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Stephen Cox as Stevoncé

Noah Fields as Crystal Shields

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Ty Johnson as Fruit Tea

Anthony Jackson as Aeriola Grande and the Tits

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Destiny Heugal as Jason Hoes

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By Abby Land

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Freshman social work major Ty Johnson smiled slightly as he perfected the dramatic blue makeup lining his eyes, matching the dress he would later wear to open the University of Indianapolis’ 13th annual Drag Show. It was also the dress Johnson would wear when he, as his drag alter ego Fruit Tea, was awarded the title of best queen.

Johnson did drag in high school, he said, and attended the drag show at UIndy last year. The thrill of performing in front of a larger audience during his first year of college, he said, both excited him and made him nervous. “[I am excited for] the chance to do something different. I have an aesthet-

ic when I’m dressed as a man,” Johnson said, “[but] when I’m in drag, I’m willing to do anything.”

For more than a decade, the Drag Show has been one of the most popular events on UIndy’s campus. Proceeds from the event, which are often donations in the form of dollar bills thrown on the stage by a cheering crowd or collected by cigarette girls and boys, go towards Indiana Youth Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to Hoosier LGBTQ youth. Although entry to the event has been free of charge in the past, admission for this year's show cost $1 to raise additional funds for IYG. Junior theatre Destiny Huegal said this year's Drag Show raised more money off of admissions than they have in previous years, with this year's show raising $1,503.

The Drag Show, which is organized

by UIndy PRIDE and Alpha Psi Omega, has also helped increase awareness of the prominent LGBTQ presence on campus and encourages inclusion, according to OJ Moor, who co-chairs UIndy PRIDE alongside Emily Larmore.

“Honestly, the inclusion and the support that we get from people who aren’t comfortable or maybe never even heard of PRIDE on campus, it’s super cool to see,” Moor said. “If we go back to clique terms like jocks and nerds and all these different people coming to celebrate this form of expression that is inherently queer but doesn’t have to be a dividing factor.”

Sophomore theatre major Clayton Rardon and Huegel served as co-hosts of the show for the first time. Although this is not their first time being in the

show. They participated various in bits of the show last year, when then-host Stephen Cox pretended to show them the ropes of hosting the show after his graduation.

For Huegel, her first impression of the drag show was of surprise. She said that she did not expect the diversity of the crowd that showed up in droves to enjoy the entertainment and support the campus’ LGBTQ community.

“I think I was really surprised by how many people who are not involved in the LGBTQ community in any way, shape or form come to the drag show,” Huegel said. “I think it’s important for both sides. So it’s really important for LGBT people obviously because they get people to have more of an understanding.”

Rardon and Huegel also performed a duet together in the drag show last

year, but for Rardon, his connection to the event goes back to before he was a UIndy student. He attended it for the first time while he was still in high school and was visiting campus for the Campus Campout. Because of the university’s Methodist affiliation, Rardon said, it surprised him to see that a drag show would be taking place on campus during his time there.

“They sat us down that morning [and told us to] circle the events you want to do. And I was reading through, and I was like ‘A drag show?’ It was, ‘Am I reading this correctly? Because this is a Methodist school, right?’” Rardon said. “Actually, the moment that I went to the drag show like that...if that is what sold me completely on University of Indianapolis....I couldn't say 100 > See Drag on page 3

Monks spread peace during campus visit Indianapolis. The monks worked on the mandala, which is a picture composed of EDITORIAL ASSISTANT carefully placed sand pieces, the entire time they were on campus. This mandala Singing and drum beating filled the was intended to be a universal mandala, Krannert Memorial Library as men in different from the ones they built in saffron robes began the creation of a sand Tibet, Phuntsok said. It had the intense mandala, a traditional Buddhist art design, Buddhist practice message attached, the on March 20 as the first event in a series promise of Buddha, compassion, feeling, held on campus. During their five day wisdom, power of the soul, all for the visit, the monks came to campus, set up dedicated monks, according to Phuntsok.

The mandala built at UIndy is inclusive various cultural items and spoke to the public on their culture and philosophies of various religious symbols and promoted the idea of a while also selluniversal haring their handmony, and it is made jewelry, often referred tapestries and “...there is one thing, we to as the “manother objects.

Two events are mentally, physically and dala for all,” to were held on emotionally all the same.” according Phuntsok. AfMarch 20, the ter completion opening cereof the mandala, mony and the Buddhist practices workshop. Of the six the monks threw the sand into the pond monks, Tenpa Phuntsok was the main by Greyhound Village per Buddhist speaker during each event because the tradition. The throwing away of the sand other monks were not fluent in English. traditionally means that the sand blesses “One goal [we have] is to live in peace all elements and all beings.

“All the religions share the same and harmony,” Phuntsok said. “Each of us have a different philosophy or view message, which is compassion, lovpoint on what we do, but the sameness is ing, kindness. As Dalai Lama always mentioned, there is one thing, we are bringing harmony and kindness.”

While on a tour in the United States, mentally, physically and emotionally all the Tibetan monks of Dehra Dun, In- the same,” Phuntsok said. “And I think dia were invited by the Ecumenical & it's very important that we all have the Interfaith programs to the University of same wish to want to be happy because

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everyone is suffering, and if you want to be happy, follow the good [things of ] mind and body."

Freshman psychology major Marlena Lovas said she has been interested in Buddhism since she heard about it in a YouTube video in high school. Lovas said the religion has inspired her and she has incorporated the different religious elements and symbols into her art products on occasion.

When she heard the monks were coming to campus, Lovas said she decided to attend the Buddhist Practices workshop to get insight on the aspects of Buddhism.

The workshop focused on altar building and was followed by a Q&A. Lovas said that the questions asked were ones that she was also curious about.

“Some of them [the questions asked] were things I didn't even think of, so it was really cool to hear the answers to that,” Lovas said. “You can look up the information on the internet, but it's different coming from the direct source. And of course, the internet is not always right."

At the opening ceremony, the main floor of Krannert had visitors gathered around the monks to see the building of the sand mandala. Junior business management major Jenny Davis said although she felt a bit claustrophobic during the ceremony due to the large attendance, it did not take away from the ceremony being a spiritual experience.

“I didn't expect the throat singing.

That was really cool. And the fact that I didn't expect it to be so spiritual,” Davis said. “... I didn't know they had to start [building] at the center [of the mandala] either. Like, ‘Why is it taking so long?’ It's because it's one [person] doing each tiny little piece. And then at the end, it will be all of them [working on the piece] and I thought that was awesome.”

All of the events were intended to be educational, according to Phuntsok.

The events included how to build an altar, teaching the yoga that the monks practice in their monastery, how to create sacred pieces of their culture’s art, how to prepare traditional Buddhist food and

an explanation of Buddhist history and how monks use it to live a happy life. The events were aimed not towards coaxing people to believe in the same practices of them, but to learn how to better their lives through the events.

“It's a good chance for students to come here... especially youngsters to come here and learn our cultures, not to be like us, but better know their different knowledge, to know our practice to become a better whatever their religious beliefs,” Phuntsok said. “... [For them to] become the person who can [have] patience, lead to a lot of patience 'woke,' and learn to care for others through our practice.”

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Tibetan monks begin the creation of the sand mandala following the conclusion of the opening ceremony on March 20 on the first floor of the Krannert Memorial Library.

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OPINION

THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 3, 2019

Showing support as an ally

By Krystal McBride FEATURE EDITOR

According to a study done by the Public Religion Research Institute, 75 percent of white people in America don't have any non-white friends. This number came as a shock to me, seeing as it is 2019, and I would like to think that people are expanding their social groups to be inclusive to minorities. As a white woman, I find it vital to be an ally to minority communities, such as the African-American community and the LGBTQ community. I urge others to work on learning more about the lives of others who may not have a similar lifestyle because it embraces inclusivity.

Becoming an ally is one of the best decisions I have made thus far. I feel as though it is important for everyone to be educated on a way of life that they may never experience, in order to be more accepting of other ways of life. Allies have the opportunity to educate and make a difference in the world. By educating, more people may begin to think with an open and accepting mind.

"Any civil rights movement cannot thrive without the support of allies...

In the legal profession, having allies can make all the difference," said the National LGBTBar Association and Foundation Throughout my time at the University of Indianapolis, I have met many different types of people, most of different races, religious backgrounds and sexualities. This change in atmosphere provided me with the opportunity to advocate for social groups that I may not be a part of, but I support. I found it very important that I became an ally to these groups, now that I am surrounded by a

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variety of people.

One group in particular that I wanted to get involved with when I first came to UIndy was the Black Student Association. To many people, this came off as weird because a white woman being a member of the Black Student Association may come across as an oddity. Well, to put it simply, I want to show this community of people, many of whom I am close friends with, that they have my full support. Oftentimes, people will not go so far as to join a club to show support, but I did not want just to support them with my attendance. I wanted to learn.

