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New CFO, VP and Treasurer announced

By Noah Crenshaw & Tyshara Loynes ONLINE EDITOR & STAFF WRITER

At the beginning of March, the University of Indianapolis announced that Indiana State Budget Director Jason Dudich would be the university’s new CFO, vice president and treasurer. Dudich will be replacing former Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Michael Holstein, who retired in December 2018.

University President Robert Manuel said that he believes that Dudich will continue the fiscal leadership that was started by Holstein. He said that Dudich has previously worked with former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard’s office and Indiana University. Dudich was appointed as state budget director by Gov. Eric Holcomb in 2017, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.

Dudich said that one of his main goals at UIndy will be to keep the university financially strong and to ensure that it is able to have the resources that are needed for faculty, staff and students. He said that with his position, he hopes that he will be able to help UIndy take on new initiatives in the future. “[I want UIndy to be able to] be flexible in identifying ways that we can meet those new initiatives and new goals,” Dudich said. “I certainly want to make sure that there’s a high level of transparency. My time in government has really helped me understand that transparency is important for those who are working with—whether [that be] the state or the university—in understanding how well the institution is doing financially and [how they] can talk about financial situations that will hurt or help the institution... Because it's so vitally important to the institution and its future success.”

Dudich said that he believes that finances are something that should be communicated about due to their importance in decision making and because it is a subject that many do not completely understand. He said that one of his goals is to educate students, faculty and staff about UIndy’s finances.

DUDICH “Whether that be our budget, whether that be our investments, whether that be how we set policies that impact the financial operations of the institution,”Dudich said. “To [be able to] talk to and educate individuals so that they understand when we present financial information, and when we talk about financial situations, [and] that they feel like they are on a level playing field with the financial team.”

According to a press release from UIndy, Dudich will be moving into his position in June. Dudich said that he is excited and looking forward to joining UIndy as CFO, VP and Treasurer.

“I welcome the opportunity to meet as many people as I can to talk about the university and learn as much as I can from people who have been there both in the short run, and the long run,” Dudich said.

“I’m just very excited to get down there and take the experience that I have had over the last 18 years in the public sector and see what I can do to help UIndy out and make it successful…[I am] very thankful for the opportunity that the board and President Manuel gave me and also the opportunities the Governor gave me to work [in] this role [as budget director], but also to be able to step in to this new role [as CFO, VP and Treasurer] and do something different in higher education, which I’ve always been interested in working in.”

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APRIL 17, 2019

2019 Honorary Degree Recipients

Immigration policies affect UIndy Athletics

By Jayden Kennett MANAGING EDITOR

Photo contributed by UIndy Speech Team

Each new presidential administration, brings new laws and regulations.

Under the Trump administration, specifically, immigration regulations and restrictions have changed in a variety of ways. Managing Attorney from Indiana Immigration Law Group Clare Corado said the significant changes regarding immigration are based on several sources—the U.S. Constitution, executive orders, court decisions and others. However, Corado said, because some changes would need to be approved by Congress, the changes that have been seen are primarily due to reinterpreting existing laws and creating new procedures internally. This, she said, has caused a lot of trouble for immigrants trying to come to the United States.

“One thing that many Americans are unaware of is that there not only have been significant actions taken to reduce undocumented immigration, but it has also become significantly harder for immigrants to enter United States lawfully as well,” Corado said. “We have seen every possible tactic to create additional bureaucratic delays on all case types. For example, many forms have tripled in length and their processing time has been delayed by several months or more. There are widespread requests for additional evidence on cases where all of the initially required evidence has already been submitted. Legal immigrants and their families have been significantly affected. This has also impacted many work-based visa types and hurt employers.”

Since these changes, Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Sue Willey said she is struggling to hire qualified international assistant coaches, who are desperately needed at the University of Indianapolis.

The National Foundation for American Policy released data that found U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, has begun to increase H1-B visa denials.

Willey and Director of International Services Mimi Chase have been helping international coaches to apply for the H-1B visa, which allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations.

They said that recently they have found their applicants were being denied and the process taking double the amount of time, whereas in the past, applicants were approved.

“We currently have two head coaches that went through the process and had no problem. Now, we've had two more coaches that we want to stay here and be full-time employees, and they've been denied that right,” Willey said. “We've had coaches [who] in order to stay here had to become graduate students, although maybe they've already had a graduate degree, and now they're taking another graduate degree so they can stay and still be a part of the program.”

According to USCIS, the H-1B program is a program that temporarily employs foreign workers in the U.S. in “occupations that require the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and a bachelor’s degree or higher in the specific specialty, or its equivalent.”

Specialty occupations include fields such as science, teaching and engineering. However, collegiate coaching is not considered a specialty occupation under the USCIS’s specifications, despite the fact that most colleges require coaches to have a bachelor's degree in any subject, according to Chase.

There are other visas that coaches can apply for, such as an O-1 visa. To obtain this visa, the coach must show he or she has received national or international acclaim and recognition for achievements as a coach. While this visa was considered as a possibility, the H1-B visa maybe the only visa for which some coaches coming to UIndy are eligible for. This situation, Willey said, has left her hands tied.

The UIndy Forensics Speech & Debate team posed with their medals and plaque, won at the State Championship Competition.

Pictured on the far left, Craig Chigadza was a state champion in persuasive speaking and won a national championship in interviewing.

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Lonnie Johnson • Inventor of the Super Soaker water gun • President and founder of the Johnson Research and Development Company • NASA engineer • Worked at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory • Worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Cassini mission to Saturn and the Mars Observer project • Received the Air Force Achievement Medal and the Air Force Commendation Medal • Speaking at the undergraduate ceremony on Saturday, May 4

Those who receive Honorary Degrees at the University of Indianapolis are often “individuals who are innovators, society and industry leaders, and visionaries who embody the mission of our University,” University President Robert Manuel said in a press release on March 29 announcing that NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson and civil rights activist Bob Zellner were the 2019 recipients. Manuel said that an honorary degree is one of the highest honors a college can give.

“There's not many [people] receiving that honor from the university over time,” Manuel said. “There’s a prestige associated with it [and] that is the honor part of it....There's no speaker's fee here [or] anything like that. There is just coming here for the honor of receiving the degree, talking to the students and engaging our population.”

Manuel said that both Johnson and Zellner were chosen because their lives can be a model to students. He said that the values they have are the values the university hopes students will leave with after graduation.

“Creative inquiry, service, creativity, social justice, all those things are inherent in the life examples of both Lonnie [Johnson] and Bob [Zellner],” Manuel said. “So, when you sit in the crowd and you look at who we're giving an honorary degree to, hopefully, as a student, you'd sit there and think, 'Okay, I get what the university is about. I get how it's connected to the values that we share.'”

Bob Zellner • First white southerner to have a field secretary position for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1961 • Arrested 18 times for trying to challenge segregation in the South • Featured in the 2005 award-winning documentary “Come Walk in My Shoes, • Wrote a memoir, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement,” which is being made into a film that will be produced by Spike Lee • Speaking at the graduate ceremony on Friday, May 3

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Speech team ends strong

By Abby Land

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Persuasion, interviewing, extemporaneous and impromptu speeches were among the forensic skills displayed by varsity members of the UIndy Forensics Speech & Debate team on March 21-22 when the students finished their competitive season at the National Speech Competition in Detroit. The varsity team—comprised of Vanessa Hickman, Shayla Cabalan, Craig Chigadza, India Graves, Melanie Moore, Sierra Roberts, Kaylee Blum and Taylor Woods—nearly tripled the team’s average from last year at the competition.

Sophomore psychology and international relations major Craig Chigadza, who placed first in persuasive speaking at the state level, emerged as national champion in interviewing. He is the first University of Indianapolis student in nearly two decades to receive this title.

The university and name of the first place winner is announced last in competition and although he was satisfied with his performance and prepared not to win, Chigadza said, with each name called that was not his own, he realized

that placing first was an increasingly real possibility.

“As I was standing onstage, I could see my two coaches, they were in the crowd. They were almost trying to hold each others’ hands,” Chigadza said. “And it was a really happy moment that I was grateful to experience, when something is finally confirmed...When you start something and you work towards something and you actually see it bear fruit, it’s a big moment for everyone, not only for myself as an individual but the team, for my coaches, everyone that puts an effort into making the whole machine work.”

As a result of winning the national championship, Chigadza will spend the summer in China working with Learning Leaders, an organization in Shanghai dedicated to improving the debate and public speaking skills of students.

Chigadza said he will work with mostly middle school and high school students there and is excited to represent UIndy overseas.

For Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Speech & Debate Stephanie Wideman, the fact that Chigadza won in the experimental category of interviewing was special because it shows how the skills that are

taught by the program are applicable to everyday life.

“Interviewing is that hardened skill,” Wideman said. “That's where we really test out, 'Can what we [educators] traditionally teach, transfer into something that's getting these people jobs?' And that was why it was so exciting to have one of ours do that and show that. What I think is exemplary of all the teaching that goes on the university is that we have a focus on not just what's happening in the classroom, but how does that translate into what's going to happen outside of it for the students.”

The students Wideman referred to have been steadily gaining ground in the field of speech and debate over the last couple of years. For example, junior communication and English major Shayla Cabalan will have a persuasive speech from last year’s competitive season, “11 and Engaged: America’s unseen child marriage crisis” published in the 14th edition of the human communication book being authored by a professor at the University of New York. Chigazda will also have his persuasive speech, “The Biggest Healthcare Crisis you’ve never heard of: World EyeCare,” which was about the > See Speech on page 8

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OPINION

THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 17, 2019

Connected by conservatism It’s hard to imagine what it would be like to hear that freedom is within reach, in the next 30 days, and then have that deadline extended to possibly years.

