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Feakes to be next dean of College of Arts and Sciences

By Zoë Berg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Debra Feakes has been announced as the next Dean of the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. Feakes has been at Texas State University since 1994. Most recently, Feakes served as the associate chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since 2012 and the interim associate director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Education and Research since 2016.

The University of Indianapolis conducted a national search, and received about 75 applications. According to Executive Vice President & Provost Stephen Kolison, there were about 23 very compelling applicants and that pool was narrowed down to four, who were brought to campus to interview with Kolison and the search committee.

Kolison said Feakes stood out because she is a great teacher, researcher and scholar, has several patents and articles published in scientific journals and she has experience with deciding the appropriate teaching load for faculty and strategic planning.

“Right now we’re working on the Academic Master Plan, which is to drive the direction of academics at this institution,” Kolison said. “So she’s coming with that kind of experience.

She’s bringing things with her that would fit into some of the things we’re doing. I think she will just be a great colleague and a great leader for the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences.”

Feakes said part of the reason she feels prepared for her new role is because of her nine years on faculty senate, four of which she was the chair. She also has worked closely with the president

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In response to the opioid crisis, the Masters of Arts and Interprofessional Certificate in Addictions have been added

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR Because Indiana has ranked as the 11th worst state in terms of the opioid epidemic, the University of Indianapolis will be adding an addictions counseling program, which will consist of a Masters of Arts in Addictions Counseling and an Interprofessional Certificate in Addictions.

According to Dean of Applied Behavioral Science Anita Thomas, the certificate will assist students in earning a degree more specialized in addiction, while the masters program will be for students who wish to achieve a state license in addictions counseling.

The full degree will consist of 45 credit hours while the certificate will be six.

While most of the classes will be structured around drug and alcohol addictions, the overview courses will focus on The World Health Organization’s 10 Addictive Behaviors model, which will give students the framework to deal with all types of addiction. This will give the students the understanding addictive behaviors and what leads to addiction, according to Director of the Masters of Social Work Program Sally Brocksen.

“We’re teaching students to deal with addictions of all kinds,” Brocksen said.

“Right now, we’re talking to students about the opioid epidemic. When I was in school it was about the meth epidemic. So we’re teaching them to deal with each new crisis that comes through.”

Adjunct Professor of Social Work Eric Davis has been serving as a consultant for Brocksen to make sure that the university is developing the program to the best of its ability and meeting all state requirements. He also is a co-founder of the Life Recovery Center, an outpatient addictions counseling program which has five locations across

Indiana. He said that as a UIndy alumnus, he wanted to get behind this program and assist in educating qualified professionals to fight against the war on drugs.

“There simply aren’t enough professionals to offer treatment to the number of individuals that are suffering. I think that for UIndy to focus specifically on that field, I’m glad to see it,” Davis said.

“I think it's going to adequately prepare people to deal with the crisis at hand and help the people in our community that are suffering.”

Brocksen said that what is different about the opioid epidemic than any other wave of addiction before is that it is affecting white Americans in rural areas. In other drug problems Americans have seen in the past, the epidemic has primarily affected inner-city, minority groups.

She said that this is because of both self medication and over- prescribed pain medications from doctors. Thomas said that this cycle of over-prescribing begins with the doctors wanting the patients pain to go down.

She said that the lower a patient rates their pain, the more the doctors are paid.

“The opioid epidemic is really a combination of people that are doing that self medication that want to be high and escape and people who are doing pain management,” Thomas said. “So they have been diagnosed with chronic pain and were prescribed medication and become addicted to it. Or people who have undergone surgery and been prescribed it. And unfortunately the way the physicians were reimbursed for prescriptions often gave more pain medication than what was warranted. So people who felt more comfortable or good or liked this developed an addiction.”

As addictions to pain medications have increased, physicians are now limited to the quantity they are able to prescribe to their patients. Though in some cases this saves physicians from

“We need to be able to find this middle road where people are being treated appropriately.”

Masters of Arts: Addictions Counseling Advantages:

• Does not require specific prerequisites

• Fills a growing need locally and nationally

• Can lead to Indiana Counselors Association on Alcohol and Drug Abuse credentials (Addictions Counseling License)

One supervised internship of 700 hours, including 280 client contact hours.

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• 33 semester hours in a variety of coursework - Including 2 semester hours in legal, ethical and professional standards issues or appraisal & assessment for individual • 12 hours of practicum

The 13 required courses can be completed part time over five semesters or full time over three semesters.

Interprofessional Certificate: Addictions Advantages:

• Fills a growing need locally and nationally

• Features a day on campus for team development

• Can lead to Certified Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselor credentials

Program Information:

• Two courses - Overview of Addictions and Clinical Approaches to Substance Abuse • Covers a variety of topics, including psychopharmacology, diversity issues, accepting commitment therapy and interprofessional teamwork • Six credit hour program • Tuition rate: $624 per credit hour

For more information, visit uindy.edu http://www.uindy.edu/applied-behavioral-sciences/ma-addictions-counseling/ma-addictions-counseling-admission-requirements

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over-prescribing, in others it leaves some patients without the proper amount of medication to treat their pain, according to Brocksen.

“We need to be able to find this middle road where people are being treated appropriately. It's sort of this pendulum going back and forth,” Brocksen said. “I think we’re getting to the place where we’ll land in the middle. One of the big focuses of these programs is to make

sure that when they are treating these populations that there is pain, that there is problems going on and real emotional pain beside physical pain and how to address that appropriately.”

Thomas said that it is a focus in UIndy's health science programs to make sure that all nurses and doctors are giving proper treatment when it comes to pain. She said that the addictions coun-

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Students return to Cravens Hall after April 3 flooding

FEAKES of Texas State as a Presidential Fellow, where she worked on a project to engage non-tenure line faculty members.

As the associate chair for her department, Feakes has had the opportunity to do some strategic planning. Feakes said although she has been at Texas State for 24 years, she thinks it is time to expand her horizons.

“UIndy was where I started looking, partly because I really appreciate the fact that they’re dedicated to their undergraduate mission, but, also, still looking at the professional and doctoral programs and especially in the health areas, it’s almost like a smaller version of Texas State,” Feakes said. “I appreciate that UIndy has that passion for undergraduate teaching. UIndy just felt so good. The people were so nice, I liked what they were saying and where their values were. It was a really good fit.”

Kolison said the ability for UIndy to attract a person of Feakes caliber is exciting. In 2015, local civic leader and philanthropist and Chair of the Board of Trustees Yvonne Shaheen donated $5 million to UIndy as naming gift for the Riad and Yvonne Shaheen College of Arts & Sciences. This gift made it an endowed college, which Kolison said makes it more attractive to competitive applicants.

“It’s a gift that keeps on giving, so to speak,” Kolison said. “ It made a difference in our ability to attract that number of people to want to join. It’s good because it means you have some resources as a dean to work with from the very beginning. And that’s what I’m hoping, that Debra [Feakes] will build on that and increase the resource level for the college.”

Although Feakes academic department will be the Department of

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By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR

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Phillip B. Williams was selected by ENGL 479 Etchings Press students as the 2017 Whirling Prize winner in Poetry for his collection of poems "Thief in the Interior."

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Short story author Alexander Weinstein received the 2017 Whirling Prize in Prose for his collection "Children of the New World," about future technological advances.

Whirling Prize winners announced

By Alexis Stella BUSINESS & DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Every semester students have the opportunity to read and judge various prose and poetry submissions that incorporate a particular theme that the students choose. Last year, Etchings Press students chose the theme of social justice.

Students currently enrolled in ENGL 479 are tasked with reading a plethora of poetry and prose collections in order to narrow the submissions to one poetry winner and one prose winner.

Senior literary studies and creative

writing double major Spencer Martin said that the process of selecting the Etching Press Whirling Prize winners is broken down in stages.

“The process for selecting the winners starts with a deadline. Early in the semester, we are given a deadline for writers or agents to send in books for us [Etchings Press] to judge. So, after we have our submissions, they are split into two groups: prose and poetry. Then we begin reading,” Martin said. “Over the course of the semester we [Etchings Press students] basically switch the books [submissions] with each other and meet together once the submissions

have been read and we discuss our top picks. And from that point, we narrow our picks down to our two winners.”

According to the University of Indianapolis' website, submissions for the Whirling Prize have a fee of $20 per entry. The winners are granted $500, the opportunity to read their work as part of the Kellogg Writers Series and can sell their published work at the University of Indianapolis’ bookstore.

The winners came to UIndy on April 18 to read their work and accept their award. They were welcomed by the Kelloggs Writers Series and the

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Nearly 50 Cravens residents were displaced due to flooding; approximately an inch of water flooded the basement on April 3, according to junior nursing major and Resident Assistant Nik Clark. As a result, some residents were relocated to alternative housing, staying in residence halls such as East, Warren and Roberts. Other students stayed at the Holiday Inn on East Street or at home. To ensure that no mold growth would occur, Moore Restoration Incorporated cut out 12 inches of the drywall. However, more damage was done than originally suspected, according to Executive Director of Facilities Management Layne Maloney.

Students were expected to be back in Cravens on April 10. According to Clark, however, because there was so much work to be completed, students were not able to move back into the basement of Cravens until April 13 at 8 a.m.

The experience gave those staying in residence halls a taste of what the upper class dorms are like, said Clark.

Students staying in the hotels were reluctant to move back into the basement because of the amenities that the hotel offered, according to Clark.

Residents of Cravens are grateful to be back in their rooms, Clark said, and the experience has made everyone closer. Some students have designed shirts in memory of the flood, and hope to get them made.

“I couldn’t ask for a better group of guys,” Clark said.

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STEM focus detrimental to humanities

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR

In early March of 2018, in an effort to solve a $4.5 million budget deficit, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point announced a plan to cut 13 of its humanities majors, including English, history, political science, art and world languages. The university’s administration said that students attending college are looking to major in fields with more clear-cut career paths—which are mostly STEM-related fields. By expressing the desire to shift the focus to “high-demand career paths,” UWSP has garnered both criticism and praise from students, faculty and politicians.

The issue is not that UWSP is refocusing. They are not the only school in the United States to take a more specialized approach to education. As long as there are still universities and trade schools out there offering a wide variety of educational programs, then all fields

will continue to survive. Here is the problem: The decision to cut humanities majors perpetuates the already prevalent belief that they have less value than degrees in STEM. STEM fields have been the most pushed disciplines since the early 2000s, when the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and the Programme for International Student Assessment revealed that students in the United States were some of the lowest performing in science and mathematics. A report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine described the link between prosperity and STEM jobs and the need for constant innovation in those fields to deal with societal issues. With students underperforming in STEM fields and evidence that those jobs are the most prosperous and are beneficial, the United States launched a nationwide focus on STEM, from kindergarten through higher education.

