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■ CAMPUS PARKING

New campus parking to be complete by January Christina Shedrick Staff Writer

Homes have been demolished between Otterbein Avenue and Matthews Street in order to extend the Alumni House parking lot. Construction began at the beginning of December and is scheduled to be completed by the end of January.

“There are 168 spots, and they’re in the process of getting the buildings razed, putting gravel down, and stuff like that.

So, we hope by the end of January, they’ll have that thing ready for us, finally,” said Dr. David Wantz, vice president of student affairs.

Wantz said that many things had to be taken into consideration.

There have been some complications with the construction of the new parking lot.

“The first difficulty was the issue of surface water,” Wantz said. “When you

have grass and soil there, it absorbs rain.

But when you put asphalt down, it sheds the rain. We know we have trouble with water back-up on Hanna Avenue, so we had to somehow contain the water.”

One other serious issue the construction crews encountered was asbestos, which is a dangerous fiber formerly used as fireproofing insulation in buildings and homes.

It has been known to cause certain cancers and diseases such as asbestosis, a chronic disease of the lungs that makes breathing difficult; cancer; and mesothelioma, a cancer (specific to asbestos exposure) of the membranes that line the chest and abdomen.

“When we were tearing the buildings down, we found asbestos in the buildings, so we had a specialist come in and help us remove the asbestos. So, it hasn’t been an easy, snap your fingers, blow the houses down and put some gravel down; it’s a lot of work,” Wantz said.

The new parking spaces are expected to clear up some of the recent complaints students, faculty and staff have had about

Photo by Crystle Collins

Structures near the Alumni House on Matthews Street were demolished to make way for a new parking lot on campus.

Photo by Valerie Miller

A new parking lot by the Steirwalt Alumni House will help alleviate the overcrowding in other lots, such as this one between the Ruth Lilly Center and Schwitzer Student Center. locating reasonably close parking. The on campus, causing difficulty in finding residence halls. new spaces will put drivers in closer a parking space.

“We hope to be able to pull some of the proximity to classes and other events “Parking studies have shown that park- cars off the city streets, but I’ve got a bunch on campus. ing lots tend to be full around the hours of Warren and Cravens people parking “We have an arrangement with the of 10 and 2,” said Mike Braughton, vice there all of the time,” Wantz said.

Baptist church on Hanna Avenue and president of business and finance.

According to Wantz the project will with Primo Catering that people can The new 168 spaces will free up spaces cost the university $3,000 to $5,000 per park off-site. We have found a shuttle along the street and therefore allow for space for the above ground materials bus that would run down and pick people more parking by Cravens and Warren alone. up and drop them off,” Wantz said.

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Home happens here in March, in the gym, we will run the same thing. We made Alumni New Parking Lot some arrangements with Parking House the bowling alley to coat the parking lot and paint stripes on it so we [U of I] can use it for overflow parking and run a shuttle Cravens Warren Hall as well. We’re trying evGood Hall erything we can to manage S Parking that resource the best way Parking E W we can, and at that we still need parking.”

N As the university grows, so does the number of people coming and going Graphic by Emily Scott and Valerie Miller

■ CAMPUS CRIME

■ WEATHER

Man arrested on campus charged with theft, burglary Valerie Miller Editor-in-Chief

A man was arrested on campus Monday, Nov. 28, suspected of taking items from New Hall.

According to the police report, the suspect was seen in different rooms inside of New Hall and cash and other personal belongings, such as video games and jewelry, were reported missing. New Hall residence assistant Paul Meyers followed the suspect to Martin Hall where he was apprehended by U of I Police Officer Jerry Hubbs.

Police said several students identifed the man as the oneseen in New Hall. According to police, $147.15 in cash and a Relic wristwatch were recovered from his person and taken as evidence.

“I consider this a success,” said U of I Police Chief Keith Smith. “It should be a positive thing that we all worked together and got the job done.”

Students Jackson Gall and Stephanie Hardesty reported seeing a man in their dorm rooms.

Gall said he was taking a nap and woke up to find a man in

his room. Gall said that he thought the man was a maintenance man and that a man claimed to be in the wrong room and he went back to sleep. When he woke up, he found all money missing from his wallet.

“All I can say is he’s lucky I thought he was the maintenance man,” Gall said.

Hardesty also saw a man in her room in Central Hall and, like Gall, thought he was a maintenance man. However, nothing was reported missing from her room.

Willie C. Clariett, 54, of East Washington Street was arrested for tresspassing and initially charged with residence burglary, theft and criminal trespass. The criminal trespass charge was later dropped, and he is now charged with two counts of Class B residence burglary and three counts of theft.

According to Smith, Clariett had been barred from campus about one year ago for trespassing.

Smith offered tips for students and other members of the campus community to help prevent crimes. He said that people should make eye contact with those who may be suspicious and ask if they need help. “That goes a long way,” he said.

Smith also encouraged people to call campus police if they see anything out of the ordinary. “When [something] looks suspicious, call us so that we can check it out,” he said.

News Editor, Crystle Collins, contributed to this article.

Photo by Valerie Miller

Central Indiana was hit by its first major snow storm of the season on Thursday, Dec. 8. The storm dumped seven to eight inches of snow on and around campus.

The rapid snowfall forced university officials to cancel Thursday evening classes and events.

News at a Glance YMTP DIRECTOR NAMED Crystle Collins News Editor

Reverend L. Lang Brownlee has been named the first director of the University of Indianapolis’ Youth Ministry Training Program. Brownlee is the co-chaplain of the university and an assistant professor of the philosophy and religion department.

“As assistant professor of philosophy and religion, I was asked to assume the administrative and oversight responsibilities of the Youth Ministry Training Program (YMTP),” Brownlee said.

His new position will include the duties of overseeing faculty and developing training opportunites.

“I am very excited to be taking on this role, as our fledgling youth ministry program [in its third year] has great potential for growth,” Brownlee said.

The program was originally a set of elective courses, rather than a major, and was a part of the Religion department. The program has grown, is now a major through the university and offers several church opportunities. The program will comprise field experience in local churches and classroom lessons and activities.

“Our program has the strength of being ecumenical, and we want to offer the very best in terms of both youth ministry theory and practice for our students of all Christian backgrounds,” Brownlee said.

WATER BREAK Katy Yeiser Managing Editor A cast iron water pipe broke in Esch Hall early Thursday, Dec. 8.

The break occurred at 11 a.m. and was repaired late afternoon the following day. Physical Plant employees started the repair Friday, Dec. 9, at 7 a.m.

According to Ken Piepenbrink, the physical plant director, the pipes have broken at least once a year for the past 12 years.

“Usually, when we get temperature changes between seasons, a pipe breaks,” Piepenbrink said. “The ground will shift a little and cause a small crack in a pipe.”

He said the breaks are unpredictable and unpreventable. Water was restored to Esch Hall by 4 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9.

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■ CHARITIES

Editor encourages students to remember those less fortunate Lauren Howey Distribution Manager

When you think about Christmas what images come to mind? Maybe a beautiful tree with presents beneath it or kids excited about their new toys on Christmas morning pops into your head. Lots of people think about a fat, jolly Santa in his red suit handing out beautifully wrapped gifts. Everyone’s images of Christmas have one thing in common: presents.

How many times have you heard that the spirit of the holiday season is giving? But what does giving mean?

This season I would like to challenge everyone in the U of I community to make the spirit of this season not about what you want but rather about helping to provide what others need.

Let’s make this holiday season about charity.

Consumerism and Christmas go hand in hand. The holiday season brings about creative marketing strat-

egies that make the latest trendy gadget seem like a necessity. Companies create a false sense of scarcity, which makes people scurry everywhere looking for that gizmo that they just have to have.

Watching the news, I saw one story about how donations to charities are down this season followed immediately by another about the financial earnings from Black Friday.

How horrible does that make Americans seem?

This time of year it’s important to remember the difference between needs and wants.

Sure, I want a new pair of boots, some CD’s, a few books, a new pair of jeans and some sweaters. But I don’t need those things. Needs are about survival. The discomfort of not having a want is only temporary.

Wants often seem shallow compared to necessities such as food and water.

I think about the people who have been displaced because of Hurricane Katrina. Entire families are trying to have Christmas in a new city, and those families really do need things.

They need food, shelter, health care, jobs and a sense of security. They

are struggling to survive this holiday season. Even in Indiana, as a result of recent tornadoes, there are families who have been left homeless just weeks before the holiday season.

My mom decided to cancel our family’s Christmas this year. We are still celebrating together, eating our traditional meal and going to mass.

I’m sure there will even be the usual disagreements about who is sleeping where. We just have decided not to have gifts.

My sister, Meredith, had to move out of New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. When she was deciding whether to move back in January, it dawned on my parents that a large section of that city just doesn’t exist anymore. That’s a lot to think about.