Graphic by Madison Gomez

Troops deserving of truth Misleading video yields false hope, sparks controversy

By Madison Gomez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

“We have won against ISIS. We have beaten them and we have beaten them badly,” President Donald Trump said in a video posted on Twitter last December. In that same month, Trump announced that the United States would pull troops out of Syria soon on the pretext that ISIS had been defeated. A few weeks later, National Security Adviser John Bolton rolled back the declaration, establishing conditions that would keep troops there for months or even years, according to a New York Times article.

Thirty days to months to years. That video was a lie. What stands true is the hopeful sentiments that were shattered by the repercussions of this timeline.

Those were true and real and impact the daily lives of loved ones.

Families should not have been given the false hope of soldiers returning sooner than they actually will, nor should the brave men and women fighting in Syria.

It has been a long war, and the damage continues, so this address of information shouldn’t be dealt with like this.

According to a March 23 New York Times article, since Trump’s declaration on Dec. 19, 2018, there have been 182 attacks in Syria. Clearly, considering the numbers, the war is not over, so the declaration should not have been made in the first place.

This is a war that we rarely seem

to hear about in headline news, but it supposedly took a big turn when the last ISIS-controlled area in Syria was liberated in March, according to the March 23 New York Times article. I say supposedly because the war with ISIS is far from over. Withdrawing the troops now might do good temporarily, but in the long run, keeping them there will prevent more damage from being done.

Just don’t provide false hope. It just isn’t right.

In its staff editorial published on April 5, 2018, USA Today said that the problems that caused the war, such as destabilization and lack of security, need to be solved before the troops can leave.

Syria also needs to be cleaned of military debris and hidden explosives need to be deactivated before any problem-solving begins and the troops are able to leave the country, which possibly stands true for today.

We need a stated reason for why we’re staying there, if we are, because of Trump’s video, and something more than just, ‘we’ll keep them there till they tell us to take them out.’ It would at least clarify the situation and perhaps console loved ones facing the hurt Trump just caused.

All of this mess is just exacerbated by the fact that the troops are still fighting after they were promised a 30-day release. Bolton inserted what Trump had omitted in his Twitter video, that there were conditions to be met before that withdrawal, according to Jan.

6 New York Times article. Trump once again said something that was not completely true, the government seems to be disregarding the human aspect that the statement lacked. When appealing to the public, I feel like it’s fair to say that they should at least consider feelings on matters like this. Meanwhile, the government’s agenda seems to be set to make sure the pullout of troops results in peace, and Syria is saved from the reign of Assad and backers like Russia and Turkey, who are working to keep him in office as president.

It’s hard to imagine what it would be like to hear that freedom is within reach, in the next 30 days and then to have that deadline extended possibly to years.

No one knows who the families at home are unless they openly talk about where their relatives are deployed. Many could be in the University of Indianapolis community. For any of those struggling here, just know you are not alone.

The message that Trump sent out was inaccurate and hurtful, and your feelings of false hope are justified because that Twitter declaration was quickly overturned.

I do not know when this war will end, but the troops should stay as long as they must. But the damage done back home would have been far less harsh without Trump’s video. Do not tell people they are about to go home, that their son or daughter or wife or husband or whoever will soon see their soldier, when it is not true.

Seniors bid farewell Zoë Berg, Editor in Chief When I came to the University of Indianapolis, the only thing I really felt confident about was my writing ability, and while that wasn’t totally off base, I definitely should not have been as confident as I was. However, the passion I had for writing is what made me join The Reflector, and honestly, that was the best decision freshman Zoë made. I had some of the best experiences of my college career up on the third floor of Esch and with the people I met on The Reflector. This has given me a chance to develop my writing skills to a point where I actually can be confident in them, learn how to take photos, create graphics and run on only a couple of hours of sleep.

Every sleepless night was worth it because of the amazing people I got to meet. The people I’ve gotten to interview have been one of the highlights of my tenure. I loved getting to see what other people are passionate about and become a mini-expert in that area so I could write the article.

But the biggest thing I got out of working on The Reflector was an awesome group of friends that I sometimes even call my Reflector family. Right away, I felt welcomed and quickly developed friendships with the older editors who helped me grow and become who I am today.

Even though there isn’t anyone left on staff from my first semester, the experience remains the same, if not better. I’m not going to mention anyone

by name, because then this would turn into a book, but I will say I have never felt more like myself or laughed as much as when I was having a rousing debate, strange conversation or just messing around with my friends on staff. This also wouldn’t be complete without mentioning our wonderful adviser and mentor, Jeanne Criswell. I know for a fact that The Reflector, and my time at UIndy, would not be nearly as good without her.

And now, I want to offer a piece of advice: don’t think you know it all, try everything and find a place that makes you feel like you belong, because those are the three things that really made my time here great, and I’m sure they will for you, too.

Abby Land, Entertainment Editor During the three years that I have worked on The Reflector staff, I have read every senior send-off and thought about what I would say when the time came for me to write mine. Now that I’m here, it feels impossible to do justice to the laughter, tears and memories of the newsroom that have become such a part of the person and professional that I am today. It feels almost cheap to try to write about it, but as a journalist, I do believe that writing is the best way to say anything.

All I really knew coming into college was that I loved to write, and I was good at it. But I was not disciplined in my writing. More than once during that first semester, I lamented that journalism “is writing but with all the fun taken out.”

But I was so wrong. I am 10 times the writer now that I was when I first took the elevator up to the third floor of Esch Hall as a freshman. If I never

write another article in my life, I will still use and benefit from the skills I got here every day.

Most importantly, though, my heart aches when I think of the friends who, no matter how well I stay in touch with them, I will never be as close to again as I am now. The people I have worked with over my three years in the newsroom created such a special environment to be part of—one where I could be completely myself without fear of judgment. Sometimes when I am job searching, I have this fear, almost as pervasive as the fear of unemployment: what if I have to work with people who are actually normal?

How boring that seems compared to what I am accustomed to. And, honestly, how lucky am I to have that fear, because it shows how much I have loved being a part of The Reflector.

Not everyone is lucky enough to find where they really fit in college, and I don’t take for granted that I had that chance. I’ve had opportunities and made friends that three years ago, when I sat alone in my freshman dorm wishing for better things, I could not have dreamed of. I am so thankful to the staff, the ones still here and the ones who have left, and to Jeanne, who always had so much faith in me. I hold you all and the memories we’ve shared close to my heart, and please know that the best parts of the young woman leaving UIndy now exist, at least in part, thanks to you all. I hope I’ll make you proud.

much of a conservative, seemed to be the moral opposite of me. I thought that the BUSINESS MANAGER president's views were disgusting and that the same must be true of his supBeing a Hoosier comes with a love- porters. Now, cursed with the whimsical hate relationship with college basket- collegiate exploration of ideas, I have ball and the stereotypical Midwestern come to understand why conservatives niceness that makes for awkward con- seek comfort in President Trump. Drive versation when trying to open the door around northern and southern Indiana, for someone. It also comes with a set of and you will see it. Many times during core values. Either a product of my own his campaign, Trump offered help to the upbringing or the upbringing of those disadvantaged farmers of rural Ameriaround me, Indiana’s core conservative ca, so they could pursue their American values, such as fiscal responsibility, the Dream. These were people carrying on pursuit of the American Dream and their traditions. Whether it is followindividualism are ones to which I sub- ing after their grandmother in shucking scribe. Despite being a self-identified corn or working at your family’s owned liberal, those conservative values are im- bakery. I wasn’t much different. My portant to me in living a full life, in and grandmother was a server, my mother was a server, and in high school I joined outside of politics.

I grew up in an urban area on the east the business to help pay for college and side of Indianapolis, a place where the novelties.

For some poorer or disadvantaged number of beer bottle caps outnumbered the blades of grass at the local park. My people, liberal politics kept us alive and family was broke. My friends were hun- kept our families together. However, gry. Everyone around me was suffering. conservative policies did the same for many farmWe drew comers and the fort in hearing middle class. I about policies that promoted Conservatism, at its core, highly doubt I would have the welfare of is about the connection ever become a and assistance registered Reto those less humans can make... publican, but if fortunate. The my upbringing policies my had been diffriends, family and I supported were rooted in the val- ferent, there might have been a better ue of fiscal responsibility. Giving people shot.

It was never a matter of how people free or cheaper healthcare and helping them buy food is one of the best ways to with the color of my skin, no matter promote financial responsibility. People how brown it is, could acquaint themwho do not understand what it’s like to selves with the conservative agenda. have money may not understand how to Conservatism, at its core, is about the use it. Programs such as the Affordable connections humans can make despite Care Act and the Supplemental Nutri- their differences. Inclusivity has been tion Assistance Program gave our fam- the hallmark of liberal ideals and polily the ability to save for things such as itics, when conservatives should have textbooks and family trips. The current been the first to jump at the opportuconservative agenda sees these as hand- nity. There does not need to be any docouts. We weren’t farmhands, but we trine or set of rules to label who has the definitely were working hard. It was a ideology of the people. In retrospect, the tradition of hard work that we kept and ideological divide is the most American part of politics. While I admit that parpassed down through each generation.

My family and I practiced things tisanship should be at the forefront of based on tradition, but traditions change all policies, my experience has always as time passes. It’s a generational tele- led me to believe that it was impossiphone game. From my experience, most ble to do so. Those differences in ideas people in Indiana are conservative be- and institutions are the leading factors cause that’s how they were taught to in a rich democracy. We just need to acpursue the American Dream. That same quaint ourselves with the other sides.

Many of us believe different things, way of thinking was passed to me. I noticed more as time passed after the 2016 but we all are much more similar than presidential election. At first, those who we give ourselves credit for. We’re all sided with then presidential candidate connected by the same principles and Donald Trump, who is not actually values that make us American.

