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Tuition to increase for next academic year

By Maia Gibson MANAGING EDITOR The University of Indianapolis announced to students that the cost of undergraduate tuition, room and board would be increasing for the 2019-2020 academic year on Dec. 3 in an emailed letter from University President Robert Manuel. Tuition rates for the 40 graduate programs have not been finalized and the cost will vary by program, according to Manuel and Vice President for Enrollment Services Ronald Wilks.

Both undergraduate tuition and the standard double room rate will increase by 3.5 percent annually. Tuition will be increased by $1,008, bringing the total cost for one year before financial or institutional aid to $29,844. The standard room rate will increase by $184 to $5,464 per year.

The 14-meal plan will total $5,136 annually, an increase of $128 or 2.55 percent. University fees, which support the campus health center, insurance, dining services and technological upgrades amongst other services will increase to $1,132 per year, a 3.3 percent increase.

These increases mean that the average undergraduate student will pay a total of $41,576 annually, without institutional or federal financial aid. However, according to Manuel's email, the university increased scholarships, grants and need-based aid by $3 million to a total of $54 million. Manuel and Wilks encourage all students to submit their FAFSA applications on time to ensure that they get the maximum amount of

federal financial aid.

“We’re adding more dollars to financial aid every year that we increase the tuition rates," Manuel said. "So tuition might go up. You look at it on paper and see it goes from 28-something to 29-something, but the financial aid merit money is also going up by millions of dollars to be able to help people afford to stay connected to the school, and that’s our goal.”

Manuel said that the university takes into account a variety of factors when deciding how much to increase tuition, such as faculty and staff salaries, electricity, heating and cooling and other

Students share experiences with on, off-campus housing

By Zoë Berg & Naomi Coleman EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & CO-PHOTO EDITOR, STAFF WRITER

With the end of first semester wrapping up, students are already searching for housing arrangements for next year, according to Associate Dean of Students Jonathan Yorkowitz. According to the University of Indianapolis' website, the university has many opportunities for housing on-campus including campus residence halls and apartments, such as Greyhound Village and the University Lofts, opening next semester. According to Yorkowitz, there are several opportunities for students to find housing off-campus as well. He said that these include places such as rental houses in the University Heights neighborhoods, College Crossing Apartments and other options in the Indianapolis area.

UIndy has seven residence halls.

Freshmen are allowed to live in Cory Bretz Hall, Crowe Hall, Cravens Hall and Warren Hall, and often make up most of the residents in those halls.

In those dorms students can live with two to five people and share a communal bathroom. Junior accounting major and GV resident Andrew Dunkin lived in a dorm his freshman year and said that he feels that all students should live in the dorms for at least one year.

“For the dorms, I would say... it’s nice always having people around you, you’re never bored and you always have something to do,” he said.

This is one of the reasons senior social work and psychology double major Meaghan Owens has continued to live in the dorms. She lived in Cory Bretz her freshman year and then moved to Roberts where she stayed for three years.

“It’s very ‘homey,’” Owens said. “I see my RAs regularly and have built relationships with many of the people I live with. It’s fun too! We have a ton of events and ways to get to know people in our building.”

When living in a dorm, there is more support with multiple residence

assistants around to offer supervision and mediation and plan activities for the hall. Sophomore studio art major Amanda Thompson, who lives in Central Hall, said that living in a dorm also offers more chances to meet people.

“I chose to live in the dorms for the first two years because I wanted to get out of my shell and meet new people that I might not have met otherwise…”

Thompson said. “I think that living in the dorms, whichever ones you choose, they are experiences that make your time at UIndy and it’s a good way to meet new people if that is what you are looking for.”

Upperclassmen residence halls offer a variety of living situations. Central Hall features two double rooms joined by a shared common area, each with its own bathroom. Freshman also are allowed to live on the fourth floor of Central if they are part of the Strain Honors College in a triple room. East Hall is made up of single units with a bathroom shared by two rooms. Roberts Hall offers both single and double rooms with a bathroom shared between two rooms.

Thompson said she enjoys the convenience of living on campus and not having to worry about parking. However, she said one of the things she does not like about living on campus is that students must have a meal plan. When living in a residence hall students must purchase at least a 10-meal-a-week plan, but can also purchase a 14 or 19-a-week plan. For the 2018-2019 academic year, the 10-meala-week plan was $1,879 per semester, 14 was $2,431 and the 19 was $2,799, according to UIndy’s website.

Junior exercise science major Alyssa Stuczynski said she lived in the dorms for two years and then opted to move into GV at the beginning of this semester. GV offers one to four bedroom options, where residents will have their own room with a double bed and private bathroom. Each apartment has a shared kitchen, living room and laundry units. Stuczynski said that she decided to move out of the the dorms because she wanted to feel more like an adult.

“I’d say living in an apartment makes

“For the dorms, I would say... it's nice always having people around you..."

maintenance costs. Even so, the university remains one of the lowest costing private universities in the state, according to Manuel.

“While we have to increase tuition and room and board to cover costs and to make sure that we’re able to provide the education we provide, we do that in a way that is consistently lower than most of the state and that also includes investment in people’s ability to continue to afford the education through financial aid,” Manuel said. “All of that happens relative to us being what I would call a very good value inside the different private institutions in the state

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of Indiana.”

According to a graphic provided by Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Jeanette DeDiemar, UIndy is currently projected to be the sixth lowest-costing private institution in Indiana for 2019-2020, close in cost to Manchester University and Trine University. For 2018, UIndy was the second lowest-costing private institution. When looking at the cost of tuition and where UIndy stands in comparison to other private universities, Manuel said, that the most important piece to keep in mind is perspective.

“The antithetical argument is that

CORY BRETZ $2,732 DOUBLE $2,232 3-5 PEOPLE

UNIVERSITY LOFTS $5,880 1 BEDROOM $4,830 2 BEDROOM $3,912 4 BEDROOM

CENTRAL HALL CENTRAL CORY CORYBRETZ BRETZ HALL

GREYHOUND VILLAGE

GREYHOUND VILLAGE $5,700 1 BEDROOM $4,41O 2 BEDROOM $4,500 3 BEDROOM $3,960 4 BEDROOM

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college costs a lot of money. And it does.

But when you look at us compared to those [other] private schools, you get a sense that we’re doing all this stuff for the amount of money that we charge.

It’s truly remarkable,” Manuel said. “So solving or engaging the question of parking this year, engaging the question of new residence facilities to bring more people here, all of that is being done at a place where we’re really far down the line in the amount of money that we cost. If we look at the difference between a Notre Dame, a Butler or a Marian and at UIndy, you can really see the differences that are then used to ensure that people can afford to be here, both because we keep our prices down and because we provide that merit money and that access to need-based money.”

Manuel, Wilks and junior religion major and Indianapolis Student Government President Jamarcus Walker encourage students to reach out to the Office of Financial Aid or other support systems around campus if they are worried about being able to afford to continue studying at UIndy.

“The university does everything that it can and it literally moves everything for the students. There should never be a worry about the struggles or the financial aspect of tuition and coming here,” Walker said. “But if you are concerned, reach out. Use the resources that are in front of you, that the university has given so that students, like myself, can know that they are being heard and that someone is there to answer the questions they have and figure out the best way for them to stay and get a good education.”

CENTRAL $3,054 DOUBLE $2,554 TRIPLE (HONORS FLOOR)

EAST $3,792 $ SINGLE

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UINDY HOUSING OPTIONS

CRAVENS $2,232 3-5 PEOPLE ROBERTS $3,792 SINGLE $3,054 DOUBLE

CRAVENS

CROWE $2,732 DOUBLE

ROBERTS

WARREN

All rates are per semester and are for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Information from https://www.uindy.edu/residence-life/residence-options

WARREN $2,232 3-5 PEOPLE

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me feel like I have more responsibility and I guess that’s what I wanted,” Stuczynski said. “It makes me feel like I’m more of an adult instead of living in a dorm feeling like I’m still this freshman.”

When moving into GV, cost can be a factor; aside from the newest addition to campus housing, University Lofts, GV is the most expensive place to live, and rent is paid per semester. However, junior criminal justice major and GV resident Isabelle Christman said that despite the price, there are many positives to living in GV. “[A] positive would be having your own kitchen, just because you have the freedom to make food whenever you want. You don’t have to worry about the dining hall closing, or if they have food that you don’t like there,” Christman said. “And then another positive would definitely be having my own room and having my own bathroom.”

Whether students live in university or off-campus apartments, they can opt

to have a meal plan, including the fivemeal-a-week plan which cost $807 a semester for 2018-2019. There are many off campus housing options near UIndy including renting houses in the University Heights neighborhood and various apartment complexes. Apartments within walking distance include College Crossing, University Place Apartments and National Place Apartments.

Dunkin said that he lived in College Crossing after his first year out of the dorms and said that it was similar to living in GV, however, he did have to make monthly payments. Dunkin said College Crossing is a really good option for living and students should explore their options because there are many.

According to Yorkowitz, when moving off campus it is important to understand the legal responsibility that comes with signing a lease.

“Signing contracts is a serious legal responsibility versus signing a housing agreement in a residence hall is not as much responsibility,” Yorkowitz said.

“So I would say that I would encourage students to do that, you know, to figure out what they want to do. Sign contracts, but be very careful with what you’re signing and what the requirements are with that because you’re going to be responsible legally for that.”

There are many factors that students should consider when deciding where to live. Yorkowitz said that it is important for students to think about their overall living expenses before making any decision about housing.

“When you live in a residence hall or our apartments, everything’s included so your internet’s included, your cable, like your streaming TV services are included, your utilities are included, the maintenance of the building is included, all those sorts of things,” Yorkowitz said.

“When you’re a renter by yourself, you’re responsible for all those things yourself.

And even [sometimes] the upkeep of the property while you’re living there, so sometimes there are unanticipated costs or even time costs to renting.”

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OPINION

THE REFLECTOR

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Media aids in rise of suicide

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Spirit of Christmas lost amidst religion, politics, financial gain

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

Christmas, at its roots, is a religious holiday, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. The religious connotations of the holiday are obvious, from the name itself being a shortened form of Christ’s Mass to the numerous nativity scenes popping up in Indianapolis alone. However, a recent poll from the Pew Research Center indicates that most U.S. adults believe the religious side of Christmas is less prominent than in the past; and surprisingly, most Americans are not overly concerned about the religious decline of the Christmas season.

