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Counseling Center Groups for Spring 2019 Information provided by the University of Indianapolis Counseling Center

Transform Your Thoughts

Mondays 2:00 - 2:50 P.M.

This group will focus on training your way of thinking, so that what could typically lead to anxiety or sadness can instead promote the opposite.

Tuesdays 3:00 - 3:50 PM 1) Feb 12, 19, 26, Mar 5 2) Mar 26, April 2, 9, 16

1) Feb 4, 11, 18, 25, Mar 4 2) Mar 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15

Mindfulness This group will teach skills of mindfullness, emphasizing the avoidance of judgement, so as to help limit stress and anxiety, along wtih aiding concentration and sleep.

Crisis Survival Skills

Tuesdays 3:00 - 3:50 PM

This group acknowledges the dangers of allowing emotions to become so intense to the point of affecting healthy behaviors, and works to promote strategies limiting these emotions in the moment.

Wednesdays 3:00 - 3:50 PM Feb 13 - April 24 *Health Pavilion 206

1) Feb 5, 12, 19, 26, Mar 5 2) Mar 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16

Stress Less!

For this group, anyone can attend on any day, and a wide variety of topics all themed on stress relief.

Each week covers a new topic, including time management and general self-care.

Understanding Self and Others This group prioritizes feeling interpersonal, and is a closed process limited to eight members per group. Members will be able to learn more about themselves and how they relate to others.

Option 1: Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:30 PM Option 2: Thursdays 2:00 - 2:30 PM

Weekly for Eight to 10 weeks

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New support groups and workshops offered to help students face ongoing issues in their lives talk about certain issues and expect for their discussions to be confidential.

Miller said that students often can get caught up by their classes and experience stress as a result of trying to keep up with their course load. This can also lead to students forgetting to take care of themselves, according to Miller.

“While academics are really important, their [students] mental health is equally, if not more, important,” Miller said. “[This] is in terms of being able to stay balanced, being able to do the best work that they can and recognize that that’s something that doesn’t have to be traded off for doing well in school. In fact they are going to, most likely be better in school if they tend to their mental health.”

The new support group services are open to those on campus who are a part of these labeled groups. The purpose of the groups is to give their members a voice and provide a safe space to talk amongst their peers who may be in similar situations, Staff Psychologist Colin Rak-Dietz said. According to Rak-Dietz, these two programs were added due to an increase in demand for counseling within the communities.

According to Rak-Dietz, these

By Noah Crenshaw & Madison Gomez ONLINE EDITOR & EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

At the start of the 2018-2019 academic year, the University of Indianapolis Student Counseling Center began to offer new support services for students. These new services include two support groups, a students of color group and a queer student group, and a new workshop series called RIO, which stands for Recognition, Insight and Openness. The RIO workshops began this semester, while the support groups started last semester.

According to the Director of the Student Counseling Center and Staff Psychologist Kelly Miller, the Counseling Center provides several, comprehensive services for students.

These services include individual therapy, group therapy and workshops, along with outreach and preventativetype training. Miller said that the counseling services are free because the university prioritizes mental health for students and that students should think of counseling as a place they can go to

support groups were created because Rak-Dietz. He said they also talk about of the importance of having safe space general school topics or anything else specifically for these individuals. This that might be causing stress for them to is to ensure that they have a support get advice from their peers. system of other peers that have shared “[It’s] the same with the students of circumstances. color support group. Folks will come in Rak-Dietz said that he and his fellow with questions about finding the local clinicians stand in as facilitators for the markets that sell the food that you’re support groups, while also offering used to in your culture or what hair their own professional advice. This is stylist to go to that will accommodate because the groups are supposed to be your hair type and having other students peer-supportive and student-driven understand those questions and get it," according to Rak-Dietz Rak-Dietz. said. "There The topics are also just "While academics are really discussed the everyare those of important, their mental health is day student which the tressors equally, if not more important." sthat students we talk want to talk about in about. that group, “In my queer support group, folks but there’s that shared commonality and come in all the time with questions context of students of color or queer stuabout coming out on campus or coming dents.” out to family back home," Rak-Dietz Rak-Dietz said he realizes that many said. "We talk about holidays and how of the students who identify as being a to navigate going back home. ” member of one or both of these groups The groups provide a support that is have struggled to navigate different likely to be more understanding about spaces around campus. He said the supcertain situations, but they aren't the port groups are for providing advice, a only topics for the groups, according to safe space and a friendly environment

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Ballard discusses national security

By Tony Reeves

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT After writing and publishing his book, "Less Oil or More Caskets: The National Security Argument for Moving Away From Oil", former Indianapolis Mayor and visiting fellow Greg Ballard came to the University of Indianapolis for a question and answer session held in UIndy Hall B on Feb. 11.

As a visiting fellow, an honorary member of UIndy, Ballard has an office located on the second floor of Krannert Memorial Library and has spoken on

campus multiple times before. Previously he spoke about a clean energy plan, and the impact of fossil fuels on the military, which were both similar topics to his newly released book.

“I am comfortable here, actually,” Ballard said. “I like UIndy quite a bit. I like the president and the students. It’s just a comfortable setting. I would like to think I do things for UIndy too.”

When invited by professors, Ballard attends classes to help teach, or speak to them. Ballard said the university has been good to him, and he hopes to continue his relationship with President Robert Manuel and the students.

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and extremely excited to have been selected to serve as the next President of Martin University. I truly believe that its Sean Huddleston was named the rich history and mission make Martin next president of Martin University one of the most important higher on Jan. 7, 2019. He began working education institutions in our region. at the University of Indianapolis in Dr. Eugene White did a tremendous June 2017 when the new position of job leading the institution, resulting the Vice President for Equity and in Martin’s being stable and poised for Inclusion opened. During his time growth. I am looking forward to working at UIndy, Huddleston focused on side-by-side with Martin’s faculty, staff, diversity, inclusion and expanding the trustees, alumni and friends to help the university achieve new conversation. His office heights while continuing worked to start Open to preserve the great Mic Dialogues to get legacies of our founders, students talking about Father Boniface Hardin sensitive issues and started and Sister Jane Schilling.” a leadership program in His appointment is honor of an employee, the result of a nationwide amongst other things. search that began after Martin University is White announced his a private, not-for-profit, retirement in August 2017 liberal arts institution in after six years of leading the Indianapolis, Ind. and was university, according to an started in 1977. Accordarticle from Inside Indiana ing to its website, Martin HUDDLESTON Business. Huddleston has is Indiana's only Predomserved in other positions inantly Black Institution of higher education. Huddleston will in higher education. Before coming be Martin’s sixth president, following to UIndy, he was the chief officer of current president Eugene White, who Diversity, Inclusion and Community worked on “growing enrolment, ad- Engagement at Framingham State dressing affordability, increasing fund- University in Massachusetts, and also ing and preparing students to success- was a vice president at Grand Valley fully compete in the workforce” during State University in Michigan, according his tenure, according to an article from to UIndy 360.

Huddleston will receive his farewell Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

In a press release from Martin, from UIndy on Feb. 20 and begin workHuddleston said: “I am deeply honored ing at Martin on March 25.

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In his book, Ballard advocates moving towards electric vehicles or an alternative fuel for transportation. According to his book, 70 percent of the oil in the world is used for transportation. The oil used for transportation is protected by the United States troops, making it a national security issue for the U.S. “If we are ever to make a difference... [we need to be] looking at transportation,” Ballard said. “It is all strictly national security. There is nothing in my book about the environment or climate or anything like that.” > See Ballard on page 3

> See Counseling on page 8

Martin University names Huddleston new president

By Zoe Berg

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for these student oriented groups, whether that be through providing a space that is not intimidating to speak up or support to adjusting to Indianapolis, the groups aim to be as welcoming as possible.

The Counseling Center has also added a workshop series called RIO. It is being offered in three-week increments, with one hour sessions throughout the semester, according to Rak-Dietz.

The sessions are structured as curriculum-driven and are designed to give students the skills needed to address a variety of concerns that they may have. “[We cover] anything from stress management to depression, anxiety, improving focus and concentration, improving relationships,” Rak-Dietz said.

“You name it and this workshop series is going to help with it….What RIO teaches are skills to better address and manage those unwanted internal reactions that we have: ‘How do I relate differently to those thoughts or feelings?

How do I manage stress in my life? How do I navigate through anxiety or certain stressors, the natural stuff that comes up in life?’”

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Hate crimes law needed now, not later

Indecisiveness over legislation shows lack of progress in values, gives Indiana a bad reputation

By Noah Crenshaw ONLINE EDITOR

Nine bills were introduced at the start of the Indiana General Assembly’s 2019 legislative session in January that would, if passed, enact hate crimes legislation. One of these bills, Senate Bill 418, however, failed to make its way through the Indiana Senate. SB 418 was one of the more promising bills, and if it had been passed, the legislation would have “allowed judges to give tougher sentences for crimes that were motivated by factors such as race, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation,” according to an article from The Indianapolis Star titled “Indiana lawmakers kill hate crimes bill again.”

At the time of this publication, Indiana was one of five states that did not already have some form of a hate crimes law, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Indiana ranks with South Carolina, Arkansas, Wyoming and Georgia in not having a hate crimes law, although Arkansas and South Carolina do have laws that criminalize interfering with religious worship. The situation is downright frightening when you consider the number of hate groups in Indiana. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are currently 31 organizations that are operating in the state that have been identified as hate groups.

This includes neo-Nazis, anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim, anti-immigration and white nationalist groups.

Believing that hate crimes do not happen here is downright ridiculous and dangerous. In fact, hate crimes have happened here, whether or not we legally label them as hate crimes. In July 2018, The Indianapolis Star reported in the article “Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found at Carmel Synagogue,” that anti-Semitic graffiti was found at the Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, a Jewish synagogue in Carmel, Ind. Those responsible had

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spray painted two Nazi flags, including swastikas and two iron crosses on the synagogue’s property. This horrific act is just one of the many anti-Semitic acts that have occurred across the state.