This response certainly was not a bad

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thing. If students are underperforming, it is important to do what we can to help them improve. STEM fields provide valuable skills that are not taught in the humanities or social sciences. However, the STEM focus seems to have developed into a preference, an ideal instead of an effort to help students become more competent in areas where they were lacking.

The constant focus on STEM does send a message to those who feel drawn to the humanities.

When universities pour money into STEM programs, more scholarships are offered to students majoring in STEM fields and, in the case of UWSP, when humanities majors are the first to go, that it seems to tell those students their interests are not valued. Couple that with the misguided but still perpetuated belief that degrees in philosophy,

history, English and other humanities disciplines are useless, and the decision to follow that passion or interest begins to seem hopeless.

As an English education major, I have heard from numerous people that it is a worthless pursuit. Even still, people ask me, “Ew, why would you want to teach English?” Comments and reactions such as this is hurtful and are enough to make a majority of people feel insecure in their choice.

I do not believe that most people have a vendetta against the humanities, but when STEM is emphasized to the extent it is, with significantly less support given to other disciplines, it can seem or be interpreted that way. The problem is not that our country is STEM focused. In an effort to strengthen STEM, it seems that we have neglected disciplines that

The truth of the matter is that no discipline is better than another.

add tremendous value to education.

The truth of the matter is that no discipline is better than another. To be well-rounded individuals, we need to dip our toes into a variety of fields.

We need the human element that English and history provide through literature and learning about the past.

We need biology and chemistry to understand how our world works, art and music to unlock creativity. World languages help us appreciate other cultures and broaden our horizons and sociology gives us an understanding of our society. No one of these fields are the same, and removing any of them from an education eliminates an entire skill set, understanding and an opportunity for growth.

As UWSP works to figure out the future of its institution, and as the world of education evolves, I hope that we are able to rediscover the value of the humanities and embrace those and the STEM fields in designing curriculum. for higher and K12 education.

Teach teens about safe sex Teaching only abstinence to teenagers does nothing but increase pregnancy, STI rates

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR

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Over the past few decades, many state education systems across the United States have decided, in their infinite wisdom, that abstinenceonly sex education is the best way to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The Department of Health and Human Services, under the Trump administration, has also advocated for teaching abstinence to prevent teen pregnancy and STIs. While there is nothing inherently wrong with teaching abstinence, that should not be the only form of sex education that students receive. While many may choose to abstain from sex for religious or personal reasons, and they have every right to do so, it is unrealistic and naïve to assume that a majority of people will follow this decision.

To assume that teaching teenagers to “just say no to sex” will actually solve the issues of teen pregnancy and the spread of STIs, is absolutely ridiculous and downright foolish. In fact, in many cases, the opposite is true. According to National Institute of Health, states that fund abstinence-only sex education have higher rates of teenage pregnancy and STIs among teens than those that fund contraception-focused sex education.

Thirty-seven states require that sex education programs include information about abstinence, 25 of those require abstinence to be stressed over other forms of sex educations, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Only 18 states,

and the District of Columbia, require education programs to present information about contraception.

According to advocatesforyouth. org, the federal government began the Title V abstinence-only funding stream in 1996, which provides states who accept the program with federal funding.

The states that accept Title V must “meaningfully honor” all points of the federal government’s definition of abstinence-only education, which include: “has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity; teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school-age children; teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems; teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity; teaches that sexual activity outside the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects; teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents, and society; teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increase vulnerability to sexual advances; and teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity, according to advocates for youth.”

While it is easy to blame the government and the education systems for

these problems, parents also need to be held responsible for teaching their children about safe sex. I get it. Talking about the birds and the bees to a bunch of snickering teenagers can be awkward and uncomfortable, but look at the alternatives. Teaching teens to use contraception and how to practice safe sex may be a weird conversation, but it’s better than the teen having a child before they are 20 years old or having a lifelong disease. Parents need to understand that they cannot rely solely on the education system to effectively teach their children about sex, especially in the 25 states that reinforced abstinence-only sex education.

As someone who is the result of teenage pregnancy, I can say with certainty, that while it is not impossible, it is very difficult to raise a child as teenager. Unfortunately, while teaching students about sex education, many schools will use the possibility of pregnancy and STIs as a scare tactic and a way to reinforce the abstinence-only approach to sex education. While these are certainly important topics in sex education, no one should assume that they will deter people, especially hormonal teenagers, from having sex. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the only effective way of lessening teenage pregnancies and the spread of STIs is to include contraception education into sex education. Hopefully, state governments will start reevaluating their approach to sex education, however, this is unlikely.

In the meantime parents need to make sure their children are informed about all areas of sex education, not just on abstinence.

organizations such as the school’s public relations firm,Top Dog Communication, and the school paper, The Reflector. In Top Dog Communication, I met some of the best people on campus and I got to experience the world of public relations which I never thought would interest me, but I ended up loving. As a part of The Reflector staff, I have gotten the chance to take on the role of online editor and have gotten to be a part of The Reflector family.

Using what I learned here at UIndy, I became the social media manager for several bars and businesses here in Indianapolis and I have absolutely loved it and have learned a lot.

I was even able to create a banner that was hung up downtown for a St. Patrick’s Day event. Not many get to say that. Taking this on would have never been made possible without all the guidance that I received in my time here at UIndy.

I see myself now compared to before and I don’t know how I have done it. I have taken on three jobs and 17 credit hours each semester and have made it.

Now, I am about to walk on that stage and I have never felt more confident in myself. I am excited for what the future has in store for me. I never thought I would be where I am now, so looking into the future I’m excited because who knows what will happen.

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Seniors bid farewell to The Reflector

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR Coming to the University of Indianapolis as a freshman, I was undecided about my major and I only vaguely envisioned myself in a writing career. I ultimately struggled during my freshman year, because of my laziness and lack of passion for the classes I was taking, until I joined The Reflector in my second semester. Although I still had much to learn in terms of how to write as a journalist, versus the writing I had done before, I could tell almost immediately what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

One of the most vivid memories I have of my freshman year is confidently turning in my first article to the news editor at the time, Mercadees Hempel, and getting it back essentially covered in red ink. While this was intimidating and somewhat demoralizing at first, I learned that being critiqued and edited was the best way to continually improve, and I have developed a very thick skin as a result. This has to be the thing I appreciate most about The Reflector staff.

While we may rip each other’s stories apart during critiques, we are all still friends and know not to take it personally.

I have made friendships on The Reflector that I will

no doubt carry with me throughout the rest of my life and have had mentors that have contributed greatly to my improvement and success.

Without the help and guidance of the editors that came before me, I would not be the journalist that I am today, or the one that I plan to be in the future.

My gratitude for The Reflector’s adviser, Jeanne Criswell, is especially hard to measure. When I had nearly given up on applying for positions on The Reflector because of my struggling grades, Jeanne convinced me to keep applying.

This past year, as managing editor, I have enjoyed mentoring some of the other staff members and watching them grow as journalists. I can’t express how proud I am to see how far many of our staff has come in just this past year. Although I’m beyond excited to go out into the world and start my career as a journalist, I will miss my time on The Reflector.

From the crazy late-night conversations we have on production to us all cracking up at a random comment during a story meeting, there are moments from my time on staff that I will never forget. While it’s bitter-sweet to be leaving, I have no doubt in my mind that The Reflector will be in good hands for the years to come.

By Angie Mercado ONLINE EDITOR I know it sounds cliche, but if five years ago you would have told me that I would be where I am now, I would not have believed it. I began my journey at Ball State five years ago as a pre-med major. Three years into that major I decided it wasn't for me. Yes, it took me a while to realize it, but at least I did. I just wasn’t passionate about what I was doing. To me, it all felt like a chore, and that got me thinking. If I was going to go down a certain path in life, I wanted to love what I was doing and not see it as a chore, so that is when I decided to change my major to communication.

Along with switching majors I decided to go all the way and just switch cities too. I was ready for change.

Now, I type this as a fifth-year senior about to graduate. I moved to Indianapolis a year-and-a-half ago and my life has changed more in this amount of time than in my three years at Ball State. Just being a part of the University of Indianapolis communit y changed me. It is a completely different vibe here and I don’t know if that is because it is a smaller school, but I got closer to people here. In my time here at UIndy, I have gotten the opportunity to be a part of different

The crazy thing about school, and life in general, is that you never know where it’s going to take you. During my freshman year, I swore I would never take Applied Journalism. I didn’t have the best experiences in high school with journalism and I loved being a part of TV. Plus, I’m not the biggest fan of writing.

As sophomore year approached, I was convinced by friend to register for the class last minute. It was one of the best decisions I made and I even ended up being a part of the management staff that year. I also rediscovered my love for photography. I was able to stretch my talents in ways I had never done before and found out I really enjoy sports photography. But the best part about my experience here is how much I’ve learned and seen myself grow over the last three years. It’s also amazing to watch others learn and grow. I can’t wait to put to use the skills I learned here out in the real world.

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Journalist identifies migrant bodies Dawn Paley volunteers with Grupo Vida in north Mexico, helping them exhume and identify the bodies of migrants

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR Bone fragments, teeth and scattered belongings are often all that is left of disappeared people in the desert of northern Mexico, according to journalist and author Dawn Paley. Paley visited the University of Indianapolis on Thursday, April 12 to discuss her involvement volunteering in the north of Mexico with Grupo Vida, dedicated to exhuming and identifying skeletal human remains found in the desert.

“Grupo Vida has managed to make what was a very heavy individual burden on each individual family into a collective effort,” Paley said. “And they are leading the way in a nationwide push by family members to find the disappeared.”

Grupo Vida is comprised mainly of family members of missing persons.

Trained as a journalist, Paley has also begun work with the group and accompanies them on their Saturday morning travels into the desert to search for the remains of missing people. They search for bone fragments and other identifiable remains around Puebla, Mexico in hopes of matching the genetic profile to one of the thousands of people that are missing in Mexico.

Paley presented her own theories about the socioeconomic and political factors that accompany mass disappearances in Mexico and shared the stories of victims and survivors.

Paley is originally from British Columbia, Canada, but is currently completing a Ph.D at the Autonomous University of Puebla. According to Paley, the majority of searches being conducted for missing persons in Mexico are by civilians, not law enforcement.

“There are currently at least five collectives of parents, family members and friends of people who have been disappeared conducting searches in different parts of Mexico," Paley said. "I want to emphasize the state, the government, the police, no one is looking for the dis-

appeared in Mexico except for the family members. No one else.”

The primary focus of Paley’s speech and accompanying presentation was how the problem of mass disappearance in Mexico grew to such an extent, and the factors that perpetuate it. For example, she explained how the war on drugs in Mexico, declared by former Mexican President Felipe Calderón in December 2006, contributes to violence along the border by creating a hostile atmosphere and encouraging cartels and other criminal organizations to militarize in order to protect their operations.

