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UIndy professors win statewide accolades
ously,” said junior Allison Rodgers, one of Mayol’s honors students. “She has high expectations for herself and her students.” Hicks noted Mayol’s enthusiasm for teaching and for projects, and said that VanSickle uses a project-based learnUniversity of Indianapolis kinesiol- ing style that focuses on giving students ogy faculty Mindy Mayol and Jennifer experience with real-world organizations VanSickle were recently honored with prior to graduation. “We actually give the students a certain two statewide awards. Both awards were from the Indiana project to work on and then they learn the Association for Health, Physical Educa- material through working on that project,” tion, Recreation and Dance (IAHPERD). VanSickle said. “We try to do unique things Mayol won the award for Professional/ that help students prepare for a career in Leisure Educator of the Year, while Van- sports, and I kind of think that’s what this Sickle was awarded Sport Management award is looking for. It’s a great honor [to win this award].” Educator of the Year. This was Mayol’s and VanIAHPERD is part of Sickle’s first time winning these a national association awards. and works with profes“I was pleasantly surprised,” sionals affiliated with Mayol said. “I certainly think I’ve schools across Indiana been doing a lot of fun things at and occasionally works UIndy. But sometimes people with events for comdon’t expect to get the awards munity education. they get, so it was a nice surprise.” VanSickle, AssociMayol said there were many ate Professor of Kinecriteria to be considered for her siology, said that the anaward; while she did not expect nual awards are given VANSICKLE to win, she said she met and exto exemplary professors in Indiana who teach sport management. ceeded some of the criteria. “They don’t tell you exactly why [you The awards were presented at a dinner on Nov.10 by Chair of Kinesiology won], but I think some things would be authoring a textbook, ‘Wellness: the Total Lisa Hicks. VanSickle was nominated by a mem- Package,’ which is used by our wellness classes here,” Mayol said. ber in the organization, Mayol’s book is used at five and she attributes her other universities. She considers win to her relationship the award to be an honor and with many commuattributes the win to the leadernity organizations. She ship skills she has demonstrated was part of a project teaching Wellness and Fitness with the Pacers that courses, as well as her textbook. helped them survey “Her teaching style was more fans about sponsorship informal, and she always said that recognition. She also the information given in the class teaches a class that was to help us, so we should make plans the Special Olymit personal to ourselves or it was pics Youth Basketball MAYOL going to be a waste of a class,” tournament. She has Rodgers said. “Professor Mayol previously worked with the YMCA and the Indianapolis Parks will try her best to help you succeed, or help you get in contact with those who Foundation. “Dr. VanSickle has been instrumental could better help you than herself.” Mayol noted that her approach in teachin creating partnerships with our business community in the sports area,” Hicks said. ing is more student-based. “As a teacher, you always have to be “The development of those partnerships and class projects really made her stand implementing new and innovative ways to reach your students and bring the message out to achieve that award.” Hicks said that Mayol developed home to them,” she said. Mayol and VanSickle both feel that content for UIndy’s wellness courses and that she is very deserving of this award, winning the award will not have an effect because she is involved in promoting on their current teaching styles. “They’re both very deserving candiwellness and physical fitness on campus. “She’s very passionate about what dates, and we, as a department, are proud,” she does and takes her work very seri- Hicks said.
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Sen. Richard Lugar discusses his stance and takes questions regarding governmental issues at the 34th annual Richard G. Lugar Symposium held on Dec. 11.