In 2017, 55 hate crimes were reported in Indiana, according to an article from FOX 59 titled “FBI Statistics Show Hate Crimes Are on the Rise, Indiana Feeling the Effects.”

One of the most well-known victims of a hate crime is Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in October 1998.

Shepard’s death sparked an intense push for hate crimes legislation across the country, eventually leading to the passage of a federal hate crimes law, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, in 2009.

Shepard was a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who went to a bar in Laramie, Wyo., where he met two men, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, according to a BBC article titled "Matthew Shepard: the Murder

that Changed America." According to the article, McKinney said in a statement to police that he and Henderson planned to “act like they were gay to try to gain Matthew's confidence.” The men robbed Shepard at gunpoint and drove out of town into a prairie, where they tied him to a fence and pistol-whipped him 19 to 21 times, according to the BBC article. They then left him tied to the fence, where he remained for 18 hours until a teenager who was riding his bike saw what he thought was at first a scarecrow. Although Shepard was found and taken to a hospital, he died of his wounds five days later. According to the article, both of Shepard’s murderers are serving two consecutive life terms for kidnapping and murder.

Shepard’s case sparked national outrage, according to the article, especially when members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested his funeral. Although what happened to Matthew Shepard occurred more than 20 years ago, it still

resonates today.

Another major case that sparked national outrage was the murder of James Byrd Jr., an African-American man, on June 7, 1998 in Japser, Texas. According to an article from the Dallas Morning News, "James Byrd's horrifying death still haunts East Texas town two decades later," Byrd, who was walking home, had accepted a ride from three white men.

In the article, Billy Rowles, who was the Jasper County Sheriff at the time, said that at some point that evening, the three men, Shawn Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer and John William King, had jumped and beaten Byrd. The three men chained Byrd to the back of their truck and dragged him down a country road for three miles. According to the article, Berry was sentenced to life in prison, Brewer was sentenced to death and executed in 2011 and King was sentenced to death and is awaiting execution.

It has become increasingly apparent that not only are such acts going to con-

tinue, it is just a matter of time before another one occurs that sparks outrage.

Many of the groups affected by acts of hate often have to deal with offensive slurs, prejudice and stereotypes. This type of bullying has become a norm for them, but that should not be the case.

In the United States, everyone is expected to have freedom. You should have freedom of speech, but not the right to intimidate, assault or murder those who are different. You should be able to walk down any street—regardless of your race, ethnicity, immigration status, religion, gender identity and/or sexual orientation—without fear of being intimidated or assaulted in some way.

We live in an incredibly divisive time right now. My hope is that we will be able to pass hate crimes legislation here in Indiana, without any blood being spilled. However, as time goes on, I am starting to think that maybe the only way for the legislation to pass is for someone in Indiana to become a victim of a brutal act such as those inflicted upon Shepard or Byrd. Yet, another part of me acknowledges that if Indiana really wanted to pass the law, legislators could have done it after Shepard’s death in 1998, or when the federal law was passed in 2009.

I am not a politician, but as a Hoosier who often has heard that people from Indiana have “Hoosier hospitality,” I cannot understand how we can have hospitality if we do not protect those of our citizens who are most at risk from prejudice and violence. It seems as if the words “Hoosier” and “hospitality” are in opposition to each other—as if we could hypothetically go out of our way to help a motorist with car troubles, but then push the person off a cliff the second we find out that he or she does not like basketball. If we want to continue to live up to our reputation and the idea of “Hoosier hospitality,” we need to take a stand against anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia and racism by passing hate crimes legislation, and we need to do it now.

Advertisements as vehicles for social action

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

Gillette’s recent short film, “The Best a Man Can Be” rightly criticizes toxic masculinity and its implications for future generations. The film is the most recent addition to a slew of controversial brand advertisements speaking on sociopolitical issues. From Nike’s profoundly moving Kaepernick ad to Pepsi’s disastrous police brutality ad, debates rage on about how ethical it is for a company to leverage social issues for profit. Considering the massive reach of big companies like Gillette and Nike, I believe that the messages portrayed in these social ads, if presented well, can serve as a catalyst for social change.

According to Nielsen, the average American sees as many as 5,000 ads per day. These advertisements are an exaggerated facsimile of our own reality, and by their very nature designed to influence how we view the world. Whether they’re trying to convince us to buy a Snuggie or attempting to speak on racism, ads have immensely powerful social influence. When advertising is done poorly, according to the American Psychological Association, it can have far-reaching negative effects: Tobacco and alcohol ads can contribute to under-

age drinking and smoking. And women may experience depressive symptoms when exposed to the ultra-thin, unrealistic body ideal often portrayed by models in ads. Unsurprisingly, there are very real consequences from being exposed to certain types of advertising.

However, the influence of advertising also can move in the opposite direction.

Properly done advertisements historically have started important conversations. In 2013, for example, Cheerios released a seemingly innocent ad with one integral element: it featured an interracial family. The resulting backlash sparked conversations about race and what currently constituted the “traditional” American family. However, in the aftermath of the ad’s release, it “inspired an online community of interracial families dedicated to publicly reflecting the changing face of the American family,” according to Medium. Furthermore, the Cheerios ad was largely responsible for inspiring numerous other brands, such as Chevrolet and Coca Cola, to weigh in on the new American family, from such names as Chevrolet and Coca Cola. Arguably, the Cheerios commercial sparked an important conversation about race in America that wasn’t taking place on such a large scale before. The ad established a stage for open debate over a crucial topic.

Taking risks and speaking out on social issues reaps its own share of benefits for businesses, according to Forbes.

Sprout Social, a provider of social media management for businesses, surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. consumers about how or if they want to see brand names speaking up on social issues. Two-thirds of those surveyed indicated that they wanted brands to be more involved with social and political issues. In addition, businesses that address social issues properly have historically done well in the aftermath. After the Cheerios commercial, brand exposure went up by 77 percent, and the company's CEO highlighted a boost in sales from new advertising, according to Medium. More recently, Nike’s online sales increased by 31 percent following the Kaepernick ad.

In essence, speaking up on social issues has the capacity to benefit both the brands and the people these social issues affect. When brands address big sociopolitical topics, they often give a loud voice to those who often don't get a say in popular media. In the past, brands have used advertisements to support the fight for gay marriage, as well as address hot topics like toxic masculinity and racism. Brands have the capacity to spread awareness regarding issues they feel strongly about, and not acknowledging that kind of power is dangerous.

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More than twenty years ago, Ikea aired the first advertisement to explicitly feature a gay couple. Despite initial backlash, Ikea kept the ad on the air, inspiring more ads focused on the LGBTQ demographic and eventually leading other companies openly to advocate for the gay community. While some may loathe to say it, brands hold immense power as vehicles for social action, far more powerful than ordinary individuals on their own. Therefore, if a brand wants to speak up on social issues, they must understand their potential for far-reaching change and overall influence. As Starbucks founder Howard Schultz puts it, “Given the state of affairs, being indifferent is as

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evil as contributing to the vitriol, hate and division going on in the country.”

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Indiana: Giving a whole new meaning to “you’re hot and you’re cold... you’re up and you’re down.”

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Ballard from page 1 Assistant professor of political science Laura Merrifield Wilson began the Q&A by asking why he chose to write this book now. According to Ballard, he began writing his book on Jan. 4, 2016, in Santa Barbara, Calif. He said he wrote the book because he knew that there were feasible and alternative energy sources.

“There are a lot of people,” Ballard said, “That don’t know we spent $5 trillion over the last 40 years and lost 6,000 lives just to make sure the oil comes out.”

Ballard said he would like his book to shed light on things that people may not know. For example, in 2017, without the cost of wars, $81 billion was spent on protecting the oil alone, according to Ballard.

“I don’t think the average person even has a clue about the sort of thing,” Ballard said. “About how much money we spend, and how we protect the oil for the rest of the world.”

Freshman elementary education major Paige Bateman attended the event and agreed with Ballard's point of view on the matter, she also did not realize how involved the military was in protecting oil, not just for the U.S., but also for countries like China and Iran.

The less money someone has to spend on a car and on oil, the less of a demand there will be for the transportation of oil which is what the U.S. troops are protecting overseas.

“I realized, after that, electric cars were so useful,” Bateman said. “It costs overall less than a car.”

She said she believed that Ballard’s point of view was interesting and she enjoyed that he focused on a lesser use of oil and fossil fuels from a national security point of view, and not on an environmentalist point of view.

One question, brought up by Franz, was what everyday people could do about consuming oil and energy. Ballard said that people should look towards electric cars as an alternative to traditional transportation methods that consume more oil. He also said people should ask their representatives about how they feel about 40 plus years of protecting oil in the Middle East.

"In 10 more years, 10 to 12-year-old kids will be in the Middle East," said Ballard. "I know this because I could have made this statement 40 years ago when troops first went there."

According to Ballard, being aware of troop involvement might change their representative's perspective on the dependency of oil in the U.S. “Ever since the [British] moved out in the early 1970s, it has been our mission to do that,” Ballard said. “We also have had to [protect oil] for the world because oil is a critical, strategic commodity for almost every nation. But now we have an alternative ... we need to be moving toward that.”

Ballard said he believes that electric cars are an important use of alternative energy, and will limit the need for oil overall. He said his electric car costs him a dollar to drive 100 miles, and that the average car cost $15 to drive the same distance.

Freshman elementary education major, Leilani McMichel, who attended the event, also agreed that going with less oil based cars would be better for the environment, and also would eliminate the need for troops overseas protecting that oil. McMichel said that she did not know about the topic at all, but enjoyed learning about it.

Ballard has focused on alternative energy before, including during his tenure as mayor and he has even ran an initiative with UIndy students in an effort to create one of Indiana’s first clean energy plans, in 2017, called the Energy Plan Community Conversation. He used these plans to attempt to educate legislators over clean energy.