New Orleans was a city we all loved to visit, and now it’s a disaster area.

In light of that, my mom and dad declared that this holiday season we are going to donate all of our Christmas money to those in need. My parents are leaving it up to us which charity to support.

Making these plans and talking about how none of us really needs anything has been truly heartwarm-

ing and satisfying. It’s a change from earlier this year when we were trying to get replacements for Meredith’s lost possessions. I can’t even fathom what would have happened if more than one member of our family had been involved in a large-scale natural disaster. If my parents’ home had been destroyed, we would not have been able to have Christmas at all.

My family is blessed: we are safe, we have everything we need and we have each other. The spirit of the holiday season is truly fulfilled when we think about what we have and not what we want.

We are in college now, and that means we’re really adults. Although presents have not lost their excitement, maybe it is time to realize that it’s more important than ever to think about people who don’t have anything to look forward to this holiday season. I would like to encourage everyone to think about how they can act to improve life for someone else this year.

Families don’t have to completely give up on gifts, but I think participating in charity together and thinking about how little you really

do NEED is one of the best holiday activities you can come across.

Use some of your Christmas money to donate to a local soup kitchen, encourage your family to adopt a family in need from the United Christmas Service, make donations to Catholic Relief Services or to the United Methodist Relief Center. When you donate money to the Catholic and Methodist relief agencies 100 percent of your money will go to help people. There are a lot of creative ways for a family to help others and still enjoy Christmas.

How much money do you think is spent on Christmas decorations alone for cities, the White House and government buildings? What if they didn’t spend that money on gigantic Christmas trees, millions of lights and extravagant politically correct displays and instead donated it to the victims of Hurricane Katrina? Why doesn’t the city of Indianapolis not put the lights on the circle one year and give the money it would spend on the enormous display to the victims of the tornadoes in Southern Indiana?

That’s shocking, but it would truly be in the spirit of the season.

■ LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Artwork by Emily Scott

Dear Editor, Please allow me to publicly thank four of our students for their alert actions. Their assistance enabled campus police to make an arrest of a burglar of our residences.

Shamiso Muradsikwa and Paul Myers recognized an intruder in New Hall and kept him under constant observation until campus police arrived. Crystle Collins and Stephanie Hardesty assisted with identification and information about thefts in the halls. Officer Jerry Hubbs placed the man under arrest for criminal trespass. During his search, Officer Hubbs found evidence that the suspect had burglarized rooms and had stolen property from our students.

There is no lock as strong as a vigilant community where neighbors are aware of their surroundings and are alert to things or people out of place. Shamiso, Paul, Crystle and Stephanie are very good neighbors and helped to make us an even safer place to live and work.

I am very proud of these students and commend them to you and your readers. We are all blessed by their courage and cooperation.

Sincerely, David Wantz Vice President for Student Affairs

■ EDITORIAL

That’s so 2005: New year brings new fads Shelly Grimes Opinion Editor

Gather up your noisemakers and party hats and start practicing the words to “Auld Lang Syne” because New Year’s Day will be here before we know it. It’s time to say goodbye to 2005 and hello to 2006. But while looking back at 2005, we at The Reflector couldn’t help but look ahead to see how things might change in 2006.

Certainly, 2005 will be remembered as the year of natural disasters.

Tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes ravaged parts of the world, leaving millions without food, water or shelter.

Luckily, Hollywood stepped in. Celebrities were everywhere in 2005, becoming advocates for charitable causes and, more importantly, ensuring that they stayed in the spotlight and didn’t get overshadowed by the tragedies of these natural disasters. After all, if celebrities weren’t there to tell us to donate to charitable causes, how would we know to do so?

The biggest news stories of the year, at least according to all the major news networks, involved celebrities. Celebrities set the trends, telling us how to live, what to believe and what to wear.

Will these trends continue in 2006? Unfortunately, not all of them will stick.

Celebrity trends influenced nearly every aspect of our lives, including what pets we buy. In 2005, one of the hottest celebrity trends involved carrying small dogs in designer purses to awards ceremonies. But 2006 will be the year of the rottweiler. We all know that in America, bigger is better.

Celebrities will soon remember this

ingrained American virtue and start trading in their scrawny chihuahuas and toy poodles for hefty, durable rottweilers. The lovable brutes will soon be strutting down red carpets everywhere.

Celebrities also influenced what people believed this year. In 2005, celebrities such as Madonna and Britney Spears began wearing kabbalah bracelets, red strings symbolizing belief in Jewish mysticism. Actor Ashton Kutcher reportedly refused to take his kabbalah bracelet off during the filming of “Guess Who,” forcing the studio to spend $100,000 to remove the bracelet digitally during editing. But with Judaism becoming more and more trendy, celebrities will have to start competing for new ways to show their devotion.

Kabbalah bracelets are so 2005 that in 2006 we can expect to see celebrities wearing elaborate, sparkled Louis Vuitton yarmulkes (ya-me-kas).

Speaking of “Guess Who,” train wrecks also were a hot trend in Hollywood this year. From “Chaotic,” the reality show focused on the relationship of “singer” Britney Spears and “rapper” Kevin Federline, to Jessica Simpson’s movie debut in “The Dukes of Hazzard,” we saw celebrities make some of the worst decisions of their professional careers this year. Their personal lives didn’t seem to fare much better. We saw Tom Cruise jump on Oprah’s couch, watched Lindsay Lohan disintegrate and witnessed the devastating breakup of the epitome of all friendships: Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. In 2006, the trend will focus on comebacks. After all, Anna Nicole Smith made a comeback in 2005, proving that the American public is willing to forgive just about anything. In 2006, look for comebacks from Michael Jack-

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son and the immortal Chuck Norris.

Another hot trend in Hollywood this year was people becoming famous for, well, being famous. Reality shows were as common as Republicans at a Billy Graham convention, with everyone from Tyra Banks to Hugh Heffner to some high schoolers in Laguna Beach, Calif., getting their own shows. But with television dramas such as “Lost,” “Law and Order” and “Medium” catching on, television studios will quit making reality shows in 2006. Watch out, “Survivor”! Next season’s hottest show will be “CSI: Terre Haute.”

Celebrities also helped set political agendas this year. According to music mogul Kanye West, in 2005 George W. Bush didn’t care about black people.

(We all know that celebrities can only speak the absolute and total truth.) So, it is only fitting that in 2006, George W. will find something new to be apathetic about.

With his approval ratings steadily declining, he will have no choice but to do something to boost his image.

His best bet: To revert to the lovable, huggable George that we saw early in his first term. He will once again stumble over (and make up) words, wear cowboy hats to important public events and spend even more time at his Texas ranch. But if he isn’t careful, all that time spent on the ranch could backfire. The next potential scandal of his presidency: George W. Bush hates trees. Yes, that’s right: Trees. We all know that the only thing the media ever show George doing on his ranch is cutting down trees. If he isn’t careful, the endless massacre of so many innocent trees could become a public relations nightmare for our Commander-InChief.

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The year 2005 also proved that everyone is subject to celebrity influences. “Newsweek” recently reported that even the Pope likes to be trendy. Pope Benedict XVI wears red Prada loafers under his cassock and accents the look with Gucci sunglasses. Apparently, the traditional papal wardrobe was too bland for the fashionable father.

What all this comes down to is that 2005 taught us to be thankful for what we have. It taught us to appreciate life and to recognize that the will to survive can be one of our greatest assets when disaster strikes. And with the looming “pandemic” of the Avian Bird Flu, survival may be one of the hottest trends next year as well.

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■ CHRISTMAS

Christmas and Las Posadas service welcomes all Elyse Kaiser Entertainment Editor Many students gathered in the Schwitzer Atrium to take part in the annual campus Christmas tree lighting and Los Posadas service on Wednesday, Nov. 30. The service began with a prayer by university co-chaplain the Reverend Lang Brownlee followed by a sermon by theReverend David Teñalva of Iglesia Metodista Unida Vida Nueva and students reading the Christmas story in both English and Spanish.

“I really enjoyed Reverend Teñalva, and speaking from his church. It really brought meaning for the students here who celebrate Los Posadas traditionally,” Senior Meredith Zubel said.

After the service, students followed Mary (played by Zubel) and Joseph (played by Kevin Dunleavy, CPB spiritual life chair) around campus on their symbolic search for a place to stay for the night. The couple and the students were ■ NATIONAL NEWS

turned away at each door, finally being accepted upon their return to Schwitzer.

“There’s something about being out in the cold that makes it more like Christmas,” said Sr. Jennifer Horner, campus cochaplain. Students then retreated inside to enjoy the hot chocolate and cookies provided by Polk Food Services.

This annual event differed from previous years. In the past, one of the chaplains spoke at the service. The tree was also lit inside this year setting a more festive mood for the student center. “I think people will get use out of the tree, sitting around it and talking, having coffee in the evening, more so than if it was outside,” Horner said.