The Pew Research Center even notes that overall, most people don’t believe in the entire Christmas story. Increasingly, Christmas is becoming less a religious holiday and more a cultural holiday, associated more with presents and gift giving than with Bethlehem and the manger. This can largely be attributed to the secular commercialization of Christmas, or in layman’s terms, companies using the Christmas holiday for financial gain.

What results is less focus on the initial religious aspects of the season and more on acquiring the latest and best products for close friends and family.

The commercialization of Christmas began in the 1800s. An article from Small Business Trends titled “How Did Christmas Become Commercialized?” recalls the story of Frank Winfield Woolworth, who was reputedly the first to bring Christmas tree ornaments from small town German cottages to the United States. He sold $25 worth of ornaments in two days.

Nowadays, Christmas ornaments are a time-honored and almost sacred tradition. Woolworth’s Christmas ornaments

provided a good springboard for the eventual Christmas commercialization we are so familiar with today. Coca Cola’s marketing campaign featuring Santa Claus in 1931 launched the nationwide fascination with the jolly red Christmas man. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer originated as a marketing campaign mascot for a department store. Remarkably, many of the most iconic legends of Christmas lore have originated in commercialization. Today, seemingly little has changed. Department stores began playing Christmas music right as Halloween ended, or even slightly before.

A simple Google search will yield numerous compilations of some of the best Christmas-themed commercials.

With all this in mind, an ongoing debate on debate.org asks, “Is Christmas becoming too commercialized?”

The overwhelming number of responses said: Yes, it has. Focusing on any holiday solely because of its materialistic value is inherently shallow. But many of the responses emphasized that Christmas should be focused instead on its religious aspects, as opposed to its rampant and pervasive commercialization. Numerous Christian articles indicate that the commercialization of Christmas can serve as an opportunity for evangelization, an opportunity to further the good news of Christ.

But at what point does an evangelical opportunity begin to sound like the financial opportunities companies seek during the holiday season? What separates the two once they each begin to push their own agendas?

I wholeheartedly disagree with the rhetoric that Christmas should be associated only with religion, just as I disagree with society’s obsessively materialistic interpretation of the holiday. Throughout the years, Christmas

has burgeoned from a celebration of Christ’s birth simply to a time to spend with family, friends and loved ones. It is a time of reconciliation and redemption, a time of coming together at the end of a long and strenuous year simply to be grateful for what we have and what we have yet to receive. To relegate Christmas to the box of religion is to see it for less than what it has become, and to relegate Christmas to the box of materialistic gain is to kill the spirit altogether.

The true danger lies in misinterpreting the holiday as one or the other: religion or commercialization. As most things do, Christmas has shifted and evolved, becoming an amalgam of holiday cheer, familial reunions and love.

This is what Christmas should be about.

Conservative commentators enjoy ranting about the “War on Christmas” or efforts seemingly to rid the Christmas season of its religious roots through phrases such as “happy holidays” as opposed to “Merry Christmas.” Those more liberal point out that the pervasive cult following surrounding Christmas oftentimes serves to erase other culture’s wintertime holidays.

All of these arguments ironically detract from the true purpose of Christmas by attempting to mold the holiday towards personal gain. Christmas has been commercialized certainly and argued about incessantly for sure, but what all of these arguments miss is the true meaning of the holiday. Very few of us have true control over the commercialization of Christmas, but we certainly have control over how we celebrate it. Christmas has long distanced itself from its initial religious origins, and must separate itself from its heightened commercialization to get to something so simple: Christmas is a time expressly to celebrate and appreciate love.

Celebrities exert a great deal of influence. They can start popular trends and spread awareness of certain ideas. It makes sense that someone who receives so much media attention could have a lot of influence over the general public. That idea seems innocent enough: people enjoy living vicariously through the fantastical lives of people like Brad Pitt or Beyonce, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But when the media use someone’s name and the loss of a life just to attract attention, then a much larger issue is created.

In August 2014, world-renowned comedian and actor Robin Williams took his own life at the age of 63.

In early 2018, Time Magazine covered a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stating that suicide rates in the United States coincidentally increased by more than 10 percent in the four months following Williams’ death. Within that percentage, there was a large spike in suicide among middle aged men.

This isn’t the only time that a famous person has taken his or her life and an increase in suicide within the population has followed. A Vox article entitled, “How the media Covers Celebrity Suicides can Have Life-or-Death Consequences,” mentions a 12 percent increase in suicide rates after Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962.

While it cannot be scientifically proven that celebrities’ deaths are actually to blame for the increased rates, statistical coincidences show a correlation between celebrity deaths and suicide rates. This is the “copycat effect,” in which those already struggling with the idea of suicide unfortunately become inspired by the news.

The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health conducted studies intended to determine exactly how much greater the effect of a celebrity’s death is compared to that of the average person and determined that “the entertainment celebrity, in particular, has the greatest impact on copycat suicide. According to a reference group approach, if a Marilyn Monroe with all her fame and fortune cannot endure life, the suicidal person may say ‘Why should I?’”

The blame here cannot be placed on the celebrities, but rather the media that report on these deaths. News outlets often have sensationalized the idea of suicide in the articles to drive traffic to the websites. This decline of responsible reporting reflects a lack of consideration for those struggling with the idea of taking their own lives.

The CDC actually has published a set of guidelines for when a suicide by a person of great significance should be reported. A lot of the rules are obvious, like not providing the technical details of the suicide or suggesting that anything is “quick or painless,” avoiding dramatic language (especially in the headlines) and including links to phone numbers for support groups.

According to the previously mentioned Vox article, “We have decades of robust, replicated, international research showing that these details matter.

When people in a vulnerable state are bombarded by reports of the specific details of a suicide, including the method, it triggers ideation and action.”

Issues arise when the media do not follow these guidelines. A 2015 UK study (later revised in 2016), titled “Online Media Reporting of Suicides: Analysis of Adherence to Existing Guidelines,” looked at 229 articles within the UK from both local and national publications and found that 199 of the articles did not follow at least one of the CDC guidelines.

“The most commonly breached aspects of the guidelines were a failure to include reference to sources of support for those considering suicide (69.4 percent), the inclusion of excessive technical detail about the method used (31 percent) and undue speculation about the reasons for suicide (30.1 percent)," according to the study. The other guidelines were breached in less than 25 percent of articles, with just two articles mentioning organizations that promote suicide and one article using statistics irresponsibly, telling readers the proportion of people completing suicide after jumping from a well-known landmark.”

This lack of consideration in reporting has the ability to contribute to 18,690 people taking their lives after the death of Robin Williams. The CDC guidelines need to be followed by the media. Otherwise, the consequences may be deadly.

The blame here cannot be placed on the celebrities, but rather the media.

Seniors reminisce on time at UIndy, The Reflector Maia Gibson, Managing Editor

I have somewhat dreaded writing this since the end of last semester. I can’t think of anyone who is excited to leave a job and people they love—which is what The Reflector has been for me— even if they are looking forward to what’s coming next.

When I came to the University of Indianapolis as a freshman, I was struggling. I had only an inkling of what I wanted to study. I missed my parents and brother. I didn’t have very many friends and I wasn’t sure where to find them.

Over the course of my first semester, I declared my major (English Teaching) and adjusted to being on my own, but I was still struggling with the whole social life thing. When I got an email from The Reflector’s advisor, Jeanne Criswell, inviting me to enroll in Applied Journalism, I decided to give it a shot. I didn’t realize at the time how much that decision, as cliche as it sounds, would impact my life.

I’ll be honest, after my first two semesters on staff, I wanted to quit. It was a lot of work and I was struggling to see how it was benefiting me as I was not a communication major. But something told me to stick it out, and I listened.

Second semester of my sophomore year, when the former Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor came to me and said, ‘We want you to apply for Feature Editor,’ I remember thinking, ‘You want

me?’ But I applied. For whatever reason, I got hired.

At that point, I started learning all sorts of new things—how to edit, collaborate with a team, critique and be critiqued, make tough decisions, stand up for myself.

I became more involved with the management staff through our productions on Fridays, where we worked but also laughed at stupid things and talked about obscure topics. I gradually befriended Zoë, who is now my best friend, and the other editors and managers, whom I love dearly. As I learned and grew, they were there to support me, cheering me up when I was stressed out at production, making me laugh harder than I ever have before, praising me when I did well and helping me know what to do better when I struggled. I’ve also gotten to know our staff writers this semester, many of whom brighten my Mondays and Wednesdays and have become my friends as well.

There is so much more that I could say, but I’m aiming to keep this as short as I possibly can. Being a part of The Reflector not only helped me to grow as a leader, teacher, writer and person, but it also gave me a place to belong and the most wonderful friends and support

system anyone could ask for. To Jeanne, thank you for that email three years ago and your mentorship. To my friends on staff, thank you for being the kind, funny and supportive people you are. I am sad to leave, but I know that I will still have these friendships and that The Reflector is in the hands of the people who can continue to make it better than it currently is.

Graphics by Ethan Gerling

Johana Rosendo, Art Director

Coming to UIndy was an easy choice for me since I never visited any school, not even UIndy. I was born in Venezuela and only lived there for 5 years, after moving to Mexico the goal was to play a sport and go to college in the States. My first step into that goal was following my older sister to Canada for my junior and senior year of high school. I decided to go to Lambrick Park Secondary School, since they had a softball and baseball academy. I made great friendships there and had a wonderful home stay that always supported me besides my direct family members. When senior year of highs school arrived and I had to make a decision on what college I wanted to go to, I actually picked randomly and chose UIndy.

I like the classroom sizes, the dorms, how close it was to downtown Indianapolis, and I had never been to the Midwest. Traveling and exploring have always been a priority in my mind and

going to a new place for four years without another option seemed like a great option to meet new people and be forced to stay in the same place for a longer period of time.

Choosing UIndy was easy for me, choosing to major in graphic design was easy for me, choosing to work with The Reflector was easy. It has been a short experience but truly have taught me to be a stronger leader, has made me stronger in my design and overall grow as a person surrounded by so many great people. All the decisions that I made to get where I am today were easy. But now that my four years are coming to an end the hard part begins.