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THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 17, 2019

Sexual Assault Awareness Month April 2019 marks the 18th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual Assault Awareness Month is dedicated to acknowledging, recognizing and attempting to reduce and eliminate sexual assault situations with various events and conversations, being held both across the country and internationally, according to University of Indianapolis Director of Student Support and Title IX Coordinator Anne Moelk. This includes UIndy, which hosted several events focused on consent, which ties into this year’s theme of “I Ask.” The National Sexual Violence Resource Center said: “The campaign theme, ‘I Ask,’ champions the message that asking for consent is a healthy, normal and necessary part of everyday interactions.”

UIndy is holding seven different events or themed days throughout the course of the month. They kicked off with the Day of Action, where people were encouraged to wear teal to show their support.

O t h e r events included events focused on the LGBTQ

community, body positivity, self-defense and male assault victims. These events focus on various different communities that are affected by sexual assault.

“We have members of all of those groups within our community,” Moelk said. “And so I think it's a matter of inclusion. You want to have inclusion on the good things and… opportunities for self protection and opportunities for resources, if you do become a victim, should also be inclusive. And so creating a space where everyone recognizes that, you know, they too deserve to be safe and happy is important.”

Senior visual communication design major and PRIDE Co-Chair OJ Moore said it is important that Sexual Assault Awareness Month happens because it helps bring light to the ever-present issue. Conversations about things like sexual assault and harassment can be difficult and uncomfortable to engage in, but Moelk said she relishes the opportunity to have conversations because that is a part of college and a part of life and it is important to be educated.

Conversations about sexual assault can happen outside of larger organized events too and should be something students are able to talk about with their friends, according to Moelk. She recently bought a conversation-starting game, that students can check out from her office called “Sexversations,” which has cards with various topics and questions aimed to get sometimes difficult conver-

“I ASK”

sations started.

Moelk also suggested using opportunities to naturally bring up the topic in conversation.

For example, if someone is watching a movie with friends and they see a situation occur, they can start a conversation about what they would do if something like that happened to them or someone they know.

Online movements like the #MeToo movement are also a way people can, and have started talking about sexual assault.

“I think it's good [talking about sexual assault] because people don't feel isolated as victims, as survivors,” Moelk said. “They realize that, unfortunately, they are not alone in these scenarios.

And I say unfortunately, because obviously we don't want people to be victims, survivors, but it's a good thing for those who are to know that they have a community that they can fall back onto.

And so having that conversation allows people to feel more comfortable bringing their stories to the front. I think the conversation continuing is a good thing because it lets perpetrators know that it's not going away. It lets people know that, you know, we as a community are paying attention to this kind of stuff now and your bullying and your coercion and your hopes, that these types of

things we'll just fade and go away until the next thing comes up. That's not happening.”

Moelk has information in her office, located in Schwitzer 210, about sexual assault and harassment and said her door is open if students would like to talk or report something. She also said the Counseling Center offers support for victims, and UIndy has a new group called PAWS which is made up of peer leaders and supporters. She said if a student does not feel comfortable going to her and would rather go to one of their peers, these people have been trained and know the resources that they can refer victims to. Moore also stressed that if someone has a friend who has had something like this happen to them, it is important to be there for them.

“If somebody is going through this and you know them personally, that doesn't turn you into social justice warrior,” Moore said. “That doesn't make it your responsibility to tackle this huge issue head on and publicly. You are completely allowed to just be there for your one friend at that one time, and that makes a difference to that person.”

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PRIDE Discussion PRIDE hosted a discussion about sexual assault in the LGBTQ community in collaboration with Moelk. She said the event aimed to talk about the differences within the LGBTQ community and sexual assault and to make sure that students know about the resources available to them on campus. Moelk said that it is more common for sexual assualt to happen to LGBTQ youth and that they are less likely to report it. Moore said that because of the alarming statistics about sexual assault in the LGBTQ community, they wanted to make sure that their members knew about the resources offered on campus.

“We were trying to talk to our members about [it]. As a minority in the world, I think we have this mentality, to an extent, that when we find someone that's like us, we need [to] marry them and take whatever good and bad that comes with it. And that's not excusable for being sexually assaulted and harassed,” junior criminal justice major and Treasurer of PRIDE Tiger Castell said. “We don't have to put up with it as being our only option. We're still very much human and that we need to know that it's okay to stand up for ourselves and to also help others.”

April 4

27% of college women have experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact.

Mac Attack

Mac Attack was sponsored by the Campus Program Board and gave attendees a chance to learn selfdefense skills, while also enjoying macaroni and cheese. The event began with an informational session and trivia game on Title IX and UIndy's resources lead

by Executive Administrative Assistant and Deputy Title IX Coordinator Brittany Gray. Campus Police Officer Enrique Nunez then lead a self-defense demonstration with two cadets.

"More than anything I found that accurately training self-defense gives you a good context for what you're trying to accomplish," Nunez said. "Most people that haven't trained don't actually know what they're training to do and a lot of that is from Hollywood. You might think you're training to do something super flashy to keep yourself safe, [but] it might be something as simple as giving your attacker your car keys and walking away with your life. If you know how to defend yourself, you're more likely to make the right decisions.

I think that's the benefit of training."

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47% of transgender people are sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime.

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On April 4, social entrepreneur and CEO of Talk To Jess, a consulting firm that works with brands to help better represent people in their media, marketing and advertising, Jess Weiner came to campus to hold a workshop and lecture open to student, staff, faculty and community members.

The workshop was called “The Business of Being You” and gave attendees the opportunity to figure out their personal mission, values and vision. “The Confidence Myth” was a lecture she gave where she shared her story of social activism and discussed how anyone could get involved with a cause they cared about.

Moelk said that while these events were not originally intended to be a part of the consent events happening on campus, her visit coincided and fit into the programming of the events as well.

“I think her message of body positivity and empowerment really goes along with what we're trying to do in terms of educating people about having confidence in the ability to speak up for themselves, and to perhaps get themselves out of the situation that might turn into a sexual assault scenario,” Moelk said.

on college campuses do not report the assault

Nearly two thirds of college students experience sexual harassment.

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1 in 5 women

will be raped at some point in their lives.

1 in 71 men

will be raped at some point in their lives.

Retaking Our Story Tim Mousseau will be speaking on campus in UIndy Hall A at 9 p.m. about reframing the sexual assault conversation. Mousseau is a male survivor of sexual assault and subsequent sexual harassment who has made it his mission to end sexual violence in every community, according to his website. Moelk said he will be approaching sexual assault from the male victim’s perspective and putting an emphasis on men participating in and promoting sexual assault awareness. She also said male victims are the least likely to report sexual assault because of social norms, so the event will also focus on how men can talk about these issues as victims.

“As a speaker with personal stakes in these topics, these issues are close to my heart, and I know the personal experience is sadly all too familiar for many.…” Mousseau said on his website. “I share my personal experiences as a survivor and with sexual harassment to connect to vulnerably, as humans. I share original research, data and experience to provoke action with proven processes.”

'Can I Give You A Kiss’ focused on distributing information about consent and the importance of always asking for consent before engaging in any kind of physical interaction. Moelk sat at a table in Schwitzer Student Center and asked passersby if they wanted a kiss, a Hershey’s Kiss. She said that this event is an example of a way to bring up a difficult subject like sexual assault or consent and make it easier to talk about.

“Using something as kind of silly as, 'Hey, can I give you a kiss?' And then handing someone a chocolate piece of chocolate lightens the mood,” Moelk said. “But also is a nice analogy to the real thing of if I wanted to give you an actual kiss, a physical kiss, I should ask you that too. I'm not going to throw chocolate at you. And I shouldn't just attack you with kisses unless you have given me consent. And so, you know, trying to lighten the mood I think is one way to do that.”

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has more information consent. The organization said consent is important because: "You’ll feel more confident about what you’re doing, and your partner will feel comfortable getting close to you."

April 24 National Sexual Assault Hotline

800-656-HOPE (4673)

Information in bubbles from National Sexual Violence Resource Center and National Center for Transgender Equality.

Denim Day

On Denim Day, students, faculty and staff are requested to wear denim to raise awareness of sexual assault and rape. It will be the 20th Annual International Denim Day run by Peace Over Violence. According to denimdayinfo.org, millions of people around the world wear jeans to promote this campaign.

“The campaign began after a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped the person who raped her remove her jeans, thereby implying consent,” the website said. “The following day, the women in the Italian Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim.

Peace Over Violence developed the Denim Day campaign in response to this case and the activism surrounding it. Since then, wearing jeans on Denim Day has become a symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual harassment, abuse, assault and rape.”

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Policies from page 1 “Basically, it has become an issue when we have international employees and [are] trying to get them to be able to stay,” Willey said. “It seems to be more of a significant problem in athletics than maybe other areas on campus. From what I understand—from our lawyers, from our international division here—is the fact that for whatever reason, those folks [at USCIS] don't believe our folks need specific training. It’s like anybody could be this coach or that coach or a sports admin.”

Chase said that in the past, the university could argue that the coaches it wanted to hire were specially qualified.

Experts could be called upon to demonstrate that applicants were highly specialized to the USCIS and the DHS, Chase said. But now, as the university has moved through hiring two new international assistant coaches, the experts were not accepted. Chase said she believes that under the Obama administration, the applications could have been accepted.

“So, even if we found someone who was perfect, had the perfect background for that [coaching], we still can't argue that position throughout the United States requires such a level of specialty,” Chase said. “Even if our coaches, the applicants, had the best educational background specifically geared for this, it's the position itself that the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services [is] saying is not a specialty occupation. It doesn't require that level of specialty. Coaches will take assistant coaches who don't have that background. So we could not prove that background or that specialty was needed.”

Now, Willey said, the problem is forcing her to stray away from hiring international coaching staff members which consequently results in a less diverse staff. She said the situation has been disheartening, because if the university cannot find a solution, other than having coaches obtain a graduate degree, then the university will have to let them go. This can complicate things, Willey said, because switching coaches mid-season can be difficult.