There is more to being an ally than just showing up. There are many do’s and don't's when it comes to being an ally, and Amélie Lamont, a product designer and activist, lays a list of these out perfectly in her “Guide to Allyship.”

The first on the list of don't's is this:

Do not expect to be taught or shown.

Take it upon yourself to use the tools around you to learn and answer questions. This is something I began to do quickly as I started meeting and becoming friends with more people in the black community. I wanted to understand certain aspects of their lifestyles and cultures I was not yet familiar with.

Instead of asking questions, I did research so that I could try to get a better understanding of my friends and peers.

Making an effort to understand more about those around you in turn makes them more included in the conversation.

Many of the bullet points on the list of do’s are important to know prior to becoming an ally. Two of the most important are these: “Do be aware of your implicit biases,” and “Do your research to learn more about the history of the struggle in which you are participating.”

In order to be a successful ally, it is

important to understand biases. For example, I am white. That means due to the fact that I am white, I am unable to relate to a black person in terms of oppression and inequality because I have not experienced life in the same way that that person has. Oftentimes, a bias will come from our own inability to relate to a person, and those biases must be fully understood before we can attempt to become an ally.

Knowing the history is important, whether the history of slavery and all that came with it or the history of inequality between our communities and how that is relevant today. Most important of all, is to realize how the history affects the current status of minorities and other groups.

This is not only important, however, in order to have allyship with different communities, it is vital. Becoming an ally to any group means knowing the

history of the group, including all impactful situations that may have taken place throughout its history.

One of the other significant do’s that Lamont listed is this: "Do the outer work and figure out how to change the oppressive systems.”

This is the most important bullet on the list, but also the most difficult to accomplish. One part about being an ally is understanding how the system works in and out of favor of the group and figuring out ways to change that.

Again, research is necessary to understand how the system works, and research must be done on past cases in which the system has impacted the specific group.

I have looked at a number of cases involving the judicial system and the black community and analyzed them in order to understand where the black community stands in the system. Once I was able to get a better understanding of our societal differences, I was able to be a better advocate.

If these guidelines are understood, along with others not included in Lemont’s guide, it will be easier to become an ally. However, the bullet points listed are not the only guides that should be considered. There are other aspects to become an ally that are common sense.

Many social groups today can use allies because they help to support minority groups from an outside perspective.

However, being an ally has to be done for the right reasons.

If this is done for a selfish reason like acceptance from a particular community, then it will be impossible to ever fully be a good ally. The only way to truly be a good ally is having the desire to know more about the way another person experiences the world.

Unpacking the myth of merit

Elitism renders collegiate meritocracy pointless, aids in cycle of monetary privilege in colleges

By Abby Land

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR At this point, nearly everyone has heard about the college admissions cheating scandal, in which 50 wealthy and influential figures were accused by federal authorities of giving huge payments to William “Rick” Singer in exchange for his help getting their children accepted into elite colleges. Among those arrested were actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, the latter of whom was accused by authorities of paying half a million dollars to get her two daughters into the University of Southern California.

Vox reported in “What the College Admissions Scandal Says About Racial Inequality” that according to a 200page FBI affidavit, tactics used to make students more desirable to admissions officers allegedly included paying SAT and ACT proctors to change incorrect test answers, faking learning disabilities to get additional accommodations for students and even using Photoshop to create images of students as recruits for sports they never played.

There is not much to be said about

the scandal, beyond the fact that throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars around to get an underqualified student into an elite school is obviously a disgusting use of wealth and privilege. Of course, these things are wrong, but it does not advance the conversation to sit and dwell on how wrong they were. A more productive approach is to use the scandal as an opportunity to discuss all the ways that higher education is unfair in this country.

Some experts and commentators have started to look at the scandal alongside the issues of legacy admissions, which refers to the process where applicants are given preference because their parents attended the school, and donations, where students gain favor in admissions processes is by being related to influential donors to the university. It is common, particularly at elite schools, for legacy admissions and wealthy donors to be one in the same—the more members of a family who attend a college, the more likely the school is to receive generous donations from that family. Legacy admission status is a factor in 42 percent of private and 6 percent of public admissions, according to a survey of admissions directors by Inside High-

er Ed. Some top universities, like MIT vard, and then they send their children and Oxford, have done away with legacy to Harvard, and so on for generations. admissions altogether.

Because of inheritance and degrees from Other elite colleges, such as Har- arguably the most prestigious universivard, have decidedly not. According to ty in the United States, the family gets Harvard University’s own statistics, 14 wealthier with each generation. This percent of its student body is comprised cycle concentrates wealth and restricts of legacy admits. Harvard has defended the availability of elite education from this policy by stating that most of those other applicants, many of whom earned students are already in a pool of desir- a place with lesser means, like a reversed able applicants, meaning they have high version of affirmative action. Meanwhile, grades or a studious test scores or applicant other qualfrom a midThis cycle concentrates ities that dle-class wealth and restricts the the univerfamily may sity prefers to availability of elite education... apply in admits.

Harvard But from with the that desirsame qualiable pool, legacy status still offered a fications as the legacy applicant but not 40 percent advantage of being accepted be admitted because the legacy applicant over non-legacy students, according to a has something the middle-class student 2013 analysis by Harvard’s own Office does not, and it is not even something of Institutional Research. An analysis he or she earned: a last name or family commissioned by Students For Fair Ad- tradition. missions found that legacy applicants Harvard definitely is not alone in are accepted at a rate nearly five times its high number of legacy admits, alhigher than non-legacies at Harvard. though the elite reputation of “Harvard The cycle this creates is one in which men” (and women, I assume, in modern a wealthy family sends a student to Har- times) makes it a convenient example.

er than the exception.” The study found that 70.7 percent of film characters are white, noting a severe lack of representation for LGBTQ, disabled and nonwhite individuals. What little representation these individuals garner is poorly written and poorly developed.

We, as human beings, learn from the things that we consume. We are taught by example. And that’s where a lack of good representation begins to get dangerous. Historian Carlos Cortes, in his book The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach About Diversity, wrote that media essentially teach the public about different minority groups based on how they choose to portray them. By extension, the media teach the public how to perceive these groups. As an example, speaking about the plights of black males specifically, an article from the Social Science Literary Review noted that distorted portrayals of black men in media have resulted in, among other things, general antagonism toward black males, lack of identification with and sympathy for black males, exaggerated views related to criminality and violence and more.

But this conversation is an old one.

Because we know. We know, or at least we should know, that there is not enough diversity in popular media. We

witnessed the uproarious praise garnered by Marvel’s “Black Panther" and laughed at JK Rowling’s flailing attempts at post-Potter diversity. In a time when different marginalized groups are more than ever before scrambling for representation, media outlets need to know what good representation entails and even further, how to support media products that do it well.

This last point is what I prefer to focus on. This is not the first time “One Day at a Time” has been canceled—and, at the risk of sounding daring, it probably won’t be the last. Netflix in particular has an unfortunate habit of canceling shows with diverse casts, such as “Sense8” and “The Get Down,” both of which had queer and cultural representation. Both of these cancellations have been attributed in some part to lack of audience interest, and yet, despite this, the cancellations were met with social media outrage. But it is not enough to fight for good representation after it has been taken away from us; rather, it is necessary to support these paragons of good media while they are still alive. Remarkably enough, the answer to keeping good representation alive lies merely in our capacity to sit down and actually consume its content.

The point is to show that while the college admissions scandal is an example of benefiting privileged—and in some cases, seemingly underqualified—applicants, the more important conversation to be had is how much merit really has to do with getting into college.

It is time to acknowledge that legal and illegal bribery are both wrong, and neither should have a place in college admissions. The idea that wealthy people can in some cases buy their students’ way into colleges is insulting to every student who has to work hard to earn a place in college, every student working jobs on the side to make ends meet, every student huddled over his or her laptop on a Friday night studying for an exam instead of going out.

It’s important to note that this scandal does not just uncover a scandal involving a few B-list celebrities. Rather, it lays bare one of the most shameful inequalities in U.S. society, and one that undercuts our progress as a nation: that no matter how hard you work, even in school, there always will be someone who will get farther while doing less.

In that way, I guess college does prepare us for the so-called “real world” after all.

Supporting good representation

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

Netflix’s pivotal sitcom “One Day at a Time,” which focuses on a Cuban-American immigrant family, is a paragon of media representation and diversity done well. Covering serious topics such as immigration, racism and sexism, the sitcom serves as a raw and genuine representation of Latin-American immigrants, and all the highs and lows that entails. Instead of being merely characters whose cultural identities are labels for the sake of achieving a diversity sticker, “One Day at a Time” allows culture to become intrinsically ingrained in the family’s struggles and development. The show has facilitated learning about Latin-American culture through the experiences of actual Latin-Americans, and never has shied away from covering hot button topics. And as of last month, it has been canceled.