“The crucial thing to keep in mind is that what is happening in Mexico is not a war on drugs, it’s war on the people of Mexico, Paley said. "The people being killed in this war are workers, they’re migrants, they’re students.”

Paley also pointed out that the United States has a vested interest in allowing “the paramilitarization of migration” because it is beneficial to American foreign policy to deter migrants from crossing into the United States, even if doing so means subjecting the Mexican public to further terrorization.

“You have essentially organized crime groups like Los Zetas actually hunting migrants, gathering them up, detaining them, sometimes killing them, and dissuading people from trying to migrate from Central America or from Mexico up to the U.S.," Paley said. "[They are] essentially carrying out a US border policy in a kind of unofficial way. What we notice is that in these kind of crimes against migrants in Mexico by criminal groups, who often work together with the state, there is almost total impunity for the perpetrators.”

According to Paley, the lack of persecution for disappearances make the Mexican state complicit in the violence in Mexico. This was shocking to junior international relations major Halle Risinger, who said that she had not realized the extent of the situation in Mexico or the involvement of law en-

“The people being killed in this war are workers, they're migrants, they're students.”

Events shed light on sexual assault

By Shayla Cabalan STAFF WRITER For the month of April, something different was added to the Schwitzer Student Center. According to Director of Student Support and Title IX Coordinator Anne Moelk, an art installation called “What Were You Wearing?” has been set up with the intention of visually drawing attention to Sexual Assault Awareness Month— and, according to Moelk, it’s just one of many efforts the university is undertaking to spread awareness throughout April.

“We have students who have come here because they feel that UIndy offers them a lot. We want to be able to provide them with as much academic and general social information to help them better their lives,” Moelk said. “And this would certainly be one way to do that.”

According to Moelk, people in the more traditional college age range, from 18 to 24, statistically are more likely to experience sexual assault and harassment in their life. Furthermore, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, every 98 seconds, someone experiences sexual assault.

Additionally, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college.

“It tends to be an issue that is swept under the rug,” Moelk said. “It’s an uncomfortable topic. But just because it’s an uncomfortable topic, it certainly doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t talk about it.”

As a result, the university is featuring (or has featured) four major programs throughout the month of April which bring the conversation of sexual violence into the spotlight. The first was the installation.

“A victim is never to blame in those situations,” Moelk said. “The installation helps to end victim blaming. It also helps people understand that even if someone is dressed in a way that might

be seen as provocative, it doesn’t mean that they deserved to be assaulted.”

Another event on April 9 featured nonprofit organization Speak About It, who came in to illustrate experiences of sex and sexual assault, as well to clarify what consent actually entails. The members of the organization read testimonies from real people who had been sexually assaulted to bring the reality of the situation to the audience. Freshman political science and communications major Hilary Bauer said she appreciated the thoroughness of the presentation.

“The presenters conveyed their message effectively by using a variety of scenarios. They were inclusive of the LGBT community while reading the stories of individuals,” Bauer said.

“This allowed for every person to feel impacted by the presentation, as it reached a large audience.”

On April 13, an event called the Consent Game was held, in which the audience listened to stories and deliberated over whether further consent was needed in the sexual scenario.

Again, the goal was to clarify consent.

On the 18, the university hosted a luncheon on religion and sexual assault, and how to reconcile the two when such a traumatizing event occurs. Lastly, advocates from Beacon of Hope Crisis Center are on campus for the entire month, offering instant help for people who need it.

“Keeping track of one another and looking after one another is a huge way to prevent sexual violence,” Moelk said.

For Moelk, sexual assault awareness is a year-round issue. According to Bauer, events like the ones featured this month truly help to make students more aware of sexual assault.

“The candidness of the stories told and the performances had the largest impact on me,” Bauer said. “They made them real and poignant.”

Students can find more information about sexual assault resources on campus by visiting uindy.edu/campus-life/ titleIX.

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Journalist Dawn Paley was brought to campus by the University of Indianapolis Forensics Club who heard her speak at a conference. Paley spoke about her work with Grupo Vida in north Mexico exhuming migrant bodies. forcement and political entities in the disappearances.

“I found her information about how widespread people disappearing is in Mexico. I knew the situation was bad but not to that extent,” Risinger said.

“I was also surprised to hear that politicians and corporations are contributing to the disappearances of Mexicans and other Latinos traveling through Mexico and that they aren’t sure why this is happening.”

Paley was invited to campus by the UIndy Forensics Club, who met her at a conference where Associate Professor of Biology and Anthropology and Director of the Human Identification Center Krista Latham was in attendance. According to Latham, the students chose to contact Paley because of her youth and relatability as a student.

“Most of my students were at that conference, and they heard her and they met her and they thought that it would be great to bring her up here for a variety of reasons,” Latham said. “First, she’s doing really important work, but they instantly connected with her because she’s young…..They were just really

inspired by her and thought that she had a great story, she had great experiences, and that it would be really motivating to bring her up here to speak to UIndy.

So they did all of that work to get her up here.”

Latham herself has done extensive work along the southern border of the United States and has taken groups of students to Texas for years to exhume the bodies of informally buried migrants that perish in the desert. According to Latham, awareness, even among college students, is the first step towards concrete policy change. Sophomore elementary education major Sophia Frieden said that she is optimistic about the impact Paley’s work will have in increasing awareness about the crisis in Mexico.

“Before attending this event I was unaware of the extent to which these ‘disappearings’ were happening,” Frieden said. “This lecture was a great opportunity to learn about a humanitarian crisis that does not get much attention in the media. Going forward, I hope this issue receives more attention globally.”

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Addictions from page 1 seling programs will focus on alternate ways to deal with patients’ pain, such as physical therapy, occupational therapy and mindfulness.

“We’ve been talking across the health sciences to make sure that we have alternate pain management strategies as a focus to that,” Thomas said. “...all the programs, nursing include, have really changed their teaching approaches to really talk about pain management and effective ways to do that without over prescribe medication.”

Brocksen said that on top of teaching these students different ways to deal with pain, they also need to understand how each social group deals with pain.

“There's been a lot of new research about how different cultures respond to pain differently and ask for relief differently,” Brocksen said. “So we talk a lot about cultural responsiveness in our programs, but I think when it comes to addiction there is an extra layer in that.

Those are things that we are definitely trying to expose our students to, so just in the individual level. And then on the macro level to look at why some addictions considered epidemics and why some are problems.”

Davis said that part of the stigma that people with addictions should simply avoid the substance is not an acceptable solution. He said that, as a recovering addict who has been clean for 19 years, he still struggles with addictive behaviors. Davis said that his goal is to educate students on what addiction really is and proper ways to treat it.

“When you hear the word addiction… what we usually equate that to is addiction is chemical dependent… I differentiate that, chemical dependency and addiction are not the same thing.

They go hand in hand, but chemical dependency is cured by detox… addiction by my definition is the thinking and the behaviors that go along with that. And that existed before during and long after…” Davis said. “I think the stigma with addiction is that people want it to be about will power. And if will power were enough a center like mine wouldn’t exist. The problem with someone who is an addict and is relying on will power, that sets them up for failure because that is never enough.”

Davis said that he will continue to be dedicated fight against addiction through his own counseling center, as well as reaching out to UIndy. For more information on how aid in the fight against addiction, visit liferecoverycenter.net.

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THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 25, 2018

A passion for coaching leads to success After a lifetime of coaching and playing, former UIndy head basketball coach leads IU to Women’s National Invitation Tournament victory

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR

After 26 years of coaching women’s basketball and her fifth trip to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament as a coach, Indiana University Head Women’s Basketball Coach Teri Moren won the championship. Moren served as the head women’s basketball coach at the University of Indianapolis from 2000 to 2007, her only Division II coaching job. Despite leaving UIndy 11 years ago, Moren is still in touch with some of the faculty in the athletic department, including Senior Associate Athletic Director for Development Matt Donovan, who was watching the game as IU earned the win.

“I think that one thing that was really kind of neat is watching that game and, sure, you’re pulling for Indiana to win and you want them win,” Donovan said.

“But there’s a lot that was in that time period where you’re really wanting your friend to succeed. And the other part of it is, that team just has some great young ladies, and you really truly wanted them to win because they were truly, not only a testament to Indiana University, but a testament to Teri and a testament to their staff...And so...I looked at that TV when the clock hit zero and they won.

There’s a lot of joy filled in your heart and that’s awesome.”

The WNIT is a national basketball tournament with preseason and postseason versions run by Triple Crown Sports out of Fort Collins, Colo. After failing to qualify for the NCAA March Madness, IU entered the tournament, winning all six games in the series and securing the championship title with a win over Virginia Tech 65-57 on March 31. Moren said that after losing their opportunity to make it into the NCAA tournament, the team took 24 hours to feel sorry for themselves before deciding to commit to the WNIT. In addition to the team, Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Suzanne Willey was also disappointed they did not make the tournament, but was thrilled about their subsequent success.

“I was really kind of disappointed for them that they didn’t get into the NCAA. But so be it,” Willey said. “I was thrilled to death [that they won the WNIT] and she deserves all that success. She’ll be the first one to say that it’s her players and it’s the staff and it’s the whole, it’s never about any one of us

to get something like that done...I fully expect that this isn’t going to be a one time shot. I know that they’ll shoot next year, that their goal will be to get to the NCAA. It’s just fun to watch her career.”

Moren said she was grateful that the team was able to win at Assembly Hall, in front of their fans. The team broke the attendance record, with their championship game witnessed by 13,000 spectators.

“For our seniors, it was a tremendous thing,” Moren said. “There’s not very many seniors that are able to, a couple of things, play on their home floor and win on their home floor in their very last collegiate game they’ll ever play in. That

other jobs. I mean, a lot of people don’t get critiqued by the public on a daily basis and it’s a very high pressure job.

And so I think for somebody in her position just to feel the gratification of, wow, all those late nights and hard work and wondering if you’re doing things right and complaints by different people and different styles. To see it all come together like that it’s really special.”

Born and raised in Seymour, Ind., Moren was raised watching IU basketball on Sunday afternoons with her family. She said that her love of sports stemmed from those afternoons and playing them with the neighborhood boys growing up. She attended Purdue

required a lot of thinking, she said, as she had only ever coached and played in DI. However, she liked the program and Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Dave Huffman’s vision and mission, and believed that she could help the program grow through her Indiana and Indianapolis connections.