“I understand people have to do their job. It's just become very cumbersome….I hate it,” Willey said. “I think it's absolutely ridiculous.”

The best Willey and Chase can do for now, Chase said, is to advocate for change. She said that while she also understands why strict legislation is often needed, it should be easier for qualified international applicants to be employed in the United States to ensure diversity on campus and enhance the university's program.

“The world is changing,” Chase said.

“And hopefully we'll move to a place where truly talented people can be hired by whatever organization, where they fit the best, where they can offer the most to those students.”

U.S. society has always been enriched by immigrants with a variety of backgrounds, Corado said, and the need for that continues.

“The fact remains that our country has an ongoing need for people with specialized skills as well as unskilled labor to work in certain industries to keep our economy running,” Corado said.

“This is especially difficult when there are serious shortages of workers because the unemployment rate is so low, as is the case currently. Immigration is a political hot-button issue, but if [members of ] Congress were able to sit down and have a rational discussion, they would find that it is definitely possible to reform our system so we can find the balance between immigration enforcement, humanitarian considerations, and business needs.”

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Hounds success on and off field UIndy athletics focuses on their success, but also a positive mindset and overall student athlete experience

UINDY’s AthlEtic ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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Dalton Hernandez 2012 paralympics - 400 free

Orel Oral

2000 & 2004 - 200m individual medley

Randy Heisler

1988 - track and field discus

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Dick Nally

OLYMPIANS 1980 - bobseld 2-man/4-man st

ALL AMERICANS

for the GLVC All-Sports Trophy

1978-79 1994-95 2002-03 2011-12 2012-13

2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

from 2014-2018

NATIONAL CHAMPIONShips Wrestling: 1 Women’s Golf: 2 Men’s Swimming: 11 Men’s Indoor Track & Field: 1 Women’s Indoor Track & Field: 1 Men’s Outdoor Track & Field: 10 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field: 3 Information from the UIndy Atheltic Website, trophy photo by Tony Reeves

Graphic by Jacob Walton and Zoë Berg

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By Zoe Berg

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF There are a number of markers that indicate whether an athletics program is successful, the most obvious being the success of the teams and the individual athletes in games and matches. According to Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Sue Willey, wins are not what the University of Indianapolis athletic department chooses to put the most focus on.

Although the Greyhounds show a lot of success at the regional and national level, with 12 consecutive top 20 placings in the Learfield IMG Directors' Cup, a national ranking, and being first place seven consecutive times for the GLVC All-Sports Trophy, Willey said a positive experience for the student athletes should be the top priority for all of the athletic officials at UIndy.

“No.1, we're looking at student athlete experience,” Willey said. “You can be very successful in the student athlete experience, [or] be very bad and that's not good. I want a good student athlete experience, [a focus on] doing the academics and then the accolades from the athletics and all of the success there, that's like icing on the cake.”

The student athlete experience starts with the coaches. Willey said that even if a coach has a successful team and if the student experience is not good, then the success does not matter.

When hiring coaches, the athletics department looks for quality people who are enthusiastic, have integrity and want to work hard and succeed, but not win at all costs. Willey said good character transitions over to the student athletes as well.

Head swimming and diving coach Jason Hite said he has personal values like being confident, passionate and controlling one's own happiness that he tries to pass to the athletes on his team.

“My job is not only a swim coach, but it’s also a mentor for life,” Hite said. “ I challenge our student athletes to think bigger than themselves and realize the impact they can have on others. Everything goes through the filter of ‘How am I representing UIndy Swim and Dive?’”

According to Willey, student athletes are held to a higher standard than other students and are expected to focus just as much, if not more, on their academics than their sport.

This shows not only in the overall high GPAs in the athletic department, but also in the recognition from

the GLVC and other organizations. In the last five years, 18 Greyhounds have been Academic All-Americans Athletes and 20 have been recognized as GLVC Scholar Athletes of the Year.

Student athletes are also expected to demonstrate respect. Willey said she is proud to hear from hotels and restaurants that UIndy’s teams have been respectful when traveling. She said student athletes are also held to a higher standard in other areas and drug tested regularly.

“I talk about the drug usage I said, 'If you want to drink and do drugs and all this on this campus, you can go do that and be a student, probably not, maybe not get caught, but you will not do that as a student athlete because you're held to a higher standard.’...They can opt out.

If that's your priority then,” Willey said.

“And so when kids test positive for marijuana on their drug tests... they're just begging. They said, 'My sport is my priority.' I go, 'No, it's not.'

Students are given only two chances before getting kicked off a team, Willey said, so students understand that the use of illegal substances is not tolerated.

Willey said she stresses that being a student athlete is a privilege, not a right.

“I meet with them [as a] routine before the season starts. Then, I talk about what our expectations are and it's very simple. There's three of them,” Willey said. “But I like to get in front of them so they know who I am and that they're not just hearing it from the coaches. This is what I expect. No. 1 is to graduate. No. 2 is to represent in a positive manner….

And then No. 3 is to win. It's to be successful. We're not out here just to go through the process, but we'll never do No. 3 at the expense of 1 or 2.”

Willey said she wants UIndy to be a students home away from home and the coaches to fill the role a parent would have, which is being a good role model.

Student athletes fill out evaluations on their experience with the coaches.

Willey said she puts a lot of emphasis on whether seniors would choose to come to UIndy and be a part of the athletic program again.

Hite said the development of skills and relationships as well as the memories and team bonding that student athletes do is some of what makes for a good student experience.

“Team success takes student athletes buying in completely,” Hite said. “Each and every person has to focus on bettering the team and themselves in every facet. Thinking bigger than yourself and respect each other unconditionally.”

Womens’ softball to push past rough patch

By Jacob Walton

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Despite a tough start in April, the University of Indianapolis Softball Team has brought their ranking back to second in the GLVC Conference and ranked 16th nationally for Division II, with a five game winning streak. The Hounds have played eight series so far, consisting of two games in each series.

According to Head Womens’ Softball Coach Melissa Frost, this is something that they should stray away from in order to complete their goals that was set earlier in the season.

“We’ll peak at the right time I hope,” Frost said. “I feel like we have a lot of growing to do and a lot of learning to do. I felt like we had a really good March, now we gotta get over this April hump.”

With losses against four GLVC conference opponents against Maryville University, University of Missouri St. Louis, Quincy University and Drury University, the team is 10-4 in conference play.

According to Frost, she is not happy with the losses and the mistakes that the team has made. “[I’m] disappointed in some of the losses we’ve had, just simply because we’ve beat ourselves,” Frost said. “We talk about the standard for this program and there are days where we don’t stick to the game plan and don’t live up to the standard of this program and its disappointing. But it's a learning process and a growing process. We’re a young team so we have a lot of room to improve.”

Frost said that a large portion of their issues were due to not following the strategy. She said that as long as they follow their plan going into this next stretch of games, they can hopefully come out on top.

Sophomore ace pitcher Halie Waters said that the resiliency and support of the team is one of its strengths.

“I think it’s just our ability to bounce

back and come together, I think we have a very good support system,” Waters said. “...We have a lot of fight in us this year.”

However, in the last 10 games, the Hounds are 8-2 bringing back their GLVC ranking from 4th to 2nd behind Southern Indiana University. According to Waters, these struggles are something the team is not used to having.

“The way we started was not a characteristic of our team,” Waters said. “We learned a lot from those early games and what we needed to work on to improve.

I feel we have been on an upward swing, especially in the past couple of weeks.”

The fight from this year can be stemmed from the pitching staff who have all returned from last year.

Frost said that the pitching staff will have a large role to play in their games in April.

Among the pitching unit is Waters, who this season threw her first career no-hitter against Lewis University. Waters said they need to put in the effort to be successful for the rest of the season. “...There are so many factors to softball, and it is a game of failure,” Waters said.“Each day we control what we can control and give 100 percent effort, if we do those things we can put ourselves in the best position to win. If we keep playing as a unit, picking each other up, and working hard we will be in a good position come conference time and whatever comes after that.”

The team has six GLVC series left in the season, and Frost said they hope to get back to the game plan in order to finish strong before the GLVC and NCAA tournaments.

According to Waters, the strategy is to continuously get better as the season goes on.

“We need to just keep playing together and improving every day,” Waters said. “We talk about it in practice, just one percent better every day, remember that and focus on that. Get tougher, get better every single day and towards the end of season pull it all together.”

Photo by Marissa Burton

Sophomore pitcher Halie Waters threw her first collegiate career no-hitter against Lewis University on April 6. Waters received the first 2019 season GLVC Pitcher of the Week.

Photo by Marissa Burton

Senior infielder Taylor Podschweit prepares to catch the ball. Podschweit has been a three-time GLVC All Academic and three-time NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete.