Students commented that the tree is not just more festive inside Schwitzer atrium but it is more noticeable and accessible to students.

“I think having the tree inside is wonderful because now we can actually enjoy it,” Junior Laura Davies said.

The event was co-sponsored by the Ecumencial and Interfaith Office and CPB Spiritual Life.

Photo by Elyse Kaiser

Students Meredith Zubel and Kevin Dunleavy portray Mary and Joseph in the manger scene after the Las Posadas service on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

The service included the annual lighting of the campus Christmas tree. The Reverend David Teñalva of Iglesia Metodista Unida Vida Nueva spoke at the event, along with University Co-Chaplain, the Reverend Lang Brownlee.

The tree will be displayed through the holiday season in the Schwitzer Student Center Atrium.

Florida marshals kill man suspected of having bomb Ken Kaye, Madeline Baro Diaz and McNelly Torres Knight Ridder Tribune

Photo by C.M. Guerrero/KRT

American Airlines Flight 924 passengers exit the plane with hands above their heads after an upset passenger was shot and killed by federal air marshal’s when he claimed to have a bomb in his carry-on bag.

MIAMI - A troubled passenger was fatally shot by federal air marshals Wednesday after threatening he had a bomb in his backpack and charged off an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport, federal officials said.

It was the first time marshals killed a passenger on or near a U.S. plane since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The passenger was identified as Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, of Maitland, Fla., a U.S. citizen with no apparent terrorist motives, officials said.

Another passenger, Mary Gardner, told a local NBC affiliate that a woman traveling with Alpizar, apparently his wife, said he suffered from a severe mental disorder and had stopped taking his medicine.

Authorities could not verify that, but gave this account of events: Alpizar had taken an American Airlines flight from Quito, Ecuador, to Miami, arriving early Wednesday morning.

After clearing U.S. Customs, he boarded American Airlines Flight 924, a Boeing 757 scheduled to depart from Gate D-42 at 2:18 p.m. to Orlando International Airport, near his home.

As Alpizar was getting on the jetliner, air marshals noticed he was acting

strangely, walking aggressively.

About 10 minutes before departure, still during the boarding process, Alpizar “uttered threatening words,” informing nearby passengers that he had a bomb in his backpack, said Jim Bauer, special agent in charge of the Federal Air Marshals Miami office.

Two federal air marshals overheard Alpizar, he said.

“They came out of their cover and confronted him,” Bauer said.

Alpizar attempted to flee, and some passengers reported seeing him run frantically up the plane’s aisle.

The marshals chased him onto the jet bridge, connecting the plane with the terminal, and ordered him to get on the ground. Alpizar instead reached into his bag, and the agents responded with gunfire.

According to some passengers, four to five shots were fired. It wasn’t immediately clear whether other passengers were on the jet bridge at the time.

Officials later went through the contents of the backpack and found no explosives, said Rick Thomas, the Transportation Security Administration’s federal director at Miami International.

The Miami-Dade Police bomb squad unit also removed all the baggage from the aircraft, laying it out on the ramp, and inspected each piece, using bomb-sniffing dogs. They found no explosives.

After the shooting, heavily armed Miami-Dade Police SWAT team officers surrounded the jetliner. Police boarded the plane and told the passengers to put

their hands on their heads, Gardner told the TV station.

“It was quite scary,” she said. “They wouldn’t let you move. They wouldn’t let you get anything out of your bag. Thank God everybody seems to be fine.”

Investigators then spent hours processing the scene and talking to witnesses, which included many of the flight’s 133 passengers, who were cleared off the plane.

Officials said the marshals had been scheduled to be on the flight as a matter of routine and had no prior knowledge that there might be trouble. The marshals are trained to shoot to kill if a passenger poses a serious threat.

As a precaution after the shooting, federal air marshals around the nation were put on a high alert, just in case terrorism was involved, said Andy Apollony, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami office.

“Anytime anyone says he has a bomb on a plane, we’re going to look at that,” he said, adding that no connection to terrorism was immediately found.

The D concourse was shut down for about 30 minutes and only one flight was delayed, Miami airport officials said. The airport resumed normal operations by about 3 p.m.

Bauer said many details of the shooting need to be sorted out.

“This investigation is still under way,” he said. “We don’t have all the answers.” (c) 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Distributed

by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

■ NEW HUMAN BIOLOGY DIRECTOR

New director named for human biology graduate program Abby Adranga Staff Writer

Dr. Stephen P. Nawrocki, associate professor of biology and anthropology and director of osteology for the archeology and forensics laboratory, recently was named director of the university’s human biology graduate program.

Nawrocki received his doctorate in anthropology from State University of New York at Binghamton, and he has been a full-time professor at the University of Indianapolis since 1991.

He is also one of only about 60 boardcertified forensic anthropologists in North America.

The human biology graduate program has been in existence since 1996.

According to Nawrocki, the program has never really had a formal director.

In the past, Nawrocki and Dr. John H. Langdon, professor of biology and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, split the duties of overseeing the program. Before this summer, Langdon was the chair of the biology department. Now, he has taken on more responsibility as associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.

“Dr. Langdon is still a professor in the program, but now that he is associate dean, he is busier than he was in the past so that’s what stimulated the shift to having me be the director,” Nawrocki said.

According to Langdon, naming Nawrocki as director of the program was a logical decision. “He’s always been kind of the core of the graduate program anyway, and now that I’ve stepped away from the chair, we just gave him official responsibility,” Langdon said.

Nawrocki’s duties include helping to organize courses that will be offered each semester, tracking all of the students in the program to make sure they are taking the right courses toward graduation,

screening applicants and representing the program in public.

“Basically, it boils down to coordinating the program. The switch we made with me becoming the director was really an issue of making the system more streamline,” Nawrocki said.

The human biology graduate program at the University of Indianapolis is unique. It is among only one or two other schools in the country with similar programs. According to Langdon, the objective of the program is to prepare students for doctoral work in physical anthropology. Areas of specialization include anatomy and physiology, human evolution, human variation and adaptation, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, bioarcheology, and dental anthropology.

The program currently accepts only three to five qualified students each year. “We’ve kept sort of a lid on the growth [of the program] for a while because we are a fairly small, very intensive hands-on graduate program. It takes a lot of time and effort, and we simply can’t support dozens of students,” Nawrocki said.

However, Langdon believes that the program will soon start to bring in a couple more students to add greater variety. “We are looking to involve more of the department,” he said.

“The human biology side has been just those with a specific interest in anthropology, but we’d like to bring in the interest of some of the other people in the department who are studying [things like] physiology and anatomy.”

Nawrocki is pleased to take on the responsibilities of directing the human biology graduate program.

“We are very proud of [the program],” he said. “Our students are very successful. Most of them get into Ph.D. programs at other universities, which is our whole goal.” For more information about the university’s masters of science program in human biology visit http://archlab.uindy. edu.

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SPORTS

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■ MEN’S BASKETBALL

Men’s basketball slips to 1-4 record, gets first win against Parkside Christina Shedrick Staff Writer Shelly Grimes Opinion Editor The ‘Hounds earned their first win of the season against Wisconsin-Parkside 75-71 on Dec. 1. The ‘Hounds got off to a fast start, scoring the first seven points of the game. Senior guard Jesse McClung scored nine of the team’s first

13 points. Wisconsin-Parkside recovered with a 15-4 run to take a two-point lead. The ‘Hounds started the second half with another hot shooting streak, with back-to-back three point shots by junior guard Luke Blank and McClung, followed by a two pointer by freshman guard Tim Smith.

The ‘Hounds had an impressive .650 field goal percentage in the second half. Although Wisconsin-Parkside kept the game close, the ‘Hounds were able to hold them off. McClung led the ‘Hounds with 26 points, while sophomore forward Justin Barnard was good on all four of his

Photo by Valerie Miller

Tim Smith attempts a free throw against Northern Kentucky University.

The ‘Hounds lost a close game in their first home game, 67-61. The ‘Hounds next game is at Grand Valley State Dec. 17.

three-point attempts and finished with 16 points.

“We managed to stay close with our defense, and in the Wisconsin-Parkside game, our offense really stepped up. Jesse McClung and Justin Barnard really stepped up in that game,” Sturgeon said. “I think at the end of the season we will look back and realize how good of a win that is. They are a good team. They were undefeated before we beat them, so I felt like we played a very good offensive game.”

However, the ‘Hounds luck did not continue.

The team suffered an 80-70 loss to Lewis on Dec. 3. The ‘Hounds led the game by as much as seven in the second half, but a ten-point run by Lewis in two-and-a-half minutes proved to be too much for the ‘Hounds to handle. McClung and Justin Barnard led the ‘Hounds with 15 points each, with Blank scoring 12 and senior guard Scott Strahm contributing 10 points.