UIndy offers new scholarships
Richard G. Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders will award 10 new scholarships By Sarah Haefner MANAGING EDITOR The University of Indianapolis’ Lugar Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders announced earlier this month that high school students who attend the annual Richard G. Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders will now have the opportunity to receive a $10,000 scholarship. The program will award 10 students $10,000 each. The first scholarships will be given out by February 2012. Because they are UIndy scholarships, students would be required to apply to UIndy their senior year of high school and attend the university as freshmen in order to keep the award. The committee that chooses which students will receive the scholarships consists of Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Lugar Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders Lara Mann, Director of Admissions Ron Wilks and Director of Financial Aid Linda Handy. According to Mann, the committee will focus on academic achievements when deciding to whom to give the scholarships. Because they are not need-based scholarships, economic background will not be a factor. “We will take anyone who has ap-
plied [to UIndy] by Jan. 15 [2012] , who belongs to that symposium group, and we’ll make decisions based upon the rigor of their high school class schedule, GPA, scores, rank — that kind of thing,” Mann said. “The application also asks questions about activities in school.” The chosen students will be notified that they have received the scholarships by the following February, and Mann hopes that it will be a good incentive for them to attend UIndy. “These are the cream of the crop,” Mann said. “These are some amazing students, both on an academic level and a leadership level. We want these students here for several reasons. It would increase the academic profile of our class. And they’re just good students. They’re proven leaders and have already been recognized as leaders in their community.” Every Indiana high school is invited to choose two juniors to attend the symposium. Typically, 400 to 500 students attend each year. “The students chosen exhibit tendencies to be a strong leader,” Mann said. UIndy sophomore Jack Cummings attended the symposium when he was a junior in high school. “My experience at the symposium was really what caused me to check out the school and apply,” Cummings said. “I think the new scholarship program is
fantastic. A lot of the students are at the point when they’re trying to figure out how they’re going to afford college. This will give them the opportunity to push their ideas further in higher education.” The Lugar Center was formed in 2007 to provide a permanent home for the symposium, which has been a part of UIndy for 34 years. “Sen. Lugar was a visiting professor here, in between his mayoral job and running for the Senate,” Mann said. “He won the Senate race and surprised all of his students for showing up to his lecture at 8 a.m. the next morning. Two years into his Senate term, he founded the symposium and it’s been here since 1977.” The symposium is a day of leadershiporiented activities. Senator Lugar attends the event whenever possible. This year, he acted as the keynote speaker and took questions from students after his speech. A question and answer session for adults who accompanied the students to the event was also held. He also took pictures with students from each county. In the afternoon, students attended sessions concerning current events, politics and leadership. Former Miss America and UIndy student Katie Stam also attended as the guest speaker. The 2010 symposium took place on Dec. 11.
Civil rights leader to visit campus One of the Little Rock Nine will speak at the Martin Luther King Day Celebration on Jan. 17 By Jacki Dillman EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine, will speak on campus for the University of Indianapolis’ annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration on Jan. 17. The event, which will be held the first day classes commence for Semester II, is part of the University Series and will be held in Ransburg Auditorium at 12 p.m. Class schedules will be adjusted so that students may attend. In Little Rock, Ark., in September of 1957, nine African-American teenagers stared segregation in the face and are remembered throughout history for it. Known as the Little Rock Nine, they were the first African-American students to attend Little Rock Central High School and faced blatant racism from their classmates, teachers and even the Governor of Arkansas. Those nine students are remembered as an important part of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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“I remember the mobs of people were huge outside the school,” Trickey said. “They were roaring like the crowd at a sporting event. [They were] screaming things like ‘lynch them,’ ‘kill them.’ It was terrifying.” Trickey, then only 16 years old, had a tumultuous year following the integration of Little Rock Central High School. One white student hit her with her purse, which contained six metal combination locks. However, the violence and hate didn’t stay within the walls of the high school. Trickey explained that hateful phone calls, windows smashed by bricks and burning crosses in their front lawns plagued the nine students even when they were safely at home. “The violence was constant,” Trickey said. “It was perpetual terror.” Assistant Professor of Education Terrence Harewood will introduce Trickey at the event. He explained that this period in history was significant not just for the United States, but the entire world. However, he feels that many people still have not learned about it or have forgotten
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Minnijean Brown Trickey faced blatant racism daily when she attended Little Rock Central High School. its significance. “The Little Rock Nine were an extraordinary group of teenagers,” Harewood said. “They were ordinary people who did extraordinary things, and students who attend the event will be challenged
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to do extraordinary things themselves.” Executive Director of Student Services Dan Stoker was instrumental in bringing Trickey to campus. He explained that university officials planning this event feel it is important that the students, faculty and staff be given the opportunity to interact with Trickey. The event will include a panel of three students who will ask questions and act as liaisons for the student body. There also will be a reception at which students, faculty and staff will have the chance to meet and talk with Trickey. “This is something that we only normally experience in history books,” Stoker said. “ But it really wasn’t that long ago. Now we have a chance to interact with a part of American history.” Trickey was ultimately expelled from Little Rock Central. A teacher witnessed Trickey calling a girl who had tormented her “white trash.” “I guess you could say I was retaliating,” Trickey said. “But, to me, that implies that we had the same power as the students who terrorized us, and that wasn’t the case.”
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Throughout the Civil Rights Movement, Trickey’s influence stretched far beyond Little Rock. She participated in sit-ins, helped with voter registration and worked to dismantle Jim Crow laws. “They call it the Civil Rights movement, but it’s really human rights. It involves us all,” she said. Harewood said that some of the same problems Trickey faced creep into classrooms and society at large still today. “Fifty years later and some of the problems and attitudes haven’t changed at all,” Harewood said. “That’s why this is an important event for students.” Trickey agreed. “I’ve been back to Central High School, and it’s better than when I was there, but it’s still a divided school. White students with white students. Black students with black students. But that’s how it is for much of the country as well.” Trickey hopes that students will take away an important message from her lecture on campus. “Social change takes all of us,” Trickey said. “That’s something we all need to remember.”
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