“I wanted to be a head coach, my goal was to be a head coach at 30 and that was an opportunity at the time,” Moren said. “You know, the naysayers, I didn’t listen to public opinion. I basically, for me, it was a leap of faith that, ‘Hey, if I’m going to be a head coach, this is a great opportunity for me. I’m going to make some mistakes, but I know that I’m

Photo contributed by Ryan Thorpe

Indiana University Head Women’s Basketball Coach Teri Moren was the head coach at the University of Indianapolis from 2000 to 2007. In 2003, Moren led UIndy to victory in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament and won the GLVC regular season title. The same year, she was also named the Region 4 Coach of the Year. just doesn’t happen. And so it was really special for those seniors.”

Moren said that the community rallied around the team. They drew in attendees from around the state, with attendance increasing each night.

Because the men’s team was not playing at the time, Moren said that the team’s participation in the WNIT caused a buzz in the community. Executive Director of Basketball at Triple Crown Sports Renee Carlson said that she was excited for the team and impressed with how the community supported them.

“I think for the community itself, it was just really gratifying to see how much the community really rallied around the team and around her and they really respect and appreciate what she’s done there. And that was neat too,” Carlson said. “Because, you know, coaches, they have such a very visible day-to-day job and it’s so different from

University from 1988-1992. At the same time Moren was playing point guard for the Boilermakers, Donovan was working in the then Athletic Public Relations Department. He said that Moren proved herself as an intelligent and skilled basketball player in an exhibition game against the University of Notre Dame. Led by Moren, Purdue implemented a zone defense that tripped up the Fighting Irish’s offense and help the Boilermakers to continue holding their own, Donovan said.

Moren served as a DI assistant coach for the first eight years of her career, first at Butler University and then at Northwestern University. UIndy was her first head coach position when she was just 30 years old. Moren said that she decided to take the job at UIndy because she felt like she needed a new experience and because she was confident enough to have her own program. The decision

going to make some mistakes around people that are going to support me and going to support our program and our team, and that’s exactly what happened.

It’s probably, when I think about my career, one of my most favorite jobs I’ve ever had.”

Willey described Moren as a player’s coach; someone who her teams respected and would work hard for.

During Moren’s time at UIndy, Willey said that she could tell that Moren was going to be a successful coach.

“She just was professional, driven, energetic, a team player and I mean, you knew she was special and going to be able to go and do things,” Willey said. “A lot of times with DII, some ADs [athletic directors] and some other coaches and people in the department think, ‘Oh, we don’t want to hire somebody who has aspirations to go coach in DI,’ and I’m thinking, ‘Yes we do. If that’s their

aspiration, great.’ We get some coaches that get into Division II and they love it...We see many coaches go to DI and then in a couple years they’re out of a job. So, it is a different ball game. But it’s been so fun to watch her.”

During Moren’s seven seasons at UIndy, the team earned a 130-73 record and made it to the GLVC tournament for three consecutive years, winning the conference title and the regular season title in 2003. Moren was also named the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Region 4 Coach of the Year in NCAA DII for that year. Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Suzanne Willey said that Moren was a coach for the players, someone the team respected and worked hard for.

According to Donovan, she was also competitive and expected the most out of each member of the team and did what she could to make sure they were prepared before walking into a game.

“She [Moren] was very tough in the sense of, if a play wasn’t run to the utmost perfection, you could tell just by looking at her. And I think that was one of the things that I always respected about her,” Donovan said. “Everything was about being as close to perfection as it possibly could be...even though you know there are things that are not going to be a hundred percent, but how do you get to a hundred percent? And holding those individuals accountable, but at the same point in time, teaching them how to be successful no matter if that was the first half, second half or outside of the game.”

Moren left UIndy in 2007 to be an associate assistant coach at Georgia Tech University, then returned to Indiana as the head coach at Indiana State. In 2014, while she was coaching the Sycamores, she was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Later that year, she was hired as the head coach at Indiana University, and has coached the Hoosiers to a 92-53 record in her four seasons leading the team. Despite being a part of both Purdue and IU’s women’s basketball programs, Moren said that it has never been about the name.

“This is a passion for me, coaching and teaching and impacting the lives of young players,” Moren said. “I never got caught up in the where I was going to coach, it was about the who, and why I coached. The why to me is much better than the where and the who as far as whatever’s across your chest. To me, it’s more about the opportunity we have as coaches to impact these young people.”

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Baseball

April 28-29: University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Men’s Golf May 7-9: NCAA DII Midwest/Central Regional

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Baseball

Softball

1-1 April 15 at Ohio Dominican University 1-1 April 17 vs. Purdue University Northwest 1-1 April 19 vs. Lake Erie College 3-1 April 21-22 vs. McKendree University

2-0 1-1 0-2

“[We need to focus on] timely hitting. In those eight losses, we left 59 men on base. That just can’t happen,” Assistant Baseball Coach Al Ready said.

“And our pitching has got to step up in a couple areas. We gave up big innings and we’ve got to hit our spots. I think the staff ’s done a good job reviewing who we’re playing and giving them a good scout report, we’ve just got to execute better.”

The University of Indianapolis softball team went 3-3 last week to its three opponents; Cedarville University, Rockhurst University and William Jewell University. Sophomore pitcher Lauren Honkomp pitched a total of 31 innings and led the team with 21 strikeouts.

Men’s Tennis

W 9-0 April 13 vs. University of Southern Indiana April 20 vs. Rockhurt University

W 5-0 W 5-0 April 21 vs. University of Southern W 5-1

Indiana April 22 vs. Drury University

The University of Indianapolis men’s tennis team defeated Rockhurst University, the University of Southern Indiana and Drury University on April 20-22, and took home the GLVC championship tournament title.

April 17 at Cedarville University April 21 Rockhurst University April 22 William Jewell College

Women’s Tennis

W 9-0 April 13 vs. University of Southern Indiana W 5-1 April 20 vs. Maryville University L 5-1 April 21 vs. Drury University “We try to do our best and I think we have a good perspective for the conference tournament because we did a good job,” said junior Hanna Volikova. “Obviously, our primary goal is to win conference this semester as well. After the conference tournament, we will have the regional tournament.”

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Men’s Lacrosse

W 14-6 April 10 vs. Lindenwood University L 12-8 April 21 at Rockhurst University

Women’s Golf April 27-29: GLVC Championship Tournament

Men’s Lacrosse April 27-29: GLVC Championship Tournament

“It’s kind of been different just being older, we have our first senior class. We have seven seniors. So just having that senior leadership, our junior guys are stepping up too. I think that’s the biggest thing that has helped us,” Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Greg Stocks said.

“We had a little stretch where we struggled and I think with a younger team we could’ve just given up on the season, but we’ve kind of came through having that senior upper-class leadership.”

Women’s Lacrosse

W 18-16 April 13 vs. Grand Valley State University W 15-13 April 15 vs. Tiffin University W 19-7 April 22 at Davenport University

“I think it’s been a really good year,” Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach James Delaney said. “A lot of highs and a couple of lows, but ultimately we have continued to get better and more the program forward. Hopefully we can continue to finish on a strong note and really write some new history to our young program and really go into the summerfeeling good about how this season went and ready to get after the future of the program.”

Women’s Lacrosse April 29: Concordia University St. Paul

Men’s Tennis April 30-May1: NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament

Women’s Tennis April 28: NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament

Softball April 28: Missouri University S&T April 29: Maryville University

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FEATURE

THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 25, 2018

Studied Scottish Literature in Edinburg and Glasgow

Built a house for local resident

Met with professionals working with large corporations

Volunteered at Hanbury Home for Children

Met students from Delhi University

Graphic by Johana Rosendo

SBLA: Habitat for Humanity in Savannah, GA.

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

Photo contributed by Maryssa Small

While traveling in India, the students were able to experience authentic Indian cuisine, clothing and culture firsthand. Green (above) said that she enjoyed sightseeing at traditional temples and cultural sites in India.

South Asian politics course: India

By Melanie Arnold STAFF WRITER

Students enrolled in the international relations course “Politics in South Asia” took their studies beyond the classroom during a trip to India over spring break.

The trip gave students an opportunity to learn more about Indian society and culture by immersing themselves in the environment.

Associate Professor of International Relations Milind Thakar and Assistant Professor of German Paul Levesque led the group of students throughout the city of Delhi, the southern Indian state of Kerala and various other areas throughout the country.

“I feel successful in having to introduce them to India and specifically a developing country, when most of them have not done so,” Thakar said. “My students met with students from Delhi University, so that was a good interaction. They met with local families and traveled to their houses and apartments and talked to them, getting their local

view on everything.”

Junior marketing major Maryssa Smalls said she never knew India was so colorful and culturally rich. Smalls feels that every student should travel out of the United States to gain a broader perspective.

“The biggest thing I gained from the trip was a better appreciation for the world around me,” Smalls said. “I grew up in a small town that was not very diverse, and it was a great experience to get to learn culturally, religiously, politically how different and how similar different places could be.”

Sophomore international relations major Claire Green said that she enjoyed seeing various temples and cultural sites in India.

“I thought it was really interesting to go to the different temples,” Green said. “It was really eye opening to see how a different religion lives their lives and how everything is based off that religion.”

Thakar, Smalls and Green all said they endorsed the educational value of travel for college students.

A group of students from the Student Business Leadership Academy dedicated their spring break to helping the Coastal Empire for Habitat for Humanity in Savannah, Ga. The group worked in a local resale store and helped the organization build a house for a local resident.

According to sophomore accounting major Alex Yurack, the group of SBLA students were able to go on this trip for free in order to satisfy outreach efforts that the club aims to achieve each year.

“When we were actually building the house we were nailing in parts of the wall, and then we organized parts of the roof, because there is a specific way that they have to go up there,” Yurack said.

“Then we would lift them up to the top of the house to the professional workers, and they would put the roof on as the day progressed.”

Junior accounting major Shelby Winner said that this year in particular the students had the opportunity to see the direct impact that they are able to make in the community by meeting the recipient of the new home that the students spent their week building.

“I know that we did it last year and had success and that’s part of the reason that we went back again…” Winner said.

“This year the Coastal Empire Habitat

for Humanity gave us a pretty unique experience because we got to meet the person that we were building the house for.”

Though the students spent most of their seven days in Savannah doing service work, the group also had some free time to explore and enjoy the city.

Winner said that traveling to do service work for free is a great experience, especially with a group of newfound friends.

“It’s just a good way for us to not only get to know each other, but for us to show that being involved with an organization like that is a way for us to give back to the community,” Winner said.

Yurack said that after two years of participating in this project, he is excitPhoto contributed by Alex Yurack ed to take part in it again Students from the Student Business Leadership Academy built a home next spring, and many individuals in the group for a Military Veteran and single mother named Tia during spring break. have already started to event, it’s a lot of fun and it’s always fun make plans in advance.

“I think that we are going to con- helping other people… it’s not the tratinue this in the future. We’re already ditional college spring break but I think thinking about where we are going to you definitely get more out of that [sergo next year,” Yurack said. “It’s a great vice trips] than the alternative.”