“The first half of the Lewis game, I felt that we did a good job. We’ve been pretty consistent defensively and we guarded very well, with the exception of the last 10 minutes of the game at Lewis when we got in a little bit of foul trouble.

We backslid a little in the second half of the Lewis game,” Sturgeon said.

The ‘Hounds lost their first home game on Dec. 6, falling to Northern Kentucky, 67-61. The ‘Hounds were able to keep the game close, tying the game three times and trailing by only three points with a minute and a half left in the second half. However, NKUs lead proved to be too much for the ‘Hounds. McClung led all scorers, contributing 19 points in the loss.

The ‘Hounds record is now 1-4 overall and 12 in conference play. “I do feel like we have improved as the season has gone along,” said Head Coach Todd Sturgeon. The ‘Hounds seemed to find offensive threats in LaBad, Blank and McClung. The three are averaging a combined 33

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Jon LaBad blocks out against a Northern Kentucky opponent on Tuesday Dec. 6.

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■ WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

■ WRESTLING

‘Hounds off to record setting start Anna Kimble-Roberson Staff Writer The women’s basketball team set the university record for the best start to a season at 5-0. As of The Reflector press time, their record stands at 5-1.

The ‘Hounds’ fifth win came against Great Lakes Valley Conference opponent in a 55-48 defeat of University of Wisconsin-Parkside Dec. 1.

In the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference/GLVC challenge, the Greyhounds swept the floor by winning games against Ashland, Nov. 18, and Gannon, Nov.19. “[We] played well as a team [during the challenge],” said Head Coach Teri Moren.

While Ashland held the lead at the end of the first half, the ‘Hounds came back in the second half and won, 84-74.

In the first half against Gannon, the ‘Hounds came on strong, heading into the locker-room with a 46-32 lead. Gannon scored the same number of points as in the first half, so the Greyhounds ended the weekend with a second win, 78-64.

The ‘Hounds’ first lost of the season came Dec. 3 against Lewis,

69-60. Sophomore forward Vanessa Jackson led the ‘Hounds with a total of 20 points and eight rebounds. The ‘Hounds experienced foul trouble in the loss. Junior guard Mandy Geryak fouled out, and Jackson, along with junior center Eileen Patton, had four personal fouls late in the game.

Because the team consists of only nine players, Moren said she has been “surprisingly [pleased with] different people stepping up each night, each game.” Four new players have been recruited for the season: Jackson, junior guard Alli Opfer, junior guard Tarryn Montgomery and freshman starting guard Isabell Rhenwrick. With what Moren calls “new pieces to the puzzle” and the season just beginning, the chemistry of the team is just starting to come together.

“In some of the games, we’ve been down…and we’ve been able to turn it around and find a way to win, Certainly I think that has a lot to do with each of the kids pulling for each other and their will to not lose,” Moren said. “I think it’s good at this point, but it can get better.”

A main focus for the Greyhounds over break will be defense.

“Practices will be more focused [on

defense] and probably longer,” Rhenwrick said.

The ‘Hounds will begin playing more conference opponents throughout the break. “That is really where it counts,” Rhenwrick said.

Moren was adamant about the need for the ‘Hounds to stay solid on the defensive end. Based on the average of the first six games, the ‘Hounds have been holding their opponents to 60 points.

“Limiting teams to 65 points and not rebounding teams is very important to us,” Moren said. “If we do what we’re suppose to do on the defensive end, the chance of winning is going to be far greater.”

The Greyhounds played against Northern Kentucky Dec. 10 and Hillsdale Dec. 17. Results were not available as of The Reflector press time.

“We’re at the beginning of this long journey we’re going to be on,” Moren said. “If we can continue to play hard, smart, and together, I think that we can continue to do a lot of special things here.”

The ‘Hounds rescheduled their doubleheader against Bellarmine due to snow on Dec. 8. The game was moved to Jan. 24.

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Two wrestlers win final matches at Little State Lauren Howey Distribution Manager Two University of Indianapolis’ wrestlers came out winners at the Little State Tournament Dec. 2 and 3 in Terre Haute.

Freshman Keith Evans won in the 125 weight class and senior Joey Navarro won in the heavy weight class.

Seventeen teams competed in the Little State Tournament. The team set some lofty goals for Little State and according to senior Zane Andrews they wanted seven champions and expected everyone to place.

“It was a good meet for us,” said junior Danny Norman. Norman a is co-captain who wrestles in the 141weight class.

Four wrestlers made the finals: Evans, Navarro, sophomore Shane Perkey in the 133 weight class and sophomore Charlie Pingleton in 149 weight class.

“The final round was our best round. Everybody picked up off each other,” Norman said. “We won all but two matches in the finals round.

We were all pumped up and the unity

kicked in.”

Head coach Jay Yates was pleased with the results from Little State.

“We placed a lot higher than our seed showed, than what we were projected to place in a lot of weight classes. The guys did very well,” Yates said.

Results from the Ohio Northern Invitational and the Purdue Duals on Dec. 10 were not available as of The Reflector press time.

According to co-captain Michael Jackson, a junior, some of the team’s season goals include having five or six wrestlers at nationals and becoming a top-five team in the nation. Jackson is currently ranked second in his weight class in Division II. Shane Perky is also ranked second in Division II. Danny Norman is ranked eighth.

The ‘Hounds are hosting the GLIAC and GLVC Challenge in Nicoson Hall on Dec. 20 at 7 p.m..

“Our biggest dual meet is coming up, it’s our biggest Division II competition against our rival Ashland,” Yates said. “It should be close. We match up pretty close. We’re ranked 12th and they are ranked 13th in the country. It should be a tight dual match.”

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Freshmen Jimmy Nichols and Justin Laflower are in position to wrestle in a practice on Dec. 9.

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■ NEW SID PROFILE

Sports information director soaks up passion for college athletics Tony Puckett Staff Writer Asking the U of I sports information director to describe his job any time in the near future may cause a sports fan to suffer a bout of severe jealousy.

“I get to watch sports for a living,” Sports Information Director Mitch Wigness said. “Can you beat that?”

Wigness is wrapping up his first semester serving as the SID for the University of Indianapolis, and he seems barely able to contain his enthusiasm for his new position.

Wigness said that he first knew that he wanted to work in collegiate sports when he was able to get some on-thejob experience at Saginaw Valley State, U of I’s Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rival.

“I spent 70 hours a week at work and didn’t blink,” Wigness said. “It’s not really working when you are able to do something that you are passionate about.”

Wigness came to U of I in early May from the University of North

Dakota where he served as the assistant director of media relations. He replaced the former SID of 17 years, Joe Gentry.

Gentry is now the Director of Communications for the IHSAA. Wigness also was born and raised in North Dakota, attending high school at Grand Forks. He has had a great interest in sports since he was quite young.

“Like any North Dakota kid, I spent a lot of time on the ice and shooting free throws, sometimes at the same time,” Wigness said. “I also played baseball in the summers because our high school did not have a varsity baseball team at that time.”

After high school, Wigness attended Eastern Michigan University, earning a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications. He also worked as a sports information assistant at Saginaw Valley State.

While at the University of North Dakota, Wigness served as editor for the Sioux Illustrated, a bi-monthly publication about the athletic department.

Wigness feels that working in a publishing and media role prepared him well for his current job, in which a great deal of time is spent working on

each team’s relations with the public.

“I would say that the field of sports information is a lot different than it was just 10 years ago,” Wigness said. “With the Internet, SIDs spend a great deal more of their time updating Web sites.

The basics remain the same in trying to gain as much exposure for your school as possible, but the avenues that are taken to achieve that goal are definitely much different.”

Wigness has a deep appreciation for college athletic programs. He says that the best part of his job is coming in contact with the many different student-athletes.

“I am a big fan of college sports,” Wigness said. “Working in a collegiate setting shows you the dedication that these teams have to their craft for reasons other than money or fame. It’s very refreshing.”

No matter how involved in his job Wigness may become, he said his home life brings him just as much joy and some much-needed relaxation.

“I have a patient and beautiful wife who enjoys spending down time with me. Basically, [we are just] enjoying Indianapolis and all it has to offer.”

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Mitch Wigness breaks from the chaos of his office in the quiet setting of Nicoson Hall Friday afternoon, Dec. 9

■ MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING

Swimmers record several national qualifying times at Notre Dame Katy Yeiser Managing Editor

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Ellie Miller does a backstroke drill during practice. Miller qualified to swim the 1650 free in the Division II national tournament during the Notre Dame Invite.

■ MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Track teams prepare for months for first meet Ben Reed Online Editor The U of I men’s and women’s track and field teams have been practicing for more than eleven weeks preparing for their first meet at the Lewis Invitational on Dec. 18.

Redshirt freshman Willie Little feels the team is preparing well.