Saying goodbye to new friends from The Reflector, like Abby and Sophie. Saying goodbye to my sister who is a student at UIndy as well as an RA with me.

There is one thing that I am 100 percent confident is that I will always look back at my college experience and remember all the wonderful friends that I have made, and the opportunities that have supported me as a student and designer. UIndy not only gave me my best friends but also a reason for me to want to stay around the city after graduation.

Sam Horning, Staff Writer

I came to UIndy three years ago with no real vision of my future. I transferred from Wheeling Jesuit University not completely knowing if college was for me. But in my time here I can truly say I have found myself and become a better person.

I was fortunate enough to be part of the newly formed men’s lacrosse team and help lead them to their first conference title in program history in just the third season of existence. But most importantly, I created lasting memories and a culture of family with people who will be my lifelong best friends. Academically, I changed my major three times and settled in communication with an emphasis in public relations. The communication department and school as a whole have allowed for me to explore the PR field. I succeeded at times and at times I failed, but I was comforted by the safety net of my professors and classmates. It’s cliche I know, but I can honestly say that my time at UIndy has helped me become the person I am today. I now have the professional tools I need to succeed, an amazing support system to fall back on and a better vision of what I want my life to look like. I am truly honored to have attended UIndy and created the friendships I have.

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THE REFLECTOR

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Communiversity hosts final event of year Students, community members participated in online book club for "The Moonstone," attended lectures focused on the novel, philosophy, history

By Madison Gomez STAFF WRITER As the semester comes to a close, an interactive online book club course at the University of Indianapolis held its last lecture. On Nov. 26, the final event for Communiversity: Moonstone was about justification and justice in the book that they read, “The Moonstone” by Wilkie Collins. This year, Professor of English and co-creator of the course Jennifer Camden decided to change the style of the physical part of the class. There have also been four events in the past, which Camden orchestrated alongside the theater and music departments or other organiz ations on campus, Camden said.

This year she wanted to have speakers come in from on or off campus, give a 30-40 minute lecture and have a discussions with the attendees after.

“From the course, this sort of started with what I saw as a disconnect. Out in the real world, people outside of the university, people love having book clubs. Libraries have them, book stores have them, groups of friends get together to have them,” Camden said. “I wanted to bring that same fun aspect of reading into the classroom. Often, being assigned a book can kill the fun of reading for some students and I thought that was a real shame. So I was trying to think of what would be the sources of the death of that joy and how we could bring it back [the joy].”

In the past years, book selections

included “Emma” by Jane Austen and “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. All of the books from previous years were chosen by Camden because they had some sort of significance when they were released, but this years' book was a risk to her because it was not as well known, she said.

Students or community members are able to attend the meetings that are held during the first semester. The oldest recurring face is Camden’s 88-year-old neighbor, who is also an alumni of the university. He was an English major back in the 1950s, Camden said. She thinks the students enjoy having someone to take their ideas seriously and listen to what they have to say.

In terms of actually being a book club, the in-person meetings are not necessarily what makes it feel like a club, according to sophomore finance and supply chain management double major Isaac Bush. Bush said that the part he feels coordinates to that group feeling is the weekly discussion board, in the online portion of the class, that they have to participate in.

“The book club vibe comes more through the actual course and the forum posts we have every week, so we can respond to each other and see what we have to say,” Bush said.

“The Moonstone” is a mystery novel that laid out the basic plot for other murder mystery novels, Camden said.

It has the original layout of an English country house, a thief, a butler who knows too much information and a

“I wanted to bring the same fun aspect of reading into the classroom .”

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Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Jonathan Evans spoke about the philosophy and behind the book “The Moonstone” by Wilkie Collins. Evans based his lecture on belief systems of people and why each person has a different set of values and connected this idea to the theme of the novel read for the course. grizzled police sergeant looking into the crime. There are lots of things to take in consideration when picking speakers, but Camden said she wanted to focus on the aspect of the ethical questions that come up about telling the truth about the crime with each character so she brought in someone who has been able to help her in the past in that discipline.

The lecturer for the last session was Department Chair for Philosophy and Religion Jonathan Evans. He said the struggle that he went through when constructing his presentation was trans-

lating the same ideas from his original writing outline over to the physical presentation. Evans said that appealing to both the audience who was aware of the book’s contents and the general public, the presentation warranted good discussion after the lecture was done.

“It was really a matter of thinking what might be an accessible issue for a broad audience. That also taps into something that is unique to philosophy so this idea of evidence and justification and justice in how they all interact, seemed like it would be a good fit, [and]

wouldn’t have to get super complicated, which as you might guess, with philosophy and any other discipline that can be pretty easy to do,” Evans said. “So I think having such an accessible text with really interesting issues could have gone a lot of different ways, but since it was a mystery novels, it seemed to make a lot of sense and talk about evidence, mystery and investigations and justice.”

This course is offered each fall semester and any student or community member can participate in the events or join the course.

Season of giving comes to campus through toy drives

By Madison Gomez STAFF WRITER

Photo by Kiara Conley

Executive Coach and Physician Leslie Nwoke presented “How to Face What (or who) Scares You: A Conversation on Bias” and discussed growing up Nigerian-American as well as how to identify biases that people may have. She also gave tips on how to combat those biases and start conversations to take steps to break down biases.

Speaker visits campus to discuss biases

By Abbie Fuhrman STAFF WRITER Executive Coach and Physician at HeartWork Leslie Nwoke presented a lecture to help break down biases at the University of Indianapolis titled “How to Face What (or who) Scares You: A Conversation on Bias” on Nov. 28. This lecture was hosted by the Office of Student Affairs and was a part of UIndy’s Diversity Lecture Series.

Nwoke lives in Atlanta, Ga. but makes a career of traveling to different campuses across the United States to give a variety of lectures on bias.

Nwoke began her lecture by discussing her own personal experiences with bias, which included a story from when she was a little girl. She and her family were questioned if they were really Christian because of a poster on their van promoting the Clinton/Gore campaign. She said she was hurt that someone would question her and her family's faith without even knowing them, based on who they were voting for in the election. She said she grew from this situation and started to look more into biases that she had against other people, and biases people might have against her.

However, Nwoke said that bias as an individual is looking at one piece of the story and then inserting their own thoughts to fill in the gaps. This then re-

sults in full story the individual believes to be the truth.

Nwoke said that because of her experience with bias, she has dedicated much of her life to breaking down these barriers through education.

“We’re seeing people suffer because of other people’s biases,” Nwoke said.

“It’s important that this conversation goes on a national scale so that it can create conversations in our own home as well.”

During the rest of her lecture, Nwoke taught different types of bias, how to identify biases and where owning those biases can lead. She said that there are two different types of biases that an individual can have, implicit bias and explicit bias.

Nwoke said that the difference between the two is simply whether or not the bias was a conscious decision.

Implicit bias is in the subconscious, so the individual is not aware of the bias until faced with it. Explicit bias is conscious, so the individual is fully aware of the bias they hold. Then, she said that once an individual owns their biases it can lead to validation, passivity, shame, denial or acceptance.

Concluding her lecture, Nwoke allowed people from the audiences to share their experiences being on both sides of bias. Junior creative writing major Tyrah Chery shared one of her experiences with having a bias toward

certain groups of people because of a horrific family experience. She said that since coming to UIndy she has really been able to face her bias head on and work to break it down and move on.

“The most important thing that I took away from that lecture was that I still have biases that I need to breakdown myself,” Chery said. “They are not as bad as the ones I previously had but there are still things that I need to work on myself to understand the people around me and the environments that I’ll be in.”

In her lecture, Nwoke explained that individuals often form biases because they keep people at an arm’s length. She said that to solve this problem, the individual with the bias should slowly start to immerse themselves around people they have the bias toward. The more the individual experiences relating to their bias the more they will get familiar with it and likely start to break it up and get over it.

“One of the easiest ways to form biases about people is when you stay away from them or dehumanize them,” Nwoke said. “So when you get closer to someone you see that they have eyes, ears, and a nose just like you. They have family issues just like you. You may even have the same pair of shoes on. You start seeing similarities between them and yourself, and there’s no other way to see that unless you move closer.”

In the spirit of the season of giving, two groups at the University of Indianapolis are hosting toy drives.

The UIndy Campus Police Department partnered with the Marine Corps for the program Toys for Tots to give underprivileged families toys for their children to wake up to on Christmas morning and the Student Organization for Latinos toy drive is to benefit children at the Riley Hospital for Children.

Assistant Chief of Police Hailey Padgett-Riley said the police department began holding a Toys for Tots drive five years ago and more attention has come to the drive and the amount of donations continues to grow every year.

“The purpose of the drive is to collect unopened toys, [and] unwrapped toys for children in the area that may not have a family that is able to provide them toys for Christmas.

One of the most exciting things around Christmas is to open presents from Santa. It’s just heartbreaking that some of those kids will not be able to open anything,” Padgett-Riley said. “That is the whole point [of the drive] to brighten these childrens’ Christmases and making sure they have something to unwrap."

According to freshman molecular biology major Oscar De Los Santos, this is the first year that SOL has organized the toy drive for Riley.

De Los Santos is SOL’s vice president of special projects and said he is at the forefront of this effort. He and members

of SOL get many of their donations by hosting a table in Schwitzer every Friday to collect the toys. “[People should donate] for the kids.

They’re sick, so just donate for their happiness. To let them know that there’s someone thinking about them and cares about them,” De Los Santos said.

Padgett-Riley said the drive for the Marine Corps started when UIndy Chief of Police David Selby first started working on campus. There have been donation boxes for toys in every main building on the campus to collect donations for the past five years and they are currently working to get them inside of the residence halls, according to Padgett-Riley.

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"What we’ve noticed is some of the departments around campus have kind of included it [the drive] as part of their celebration or a team building thing. Or the retreats at the end of the year, encouraging people in their departments to donate to Toys for Tots," PadgetRiley said. "We really appreciate that. We’re hoping to see a bigger increase this year.

Our goal is about 500 toys this year."

When they were first put out in late November, the police department saw the donations were slim.

Padget-Riley said with the holidays on the way, they think donations will start to pick up.