The cancellation of “One Day at a Time” illustrates a pervasive and long-running tragedy in popular media: a distinct lack of and care for good representation. According to USC Annenburg’s annual report on diversity, in Hollywood, “exclusion is the norm rath-

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THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 3, 2019

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Players from several University of Indianapolis athletic teams cheer for one of the Special Olympics teams after a player made a shot.

Several student-athletes from many of UIndy's teams were involved with the 2019 Special Olympics Youth Basketball Tournament.

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Athletes traveled from across the state to compete in the world's only Youth Special Olympics Basketball Tournament. UIndy's athletic teams attended to cheer them on.

Kinesiology class hosts Youth Special Olympics The tournament is the only Youth Special Olympics in the world, organized by UIndy students

By Jayden Kennett MANAGING EDITOR

People aged 8-21 gathered in Nicoson Hall and the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center to compete in the only youth basketball tournament for children and young adults with special needs in the entire world on March 23. Twenty basketball teams travelled from around the state to the University of Indianapolis to compete in the tournament.

The tournament is planned and operated by students enrolled in Kinesiology 481, along with the help of Kinesiology Professor Jennifer Vansickle, and in conjunction with Special Olympics Indiana.

Students in the class do everything from signing up and recruiting volunteers for the event to planning out the day.

Manager of Sports Programs for Special Olympics Indiana Patrick Kozlowski said because of this, the event may look and run differently every year.

“They [students] really do all of the planning and all the logistical coordi-

nation for the tournament,” Kozlowski said. “Dr. VanSickle and I are kind of able to step back and the students make everything go in terms of training the volunteers, [to] making sure everything's running smoothly on the courts, [to] putting out any fires that might happen throughout the day. That's all done by the students as much as they're comfortable with.”

According to Kozlowski, not everyone who signs up for the class is able to participate in the planning of it. Students who sign up must go through an interview process and be selected for the class.

The basketball teams begin practicing in December and begin playing their so-called regular season games from January to March. Then, Special Olympics Indiana, along with the help of the students in the class, place each team into a division based on age and ability level. What is different about this youth tournament, Kozlowski said, is unlike the Indiana High School Athletic Association, there are five or six state champions, rather than just one.

“So rather than grouping all 20 of activities. Athletes played games such as those teams into one bracket, we try cornhole and ladderball. Algee said the and determine, okay, these three or four event turned out very successful and his teams seem to match up. So that'll be favorite part was watching the athletes’ one division or one bracket,” Kozlowski faces light up as they were about to run said. “And so there'll be a state champi- out of the tunnel. on in that division. Then, we'll keep do“I was literally standing in the tuning that and we try and pair them up in nel where they get to run out....They're groups of four just because that makes all jumping up and down. They get so excited,” Algee it easy from a said. “To see bracket standthat, and that point.”

“They're [the athletes] all energy they The teams have and to may also win jumping up and down. give them that silver and experience bronze medals They get so excited.” and to know, if they do not ‘Hey I was win the state apart of that championship gold medals. In between games, volun- and I did this for them,’ that was really teers take teams to classrooms in Ruth cool for me.”

Along with the team tournament, Lilly to participate in activities to pass the time. According to junior sports there is also an individual skills compemanagement major Alex Algee, UIndy’s tition for athletes who may not have the football, basketball and cheerleading physical stamina, or cognition to underteams attended the event to cheer on stand the common rules of team basketthe athletes and participate in the extra ball. Those athletes compete in three

Community garden offers free classes

By Reid Bello

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Bethany Community Gardens, located 1.8 miles from the University of Indianapolis at 4702 South East Street began their second year of free gardening classes, offered through June, for those interested in gardening, with or without land to do it, and those who want to connect with other gardeners.

Bethany Community Gardens began because of the need for food in the South Indy area, according to Intercom. Last year, Bethany Lutheran Church received a $2,500 grant through the Purdue University Extension program to create a community garden, according to Bruce Bye, the overseer for the gardens.

The crops produced in the gardens are donated to local food pantries. Bye said that they now have three gardens on the church property, a community garden, individual plots that people can buy to grow whatever they want, and raised beds in the playground that were built partially by students from the University of Indianapolis last year during public health week last year. Students of Beech Grove High School finished the top layer, Bye said.

According to Bye, the community garden is manned by volunteers that help produce the crops for food pantries.

Last year, the community garden had 47 volunteers, 44 of those being from the south side of Indianapolis community and only three from the church’s congregation. This produce is distributed amongst the volunteers and two food pantries Hunger Inc. and Servant’s Heart. The pantries were chosen based on the 46227 zip code. According to Bye, Tom Brown, the director at Hunger Inc., volunteers at the community garden on a weekly basis to help grow the food that is being donated to the food pantry.

“Our church wanted to be able to connect with the community—connect is the keyword,” Bye said. “We wanted to reach out and help address a need, so the question is how do you identify the needs? And what we did was to have 24 community interviews with community leaders. We identified over 70 different

needs. For instance the elderly, or those without a vehicle needing transportation to be able to get to the grocery store.

You have a situation with the homeless and their set of needs, you have refugee families that are wanting to the improve their skills.”

Virginia Roberts, the Urban and School Garden Coordinator for the Horticulture Department for Purdue University Extension, said that one of the departments at Purdue has a special grant to have nutrition and community educators and master gardeners come together and do a garden where food is grown for people that do not necessarily have any.

“We base it [what is grown] on what food pantry clients want,” Roberts said.

“Last year, we did a survey and we grew based on a lot of the stuff they said they would like to have at the pantry. This year will be the same, but we will be putting in some different things, because will have more room so we’ll do bigger crops that we couldn’t do last year.”

According to Roberts, the community garden gives fresh produce to food pantries and the food pantries give the volunteers of the garden recipe suggestions. She said that they share their recipes and even share at the community meal, which is a free meal that the church provides to members of the community. Roberts said, there are multiple gardens that grow produce for food pantries, but this is the only one on the south side and it is also a bigger program than most others.

“I think that it’s a good program, that they've been very intentional and they plan things before hand, before actually starting,” Roberts said. “They spent time really developing a mission, and what they want to see happen and that's the way to do it.”

According to Elaine McCracken, a volunteer at Bethany Community Gardens, she began coming to the gardening classes because she said “you can only give so many zucchinis away” and also because she liked the idea of coming to volunteer to work in the garden.

She was able to bring the items that she had an excess supply of from her own garden to donate. The supplies that they could use will be donated to the food pantry, while the items they did not

need will go back home with her.

Anne Marie Kiel, another volunteer at Bethany Community Gardens, said she started coming because she has always been someone who enjoys being outdoors and that her first experience with gardening was when she would garden with her dad when she was growing up. Kiel said that the classes and volunteering in the garden was also a great opportunity to meet people, make friends and also learn more about gardening. When she first started to attend the gardening classes and volunteer for the community garden, Kiel said that

she just fit right in. According to Kiel, the garden received an award from the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center last year.

“I continue to be thankful for people who are willing to give and thankful for people who care,” Bye said. “What we did was to identify a need, identify how it can be addressed, and [we] asked others to join in to help and it has grown from them. We have volunteers, we have people coming to classes and more people volunteering in the garden this year.

This year is going to be better than last [year] and last year was fantastic.”

Bethany Community Garden Events LOCATION

4702 S East St, Indianapolis, IN 46227

FREE CLASSES

Classes taught by Purdue Extension Urban Garden Program start at 6 p.m. and include a free meal. Bring your kids and take advantage of the free babysitting service.

VOLUNTEERING

Open to all. All produce is donated to local food pantries: Hunger Inc. and A Servants Heart, as well as distributed to our volunteers.

INDIVIDUAL PLOT

Enjoy your own individual plot 10’ x 4’ pre-tilled plot to grow any produce you like. Feel free to donate the produce or enjoy it yourself.

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different skills competitions: shooting, passing and dribbling, according to Kozlowski. Just like the team tournament, those athletes are scored based upon how well they performed and receive both medals and ribbons for their performance.

Kozlowski said the tournament provides athletes with the opportunity to not only develop their skills in basketball, but to also learn adversity and develop social skills along the way.

“In sports you have to deal with not only winning, but also losing. So, I think to some degree it [the tournament] teaches our athletes important life skills in terms of dealing with adversity and things that happen in life that maybe were unexpected or that we’re not necessarily happy about. It teaches them all of those things that come with being on a team, learning how to take direction from someone, things that a lot of our athletes need a little bit more work in developing those life skills. And so things that, neurotypical people maybe take for granted.”

