on the camera, he’s the guy that edits a lot of the stuff. Our skills just kind of contrast each other, and that’s how it really started.”
In total, Cheshier said the
group is comprised of five main members who do a variety of tasks, but each plays a role in the account’s production: Cheshier, Hammer, sophomore computer science major Badri Arul Raj, junior computer science major Martín Vizcaíno and former UIndy student Tyler Jarrett. He also said other friends help fill in when necessary. With thousands of followers between Instagram and TikTok, the duo said being full-time students typically does not conflict with managing their online presence, and, for Cheshier, it has been beneficial for him.
“You would think it’d be hard, but actually once I started running UISH, my GPA went up,” Cheshier said. “So my last semester, I had a 4.0, and I don’t know how that happened. I mean, I guess it’s not that hard. It’s healing.”
Hammer said being able to obtain official media passes and collaborate with UIndyTV have been some of the highlights of their first year, along with viral hits on TikTok and receiving positive feedback from the student body. There is not much of a process behind the content creation
process, Cheshier said. Hammer said a lot of the planning happens spontaneously in a group chat with the team. Paying attention to athletic schedules and staying up-to-date on campus events also helps them create content relevant to the student body.
“... It’s always on the spot,” Cheshier said. “You give us a camera, give us a mic, put us on the field, we’ll figure it out.”
One video in particular, filmed on the football field, gained the account the most attention it has seen so far at nearly half a million views on TikTok. In the video,
UIndy’s football team players shout out a local, Indianapolis Mexican restaurant, Don Juan’s, when asked which was harder: blocking a defensive lineman or deciding on what to eat.
“I think to this day it still is our most viewed and most liked content that we post across social media,” Hammer said.
For students interested in starting a social media presence of their own, the pair advised to go into it with confidence and with a team of support. Hammer said students can get involved in UISH by reaching out to the account on any of their social media platforms.
“I would say, just don’t be scared,” Cheshier said. “Maybe have a sense of community before you do something, because doing it alone, you’re going to face a lot of criticism and one ounce of disrespect, you’re just going to crumble. But if you have a team to go back to, I mean, I got to credit everything to my friends, Badri, Tyler, Martin, Corbin, Chris, all of them.”
Once Hammer and Cheshier graduate, the pair said they want UISH to live on. For Cheshier, it is about creating something bigger than himself in creating a louder voice for UIndy students. Hammer said he wants to pass the torch to another student team and does not want the account to die once he and Cheshier are gone.
“We didn’t start this page with the goal of making money or being successful,” Hammer said. “We started because it was a passion project in high school, it just went crazy. We started here because it was also a passion project. This is stuff we like to do.”
Boyd wins Armstrong Ethical Leadership award
By Pete Roeger DISTRIBUTION MANAGER
Mirror Indy Editor-in-Chief
Oseye Boyd received the second annual Kevin R. Armstrong Ethical Leadership Award on Monday, April 7 at the University of Indianapolis.
Boyd is the second award recipient, following last year’s retired WNBA star Tamika Catchings, according to an article published in 2024 by The Reflector.
According to a UIndy press release, the award is housed in the university’s Center for Ethics. Assistant Professor of Philosophy Lacey Davidson serves as its director, according to her page on the center’s website.
Davidson praised Kevin R. Armstrong, the namesake of the award. She described him as someone else who, like Boyd, is an exemplar of ethical leadership.
“He is a really cool example of someone who has a clear ethical framework, especially for acknowledging our responsibilities to leave things better than we found them,” Davidson said. “From interacting with Kevin, that is one of the things I honor and respect the most about him is he is trying to improve everything he interacts with, but in a very kind and collaborative way.”
Davidson said Armstrong is a member of the UIndy board of trustees and is a former United Methodist Church ordained minister. He later worked in healthcare administration at
Methodist Hospital.
Davidson said the award goes to individuals from Indiana who have modeled ethical leadership.She said there is also a donation presented to a nonprofit organization as part of the award, and both last and this year’s winners are directly associated with specific nonprofits. This, Davidson said, made them ideal candidates for the award.