The Riley Donations will end on Dec. 12 and Toys for Tots donations will end on Dec. 14. Toys can be donated to Riley at SOLs table in the Schwitzer Student Center and donations for Toys for Tots can be placed in any of the bins around campus.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Division II redshirting explained

Memorable season ends after second round of playoffs Student-athletes, coaches explain eligibility, requirements, share personal experiences with redshirting in the NCAA

By Crystal Sicard STAFF WRITER

By Maia Gibson & Ki Tally MANAGING EDITOR & SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Indianapolis football team finished their 2018 season with an overall record of 10-2.

“We are extremely happy with how this season went and extremely proud of the senior class this year,” Former Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo said.

The UIndy football team’s season ended on Nov. 24 against Ouachita Baptist University in the second round of playoffs with a score of 35-7. At the beginning of the season during conference play, the team lost their first game against Grand Valley State University but then came back and became undefeated until their meet up with Ouachita Baptist.

Redshirt senior quarterback Jake Purichia said his last season will be one to remember. Purichia started in all 12 games this year and lead the team to an overall 7-0 record in conference.

“It was a really fun season.

Unfortunately, it didn’t end the way we wanted it to obviously,” Purichia said.

“But there were still a lot of positives that came out of it. We had a good record and being able to say we were the second team in program history to win a playoff game was a pretty great feeling.

Overall, there were just more positives than negatives to take away.”

Due to being a redshirt, Purichia has been a part of the UIndy football team for the past five years while studying health and physical education. Purichia said that his experience playing for the university has changed his life in a positive way.

“To be able to play for coaches like we do is amazing. The coaches are very passionate and they care about you as a person more than just football,” Purichia said. “They care about your schooling as well as how you are doing overall in life.

To play for coaches like that, as well as meeting all the guys on the team, was an amazing experience.”

Purichia is not the only one who felt that the football season was a memorable one. Senior defensive lineman Lucas Rice said he will always reminisce on the experiences he had.

“There are so many things, but the biggest would be being around the guys in the locker room and on and off the field,” Rice said. “You miss the friendships and bonds you make. You’re around these guys every single day, and that will be something I miss the most.”

According to Bartolomeo, looking back on the season, one game that was important to him was senior day on Nov. 10 against Hillsdale College.

“The Hillsdale game was one of our favorite games,” Bartolomeo said. “It was a really good feeling, walking out of there because we beat a good football team. I think that it inspired the next week, as well as the rest of the season.”

The following week, the UIndy football team played in the first round of NCAA Division II playoffs for the GLVC where they successfully won 3927 against Fort Hays State University.

After that game, they traveled to Arizona to face Ouachita Baptist for their first time playing against this team.

UIndy had their playoff run ended with a loss of 35-7 against Ouachita Baptist, which ended their 2018 season. Now that the season is done, students are able to work on their academics and workout on their own to prepare for when they come back second semester.

“Now, we focus on recruiting for the team,” Bartolomeo said. “We want our students to focus on their studies and finals until the end of the semester.

Coming back in January we crank it back up.”

Even though the team will be losing their 14 seniors, Bartolomeo said he knows that his players will step up to fill those spots in the next upcoming season.

The football team held their award banquet on Dec. 2 to recognize players.

During the banquet, seniors wide receiver Malik Higgins, quarterback Jake Purichia, defensive line Lucas Rice and linebacker Cole Sigmund received captain awards. Seniors defensive lineman Erik Hart, defensive back Robert Williams, Purichia, Higgins, Sigmund, redshirt sophomore linebacker Kyle Petroff, sophomore offensive line Clay Hadley, freshmen running back Toriano Clinton, defensive line Jacob Jones, quarterback Cam Misner, and linebacker BJ Graves all received single awards.

“We lose a bunch of great players, but we also have a bunch of great players coming back,” Bartolomeo said. “It is going to be up to the upcoming senior class to be the leaders. We will go as they go. We have enough fire power coming back on both sides of the ball.”

The love of a sport drives many student-athletes to pursue a collegiate athletic career. With strict rules from the NCAA on eligibility and the potential for an injury always looming, some athletes have the option to redshirt.

According to the NCAA, Division II student-athletes have 10 semesters, or five years, of full-time enrollment at a university to compete in athletics.

However, they only have four years of eligibility to participate in games, meets or matches against outside competition.

When an athlete does not compete or is injured during a season, they are eligible to redshirt, or essentially extend their academic career into a fifth year to use all four years of their athletic eligibility. As Former Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo said, athletes have “five years to play four.”

While the NCAA recognizes and uses the term redshirt, it is not considered an official term. According to Senior Associate Athletic Director for Compliance Scott Young, the term redshirt is used more so for the media and sports information as a way to designate athletes that are taking a fifth year from those on the more typical four year track. Athletes are either redshirted by choice or due to injury.

According to Young, the NCAA has two requirements for a medical redshirt: The injury must have occurred in the first half of the season and the athlete must have competed in less than 30 percent of the season.

Redshirt sophomore lacrosse attacker Abigail Lagos was redshirted during her freshman year due to a season-ending hip injury. Lagos said that she was frustrated because she wanted to play.

Instead of practicing, she said she had to be patient and focus on getting healthy.

“It was hard. It was mentally challenging, but then physically challenging coming back because I injured my hip so I wasn’t able to run. I wasn’t able to walk as much,” Lagos said. “So it was hard to sit out and I remember I really didn’t want to go to any of the practices and a lot of the team things because I wasn’t as involved. I felt kind of distant from them because I wasn’t able to do everything that they were doing, even though I really wanted to. So it was a difficult process.

Definitely not fun.”

Despite her initial frustration, Lagos said she thinks that the extra year will be beneficial because she will have more knowledge and skill, which will enable her to play at a different level. She plans to go into a graduate program for her fifth year while competing.

Athletes can also redshirt by choice.

According to Young, in order to do this, the athlete cannot participate in organized competition against an outside opponent at any point in their season.

Any athlete is eligible to redshirt as long as they meet this requirement, but oftentimes that decision is made after a discussion with their coaches, according to Bartolomeo. He said that he and other coaches never want to use an entire season of an athlete’s eligibility by playing them only once or twice. The decision to redshirt a freshman football

player is partially based on whether the freshman can help the team win, according to Bartolomeo.

“For example, if there are four junior or senior wide receivers on the team and we have a freshman wide receiver it’s going to be hard to beat those juniors or seniors out. But, we always tell them [freshmen athletes] that, the other end, if you’re the best then you will play,” Bartolomeo said. “It [redshirting] is kind of decided as we go through the season. We pretty much, about game three or four, stop and decide permanently whether he’ll redshirt or not.”

Redshirt freshman defensive back Jackson Weston said that it was his coaches’ choice to redshirt him. He said that they believed he needed more time to grow and develop as a player and that redshirting him gave him that opportunity. According to Weston, the extra year gives him time to improve in the weight room, on the field and a head start on his academics.

“It was tough at first knowing you’re just practicing and you don’t get to see the field on Saturdays, but over time it dwells on you, and you realize it’s a great opportunity to become a better player and develop and work on your craft,” Weston said.

Redshirt sophomore wrestler Cayden Whitaker had a similar experience. He said that he and his coaches both decided he could use an extra season of preparation for competing. “...I knew I wasn’t fully prepared yet to come into the college level straight out of high school my freshman year,” Whitaker said. “I knew if I got better on a daily basis and worked hard, coming into my sophomore year–my redshirt freshman year–I would be ready, and I was. That’s why I started last year. And I think I’m really prepared and I was a lot more prepared than I would’ve been my true freshman year.”

According to Head Women’s Soccer Coach Holly Cox, she does not go into the season with a plan to redshirt specific athletes, but plays whoever is going to help the team win. When she makes the decision to redshirt an athlete, she said that she takes into account their academic standing, their strength as a teammate and their athletic ability. Unlike football, which often recruits athletes who will not see field time for their first year or two, Cox said she recruits athletes she can play immediately. Because of this, fewer soccer players redshirt.

“I tend to find that goalkeepers redshirt a lot compared to field players [who] get moved around a lot so they don’t redshirt,” Cox said. “You try not to change goalkeepers too much because you don’t want to change the team chemistry.”

Like Cox and other coaches, redshirting is not at the forefront of many athletes’ minds. Redshirt senior softball utility Brooke Reiss was not planning on redshirting. At the beginning of her junior year, she took a semester off of softball to focus on her academics.

When she returned to the team, she said that she did not think it was fair for her to play when she had only been practicing with the team for half of the year.

She said that she planned to return to the field her senior year and not use her fourth year of eligibility, but a discussion with her coaches led her to decide

“... it’s a great opportunity to become a getter player and develop and work on your craft.”

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After the recent retirement of Former Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo, Former Defensive Coordinator and Linebacker Coach Chris Keevers has been chosen to lead UIndy’s football team into their next seasons.

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to redshirt instead. Reiss said that she is grateful for the opportunity to play a fourth season as well as get her masters degree due to this fifth year in school.

“It [redshirting] is going to be completely different for other people, but for me it’s like I get my masters degree out of this,” Reiss said. “I honestly never thought I was going to get my masters degree. I thought I was going to be done with school and start the real world life but I’m actually happy that I’m getting my master’s degree now. So the fact that I can do my last year [of competing] on top of getting my masters is a win-win.”

Redshirt senior thrower Austin Hogan was also not planning on redshirting when he did. His sophomore year, after the death of his throwing coach, Hogan said he decided to redshirt in order to process the loss and wait for the university to find another coach.

“I think the way it worked out, it worked out pretty well. I couldn’t have known that. If my coach passing wasn’t the case, then I think, going back, I would’ve redshirted my freshman year,” Hogan said. “But I think I was just a little arrogant my freshman year. I always planned on redshirting some year, but I just wanted to get in the swing of things and wanted to compete right away. I didn’t want to redshirt. But I was just a little too eager, but I don’t think it harmed me in any way to redshirt my sophomore year.”

Even though they were redshirted, both Hogan and Whitaker were able to compete unattached during their first redshirt season. According to Young,

sports that allow individual competitors such as wrestling, track and field and swimming and diving, also allow redshirted athletes to compete unattached.

This means that an athlete can compete, but only if they aren’t receiving any funding or support from the university for those unattached competitions. The athlete cannot wear the university’s uniform, be coached by its coaches, trained by its athletic trainers or travel with their teammates. Whitaker said that competing unattached during his first season allowed him to wrestle starters from other teams, which ultimately prepared him for his first year of attached competition.