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percent. But if it wasn't for the drag show, I wouldn't be here. So it sold me. I was like I have to go here, and these are my people.”

It was a feeling that was only reaffirmed when he took to the stage for the first time last year, according to Rardon.

He said that a recent memory appeared on his social media, from the 2018 drag show, and it reminded him of why the event is special to him.

“This event is so much about acceptance for who you are,” Rardon said.

“Last year when I posted about it after it was over...the first line was ‘I have never felt more loved than I did tonight.’

Being on that stage, I was so nervous, but then the audience was so warm and welcoming, which I didn't expect coming from Indiana and from a small high school where I got made fun of for being gay.”

There is still a good-natured competition involved where contestants are judged based on various aspects of their performance. The night’s judging panel consisted of: Professional Edge’s Assistant Director of Arts, Non-Profit, & Communication in the Center D’ana Downing, Associate Professor of Teacher Education Terrence Harewood, Assistant Professor of Communication Stephanie Wideman and high school student Max Gallagher, whose mother is Administrative Assistant of Student Affairs Cari Gallagher.

No matter what titles are awarded at the conclusion of the night, however, every performer is greeted by the thunderous cheers of the audience and their performances end with similar enthusiasm. Students, alumni, drag queens from other universities and even professionals perform under the multicolored stage lights of Ransburg Auditorium each spring on a volunteer basis, and some have even earned the loyalty of small fan followings.

Junior human resource major Megan Moranz has attended the drag show annually since she first arrived at UIndy three years ago. There are recurring performers she looks forward to seeing, Moranz said, and she wants the LGBTQ community on campus to know they are included.

“It’s great that UIndy let’s us do a big event like this, where we can come and be supportive and, you know, it’s okay,” Moranz said. “I think it’s really important for them [the performers] to see that.”

SPORTS

4 THE REFLECTOR

APRIL 3, 2019

Quarterback to join German team

Mens’ Lacrosse finds success with leadership UIndy football quarterback Jake Purichia signs to play in 2019 German League

By Jacob Walton

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT With a 7-1 record this season, the men's lacrosse team has used the leadership of the seniors and camaraderie of the team to get younger players involved in order to win. The team has won games against several ranked opponents such Seton Hill, Mercyhurst University and Lindenwood University.

These wins, along with a few others, have brought the Hounds to a No. 9 ranking. Head Coach Greg Stocks said the success has been due to the team working together.

“I think everybody's kind of stepped up their game,” Stocks said. “With it being such a team game, you kind of need everybody pulling their own weight, and they've done a fantastic job, as a whole playing as a team and getting the job done.”

The Hounds started off the season by winning against a team that they have not beat in the last three years, the No. 3 ranked Seton Hill. The Hounds were able to pull off a 10-9 overtime upset.

Stocks said that the win was a good way to start the season because it helps the team to get in a good mindset. Senior attacker Parker Kump said beating a higher ranked team has been the highlight of his season.

“That’s a school that we've kind of struggled with in all four years I’ve been here,” Kump said. “So beating them in my senior year was my first time beating them. We were 0-3 before that. And so that was a pretty awesome.”

According to Stocks, the team wants to take everything one game at a time and not to look too far into the future.

He said the goal for the rest of the season is simple: to win.

“You know, we're not looking too far ahead,” Stocks said. “Especially at the Division II level, where there's so much parity and there are so many good teams out there, [we] can't start looking too far ahead. You have got to keep looking at the game at hand....”

Although Stocks said his focus is on one game at a time, Kump said he has been looking forward into the season.

He said the team’s goal is to get a home field advantage for conference, once again, and to keep the momentum that they have built going into the NCAA championships.

Kump said he attributes the team’s success so far to communication of expectations and teammates holding each other accountable.

“So, it’s not to gang up on people, but just keeping you accountable. Keeping that same mission, which is getting a conference ring and then go to NCAA and get a NCAA ring, and doing everything we can on the field by working hard every practice,” Kump said. “Off the field, making sure we're doing good academics, and the seniors [are] leading the freshmen. But then, the seniors also checking their ego at the door, and if a freshman comes up to us and says something, then we're not shutting them down. We're listening as well. So I think it's just transparent, all having the same goals and working together.”

According to freshman attacker Drew Billig, his personal success is more of a reflection on the team as whole rather than on himself. He said that the leadership of the seniors is one of the things that helped the team progress and do well.

“The seniors brought us freshman in, and right away, we were apart of the team. They made us feel at home right away,” Billig said. “We started having team meetings right away and getting together on the field and off the field. I think that's a big part of our success so far, cause we just gel really well together as a team.”

The team has only lost one game this season, including close calls against teams like Lincoln Memorial University.

According to Stocks, the team hopes to overcome some inconsistency issues before the GLVC tournament.

“I think our biggest issue probably is consistency,” Stocks said. “We need to play consistently from game to game and even within each game from quarter to quarter, if we kind of shore up our consistency issues will move to even take it another step further.”

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By Zoe Berg

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF A good quarterback has talent and has to be able to throw the ball with accuracy and velocity. The quarterback must be the hardest worker on the field because they is the team leader. He is in charge of making sure 10 other people succeed.

These are just some of the qualities that make a good quarterback, according to passing game coordinator and quarterback coach Casey Gillin, and some of the qualities that redshirt senior Jake Purichia has that make him a good quarterback.

“Jake is a coach's son, that's how he plays the game,” Gillin said. “He's very knowledgeable about football. He studies the game...

[He’s] one of our hardest workers we've ever had here in the weight room and on the field. His athletic ability, we were able to use on the field and him just knowing the game and growing up in a football family has made him very successful in high school and in college.”

In high school, Purichia played for Cardinal Ritter. He became Indiana's all-time leader in career touchdown passes with 142 and is second in state history in career passing yards with 11,146 yards. He was also a runner-up for 2013 Indiana Mr. Football and received the Mr. Football positional award as the state's top quarterback.

During his time at the University of Indianapolis, Purichia led the Greyhounds to two GLVC championships and the Division II play offs two years in a row.

Purichia has made the UIndy record books; he is second for passing touchdowns with 56, sixth for passing yards with 6,413 yards and sixth in completions with

448.

Purichia has also won several awards including GLVC Offensive Player of the Year and UIndy Offensive Back of the Year. Purichia said playing at UIndy has been a life changing experience. “[I] got to play, obviously, with some of my best friends for four years, which is obviously awesome,” Purichia said. “I was able to be around great coaches, a great program in general, a lot of guys that care about you... and a school that cares about you as well. I mean, it was awesome. It was like I said, life changing. It was, you know, one of the best decisions I've ever made.

But, I mean, obviously, it's time to move on, but I hope I can have the same type of experiences over there.”

Purichia is signed to play in the German Football League with the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes for their 2019 season. The GFL is made up of a north and south division with a total of 16 teams.

The season is 14 games long and begins on May 11 for the Hurricanes against the Dresden Monarchs, according to their website www. baltic-hurricanes.de.

The regular season runs until mid-September and after that, Purichia said eight teams will move into the playoffs. Purichia said he is hoping to help turn the program around when he starts on the team.

“I think last year they went 4-9, so they didn't have a great year,” Purichia said. “I want to obviously start and then turn that around and get them a winning record and, hopefully, maybe, a playoff Photo by appearance. But othMarissa Burton er than… the team's

success, obviously I want to do well... I guess the ultimate goal going over there is to obviously be on the team that [is a] successful team over there, that wins and has fun. But also, it's kind of on a personal level. I'm going over there [and] maybe getting more exposure and stuff like that.”

Early this year, Purichia made a profile on europlayers.com, which he described as a version of Facebook or LinkedIn for playing in Europe. Players can include photos, video highlights and statistics on their profile to send it to coaches, teams or agents to be recruited or wait for their profile to be found. This was how Purichia was recruited.

The GFL season ends in October, meaning Purichia’s contract ends at that time. Purichia said he is hoping his time with the Hurricanes will get his name out there to give him an opportunity to continuing playing football for as long as he can.

“The way I'm looking at it, right now is I just want to keep playing, so I know I'm going to keep doing it this way,” Purichia said. “I love to do this, I'm going to keep doing it. I'm not in a huge hurry to start working, to get out there. So, I'm going to do this as long as possible... but you know, as long as my body can do it, as long as I'm loving doing it.”

According to Purichia, there are only allowed to be four Americans on the team, so he will not only be living in a new country, but working and playing with people from around the world.

He said he is looking forward to going over to Germany and meeting new people and experiencing a different culture and lifestyle.

Gillian said he is excited for Purichia to have this opportunity and appreciates what he has done for UIndy football.