“It was a one-year project,” Ballard said. “Our intent was to tell state office holders and regulators that this is what we think [about energy]. We gave a copy to every legislator in the state house. The interns also presented it here at UIndy.”

Although the interns created the plan, state legislators never adopted it.

Nonetheless, Ballard said the initiative was fun and the students were great with their involvement with the plan.

"Not all of the students knew that much about energy. The great thing about that is that not everybody knew coming in. They were just kind of interested about it... We did a lot of education early on, and then [the students] put their touch to it. The communications here at UIndy and the marketing folks kind of put the package together...

It was a great night," Ballard said. "I was writing that energy plan with the students [and] it was really a lot of fun and I think that it was for them too."

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Former mayor Greg Ballard answers question from Laura Merrifield Wilson during a Q&A session about his book covering national security on Feb 11.

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Greta Pennell (left) and Surabhi Khanna (right) construct Featuring stacked balls and different fabrics with varying Pennell's toy during her sabbatical trip to Germany. edges, Pennell's toy has multiple levels of difficulty.

Professor learns toy design Greta Pennell attends workshop on inclusive toy design ..

By Zoe Berg

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The 18th International Creativity Workshop “Toy Design and Inclusive Play” hosted by the Berlin-based, non-profit association “Fördern durch Spielmittel e.V.” (“Support and Challenge through Toys“) was held Jan. 14-28. The 23 participants included designers, toy developers, artists, teachers, psychologists and therapists from around the world, including the only participant from the United States, University of Indianapolis Professor of Teacher Education Greta Pennell.

According to the program’s application, the aim was to “develop new toys for children adults that increase their joy of playing, support inclusive education and contribute to ecological sustainability.”

The two-week workshop began with the participants explaining their previous work, getting 10 minutes each to present. Pennell talked about her First Year Seminar course, Gender in Toyland, where students learn about how children are socialized to understand gender roles through toys and toy advertisements.

After this, they were broken up into interdisciplinary teams of four or five and assigned one of four mentors. For her mentoring, Pennell worked with Surabhi Khanna, who is from India.

She said when she first joined the International Toy Research Association, of which she is now Vice President, she met Khanna’s father so she was excited to work with Khanna. The teams broke up and visited different institutions around Berlin to get varying ideas to go toward designing a new inclusive toy.

“So everywhere that people went— they went to places where there were people with disabilities,” Pennell said.

“The idea was to really use this notion of a universal design for learning or universal design in general, like how do we design to include everybody.

And then we came back, shared our observations from what we had seen at our respective sites.”

While some participants went to senior care facilities or schools specifically for children on the autism spectrum, others went to regular schools that had children with special needs mainstreamed in, which Pennell said is more common in Germany. This experience was supposed to inspire the participants own toy design.

Pennell said she did not realize that she would be designing a toy when she started the workshop and had no prior experience as she is a developmental psychologist that teaches about gender and toys. Khanna had Pennell begin by sketching her idea, and Pennell said she wanted to design an invitational toy but that there was some confusion on what that meant.

“In explaining it, that's when I kind of had my aha moment because I showed her [Khanna] what I meant,” Pennell said. “What I did is an old trick that I had done when I used to be at the Children's Museum to teach kids about Newton's laws of motion and inertia.

And I'm sure you've seen it where the magician has the tablecloth, the table setting and rips tablecloth out from underneath. Well, I just did it on a really small scale.”

Pennell’s toy is called “Don’t Lose Your Head” and featured four stacks of small balls of varying heights and colors and a variety of fabric. The objective of the toy is put the fabric under the stacks of balls and then pull it out without knocking over the stack. The balls have a small hole drilled in the top and a tiny dowel rod out of the bottom to help hold them together, however, the stacks still wobble, which adds a level of difficulty. The stacks also have little hats on top and as they get taller they become more wobbly. The fabric ranges in difficulty due to thickness and type, with the easiest being a rainbow organza and the most difficult being suede leather. Each

of the fabrics also has different edges to add another element.

“So that if you really wanted to use it as a science teaching tool, there was a way then you could ask kids, ‘So does it matter? Does the color of the fabric matter? Does the texture of the fabric matter? Does the shape of the edge matter?’” Pennell said. “And they could test that out so that you can use it with older kids in a more sophisticated way.”

Participants presented their prototypes to each other to get feedback and then decided which to fully develop.

Pennell said they worked from about 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. with time for lunch and dinner. On the final day of the workshop, an exhibition was held to showcase the results of the workshop. About 300 people came to the exhibition, including the mayor of Berlin who gave remarks and judges, according to Pennell.

Pennell said she has many ideas that she could bring back to UIndy, and learned a lot about other countries and how they do toy design. For example, she said in India one of the schools of engineering has a toy design research department, which she thought could be interesting to implement.

“One thing that I'm really interested in is how we might use what I've learned about toy design...” Pennell said.

“In terms of the courses that I do teach, thinking about what did I learn about collaborative teams, design process thinking, how could I incorporate that into my courses.”

Through this experience Pennell met many different people from all over the world. She said, if the timing works out, she would love to Skype them into her classes so that they can share their expertise with her students.

“I think the best part of it was forming these collegial relationships,” Pennell said. “It's amazing how close we all became in just two weeks and the depth of the discussions that we could have about what are our challenges that we're facing in our home countries.”

Professors, students conduct research

By Justus O’Neil STAFF WRITER

The University of Indianapolis contributes to ongoing research in current fields including sociology, kinesiology, psychology, biology and many more. Professors within these fields conduct research both independently and alongside students.

Assistant Professors of Kinesiology Nathan Eckert and Trent Cayot, and some of their students, have been working on a Parkinson’s Diseaserelated study in partnership with Rock Steady Boxing, a non-profit boxing program. This organization was cofounded by Scott Newman and Vince Perez. Newman was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the age of 40. Rock Steady Boxing has attained the mission “to empower people with Parkinson’s disease to ‘fight back.’"

Eckert has also worked towards “understanding neurophysiological mechanisms associated with acute and chronic pain…[and applying] this new understanding in ways to develop and assess current rehabilitation and reintegration techniques…” as his research goals and has been able to integrate this into his curriculum at UIndy.

“We really run the gamut when it comes to the research we’re doing here at UIndy,” Eckert said. “We’re all over

According to Associate Professor of the spectrum, so if a professor teaches the course, they’re bound to be doing Kinesiology Michael Diacin, research within higher education is not only apresearch on it.”

Eckert explained that UIndy is just plicable to, but compliments, real world scratching the surface of any and all career paths ranging from practitioners fields of expertise. Research is never tru- to clinicians to sports coaches.

“Every study has a weakness and ly complete because each project digs deeper into the knowledge of its subject, should be left open-ended so that any uncovering ideas and avenues for fur- and all researchers are able to learn from and build off of ther research past research," to be done, Diacin said. according to Eckert.

"We... run the gamut when "Research is for the benefit “When it it comes to the research of all of us so comes to reit is important search,” Eckert we're doing here..." that we leave it said, “It is an open to everyacquired taste one.” and can be A few of UIndy’s kinesiologyfrustrating at times, but getting a better understanding for the subject, a better related research studies include topics understanding of the craft, that makes it that correlate with service learning and managerial studies, carried out by worth your while.”

Students are encouraged to get in- Diacin. Diacin has been recognized by volved in projects for the various bene- the National American Society for Sport fits that researching offers, according to Management, as well as in academic Eckert. Students can talk to professors journals including International Journal about researching for ongoing projects, of Event and Festival Management, or they can suggest new ones. Eckert Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport said that the only requirement for a stu- and others.

Some of the sociology research dent to get involved is to have an intercurrently going on at UIndy includes est in the project.

“Research is not as intimidating as Associate Professor of Sociology Amanda people might think it is," Cayot said. Miller’s research on cohabitation and "It’s very easy to get involved in research community improvement. Miller has been recognized in Food Network as well if you put yourself out there."

as academic journals, including Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, Marriage and Family, Social and Personal Relationships and Qualitative Sociology.

According to Miller, research experience for students within the same major sets them apart from each other and makes their resumé stand out from other applicants and is also beneficial for their future careers. "...99 percent of students will be using research at some point in their careers, either as consumers or producers, so building this skill set now will not only help you get a job, but it'll allow you to move up the ladder in the one you have," Miller said. "Just as importantly, though, it's a lot of fun. To get to ask the burning questions that come to you... and then actively and systematically try to figure out the answer is interesting and rewarding...."

Like Miller, Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Fekete has also been recognized in various journals, including Psychology and Health, Emerging Adulthood, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Psychoneuroendocrinology and more. Fekete is currently conducting research on prejudice reduction, health stigma, social identity, women in STEM and other subjects Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Amie Wojtyna and her research on community-based health and wellness

has been recognized at Butler University undergraduate research conferences, Harvard research presentation conferences and when the community is considering changes around UIndy.

“Any ongoing research at UIndy has an impact on the field of study it is within, but some of these projects have a direct impact on our communities,” Wojtyna said. “Community gardens have been built on University Heights Methodist, as well as Bethany Lutheran church grounds. We have even created a food pantry that is community-run through donations and is accessible 24/7 by the public.”

Students that wish to get involved in research are invited to attend UIndy’s first annual campus wide Scholars Showcase. This event highlights undergraduate and graduate students’ academic accomplishments from all UIndy units and departments across campus. Student and faculty research will be on display April 12, 2019 on UIndy’s campus.

According to Director of College of Health Sciences Movement Science Lab Stephanie Combs-Miller, students and faculty can submit current research, projects, and previously presented work is also encouraged to be displayed again at the Scholars Showcase.

“Jump in," Fekete said. "See the excitement that comes with researching for yourself.”

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Alumnus receives award from IHSAA

By Madison Gomez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Hard work and contributions in his job earned class of 1990 alumnus Chris Kaufman recognition within his company, not only on an office basis, but also company-wide. Kaufman is the assistant commissioner for the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Through his contributions, Kaufman has helped numerous high schools throughout Indiana during his 12 years of work at IHSAA. “It’s humbling, number one, because you don’t do the work that we do for schools, for kids and for accolades,” Kaufman said. “You do it because you love doing it and to be recognized for that is very humbling.”