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2019 Spring Senior Athlete Highlights Reid Lorey

2016, 2017, 2018 Academic All-GLVC Back-to-back top-20 finishes at the Findlay Fall Invite and the Butler Fall Invite

Christopher Heck

Carded a four-under 68 at the NCAA DII Central/Midwest regional Placed sixth at the 2016 IGA Four Ball

Kennedy Holtsclaw 3x WGCA All-American Scholar 3x Academic All-GLVC 2018 GLVC Brother Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award

Katharina Keilich

2018 Individual National Champion 3x WGCA All-America 2016 GLVC Player of the Year

Photo contributed by Reid Lorey

Photo by Ki Tally

Photo by Ki Tally

Photo by Ki Tally

Lauren Wagner 36 Ground balls Recovered 28 Caused Turnovers 6 Draw Controls

Krista Temple

17 Goals Scored 14 Assists 13 Ground Balls Recovered

Trisha Koning Shawn Kimble

61 Ground Balls Recovered 65 Goals Scored 32 Caused Turnovers 48 Assists 5 Draw Controls 8 Game Winning Goals

Hannah Burczyk Matthew Johnson 68 Goals Scored 52 Goals Scored 19 Assists 44 Assists 6 Game Winning Goals 4 Game Winning Goals

Photo by Ki Tally

Jarod Kimble

331 Shots Saved 21 Victories 66 Ground balls Recovered

Parker Kump

131 Goals Scored 33 Assists 9 Game Winning Goals

Photo by Ki Tally

10 Home Runs .471 Slugging Percentage 157 Hits

Kyle Orloff Nils Hoffacker

17 Home Runs All-GLVC selection in his first season .497 Slugging Percentage 28-6 Overall Singles Record 162 Hits 31-5 Overall Doubles Record

Matej Kostadnov

Jake Sprinkle

Tyler Phillips Magnus Mueller

Hanna Volikova

Macy Holdsworth

4.39 ERA 103 Strikes 129 Innings Pitched

2 Home Runs Reached the Quarterfinals of the ITA .424 Slugging Percentage Midwest Regional Tournament 29 Hits 29-9 Overall Singles Record 32-11 Overall Doubles Record

Brooke Riess

7 Home Runs .434 Slugging Percentage 35 Hits

Shannon Shuetz 7 Home Runs .481 Slugging Percentage 50 Hits

Taylor Podschweit

17 Home Runs .476 Slugging Percentage 139 Hits Photo by Tony Reeves

13-4 Overall Singles Record 13-4 Overall Doubles Record

GLVC Player of the Year & All-GLVC selection 44-6 Overall Singles Record 40-11 Overall Doubles Record

Austin Hogan

20.27 Weight Throw Personal Best 58.37 m Discus Personal Best 61.85 m Hammer Throw Personal Best

Katie Monk

15.72m Indoor Shot Put School Record 20.56m Weight Throw School Record 55.52m Hammer Throw Personal Best

Keri Ertel

8.83 60m Hurdles Personal Best 14.82 100m Hurdles Personal Best 1:01.62 400m Hurdles Personal Best

Information from Cassandra Lombardo and Tony Reeves, Design by ZoĂŤ Berg

Photo by Ki Tally

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RSO fundraises for DWB

Doctors without Borders raises funds, sends medical professionals to aid in humanitarian crises

By Reid Bello

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Medicins Sans Frontieres Doctors Without Borders is an organization that sends doctors and nurses around the world to provide life-saving medical humanitarian care for those who would otherwise go without it. Doctors Without Borders is a new Registered Student Organization at the University of Indianapolis that advocates for the actual Doctors Without Borders organization. Sophomore nursing major and Doctors Without Borders President Jennah Koenig started the RSO because she wanted to educate students. However, she said she was not aware that more than just doctors could get involved with the organization. By starting the organization, she said she wanted to make others aware of that too.

“I didn't know nurses could do it. I thought you had to be a doctor,” Koenig said. “So, I was shocked and I doubt there's a lot of people out there who know that nurses can do it as well as PT, OT, psychology people. Really, anyone can help with it. I created the club in order to advocate and let people know that it's an option for their future, instead of just thinking it's just for doctors.”

Koenig said that in order to make Doctors Without Borders an RSO, she had to email the headquarters in New York and sign a number of contracts in order to become a part of the nationwide organization. She said it took quite

a bit of time, due to the amount of communication that had to occur.

Sophomore nursing major and Vice President Tatum Howell said that she also helped in this process. Howell said that she got involved because she has been friends with Koenig since high school, and Koenig reached out to her for support. Howell also said that since

Freshman biology and chemistry major and Assistant to the Event Programmer Caylie Wimmersberger said that she got involved with Doctors Without Borders when she saw the table at Welcome Week. Wimmersberger said that she has always kept up with Doctors Without Borders and that being able to be a part of the RSO and making a difference is important to her.

“My favorite part is to be able to raise money and raise awareness for “I created the club in order something outside of the university, something like an interto advocate and let people especially national organization,” Wimmersknow that it’s an option....” berger said. “So, that's my favorite part of that. At least just being something, being part of something that's much bigger and getting they began the RSO, they have had a to be part of the board itself. So to be number of fundraisers, such as on cam- part of that group of people that gets to pus events and dine and donates to make that, even if it's a small difference spread the word about their RSO and to [is my favorite].” help raise money.

According to Koenig, they have ad“So, the money [raised] goes directly opted the goal of advocacy from the nato Doctors Without Borders. Our RSO tional organization, and they have also fund does not get any of it.” Howell said. adopted their own goal of fundraising.

“We just donate to them. So [if ] there's They hold events on-campus along with crisis situations in the world, they will having a web page from which they send people there and they will go there. fundraise.

And this money just kind of helps them “So it's a little bit more unexpected be able to send more people and sup- that it[the RSO] would be here, Wimplies to places that they need them.” mersberger said. “But, I think that since The money donated to Doctors it's become part of our smaller campus, I Without Borders is allocated to three think it's important just it kind of shows things: 89.4 percent of the money is that we’re kind of thinking outside the used for programs, 1.5 percent of it is box and trying to be a part of global used for management purposes and the organizations. So I think that's why it's remaining 9.1 percent is used for more important to have it here on campus to fundraising. introduce that.”

Doctors Without Borders Médecins Sans Frontières, or as it’s known in English, Doctors Without Borders, is an international organization that delivers emergency medical aid to those who have been affected by catastrophic events.

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million liters of water provided during the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in 2017. million cases of Malaria treated. thousand malnourished children admitted to inpatient and outpatient treatment programs. percent of their aid was carried out in instable settings, such as armed conflict.

outpatient consultations in 10.6 million 2017.

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percent of their programs were located in Asia and the Middle East.

Information from msf.org Graphic by Noah Crenshaw and Jayden Kennett

Student creates literature group

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

Sophomore molecular biology and biochemistry major Evan Brandenburg has always been an avid reader. From nonfiction to literature to philosophy, Brandenburg said he reads constantly, currently tearing through Victor E. Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” and J.K. Rowling’s “The Order of the Phoenix”—a memoir, a self-help book and a young adult novel, respectively.

Brandenburg said the diversity in his reading list is part of what has inspired him to start a literature club at the University of Indianapolis.

“I kind of recognized a need for this literature group on campus,” Brandenburg said. “It’s really more like a book club, but I’ve been calling it a literature group because we’re going to be talking about more than just one specific type of book in general. We’re going to talk about a wide variety of topics like film adaptations, news, new releases or just anything people are up and excited about.”

Brandenburg first recognized this need for a literature group in a class he took last semester. The class, taught by Assistant Professor of English Steve Zimmerly, was an English course focused on analyzing and dissecting young adult literature. Brandenburg noticed that, despite the many different majors scattered throughout the class, all of the students seemed to be passionate about one topic or another. According to Brandenburg, literature brought them together.

“I saw a lot of the students in there [that] really had a passion for reading and discussing what they were reading, and sharing that with others,” Brandenburg said. “I just saw, during that class, how passionate people were about the topics, and to hear their voices light up and the enthusiasm they had when discussing what books they were reading… I just wanted to give people the opportunity to do that on campus. And we don’t really have many clubs or organizations that do anything like that.”

The group initially started out as a

young adult literature club, but branched out in an attempt to cover a broader scope of reading materials. The group is a product of both Brandenburg and numerous other collaborating professors, the group intends to be a location where people from different backgrounds and majors can gather and discuss literature in a stress-free, no grades environment.

Zimmerly said he sees this as an opportunity to enrich a student’s college experience by making literature a voluntary extracurricular as opposed to a required course.

“If you look into what general education is supposed to do, and the idea of becoming a well-rounded student beyond your major, I think that reading is such a huge part of that. You have to know how to read,” Zimmerly said.

“Reading, if you’re an active reader, even beyond your own field, it bolsters so much. You become a better writer, you become a better reader, a better thinker, your vocabulary goes up… if you read about people’s experiences beyond your own, your empathy level deepens. And so from the standpoint of general education on campus, like, slam dunk, right?

It’s awesome.”

The literature club is currently in the process of being labeled as an official RSO. Zimmerly says they hope to officially begin operations in the fall of next semester, with the hope of attracting the new, incoming students.

Along with reading and discussing literature, Brandenburg hopes to implement a service element to the group, where members would go and read to young children in Indianapolis.

Brandenburg, who said he is very passionate about literature, noted that it is very easy to begin an RSO on campus for whatever a student might be enthusiastic about. For whatever special interest a person may have, a RSO can only serve to enhance the experience.

“I really want people to know how easy it really is for anybody to start their own [RSO],” Brandenburg said. “If they have something they are passionate about, they should pursue that, because it’s really not hard. And if you can get other students on campus to have an interest in it, then that’s a great opportunity.”

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SDPs allow students to direct E

very year, upperclassmen theatre majors are hand-picked by theatre professors to direct their own plays. While student directed productions vary from year to year, the process of picking student directors remains the same. Students submit three plays and a paragraph about why they want to direct, then go through an interview process. Professors select students to direct and also pick the plays that will be featured, based on students’ preferences and interviews. Professors pick plays with similar themes. This year's set of plays are centered around controversy and common problems. The plays opened April 12-14, and will again run in full from April 25-27. Because of intense themes of suicide, bullying and abortion, no one under the age of 18 will be allowed in the theater without a parent or guardian.

"Rare Birds"

"Sibs"

Photo by Kiara Conley

Sophomore theatre major Clayton Rardon and junior theatre major Carly Wagers play a bullied teen named Evan and his crush, Jenny, in Kelly Casey's version of "Rare Birds."