Catchings founded Catch the Stars, a youth empowerment nonprofit. Free Press Indiana, a statewide journalism nonprofit, is the parent group of Mirror Indy, Boyd’s organization.
According to its LinkedIn page, Mirror Indy is a nonprofit
... I think now, more than ever, ...there is such a distrust of media.”
newsroom that focuses on community-oriented reporting in Indianapolis. Boyd said it is a newer organization, founded in December 2023, whose mission is to complement and partner with other news organizations.
“Mirror Indy, we are here to fill gaps in news. We’re not comparing ourselves to any other publications,” Boyd said. “We actually are partners with many publications around the city, TV and digital news.”
Boyd said that her long-term goal is to see Mirror Indy continue in its core values. These include being sustainable, trustworthy and
Indianapolis-focused.
“...We have created something that’s sustainable, that people trust us and rely on us, and they come to us for their news and information,” Boyd said about Mirror Indy. “That they know that we have their backs, we have Indianapolis’s backs, that we are trying to make sure, that we are Indianapolis people, we live in this community, we care about Indianapolis, we’re journalists, and we’re a service.”
According to Boyd’s LinkedIn page, she has over 25 years of experience in journalism. Boyd was the previous editor of the Indianapolis Recorder and the public engagement editor of the
Indianapolis Star. She said she has wanted to be a journalist since she was in fourth grade, was involved in her high school newspaper, majored in journalism at Ball State University and previously worked at the local newspaper in Muncie.
Boyd said that it is important for journalists to have ethics in their reporting. This is especially true in the current media climate, she said.
“One of the things that I was especially drawn to was a commitment to local journalism and telling the stories of people directly that are sometimes unheard or covered over,” Davidson said.
Davidson listed several examples of Boyd’s commitment which serve as examples of her commitment. These include her creation of an IndyStar board that covered important issues pertaining to the Black community, her focus on the city from an Indianapolis-centric perspective and her efforts to fill gaps in the city’s news coverage.
“I think in our industry, that is something that is really important,” Boyd said. “And I don’t want to say people don’t have it, but I think now, more than ever, people need to see it, because there is such a distrust of media.” Davidson said Boyd’s approach to journalism focuses on issues that are not always covered. This, Davidson said, aligns with the mission of the Armstrong award.
Photo by Allison Cook
Mirror Indy Editor-in-Chief Oseye Boyd and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Lacey Davidson laugh on stage at the second annual Kevin R. Armstrong Ethical Leadership Award event at the University of Indianapolis on April 7, 2025.
Contributed by Chris Hammer
Sophomore communication and political science major Chris Hammer, junior computer science major Martín Vizcaíno and sophomore business administration and management major Jose Cheshier film a video for UIndySH.
ENTERTAINMENT
The Ivy performs at Hoosier Dome
By Elyssa Merrill OPINION EDITOR
Indie-pop duo, The Ivy, is making its way across the United States again, touring the music of the Oklahoma-natives alongside collaborator Lyncs on the “Spring Tour 2025.”
With over 300,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and a debut album released a little over a year ago, the band began the tour across the US on March 25 and is ending April 24 at the Norman Music Festival. Along the way, the band stopped at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on April 4, performing the same night as Fifth Lucky Dragon and Lyncs.
The duo has added another to the group. The two original band members are leadvocalist, guitar player and songwriter Wyatt Clem and backup singer, bassist, synth player and songwriter Shawn Abhari. They are now joined by drummer Jordan Lynch, another Oklahoma native, as of last year.
Clem said that he has been looking forward to traveling for a while now, “a new city every day.” Abhari added that he was excited for some of the upcoming dates, with Chicago being the day after the Hoosier Dome and soon-to-be sold out show. This is Lynch’s first time touring, as he was not with the band when it had its headline tour in 2023. Clem said that touring offers something
different — a connection.
“It’s cool to see familiar faces, like people coming back to the shows,” Clem said. “… Getting to connect with people in person, I feel like there’s a lot more value in it … it humanizes the music a little bit.”