The award is a mark of recognition within the IHSAA. Its larger association, the National Federation of State High School Associations, gives this award to someone in Indiana every five years. The length of time in between each award is because Indiana is part of the division of the NPSHA that includes Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. The award rotates between these each year and this year, it came to Indiana. The commissioners and directors were able to nominate one employee for the award and Kaufman was that employee.

Commissioner Bobby Cox said he nominated Kaufman because of his work for the company, his dedication and his cooperation with others, among other things. According to Cox, Kaufman has brought in revenue within their partnerships, inherited administration of four sports and has oversight of the broadcast network that the company has to produce its own media coverage.

These factors included by his “excellent” work ethic, as Cox describes it, were the reasons why Cox chose to nominate Kaufman.

“I think Chris’ work ethic is exemplary, he always is seeking to do the extra effort,” Cox said. “We’re always looking for our people to put in the extra effort in all their work and do it with excellence, Chris does that work with a high level of excellence and distinction, he’s always thinking new things to do. [He’s] very progressive and forward thinking, he’s very welcoming in our environment he’s receptive to instruction, he’s the kind of guy that is a team guy.”

While in college, Kaufman decided that he wanted to go into sports with his business administration degree because of his close work with the former sports information director, Joe Gentry.

The coaches that he encountered in his experience, including the coach of the football team at UIndy, encouraged him to go into the high school level.

After working at Cathedral High School in Indy, Kaufman built up connections through his position in sports information. Writing articles and contacting the media every day for 16 years, the job built his name up throughout the state, and he said that the position he is currently in was not one that he was planning on undertaking.

“That network [from Cathedral] has probably led me to the job I’m in now,” Kaufman said. “I don’t think [the job is] anything that I sought out after or wanted to get to, it just kind of evolved and when this position became available here at the IHSAA, I applied for it,” Kaufman said.

According to Kaufman, his experiences gained from UIndy showed him that he did not want to go the corporate route of his job. He was able to receive help along the way from his past coaches and his father who was also a coach. Kaufman said that these factors made him want to give back what he had received. The connection that he had to the public while going back into using his Cathedral experience and also coaching experience, has led Kaufman on a path of success, which has been noticed by his peers. “[This award is] not meaning others are not doing excellent work because they are, but when I looked at Chris’ body of work dealing with our corporate partners and sponsors, administration with sports, his ability to go above and beyond for the association, for the betterment of our group,” Cox said. “I thought it was appropriate to single him out and give him that recognition.”

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Diversity in sports, then and now Diversity in coaching staffs, teams has been a priority at UIndy since 1920s head coach, Gouard said, but he understands the need for diversity within UIndy athletics. While Gouard has noENTERTAINMENT EDITOR ticed that he is the only African-AmerThe record held by second winnin- ican head coach in the league, he said gest coach and hall of fame member, it does not bother him because he has Harry Good, was recently broken by learned to interact with people of all Stan Gouard, head coach of men’s bas- backgrounds. ketball. Beyond record breaks, Gouard “Sometimes people look at it differsurpassing Good in terms of wins has a ently than I do. Everybody’s eyes are symbolic significance for diversity at the different. It’s not problematic in my University of Indianapolis. eyes, it’s just the way it is and someDuring his time as the coach of var- thing we’ve got to deal with and make ious sports in Indianapolis, Good was change,” Gouard said. “If you’re a guy well-known for his progressive views who’s coaching and see it as problemwhen it came to recruiting athletes of atic, then you have a right and can do color to play on his teams, according to something about it.”

Professor of History and Faculty AthDoing something about it is a priorletics Representative Larry Sondhaus. ity for Vice President for Intercollegiate “He [Good] was historically signifi- Athletics Sue Willey, who has a differcant for recruiting black athletes. From ent perspective on the issue of diversity the beginning, there were non-white in athletics. Willey said she feels that it students here [at UIndy], but they were is important for every university to pritypically church connections,” Sondhaus oritize diverse coaching staffs so that said. “Back in the 20s and 30s, there was athletes have role models to look up to. a color line even in the Big 10…There “All of our student athletes should were great, great be able to basketball playsee people ers who IU [Inwho look like “All of our student athletes them, peodiana University] and Purdue ple who talk should be able to see [University] like them, could not re- people who look like them.” because they cruit, and he got are the stuthem to come dents’ role here. He [Good] recruited them.” models,” Willey said. “I personally get Good later left the university to very frustrated, and feel badly for a lot of coach at IU and eventually retired from other teams, when I see a men's basketthe University of Nebraska after a long ball team where at least half the players career in athletics. His legacy of inclu- are black and the whole coaching staff is sion, however, remained relevant when white. What message are we sending?”

UIndy’s first African-American head For Gouard, representation is not as coach, Gouard, surpassed him for a new much of a priority as relating to players. school record.

While his race has helped him connect Being African-American has not with some players, Gouard said that he personally affected his experience as uses his ability to mingle with people

By Abby Land

Photo By Marissa Burton

Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard directs his team from the sideline against Rockhurst. He is UIndy’s second all-time winningest coach. from different backgrounds to communicate with each athlete regardless of their background.

“There’s been times when you had to relate to your players because of color, but at the same time I can relate to all my guys because I was in their shoes once,” Gouard said. “You look at guys, and not just the average American guys, everybody’s come from very different backgrounds. You’re talking middle class, high class, low class. So you’ve got to relate, and I’ve been around all types of people in my years as a person, as a player.”

Apart from their expertise about en-

Photo By Tony Reeves

Head Tennis Coach Malik Tabet talks to freshmen Nikol Alexeeva (left) and Anya Novikova (right) after their doubles match against Butler University.

thusiasm for athletics, relating to student athletes from various backgrounds is an important part of what coaches like Gouard contribute to athletics at UIndy. They serve as examples, Willey said, that players can look up to.

“Through much of the university’s history, athletics has been responsible for adding racial diversity to the student body. Dating back to when Harry Good recruited Dave DeJernett in 1930, men’s basketball has led the way,” Sondhaus said. “The tradition of providing opportunities to talented student-athletes from all backgrounds continues today under Coach Gouard.”

Photo by Ki Tally

Doubles partners Renato Lima (left) and Magnus Mueller (right) fist-bump after Lima scores in their close match against the Bears. The pair won 7-6.

Tabet leads tennis to success

By Tony Reeves

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT At the beginning of the season, both tennis teams from the University of Indianapolis began the year ranked first for the men, and fifth for the women, within the Midwest region. Both teams are led by Head Coach Malik Tabet, who played collegiate tennis before becoming a coach.

“It [coaching] is an awesome job,” Tabet said. “Tennis has been my whole life pretty much. I grew up playing tennis and came to the United States to play college tennis. Then I became a graduate assistant coach and then decided to pursue a coaching career. I love everyday of it.”

As a collegiate athlete, Tabet won the NAIA national championship while attending the University of Mobile (Ala.) while simultaneously becoming an NAIA All-American. Tabet was also an international tennis player, playing for the Algerian National team from 1991-95. He won the 1995 Sham International Tennis Open and the Gillette International Tennis Open in Rosas, Spain.

He then qualified for the French Na-

tional Championship after becoming champion of the French Rhone-Alps Region.

Since the 2012-13 season, Tabet has coached the tennis programs to multiple national rankings, including the women’s team to the sixth in the midwest in his first season. Tabet has coached five separate appearances in the tennis Sweet 16 tournament, according to UIndy athletics, which is a style competition featuring 16 teams that will face each other, with the last team undefeated becoming the national champion.

Reaching the Sweet 16 had never occurred prior to Tabet’s tenure in UIndy tennis history. This season, Tabet said he has high goals for the tennis teams.

“Every year is about winning the conference and making it to the nationals,” Tabet said. “Making it to the Sweet 16 is the ultimate goal, and when we get there, you play the top 16 teams in the country and anything can happen.”

In Division II tennis, teams must win the first two rounds within their region to make it to the Sweet 16, according to Tabet.

Tabet has also coached his teams to five GLVC championships, two for the women and three for the men. According to UIndy athletics, Tabet has not

lost a conference game with the men’s team since the end of the 2012-2013 season and has only lost three matches in conference since then. The women’s team has only lost four matches since then as well.

“The last few years we have made it to the Sweet 16, and last year, the men made it to the Final Four which was very exciting for us,” Tabet said.

Sophomore tennis player Alina Kislitskaya describes the average practice under Tabet as lasting around two hours and consisting of a variety of drills.

“Sometimes we play some single drills for 30 minutes, sometimes we play doubles, but it is hard,” Kislitskaya said.

“On Mondays we run a lot because we do not have practice on Saturdays and Sundays, so coach is killing us on Mondays.”

According to Kislitskaya, mental toughness is the most difficult part of playing tennis, but Tabet prepares them for that.

“You can work on it physically and in the gym and during the practices but when you are down early in the match and your teammates are down it is tough to stay up,” Kislitskaya said. “Mental toughness is the hardest thing and coach talks about it all the time during

the season.”

Tabet said he feels that UIndy has given him the opportunity to make it to nationals and be successful there.

With the men going to the to national semi-final match last year, they have seen national success before. Tabet not only wants his athletes to be successful on the tennis courts, but in their lives as well.

“My philosophy as a coach, we don’t just train to become a better tennis player, we train to become a better person,” Tabet said. “We’re trying to prepare ourselves for the real life. Real life is that you’re gonna go to work, you have to have discipline, you have to be focused, you have to know how to handle pressure. This is not about possibly winning trophies, this is about us getting ready for the real life. And my student athletes understand that philosophy and they run with it.”

Tabet said that his athletes come back after they graduate and talk about his philosophy.

The tennis teams’ postseason begins May 11 for the men and May 13 with women starting the NCAA Regionals.