Scottish Literature course: Scotland

By Tate Jones STAFF WRITER

YMCA volunteers: Jamaica kids would hold a screwdriver for us or hold the light. They just wanted to be right there with you.”

Hendricks said the first few days While plenty of college students were full of painting rooms and babyspent their spring break on a beach, proofing electrical sockets and planning 25 students from five Indiana colleges activities for the children. The volunteers traveled with Intercollegiate YMCA to also created games for the children, Mandeville, Jamaica where they volun- helped them with homework, created teered at Hanbury Home for Children. crafts and danced with the children.

Sophomore criminal justice major The students who volunteered at Hanbury stayed in Jamaica for six days, Isabel Tintera said she knew the trip playing with the children and mak- was going to challenge her. Howeving repairs to their homes and school, er, being in Jamaica and experiencing according to senior social work major what the orphanage was like firsthand was much more difficult than she had Danielle Hendricks.

“A lot of them [the children] liked to imagined. While the trip was extremely help,” Hendricks said. “…Some of the rewarding for Tintera, she said that it was also heartbreaking to not help the children in a significant way.

“Even though we can’t do more, we’re still making that impact,” Tintera said. “We’re still able to do something. That’s kind of amazing.”

Currently, Tintera and a friend are making care packages to send to the children at Hanbury. She said she plans on traveling to Jamaica again in the future because the trip helped her realize the impact that she can make on the children, even in a small capacity.

“Maybe one person can’t change the whole world,” Tintera said, “But Photo contributed by Danielle Hendricks maybe one person can Danielle Hendricks (above) was one of three Greyhounds who traveled change another person’s with the Intercollegiate YMCA to Jamaica to volunteer with children. world.

By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR

Photo contributed Stephen Tokar

Bohley and Tokar said that in addition to visiting businesses, students, faculty and alumni toured the Cu Chi Tunnels, the Reunification Palace and the War Remnants Museum, historic sites related to the Vietnam War.

Grad students: Vietnam, Hong Kong

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR

After several hours of travel, three School of Business faculty members, three alumni and 13 students in the master’s in business administration program touched down in Hong Kong, China on March 8. They spent the entirety of their spring break in Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, according to Professor of International Business and Marketing Kathy Bohley and Director of Graduate Business Programs and Associate Professor of Business Stephen Tokar.

Each year for the last 11 years, the MBA students, faculty and usually a few alumni have taken a trip overseas to better understand international business, according to Tokar.

While overseas, the students visited foreign businesses. Tokar said that having the opportunity to travel internationally and speak with business professionals from other countries helps students to understand the ways people think differently from Americans and the impact of international businesses in the United States and even on the state level in Indiana.

“They’re not comfortable with the same power distances. They don’t have the same pacing. They may not have the same attention to time restrictions that

we do. They may be a lot more focused on building a relationship before they want to sit down and talk about business,” Tokar said. “Understanding those things is key to success in international business.”

Prior to going on the trip, students spent time looking into the economics, political history, culture and other aspects of China and Vietnam, according to Bohley. Once they actually made the trip, Bohley said that her hope was that the students in attendance would have a new perspective on what they had learned.

“Once they [students] go, they will learn [that] A. sometimes what they read is not accurate, and B. you can read anything about culture but you’re not going to understand it and feel it until you’re there,” Bohley said. “… And just the experience of...that cultural shock you can’t get from a photo, you can’t get from a story in a book, you can’t get from watching YouTube. It is something that they have to experience, and it ultimately changes people and then they want to go back again and again.”

Tokar said that he and Bohley are already beginning to plan their trip to Hong Kong and Bangkok, Thailand for next academic year, and that it is open to interested MBA students and alumni.

Bohley said that the students who go on the trips see the value in international travel and exposure.

While some students may have been taking time to visit home, others were traveling across the world to visit sites relevant to their course. The English department’s Scottish Literature class traveled to Scotland to experience the cultural sites of the country.

Associate Department Chair and Professor of English Jennifer Camden was a faculty leader on the trip. According to Camden, the class visited many of the sites and locations that were associated with the literature discussed in class, including three days in Edinburgh.

“If Edinburgh has all of the historical stuff and is the capital city then Glasgow has a history of being an industrial city and a working city,” Camden said. “A lot of the contemporary literature is set in Glasgow.”

Sophomore psychology preoccupational therapy major Jacqueline Gunther said that on the trip, in addition to the change of scenery, she learned how to communicate with students that have different interests and ideas.

“I learned how to communicate across studies, like across majors,” Gunther said. “We had a lot of majors go on this trip, but we were all studying one thing. It was really cool to see all the different perspectives come together.”

Camden said that the experience allowed for a different learning environment for the students. She attributes the opportunity to apply their lessons in a hands-on way to UIndy’s size and faculty-student interaction.

“It’s a more intense experience in the class,” Camden said. “I think that at UIndy we’re lucky that our class sizes are small and that the faculty are approachable and care about their students. Getting to know students and seeing the students getting to know each other over the course of a weeklong trip when you’re together all the time is a different level of professor-student interaction is great.”

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THE REFLECTOR

Indianapolis Art Center features Greyhounds' art

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR Two University of Indianapolis seniors will contribute their own works of art to Indianapolis Art Center’s 2018 College Invitational Exhibition. The show, which happens twice a year, features work from artists currently enrolled in various art degree programs throughout Indiana.

Senior pre-art therapy major Nicole Hopf ’s piece, “A Collection of Memories,”will be featured in the upcoming exhibition. Hopf said that she made the piece when she was a junior taking a course focused on three dimensional art. The assignment, Hopf said, was to incorporate into the work something from the past that the artist believes should be brought to the future.

“They [the professors] wanted you to bring back a thing, an object or something that has kind of faded out that you want to draw attention to. So I did developing photos since most people keep them on their phone or whatever,”Hopf said.“I did a bunch of Polaroids just kind of hanging [in the box], then I did some clouds to represent saving your photos to the Cloud.

So that’s the piece itself.”

Hopf ’s piece is a box containing various items such as Polaroid photos and other aesthetic elements. She said that the project was inspired by the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo, where families create altars meant to celebrate the dead and welcome their returning spirits to Earth. Rather than creating a piece to honor deceased relatives, however, Hopf said she chose to commemorate places she has been using photographs within what she described as a “found objects piece.”

“All of the photos in there are naturebased, because it’s places where I’ve been

and experienced things,” Hopf said. “I didn’t put any people in there because I thought it might make them feel weird. So it’s all very nature-based and ambiguous.”

Although Hopf ’s piece was a “found objects” piece, a variety of mediums were accepted into the exhibition, including photographs, which is what senior pre-art therapy major Paige Stratton submitted.

HOPF

STRATTON Stratton has a studio concentration in photography and used her knowledge of the medium to create her piece “difficult to hide,” which will also be shown in the Indianapolis Art Center exhibition.

Stratton’s work was created using digital

photography and is a self-portrait of herself, nude, seated on a couch.

According to Stratton, the photo was part of a larger project titled “The Weight I Carry,” during which she began to examine her own self-image and celebrate parts of herself she struggled to accept.

“It’s about my relationship with my body in terms of self-image and selfconfidence and me expressing vulnerability in the place that I live, and how that is important to me to accept myself in order to show other people that we have all been made to feel insignificant at some point,” Stratton said. “In every photo I’m in the nude, and I ask people to look at the photos with reflection in mind, looking at similarities rather than differences because we’ve all been made to feel insecure or have wanted to change ourselves.”

Stratton said that her work was influenced by an artist who was shown to her by a photography professor. The artist, Jen Davis, conveyed similar themes to those that Stratton was interested in and inspired her to experiment with her own work.

“My photo teacher, Sara Pfohl, she showed me an artist, her name was Jen Davis,” Stratton said. “And Jen Davis did self-portraits over the course of 11 years of her changing body, because she was also an obese woman. And she showed her journey through weight loss surgery, and it was really cool seeing someone of my size and stature baring all for exhibitions... and showing that journey of vulnerability and self confidence.”

The exhibition is part of the Spring Exhibition series at the Indianapolis Art Center and features 24 total artists. The group showcase is open to the public until June 13 at the IAC’s ChurchmanFehsenfeld Gallery.

Photo of "A Collection of Memories," contributed by Nichole Hopf

Photo of "difficult to hide," contributed by Paige Stratton

Jazz Week celebrates talents of musicians

By Tate Jones STAFF WRITER

Photo by David Morris

From left to right: Violinists Zachary DePue and Joana Genova, cellist Austin Huntington and violist Michael Strauss make up the Indianapolis Quartet. The quarter was formed in 2016. They performed several pieces as part of their performance, which was titled "Firsts." The performance took place on April 20 in the CDFAC.

UIndy's resident string quartet

The Indianapolis Quartet continues to expand its role throughout the Indianapolis area

By Ethan Gerling EDITORIAL ASSISTANT For the past two years, the University of Indianapolis has set itself apart from other universities in Central Indiana by having their own resident quartet on campus.The Indianapolis Quartet was established in 2016 as a part of a collaboration between the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and UIndy. The quartet consists of first violinist Zach De Pue, violinist Joana Genova, violist Michael Strauss and cellist Austin Huntington.

Huntington said that one of the goals for the Indianapolis Quartet is to expand upon its associations with UIndy and Indianapolis.

He specifically described the group’s wishes to expand access to the arts across the areas.

“A lot of people judge a city based on its arts, and how embedded and how well done its arts culture is,” Huntington said.

“The University of Indianapolis…[has] a wonderful [and] growing arts program and music program. The ability to have a professional string quartet in residence, from a professional performing aspect, brings a level of professionalism that UIndy can now say is exclusively theirs.”

The quartet also receives financial support from the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation. After initially receiv-

ing a grant to start the group, they now propose projects to the foundation.

Genova said that they all practice their parts individually, on their own time, as well as the rehearsals they all do together.

Their schedules are so chaotic that they themselves often do not know how long they will be able to practice that day until they are free from their work, according to Genova. She said that she is personally occupied with a lot of work off-campus and that she frequently finds herself thinking about practicing while doing mundane tasks, like driving.

“At our age, when you teach and rehearse, sometimes I have an hour, sometimes I have three,” Genova said. “It completely depends on the workload I have been given that day, and I think it ’s the same for my colleagues as well.

Sometimes you have to spend three hours in the car [traveling]. You wish you could be practicing...but [sometimes] you just have to drive.”

Strauss said that each of their performances has a meaning behind it, and conveying that meaning is the goal of each concert. He said that the quartet has a paradoxical desire to get a collective reaction out of the whole audience, but also give each audience member something different they can find meaning in.