All three of the members shared that it is a musician’s dream to be able to tour with music they made and love. Abhari is no different; he said that, since he was a child, he has had the dream to tour in a big bus after seeing all his favorite bands on the road.
“... Touring is just a journey — it’s the funnest part,” Abhari said. “… So I think it’s good to remember that while we’re on the road, it’s like we’re living out our dreams.”
The band recently released the song “Don’t Fall Asleep To This” in February with fellow indie artist and tour-mate Lyncs. With over 84,000 monthly listeners, she is a part of the tour and headlines for the band, returning during The Ivy’s set to sing the song alongside them.
In this day and age, a song can go viral overnight, and that is what happened to The Ivy, Abhari said. After releasing music for a year and a half, the song “Gold” gained popularity and gave the band more attention, sitting at over 9 million listens on Spotify. On the flip side, The Ivy’s most popular song sitting at over 23 million listens on Spotify, “Have
You Ever Been in Love,” was a more gradual gain over a year or two, said Clem. Realizing the algorithm picks and chooses what to make popular, Abhari said it is all just numbers.
While the songs may be crowd favorites, both songs were released in 2017, according to Spotify, so the band has moved past the sound they started with, offering a stark contrast, said Clem. For Abhari, he said that it was difficult to leave validation up to the number of listens.
“As long as there’s heart behind the song, it will resonate with someone,” Abhari said. “... I had to cut ties with ‘this song is a good song because it has X
many listens.’ … And sometimes I just have to get out of my head.
‘No, it’s a great song, People are going to love it, it might just take a second.’ And so I think separating that is important.”
Lynch recalled on the tour that there is joy in seeing the people show up and playing music that is fun and loved. He went on to say that whether it was a girl singing along even if she did not know all the words or people using lyrics in their wedding vows, he enjoys being a part of something that resonates in people’s lives.
“I think that’s what I’ve liked a lot, seeing them, seeing people resonate with their music really
By Caroline Krauch SPORTS EDITOR
Indy Fringe Theatre is celebrating its 20th anniversary festival this year with multiple events leading up to the main spectacle in August.
IF Theatre is hosting multiple opportunities throughout the summer for people to join in the celebration, including a cocktail reception and a month-long marketing campaign, according to its website. One of the others was the Flanner Fringe Lab, which happened in February. Through a partnership between Flanner House of Indiana and IF, a playwriting workshop was
hosted at Flanner House and three of the plays written will be performed at the festival. The festival will be Aug. 14-24 at six various locations throughout Indianapolis. There are currently 67 acts that will be performing a variety of talents including magic, miming, acting and more. People must apply to be added to the show and receive a spot through a lottery system.
The first fringe festival took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1947 and still happens today.
It is the largest performing arts festival in the world. There are fringe theatres throughout the country but IF is the only one in Indiana. Executive Director
Paul Daily said that there are a
lot of exciting things happening in conjunction with this year’s festival. He said that the festival will look slightly different than it has in previous years.
“The performing arts world in general is still suffering from COVID,” Daily said. “That took a terrible toll. And so what is really exciting about this year is it’s going to be back as big and grand as it ever has been. So that energy, excitement, community that Indy Fringe has been about, will be bigger than ever.”
Technical Director and UIndy theatre major Zacy Schneider worked the festival last year and will do the same this year. They said that IF just celebrating 20 years is an
accomplishment in itself with many other theatres in the area having to shut down.
“Having that opportunity in Indianapolis for anyone to be able to put on these productions and do anything they can imagine is so important to keeping theater and the arts alive in Indy,” Schneider said.
“Theater arts in general is very important and, I feel, an underestimated thing in this world.”
Daily highlighted that although the festival will only run Aug. 14-24, IF operates year-round with various types of acts available. For more information and to buy tickets, people can go to IndyFringe.org.
Swing into spring: Newfield’s Spring Blooms
By Jona Hogle ART DIRECTOR
Welcoming back its annual burst of color, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields showcases its nature exhibits with Spring Blooms.