If the teams win, they will advance towards the Sweet 16 and a potential national championship.

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THE REFLECTOR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Baseball and softball set preseason goals Teams set sights toward national championships despite conference changes in the GLVC

By Jacob Walton

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT The baseball and softball teams are aiming for another year of success amid conference changes. The Great Lakes Valley Conference has changed its format for this upcoming season ridding itself of the Eastern and Western divisions which previously divided the conference. Head Baseball Coach Al Ready said that the changes helped strengthen of the conference.

“The GLVC is not slouch in baseball. It’s one of the largest, if not the largest Division II conferences in the country,” Ready said. “…the old East was a gauntlet to go through. I think the three game series will help. We used to play four game series for conference up until this year and I think that will help even things out since they’ve done away with divisions.”

According to Ready, the team bolstered their pitching staff over the offseason by bringing in freshmen to support their older pitchers. Ready said the new way the conference is done will help even out on the pitching side. Senior pitcher Jake Sprinkle said he is benefiting from the newer faces on the team and he was happy to see the amount of competition between the freshmen.

“It’s really good when you have a lot of freshmen and younger guys because the competition level just rises so much,” Sprinkle said. “...When we’re having scrimmages against our own team, we have guys out there that are throwing that are freshmen with no experience that are just shoving it down our hitters throats and senior hitter they’re striking them out and it’s just great to see that and to see the competition level that we’ve seen so far has been amazing.”

Along with the conference chang-

es, The baseball team is in a transition year with the former head coach Gary Vaught retiring at the e n d of last season a n d Ready stepping into the role.

was not to scrap everything that we’ve done for 20 years. My goal was to build on Coach Vaught’s legacy,” Ready said.

“The program would not be close to what it is today without the Bill Wrights and the Gary Vaughts that came before me. I want to build on that legacy and make it better, better and better. That was our message to the players, and they’ve all been o n

Previous GLVC Conference East

sition players from a team that can hit.

We could hit last year, we made it to the GLVC conference title game last year, we swung the bats, we got hot at the right time and we can hit,” Ready said. “Because we have so many returning guys, my

New GLVC Conference

Illinois Springfield Bellarmine Southern Indiana UIndy Lewis McKendree UW Parkside

William Jewell Missouri S&T Drury

Bellarmine Maryville

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Illinois Springfield

Drury Quincy Maryville Missouri S&T Missouri St. Louis William Jewell Rockhurst Truman State Ready said he has a past with the program previously playing for UIndy and moving into an assistant coach role later in his career. Ready said it’s not his goal to change what Vaught had established, but instead to build upon it.

“I told the players when I first got announced as the head coach, my goal

UIndy Lewis

McKendree

Missouri St. Louis Quincy

Rockhurst

Southern Indiana Truman State

board with it. We had a great fall, it’s been a great spring so far, I can’t wait to get started in a couple weeks.”

Both Sprinkle and Ready described the goals of the team, which is to take advantage of the experience on the team and work towards a conference championship and eventually making it into the regional tournament.

“We have six returning starting po-

Graphic by Jacob Walton

expectation is that we’re going to score some runs, maybe not necessarily at the rate we did last year, but we’re gonna score enough to win some games.”

The softball team has also set their goal high with Head Coach Melissa Frost declaring it to be one of the top programs in the nation. The team was

GREYHOUND SPORTS UPDATE TRACK & FIELD

Photo Contributed by Ryan Thorpe

Photo Contributed by Ryan Thorpe

The men’s swimming and diving team are the GLVC Champions, earning 801 points and several medals.

The women’s swimming and diving team placed second in the GLVC Championship tournament for 2019.

SWIMMING & DIVING

The 2019 GLVC Swimming and Diving Championships ended on Feb. 9 with the men winning for the second season in a row and the women placing second.

Scoring a total of 801 points in the victory, nine gold medals were awarded to the men. Senior back/fly/IM Rodrigo Codo Berti received six medals, three of which were gold medals. He received the gold medals in the 200 medley relay, 100 and 200 backstroke. Berti won the 2019 Men’s Swimmer of the Year for the second year in a row, the first UIndy swimmer in over a decade to do so.

The women returned with three gold medals themselves, as sophomore dives Cassie Kury for the three-meter and one-meter events along with the Diver of the Year award. She also broke a GLVC meet record in the one-meter dive event. The women broke a total of six records in the meet. Teammate junior backstrokes

MENS LACROSSE W 10-9 Feb. 16 vs. Seton Hill

After going into overtime, the men’s lacrosse team took a victory over Seton Hill as the highest ranked triumph in history, winning 10-9.

Junior attack Shawn Kimble had his eighth hat trick of his career while junior attack Parker Kump scored his third goal during the afternoon. Freshman Drew Billig tallied a pair of scores, which gave the Hounds a 9-8 lead with only five minutes remaining.

Junior goalie Jared Kimble picked up a game-high 10 ground balls.

Edda Skoric was the first medal recipient and broke her own UIndy record and a GLVC meet record with a time of 1:55.80 in the 200 meter-backstroke. Skoric also qualified for NCAA Division II championships through March 1316.

The meet ended with the 400 free relays, in which the women placed second with a record breaking time of 3:24.91. The event was swam by Skoric, Kirsten Votava, Izzi Clark and Krystal Caylor, beating the time that has been a record since 2012. The women scored 784.5 points overall, beating out the third place finisher Truman State University by over 300 points.

The men’s placement came down to the final race, with a fourth place finish to secure their victory over Missouri University S&T. The women ended with 10 podium finishes and the men with 13 podium finishes.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

W 69-64

Feb. 16 vs. Missouri-St.Louis

Celebrating their senior day with a win over Missouri-St.Louis, the men’s basketball team are on their 10th GLVC win of the season and the ninth campaign the team has reached double- figure conference victories. The team beat the Tritons 69-64.

Sophomore forward Trevor Lakes led the Hounds with 19 points, scoring five 3-pointers the sixth time this season. Senior forward Jesse Kempson and senior guard CJ Hardaway combined 24 points and 11 rebounds.

ranked 4th in the preseason poll by all the GLVC coaches which Frost said works as motivation to get better for the team.

“I think we’re a great ball club, well put together. We didn’t have a great showing last year and I think as a result of that is why we’re ranked fourth in the GLVC,” Frost said.“So it’s always motivation to be a No. 1 and always motivation to get better, that’s exactly what we’re going to use it as.”

The team has their entire pitching staff returning with only one new face joining the roster, freshman pitcher Amy Kaniweski. The team also has its back-to-back team MVP returning, senior third basemen Taylor Podschweit who said that the expectations are high for her this season.

“Personally, I like to set my expectations a little bit high, I like to be one of the leaders on the team, somebody that the team can look up to and really lead by example,” Podschweit said. “Really just putting in the work that needs to be done for me to get back to where I was last year and hopefully being more successful than that as well.”

Podschweit led the team last year, statistically on base with slugging at .924, RBIs with 54, and home runs with seven. Podschweit said she still has room to improve, however, she has a strategy on how she is going to accomplish that.

“One of my personal goals would be to constantly improve from last year, I think last year was a little bit better than the year before,” Podschweit said. “A personal goal of mine would be a little bit more selective at the plate. Be a little bit more patient at the plate while hitting and just being one of the forces in the GLVC, and hopefully the nation too.”

UPCOMING GAMES

Track & Field

February 23: GLVC Indoor Championships

Leading up to the GLVC indoor championships, the track and field teams went to two track meets over the weekend with the Buckeye Tune-Up on Feb. 15 and the DePauw Tiger Classic on Feb. 16.

At the Buckeye Tune-Up, the track teams did not travel, just the throwers and hurdlers competed against Division I competition at The Ohio State University. Senior thrower Katie Monk placed fourth in shot put, throwing 15.37m. Senior thrower Hilary Paxson also placed fourth, but in weight throw, tossing the 20 lbs weight throw 19.36m.

For the men, senior thrower Austin Hogan placed second overall in weight throw with 19.72m. However, he was the top collegiate athlete, as the winner did not compete for a college.

Swimming & Diving

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

March 2: @ Northwest Missori State

W 66-63

Feb. 16 vs. Missouri-St. Louis

The women’s basketball team faced off against Missouri-St.Louis on Feb. 16, leaving the Greyhounds with a win 66-63.

The Greyhounds were able to get a head start in the game by scoring the first five points, then taking a lead into the second quarter. Junior forward Emma Benoit scored 15 points, 11 boards and set her career high with five blocks, also going for her seventh double-double of the season.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE W 17-5 Feb. 16 vs. Findlay

On Feb. 16, the women’s lacrosse team took a win over the Oilers, 17-5 for their first game of the season.

During the game, sophomore attack Grace Gunneson scored two minutes in and continued to add to the board, marking the fourth time in her career that she has scored at least five goals in one game.

Redshirt sophomore attack Destinie Katz is up to 52 assists in 15 games and added three goals for the win.

February 23: First Chace Meet

Men’s Lacrosse February 23: vs. Lincoln Memorial University March 2: vs. Mercyhurst University

Womens’ Lacrosse

February 23: vs. Charleston University March 2: vs. Le Moyne College

Men’s Tennis

February 22: @ Ferris State University

Women’s Tennis

February 23: @ Bowling Green University February 24: @ Ball State University

Men’s Basketball

February 21: @ Bellarmine University February 23: @ University of Southern Indiana

Women’s Basketball February 21: @ Bellarmine University February 23: @ University of Southern Indiana

Men’s Golf February 25-26: Rattler Invitational

Women’s Golf

March 4-5: Rattler Invitational Greyhound Update Box by Cassandra Lombardo and Tony Reeves

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FEATURE

THE REFLECTOR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

BLACK HISTORY MONTH BSA hosts events to show perseverance BSA hosts a month full of events for Black History Month to inspire students of color at UIndy

By Shayla Cabalan OPINION EDITOR

When senior applied psychology major Gabrielle Elam was just a freshman, her involvement with the Black Student Association was limited. Elam said she primarily went to the general body meetings as a freshman, but as the years went by, she grew more involved in BSA’s various events. Now, as the president of the BSA, Elam said she deeply understands the importance of hosting events which cater to the black perspective, especially during Black History Month.