“I thought, ‘he's going to be successful’ and I thought ‘he's going to have the time of his life over in Germany,’” Gillian said. “It's an experience that is going to be a positive experience for him. It's going to be a different culture for him, which I think [will have him grow] as a person [which] is going to be great. And I thought that whoever's going to be coaching [Purichia] is going to be sitting there with a good player.”

Women’s tennis extends record breaking season

By Justus O’Neil STAFF WRITER

The University of Indianapolis women’s tennis team nears the end of their season with a win-loss record of 13-0, making this season their winningest in Greyhound history. With a rigorous match schedule, the women have beaten various opponents including Ball State University as well as their highest ranked opponent to date, Hawaii Pacific University, who holds the No. 4 position. The women are led by Coach Malik Tabet.

“As a team, we didn’t have any expectations other than that we would improve and become a better team than last year,” Tabet said. “This team doesn’t think about winning, but instead thinks about always working on progressing their game and getting better.”

Tabet said that their wins come indirectly from the hard work they have been putting in during practices and matches. According to Tabet, the freshman class has been one of their greatest advantages and strengths throughout the season due to the effort across the board from every player, which has made the difference between leaving with a win or a loss.

“There are still strong competitors ahead of us, but this team has very strong aspirations to not only go to, but to win Nationals,” Tabet said. “None of these players have peaked yet so we are not functioning at max capacity and we all think it is time to bring the [national] title home to UIndy.”

According to freshman transfer student Anna Valiaeva, their winning streak is a product of their hard work.

She said although the team felt pretty good, they had no expectations for their record going into the season and they will continue to fight throughout the rest of it.

Photo by Tony Reeves

Senior Hannah Volikova high fives her teammate after scoring a point in their doubles match. Nearing the end of their season, the womens’ tennis team is 13-0. The team is focused on winning the Sweet 16 tournament and is hoping to make it to Nationals.

“Working as a team has helped us grow together,” Valiaeva said. “Tennis is an individual sport, but college tennis is all about the team. Having the support of my teammates, as well as supporting them, has been a great quality of this team.”

The women start their conference tournament at the end of April, but according to Tabet, they have their eyes and minds focused on the Sweet 16 to make it to round two.

To further prepare as the season makes its way over the halfway mark, according to Tabet, the team will wind

down in terms of intensity so that players are well rested for this sort of competition that is ahead.

According to Valiaeva, the individual achievements are an afterthought while in mid-season, and have little significance until evaluating the season as a whole and the team as a whole.

“The biggest accomplishments for the players as individuals have yet to come,” Valiaeva said. “It is time for a run all the way to Nationals, which would be the biggest achievement for the individual, and more importantly, the team.”

According to Tabet, it has become

apparent that this team will have a legacy at UIndy. They are a well versed team that has proven in their record that they can and have achieved very highly. Tabet and Valiaeva already recognize that this team has made UIndy history and are instead thinking decades down the road about a legacy.

“At this point we still have two months to go before Nationals and we have a lot to work for,” Tabet said. “In my time at UIndy, we have gone quite far so we know what it is like to be in a position to achieve great things, now is the time to do it.”

SPORTS THE REFLECTOR

5 APRIL 3, 2019

2018-19 Winter Senior Athlete Highlights

Chris Gurski

George Oceana

Lucian Conner

21.31 50 Free Personal Best 46.52 100 Free Personal Best 1:41.95 200 Free Personal Best 4:39.33 500 Free Personal Best

1:50.98 200 Individual Medley Personal Best 57:20 100 Breaststroke Personal Best 3:57.71 400 Individual Medley Personal Best 2:02.69 200 Breaststroke Personal Best

55.60 100 Breaststroke Personal Best 2:04.34 200 Breaststroke Personal Best 1:56.97 200 Individual Medley Personal Best 4:15.00 400 Individual Medley Personal Best

What was your most memorable experience swimming at UIndy?

What are your thoughts on your career as a swimmer and as a whole?

What advice do you have for some of the younger swimmers on the team?

“Winning the GLVC conference championships last year. Definitely the most exciting and most energizing moment I felt in four years because it was such a great team effort.”

“I think I’ve experienced new things here because I’m not used to such a big team... So I think here I experienced a lot of teamwork and a lot of energy, that I didn’t experience before. I think these four years we’re magic and more special to me.”

“Don’t forget that your education is what you came here for. Don’t let partying and anything become too much of a distraction from your education.”

Stefanie Haholiades

Ashley Clevenger

23.55 50 Free Personal Best 51.76 100 Free Personal Best

What kind of impact did playing have on your college experience

What are your thoughts on your at UIndy as a whole?

“A student athlete’s life is very different from other students’ lives in that we don’t just play our sport but we need to be eligible to play which means having good academics. Keeping up with everything can be physically demanding and mentally challenging and it requires a lot commitment and focus. But it has its rewards. My college experience made me stronger both in and out of the pool.”

“I’ve grown since my freshman year, both mentally, physically, everything. It especially helped me grow as a person both academically and athletically.”

Heath Lange

Dylan Faulkenberg Heavyweight 22-5 win-loss senior season

141 Weight Class 21-13 win-loss senior season

What kind of impact did wrestling at UIndy have on your college experience?

What are your thoughts on your final season wrestling at UIndy?

What’s the biggest thing you’ll miss about wrestling at UIndy?

“It gave me a bunch of really good friends and people will look up to and positive people to surround myself with and it gave me the guidance to make the right decisions and keep myself on a positive path to graduation.”

“It is very bittersweet, because I’ve put a lot of work into this sport and didn’t end up where I want to be.

Looking back on it, everything happens for a reason and you can either dwell on it or learn from it. I chose to learn from it.”

“The atmosphere. The people. There’s no better group of coaches and administrators.... Everyone that’s on the staff makes this whole thing worth it and they’re the best people I know and best people I want to be around and I wouldn’t want to be around any other program.”

157 Weight Class 8-7 win-loss senior season

Jordan Cole .395% field goal percentage 68 defensive rebounds 882 career minutes

Angelo Robles

Jesse Kempson 397 career field goals made .449 career field goal percentage 528 total rebounds 90 career blocks

What kind of impact did playing basketball at UIndy have on your college experience?

What has led to your success at UIndy?

“It was very difficult. It was very time consuming. So it made school just that much harder. So I think that’s the biggest impact it had, but it helped me manage my time.”

“They always make sure I’m in a rhythm early and often and they keep coming back to me whether I’m on or off and then we have a good trust between each other and just play off of each other and whoever is hot what ever night just take the ball.”

Alexa Bailey

CJ Hardaway

What are your thoughts on your final season at UIndy playing basketball?

What are your thoughts on your career as a whole?

“This is just my second year here at UIndy. First year was just kind of learning the program, learning the coaches, learning the players. This year I just felt very comfortable with everybody with the program, with the coaches and I’m really glad that I decided to come here.”

“I wish I didn’t miss games because of injury. I think I have worked hard, extremely hard, here, since I have came here. I was taught a great work ethic from the seniors above me my freshman year and I want to carry that on to the young guys and the numbers show.”

Transferred from Bedford North Lawrence 109 career field goal attempts 107 total rebounds 79 career assists

Information by Jacob Walton, Ki Tally and Cassandra Lombardo

Transferred from St. Joseph’s College .356 career three point percentage 108 career assists .701 free throw percentage

Design by Zoë Berg

6 THE REFLECTOR

UIndy adjuncts express desire for teaching

By Tate Jones

BUSINESS MANAGER Every one of the over 600 faculty members at the University of Indianapolis represents a different story, path and future in academia. Within those faculty members, there are part-time adjunct instructors.

At UIndy, those adjunct faculty members instruct courses that full-time instructors are not able to teach. This is present in nearly every academic department. There are many different reasons for people to come to UIndy to teach as an adjunct.

For Adjunct Professor of English Carrie Burchfield, she felt as though she was just coming back home. Burchfield studied at UIndy for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Since she has been with UIndy, Burchfield has taught Basic English Composition, English Composition and Advanced Composition.

She said that she only teaches one semester every academic year, the full course load required of an adjunct.

However, she said she continues teaching at UIndy because of what money cannot give her.

The communal feeling was necessary for Burchfield. Before she began as an instructor, she said she went through a divorce and that it was hard for her.

She craved the social and communal aspect that, she said, UIndy delivered.

Burchfield said her need for the money had been pushed aside for more human needs that she was made aware of when she was not teaching.

“I reached out in 2015 to UIndy, and that first semester was fulfilling in a way I never felt before. It wasn’t about the money; it was about doing something different, getting out, connecting with people, and doing something I loved,” Burchfield said. “Now, when I don’t teach one semester, I miss the teaching, students, learning and interaction almost immediately after finals are over and can’t wait to come back.”

Following a similar passion for teaching, fellow Adjunct Professor of English Norman Minnick found himself lecturing in the classrooms of academic buildings on campus.