While many athletes choose to use all four seasons of their eligibility after redshirting, according to Cox, they are not required to do so. For some athletes, competing in their fourth season might not fit with their academic timeline, so they choose to graduate and move on instead of extending an extra semester or year to participate. However, Reiss encourages athletes who have the opportunity to redshirt to do so.

“But being able to play your sport for one more year, you know a lot of people would die to do that again. Because once you’re done, you’re done. So being able to prolong it and push it back for one more year, it’s kind of a nice benefit on my part,” Reiss said. “If you had the opportunity, I would totally do it. Take advantage of it and enjoy it while it lasts because it goes by fast. My four years went by fast, and my fifth year has gone even faster.”

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has had experience coaching in various areas. Due to many years together, Keevers said that the staff have become close and work well together and will continue to.

During the announcement of Keevers’ promotion at the press conference, he thanked the faculty and administration for their trust in him with this new position. He also thanked Coach Bartolomeo for everything Keevers has learned from him during the 15 years they hae coached together, along with helping him become a better coach.

While expressing his thanks, Keevers said he is excited and thankful for this opportunity that is given to him.

“I’ve coached here for 25 years. I’ve put a lot of work into this,” Keevers said.

“I love the University of Indianapolis.

I’m a Hound. This is my place.”

Keevers promoted to head football coach

After 15 years of service to the University of Indianapolis football team, Former Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo announced his retirement on Dec. 3.

Soon after this, on Dec. 5, the team announced the promotion of their new head coach, Former Defensive Coordinator and Linebacker Coach Chris Keevers. He will be serving as Head Football Coach for the upcoming 2019-2020 season and seasons to come.

Keevers will be the 15th head coach for UIndy’s football program.

He said he was originally hired in 1994 as the Defensive Coordinator and Strength & Conditioning Coach. In the 25 years he has been with UIndy, he

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THE REFLECTOR

DECEMBER 12, 2018

2018 Fall Senior Athlete Highlights

Information by Tony Reeves and Maia Gibson, Design by Zoë Berg

Malik Higgins

#12

206 receptions (3rd in program records) 3033 yards (3rd in program records) 29 touchdowns (3rd in program records)

What are your thoughts on your career as a whole?

“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.”

Wide Receiver

What was your most memorable experience? “This past season when we played Quincy. That was probably one of my favorite games. And even though we tied them it was the best we had played them all four years I had been here. It was cool to see how far we had come from freshman year so that was cool to see.”

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Middle B l o c ke r

762 kills 340 total blocks (12th in program records) 278 assisted blocks (9th in program records)

Started 65 games 23 goals & 9 assists, totaling 55 points 164 shots

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Katie Voelz

Stephanie Burdsall

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What have you learned from playing soccer? “I feel like if I didn’t play soccer I would be more disorganized. It gave me a lot of experience and it helped shape who I am now.”

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Michele Govern

#12

66 games started 10 goals & 9 assists, totaling 29 points 76 shots

What was your most memorable experience? “Dance parties in the locker room before games and beating Louis and Rockers for the first time in our four years here. Those are two really good teams so I won’t forget that.”

What was your most memorable experience? “When I found out we made the conference tournament last year.

We worked so hard for it, and that was the goal for that season so when we made it, it felt good.”

What have you learned from playing volleyball? “Volleyball made me a morning person and it brought me my best friends and my lifelong friends. You can’t put a price on that.”

Is there anything you will miss about playing soccer?

“I’m gonna miss the sport in general. Playing and there isn’t anything else like the team atmosphere.”

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Josh Mahon

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Started 46 games 7 goals & 4 assists, totaling 18 points 42 shots

Forward

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What kind of impact did playing football have on your college experience? “Football had a huge impact and I learned a lot of things from it. Not just football wise and in life, maybe even more than I did in school. It just teaches you a lot about being a team and leading a team.”

What have you learned from playing football? “I have learned a lot about leading, being a two year captain. I like to think I know how to lead a group in the right direction. Just learning to cherish every relationship you have.”

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Lucas Rice 182 tackles for loss yards (5th in program records) 33 tackles for loss (tied for 7th in program records) 22 sacks (9th in program records)

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What kind of impact did playing football have on your college experience? “It had a great impact and brought me a bunch of experiences with friends that I have now and will be for the rest of my life and got to play the game I love for four more years.”

What have you learned from playing football? “I just learned to be a part of a team and to work hard. Being a student athlete is difficult, but if you grind through, it will be a great turnout in the end.”

141 kills

Is there anything you will miss about playing volleyball? “I am going to miss being competitive on the court all the time. That is one thing I am going to need in my life and that’s going to be really hard to find that.”

What was your most memorable experience?

“Playing with the group of girls this year is the most memorable. We all got together very well and made this season the most fun for everyone.”

Photo by Tony Reeves

Photo by Tony Reeves

What kind of impact did playing soccer have on your college experience? “I would be very antisocial without soccer. I would work way more than I probably should and I would talk to nobody and just leave every day. Soccer made me relaxed and helped me talk to people and not force myself to overwork. It was a nice break between school and reality and gave me a fall back to enjoy myself.”

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Middle Blocker

Benjamin Sierra

51 games started 11 shots

Back

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Lauren Koopman

Amber Perry

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Jake Purichia

56 passing touchdowns (3rd in program records) 6413 passing yards (3rd in program records) 448 completions (3rd in program records)

What have you learned from playing soccer? “It teaches me a lot of things. It just taught me to be tough, I guess because without soccer I feel like I’d be really soft. Like I’m still soft sometimes, but I like to think that I’m tough now, especially with Coach Higgins is yelling at us. It really like makes us stronger, I guess. It’s annoying but then it’s good for you in the end.”

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Midfield/Forward

Fo r w a r d

#10

Started 55 games 13 goals & 12 assists, totaling 38 points 83 shots

What was your most memorable experience? “Probably the boys in the locker room, my freshman year, when everybody didn’t know me and I couldn’t speak much English. But they made me feel part of the family anyway, [even when] I wasn’t able to communicate with them as much as I can now.”

Is there anything else you want to share about your experience?“I want to say thanks to the coaches and to my teammates for making this experience unbelievable.”

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GREYHOUND SPORTS UPDATE MEN’S BASKETBALL

On Dec. 4, the University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team lost to the visiting Olivet Nazarene University. After starting on a 22-2 run during the first half, UIndy was never able to gain the lead in the match up, despite another 20 plus point effort from senior forward Jesse Kempson. He was once again the team leader in scoring for the second consecuitive game.

The Greyhounds closed the gap to eight points in the second half before the final buzzer, but lost with a final score of 95-81. During the game, junior guard Miles Wayer had a career high of 15 points. UIndy only shot 37.5 percent from the field throughout the game.

The team has five days before heading off to Las Vegas, NV to play Pittsburg State University on Dec. 17 and Washburn University on Dec. 18.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL L 68-73 W 103-74

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Senior guard CJ Hardaway Jr stretches for an and one shot late in the first half against Olivet Nazarene. Hardaway also made 57 percent of his shots.

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Winning 103-74 against Oakland City University on Dec. 8, the women’s basketball team’s record is now 5-3.

Freshman guard Katie Sowa scored 25 points, going five of eight beyond the arc.

Sowa also sunk a three pointer before the final seconds in the first quarter bringing

vs. Lewis University vs. Oakland City University the lead 36-13. The 103 point game is the first 100 point game in Head Women’s Basketball Coach Kristin Wodrich’s tenure at UIndy.

The Hounds square off against Purdue University Northwest on Saturday, Dec. 15 in Hammond, IN.

Greyhound Update Box by Kiara Conley and Tony Reeves

6 THE REFLECTOR

FEATURE

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Running back with heart condition remains undeterred

Soaring through the air

By Abby Land ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Freshman exercise science major used to perform trapeze in the circus, plans to help train performers in future career

Freshman football recruits undergo a variety of challenges in their first season, from becoming accustomed with the atmosphere of collegiate football to familiarizing themselves with the everyday activities of the University of Indianapolis’ athletics department. An additional challenge presented itself to freshman mechanical engineering major and running back Sam Schoonveld, however, when he received a diagnosis for a heart condition weeks before summer practices began.

All freshman recruits undergo an in-depth physical before they are allowed to practice or play as a member of UIndy’s athletic program, including football players, according to Former Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo.

These include a number of tests, including an electrocardiography, or EKG, to check for abnormalities in heart rhythms.

After his physical, Schoonveld said that he thought nothing of the tests and went about life as usual, fully expecting to receive a normal report and be cleared to begin practice that summer. Two days after his physical, however, Schoonveld said he received a call from Head Athletic Trainer Ned Shannon notifying him of an abnormality on the EKG. Schoonveld was then referred to Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital, where he underwent a stress test and was formally diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome, a heart rhythm disorder that can cause fast, chaotic heartbeats during times of stress or intense physical activity.

“There’s a certain rhythm of your heart and there’s certain intervals. There’s a space between a Q and T, and that’s basically the space between your heartbeats,” Schoonveld said. “And when you exercise and you elevate your heart rate, it’s supposed to get closer and closer together so you can get more heartbeats in a minute, but mine actually gets a little longer and more spaced out.”

The diagnosis was a shock, Schoonveld said, because he was a dedicated athlete throughout high school, often playing three to four different sports throughout the year, and had never experienced any symptoms “It was really scary once I started reading about it and researching,” Schoonveld said. “You can have no symptoms of it and all of a sudden your heart can just stop and you can just fall over. So the fact that I didn’t have anything happen with it my whole life is a blessing.”

The first priority of the coaching staff after they found out about Schoonveld’s diagnosis, Bartolomeo said, was to wait and see whether it would be safe for Schoonveld to play football for UIndy. While the diagnosis concerned Bartolomeo, he said that his main concern was that Schoonveld receive a doctor’s clearance before stepping on the field to play, even if that meant delaying the recruit’s plans to start practice.

“I never want to take away a dream from a young man who wants to come and play and compete in collegiate athletics,” Bartolomeo said. “But I was more concerned about his health than anything else. I’m glad we caught it so that nothing would happen if he was going through physical activity.”