“It’s different to have actual events for Black History Month, because in high school you didn’t have anything like that,” Elam said. “Having a Black Student Association to host these events, just letting people know that there are others on campus like you, that wanna have fun like you, that grew up in the same environment as you and now you all go to the same school… it’s really nice to join everyone together.”

According to Elam, the events for this month aim primarily to be educational of the black experience and the fun for all attendees. Among the biggest events for the month are the Black Gala, game nights, the Legacy of Excellence Dinner and a poetry-reading with world-renowned African-American

writer Randall Horton. news that we typically take for granted,” The Black Gala, which took place on Riley said. “That will help a lot of people Feb. 8, was the first to ever take place of color on campus have an understandat the University of Indianapolis. Sim- ing of the accomplishments that we do ilar to a homecoming gala, according have, and it will give people more of a to Elam, the Black Gala aimed to be a motivation to accomplish things in life. night of fun, food and dancing to kick We look to enlighten and encourage off the events to come throughout the and inspire.” rest of Black History Month.

Riley, who is the event coordinator “Events like the gala benefit the stu- for the BSA, has been involved with the dents because one, they’re educational, organization for two years. He said that and two, they’re fun,” said Elam. “This being involved has been a mix of encampus is realtertainment and ly small, so this education, paris also a way to ticularly during “Black History Month closely engage Black History with people from Month.

He notis a time for us different backed that people of to celebrate.” grounds. I hope color are not that [attendees] gain color for just one confidence to emmonth out of the brace their culture and ethnicity, and whole year; rather, they must live with want to engage with other people on their identity as a person of color always, campus.” with all that entails. Because of this, he Another event BSA hosted for Black said he especially believes it is important History Month was a trivia game night, for the events that occur during Black which happened on Feb. 12. According History Month to instill a sense of pride to junior environmental science major in one’s identity as a person of color.

Deshon Riley, the game night was con“Black History Month is a time for structed to be fun and collaborative, but us to celebrate. But I also feel it is a time in a way that educates others about the for many people to see exactly what has accomplishments of historical black fig- been accomplished, what exactly is beures. ing accomplished and what is on the “We aim to announce more of the rise to be accomplished,” Riley said. accomplishments that go unnoticed “That’s where I feel like BSA comes in the history books and maybe in the in. We can be direct, and we can be our

true selves with one another. We can take the masks off and actually speak on what we’ve done. We do this all year, but Black History Month is just a time for us to kinda put it all on display.”

Junior psychology major Darryl Hutson Jr. agreed with this sentiment.

Hutson is the secretary of BSA, and believes that beyond celebration and pride, overall Black History Month is about perseverance. He said he is particularly excited for the upcoming event with Randall Horton on Feb. 20. Horton, an African-American writer, had seven convicted felonies before turning his life around through writing. To Hutson Jr., this symbolizes perseverance in much the same way all black ancestors exemplified perseverance in the face of adversity.

“I don’t celebrate [Black History Month] just this month. I celebrate it every month. I love being black just as much as I love seeing my people happy.

I think it’s like perseverance,” Hutson. said. “So basically what our ancestors did, they persevered through anything they encountered, whether it was slavery, whether it was Jim Crow laws, whether it was segregation. Our ancestors, our great-great grandparents and even our parents overcame all that and persevered to build the foundation that we have right now, so we can serve our kids in the future, so we can better ourselves.

Black History Month is perseverance.”

Black inspirations celebrated all month, year

By Jayden Kennett MANAGING EDITOR

Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass are just a few of the thousands of prominent black figures that are celebrated throughout the month of February. Executive Vice President and Provost Stephen Kolison said it is important to reflect on the contributions that people of color have made throughout the history of the United States.

“Black history included adult slavery, which is, perhaps the most dehumanizing experience and sometimes that perception is hard to overcome as people unfortunately, sometimes choose to view blacks in that context, having come to America in chains,” Kolison said. “They have one of the most horrible experiences that any human being could experience, and sometimes, even not being treated as humans. So, it is good to reflect that now we are understanding [the] circumstances that blacks

Barkley Diggs

Freshman Exercise Science Major

“I would say it’s a combination of a lot of people, obviously it’s not going to be boiled down to one person. Martin Luther King Jr, Jackie Robinson, anyone that really had a big impact, did something that was special that has directly affected what I’ve been able to do, because without people like Jackie Robinson, or Oscar Robertson, in sports, I probably wouldn’t be able to play soccer here and do everything that I can... It’s kind of a big deal to me to think that without people doing important stuff like that, that I wouldn’t be in the situation that I’m in.”

Stephen Kolison Executive Vice President and Provost

“I’m a big fan of Barack Obama. I’m so inspired by him and I used to tell people that I could not get enough of just following Obama and a man with a very not only a great gifts, but the gift of kindness and caring for people. Someone who would think that it was important for all our fellow citizens to have access to healthcare, to m,e is a tremendous legacy.

It doesn’t matter what our political views may be. But being sick and being able to get healthcare to me it is something that we all as Americans should want.”

Jason Little Freshman Pre-Med Biology Major

“I have two people who inspire me, one being Will Smith and one being Martin Luther King [ Jr.]. Will Smith because at a hard time for the African American community he somehow found a way to make it in life so to speak…. He was in the very popular show, [the Fresh Prince of Bel Air]. So during those times it was actually a very difficult period for the African-American community but he just found a way to make it, safely without even causing a problem.

It shows me that anyone can make it. No matter what’s happening in life, they can still make it.”

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have contributed to the advancement of America. In a way many of our fellow citizens need to be reminded of that history.”

D’Ana Downing, assistant director of arts, non-profit, & communication for Professional Edge Center and co-advisor of Black Student Association, said the idea of celebrating herself and others happens everyday, rather than throughout the month of February. She said Black History Month is about celebrating the triumphs of African-Ameri-

cans. Kolison agreed and said BHM is a time to reflect on those triumphs.

“There are a lot of black individuals who have done a lot and that is why Black History Month it is very good to remind, otherwise people sometimes would default to how blacks came to this country,” Kolison said. “That’s very sad, very unfortunate, but when we pause in February to begin to reflect [on] the contributions in the arts, in the humanities, in social justice, in economics, in science, in medicine, it is tremendous.”

Brianna York Freshman International Relations and Political Science major

“I’d have to say the Obamas. They’re definitely very inspirational, and just very elegant and I just love what they've done… How they carry themselves and they are a very respectful example for young adults.”

Chloe Tyson

Junior Communication Major

“Michelle Obama inspires me. When she was in the White House, people attacked her for so many different things and she stood by her beliefs and didn’t waiver. She herself was an amazing human outside of the presidency. She could’ve been an influential figure without her husband being the president.”

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Phillip Daniel Moses

Director for Undergraduate Enterprise and Engagement

Freshman Exercise Science Major

“Over my life, I’ve come in contact with several individuals thats been very inspirational.

Of course my mom, she’s always inspired me to be the best person I can be. Looking through what my mom went through as a single parent, some of the challenges and diversity she was able to overcome has been very motivating for myself and my siblings and today my mom continues to break barriers in our family and constantly deliver fantastic results as a mother.”

“I have multiple inspirations when it comes to Black History Month. I would have to say Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired me to chase after my dreams and realize the beauty of my dreams. Malcolm X made me realize don't let where you're from determine where you're going…

My mother and my father, they are more of an inspiration when it comes to Black History Month, when it comes to anything… I am very inspired how they're very established form where they came from, they both came from nothing and thanks to them, I have an opportunity to be here at the University of Indianapolis.”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Orchestra returns to campus Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra returns on 20th anniversary of first performance at university

By Justus O’Neil STAFF WRITER

The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra returned to the University of Indianapolis to perform "The Colorful Telemann" on Feb. 11, conducted by Barthold Kuijken in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

Indy Baroque performed live as well as to record their fourth CD. They have a long standing partnership with UIndy—the orchestra first performed in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall in 1999, making this year the 20th anniversary of that performance.

According to Indy Baroque Concert Master and violinist Allison Nyquist, Indy Baroque was first brought to UIndy by retired professor Tom Gerber.

Nyquist said they felt welcomed into the community and privileged to play in such an acoustically elegant performance hall.

“Ruth Lilly Performance Hall has always been the perfect size,” Nyquist said.

“It makes the instruments honest, so we have to pay a lot of attention to detail as the hall truly reflects what sounds our instruments make for our audience…

UIndy is really our home base.”

According to Indy Baroque conductor Kuijken is an eminent leader in the field of the early music era. Kuijken performed and recorded the repertoire for the Baroque flute and has also collaborated with many other early music specialists.

Freshman music performance major Dominic Duray said he was excited to be in the presence of one of the pioneering musicians in Baroque orchestra.

“The people that UIndy brings in to perform are always incredible talents…

It reminds me that UIndy is truly something great and something I am proud to be a part of,” Duray said.“There are not many other places that bring in the kind of talent and the variety of talent that UIndy does when it comes to music... I try to come to as many concerts possible to enjoy the music and to help me improve my own skill and technique.”

"The Colorful Telemann" follows traditional French Baroque style and structure as it included an overture in C minor, a sonata in E minor, concerto in G, sinfonia melodica in C, as well as a concerto à 4 in D to conclude. Indy Baroque’s performance has various instruments including: violin, viola, cello, violone, harpsichord, oboe, flute and bassoon.

According to Kuijken, these instruments accompanying this style makes for an intimate performance that has an honest connection to tradition and audience.

Kuijken described the concert as a window into Telemann’s life.

“We guide the audience on a musical journey with Telemann as he chats with a friend, stops to watch a beautiful landscape, listens to a bird or to some fiddlers in a tavern, admires a tree or a flower, and thoroughly enjoys his day, " said Kuijken.