“The string quartet playing is like creat-

"The string quartet playing is like creating a piece of art anew..."

ing a piece of art anew that is singularly deciphered by each audience member, but also as a collective [audience],” Strauss said. “I often run into people that are like ‘I don’t know if I want to go to the concert because I don’t feel like I know anything about the music you’re playing.’ Well, I like to tell people that all music was new once and it’s very exciting to play a work for someone who has no experience with the work, because the way they experience that work is so foreign to the way that we [musicians] experience it, because we know it so well.”

Strauss compared this genre of music to the some of the award-winning films Hollywood has produced. He said that string and orchestral music is never something that can be “dead,” and it is very much alive because of new, modern versions of the music.

The quartet's latest performance was on April 20 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. The performance was titled “Firsts.”It opened with Beethoven’s “String Quartet in F Major,” Op. 18, No. 1 and was then followed by “String Quartet No. 1 in C Major,” Op 49 by Dmitri Shostakovich and was concluded with Claude Debussy's “String Quartet in G Minor, Op 10.”

The quartet has spread from UIndy since its founding in 2016.The group performed at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill. on March 12 and in July, they will be performing at the Taconic Music Festival in Vermont. Genova will also be taking part in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra performance on April 25 in the CDFAC.

The 11th annual iteration of Jazz Week was held April 9-14 with performances from students, staff and outside musicians. The University of Indianapolis Jazz Combo started off Jazz Week with a performance on April 9. The student-led ensemble performed music composed by memorable names in jazz such as Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, along with Broadway musicals and films from the early 20th century.

On April 10, a free swing dance lesson was held before a performance by the UIndy Jazz Ensemble. Guests were taught how to perform a swing dance while a live band played on-stage, the ensemble then performed a ‘Big Band Dance.' They then performed music from famous jazz orchestras and bands, including Duke Ellington and Count Basie. One point in the concert allowed for audience members to join the ensemble on stage and begin swing dancing to the music that was being performed.

Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Music Mark O’Connor performed on April 11. The concert featured O’Connor’s own composed work with his own ensemble. O’Connor said that the ensemble includes drummer and Owl Records owner Kenny Phelps.

The reason why UIndy has Jazz Week is to celebrate jazz music, according to O'Connor, and Jazz Week is very important to him personally.

“I get the chance to prepare my jazz ensemble and jazz combo students to perform in the real world through interactions with these world-class jazz artists,” O'Connor said. “It gives me a chance to bring the jazz scenes of New

York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major cities to my students as well as the greater Indianapolis [area].”

Jazz Week featured three other performances from April 12 to 14 that included the work of Dave Stryker, Chad McCullough and Dick Oatts. The three also performed masterclasses, which were solo recitals, from April 12-14 as well. The masterclasses also included work from O’Connor and percussionist Terence Mayhue.

Freshman music major Spencer Douglas was an attendee at O'Connor’s performance on April 11. He said that he enjoys the individualism that comes with the style of jazz music and that it made the experience even more enjoyable.

“What I like specifically is that in jazz each player gets their own spotlight and their [own] time to shine,” Douglas said.

“It especially goes to [the performance by] O’Connor because they were his pieces.

He knew exactly how to play and exactly how it should go” Freshman psychology and pre-occupational therapy double major Nicole Baldwin, who attended the Jazz Combo performance, said that she believes that jazz music has qualities that promote opportunity. She also feels that it should receive the same recognition as other musical events on campus.

“They [UIndy] should advertise it more,” Baldwin said. “I feel like it’s a more unique platform of music to give them a unique opportunity to improvise with their skills than other concerts on campus.”

UIndy Jazz Week ended with a performance with Dick Oatts on April 14. The next musical performance will be from the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra on April 26 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.

Photo by Kiuno Cann

The UIndy Jazz Ensemble performed with guest jazz guitarist Dave Stryker (second from the left) on April 12 as part of Jazz Week. Stryker also held a jazz improvisation masterclass with students earlier that same day.

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The staff of The Reflector thought about our favorite entertainment from the 1990s and decided to review them. Since we can only review so much, we narrowed it down to the choices that are below.

We just had one rule: They could only review what they hadn't already seen, heard or read.

THE REFLECTOR RATING SYSTEM AMAZING An unforgettable experience in its category. The highest of recommendations.

Extremely satisfying and entertaining, with few (if any) issues worth noting.

VERY GOOD

DECENT

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

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

Entertaining on a basic level.

MEDIOCRE

BAD

WORTHLESS

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

Poorly executed on almost every level. Any positive notes are a chore to find amid the abundance of mistakes and frustrations.

Not worth anyone’s time, except someone with a special interest in the subject matter.

Nothing positive worth noting in the slightest. Difficult to endure, annoying and generally mundane. No reason to experience this, unless to witness how awful it is.

TV SHOWS

MOVIES

FORREST GUMP

JURASSIC PARK

FIGHT CLUB

FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR

TWIN PEAKS

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f you haven’t seen “Forrest Gump” yet, I’d recommend you stop reading this review and go watch it, but if you need more convincing, read on. Let me start by saying that I really wish I had watched “Forrest Gump” earlier. The movie made me laugh and cry and everything else in between. For every somber moment there is an equally funny moment not long after, making for an entertaining and heartwarming movie.

The film follows the life of a man named Forrest Gump. Throughout the course of the movie, we get to see Gump deal with bullies, fall in love, survive the Vietnam War, master the game of pingpong and so much more. It’s a wonderfully heartwarming story about a guy that’s a little different, but has an incredible life.

The movie allows you to feel real emotion for the characters, but doesn’t make you wallow in those feelings. I loved every character and thought they were cast perfectly. As a fan of history, I love how the movie wove Forrest Gump into so many iconic moments and pop culture references.

This is definitely the best movie that I’ve seen that follows such a big chunk of a character’s life. I loved every minute of it and I can’t wait to watch it again. I only regret not watching it sooner.

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hy I had never seen “Fight Club” before is beyond me, but I have to say, I was surprised with how much I liked it. The movie, which is based on a book of the same name, starts off with a depressed insomniac (Edward Norton).

On a work trip, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whom he ends up later living with and befriending. The two eventually become part of a fight club.

I don’t usually choose to watch movies that involve a whole lot of blood, but the storyline kept me interested despite all the rough fighting. As the movie continued, the two began recruiting more and more people and began coming up with more elaborate plans for those involved, causing the club to evolve as a whole.

The plot throughout kept me interested and the ending completely flipped what I thought was going on.

I love movies that have huge twists like this. This movie did a great job at keeping me captivated with an intricate storyline and characters to go with it. After watching this, I'm only upset that I didn’t watch this sooner because this movie needs to be added to my list of classics. The only question I have from the movies is this: Am I breaking the first rule of “Fight Club” by writing a review about it?

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am slightly ashamed to admit that after watching its sequel, “Jurassic World,” I have finally watched “Jurassic Park.” I think it is one of the best movies ever made.

First off, the concept of the movie is absolutely brilliant. Of all the science fiction movies ever made, this one is, without a doubt, the best. I love dinosaurs and I love sci-fi films. So, putting the two together was pure genius.

I’ve always put off watching the movie because, let’s be honest, the majority of the acting and special effects in movies throughout the '90s are not as good in comparison to movies today. After watching “Jurassic World,” I didn’t think that the original would compare. But after watching “Jurassic Park,” Chris Pratt is nothing compared to Sam Neill.

I was amazed with the CGI and animatronics that were in the movie. It is astonishing that they achieved such realistic dinosaurs in the '90s. If Steven Spielberg hadn’t put the time into making the dinosaurs as authentic as they were, I don't think the movie would be as successful as it is. The dinosaurs are what made the movie a classic. This is one movie that will age with time and always be good.

The only thing that I disliked about this movie is how long it took for me to watch it.

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he “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” starring actor and rapper Will Smith was a show that I enjoyed watching and is now one of my new favorite shows.

Viewers of all ages, races and ethnicities are able to take something away from this show's comedic, yet subtly direct approach to social issues like: race, politics, stereotypes, peer pressure, politics and other social norms.

I liked that this show was able to successfully initiate commentary on social issues by including a number of racially diverse guests, including: Chris Rock and Queen Latifah while respecting and presenting the varying sides of the issues the show tackled. The show also leaves the viewer with a lesson that I interpreted as some of the true ideals of family.

Which is accepting one another and simply enduring life as it happens.

One of my favorite parts of the show is the theme song. It is easy to remember and is catchy. Then there’s the often imitated, and goofy, “Carlton Dance” and Geoffrey ’s one-line zingers.

I recommend this show if you want a 30-minute dose of comic relief whenever you are feeling down, need a laugh or distraction from the real world.

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ALBUMS

'NSync

BOOKS

ALL EYEZ ON ME

NSYNC

hile I did find “Twin Peaks”enjoyable at times, the show definitely did not live up to the hype that it has been given over the years. It is set in Twin Peaks, Wash. right after the dead body of the prom queen, Laura Palmer, is found on a river bank. Most of the series follows FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, as he is trying to piece different clues together to solve the murder.

One of my biggest issues with the show was the scripted-sounding delivery of nearly every line. While I don’t equate that with bad acting, most of the actors were fairly good, but a lot of the dialogue seemed very campy and unnatural. There were some instances in which I felt like I was watching a soap opera because of how melodramatic some characters were.

I did enjoy how the series balanced elements of horror and humor together, rather than just sticking with the ultraserious crime drama tone that it easily could have followed, given the subject matter.

Perhaps I would have enjoyed this show more when it was released in the early 1990s, but having seen shows like “Dexter,” my bar was set pretty high for “Twin Peaks” going in. Overall the show wasn’t bad, but I couldn’t shake off the cheesy dialogue at times to get truly invested.

NEVERMIND NIRVANA

TUPAC

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE

THE GIVER

LOIS LOWRY

J.K. ROWLING

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SYNC’s debut album has been described by some as the “must-listen” album of the 1990s. After its release in 1997, the album very quickly made it to the number two spot on the Billboard 200.

However, in my opinion, their first album is over-rated for the most part.

The first track on the album,“Tearin’Up My Heart” is exactly the type of song that you would associate with NSYNC. The beat of the song became the baseline for what people would come to expect of their music: annoying pop. The track’s distinct pop feel is what drives the listener to it.

My favorite song on the album was “Everything I Own.” Although the song has a more somber tone that you would expect for an NSYNC album, the pop element is still there. The pop element is muted in order to draw more attention to the lyrics and vocals of the song, instead of the beat. The song reminds me of how important it is to hold those you care about close because you never know what could happen.

Nostalgia aside this album only has a few good songs that are not irritating.

I will cut NSYNC some slack because it was their debut album, however, that is no excuse for creating the ridiculously irritating pop that the entire decade would become known for.

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his is an album of truly sad irony.