Bartolomeo and Schoonveld explained that while intense physical activity can be a risk factor for people with Long QT syndrome, Schoonveld practices alongside his teammates without any special treatment. His ability to practice normally without experiencing symptoms is thanks to a medication that Schoonveld uses to prevent his heartbeat from beating at an irregular level.

“They [doctors] put me on some medicine and they started working my dosage up for my medicine. Now I just take a pill every morning,” Schoonveld said. “I can’t really tell that I’m on the medicine, I can’t really tell that I have it. I’ve never been able to tell that I’ve had it.”

According to Bartolomeo, the situation could have been much worse had the condition gone undetected.

The coach said that is gives him peace of mind to know that all of his players have been thoroughly examined and are healthy before they begin their careers with UIndy athletics.

“I think it [Schoonveld’s diagnosis] is an at testament to our screening process here at UIndy. It’s not the first time where we’ve caught problems that the player did not know about,” Bartolomeo said. “As a coach, you feel confident that those players that are cleared are ready to go and can compete and do the physical activities that we need to do.”

Photo Contributed by Megan Brehmer

Photo Contributed by Megan Brehmer

Freshman exercise science major Megan Brehmer (second from right) and her flight group performed in high-flying stunts. She participated in the circus for ten years with her family and said she enjoyed the thrill.

The rigging system that Brehmer swings from is suspended 50 ft. in the air with a net underneath in case of a missed trick. According to Brehmer, the net is hard to see so that the trick is more exciting for the audience.

By Tate Jones BUSINESS MANAGER Megan Brehmer woke up to a 9 a.m. alarm every morning she had a show.

She’d been doing this for 10 years, until this year she became a student at University of Indianapolis studying exercise science and physical therapy. Before she got here, she had been a performer for the Peru Amateur Circus. Her day continued by traveling to the circus building. The riggers, the ones who begin setting up the event, received an extra hand from Brehmer on her way to the area where all the acts are practicing. As it got closer to the show time, she started helping other girls put their makeup on and prepare the costumes for the show ahead. Brehmer warmed up and stretched for a few hours. Then, the two hour show began.

“It feels like it flies by really quickly,” Brehmer said.

Brehmer’s held the position of flying trapeze artist for six years. Flying trapeze artists swing for a designated ‘catcher.’ Even if one were to not catch her, Brehmer would still fall into the net below her. She said that her training

was rigorous and most of her injuries occurred as she was serving as a flying trapeze artist.

“I did from the lowest trapeze all the way to flying trapeze, which is 50 feet up in the air. I have probably done over 20 different acts throughout my ten years,” Brehmer said.

“It was hard work. I did flying trapeze for six years and it was six days a week for two hours each day, from March all the way to July when we practiced and performed.”

While Brehmer may be doing the acts and practice herself, she said she is not the only one in her family helping to run the show. Brehmer’s mother, Brandi Brehmer, said she has been involved in the circus just as long as her daughter. Brandi first joined the circus as a volunteer a few months after Brehmer became involved with the youth performers in the show. Brandi has moved up and is the only producer listed for Circus City Festival, Inc., creator of the

Peru Amateur Circus.

Brehmer and Brandi both said they had to work to differentiate their relationship their work relationship and their family relationship. Brandi wears the hats of mom and boss, sometimes mingling the two together. According to Brandi, it did not always work well. Brandi said the two built upon the years, strengthening a friendship with one another. Brandi said she watched every step of Brehmer’s journey, from her low-casting roles all the way to flying trapeze. She said she always had trust in the trainers and other general staff.

Brandi said that she still worries about a potential injury in the back of her mind.

Injury is not the only potential harm in working in the circus, according to Brehmer. She said that there are times when people mistake Brehmer’s colleagues acts as fake.

“Some of the tricks, I feel like, people think they aren’t real,” Brehmer said.

“Things like juggling and sword swal-

“I did from the lowest trapeze all the way to flying trapeze, which is 50 feet up in the air.”

KWS course returns

SHAPED BY THE NAVY

Assistant Professor of Counseling Emma Eckart served as a helicopter pilot in the Navy from 2001-2014. She said that her experiences in the Navy helped lead her to her career as a mental health counselor and professor.

2001

18 months of flight school

6 Month Deployment: Persian Gulf

From left to right, undergraduates BreAnnah Nunn, Tayah Eakle, Shauna Sartoris, Alexis Stella, graduate student Shannon Harris and Assistant Professor of English Barney Haney are part of the Fall 2018 KWS class.

By Noah Crenshaw ONLINE EDITOR For Assistant Professor of English Barney Haney, bringing back the Kellogg Writers Series course after a three-and-a-half year hiatus was one of his best decisions he has made.

Haney teaches the course and co-chairs the series with Assistant Professor of English Rebecca McKanna. The English course is an extension of the Allen and Helen Kellogg Writers Series, created by a grant from the family estate.

The series brings authors and poets to UIndy throughout the year to read and speak about their work.

In the class, students work on creating social media posts and promotional posters for the readings. They also make bookmarks and press releases to help promote the series on and off campus, according to senior professional writing major Alexis Stella.

“We created our own Instagram, so we have a lot more social media outreach,” Stella said. “This year we’ve done press releases for the neighboring high schools. I know that for our first event, we had Franklin Central’s creative writing club come. That was really fun….It’s not just that we host this event, we do a lot of preparation on getting word out to the student body.”

Junior professional and creative writing double major Shauna Sartoris said that making the posters has been one of her favorite parts of the course. By making posters, Sartoris said she was able to practice and improve her design skills.

“I think that it [designing] is a really useful skill to have,” Sartoris said. “It’s

also really fun to think about ‘How are we going to present this? How are we going to match the tone of the series?

How are we going to match the author’s voice in the way that we make these flyers?’”

The students in the course also work on creating interview questions for the writers, according to Haney. The students even have the opportunity to introduce the writers at events and interview them. Stella had the opportunity to introduce author John Jodizo at the first event, who is also one of her favorites.

“For the first event, when Jodizo came, I gave the introduction, so that was both fearful and exciting for the same time because I’m not a big public speaker,” Stella said. “I don’t like public speaking at all. Doing that kind of strengthened my own abilities and I got to show appreciation for an author that I truly liked.”

For Haney, one of his favorite parts of the class is seeing the students’ creativity. The students work together to create bookmarks and posters, and brainstorm potential authors to highlight for the Kellogg Writers Series.

Haney said that he came into the course unsure of what the students would want to do, but was happy to discover that they had plenty of ideas.

“They knew of the series and they wanted to put their personal touch on it and they did,” Haney said. “That was exciting for me because when they came in and wanted to do that, it did the thing I was hoping it would do: where it becomes more student agency over the Kellogg Writers Series and not just the class…I got to teach them things and they taught me things about what they want here and how they want it to look.”

Entered Navy 6 Month Deployment: Counter Drug Operations

Helped with Hurricane Katrina relief

Photo by Hannah Morris

lowing and they think there’s no way. I have seen those people train and practice.”

Brehmer performed at her last show this summer, winning an award from her colleagues at the circus. She was crowned ‘Circus Performance Queen,’ an award given to the best female performer in the circus. According to Brehmer, it marked the end of her performing for a period of time, but she is planning to return.

Brehmer said her injuries were frequent and it became one of the driving forces for her to pursue an education in exercise science. Brehmer said that her injuries and her love of the circus will, hopefully, cultivate a career. She hopes to take her education back to local circuses and help those, similar to how her trainers helped her. Even though her post-college goals are in the circus, Brehmer said she has still considered getting a taste of her original life at the circus in the Indianapolis area.

“I thought about it really hard last year because at the last show I said ‘Do I really wanna stop this?’ but I wouldn’t have time with school,” Brehmer said. “I could always come back and train. That would be enough for me to be involved.”

“We had two helicopters that time with us. But it was a lot of just knowing who else was out there and kind of seeing what else was out there while we were there and doing different support things too. Sometimes it was delivering in essence like grocery to the ship, so transferring from one ship to another ship and helping with those kinds of things. But a lot of it was just being able to see who else was out there.”

2010

Entered Navy Reserves

“...We went out as a single detachment, so we took one helicopter and...we looked for drug runners in the Caribbean. So what would happen is we would get a radar blip that maybe there was a fast boat speeding across, and those are usually the drug runners, and then we would go find them, chase them and usually confiscate their boat and take whatever drugs were onboard too and then turn those over when we pulled into port.”

Became Flight Instructor

“The most fun I had in the military was being a flight instructor. And in many ways, it parallels what I do as a faculty member now. Watching students learn a skill and then seeing them get it and be able to apply it was a really neat experience.”

2014 Finished Navy Reserves

“I learned a lot about teaching and leadership in the military and that has translated into my teaching...the biggest thing I realized is that it really is about personal connection. Your students, you can stand up there and teach them things, but until you are able to make a personal connection with them and relate to them in some way...it’s easier for them to master concepts, I think, when they really know that you have a vested interest in them.”

Became a professor at UIndy

“I think having such an understanding of what that [military] lifestyle is like makes a big difference [as a mental health counselor]. And if you haven’t lived it, it can be really hard to understand what that lifestyle is like. So clients can come into me and immediately when they throw terms around or use military language or even talk about deployments and things like that, I know what all is involved in that and I’m not having to get all this background information. So it’s just kind of a natural connection.”

2018

Graphic by Maia Gibson and Kiara Conley

ENTERTAINMENT

THE REFLECTOR

7 DECEMBER12, 2018

It’s A Wonderful Life

Theater students bring Frank Capra's holiday classic to campus as a radio play, performed seven times for audiences and once via live broadcast

By Zoë Berg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & CO-PHOTO EDITOR Audience members make their way to the basement of Esch Hall and into the Studio Theatre for the University of Indianapolis’ production of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the classic holiday story about the life of George Bailey. In the theater, the lights are low and the space is full of plush couches and chairs. Rugs are strewn about the floor and holiday decorations cover the walls and window. In the middle of the room are four microphones that will be the stage for the show. As audience members find their places, the actors mull about the space remaining in character and talking to the audience, beginning the interactive radio play.

Visiting Professor of Scenic Design for the Department of Theatre and Scenic Designer for the show Alana Yurczyk said "It's A Wonderful Life" is much different than the shows the theatre department usually produces, and part of this is because of the show’s immersive nature. The actors move about the room when they are not on stage as their first layer characters, college students producing a radio play.