Evan Wills, the play's main character, is a high school student struggling with depression and frequent bullying. Evan is obsessed with birds and has a crush on a girl named Jenny. When his bullies find out about these things, they ridicule him. Senior theater major and director Kelly Casey said "Rare Birds" was not a part of her original submissions. She only showed the professors "Rare Birds" after they asked if she had considered directing anything else. While the play

takes on a more serious tone, Casey said she wanted to create a fun environment for all six of her actors.

“My No. 1 goal is to make sure that everyone has a happy and successful rehearsal,” Casey said. “I want the space to be fun and energetic even though... there are parts in this play that are not happy and sad and stuff. It needs to feel like a safe environment for my actors.

And I think personally for me, I like creating that space.”

Story by Jayden Kennett

“Sibs” is a play about two siblings reliving the moments before their father's death. Junior theater major and director Emma Rund said she chose the play after she performed it in high school on her speech team with her brother.

While her play is not as controversial as the others, she said, it is centered around family problems that most people can relate to.

“I think what's interesting about my show versus the other ones is that they cover more like stereotypical controversies, where mine is more of family controversies,” Rund said. “I don't think it's talked about a lot that families don't seem controversial, but they really are, because something that's a major theme of my play is feeling so alone in a family that you're supposed to be close to. And I think that's something everyone could connect to whether it be like they're an adopted family, they’re blood family, they’re a found family, everyone has a family and everyone has gone through these distances. And realizing, that at the end of the day, family is all we really have.”

Rund said while she hopes people enjoy the show, she wants the audience to experience the events vividly.

“I hope the audience leaves my show feeling the need to call one of their loved ones and say that they are heard and that they are there for them, even if they haven't been there for them this whole time,” Rund said. “So I just want them to leave feeling that they need to keep their family close to them.”

"Dry Land"

Photo by Kiara Conley

Freshman theatre and communication major Ki Tally and freshman theatre major Audrey Panyard portrayed high school swimmers in Destiny Huegel's adaptation of "Dry Land."

"Dry Land" is a play about friendship, resilience and abortion, according to junior theatre major and director Destiny Huegel. The play is centered around two girls in an empty locker room, confused, performing an unsafe abortion. Huegel said she wanted to direct a play that will elicit a reaction from the audience and make them feel as if they are experiencing something vivid.

“There's a lot of people that will come see this play,” Huegel said. “Any man, just because they're a man will never have to experience this. So, it's putting people in the situation. When they do have a conversation about it later, they've had some sort of actual expe-

rience with it…. It's not like a preachy play or a political play, it just happens.”

Huegel said she hopes to make the audience uncomfortable so that they will start the conversation about unsafe abortions.

“It's still an uncomfortable thing to talk about it, so it's going to be uncomfortable. But that's kind of the goal is to show them that this is a regular thing that happens and has to happen unsafely, way too often,” Huegel said. “And that's kind of the goal, is to make them uncomfortable and for them to be able to leave and think about it and, hopefully think about how we can change a little bit.”

Graphics by Madison Gomez

Graduating composer's original pieces performed

By Alissa Kennelly

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Photo by Shane Phillips

One of Kylie Seitz's pieces symbolized mental illness. The right side of the figure shows positivity while the left shows negativity.

Photo by Shane Phillips

O.J. Moor's work was done in prints and reflected themes of gender fluidity, such as a one depicting a male and female face.

Seniors exhibit final work

Art students take part in final exhibitions as Greyhounds

By Madison Gomez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

To shed light on issues that are swept under the rug, works from two seniors were displayed in the basement of Schwitzer student Center during April.

The two seniors, who had similar concepts in their art, were partnered together coincidentally.

Senior creative writing and professional writing major Kylie Seitz said that her ceramic work displayed in the gallery fit well with senior visual communication design major OJ Moor’s photographs.

The two did not chose to be put together, but the gallery seemed to have a theme, Seitz realized once they saw each other’s work. Seitz’s ceramic work included images on mental health while Moor’s photos expressed the difficulty of working through grief and body image. A culmination of years of work, the gallery was a chance for the two seniors' work to be put on display.

“I think it works very well because our work works with a lot of themes that are ignored in society," Seitz said. "We don’t like to talk about mental health, grief and body image. I think it worked very well for us."

The two had to complete a senior portfolio course that allowed them to work on the process of setting up pieces for the gallery. Each senior had to select a series from their years of education and then create another for the class to reflect of what they have learned.

Seitz’s ceramic projects dealt with mental health, she said, with one of

the centerpieces in the gallery showing tos were trickier because they are larger, the duality of a person struggling with longer prints that needed to conform to a mental illness. The piece was a top the particular specifications Moor rehalf of a person, the left side of which quested. was dark themed, razor blade filled, “The idea, the concept and the vision cuts into the skin that was spelling out came from OJ, but supporting them body shaming and negative ideas. The and figuring out how to articulate that right side had bright colors and words [printing style] technically, was really of kindness towards oneself to juxtapose great [for me] to be able to figure out the negative side. The centerpiece and how to print the files,” Pfohl said. the overall theme of her show dealt with Moor said they saw as the crowd roots, which to her symbolize growth came in, that the space was convenient and foundation for both struggles and for the both of the artists. One person’s recovery with mental health, she said. work was on the pedestals and the othSeitz said she chose to focus on er on the wall. Watching people look mental health at their work, because she Moor said believes it is they felt vul“It's really emotional...it's nerable, yet important to shed light on kind of vulnerable, being excited for cristruggles that tiques. an artist in that way.” so many peo“It’s really ple go through emotional, not yet feel like only just bethey have to hide. cause people here, they’re actually seeing Assistant Professor of Digital Pho- it, it’s kind of vulnerable being an artist tography Sarah Pfohl, who was Moor's in that way,” Moor said. “Like ‘here’s my professor for their portfolio class, said heart and soul that I poured into this that Moor’s work helped Pfohl grow by work for so long,’ but I also try to use learning how to deal with printing cer- my art as a form of therapy for things tain images differently. that I’m going through and that’s really The first set of Moor’s photos that evident through my artist’s statements.” was presented in the gallery dealt with Over the span of four years of work in a loss of a loved one. Pfohl said that the class, each student chose their best work project they made their junior year was to showcase to the public and Moor a more traditional approach to portfolio said it was more than just a reflection of presentation, while the other set, made themselves in each senior’s gallery. their senior year, dealt with body image “It’s been incredible to see everyone and presented a more contemporary fall into their own niche of what we’re take. doing in this industry," Moor said. "EsWhile they were both printed on pecially because it is a creative industry luster photo paper, the senior year pho- and it’s becoming more corporate."

Friends, family and students of the music department gathered with community members in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall to listen to the work of student composers at the Student Composers Forum on April 2.

The music department offers students opportunities to experiment with writing music through the beginner’s composition course and private composition lessons for more advanced students.

Throughout the classes, students prepare lesson plans, listen to guest speakers and create pieces for the Student Composers Forum. These pieces are then performed at a show to allow them to share their music with the community.

Professor of Music Composition John Berners said he puts extra effort into not intimidating students during their creative processes.

“Sometimes students will come in and they’ll think ‘I’m writing this as an assignment for a professor so I have to do something different from what I normally do,’ and I try to not give off any of that vibe,” Berners said.

Students do not normally perform their own compositions; rather, they compose pieces that are performed on campus by other musicians.

According to senior music major Luke Garrigus, despite having done this for many years now, he still gets nervous when he hears his music played. While the audience’s experiences are important, the reactions from musicians that play his work are the ones that impact him the most.

“The audience hears the piece once and it usually goes well, the reactions are good, but the reactions that really gets to me are the ones of the musicians who are studying it,” Garrigus said.

Writing pieces can take anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks, Garrigus said. "Spendens Requiem," a piece written in remembrance of his wife’s beta fish, took only a few days to create, whereas "GOOSEZILLA," a piece incorporating geese sounds recorded at the pond by Greyhound Village, took about a semester to edit.

For Garrigus, the show had special meaning: it was the last time he would hear his peers at the University of Indianapolis performing his original compositions.

Garrigus said that after moving on from the university following his graduation in May, he would miss working with Berners.

“I never feel pressured, but I feel inspired by him, and I'll miss having conversations with him about the philosophy of music and about living composers now and listening to hilarious pieces of music together,” Garrigus said.

Although Garrigus will no longer perform with his fellow students, he realizes that he is still going to be doing what he loves and is excited to apply what he has learned at UIndy to his career in the near future.

“It’s really exciting in a lot of ways,” Garrigus said. “Because now I get to come back as a guest and listen to these concerts. So many people who have gone through the composition department are still composing….We are kind of doing the same thing the university is doing just on our own now.”

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K-9 Officer Edo bites Officer Ryan Manley during a demonstration on Smith Mall on April 9. The dog was excited for the exercise.

Jada, a Dutch Shepard, bites the sleeve of Officer Manley during the event. She is currently being trained by Martinsville Police.

K-9s come to campus

By Madison Gomez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The audience was excited as a K-9 unit brought in by a police officer salivated, waiting for a command to attack another officer who was taunting the dog, slamming his hands against the padding on his arm. When spoken to by the owner, the dog took off running, then latched onto the officer’s arm. This was one part of the routine Martinsville Police Officers displayed with their three dogs on April 9 at the Dog Demo event, hosted by the University of Indianapolis’ criminal justice honor society Alpha Phi Sigma. The other part included the K-9 units sniffing out drugs from boxes laid out on the ground. The dogs sat down to signify they found what they were looking for.

Senior psychology and criminal justice double major Brielle Adney was the one to pitch the idea at a general meeting of the honor society. She asked her uncle, who was a K-9-unit officer, for his help, and he agreed.

“It's really a chance for people who are interested in policing to see that there are other opportunities than just a police officer, where they can have a drug dog or they can do that type of other career, and [the event is] kind of interesting because I know pretty much everyone likes dogs," Adney said. “So it's kind of fun to come out and see what they do... I think it's pretty interesting even if you're not interested in criminal justice or anything [that goes] with it."