Tupac Shakur’s 1996 album features poetic raps that encapsulate the dangers of not just being a famous rapper, but also the risks of achieving his level of fame as a black American. Add on Shakur’s expressions of family value and his comedic breaks, “All Eyez on Me” is a lyrical powerhouse deserving of its place in rap-history.

Shakur’s flow is on point with each song, especially shining in tracks like “Skandalouz,”where he keeps driving forward when you think he’s out of fuel. His voice bounces perfectly with the rhythm of the track behind him, making not a single track fall any short of entertaining.

While it is entertaining, there unfortunately is not much that is particularly exciting. Through his whole five album discography, Shakur doesn’t mix anything up or try anything different. Yes, his statements are undeniably impactful, and hilariously profane, but because it is so much of the same, it loses its value by the end.

Overall, Shakur’s lyrics are an incredible documentation of his life and his rap career. “All Eyez on Me” is a prime example of that, and is definitely something I would recommend to anyone interested in the rap genre.

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ir vana's most popular album, “Nevermind” was an interesting listen. I was surprised with myself and my reaction while listening to this album because it turned out to be an album I actually enjoyed.

The first song off the album, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” is immediately catchy, easy to follow along and made me excited to listen to the rest of the album. It’s a song I would listen to while hanging out with friends or while I get ready.

The next song that really caught my attention was “Come As You Are.” To me, it had a very similar beat to the first track, but was slower. The song the lyrics in the song were very catchy and easy to remember. This is more of a song I would listen to while doing homework or hanging out.

The fourth song on the album was “Lithium” and I liked this song as soon as it started. It began with slow singing and as the beat turned faster, the whole song became more exciting.

Growing up, I always knew who Nirvana was, but I had never really taken the time to listen to an entire album. I would suggest “Nevermind” to anyone who’s into the alternative genre, considering "Nevermind" is the most easily recognizable grunge album.

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confess that, at first, I was skeptical about reading “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.” However, I am glad to admit that I was wrong. Fearing that the books would somehow diminish my liking to the movies, I refrained from reading the books. However, after reading the first book in the series, I am hooked.

A major theme in “Harry Potter” is friendship, which is presented frequently through the development of the characters. One critique I do have regarding the novel is that the enemy attitude that Draco Malfoy and Harry seemed to develop awfully quickly. I understand that well-written novels need a secondary character that are antagonists to the story, but with a book that tries to be inclusive to all, it does seem to fall short there.

What I enjoyed the most was the continuous twists and turns throughout the novel. The narrative heavily focuses on Harry’s heritage which was both engaging and entertaining to see unfold within the pages. J. K. Rowling successfully carried the narrative throughout the book without over-explaining the characters or providing unnecessary details. I would recommend it to those who enjoy this particular genre of novels as well as those who enjoyed the movie series.

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ois Lowry's “The Giver” is the first book in a four-part series. This novel follows twelve-year-old Jonas that lives in a seeming utopia. When he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memories, he finds out and uncovers the dark secrets behind his corrupt community.

One thing that I found weird is that the community is set up to have birthmothers and that every family is given a boy and a girl. Since it is set up that way, there are no grandparents and no true relatives.

This plot of this story shows that if something seems perfect then there is probably a bigger secret behind it. The community wants to be perfect, but they have a morbid way of dealing with people who do not fit into that idea of perfection.

I felt that, in a sense, I fell in love with Jonas. You start to feel his emotions as he slowly matures throughout the story.

The challenges and decisions he makes are unimaginable compared to what a typical twelve-year-old would not have to think about.

The one criticism of this book I have is that I hate the cliffhanger at the end.

Despite this, “The Giver” is definitely a book you could sit down and read over the weekend and I plan on one-day finishing the whole series myself.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Students publish poems in anthology After being sought out by Z Publishing House, five UIndy students had poems selected for inclusion in their 2017 "Indiana's Best Emerging Poets"

By BreAnnah Nunn STAFF WRITER Five students from UIndy were selected for the 2017 “Indiana’s Best Emerging Poets” anthology by Z Publishing House. The publisher reached out to the students of UIndy after reading copies of the university’s literary journal, Etchings Press.

One of the poets included in the anthology was sophomore English literary studies major Shauna Sartoris, who said she received an email from Z Publishing about her work in addition to what had been published in Etchings.

“They said, 'We saw your poem in Etchings and we’re working on putting together an anthology and we’d really like it if you submit,'" Sartoris said.

“So, they kind of sought me out, which was really exciting. And then I had to submit a portfolio of poems and they picked one.”

Sartoris' "Worms" was published in Etchings and also selected to be included in Z Publishing's anthology.

In addition to the “Indiana’s Best Emerging Poets” anthology, Z Publishing also complied a poetry and a fiction writing anthology for each state. According to junior creative and professional writing major Natalie McCann, Z Publishing is small publishing company for younger writers

Dean from page 1 Chemistry, she will work with faculty and staff from all departments within the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences. According to Feakes, her role in the faculty senate helped prepare her to work outside of her department.

“Most of my colleges [that I have been in] have either been science or science and engineering. I’ve never been in a college as diverse as this,” Feakes said. “This college has everything from theatre to physics. Having people from these different areas will help me understand more about those areas then I already have through my experience. I'm excited to work with that group because of diverse representation.”

While UIndy was going through the search process, Travis Miller served as the Interim Dean and Ted Frantz served as the Interim Associate Dean.

According to the official announcement, Frantz will be fully returning to the Department of History and Political Science to focus on the things that he enjoys. But Miller will continue to work at the administrative level in the College of Arts and Sciences as the Senior Associate Dean.

Miller said he is looking forward to working alongside Feakes and helping bring her energy and vision to the college. According to Feakes, she and Miller have weekly phone conversations to help her transition and learn about the university. She said she is glad that he will be staying on for the next two years.

Kolison said Miller brings the experience of being a department chair and the interim deal, so he will be able to greatly assist Feakes in her transition and the day-to-day operation of the college. Miller will focus on day-to-day operations and matters that have to do with budgeting, Kolison said.

“This allows the dean to focus on long range planning for the college,” he said. “She will focus that on how do you position the college to be successful in years to come.... This is our largest college—it is an endowed college—so we have to put in place the right structure for the dean to be successful, so this way she will have the kind of support she needs.”

According to Kolison, some of the things Feakes will focus on include long range planning, enrollment and financial goals and thinking about the types of programs to have and faculty to hire.

Kolison said Feakes has shown a lot of enthusiasm during her campus visits.

“I’m really looking forward to getting to know UIndy better,” Feakes said. “I’ve been very impressed with my visits so far and the people seem like very excellent and like outstanding colleagues.”

Feakes will start her new role on July 1.

who do not have experience and are trying to get their names and work published. Publishing is no longer a process that writers should have to go in alone, according to the Z Publishing website. The company hopes to start bringing writers and readers together with each volume.

Like Sartoris, McCann was also sought out by Z Publishing.

SARTORIS

MCCANN

“I didn’t think people sought out writers,” McCann said. “I know you can’t really write poetry as a living and I am not really trying to do that. I am going to write poetry because I like doing it.”

Z Publishing selected a poem McCann wrote her freshman year titled "7AM." McCann said that the poem is about missing people back home.

Sophomore professional writing ma-

jor Sara Perkins also had her work included in the anthology. She said that the faculty at UIndy were helpful in preparing her submissions.

Perkins said that she was not in a workshop class, so Assistant Professor of English Liz Whiteacre helped her to set up a workshop with some of her peers.

“I took an intro to creative writing

PERKINS class with Kip Robisch,” Perkins said, “He was the first person that was like, 'Hey, you’re actually a writer, you should write.' He [was] the first person to call me a poet.”

English majors were not the only students to appear in the anthology.

Junior actuary science major Rochelle Bauer’s poem "Cold Coffee" was also selected for publication. Bauer said that poetry has just been something she has

always done for herself and not to necessary be published.

“Poetry is a really good outlet for a lot of different people,” Bauer said. “I think it’s really nice to see what other people create because when you’re writing your own stuff you’re like, 'Okay this is what I think poetry should be and this is what it is to me.' But then other people see something completely different.”

BAUER

WATNESS

Some of the students like senior education and creative writing major Catherine Watness are starting to seek out companies like Z Publishing to publish their work and get their work out there. Watness said that she is in the process of publishing her own chapbook and novel. She was happy that her work was finally recognized.

There were a variety of poems that Z Publishing had to pick through to select

Construction on lofts continues

Photo by Noah Crenshaw

On April 10, the University of Indianapolis held an official ceremony for the construction. The complex, located on National Avenue is expected to be open to students by January 2019, and will have 118 units with 300 beds total. In this April 20, 2018 photo, workers had put up the wood frames of the first and second floor of the building.

By Noah Crenshaw ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Students who want to live near campus will soon have another option for housing. A new apartment complex, University Lofts, is currently under construction and is expected to be completed and open before January 2019. The apartments are being developed by the University of Indianapolis and Strategic Capital Partners.

This is the second student housing project SCP has worked on with UIndy.

The first was the Greyhound V i l l a g e apartments in 2016, according to SCP. When the construction is finished the building will have 118 units, with 300 beds, according to the SCP. Although the apartments are being built by the University, they will still be considered off-campus housing, according to University President Robert Manuel. Their location will also give students quick access to IndyGo’s planned rapid-transit Red Line which is expected to begin operations in 2019, Manuel said.

An official ceremony for the construction of the apartments took place on April 10 at the building site,

located at 1340 National Avenue on the North side of UIndy’s campus. The ceremony had remarks from Manuel, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, Secretary of the University Board of Trustees Rob Terry and SCP Senior Vice President for Construction and Development Will Zink.

According to Manuel, the project is expected to cost around $20.5 million and is an important part of the university’s Vision 2030 strategic plan. Vision 2030 is the blueprint for UIndy’s plans to develop the campus and surrounding area by investing more than $50 million for capital investments, according to Manuel.

“University Lofts is an important part of our U n i v e r s i t y ’s strategic plan to enhance the student experience and elevate the quality of life for our neighbors in the surrounding neighborhoods,” Manuel said at the ceremony. “[The development] radiates a wave of positive impacts by extending our reach to deliver important city [Indianapolis] needs with programs and facilities.”

Both Manuel and Hogsett said that the project will help improve the quality of life for the community and UIndy students. They also agreed that it would allow for UIndy to have a deeper connection to the city of Indianapolis.

“University Lofts... provides an ideal space for our city's students to live, learn and grow..."

“University Lofts…provides an ideal space for our city’s students to live, learn and grow together,” Hogsett said.

“Thanks to the visionary efforts underway at University of Indianapolis and in the surrounding area, our city will continue to thrive for generations to come.”

Zink said that SCP was proud to be working with UIndy on the development of more student housing, saying that it would lead to a “renaissance” on the South side of Indianapolis.