Indy Baroque gives to its audience what violinist, Philip Spray, would describe as “human-size” music that is played to the individual instead of simply trying to fill an entire music hall.

“The gift that we hope to give our au-

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Conductor Barthold Kuijken leads the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra during a performance of "The Colorful Telemann." The orchestra first played at the university in 1999, two decades prior to their Feb. 11 performance. dience is that they come out refreshed,” Spray said. “Lifting someone’s spirits after a rough day, offering an escape from the troublesome moments of life, or just the simple act of putting a smile on someone’s face is all we hope to do…

Sometimes I pick a specific audience member and just play to them.”

According to Nyquist, the experience

of attending an orchestral event, but especially a baroque orchestra, is an intimate experience between the audience and the performers.

“Baroque music is intellectually stimulating and holds value through the ages,” Nyquist said. “Give it a try, you might find yourself to be pleasantly surprised.”

The Indy Baroque will be traveling to New York City to showcase their musical talent in the coming months, performing in New York venues on March 21. In April, the group will return to Indiana to perform at Rose-Hulman Institute on April 26 at 7:30 p.m., as well as the Indiana History Center on May 19 at 4 p.m.

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From left to right: Kimberly Wilson, Jade Strong, Kira Batcheller and Michael Phillips use sock puppets to act out scenes from the life of Rosalind Franklin, a chemist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Play depicts women in science the discovery connecting HIV to AIDS. Six of the eight scientists featured in FEATURE EDITOR the show were awarded Nobel Prizes in recognition of their contributions to Marie Curie. Rosalind Franklin. Ma- science. ria Geoppert Mayer. Rita Levi-MontalActors Kira Batcheller, Jade Strong cini. Lise Meiter. Françoise Barré-Sin- and Kimberley Wilson said that 51 oussi. Gertrude Belle Elion. Rosalyn women have won the Nobel Prize, and Yalow. of those, only one woman has been These female scientists were fea- awarded the prize in two separate fields. tured in the play "No Belles: Legends of The show featured the stories of prize Women in Science," which came to the winning scientists such as Marie Curie.

University of Indianapolis on Feb. 6. The Strong said that idea for the show cast and crew came from Portal Theatre, was based on a book titled “Nobel Prize which is associated with Western Ore- Winning Women.” Each performer gon University. chose which women’s stories resonatThe hour-long show was filled with ed with them stories about the most, and overcoming those were the obstacles. women that "The purpose of the show The actors they portrayed was to give a voice to those in the show, depicted how the women to who might not have a voice." according worked for Strong. success as Not only women in a did the perforpredominantly male field and in the mance explain who the women were and face of major adversity, according to how they influenced science, but also Associate Microbiology Professor Doug presented the audience with in-depth Stemke. stories about their successes and failures “It’s not just about the science. It’s This was done by incorporating many about overcoming and striving, and it different elements of storytelling into really is about discovering, as well as the the show, including a scene acted out by passion for doing what drives a person,” sock puppets, a musical monologue, letStemke said. “They were remarkable in- ters to and from some of the women and dividuals that really lived in a time when photos of the scientists throughout their science wasn’t always a place that wom- lives that accompanied information been were well respected.” ing conveyed about each storyline.

The show focused on the stories of The actors spoke often about the perwomen in science who played a hand in sonal lives of each scientist throughout important scientific discoveries, such as the performance. They explained to the

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audience how many of the women profiled in the play had families to manage and other responsibilities to consider— as well as discrimination against them on the basis of sex—along with their careers as scientists.

The stories that were told were meant to give the audience a deeper understanding of the scientists, as well as possibly providing a sense of female empowerment and progress, according to Associate Professor of Chemistry Ann Cutler.

“I thought the storytelling was exceptional, and the personal connection with dedicating, achieving and understanding underrecognized women was a real human connection for scientists of all genders and all backgrounds,” Cutler said. “It’s a human experience, but I think it’s also recognized as a female experience. I think it provided a connective experience for the audience.”

It was important to the creators of the show that the stories of these women were told, in order to make more people aware of the personal stories behind the careers of these scientists, according to Batcheller.

“I think the purpose behind the show is exposure, exposure to marginalized groups of people, specifically women,” Batcheller said. “The purpose of the show was to give a voice to those who might not have a voice, in terms of it being a theatre and science thing. We as artists, love speaking aloud and speaking in front of groups of people. However, scientists are more likely to stay in the lab and not speak to anybody. They don’t want to be up on that stage, but we do.”

Two students, a faculty member and an alumnus from the University of Indianapolis Department of Music were honored for their contributions to music education by the National Association for Music Education on Jan. 17.

Senior music education major Jacqueline Wiernicki and junior music education major Anna Miller both received the Outstanding Future Educator Award. Associate Professor and Director of Music Education Programs and Assistant Dean of the Shaheen College of Arts & Sciences Brenda Clark received the Outstanding Collegiate Educator Award. Mick Bridgewater received the title of Outstanding Hoosier Musician.

According to Clark, in order to be considered for the awards, applicants submitted an essay describing the work they have done to complete their degree, evidence of service work and leadership, and their grade point average.

Clark then sent the applications off to a state collegiate board for a blind review where applicants are judged based on the content of their essay.

Clark said that when members of the department receive such awards, the program receives more recognition throughout the state and have received national attention in the past.

She also said that when students go to the conference, they are able to advance their careers when they receive an honor from NAfME. Clark said it is an opportunity to attract attention and

network with established professionals in the field.

“The conference at which they are given is attended by folks from the region and nationally," Clark said. "Those folks become aware of them [the award winners] because we have overtime been pretty consistent about the number of students each year who have received the award. This exposure serves to elevate our [UIndy] recognition and respect from our colleagues in the profession."

With this year's win, Clark became the first person to receive the Outstanding Collegiate Educator Award—which she first won in 2013—twice. Clark is the first person to receive the Outstanding Collegiate Educator Award twice.

Clark explained that the nomination for the award is given anonymously and is based on the instructor's body of work, service to the university and their profession, as well as advancing all things relating to music education.

Wiernicki said that she included her service work in schools and private lessons to students as part of her application. She also detailed her experience teaching jazz improvisation skills to violin students, as well as the violin and piano lessons she provides at Guitar Works in Greenwood.

Wiernicki said that it was validating to receive the award in acknowledgment of her effort because it reinforces her confidence and reminded her that she is ready once she graduates from UIndy.

“It felt very gratifying and that it’s wonderful to have all of my hard work recognized and rewarded and I was just really happy,” Wiernicki said.

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Counseling from page 1 “We want to offer additional tools Rak-Dietz said that RIO is based out of acceptance and commitment therapy. like RIO and a lot of these other workThis type of therapy, he said, is an ev- shop series or groups that we have runidence-based practice that uses mind- ning this semester that are different and fulness practices to teach skills. He said unique to building up that program that the program is great for students, [the counseling center] here at UIndy,” even those who have no background Rak-Dietz said. “We can serve more in therapy, because it creates an under- students and better serve the students standing of what psychologists at the here [and] to handle stress and the increased mental health concerns we are Counseling Center do.

At the workshops, students are given seeing in college students.”

According to Miller, there are several a packet of information that work on in a group, Rak-Dietz said. After the com- ways that counseling can benefit stupletion of all three workshops, of which dents and those benefits can depend on students are strongly encouraged to at- the individual. Over the past semester, tend all of them, students can keep the the Counseling Center has added more packet to help them continue to develop services, including adding more drop-in workshops, where students do not have their skills.

Rak-Dietz said that he thought the to register beforehand, and doubled the workshop would be helpful for stu- number of groups, according to Miller.

“Groups are just another way they’re dents and would give them more insight into their thoughts and feelings. looking for support,” Miller said.

“There’s a Everyone navwide variety of igates through groups that are their internal “It's confidential, it's free, offered that thought processes in their there's nothing that would either depending on what’s own unique be negative in that.” going on, and way, he said, that’s where and the first the personresponse, as al assessment humans, is to try to push feelings away, deny them or comes in, the clinician might suggest ‘I think this would be a really good group distract themselves in that moment.

Rak-Dietz said that by teaching skills for you right now.’”

In order to be a part of therapy, they cover as part of RIO, it can help students manage painful experiences students have to take an initial by understanding themselves. This also assessment. Depending on what students helps them gain more control over their determine with their clinician, they internal reactions to external events, could either participate in individual or group therapy. according to Rak-Dietz.

According to Miller, mental health “Long-term, that stuff doesn’t really go away and so what we are teaching should be kept up because it goes handin this workshop series is life skills,” in-hand with academic success for Rak-Dietz said. “We all have negative students. He said students can forget thoughts at times, we all have feelings of about homework and taking care of sadness or anger that we don’t like. But, themselves, at times. Therapy may be a how do we learn to sit with that discom- way for students to catch up and remind fort and lean into those experiences, so themselves of their responsibilities. to speak, to have a different outcome, so According to Miller, being able to take that we’re not constantly just trying to care of mental and physical health will run away from our problems or suppress help students succeed academically our problems. What ends up happening because one cannot separate out the is that it comes back to bite us, and it other.

“My encouragement may be if they comes back stronger in the end.”

Rak-Dietz said that counselors at feel they need it, because again, not colleges across the country are seeing everyone necessarily needs to go to higher levels of stress in their students the counseling center for their menand that UIndy is no-exception to this tal health needs, but for those who do trend. This was one of the factors in the though, it’s really worth at least checkcenter’s decision to have a RIO group, ing into,” Miller said “It’s confidential, the students of color and queer students it’s free, there’s nothing that would be negative in that.” support groups, among others.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Religious experience for girls Delight Ministries offered event to provide relationship advice

By Reid Bello & Jayden Kennett

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT & MANAGING EDITOR “For the Girl,” held on Feb. 13 at Southport Presbyterian Church, was an event that was part of a tour through Delight Ministries for the book, "For the Girl." Delight Ministries is an all female registered student organization where female students can meet to establish relationships with other woman on campus and strengthen their relationship with Christ. Delight is a nationwide ministry based out of Tennessee, according to founders MacKenzie Baker and MacKenzie Wilson. “For the Girl” is a book about dating and relationships. This is the third stop out of eight on the book tour.