The event began with an introduction from the three officers and an explanation of what was about to occur, then dogs were brought out one by one.

Each K-9 sniffed out the illegal substances and demonstrated how they catch suspects, using a durable sleeve for the officer’s safety. The sleeve, as the officers called it, is made out of a material called jute that is lined on the outside with plastic and padding on the inside.

Officers use the sleeve when they begin training K-9's as puppies.

Officer Dustin Tarr said that the sleeve is like a toy to the dogs because of how long they have been able to attack it. The dog then runs to attack the sleeve, biting and hanging on until they are told to stop. The pressure from the bite can be felt through the sleeve, but it does not injure them, Tarr said.

The reason the dogs are able to sniff out the illegal substances is because of their sharp nose and acute training, according to Tarr. The dogs are trained to think the smell of drugs is one of their toys. They command the dog to go fetch their toys, and since the smell is the same as the substance, that is how they sniff out drugs.

Getting the dogs here was a collaboration between Adney and Tarr, Adney had to make sure people knew about the event, while Tarr had to get shot records of the dogs to the school to be able to bring them here.

“We very rarely turn anyone down for the K-9 demonstrations just because it’s such a tool, and everybody wants to see [the dogs] and we rely on dona-

Parking Portal launched

By Noah Crenshaw ONLINE EDITOR

Following a year that saw several changes to the university’s parking system, the University of Indianapolis added a new online website, the UIndy Parking Portal, in order to modernize and streamline UIndy’s ticketing system. The portal was launched on March 6, according to an email from Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli.

The website is designed to allow students, faculty and staff to log in and see their permits, according to Assistant Chief of UIndy Police Hailey Padgett-Riley. They are also able to see and pay any tickets they have on their account. Students, faculty and staff can use a credit card to pay their tickets on the portal. The website also has an option to request temporary parking passes.

Padgett-Riley said that while faculty and staff can request a temporary pass for visitors through the portal. Visitors themselves cannot request those passes.

Visitors have to have someone sponsor them in order to get the pass. If a visitor receives a parking ticket, they can go to the parking portal and create a guest account to pay, Padgett-Riley said. Visitors, along with students, faculty and staff, can appeal the citation on the portal as well as check the status of their appeal.

According to Padgett-Riley, the software the university uses for the parking portal is designed by T2 Systems, which is based in Indianapolis. As a result of UIndy Police starting to use the software, Padgett-Riley said, they have had to change the way they enforce parking.

“Instead of writing those paper tickets with the carbon copy on the back that we have been writing forever, you can now use tablets, which we use iPad Minis,” Padgett-Riley said. “We have two parking enforcement officers and they have those iPads and they can actually write or create tickets and then they have a mobile printer that prints out from the iPad. So that iPad is tied into the portal and to T2 [Systems] data. All they have to do is type in a permit num-

ber and it pulls up the whole registration—who's supposed to have it, what car it's supposed to be, where they're allowed to park—and then we just kind of compare it and make that citation decision based on that.”

Padgett-Riley said that next academic year the university will be using the online portal to have students, faculty and staff fill out their parking registration forms. She said that in the past, someone had to manually enter each parking permit into their system. But, by using the online portal, the registration process will be easier and faster for all the parties involved.

“There will be no waiting in line, no coming in person,” Padgett-Riley said.

“You can do it all from home, from your residence hall, from your office and that will start around August...and those [parking passes] will actually be sent to you. So, if you're a student, they'll be sent to the residence halls. If you're a commuter, they'll be mailed to you. If you're faculty/staff, that would be sent to your department.”

The university has also hired two new part-time parking enforcement officers, Padgett-Riley said. These officers started at the beginning of January, before the portal was launched, and their job is to act as a supplement to UIndy Police when it comes to parking enforcement.

“We have two gentlemen who… you may see in a Ford pickup truck,” Padgett-Riley said. “They don't have anything marked on their vehicle, but they do wear khaki cargo pants and a polo and a jacket, when it's chilly, that says UIndy Parking Enforcement. They are totally dedicated to citations and keeping up with our parking policies.”

UIndy Police is still involved in ticketing, Padgett-Riley said. She said that UIndy Police is still in the process of transitioning to the software, but once that transition is done, they expect it to make things easier in the long run.

“We're [UIndy Police] still trying to get used to everything and what all of this, the system, can do and how it can help us and continue to streamline processes,” Padgett-Riley said. “We were the ones that proposed it [the software], [and] we are the ones that have been working to implement it.”

tions for equipment and such because it [costs] so much to keep them in service,” Tarr said.

Junior criminal justice major and Secretary of Alpha Phi Sigma Delanie Kent said she went to the event because she was interested in seeing what the K-9 units do. She said she learned a lot from the event, Kent said, because she has the same dog as two of the officers, a Belgian Shepherd Malinois and the explanation given at the beginning of the demo helped explain her dog’s aggressive and attentive behaviour. Kent’s favorite part of the evening, she said, was the demonstration with the sleeve.

Tarr said that if one wants to go into law enforcement, he or she should consider looking at the K-9 track of the force. While each process and standards differ from department to department, according to Tarr, the process at his station is having two or three years of service on the force and showing an interest prior to applying for the unit. His dog, Edo, came from a shelter in Rhode Island that trains puppies to be ready for the law enforcement. There the owner of the shelter does a “tennis ball test” to see if the dogs were able to be trained. The test is simply throwing a tennis ball and commanding the dog to fetch it, and if they do, it shows that they can take commands and have the possibility to be trained.

“It's very rewarding. It's an enjoyable thing…,” Tarr said. “The bond that you build with your dog, it becomes your partner and you trust them just as much as they trust you.”

importance of eye care in the developing world, published in a book called Winning Orations.

Wideman also said that the team more than doubled the number of members who progressed to finals. Last year, she said that the team had five quarter finalists. This year, there were 13 quarter finalists, five of whom went to semi-finals and one national champion. The team was also ranked 15th in the nation.

“I think if I'm reflecting on their [the students’] placements, my philosophy on the team is focused on the process, not the product,” Wideman said of the team’s success. “Because if you're always worried about what place you're going to get, it's going to get in the way of your preparation that you need to get you to that place. And what I've been most proud of is if they've done that and additionally, they've also focused on continual forward movement….I think that this year has been an excellent example of how hard work, focusing on the process, reaps great rewards for us.”

Senior supply chain management major Vanessa Hickman said that her final competition was bittersweet.

While she performed well at nationals—ranking in top 12 in the nation for duo interpretation and top 24 for persuasion—and looks forward to having a less demanding schedule now that the season is over, Hickman said she will use skills she has learned through speech and debate throughout her future career.

“Obviously I’ve learned how to do better research, how to better find sources. I’ve learned to be a better advocate about things that happen here but also in internationally,” Hickman said.

“I’ve learned to build stronger argument structure. I’ve learned leadership skills about myself, I’ve learned things I want to do and what don’t I want to do.”

Hickman, in addition to being team captain, is the only current member of the team who has spent her whole college career competing. She said she thinks the speech team should prioritize retention of members, and that what she has enjoyed most about speech over her tenure is that it allows her to speak up about issues she is passionate about.

For example, two of her favorite speeches she has given are “The Demonic Sexualization of Women,” which centered on society’s tendency to sexualize women, and a recent speech comparing the Greek legend of Circe, a sorceress who turned men into pigs, with the “#MeToo” movement. In the

latter speech, Hickman said she turned the idea of a “witch hunt” on its head by portraying that “this is a witch hunt, except this time the witches are doing the hunting,” meaning that victims are hunting and taking revenge on those who assault or harass them.

“At the end of the day, it’s not about us,” Hickman said. “Whether it’s about the ‘#MeToo’ movement or the demonic sexualization of women...Every speech has a meaning. We’re advocating for people. That’s most impactful for me.”

Watching the progression of the students and the pride they feel when advocating for issues that are important to them, Wideman said, is the most rewarding aspect of her role on the team.

She works with the students alongside three assistant coaches—Jim Thorpe, Chad Woodward and Clarissa Bowers—to help the students improve and gain confidence.

“It's nice to watch them own their events, own their performances with their own voices,” Wideman said. “And I'm there to help, our coaching staff is here to help, but these are really their voices that they're taking out into the public sphere. And so the pride is when I see a look in their eye or hear them talking about, ‘I didn't think I could do this, I didn't think people would listen’ and they just have a new sense of themselves.”

The only remaining competition for any speech team member this season is the Interstate Oratory Tournament, the oldest speech and debate tournament in the country, held at Westchester College in Philadelphia at the end of the month.

Because he placed first at the state competition in persuasive speaking, Chigazda will be there, representing the state of Indiana. Not long after, he will leave the United States to spend two weeks with family in Zimbabwe before traveling to Shanghai.

“It’s a chance to represent not only myself but the school,” Chigadza said.

“So there’s certain expectations that I definitely want to meet. I always go hard on myself when it comes to those instances where I need to be able to go and represent where I’m coming from and also show them exactly what the UIndy spirit is about….It’s a chance for us to go and just show people that things do happen at UIndy. We might be a small school, people might confuse us for whatever other school it is, but things do happen at UIndy and I think that they are going to continue to happen in the future.”

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Public Health Week raises awareness

By Justus O’Neil STAFF WRITER

Faculty, staff, students and community members gathered in the Health Pavilion on Friday, April 5 to celebrate Public Health Week. According to the American Public Health Association, Public Health Week is observed across the United States on the first week of April. Communities come together in order to highlight public health issues that are important to the improvements of their environment. Public Health Week is also a time to recognize the efforts of public health professionals.

Indiana State Health Commissioner, Kristina Box and CDC Foundation CEO and President Judith Monroe exchanged dialogue during the event with students about the importance of public health on campus not only just in the southern Indianapolis community, but also on a global scale.