“Practice has been great so far,” Little said. “I’m absorbing so much information from the seniors and my coach. We do really well at motivating each other to do better.”

To prepare for the upcoming indoor season, the ‘Hounds have been doing drills and weight lifting programs. “We have to be mentally and physically prepared for practice because we know that everything starts and develops in practice,” senior Ivorye Long said.

Last season, the women’s team sent eight members to compete at the NCAA Outdoor Division II Championships. Andrea Horban earned seventh place in the shot put, earning All-American honors. The 4x100 relay team of Long, Cicely Wattley, Krystle Jones and Ashley Moore, finished seventh, also earning AllAmerican honors. Briana Berman, Bathsheba Adams, and Emily Schaf also competed. Jones, Moore and Berman were the only members of that group to graduate.

“We lost some key people, but I feel with out dedication and love for track and field, we will all do everything to win indoor and outdoor Great Lakes Valley Conference meets and again send athletes to the indoor and outdoor NCAA meets,” Long said.

The men’s team lost Cory Young, who earned All-American honors at last year’s NCAA Indoor Division II Championships and competed in the outdoor championships.

However Aaron Lawson returns after redshirting last year due to injury. In the 2004 GLVC Indoor Championship, he placed second in both the shot put and weight throw. “He’s ready to go this year,” Little said.

“Lawson looks as if he could really dominate the hammer throw this year,” said junior Adam Campagna.

Campagna also expects to see senior Chase Eaton do well in the high jump and sophomore Nick Hargrave to find results in the hurdles. “They are both in good shape, and always seem to be improving,” Campagna said.

The ‘Hounds are excited about the season ahead and ready to compete.

“People think that since we lost some people last year, we will be short-handed this year,” Long said. “We have a few surprises up our sleeve and they better be ready.”

The men’s and women’s swimming teams both finished sixth at the Notre Dame Invitational and garnered seven national qualifying “A” times.

“A” times are those that qualify a swimmer for the Division II national meet. “B” times are those just over the “A” times.

Head Coach Gary Kinkead and the ‘Hounds entered the Notre Dame Invite looking for better times, especially “A” times from both teams. The ‘Hounds recorded 30 “B” times along with the seven “A” times.

During the invitational, the ‘Hounds competed against Division I programs such as Notre Dame, Wyoming and Utah, and top Division II programs Truman State and North Dakota. Head coach Gary Kinkead regards Truman State and North Dakota as the top two Division II programs.

The men made their presence known the first day of competition with the

200 free relay team of freshman Marios Panagi, freshman Greg Jarvis, junior Jeremy Lindauer and sophomore Kieran O’Neill qualifying for the nationals and placing third in the event, tallying a time of 1:23.30.

The second and third day of competition, the men recorded several “B” times.

“I thought we did amazing,” O’Neill said. “Everybody did their part.”

The women also tallied several “B” times and six “A” times in the three day stint at the invitational.

“I think we really stepped it up,” said sophomore Ellie Miller. “We got many of our ‘A’ cuts for relay and last year we only had one at this point [in the season].”

Juniors Alison Smith, Niki Stevens, Holly Spohr and sophomore Valerie Crosby captured an “A” time in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:55.76.

They placed fifth in the event. Spohr recorded an “A” time in the 50 free by swimming the first leg of the 200 free relay in 23.94.

In the second day of competition, the 200 medley relay team cut an “A” time with 1:47.92, which was good for

a fourth-place finish in the event. Smith also had an “A” time in the 200 free with 1:53.30.

On the last day of the invite, sophomore Ellie Miller impressively swam an “A” time in the 1650 free. Her time of 17:27.91 was good for fifth place and set a new personal record by shaving three seconds off her previous best effort.

“I had been training for it in practice, so I knew I was capable,” Miller said about her time in the 1650 free.

Spohr recorded her second “A” time of the meet in the 100 free by finishing tenth with a time of 52.48.

The ‘Hounds increased their practice time after the invite, moving to two practices a day in the few weeks before finals. Over Christmas break, the ‘Hounds will travel to Clearwater, Fla., for an intense training program Dec. 16-21.

“We’ll go four hours each day in the water, and then we’ll also do some dry land training and running [during the Christmas training],” Kinkead said.

The next meet for the men and women will be the U of I Invitational on Jan. 6.

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The Bottom Line U of I hires new men’s golf coach Former U of I golfer Brent Nicoson replaced the retiring Ken Partridge as the men’s golf head coach on Dec. 6. Nicoson lettered in golf as a ‘Hound from 19921994. The new coach brings a familiar name to the U of I athletic community. Nicoson’s grandfather, the late Angus Nicoson, was U of I men’s basketball head coach and athletic director for 30 years. Nicoson Hall is named after him. Brent Nicoson’s father, Dan Nicoson, was assistant football coach for Indiana Central in 1975.

Sports in the weird

‘Hounds lead All-GLVC

According to a recent ESPN.com article, Miami Heat star Shaquille O’Neal was sworn in as a Miami Beach reserve police officer on Dec. 8. The Big Diesel, as Shaq frequently calls himself, will be on a yearly $1 salary as a reserve officer. He was a former reserve police officer in Los Angeles when he played for the Lakers.

U of I is currently first in the All-GLVC standings with 62.5 points. The standings so far are based on volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, women’s tennis, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s golf.

The All-GLVC trophy is awarded to the school that finishes with the most points among its 17 teams. Most notably, the ‘Hounds earned 12 points from the women’s tennis GLVC championship win and 10 points from the women’s golf third place GLVC tournament finish.

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DECEMBER 14, 2005 ■ STUDENT

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PROTEST

U of I sponsors student protest trip to Fort Benning, Ga. The trip was orgaof those trained at the school. She nized by Chapel Stewattended Brebeuf Jesuit High School ard Lauren Howey, a where she knew a priest named Father senior, and partially O’Brien who had studied in San SalvaAt a Georgia military base, thoufunded by a Greyhound dor in the 1980s. Two weeks after he sands of people walked in a funeral Adventure grant. left San Salvador, six of his colleagues procession that wrapped around the This was the first were murdered. fenced-in fort. For hours, name after school-sponsored group She said, “I just remember Father name was read, along with the age of recently to attend a O’Brien, this 60-year-old guy up there the person at death. After each name, peace rally, accordcrying, telling the whole school about a bell tolled and the crowd responded ing to Lang Brownlee, it. I was just always really affected by in loud unison, “presente,” Spanish for university chaplain and his life and the things that he had seen. “present.” the protest trip’s faculty I think that had a lot to do with why I Coffins were interspersed in the sponsor. was interested [in social justice] and crowd, as well as huge “puppetistas”— The protesters hope why I’m doing what I’m doing today.”

Hispanic larger-than-life puppets—rep- to convince governOverall, the participants found the resenting in colorful and exaggerated ment officials to close trip a very positive experience. Steed forms the crowd’s sentiments: opthe school. said, “This is my first protest that I’ve pression, suspicion, hope and charity.

During the present been to and it was a good learning exWhite crosses gleamed over the heads legislative session, HR perience. It was a good protest to have of the people, each bearing the name 1217 was introduced, as my first experience. It was so well and age of a victim. which will close the organized. I felt safe.”

The procession was a mock funeral WHINSEC/SOA if it is The trip also provoked rich discusat Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga. Each passed. It currently has sion of important issues, according to year, a group called the School of the 122 co-sponsors.

Brownlee.

Americas Watch repeats this ceremony The group was “We had some incredible conversaat the end of a week-long protest of interested in the protest tions about what’s really important, and the Western Hemisphere Institute for because of the implicaPhoto by Lauren Howey why we do the things we do in terms of Security Cooperation, formerly known tions of social justice. making these kinds of decisions, [and as the School of the Americas.

“My goal was that we Protesters chant “presente” and say the names of victims who have of] being understanding about others’ The names read are of victims murwould be able to start perspectives about the United States been killed.

They hold up the crosses to represent the WHINSEC/SOA dered in Central and South America, thinking about … how and foreign conflict,” he said. presumably by those trained by the one’s faith commitments deathtoll. This demonstration concludes the protest with a call to The group hopes to continue these WHINSEC/SOA. connect with social jus- peace. efforts. “Throughout the weekend, it Five people from the U of I Peace tice,” Brownlee said. sounded like it was going to be someand Social Justice Committee joined Sophomore Laura thing that we continue to do, hopefully the 15,000 to 20,000 protestors, accord- Steed, who also attended the protest, SEC/SOA spoke. There was a “woman “There is a lot of teaching about the go down there repeated years, if the ing to SOAW on Nov. 19 and 20. said, “You’re never going to see change peace movement, how to be involved who had her children taken because she people didn’t get the point across this unless you’re willwas considered a dissident,” Howey in the peace movement, how to protest time,” Steed said. ing to help change said. peacefully [and] how to promote peace Howey hopes this trip will be the yourself.”