“With University Lofts, Greyhound Village apartments and the many other creative developments near campus, these [developments] will make the South side a major destination,” Zink said.

Sophomore religion major and incoming Indianapolis Student Government president Jamarcus Walker said that, as a student who lives four hours away, University Lofts would give him, and other students who live far away, a place to say year-round when he cannot go home for breaks or holidays.

Walker also said that he thought that University Lofts would provide more connections for those who currently live on campus or would want to live near campus and would have a positive impact on campus life.

“When students are closer to campus, they are more involved with activities [on campus],” Walker said. “...Having that accessibility to campus will create a lot more interaction between students and the university, but also giving that ability to be off-campus and not worry about what is going on [on campus].”

the works that would be included in the anthology. The applicants said they were not sure which of their poems the publisher would select.

Watness said that her inspiration came to her in her Spanish class, when she saw red clouds. The inspiration led to "Rubem Sanity," which was published in the anthology.

Other students followed a different path of inspiration. Perkins said she submitted an old draft from her intro to creative writing class that Etchings had published. She said she did not expect it to get published the first time nor get recognized by a publishing company.

“What [poem] they [Z Publishing] saw in Etchings was called ‘The Worst Night of Your Life,’” Perkins said. “[It is] antsy, teenage poetry I guess you could say. It was the first poem I wrote, it was actually a rough draft, and I ended up revising it heavily. But the first draft got published, so every time I see it I cringe a little.”

Although, not all of the applicants are English majors looking to publis, they were still appreciative of the opportunity that Z Publishing had offered.

“I am really thankful for Z Publishing,” Perkins said. “It’s really cool that they are actually doing this for one. And cool for them to be actively connecting people because I would have never heard of it regardless. That’s a lot of work, so super Kudos to them.”

Whirling from page 1 Etchings Press. The 2018 Whirling Prize winners were Alexander Weinstein and Phillip B. William.

Assistant Professor of English and Etchings Press advisor Liz Whiteacre began the event by thanking the students involved in selecting the 2017 winners as well as those who made the event possible.

“Our student judges did an amazing job with responding to writers questions, entering books into databases, reading a ton of books and really thoughtfully thinking about who UIndy should honor for this prestigious prize,” Whiteacre said.

One of the student judges, junior professional writing and finance double major Kara Wagoner, introduced short story author and Whirling Prize winner Alexander Weinstein, who read from his short story collection, "Children of the New World."

“His debut collection uses the lens of science fiction to hypothesize technological advances may shape the future," Wagoner said. "By presenting each short story and consequently each new world to the reader through the eyes of the narrator—he achieves his most impressive feat—rationalizing farfetched and sometimes immoral uses of technology.

‘Children of the New World’ demands we [society] take a step back from our dependence on technology and evaluate the extent to which we allow to influence our decisions both personal and professional thus we lose touch of reality.”

After Weinstein’s reading, another student judge, senior literary studies and creative writing major Jimmy Nelligan, introduced poet and Whirling Prize winner Phillip B. Williams.

“Williams’ collection, ‘Thief in the Interior’ focuses on the social justice issue surrounding African American communities, queer community and the intersection of them, too,” Nelligan said.

“He poses the struggles these communities in many unique poetic techniques to give the reader richness behind the meaning. Through his bold use of language and unforgiving imagery, this collection transcends its readers to a new realm of poetic narration.”

Junior earth space science major Sarah Hoffmeier said she noticed the vocal tones both authors exhibited. She said that the way they pronounced and inflected their collection helps make readers see beyond the linear words.

“Hearing them read their work, compared to the way I read it, brought more meaning to the poem,” Hoffmeier said.

“It gave their work more depth and provided a different viewpoint to the story that I probably would not have experienced had I not attended the reading.”

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Opioids in Indiana: Personal and political

As the opioid crisis in the United States continues to worsen, federal grant money will be distributed to states, territories to help combat the issue

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it will award grants to combat the opioid epidemic in the United States for the second year in a row, as of April 18.

According to hhs.gov, $485 million is being distributed via 57 grant awards to all 50 states, the District of Colombia, four U.S. territories and the free associated states of Palau and Micronesia. Indiana, specifically, will receive close to $11 million to combat the opioid epidemic.

From 2015 to 2016, there was a statistically significant 23 percent increase in drug overdose deaths in Indiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the Indiana State Department of Health, the most recent data show 785 drug overdose deaths involving opioids in 2016, as compared to only 36 in 2000.

Since then, the number of the deaths has increased each year. There also were 1,430 non-fatal hospitalizations and 2,977 non-fatal emergency department visits, due to opioid overdoses in Indiana in 2015 alone, according to the Indiana State Department of Health.

Last year’s federal funding was used to promote the use of naloxone—a medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdoses—often sold under the brand name NARCAN—and build sustainable systems of recovery support services, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will also award $1 billion in grant money later in 2018 to the states most affected by the opioid epidemic, according to hhs.gov.

Indiana Sen. James Merritt (RIndianapolis) has led much of the legislation to help eliminate the opioid epidemic in Indiana. He issued a fiveyear plan in 2016 to “kill” opioids in Indiana. Merritt recently authored Senate Bill 139, signed into law on March 22, which requires county coroners to investigate thoroughly suspected overdose deaths and report on the specific drugs that were involved. According to Merritt, overdose deaths are underreported, which results in ignorance of the drugs that are killing users in Indiana.

“Many states around the country are in front of us in this regard,” Merritt said, “understanding that the cause of death is integral to finding out what is going on in our communities, what drugs are there, and what is actually happening in homes and neighborhoods throughout the state of Indiana. We need to understand what is killing Hoosiers.…”

Although statistics related to the opioid epidemic in Indiana are startling, the epidemic has more layers to it than

just statistics and legislation. The opioid crisis has a deep, personal and tragic effect on the lives of the addicts and their families, according to Grace Paton, Moria Marcucci, Harold Floyd and Robin Farris, all of whom are all recovering opioid addicts who attend the Lafayette Chapter of A Better Life— Brianna’s Hope, a faith-based addiction support group. While each became addicted to opioids at different times and different points in their lives, each said that their addiction to opioids stemmed from the use of other drugs. Paton said that because of her experience with other drugs before using opioids, she knew early on in her experience with opioids that she was addicted.

“I knew I was an addict before I ever used a needle,” Paton said. “I said I would shoot up one time. Then that turned into every day. I quickly figured out that it really was a problem…. Being an addict was something I was familiar with, and it wasn’t hard to get to that realization.”

According to Marcucci, who said she has been clean for 18 months, the stigma of opioid addiction is still very strong in Indiana, and people often see addicts as lesser than others and disregard them because of their addiction.

She said that she felt compelled to tell her story so that people will not just see addicts as “junkies,” but as people who need genuine help.

“I think it’s important [for people to hear about stories of addiction] to kind of end the stigma [of addiction],” Marcucci said. “I hate when people say, ‘They’re just junkies, let them die. They don’t need NARCAN training,’ and stuff like that. We are all people. I was a year away from finishing my nursing degree and had a great life, had great parents and a great family. I just made some stupid decisions, and it ended up costing me a lot of my life. I think everybody deserves a chance at recovery. Just because we have been junkies, it doesn’t make us bad people.”

Most opioid addicts try to get clean several times before they finally stop using opioids for good, and they usually choose to get clean for the wrong reasons, according to Floyd. He said that many addicts, himself included, try to get clean for other people, but will never succeed in kicking opioids until they decide to do it for themselves. According to Floyd, even though he is clean from opioids now, he is still dealing with the repercussions of his addiction.

“All the fun that comes with the recreational use now isn’t worth all the pain and misery that’s going to come with it in the long run,” Floyd said. “It will destroy every area of your life: relationships, family, physically, mentally…. I started using to fit in and feel accepted.

In the long run, those people I was trying to impress ain’t even in my life right

Opioid overdose deaths in Indiana Information from the Indiana State Department of Health

now, but I still have all the pain and misery that comes with trying to impress other people.”

Level I Certified Addictions Peer Recovery Coach with the Indiana Counselors Association on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Mike Hornbeck said that one of the worst aspects of an opioid addiction is that it steals the addicts' sense of dignity. He said that during the recovery process being able to empathize and relate to those struggling with addiction is important in order to let them know they are not alone.

“We have a saying here [at A Better Life—Brianna’s Hope], ‘A pain shared is cut in half.

A joy shared is doubled,” Hornbeck said.

“Unless you are one in 10,000, you cannot do this alone. It takes saying, ‘Hey man, I’ve walked a mile in your shoes. Let’s talk this out. Let’s sit down and see if we can come up with a solution for what you’re going through.’”

Paton said that those who are addicted to opioids often will not seek help because they feel that they are alone and no one else will understand what they are going through, even if the person has struggled with addiction, too. According

“I hate when people say, 'They're just junkies, let them die...' We are all people.”

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and higher….”

Hornbeck said that he thinks major increase in opioid usage and deaths over the past two decades is because of the low prices and accessibility of heroin and synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl.

“Most of it is what I call ‘bathtub fentanyl,'” Hornbeck said.

“There’s no control there. So what you think you might be taking could be much larger than that. What you think is going to get you high is going to get you dead…. It’s cheap and available.

We’ve got 15- and 16-year-old kids, and younger, who can get that but couldn’t even get close to the liquor store.”

Although legislation concerning opioids and opioid addiction has been pushed in the Indiana General Assembly during the past few years, there is not a simple solution to the opioid epidemic, according to Hornbeck.

Hornbeck, Marcucci and Paton each said that they hope legislators will continue to focus more on a treatment-based approach, rather than on legal punishment.

“There’s nothing easy about it [solving the opioid epidemic], because you have to balance the illness and the criminal,” Hornbeck said. “It [addiction] is an illness, a disease, but there has to be some criminality to it [combating addiction] to help deter those that it [treatment] isn’t deterring. So there has to be a delicate balance there.”

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to Paton, who said she has been clean for two years, said she had tried to give up opioids several times, but would always end up using again. She said, however, that she knew that she needed to quit for good after she became pregnant with her daughter about 18 months ago.

“I wish I knew I could be as happy as I am now,” Paton said. “I think a common theme among addicts [when they get involved with drugs] is that they feel different than everyone else. I always felt different, and I always felt uncomfortable…. A lot of people, when they are in it [active addiction], they don’t think that you can get better, or the people that did get better didn’t use as much as they did.”

Getting clean is not as simple as just quitting opioids, according to Farris, who said addiction runs in her family. Farris said she has been clean for six months and that her addiction to opioids was so strong that it took the Department of Child Services taking custody of her daughter for her to decide to finally to get clean.

“It took DCS' getting involved, and at first that didn’t even make a difference,” Farris said. “When they took my daughter, I just got higher and higher

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