Box has been Indiana’s State Health Commissioner for almost two years and leads approximately 900 individuals in promoting and protecting Hoosier

health. According to Box, she is involved “It is always very hard to turn down in everything health related, from food an invitation to speak in Indiana, and safety to vaccinations. even harder to turn down an Indiana “Public Health Week is about raising State Health Officer [Box],” Monroe awareness for everyone’s public health," said. “UIndy is in a peculiar location and Box said. "In a state where we are No. has strong partnerships with its com8 for smoking, No. 12 for obesity and munity… I was curious to see the proheart disease is the leading cause of gress that has been made here in person, death among men and women. We need on the ground.” to be engaging and reaching out to more According to Box, his role as the and more people, especially the excited keynote speaker in the event was to younger population at places such as the set the tone for the day and to stress University of Indianapolis.” the fact that healthcare is only a small Monroe has part of health. overseen the Box said that CDC Foundaother compo“Public Health Week is tion as Presinents of health dent and CEO about raising awareness for that she has for over three on ineveryone's public health.” spoken years. Prior to clude socioecthis position, onomic health, Monroe served geographical as the State Health Commissioner of health, opportunity and more.

Indiana from 2005 to 2010, and CDC “Life is hard to enjoy without our deputy on a state and national level health,” Box said. “Indiana’s biggest between 2010 and 2016. According to health challenges and emerging threats, Monroe, being attentive and supporting like Hepatitis A, are at the forefront of health officers has been constructive on public health, but it is much more than both sides. just disease and illness.”

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Enrollment Counselor Michelle Ferguson runs a booth in the Health Pavillion during Public Health Week. Ferguson helps provide information on being involved in public health after college, such as Doctor of Health Science programs, and masters in public health.

According to Box, a college education is more than just a degree, it is about broadening horizons and learning about how the world works in order to develop a perspective. As public health week continued, Box said that it is important to think about how each of us can use our education to help improve the communities we are a part of in terms of its public health.

Both Monroe and Box expressed that inspiring students to volunteer time or to dedicate their lives to health related issues is not always easy. According to Monroe and Box, if just one student is inspired at each event they are able to speak at, then they have succeeded.

“I hope that each and every student is able to learn a little bit about public health along their journey of world discovery,” Box said. “I adore meeting with youth, and now has never been a better time to make an impact.”

Getting the opportunity to attend events like these where important and pressing topics are being discussed between college students who will go on to shape their field of study and workforce is a privilege, according to Box. “I practiced as an obstetrician gynecologist for over 30 years on the Northeast side of Indianapolis,” Box said. “But it wasn’t until I decided that I was going to make a point of getting engaged in some of these socioeconomic things that were impacting my patients that I first got exposed to what public health was all about.”

Box encouraged students to look into health-related majors and courses because new careers in the public health field are constantly emerging. For students who have an interest in public health but may be on a different career path, UIndy also offers a Healthy Diploma distinction that students can apply for in order to get more involved in the public health community.

Monroe congratulated the students and staff attending the event for their enthusiastic question and answer session that proceeded after her remarks.

According to Monroe, her main message to the students was to think big.

“There are a lot of big issues to tackle out in the world today," Monroe said.

"So do something that is larger than yourself and you will be a much happier and, in turn, healthier person.”

PT professor changes medical treatment Paul Salamh works with research team to improve common shoulder surgery

By Jacob Walton

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy Paul Salamh, along with experts from around the world, have published an article that has led to a rapid recommendation in the British Medical Journal. The article presents evidence that shows the ineffectiveness of the surgery compared to other forms of treatment and that it should not be the primary form of treatment done for subacromial pain syndrome, better known as shoulder impingement.

Shoulder impingement is the pain that occurs when the tendon between the ball and socket of the shoulder is injured and irritated due to a myriad of reasons. There are multiple forms of treatment for shoulder impingement such as medication and physical therapy to alleviate pain, according to the article published by Salamh and his colleagues.

Another common form of treatment for shoulder impingement is subacromial decompression surgery, a surgery where part of the shoulder blade is shaved off in order to try to alleviate the pain.

This treatment now has been proven ineffective and possibly dangerous by Salamh and his team in their research “Subacromial Decompression Surgery for Adults with Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review with Metanalysis.”

According to Salamh, the research team examined more than 800 studies

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by prior researchers to conclude that team, as many of the others had already the surgery provides no benefit over been doing shoulder impingement renon-surgical treatment. The research search. Originally, Salamh and a colconsisted of several randomized trials league were starting on a project simithat compared the surgery with placebo lar to that of the team already in place. surgeries or exercises, according to the According to Salamh, he reached out to article. Salamh said the placebo trials the team, provided his background and demonstrated no significant differences asked if they wanted to collaborate, and compared to when the actual surgery is they agreed. Salamh said he and his performed. When they saw these results, colleague did not set out to get a rapid Salamh said, they knew that something recommendation. According to Salamh, needed to be changed. he reached out to the team, provided “One of the big things that his background and asked kind of led to this is there if they wanted to collabowere placebo trials that had rate, and they agreed. The been going on [and] ranglobal team that Salamh domized controlled trials joined had the goal of getwhere people were either ting a rapid recommengoing in, unknowing to dation, which according them, either having the surto Salamh, is a very long gery done to their shoulder process that takes a large or literally having the holes amount of planning. Prior and the scopes put in, but to their research, there had no surgery performed," been only 13 rapid recomSalamh said. “There was mendations spanning topno difference between pain, ics such as HIV and cancer range of motion or function treatments. According to SALAMH in those individuals in either Salamh, this was only the group, and so that's when second orthopedic rapid people really started saying, ‘Whoa, recommendation, the first of which was whoa.’ We've known for a while that on the knee. this [surgery] is suspect, but a placebo Salamh said he has spent most of his surgery trial is not something you hear career as a researcher working with the about very often. So when that started shoulder, which he said is uncommon happening, we knew the time was sort because most physical therapists of right to do something along these work with the entire body. At Duke lines.”

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pathology problems. “[The shoulder is] something I've been interested in, even in my earlier days in undergrad,” Salamh said. “I had a shoulder surgery from participating in athletics myself, and it didn't work out so well. After I graduated, I began working with an orthopedic surgeon who was a former head of Duke Sports Medicine, and he really worked on those individuals with shoulder pathology. So for 10 or 11 years, he and I just worked together, [him] as a surgeon and myself as a therapist working with athletes and individuals with the shoulder conditions.

It's kind of unusual to find yourself in a situation where you're only dealing with individuals with a certain pathology.”

According to Salamh, this is the first time that his research has had such an impact. The team said they hope that the BMJ rapid recommendation will help reduce the number of people getting the surgery.

“This is the first time that I've really felt the research I've been a part of was something that would have a big impact,” Salamh said. “You're talking about hundreds of thousands of people, if not more, having this surgery and the harms that come associated with it and the cost to the healthcare system. So the fact that our research can have an impact on changing that, it was the first time I felt like any of my research that I was a part of recent [there could be] some meaningful change that could happen.

But the biggest thing now is how do we implement that change?"

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Retirement plans, advice offered by TIAA

By Kiara Conley

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Currently serving 15,000 institutions and over 100 years of experience, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America has assisted members of the University of Indianapolis’ faculty and staff and their plan for retirement in creating a retirement saving plans, according to TIAA Financial Consultant Michael Dooley. Dooley said he visits the university once a month for one-onone personable financial advice sessions with UIndy faculty and staff.

According to Dooley, the main goal of the meetings are to help people understand how retirement plans work.

When meeting with clients, Dooley explains how they should invest money from their paychecks based on what will work for that person’s financial needs and investment strategy. He said that TIAA works to serve each employee of the institutions they assist. “... What’s nice is everybody who works, whether you are a faculty member, staff member, [or] administrator, everybody has an opportunity to save for their retirement,” Dooley said.

With members of faculty and staff in varying stages of life, Dooley and members of UIndy’s Office of Human Resources, like Benefits Manager Aaron Campbell, customize plans and continue already established financial plans throughout the employee’s time at the university. Both Campbell and Dooley said that saving for retirement early on, even if it is a small percentage of one’s paycheck, can help significantly later on.

“The earlier you can start, the better because even saving small amounts in your 20s, you will have 40 years of that compounding to grow,” Dooley said. “...

Yes, you have to balance student loan debt, personal loans, those kinds of things, but ideally if you could save between 15 to 20 percent of your income towards retirement starting in your 20s, you will be in good shape.”

Campbell, who came to the university two months ago, said that along with TIAA the university has the Amerity Retirement Medical Plan, in which UIndy contributes $500 a year to the faculty or staff member’s account and is made accessible to them once they liquidate the funds in the TIAA account and are officially retired. Campbell and other employees for UIndy’s Human Resources will then further educate on the benefits that employees of the university have, encourage employees to save their funds and educate on the matching model that the university has implemented for their employees. He said that employees are encouraged to be mindful of retirement and saving funds for retirement as soon as their new hires sessions and open enrollment meetings.

Campbell said that communicating with university employees about financial events and other wellness events that are held on campus is important and a goal of his going forward.

“Since I’ve been here, I’ve really hit it hard in the new hire orientations, but outside of that and outside of webinars, sending out faculty and staff email communications alerting them to updates or plan changes or again just kind of promoting the benefit and kind of keeping it on everybody’s radar would be very important,” Campbell said.

When it comes to how often a staff or faculty member should attend a financial meeting is mainly dependent upon the person according to Campbell.

He said that some employees have their own financial advisor outside of the ones provided by UIndy, but those advisors are extremely important for those who may not have that person outside what is provided to them. Campbell also said that some employees may attend these meetings more due to upcoming life changes like retirement or starting a family. “…Any of those types of situations I think... it’s extremely important that they speak to somebody and I would highly encourage anybody to take advantage of that option that we have available,” Campbell said.

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