Through May 18, open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can partake in a tapestry of floral variety. Over 60,000 tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, snapdragons and more are on display across
the 100-acre campus, according to the program.
The campus is also home to Oldfields-Lilly House. The old architecture provides a glimpse into the past with a self-guided walk through the interior of the house.
“The beauty of The Garden and Fairbanks Park in springtime places them among the most serene and uplifting destinations in Indianapolis,” said Jonathan Wright, The Ruth Lilly Director of The Garden and Fairbanks Park, in a press release. “...
Fascinating technological capabilities combined with odes to its historical Oldfields aesthetic are sure to make it a spectacular garden destination.”
The grounds feature multiple gardens, a greenhouse and a vast array of sites spread across the landscape where visitors can take pictures. Newfields offers a handful of activities that can be planned to enhance your experience, according to its website.
In addition to strolling and exploring at your own pace, the
website states Newfields provides guided garden walks — offering insights about the diverse plant collections and the artistry behind each and every display.
Newfields also often hosts events and special activities, for example, celebrating Mother’s Day Weekend or the Creativity & Wellness program.
For the most up-to-date information on daily schedules, admission fees, accessibility and weather advisories, visit its website at discovernewfields. org/springblooms.
well,” Lynch said. “And I get to be a part of it, and it’s really cool.”
The band will continue the tour for another week, landing back in Oklahoma. Despite some things going wrong like Clem hurting his wrist and the band feeling under the weather occasionally, Lynch said that touring offers a new perspective and fun.
“There’s stuff that’s unexpected, but you just roll with the punches,” Lynch said. “It kind of gives you thick skin and teaches you not to get upset at the little things… You just kind of have to roll with it because that’s show biz baby.”
“Tick, Tick... Boom!” is booming
By Ella Shelburn STAFF WRITER
UIndy Theatre’s production of Jonathan Larson’s “Tick, Tick… Boom!” captures the uncertainty and dread of getting older in a lively performance.
“Tick, Tick…Boom!” follows Jon, an artist struggling to make ends meet in New York City, as he hopes to find some success as a songwriter writing musicals. While Jon’s friends have stable jobs, Jon continues to struggle to get an audience for his art and is dreading the moment he turns thirty without finding success.
This feeling of dread was depicted so well that I felt it myself. The way the musical numbers, especially “30/90,” intensified as it went on really showcased the pressures that come with getting older.
I also felt that the multi-colored lights and the simple set helped bring the show to life. Most changes in the setting were done by actors moving tables and chairs onto the stage in choreographed movements that often went along with songs, which made the changes feel more fluid and part of the show.
Throughout the show, I loved how all actors, ensemble or not, had important parts within Jon’s story. Oftentimes, many of the actors had different parts and duties throughout the show, such as portraying background dancers, Jon’s parents, co-workers, friends or audience members. Because of their different roles in the show, I felt like I could see all their talents as actors and how involved they were during the performance.
Additionally, I noticed how the lead actors played their characters with such emotional depth. In particular, senior theatre major Zacy Schneider’s performance as Jon in the song “Why” stood out. The song was soft and contemplative, with Jon reflecting on what he enjoys most about his life and his memories with his friend Michael. Despite the slowness of the song, Schneider’s emotional performance made the song feel like the intense turning point that it was, where Jon is realizing that he wants to spend his life making art despite the struggles and failures he has faced.
UIndy’s “Tick, Tick… Boom!” was emotional, wellchoreographed and showcased the talent of UIndy Theatre Co.
Photo by Jona Hogle
Part of the Oldfields estate, the R.D Wood Formal Garden, designed by Lewis Ketcham Davis pictured at Newfields Garden on April 9.
Photo by Jona Hogle
The Garden For Everyone tulips pictured at the Spring Blooms exhibit at Newfields on April 9.
Photo by Elyssa Merrill
Headline graphic by Emma Foutz
Half of The Ivy duo Shawn Abhari playing synth and singing backup vocals with new addition drummer Jordan Lynch in the background at the Hoosier Dome on April 4.