“Her kids were kidnapped and she and justice in your community.” beginning of student advocacy. “I feel Howey and never saw them again. People spoke The group met people who had like it was ground breaking,” she said.

Brownlee noted that of how it is to live in the oppression made sacrifices to stand up for what “It successfully showed the adminU of I is generally of other countries. That was pretty they believe. “One of the greatest istration that we can do something not substantially inmoving, and a lot of that I had never ways that you can see that connection like this, that students at U of I do care volved in issues like heard of before. For a lot of us, it was a about social justice issues. We do care [between faith and social justice] is to the WHINSEC/SOA. talk to people whose commitments are traumatic experience.” about peace and we want to do some“U of I is a conHowey has had connections with so strong that they would make sacrithing about it, pro-actively.” servative campus,” people who were murdered at the hands fices,” Brownlee said.

Howey said. “We Forty mostly elderly people, includdon’t see a lot of ing two nuns from Saint Mary-ofsocial justice issues the-Woods, Ind., were arrested at this being talked about.” year’s protest for trespassing.

Brownlee, who They made the decision to “cross sees the campus as over” onto the fort property, which more apolitical, said is punishable by up to six months in “In terms of advoprison and up to $5,000 in fines. cacy and trying to Those who cross over call thempursue social justice, selves prisoners of conscience. Brownit just seems like we lee called it “a form of civil disobedineed a lot more work ence. It’s not violent, but they go across in that field.” simply to lift up again how convinced Howey said that they are that this is wrong.” seeing such large Of those arrested, Howey said, scale activism at the “There were some people that couldn’t SOAW protest “is even walk without a cane. They dereally moving. Hope- cided that it makes quite a statement fully this [trip] is if an elderly man is behind bars for protesting something in his conscience, Photo by Lauren Howey going to be an event that happens every that he felt is so wrong that they put year, because stusome 80-year-old guy in prison.”

Protesters stage a mock funeral to dents really need to A variety of people attended the see stuff like that.” event. This diversity was reflected as remember the victims who have died Photo by Lauren Howey The protest has featured speakers and musicians on the in Central and South America. The been an annual event stage set up by the SOAW at the fort’s Signs like this appeared outside the Western Hemisphere rest of the protesters hold up crosses for 25 years and gate. has developed into People from Mexico, Africa and the Institute for Security Cooperation, better known as the with the names of their loved ones a learning event as United States expressed their sentiSchool of the Americas. WHINSEC/SOA presumably and friends who have been killed. The well as a protest. ments about the school, as well as other trains assassins who have killed Central and South demonstrations are held to shut down “I learned so current issues. Survivors of action much,” Howey said. taken by those trained by the WHINAmerican citizens.

WHINSEC/SOA. Ruth Shirley Staff Writer

■ DEPRESSION

Holiday depression and stress prevalent among college students Sara Roberts Staff Writer

“‘They say ‘tis the season to be jolly,’ but for many, it’s the season to be melancholy,” said writer Simone Scudder. Every year thousands of Americans suffer from holiday-related stress. College students seem to have even more to deal with as finals add to their load.

Sometimes the overwhelming amount of stress students go through during

this time of year even leads to depression.

According to the National Mental Health Association, there are many reasons the holidays can cause stress.

Some of these reasons include unrealistic holiday expectations, financial constraints, and the demands of shopping, family and friends. Lesley Stockton, director of the campus Health and Counseling Center, agrees with some of these reasons.

“This time of year is especially stressful for students dealing with endof-the-term projects, final exams and the many academic responsibilities,”

Stockton said.

Students can also be affected by the cold weather and less sunlight because of shorter days. Returning home after a semester without parents can also be problematic.

Any of these factors can trigger depression for someone who already feels vulnerable. “Holiday/burnout stress” can present depression-like signs without being considered clinical depression.

Other factors that Stockton feels can lead to depression during the holiday season may include jobs requiring extra hours during the holidays or

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possibly financial strain from buying presents. In addition to buying presents, students may worry about being able to pay for next semester’s tuition.

If noticed, the many signs which point to depression should be addressed. According to Stockton, these signs may include a lack of motivation, avoidance of activities, isolation from others, or lack of enjoyment in activities the individual once found pleasurable.

Other indicators may include constant negative emotions such as sadness, irritability or hostility and a change in sleeping or eating patterns.

Not only should students look for these signs in themselves, but also remember to look for signs in friends and family members.

During November and throughout December leading to finals week, the Counseling Center becomes very busy with students overwhelmed or upset about their academic or personal lives.

Students should not feel alone when to-do lists start piling up because many others are feeling the same way.

Because students have many academic commitments during the holiday season, counselors encourage them to keep their stress levels low.

“We try to remind students to take some time for themselves each day no matter how many tasks need accomplished,” Stockton said.

Although the holiday season and finals can be an extremely stressful time of the year, some ways exist to cope and make this holiday season positive.

Stockton suggests prioritizing by making a holiday to-do list and ranking items in order of importance. She also recomments lowering expectation levels. “The ideal holiday season is only in our imagination. There is no perfect gift, or perfect family meal,” Stockton said. Another tip is to take control of finances by creating a budget plan.

“Shopping may be a form of elation for some, but paying credit card debt in

January is not,” Stockton said.

The National Mental Health Association gives these tips to cope with depression or keep it at bay: 1. Keep expectations for the holiday seasons manageable by setting realistic goals for yourself. Pace yourself and organize your time. Be realistic about what you can and cannot do 2. Remember the holiday season does not banish reasons for feeling sad or lonely; there is room for these feelings to be present, even if the person chooses not to express them.

3. Leave “yesteryear” in the past and look toward the future. Life brings changes and each season is different and can be enjoyed in its own way.

Don’t set yourself up by comparing today with the “good ol’ days.”

4. Do something for someone else, such as donating toys or meal plans.

5. Enjoy activities that are free, such as driving around to look at the snow or holiday decorations. You can also play in the snow.

6. Be aware that excessive drinking will only increase your feelings of depression.

7. Try something new.

8. Spend time with supportive and caring people. Reach out and make new friends or contact someone you have not heard from for awhile.

9. Save time for yourself!

If you or someone you know is feeling depressed during the holiday season, there are places to get help.

People can seek support through friends, family, religious or spiritual advisers or another trusted individual.

Students may also contact the Counseling Center as a resource while on campus.

If talking to someone about depression is unappealing, here are a few Web sites to check out for more information and help: www.selfhelpstress.com, www.depression.com, www.depression-screening.org and www.nationalmentalhealthassociation.com.

ENTERTAINMENT

PAGE 7 THE REFLECTOR ■ 7 LIST

Seven solutions to postfinals blues

■ MOVIE REVIEW

Quaid’s family film lacks originality Tony Puckett Staff Writer

Elyse Kaiser Entertainment Editor

Usually, the 7 list is a ranking of current items of interest. This week, however, the 7 list is more of a checklist. Finals are close to being done, and we are left wondering how we can best spend the weekend after finals. Here is a list of seven steps to legally unwind after your hard semester at work. Make sure you complete all seven steps for maximum relaxation.

1. Sell back your books. After selling back your books, gather those that you could not sell, your notes and your handouts from the whole semester. Build a bonfire. Use these souvenirs from the semester as fuel to roast s’mores and hot dogs in the snow.

2. To release the anger you have built up by finding out the sell-back prices of your books, get your Sock ‘Em Boppers out of the closet. Pair up with a friend and punch each other around for a while.

3. Sleep for an entire day. Taking breaks to eat, spend the whole day napping and lounging in bed. Do not leave your bed until you are fully and completely rested.

4. Take the twenty bucks you earned from selling back those twenty books and buy yourself a concert ticket to a show in Cincinnati, Chicago or Nashville.

You deserve it.

5. After you are done buying your ticket online from the scourge that is Ticketmaster, visit the little-known-facts about Chuck Norris generator at http://www.4q.cc/chuck/. This is one of the best sites for conversational starters I have ever seen. If you are creative enough, you can also use these fun facts as pick-up lines during your next venture.

6. Road trip to the concert you bought tickets with several close friends. Be sure to make plenty of mixed CDs and use the conversation starters you picked up in Step 5. Leave time along the way to stop at local tourist traps. You never know, seeing the world’s biggest ball of yarn could be the highlight of the weekend.

7. When you get home late at night after the concert, treat your friends to a nice snowball fight. You may even end up building a really great snow fort. *Disclaimer: The Reflector is not responsible for any injuries you may incur while throwing snowballs in the dark.

DECEMBER 14, 2005

I miss the time in my life when I could have enjoyed a movie like “Yours, Mine, and Ours.” When I was ten years old, the idea that I had seen this plotline over 50 times before may not have bothered me. I wouldn’t have been concerned with how believable the main characters were, only that they created enough sufficiently messy fights. And the corny writing might not have bothered me as much, so long as they squeezed in as many jokes involving the pig as they could manage.