“What they [the audience] are coming to see is how we do radio drama. The whole environment where you are in, you aren’t in a theater, you’re in a radio station,” said Director Kyle A. Thomas, an associate adjunct professor of theatre.

“These are actors, but they are voice actors so they aren’t necessarily playing the single character for the entire show that they are voicing for the radio drama. We have expanded upon the theatricality and brought it out into the audience and made the whole space and the whole experience about exposing the interesting parts about what it takes to make a radio drama.”

As the show progresses, cast members like junior theatre and communication major Katie Carter, move around the space, often stepping over and around audience members and their belongings.

“It’s so interesting because the audience is so close to the actors,” senior theatre education major Zech Saenz said. “There’s a very thin line between the acting space and where the audience is and when you’re out of the acting space you’re a whole other person because you’re just watching the show.”

Cast members find places around the theater to perch and watch the show or they sit in a line of chairs in front of the tech booth, but it is never for very long.

They are often up on their feet moving to and from the microphones and then into the foley area where the cast members produce all of the live sound effects.

“The foley stuff has really just brought the show to a whole other level,” Carter said. “It’s really different. I’ve never done anything like that before… It’s so much fun and it makes the show a lot more interesting.”

In the foley area, the audience can see all of the foley work that is being done and get an inside look into how the sound effects are made for the show. Assistant Professor of Theatre and Foley Director James Leagre said this creates a secondary experience for the audience because they hear the sound and understand how it is made while still feeling like they are in the story. Car horns, telephones, doors slamming, glass breaking, water splashes and wind are just a few of the noises that fill the room in order to enhance the image in audience members' heads and make it as realistic as possible, according to Leagre.

“Literally the foley art— the sound is,

in essence, it is a character in the play,” Leagre said. “It is helping to tell the story. And it's crucial because it creates transitions, it creates settings.”

The room is dressed to look like a radio studio, including making the booth a part of the set.

Yurczyk said where they usually would have used stand lights for minimal lighting, for “It’s a Wonderful Life” the stage managers and tech crew have the lights on so that the audience can see into the booth and see the microphones and radio equipment to enhance the nostalgic feel of the radio station. The actors were also dressed in costumes not specific to any era for the same reason, Thomas said.

“The story is a facilitator of nostalgia for the time period, connection to the play and film, and the audiences experience with the story and film and what they know about it,” he said. “The visual aspects are just about how it’s performed so it really requires the audience to use their own feelings with this particular story to fill these gaps. I'm hoping people of all ages come in and are connecting to some aspect of it that’s for them.”

Saenz plays George Bailey and said that the character is very easy to relate to, making the role more enjoyable.

Saenz described “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a heartfelt and classic story about coming of age.

“It’s about a boy who saves his brother’s life, grows up in a small town in America and it’s just about all of the obstacles he faces and his journey from

having his dreams change right in front of him,” Saenz said. “And in the end, he gets very depressed with the situations he’s given and so then he kind of wishes he never had been born. And so from that a guardian angel comes down and shows him what life would be like if he was never born…. It’s [a] very heartwarming Christmas tale.”

As the wind chimes ring, the play transitions between George Bailey’s world and the world of his guardian angel, Clarence.

As Clarence observes Bailey’s life, audience members will see the actors each bring to life a number of characters, sometimes changing characters back-to-back. Because this is a radio play, the actors are dressed as their first layer characters and rarely interact with each other directly as they speak t h e i r lines into a microphone.

Sophomore theatre performance and directing major Clayton Rardon plays six characters, including Nick the bartender, Uncle Billy and Bailey’s father. Rardon said it is intense playing many different characters because he had to devise ways to differentiate all of them through voice alone.

“It was a lot of work to figure out which character, what their voice would be like,” Rardon said. “I had to analyze who this character is as a person and how this might affect how they talked.

So it took me quite a while and I had to work directly with Kyle, the director, to help me with some of the voices because I was having trouble distinguishing between a couple of the voices.”

Rardon said that he used deeper voices for older characters, kept in mind their education level and life experiences to help shape the way he spoke.

Featured artist discusses starting career

By Tate Jones BUSINESS MANAGER The Department of Art & Design presented the diverse works of Indiana artist Chris Sickels with the “Curiouser and Curiouser: Chris Sickels” exhibition, which will be open from Nov. 19 to Dec. 14 in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery.

From puppetry to stop-motion animation, pieces in the gallery show the wide variety of mediums that Sickels used to express himself through his art.

However, he would be the first to admit that this is not what he expected to do for a career while he was a student at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. In fact, Sickels said that his career began without having much success.

“As a student, even before I graduat-

ed, I would take my portfolio of paintings—this was before websites, before 1995—to any art director that would see me. It was all cold calls,” Sickels said.

“A lot of the feedback was ‘This stuff is interesting but there is no use for it.’

Then I asked if there was another person I could take it to. I was relentless.”

While other students in Sickels’ program began to build their portfolios into careers, he struggled to find a job.

He began looking for new options and exploring various fields, hoping to find an area that he could specialize in. This search led him to take a scientific illustration course at another university. The field had function and practicality that would serve as a safety net after college.

It was not, however, as simple as he had initially hoped for, Sickels said.

Sickels was forced to take on side jobs alongside his artistic career to afford his

Photo by Kiara Conley

Made of wire, polymer clay, fabric, foam and paper, “Frame of Mind” was made in 2017. It was one of a series of figurines included in the exhibition at UIndy.

rent and other amenities. He needed to find a better way of gaining publicity for his work to earn more money. After doing more research to how he could expand his work into a more sustainable career, he discovered illustration representatives.

According to Sickels, an illustration representative acts as an agent to connect artists with projects and work. They help promote artists and teach them skills necessary to establish a brand and build credibility. Sickels connected with a representative who helped him negotiate projects and scheduling, and the two have worked together for years—even during times when neither of them were profiting significantly.

“I started having serious conversations with my illustration agent when I was around six years out of college,” Sickels said. “The previous year I had

Photo by Macy Judd

“The Village Voice," a printed comic, was created last year. It featured Martha the pigeon, the last known passenger pigeon, who passed away in Sept. 1914.

only made $15,000 on illustration. I remember telling the rep, ‘I am only making this much money, your percentage would be this much. Why would you even bother with me?’ [But] she was much more interested in the work and where the work could potentially go.”

After having that conversation with his illustration representative, Sickels said he began to experiment using a style that was more three-dimensional based than his previous work.

“I started in illustration and now I focus on 3D and animation,” Sickels said.

With the new style changes, Sickels eventually went on to create his own studio based in Greenfield, Ind., called Red Nose Studio. His work with the studio has received recognition from organizations such as American Illustration, Communication Arts and HOW Magazine. He also received three gold medals and a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators for his illustrations and stop-motion work. Some of his stop-animation films have been presented at film festivals such as the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and the Montreal Stop-Motion Film Festival. He also authors and illustrates children’s books.

This extensive portfolio caught the eye of Assistant Professor of Art & Design Randi Frye, who submitted an application for the exhibition to be featured in the University Series. She said she believed that Sickels’ work fit well with the theme of the series.

“The idea of grit, inventiveness and creativity are all on display in Chris Sickels’ work. From his sketches and drawings, to the puppets and final 3D illustrations and animations,” Frye said.

Frye also said that students can relate to Sickels’ story, even those who are not pursuing art as a career. His struggle to find his place in the workforce and make his passion into a career are important lessons for students who may believe they have their future all figured out, according to Frye.

“There are different paths and you may not always end up on the path that you had in mind in college," Sickels said.

Thomas said he encouraged the actors to explore their characters and voices to push themselves to try new things, even if they think it may be silly.

“To their credit all of them just stepped up and tried a lot of funny and silly and interesting things. They were never scared to just experience and play and have fun with it,” Thomas said.

“Through that process, a lot of them were able to find new and interesting voices for their characters as they played with it.”

The work that the cast put in was clear in the eyes of the audience, according to Rardon, Thomas and Carter, as they all seemed to enjoy the show. The studio theater filled up quickly for their preview on Dec. 6 and 12 extra seats were added.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” also sold out for the rest of its shows, which were the next two weekends. Carter said this is the best case scenario that they hope for for shows and they couldn’t have expected any better.

“The show was really good,” T h o m a s said.

“The students did a great job.

They’ve worked really hard and I think it shows in their efforts and in their production, just how well and how smoothly everything went.”

Graphics by Johana Rosendo

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Students attend Model United Nations conference

Group of international relations students participated in conference modeling the United Nations, brought back numerous awards for their efforts

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

Solving some of the world’s toughest crises may seem like a daunting task, but according to junior political science and international relations major Kaitlin McDonald, the chairwoman for Council 1, the Model United Nations course tackles these political concerns on the daily. Model UN is a simulation exercise in which various student teams work to emulate the actual United Nations.

The students take on the roles of the multiple nations involved and work towards resolving key global conflicts.

“Two students are assigned a country and have to learn everything about those countries. This includes their policies, their allies and enemies and their specific stance on the five agenda items assigned to the mock conference,” McDonald said. “At the conference, the students engage in formal and informal communications with delegations from their school and other schools to discuss possible solutions to each of the five topics.”

According to McDonald, the five agenda items for this conference were: the crisis in Venezuela, the crisis in Yemen, the crisis between Israel and Gaza, the crisis between Rohingya and Myanmar, and the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She notes that a huge amount of research goes into preparing for the United Nations conference.

“Preparing for this class is not easy.

As a representative, you need to do extensive research over your country. This includes knowing all your relationships with each member of the security council. You also need to do in-depth research on the agenda items,” McDonald said. “Once you are assigned your topics, you further research all involvement your country has had with each of the crises. Once you find out the stance of your country, you then look into who you side with and who you will need to work with at the conference to pass a

resolution.”

Junior political science and philosophy double major Mason Hamilton represented the USA at the conference. He noted that preparation can differ from country to country. For smaller countries like Kazakhstan, whose breadth of specific available information is slim, the research may focus on a broad understanding of the country. Hamilton, portraying a large nation like the United States, had to be more specific in his research.

“I had to dig through all of the excess information to find useful stuff that actually spoke to the problem that we were examining,” Hamilton said. “I was just trying to find information that, for the United States, represents the actual government interest.”