He has taught English and literature classes at multiple institutions in Indianapolis. But, he said what drew him to UIndy, however, was the wordof-mouth he’s heard from previous and existing members of the university. “...The reputation of students I’ve met who’ve come through here [UIndy] or faculty and peers who I’ve known have taught here, and in other departments, always seem to really enjoy it here,” Minnick said. “I don’t want to speak bad about other universities, but some of them just aren’t as personable to adjuncts, don’t treat adjuncts very well or don’t know one of their adjuncts. I’ve heard good things about how UIndy treats adjuncts, and I’ve found that to be true.”

One of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Debra Feakes’ first decisions was to send an email to all adjuncts in at UIndy, asking them all to sit down and discuss their experience with her, according to Minnick. He said that he saw his gesture as overtly kind and was something he’s not experienced much with other universities.

Adjunct Professor of Education Lorene Sandifur said in her 45 years of teaching, she did not find herself at UIndy under a purposeful circumstance such as Burchfield and Minnick.

She had been teaching at Ben Davis University High School before working under the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 2010, now titled Teach (STEM)³ Program. Under UIndy’s Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, she taught and mentored college students to become teachers at local high schools.

“I am greatly concerned about public education and I think it's important to those of us who've been in the field for a long time, to try and help those who are entering the field,” Sandifur said. “I just saw how great the programs were at UIndy, like the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. I've never seen anything come [as] close to as good a program as that program was.”

Sandifur said that she has seen adjuncts from many other universities in Indianapolis, and has seen many people join and leave the profession for varying reasons. However, she said that you should never assume anything about them.

“It’s not always about the money,” Sandifur said. “Someone always cares about something. It’s about how you go after it and if you’re ready to commit yourself to teaching. It is a fun profession and UIndy makes it easy.”

FEATURE

An outlet for creative expression

APRIL 3, 2019

Students, faculty host and publish podcasts as part of growing media trend

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

Fifteen years ago, an audio revolution changed the multimedia landscape.

In the absence of smartphones, there were instead MP3 players, and audio production software that could be found cheap or even free. All of this coupled with the rapidly developing Internet resulted in the birth of the podcast, what a Guardian article at the time described as “a new boom in amateur radio.”

According to General Manager of WICR radio and Instructor of Communication Scott Uecker, a podcast is pre-produced audio that is downloadable by a consumer to listen to at their own discretion. Uecker said he believes podcasts are a great way to learn.

“Podcasting is a wonderful way to expand your knowledge, expand your thinking, expand the scope of what you know about topics you’re interested in,” Uecker said. “If you’re interested in cooking, a cooking podcast might give you a new way to think about cooking, or recipes, or new ways to do whatever people who cook do. It’s a way to use your time efficiently. I think a lot of people consume podcasts when they’re commuting or working out on a treadmill. It’s a way to add value to certain times of the day when you can semi multitask.”

One on-campus podcaster who shares this sentiment is Assistant Athletic Director for Academic Advising Travis Smith. Smith produces his own podcast “Travis Talks,” originally called “Advise U.” Smith’s podcast discusses higher education and NCAA academic policy, featuring interviews and lessons explaining the link between the two.

“I’ve always worked in compliance and academics. The NCAA policies are mostly academic, but they're also kind of legal, and I think a lot of people haven’t done both jobs,” Smith said. “If you’re

going to do a podcast about something, it makes you continuously learn about it, and outside of just doing my day job, I think it’s good to have interests that are loosely tied to your career.”

Before he sits down to record anything, Smith said he plans ahead. He said he typically likes to have five episodic topics mapped out in advance, which, according to Smith, is a good strategy to avoid burning out and continue producing consistent content.

Smith typically does a lot of research, constructing his content in much the same way a student would diligently construct a well-thought-out paper.

“My episodes would be chapters as if I was writing a book or a long

podcast and actually making a good podcast.

“A podcast has to be compelling, relevant, interesting, well-written, well-produced, and concise. Just because I’ve got a microphone, and I like to hear myself talk does not make it a good podcast.

And there are way too many of those out there,” Uecker said. “A good podcast is like anything else. It’s like a good book, a good radio bit, a good television show, or a good Netflix episode. It’s like any other medium.”

The medium’s diversity can be illustrated by the numerous podcasters scattered across campus. “The Flow,” an entirely student-run podcast, deviates from Smith’s in both content and presentation.

Leaning on the more casual side,

Graphic by Kiara Conley

paper, and I would just do bullet points and write out details,” Smith said. “So you script it. You obviously want to know what's the catch, what do I want to teach people about this, or what is my opinion. And sometimes it’s going to be very quick, but sometimes you’ve got to do research and look at some interactive databases and challenge your own opinion.”

With the advent of modern technology, according to Uecker, many believe that anyone can feasibly start a podcast.

In fact, many sites, including Twitter and Reddit, have memed the phrase “let’s start a podcast” as the millennial version of “let’s start a band.” However, according to Uecker, there is a very clear distinction between simply making a

while Smith’s was intended to educate and inform, the creators of this podcast, sophomore Communication majors Carlos Alarcon IV, Charon Von Berg, and Isaias Jackson, wanted to build a brand and entertain.

“We tend to focus mainly on sports and entertainment, with occasional jokes and clowning around,” Alarcon said. “There is a lot of work that goes into the episodes, including choosing new and current topics, researching stats and other essential information, editing the show, and making sure we distribute it everywhere in a timely manner.”

Yet another on-campus podcast showcasing the medium’s flexibility is the “Potluck Podcast,” organized by the English department’s Etchings Literary

Magazine. This podcast, unlike Smith’s, is still very much in its infancy. According to Assistant Professor of English Liz Whiteacre, Etchings is attempting to explore different ways to make connections between artists and scholars.

“We are hoping to have conversations with professionals in the arts about their work that will help students engage with the art that they would like to produce in the future,” Whiteacre said. “If you have someone who is able to publish a book, and you read it and you enjoy it, to have that behind the scenes conversation and have access to professionals in that way, I think, is not only a productive, incredible experience for the student who is conducting the interview. But it’s an opportunity to disseminate that information, so that wisdom and advice can be passed on to any of the listeners of the podcast.”

According to Uecker, one of the true merits of podcasts is their capacity to tell distinctly different stories in distinctly different ways. Podcasts can be audio dramas, like the award-winning “Wolf 359,” or news gathering sources like NPR’s numerous podcasts. Regardless, according to an article from Forbes titled “Everything You Need to Know to Start Your Own Podcast,” the future of podcasts appears bright.

“People need to understand that podcasting is still very much in its infancy. The market value is still very, very small, but I think there’s incredibly great potential there, and there’s still a long way to go,” Uecker said. “The most successful podcasts are put out there by those who have already built their brand and following through some other media. You’re going to have some entrepreneurs who are going to have a hit here or there. But podcasting is a brand extension for media outlets and personalities. For the future, those who already know how to produce great audio content are in the best position to capitalize as the podcast consumption increases. If you want to be a good podcaster, becoming a good writer, tell stories well.”

GREYHOUND BARBERS Graphic by Jacob Walton

By Reid Bello

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Everyone needs a haircut once in awhile, even if it is just a trim. Some students come to the University of Indianapolis without a car, or they might not be able to find time to drive off campus, so getting a haircut may be difficult. For freshman nursing major Dylan Hinton, this is how he began cutting hair for his friends on campus.

“I started because one of my teammates does not do anything with his hair or his beard and it was getting super grown out,” Hinton said. “I said ‘Why don’t you get a haircut?’ He said ‘Well I don’t have time and I don’t have a car on campus.’ I said... ‘I'll give you a haircut.’ So, we met in the second-floor bathroom, and I started cutting his hair, and pretty much the entire floor came into the bathroom to watch on a Friday night, just to watch me cut my teammates hair. So after that, I told him if he paid me to buy the clippers I’d give him free haircuts. From there, people saw the haircut, and more people heard about it, and everyone wanted a haircut.”

Hinton began to cut hair approximately halfway through the first semester of the 2018-19 academic year. Because Hinton is on the wrestling team, he said he gives haircuts to most of his teammates. Hinton lives in Warren Hall and does his work in the lobby of the basement so a lot of the men who come to him also live in Warren.

When he began his barber service, Hinton said he did not know much

about what he was doing, but that he made an educated guess. After receiving a few tips from his own barber, Hinton said he took that advice to better his work.

To hone in on his craft, Hinton said he also began watching YouTube videos and reading books to further understand how to properly cut hair. Through practice and research, he said that his skills have improved quite a bit. Hinton said he has always been an artistic person, but when he got to UIndy he did not have an outlet for his inner artist.

“Once I got into college I was missing that artistic aspect that I did all through high school,” Hinton said, “And this [cutting hair] is something that I could do and just enjoy it and have it be a way to get out the artistic side.”