However, I am not ten. And while college students probably aren’t this movie’s target audience, we live in an era in which children’s entertainment, when done right, is considerate of those who accompany their children to these movies. “Yours, Mine, and Ours” seems to have chosen Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo to draw in moms and dads, rather than use witty writing.

While the movie doesn’t fail because of Russo and Quaid’s performances, casting them might have made sense had they been given something to work with in terms of a script. Quaid, so irrepressibly charming in movies such as “The Rookie,” simply doesn’t seem to fit the part of the straight-laced family man Admiral Beardsley. In the physical gags, where a Steve Martin might feel right at home, Quaid’s performance seems forced and awkward

at times. Russo performs admirably despite the writing’s shortcomings, but her character, a scatterbrained hippie mom, demands a leading lady with less composure and sensibility.

This remake of the Lucille Ball/ Henry Fonda classic (with a few story line changes) about a pair of failed high school sweethearts, a navy Admiral and a handbag designer, who end up running into each other later in life and remarrying. This comes to the dismay of their combined 18 children, who instantly clash. Eventually, the children unite in a plot to drive their parents apart, and clashing parental styles begin to raise the tension.

What bothered me the most about this movie, despite the two leads’ considerable talent, was that we never see anything resembling a meaningful relationship between the two. They meet by chance in a restaurant, and then three scenes later they are engaged to be married. One expects to ask the question, “Why did these two break up in the first place?” Instead, I found myself asking, “Why did they even get together in the first place?” It’s a problem both of the chemistry between the two actors and of the predictable plot that asks viewers to take for granted that the two are in love, just because they kiss and do all the grown-up things associated with it.

Speaking of predictable plots, if ever there existed a formula for this kind of movie, “Yours, Mine, and Ours” follows it with unwavering steadiness. Even the ten-year-olds in the theatre expected the two families

to begin fighting almost instantly. This, of course, is followed by the obligatory plan that unites the kids, who eventually realize that they have become a family despite their differences, but not before the damage is done and their parents’ relationship is in need of saving.

Equally predictable and disappointing is the movie’s slapstick humor.

As soon as the kids begin painting the house, there is never any doubt that their momentary cooperation will descend into a paint-flinging riot involving each child and his or her step-counterpart. And when Quaid decides to take the family sailing, of course somebody (I’m looking your way, Dennis) is going to end up in the water. The standard gags are not helped by the cartoonish sound effects splashed throughout them, which seem completely out of place, despite the movie’s childish nature.

When the producers of “Yours, Mine and Ours” set out with to recreate the charming 1968 classic for today’s cinema, they were clearly mistaken. However, despite its many shortcomings, the movie does serve its purpose as a cheesy family comedy, one of the first of the Christmas season.

Children will laugh at each paint/food fight, giggle at the laughable social stereotypes (one of the characters simply calls her stepsister “cheerleader” throughout the movie), and in the end perhaps learn a lesson about family.

Parents, however, (and definitely students) will inevitably grow bored with the film’s predictability.

■ CPB EVENT

Students participate in CPB’s Make Me Over for winter formal

Photos courtesy of CPB

Before: (Above) Senior human biology major, Diana Everhart, was nominated to participate in Make Me Over. One man and one woman were chosen to spend a day shopping provided by CPB. After: Diana appears after her makeover ready for the formal that evening.

Before: (Above) Sophomore political science and Spanish double major Ryan Hallett, was the man chosen for this event. The two students were made over just in time for the winter formal.

After: Ryan is headed to the formal in style after his day of pampering.

■ MOVIE REVIEW

■ CD REVIEW

‘Hannukkah Rocks:’ a festive treat ‘Friends’ brings humor to the holiday season Robert Gobetz Guest Writer

What do you get when you team a member of a hopelessly catchy contemporary pop group with a member of the group that claims to be “North America’s favorite all-hockey band?”

Oy Vey! You get the ten-cut CD “Hanukkah Rocks” (seriously!) by the LeeVees, a tongue-in-cheek side project of Guster’s Adam Gardner and the Zambonis’ Dave Schneider. Named after Gardner’s childhood rabbi, “Hanukkah Rocks” is something of a cross between blink-182 and Topol – you know, the guy that played Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” The LeeVees take loving jabs at Jewish traditions of various stripe – food, religious rites, Florida retirement condos – but especially food... matzo, potato cakes, applesauce, sour cream, chocolate, yadda yadda yadda.

Schneider admits on the Zambonis’ Web site that “Hanukkah Rocks” is intended for a small audience – “This

will be a first, an album that 1.78% of us can call their own!” Agreed. I’ve heard the disc three or four times, and that’s enough for me. But I’m goyim (“non-Jews,” according to Wikipedia – I had to look it up). To their credit the LeeVees don’t aim for the lowest common denominator, weaving in “perspicacious,” “solipsism,” “epistemology,” and “loquacious” in the lyrics. Sure, I use those words in conversation, but who else does? And think about this... when was the last time you had to look up words to a song in order to understand it and still enjoyed it? And for the goyim in the audience the challenge is heightened with “latke,” “kugel,” “gelt” (all three of which are edible, and again I had to look them up), and “nun, gimmel, hey, shin” which are the sides of a dreidel –a children’s top used in a game played during Chanukah, and I consulted two scholars and a Jewish friend to figure that one out. I’m so goyim.

Don’t get me wrong. Gardner and Schneider aren’t schmucks; they’re serious musicians with serious chops.

But self-effacing humor aside, the disc is more of a curiosity than it is actually funny.

Like much of contemporary Christian rock, “Hanukkah Rocks” sounds like a modern pop record as long as you don’t pay attention to the lyrics.

Several cuts given alternative lyrics might actually rock – “Gelt Melts” features a tasty Pete Townshendesque guitar solo, and the song would fit quite nicely in Green Day’s repertoire...if it wasn’t about gelt! And if “How Do You Spell Channukka?” had secular lyrics, it’d be a hit. [Reviewer’s note: As in this review, “Channukka” is spelled in at least three different ways in the LeeVees’ liner notes.] But this disc isn’t about making hits. It’s about two guys having some fun – they admit to having “laughed their way through the sessions” – while filling what 1.78% of the world considers to be a gaping hole in the universe of holiday music. But I’m part of the other 98.22% of the world to which this disc doesn’t speak, goyim.

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“Let’s just be friends.”

Too many of us have unfortunately heard these dreaded words before. That is why so many people can relate to the movie “Just Friends”.

In this movie, Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) plays Chris, the typical highschool nerdy guy who tries way too hard to impress his crush, Jamie, played

by Amy Smart (“The Butterfly Effect,” “Road Trip”).

We first meet Chris in 1995 as he is singing All-4-One’s cheesy pop classic “I Swear” and revealing his secret love for Jamie by writing a message in her yearbook.

When Chris goes to Jamie’s graduation party with the yearbook, the book is of course stolen by the bully jock before Jamie has a chance to read the message. The jock brings everyone at the party to laughter as he reads Chris’s message aloud.

Jamie chases after Chris as he runs out the door crying. She hugs him and seemingly saves his spirits when she says, “I love you.” But just as he goes to kiss her, she finishes her sentence with the words “like a brother.”

Ten years later we catch up with Chris. He now lives a good womanizing life as a music executive out in L.A. He has learned how to talk to women and ensure that he will never have anymore “friends.”

Chris is forced by his boss to sign the up-and-coming artist Samantha James, played by Anna Faris (“Scary Movie”).

Faris is the movie’s shining star. She plays a crazy, dumb, self-absorbed, “I’m a real artist” (like Jessica Simpson), wanna-be sexy pop star and she is hilarious.

Against Chris’s will, he gives up his Christmas holiday to accompany Samantha to Paris and convince her to sign with his record label.

The plane to Paris has to make an emergency stop because Samantha attempts to re-heat a meal in aluminum foil and sets the plane on fire. The plane coincidentally lands in New Jersey, where Chris had his heart broken by Jamie. This is where the plot starts to become a bit predictable.

Chris and Samantha travel to Chris’s annoyingly ditzy mother’s home to stay for the night. Chris and Samantha go out to a bar and guess who Chris sees…Jamie.

Jamie still lives with her parents and works as a local bartender while studying to become a teacher. Not quite the life that Chris has been living.

However, Chris becomes interested in re-visiting those old feelings for Jamie.

The rest of the movie revolves around every former high school nerdy guy’s dream: show the old crush that he is cool and fun and good enough to be more than “just a friend.”

There are many humorous scenes throughout the movie. Chris’s interaction with his little brother, played by Chris Marquette (“The Girl Next Door”), is side-splitting and will remind many guys of their own relationships with their little brothers.

There is also a scene in which Jamie’s parents’ “Christmas Vacation” like decorated home is ruined when Samantha insanely chases down Chris at their house.