Each chapter of the book relates to women in different circumstances.

According to senior nursing major Adrienne Henke, some of the chapter subjects include for the girl who is heartbroken, for the girl who is single, for the girl who is dating a non-believer.

Henke said the goal of the event is to promote the founders of Delight’s new book. She said she hopes that girls were encouraged and feel loved, regardless of relationship status.

Baker and Wilson hosted the event, along with a few of their friends. The event included a panel of men who were asked questions about relationships. Some topics discussed during the panel included opinions on what is found most attractive in a woman adn relationship advice. According to Baker, their mission is to help women find relationships while also maintaining a relationship with Christ.

Special guest Sean Hanson was one of the men on the panel. He said he has been talking to various students at the University of Indianapolis about bringing a Bud group to campus, which would be the same thing as Delight, except for men.

Hanson said he is someone who never thought that they would go into ministry. He started the program at Pepperdine University in 2014 for

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Before the event started, members of Delight spoke with the girls in the crowd personally. The Delight members asked about the panelists' past. men who did not have a specific men’s ministry to be a part of. Senior nursing major Dawson Harris, who was a part of the panel, discussed the importance of communication in a relationship. He said being able to tackle difficult topics instead of sweeping things under the rug is vital.

Senior nursing major Adrienne Henke said that Delight at UIndy is welcome to all women and is all about Jesus. The event was a way for the women in Delight to see the founders of Delight, get advice about relationships, learn about Christ and connect with other women in the area, according to Henke. She has been a part of Delight throughout her entire college career and said she joined because of the connections she could make.

“I just wanted a group of women that

I could talk to. I was kind of stuck with my freshman roommates, and I wanted another group of women, godly women, that I could talk to about life or anything that was going on with the times that you have in college,” Henke said. “Then Delight opened up and I was so excited, because it was all women and it was all about Jesus... I was able to just connect with God, the girls, the stories of other people and know that I wasn’t alone.”

Henke said Delight is a way to connect with other girls and form strong friendships. She said Delight is always an honest and safe environment for women to come together and worship God. “You don’t have to know anything about God,” Henke said. “You can start here and continue to grow or you can start from the beginning.”

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Trump's emergency declaration causes W-2 concern within GOP Thursday statement that the president will sign a budget deal to avert a QR-Roll Call government shutdown. In the same statement, she announced the president WASHINGTON — Some in the would "take other executive action — president's party are wringing their including a national emergency." hands about how the emergency declaAccording to White House aides, a ration for a border wall might set a reck- national emergency declaration would less precedent. grant Trump broad authority to redirect They wonder how a future Democratic money appropriated to the Pentagon president could circumvent Congress and U.S. Treasury in order to construct on liberal spending priorities like the a border wall.

Green New Deal - the sprawling plan Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said supported by Democratic progressives to she was concerned about how an emeraddress climate change by restructuring gency declaration would weaken the the economy and phasing out fossil power of Congress to appropriate fedfuels. eral funds.

While Congressional Republicans It "strikes me as undermining the have raised concerns, most held off appropriations process, the will of on denouncing the president's radical Congress and of being of dubious maneuver to circumvent Article I of the constitutionality," Collins said in an Constitution and devote federal funds interview with USA Today. to a border wall without their approval.

Here are some of the other Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Republicans who have raised concerns R-Wash., former Republican conference about an emergency declaration for a chair, said the declaration could subvert border wall: the balance of powers between branchRep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, said a es of governDemocratic ment. She said president she worries it deem “Whether the president has could could open the c l i m a t e door to passing the authority or not, it sets a change or a Green New gun violence dangerous precedent...”

Deal by fiat. a national "If elected emergency president, how in order to would Elizabeth Warren or Bernie outmaneuver Congress on appropriating Sanders use this precedent for a national tax dollars. disaster declaration to force the Green "Whether the president has the auNew Deal on the American people?" thority or not, it sets a dangerous precMcMorris Rodgers said in a statement. edent and places America on a path Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., echoed that we will regret," he said. "It deeply that concern. worries me that a future Democratic "Today's national emergency is bor- president may consider gun violence or der security. But a future president may climate change a 'national emergency' use this exact same tactic to impose the and what actions they may then take."

Green New Deal," Rubio said in a stateSen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, supportment. ed the budget deal but said an emerRubio did not say whether he sup- gency declaration is not the "right apported or was opposed to an emergency proach." declaration, but instead said he would Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., supports a "wait to see what statutory or constitu- border wall, but the libertarian senator tional power the President relies on to said he opposes the emergency declarajustify such a declaration." tion, which he described as "extraconSen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, also stitutional." held off on staking a position on the "I, too, want stronger border security, national emergency declaration, but un- including a wall in some areas. But how derscored his support for the president's we do things matters. Over 1,000 pages wall push. dropped in the middle of the night and "The Constitution grants Congress extraconstitutional executive actions the authority to appropriate federal are wrong, no matter which party does dollars, so I'm sure such action will be them," Paul said. litigated in the courts," Grassley said in __ a statement. "What's clear, however, is (c)2019 CQ-Roll Call, Inc., All that the president takes the situation at Rights Reserved our border seriously and that Democrats Visit CQ Roll Call at do not." www.rollcall.com White House Press Secretary Sarah Distributed by Tribune Content Huckabee Sanders announced in a Agency, LLC.

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Tax Terminology

W-4

W-2 forms are used to display items such as income and income witholdings. W-2 forms are the most common income tax form by corporations.

W-4 forms are used to file for income tax. It is the most used form for filing taxes.

1040 W-9 forms are used to file taxes for individuals who’s income comes from contracting.

Tax Filing Due Date: April 15

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Everyone is required to pay taxes. Most low-income families or people end up paying more than they originally owe and get a refund.

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1040 forms are new. It has the most opportunities for deductions but one of the hardest forms to fill out and file.

Do students benefit for filing?

If students pay for any portion of their loans or tuition, they receive credit that applies to their amount own. This results in bigger refunds and less owed to the federal government.

Information obtained by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at irs.gov and TaxAct at taxact.com

Professionals explain taxes

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Experts offer advice to students filing taxes for the start of tax season

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As tax season continues, it is important to know what necessary measures need to be taken in order to file, according to Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Laura Merrifield Wilson.

There are multiple forms and terminologies that students need to be aware of when filing taxes, and multiple steps in filing taxes, dependent on income, schooling, charitable donations, among others, according to Wilson. The different steps also impact how long it takes for a person to receive state and federal returns. The amount of money an individual receives is determined by their personal circumstances.

The process of filing taxes begins with gathering all the necessary paperwork from all places of employment throughout the year, according to Certified Public Accountant and Partner of Audit and Assurance Services Eric Woodruff.

“The big thing for taxes, for a student, is making sure you have your W-2’s for every job you had during the year. So, if you had a job during the summer, you should receive a W-2,” Woodruff said.

“If you worked for cash, or you were paid and didn’t receive a W-2, sometimes they’ll issue a 10-99, and you still have to report that as income as well. So, when you get your tax report at the end of the year, you need to make sure you have your W-2’s and [or] your 10-99.”

The difference between a 10-99 form and a W-2 form is dependent on the type of income received, according to Woodruff. If the pay is received informally, or from self-employment, then a

10-99 will need to be filed. However, a W-2 is filed when a job provided official pay stubs throughout the year. Another form that must be understood is the W-4 form, which is a form filled at the beginning of employment, determining how much money will be withheld for taxes from each paycheck, according to Woodruff.

When filling a W-4 form, an individual must determine the amount of exemptions that they would like. If an individual chooses zero, more taxes will be taken out than if they had chosen one exemption. Tax exemptions reduce the amount of taxable income from an individual, according to Wilson. In order to claim an exemption, one must file as either joint, married or single, and the amount of exemptions relies on how many dependents, such as children, are claimed. If an individual is married, or has dependents, that individual can claim two or more exemptions on their W-4 form.

“If you want to claim certain exemptions, you would list that on your W-4 form before you file,” said Wilson.

“When you get the W-4 form, they will ask how many exemptions you want, and they usually give you a guideline of how much you’re allowed to take.”

Wilson said that the more tax exemptions that are claimed, the more that is returned.

There are multiple different ways to start the process of filing taxes, according to Wilson. Some of these include online tax filing systems, such as TurboTax, hiring an accountant, and filing a 10-40 EZ, which is a simplified process to filing taxes, said Wilson. Once the paperwork has been processed, a return amount is determined. The amount that is returned to the individual depends on how much

the Internal Revenue Service owes the individual after all taxable income has been considered, according to Wilson.

The amount returned is determined by combining the information from all forms that are filed.

According to Associate Professor for the School of Business Stephen Maple, there is a tax rate schedule, or an online source for determining the amount refunded, which are both easily accessible and will figure the amount in returns after all taxable income is considered.

Another way to figure the amount being returned is by using the IRS’s website to calculate taxable income per individual, according to Maple.

According to Wilson, the average time for processing and returning taxes is four weeks. However, this is dependent on how early the paperwork is filed. The earlier the papers are sent to the IRS for processing, the sooner they can be processed and the return checks can be mailed out or directly deposited into a checking account. While four weeks is the average rate of return, this process can take longer depending on the status of the IRS, meaning whether or not the IRS is active due to the previous government shutdown, according to Wilson.

The deadline to file taxes is April 15, and if the paperwork to file is sent after this date, the opportunity for a penalty charge will arise. The amount of this charge varies depending on how late the paperwork is filed after the deadline, as well as certain details within each individual’s statements.

According to Woodruff, the main focus for students when preparing for filing their taxes should be on ensuring that all the forms are received from the employer.

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