Hinton said that he created an Instagram page and coined himself the UIndy Barber, which has lead to inquiries from all over campus. He said he now sees an average of five to seven people a week for haircuts, and all of these cuts are done by donation. Hinton not only cuts hair, but he trims beards and does

eyebrows as well.

Like Hinton, freshman entrepreneurship major Julian Cavallo also has his own barber service. He does his work out of the laundry room in Cravens Hall. As a member on the track team, many of his haircuts are for his fellow teammates of the track team, similar to Hinton. Cavallo said he also cuts hair for a large amount of the football team and residents of Cravens Hall. He said that he began cutting hair in August before he came to UIndy, and he brought business cards to pass out around campus. Cavallo said the number of haircuts he does a week varies depending on his schedule.

Like Hinton, Cavallo said he also learned how to cut hair by watching YouTube videos, as well as by practicing.

Cavallo said with his busy schedule, he figured this could be a way for him to make some money from the donations that he receives. To get to know his clients more, Cavallo said he tends to have friendly conversations with them while he cuts their hair. Cavallo said he can do anything that the person wants in terms of cutting hair, trimming beards, mustaches and eyebrows.

Students at UIndy, like freshman biology major Jarred Horne, have gone to both Hinton and Cavallo in recent months for the first time. Horne said that he was not worried about receiving a haircut from these two men like he would be with any other non-professional, and they both did a good job.

“I think it was the second time Julian Photo by Tony Reeves had ever cut my hair, that was like my Freshman nursing major Dylan Hinton gives freshman exercise science major Adler Chamberlin a haircut in the basement of Warren Hall. Hinton also cuts his teammates hair. favorite haircut ever,” Horne said.

THE REFLECTOR

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ENTERTAINMENT

APRIL 3, 2019

Photo by Maddie Nolot

Audience members sit back and listen as retired UIndy professor and writer Elizabeth Weber reads her poetry at an evening Kellogg Writers Series event in the Schwitzer Student Center Trustees Dining Room on March 20.

Photo by Maddie Nolot

Elizabeth Weber reads from one of her original poetry collections. Weber's poetry has been published in academic journals and books , and her poem "City Generations" is part of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail.

Poet, professor returns to campus Retired professor, co-founder of Kellogg Writers Series participates in original poetry reading

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

Artistic expression can serve as a coping mechanism, a means by which one can make sense of the traumas and successes of human life, according to the American Journal of Public Health.

Whether it be through writing, art or even dance, the usage of artistic engagement can have positive effects on health.

Retired Professor of English Elizabeth Weber utilizes this mentality through her writing, often exploring themes of family, friends and her own identity in order to make sense of her varied experiences.

“A lot of people have died. My father is in the process of dying, and he’s always just been there. Four or five other people are dying, [in my life] too,” Weber said during a poetry reading on Mar. 20. “I’ve been thinking about death a lot. So naturally, I’ve been writing about it… This acts as a kind of healing process.”

Weber, whose essays have appeared in numerous renowned journals, was a professor at the University of Indianap-

olis for 23 years. During the course of her career, Weber founded the Kellogg Writers Series alongside Bruce Gentry and has published numerous poetry collections, including "Small Mercies," "The Burning House" and "Porthole Views: Watercolors and Poems." In these works and others, Weber makes distinct use of vivid imagery and diction in order to illustrate her life events in a way that evokes emotion and consideration of place.

Junior sports management major Jack Erickson said that Weber’s words had a way of grounding him in her story.

“Dr. Weber did an amazing job conveying her emotions to the audience with her words. You can just really feel her personal, emotional connection to each poem,” Erickson said. “One thing that stood out to me was how she was just able to put her personal relationships and feelings out there into the world and how she turned every day events into something worth writing about.”

Throughout the course of her poetry reading, Weber shared nine poems and one essay, each of which detailed

an important or interesting moment in a similar fashion in how they anain her life. Kicking off the evening was lyzed and interpreted various events her poem “Coming Home,” which fea- throughout her life, no matter how tured a recurring theme in her writing: simple. Finding the poetic in everyday coming to terms with her older brother’s occurrences is a recurring theme in Wedeath. ber's work. One poem, titled “In the On Feb. 12, 1968, when Weber was Locker Room,” served as an analysis on seventeen years old, she lost her brother both the simplicity and complexity of in the Vietnam War. He was a radio op- women’s bodies when naked, unassumerator killed entirely by accident, as the ing and unpressured. The inspiration for Viet Cong firing in his direction had the poem was, she said, very mundane: only intendsimply running ed to disinto her profesmantle the sor in the locker “You can just really feel machine he room. was operat“One time, her personal, emotional ing. “ComI was working ing Home” connection to each poem.” on my doctorwas an analate, and I tell ysis on her you, without my father, and how he dealt with the loss of glasses, I am blind. I had my glasses her brother. off, and I was coming out of the show“At one point, I blamed my father for er, and there was my professor,” Weber it [my brother’s death],” Weber said. “I said. “And I said, 'oh my goodness, how think I just was so full of grief that I was weird,' because she was also naked… into blaming. So I actually told him at She looked too human and the same.” one point, 'you killed my brother.' But I Weber’s final piece was an essay tiapologized later on” tled “The Substitute,” which recounted Weber’s subsequent poems operated the grief and confusion in the aftermath

Schmutte to retire after 25 years with Crimson Express

By Tate Jones

BUSINESS MANAGER Professor of Music and Crimson Express Director Pete Schmutte’s academic career began when he was appointed director of pop and jazz group the Crimson Express at the University of Indianapolis in 1989 for a semester-long position before signing on permanently in 1994 at the request of the department chair. At first, he served only as director of the Crimson Express, but Schmutte said that he became more involved the longer he was at the university.

As director of the Crimson Express, Schmutte said that he ensured the group had its own sound and style. For example, despite being a pop and jazz vocal group, the Crimson Express does not play covers. Schmutte creates original arrangements for the group to perform.

“I enjoy writing and arranging. In my 25 years here, I have never purchased an off-the-shelf piece of music for Crimson Express,” Schmutte said. “I would find a song that I liked or the [students] would suggest a song and I would arrange that for them. Everything Crimson Express

did was a custom arrangement. I probably did over a 100 or 150 tunes that I’ve arranged over the years.”

Being able to arrange the music, Schmutte said, has helped his thinking and writing stay fresh. It also allows him to arrange music based on the skills and voices in the current group that he is teaching. He said that he occasionally arranged songs to be either more vocally complex or simpler, and the ability to do so was part of his professional portfolio before he became a professor.

“Early on in my career I did a lot of jingle writing,” Schmutte said. “Much of them were for smaller, regional accounts.

Occasionally, you get a big one—American Airlines, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s—but that was years and years ago.

The biggest aspects of what I did as a commercial writer was called industrial theater, which is when large corporations have a huge event. We did a lot of work for auto dealers. For example, Cadillac did one. When they release their new models, they would put together a huge show and invite all their dealers to it… They were like musicals that you would see in Las Vegas. Someone has to write that.”

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Professor of Music Pete Schmutte, who has served as director of the Crimson Express for more than two decades, led the group's chorus during an evening practice on Mar. 27.

Department Chair and Professor of Music Elizabeth Hoegberg said that his experience improves the program.

"One of the great things, when you pick out music, is you can gauge the song based on the singers," Hoegberg said. "But Schmutte writes the music for them. The show is built from the ground up.

Schmutte has used his experience to make strides in the department's curriculum in addition to the Crimson Express. Because of his background in recording and music technology, Schmutte was asked if he would help create a concentration for music technology, to which he replied “Why not?”

He created an approved curriculum and was then asked to teach these courses.

Schmutte said that without even intending it, he had become a full-time faculty member.

Sophomore music major Spencer Douglas is a student currently enrolled in the music technology and recording curriculum. He described Schmutte as immensely cool and laid back. Douglas said that thanks to Schmutte and the curriculum he created, Douglas can visualize where his education will take him in his career.

“In the music technology and recording concentration, you do not actually start your tech classes until your sophomore year,” Douglas said. “I was coming in very unsure and then I had my first class with [Schmutte], which was Electronic Music I, and he basically opened up to the world for me. I was like, ‘Wow, I chose a really good concentration and this is what it’ll look like.’”

Schmutte will be joining the Crimson Express for the last time as its director at their next performance on April 17 in the Ransburg Auditorium at 9 pm.

He said that he expects many of his past students to join the encore performance for his last show. However, Schmutte said he is now thinking about what he will be doing in his future.