At the November 2018 Model United Nations Conference at Indiana University Southeast, the University of Indianapolis team had a strong performance, winning several awards.

Senior political science and international relations major Evan Smiley said that having Model UN as an actual class gave UIndy an advantage over the competition as have regular meetings and take it seriously.

“Most of these other schools just do [Model UN] as a club. We take it more seriously, and we were more prepared too because we get a grade for this,” Smiley said. “A big thing about the UN conference itself is passing resolutions.

We had resolutions already ready because that’s what we worked on in class, and we were able to easily facilitate getting these resolutions passed because we already had stuff to work with.”

All three agreed that participating in Model UN is beneficial not only to a potential career in politics, but also in bolstering communication skills.

“I feel as though MUN is a great class to help prepare students for their future,” McDonald said. “Not only does it let you practice public speaking, but it allows students to act diplomatically in a setting where they aren’t judged or under high pressure.”

Photo contributed by Kaitlyn McDonald

The group of students enrolled in IREL 300 Model United Nations attended a conference at Indiana University Southeast. The students spent the semester preparing to represent a variety of countries and discuss and debate five selected topics with students from other universities. They won several awards for their performances.

Photo contributed by Kaitlyn McDonald

Polictical science and international relations major Kaitlyn McDonald (left) gave the fourth place ribbon to sophomore international relations major Claire Green.

Photo contributed by Kaitlyn McDonald

Junior international relations major Mason Hamilton represented the United States at the Model United Nations conference at Indiana University Southeast.

ISG petitions to extend hours of the grab-and-go

WINTER CAR SAFETY

By Reid Bello STAFF WRITER

As the weather gets colder and winter approaches, Chief of Campus Police David Selby, has a few tips and tricks for students to keep themselves and their belongings safe this winter.

“Make sure you put a little emergency preparedness Kit together. So have a flashlight, water, blankets and extra clothing and put it in your car so that you’re ready to go,” Selby said.

The Indianapolis Student Government is pushing for the hours of the Greyhound Express, or grab-and-go, to be lengthened for the convenience of the student body, according to junior religion major and president of ISG Jamarcus Walker. The request is not asking for specific hours and Walker said that the group is open to whatever they will be given. The organization is looking into the hours of all the dining options, but the main focus is the grab-and-go.

According to Walker, ISG is trying to create more opportunities for students to not only be more flexible with their schedule and not have to worry about getting to grab-and-go during their short hours, but also to potentially provide more students with employ ment.

They think this will also allow the current student workers to be slightly more flexible with how they plan and balance their schedule.

Junior elementary education major Esperanza Mendoza is a student worker for dining services. She said she is concerned as to how this change would affect her schedule. She said that it is difficult to balance work and school, and though she can sometimes get her homework done while she is working she often has to stay up after work to finish all of her school work.

“If they were to extend the hours it would be difficult on me because I run the cashier at night,” Mendoza said. “So I would have to stay here longer and that would be less time to do homework and study.”

The biggest challenge, according to Walker, has been getting student feedback because students often have a difficult time advocating for themselves. He said the students voicing their opinion is very important because ISG hopes that

this will relieve stress of the students, and they need the student response to help prove that this will be a good change for the student body. Walker said he is meeting with Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students and Campus Life Kory Vitangeli and Executive Chef Jeff Fell to figure out the boundaries of what ISG could potentially accomplish, but also do his best to voice an opinion on behalf of the student body.

According to Walker, ISG hopes that this will kick off in the next semester—or at least have a trial run—to see that their efforts are not going to waste. They are also pushing for the grab-and-go to be fully stocked.

Walker said that near the end of the semester, usually right after Thanksgiving, any time after 1 p.m. the grab-andgo is almost emptied out from students trying to use the rest of their swipes before the end of the semester.

Walker said that students interested in extending the grab-and-go hours and potentially other food options on campus should join ISG and voice their opinion.

“It is a process to get these things happening, so we want to be mindful, and we want students to be aware that everything won’t happen right at the beginning of next semester so be patient,” Walker said. “Also know that if they have any concerns, whether it is hours or quality of food or anything going on, then ISG is there to hear those advocate definitely on the behalf of the student body.”

According to Walker, ISG will be hosting a question and answer on Jan. 24, for students to voice their opinion. If there are any changes made to hours of the Greyhound Express as a result of this session or the meetings with the faculty members, the students and faculty will be notified via email and also posters and advertisements around campus.

“If they were to extend the hours it would be difficult on me...”

Aside from a car’s regular maintenance, students should check their windshield wipers, battery and tires. The winter is especially hard on these components of the car.

Students should be aware of all their expensive belongings, keeping them out of plain sight in their vehicles, like Christmas gifts. Thieves will often smash windows and grab expensive items that can be seen.

Information provided by Chief of Campus Police David Selby Graphic by Alissa Kennelly

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Indiana case reaches Supreme Court

Case involving the seizure of a Land Rover, regarding the Eighth Amendment's enforcement at the state level was sent to SCOTUS in February 2018 Case transferred from Court of Appeals to Indiana Supreme Court

FEB 9, 2017

NOV 2, 2017

IN Supreme Court Issues Opinion stating that the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply to Indiana

Case is sent to U.S. Supreme Court

FEB 6, 2018

JUN 18, 2018

Opening Arguments are presented in D.C.

SCOTUS agrees to hear case

JUN 2019

Final decision is expected

NOV 28, 2018

Sources: Courts.IN.gov, SupremeCourt.gov Photo by Johana Rosendo

By Noah Crenshaw ONLINE EDITOR Tyson Timbs was arrested and charged by the State of Indiana with conspiracy to commit theft and drug dealing in June 2013. Timbs later pleaded guilty to one count of dealing in a controlled substance and theft, according to court documents. Timbs became involved in a related civil case, Timbs v. Indiana, which has made its way all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

The civil case started when the state seized his 2012 Land Rover LR2 after his arrest. Under Indiana law, vehicles can be seized “if they are used or are intended for use by the person or persons in possession of them to transport or in any manner to facilitate the transportation of...a controlled substance,” according to FindLaw.com.

Timbs appealed the state’s decision to seize his car in the Indiana Court of Appeals, which found that the state’s forfeiture was excessive, according to court documents. This is because, under Indiana law, the maximum fine in this type of situation is $10,000, and Timbs' vehicle is worth $42,000. After this, the case was sent to the Indiana Supreme Court, which reversed the Indiana Court of Appeals’ decision and said that it was not excessive because “the United States Supreme Court has not held that the Clause applies to the States.” Timbs then appealed the case was then appealed by Timbs, which led to it going to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to court documents.

In the opening arguments of the case on Nov. 28 in Washington, D.C., Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fischer said that the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment did not apply to the state of Indiana because that amendment had never been applied to the states. According to University of Indianapolis Assistant Professor of Political Science and Pre-Law Advisor David Root, the main issue of the SCOTUS case, Tyson Timbs and a 2012 Land Rover LR2 v. State of Indiana, is whether or not the Eighth Amendment can be enforced against the states.

“Originally, the Bill of Rights was only applicable to the federal govern-

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ment, not to the state governments,” Root said. “However, through the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause, the Bill of Rights has been incorporated to apply to the states. It wasn’t blanket incorporation, it’s been incorporated one amendment, or one protection, at a time.”

Root said that the Indiana Supreme Court was trying to bait SCOTUS into taking the case. He said that he believes the court was doing this so that SCOTUS could confront the issues on federalism that stem from the case.

“Excessive fines, under Indiana state law, [mean that] this guy can’t be charged more than $10,000 in a fine.

But when they took that truck, that truck is worth approximately $40,000,” Root said. “That’s four times the amount that they can fine him. The issue really isn’t about whether or not taking the truck is excessive—it is. The question is ‘does the Eighth Amendment protect this defendant, and this defendant’s truck, his property, from that seizure?’

Because the excessive fine, which was originally applicable only to the federal government, is going to get incorporated to be enforceable against the states.”

If the court decides is in favor of Timb, it could have the potential to change the laws of states across the country, according to Root. This especially would apply to those whose private property is seized as part of a crime.

“It is likely going to hamper states and protect individuals,” Root said.

“Frankly, that’s what the Bill of Rights is designed to do—it’s designed to limit government and protect individuals.

States are going to be against the ruling if the Eighth Amendment’s excessive fines are incorporated against the states.

It takes a power play away from the state through law enforcement and the seizure of property. It would make the states less powerful vis-à-vis individual citizens.”

According to Root, the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been in favor of states rights for the last five to 10 years. Because of this, Root said, SCOTUS might decide that the protection is not enforceable against the states.

“Laws, as is, would stay,” Root said.

“You may even see—the law in Indiana is that the fine can’t be more than

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$10,000—you could see that go up, Root said. "If they’re not going to enforce an excess fine protection against the states, state laws are either going to stay the same or they’re going to get more penalizing to someone who gets 'guilty' attached to them.”

The case has become a state’s rights issue, Root said, which is one of the reasons why he thinks it is important. The case has the potential to re-evaluate how constitutional amendments are applied to the states, according to Root—especially if the U.S. Supreme Court says the excessive fines clause does not apply to the states.

“If that snowballed to an extreme conclusion, you could be looking at reinterpretation of the Constitution as applicable to the states,” Root said.

“It would be an overturning of a lot of the Warren court rulings in the 1960s.

That’s where incorporation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the states comes into play. If that were to happen…this case could start the process of a ‘constitutional revolution, in which an extreme amount of authority and power is shifted back to the states.

Not so much away from the federal government, but away from the Constitution. That’s a big deal.”

That revolution, according to Root, would overturn cases that mostly affect law enforcement. If that were to happen, state and local police departments across the country would have broader investigative powers and abilities, Root said, especially in cases involving the Fourth Amendment, which protects against

unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-incrimination.

“One big fish in this pond would be overturning Mapp v. Ohio, which significantly hampers law enforcement's ability to conduct searches—namely, warrantless searches—by excluding from trial any evidence secured in any search deemed ‘unreasonable,'” Root said. “Another big fish would be overturning Miranda v. Arizona, which protects arrestees from testifying against themselves both at the time of arrest and later during interrogation, provided they invoke their right to an attorney.”

Whatever the Supreme Court decides, its decision is expected to be announced at the end of the current term in June 2019.

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