Although predictable and a bit far-fetched at times, I enjoyed this movie. It made me laugh. And it was Christmas-themed, and around this time of year I will fall in love with any Christmas-themed movie.

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■ MOVIE REVIEW

■ CAMPUS ACTIVITY

‘RENT’ showcases great musical talent Holiday guest visits atrium Emily Scott Business Mangaer Several directors have tried but only one succeeded in transforming the timeless rock opera “Rent” into a crowd-pleasing blockbuster. Director Chris Columbus (first two “Harry Potter films) successfully transformed “Rent” from the stage to the film, satisfying even the most hard-core fans despite his resume boasting such fluff films as “Fantastic Four” and “Home Alone.”

The storyline of the four-time Tony winner rock opera follows eight bohemian friends through their trials and tribulations of 525,600 minutes, or one year, starting Christmas Eve in the late-1980s at the height of the AIDS era in New York City’s East Village. Mark, the film’s narrator, is an aspiring filmmaker who is dealing with his recent break-up with girlfriend Maureen, who has just announced her lesbian relationship with Harvard-educated lawyer Joanne. His roommate Roger, an HIV positive ex-junkie, dreams of the rock stardom he once knew until he falls for the neighbor, Cat Scratch Club exotic dancer and heroin addict Mimi, who, unbeknownst to Roger is also HIV positive. Mark and Roger’s old friend and computer genius Tom Collins is back in the picture, fresh from MIT and introduces his drag queen lover, Angel,

to the close-knit group. Rounding out the eclectic group is ex-roommate Benjamin “Benny” Collins III, who has recently married into high society and has ventured back across town to force his new money and ideas on his old friends, only to establish himself as enemy number one among the group.

Bringing “Rent” from the stage to the screen involved a few alterations such as scrapping songs that didn’t move the movie along and tweaking the original storyline. Small plot modifications were made like glossing over Roger’s girlfriend’s suicide and changing some of the words in the songs to hide small adjustments. Giving viewers drawn out background stories of characters is smartly decided against expecting you to be familiar with the Broadway version or be attending it with someone who is.

It does, as the description “musical” warns, contain about 95% singing. Do not expect long character dialogues to interrupt the plot-moving songs.

However, the cast does not disappoint on the musical numbers. The movie opens with the central cast spotlighted on a dark stage belting out the classic “Seasons of Love,” which sets the mood for the rest of the film. Scenes like the burning of eviction notices in the street by the entire West Side during the song “Rent” raises goose bumps on your arms with the remarkable vocals and amazing footage. The song

“Tango Maureen” is flawlessly depicted showing the love triangle that exists between Maureen, Mark and Joanne.

However, the highlight of the movie is the table-dancing number of “La Vie Boheme,” which is highlighting the finer points of their bohemian lifestyle to the cynical Benny and his fatherin-law and business partners. Its lines include such topics as homosexuality, bisexuality, drugs and The Sex Pistols, along with several shocking moments that leave the uptight business men in the restaurant speechless.

It is shocking to discover that familiar actors such as Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin and Taye Diggs can hold their own in this Broadway musical. Rosario Dawson shines in a cast almost completely made up of original members. When watching Martin on “Law and Order,” you would never have imagined that he had those kind of pipes hidden inside that serious suit.

It is not a well-known fact that Martin and Diggs were members of the original Broadway cast.

Overall, this movie will not disappoint any “Rent” enthusiast, and for Broadway newcomers it is a welcome change from the other big budget, action-packed movies of the year. Even if you tend to shy away from most musicals because of the lack of dialogue, and giant musical numbers, “Rent” is one movie that must be experienced at least once.

Photo by: Lauren Howey

On Sunday, Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., students were invited to have breakfast with Santa in the Schwitzer Student Center. CPB’s Community Programs planned the event called Breakfast with Santa.

“We had Chef Dan from PFS dress as Santa Claus.

He went around during brunch and took pictures with them. We also decorated glass ornaments that we hung up on the Christmas tree”, Rich Curcio, a senior on CPB, said.

There were about 60 ornaments decorated. Students could also listen and sing along to Christmas music.

“It was meant to give the kids who come to Sunday brunch a little something extra for the holidays,” Curcio said.

Above: Curcio, senior Christian Cull and junior Jill Paulen enjoy Santa’s company.

■ DRIVING TIPS

Winter weather driving precautions for the coming months Amy Remsburg Feature Editor Now that winter has officially made its presence known in Indiana, drivers need to remember that their habits must change with the weather. There are many simple tips and precautions to take to avoid getting into an accident or becoming stranded in inclement weather.

Before getting on the road, drivers need to winter-proof their vehicles. Basic maintenance is essential to keeping vehicles reliable and ready to handle the toughest conditions. Oil changes should be performed every 3,000 miles or less, depending on the age of the vehicle. Tires that are old or have lost their tread need to be replaced. If tires are in good condition, check their pressure on a regular basis to watch for any changes. Address any problems such as strange noises or vibrations before they

become a big problem. The cold will exacerbate any pre-existing problem.

Always keep at least half of a tank of gas in the vehicle at all times.

While servicing the vehicle, it is also a good idea to put together an emergency kit or buy one and keep it in the trunk. The kit should include items to service the vehicle and survival items in case of an accident. Keep necessary fluids on hand for the vehicle in case one or more run out unexpectedly.

A jack should already be in the vehicle, so check to make sure you know where it is. Jumper cables or a battery charger also come in handy.

For drivers and passengers, at least one extra set of heavy clothes including outerwear like gloves should be in the trunk at all times. Old blankets and towels are a necessity as well. A brightly colored cloth or flares are useful to get help. Nonperishable items and bottled water should also be stored with the kit. A first-aid kit, any necessary

medications and a flashlight should finish a basic kit. There are many other items that can be included, but these should be essential items in every vehicle. One other item that could save lives is a cell phone. However, one must remember that for a cell phone to be helpful, it needs to be charged and on a reliable network.

While driving in the snow, there are easy tips to remember to stay out of an accident. Speed is the biggest determinant of whether an accident will occur or not. In inclement weather, speed must be reduced. If everyone on the road is driving 40 mph, then you should follow suit. Driving faster or slower than the flow of traffic causes problems for you and other drivers. If you do not feel comfortable driving at any point, pull over to a safe area off the road until you feel safe enough to drive.

Along with maintaining a safe speed, know how to handle your ve-

hicle if you start to lose control. If the vehicle begins to fishtail, where the rear of the vehicle starts sliding in a different direction than you are steering, gently steer in the opposite direction of the fishtail. Going in the opposite direction should correct the problem.

A good way to know how to handle your vehicle in an extreme situation is to get to know it in average driving conditions. Read the driver’s manual and familiarize yourself with all the mechanisms of your vehicle. Be alert to how your vehicles handles and all of its quirks. If you want to improve your bad weather driving, drive to an empty parking lot filled with snow and test yourself. Take a friend and practice what to do when your vehicle fishtails or you lose control. Practicing is the best way to feel confident with your vehicle in all driving conditions.

If, however, you do end up in an accident or stranded, the best thing to do is stay calm. If stranded in ex-

tremely cold weather or a blizzard, do not get out of your car. There are only two situations when you could get out of the car, though. If you have flares or a bright cloth, you may get out to set the flares or hang the cloth on the antenna. If you are within 100 yards of a secure location where you can get help, go to the location. Otherwise, stay in the vehicle, turn on the emergency lights and wait for help. Do not leave the engine running the entire time, and only occasionally turn on the heater.

Use blankets and extra clothing to keep warm. Keep yourself occupied by doing small exercises, singing, talking or playing card games.

Using common sense, maintaining your vehicle and knowing how to handle your vehicle are the best tips to stay safe during dangerous winter driving.

More information can be found from your vehicle’s dealership, a trusted mechanic or Web sites like www.aaa. com or www.fema.gov.

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Student Housing Crunch Eases A Little New Housing For 150 Students Have you visited Carson at the Crossing, just blocks from the U of I campus?

The Model is open daily noon till 6.

Charter Homes is building 46 new Townhouses designed with the student in mind.

4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, attached garages, and a great party park under construction. The Private Park will have lighted basketball, and sand volleyball courts with a shelter house containing a fireplace.

"We are making Carson at the Crossing a fun/safe place to Live and Play,"

said Larry Jaquess the onsite leasing agent. "With our onsite security guard from dusk till dawn we will try to make sure people leave our students alone, and the bad guys stay away."

Currently Charter Homes has 2 units available for immediate occupancy, 9 units available in December, and 6 units available in January. But the best news is because it is new construction you can also "Reserve a Unit" for next year.

Rent is reasonable too. Carson at the Crossing has new units for: * 4 Student Group at $300/ month * 3 Student Group at $400/ month * 2 Student Group at $500/ month

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