“I would like to focus, spend some of my time, continuing to write. I don’t know what style of music,” Schmutte said. “I spent my entire life writing for somebody else. It would be interesting to see if I was just writing for the sake of writing, what would it be?”

of her brother’s death, framed around her experience with a substitute in her high school calculus class. The piece dove into Weber’s first experience with understanding and coming to terms with death, from the moment soldiers showed up to her doorstep to the repercussions the tragedy had on her school life.

Now, Weber said she believes that her writing aims to make sense of her memories, both in regards to past tragedies and current ones. For years, Weber has been the caregiver for her 101-yearold father, who she has watched deteriorate from dementia and aphasia.

According to Weber, her poems “Goodbye, My Fancy” and “The Dead” cover the topic of grief as well. Her writing conceptualizes grief in ways that, according to Erickson, perhaps not only works to heal her, but her readers.

“To create dialogue about loss and grief so openly, especially with college students, is a brave and important thing to do,” Erickson said. “It made me really stop to consider the role of grief in my life, and how I can work in my own way to understand it.”

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Professor takes PT knowledge to Vietnam

By Tony Reeves

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Traveling 8,465 miles, Professor of Physical Therapy Julie Gahimer flew to Da Nang Vietnam to volunteer for a non-profit organization. This is the second time Gahimer has traveled to Vietnam to teach physical therapy and this year she decided to use her time on sabbatical volunteering with Health Volunteers Overseas.

HVO has sought to teach, train and mentor health care providers in low and middle income countries, according to Deputy Director of Health Volunteers Overseas Beth MacNairn.

After reviewing what Gahimer did during her first trip to Vietnam in December of 2018, MacNairn said that Gahimer had a structured curriculum that she was teaching to the students and professors there.

“That’s the kind of thing project directors and onsite coordinators really help our volunteers, like your professor, to do,” MacNairn said. “Which is really to prepare culturally, professionally and have all the logistics in order. That is also the role of HVO staff, to make sure that everything is handled and that volunteers who go are ready in every way that they can be for impact.”

Gahimer said Google translate has been her best friend while in Vietnam.

“Google translator has been very, very helpful because we can cut and paste an entire document into Vietnamese,” Gahimer said. “Then I can have students read a case study in Vietnamese. I also have an interpreter who teaches the same thing I teach and he knows exactly what I am talking about, he also translates the words into Vietnamese. It wouldn’t be a successful trip if I didn’t have an interpreter.”

Gahimer is teaching the same curriculum in Vietnam as she does at UIndy.

One of the key ideas she is trying to convey to her students is that they are movement experts and that they are teaching people how to move in order to enhance their quality of life.

Gahimer is particularly focused in teaching neurological rehabilitation, focusing on different techniques for working with people who have suffered from strokes, spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries.

“Everything I teach here are things that I have brought from UIndy,” Gahimer said. “For example, I was teaching about traumatic brain injury and the Rancho Los Amigos scale.

It’s a tool for determining the level of consciousness and they had never heard of it. It’s a scale commonly used in the United States, but they had never heard of it.”

Gahimer said that teaching in Vietnam is interesting because Vietnamese professors sometimes do not know some of the things she teaches and they often sit in on some of the content she teaches.

“My typical day is to discuss with the faculty in the morning for about three to four hours and discuss different concepts of faculty development and teaching strategies,” Gahimer said.

According to Gahimer, besides the language barrier, there are not many major differences in teaching in Vietnam compared to UIndy, however, she said that majority of students at UIndy use laptops, whereas a majority of the students in Vietnam use their smartphones.

While UIndy uses ACE, the university in Da Nang, Vietnam does not have an equivalent system, according to Gahimer. She is attempting to help integrate a similar program through the same vendor as UIndy called Sakai.

This program will give students a way to view grades and for the professors to be able to post lectures on the cases they are studying.

“It’s awesome here. Everybody is just trying to do their best to be the best they can be, I think,” Gahimer said. “They have much more of a sense of community, I think, than we do because they are always outside in groups of people. You see a lot of people just milling around and enjoying each other’s company.”

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NEWS Downtown to receive BRIEFS expansions, renovations FACULTY organization that is in charge of marketing the Convention Center as well SPORTS EDITOR as being the face of tourism for Indianapolis, conducted surveys with their Since its opening in 1972, the In- customers in order to determine what diana Convention Center, located in they needed to do to improve. Cook Downtown Indianapolis, has been ren- said that after the surveys, the Ofovated five times, according to Indi- fice of the Mayor, working with the anapolis Mayor Joe Hogsetts’ Chief of Capital Improvement Board, commisStaff Thomas Cook. The Indiana Con- sioned their own study to analyze the vention Center, home to multiple differ- actual needs regarding the improveent events, such as GenCon, POPCON ments and whether or not the local and Indiana ComicCon, will undergo economy could support those needs. its sixth renovation in the near future.

Cook said there were three differNot only will ent proposals the Convenregarding the tion Center Convention “This has been a long go through an Center expanexpansion, but planning process that has sion. At the Downtown end of 2018, gotten us to this point...”

Indianapolis one proposal could experiwas accepted. ence improveIt included ments to Bankers Life Fieldhouse and the location of the old Pan Am PlaLucas Oil Stadium in the years to come. za to take over for the expansion and Cook said that the planning for this ex- would consist of a 50,000 square-foot pansion has been underway since 2017. expansion of the Convention Center, “...Every time this [the renovations] roughly 30,000 square foot of uphave happened, there has been a signif- per meeting space and two hotels that icant amount of city planning that has would be built alongside the convention gone into determining what that ex- space, according to Cook. pansion should look like and whether “This has been a long planning proit’s justified by returning an investment cess that has gotten us to this point,” to Indiana taxpayers,” Cook said. “... Cook said. “From our perspective, what So when we [the Hogsett Administra- all of these studies have consistently tion] got into office, some of that initial shown is that by adding this ballroom planning had already been underway.” space and hotel capacity, the city will According to Cook, Visit Indy, an not only be able to just retain these large

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conventions that currently bring in hundreds of millions of dollars into our local economy, but also we truly believe this will allow us to attract new business into the city of Indianapolis.”

Senator Ryan Mishler said that in regard to these expansions, there will also be improvements to Bankers Life Fieldhouse and within the next twenty years, repairs to Lucas Oil Stadium.

According to Mishler, improving these places benefit not only Indianapolis, but the entire state of Indiana.

“Those entities [Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the Convention Center] add a lot of money into our economy...it’s not just Indianapolis to benefit, they put money into the entire state economy,” Mishler said. “...It will bring more people to the community. We can have larger conventions which brings more people in for more hotel space.”

Some of the long term improvements to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, according to Mishler, would open it up to be used more, rather than just for a ballgame or concert.

Cook said that he genuinely thinks that there are benefits to Downtown Indianapolis.

“From a pure data perspective, the fastest growing neighborhood in the city of Indianapolis is Downtown Indianapolis,” Cook said. “It’s because of the options that are available especially for younger residents…we think a project of this size is just going to add to that vibrancy downtown.”

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Haney awarded Chris O’Malley Fiction Prize Assistant Professor of English and Kellogg Writers Series Co-Chair Barney Haney was awarded the 2019 Chris O'Malley Fiction Prize for his story, "The Passage." The story will be published in the University of Wisconsin's The Madison Review.

Milne presents research at conference Assistant Professor of English Leah Milne presented research at the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States conference in Cincinnati, Ohio in March 2019. Her research was presented during two different panels about John Lewis' graphic novel March and Carmen Maria Machado’s short story collection "Her Body and Other Parties."

Schmidt publishes research in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology Professor of Anthropology Christopher Schmidt published an article in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology titled "Dental microwear texture analysis of Homo sapiens: foragers, farmers, and pastoralists." The National Science Foundation funded the research.

Gilliland contributes to IndyStar article Professor of Communication Rebecca Gilliland was featured in an IndyStar article about Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

She discussed the benefits of highprofile naming sponsorships.

Slaven gives commentary for Indianapolis Business Journal article Associate Professor of Physical Therapy Emily Slaven was featured in an Indianapolis Business Journal article about legislation from the Indiana Statehouse that affects physical therapists.

Ostojić establishes new classical guitar series Associate Adjunct Professor of Music Nemanja Ostojić created a new classical guitar series as a part of the preparations for the Guitar Foundation of America's 2020 convention, which will be held at the University of Indianapolis. The series is designed to give students one-onone mentoring with classical guitar musicians.

Kraus holds workshop at AACA-HAPS conference Associate adjunct professor of biology Nelson Kraus hosted an interactive workshop at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kent. on March 29 as part of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists and Human Anatomy & Physiology Society Joint Southern Regional Conference. The workshop focused on peer instruction in a flipped classroom.

New football defensive backs coach hired Tim Cooper was hired as the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach for the Greyhound football team taking over for Chris Keevers who was hired as the head coach at the end of the fall season.

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