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FEBRUARY 23, 2011
UIndy unveils mayoral initiative
WHAT CONSUMES MOST UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS STUDENTS’ TIME
Facebook 5% Sleep 19%
Exercise 2%
Television 3% Other 11%
Class 20%
New archive to house official documents of Indianapolis mayors By Bob Helfst NEWS EDITOR
Socializing 12% Studying 25%
Video Games 3%
100 UIndy students chose their primary time consuming activities and The Reflector compiled the information. Graphic by Christopher Hartley
TIME MANAGEMENT Recently published study says students study little and learn less. How does UIndy compare? By Kayla Prosser EDITORIAL ASSISTANT A study in the recently published book “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses” by sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia asserts that students learn little and do less in their college years. The study of more than 2,300 undergraduate students found that 51 percent of the average student’s time is spent socializing, 24 percent sleeping, 9 percent attending class and only 7 percent of their time studying. The Reflector conducted an informal survey of 100 University of Indianapolis
students and asked them to list the primary way they spend their time. Twenty-five percent selected studying, 20 percent chose class time and 19 percent chose sleeping. Socializing earned 12 percent of the selections. “I would say that a lot of students say they’re busy when they do have more time to study,” said Debbie Spinney, executive director of student development in the Academic Success Center. Spinney teaches a New Student Experience course in which she advocates time management to her new students. “I do an exercise in my class where they have to structure their time for a week, including eating, socializing and studying,” Spinney said. “Most of them are surprised at how much free time they have.”
Spinney stresses balance to her students. “When I talk to students about time management, I always bring in life management as well because you can’t be all work,” Spinney said. “It’s important to take time for yourself, even if you have to schedule it as well.” Senior English major Melanie Orr has found it especially difficult to manage her time this year. Her class load consists of four credit hours of courses and an eighthour internship. Orr holds a sales associate position at Victoria’s Secret, an internship position at Wiley Publishing 35 hours a week, and serves as president of Sigma Tau Delta and vice president of the Indiana Collegiate Press Association. She is also the managing editor of Etchings, UIndy’s
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The University of Indianapolis is hosting an event on March 11 to unveil its newly announced Institute for Civic Leadership and Mayoral Archives. The event will feature the four most recent mayors of Indianapolis – U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar, William H. Hudnut, Stephen Goldsmith and Bart Peterson, in addition to current mayor Greg Ballard. The materials in the mayoral archive are currently held in the University Archives, but a specific area in the library for the documents is currently in the works. The event, entitled “Five Mayors: An Evening of Insight and Vision,” is free and will feature a discussion and question-and-answer forum based on questions from the public. The primary topic of discussion will be how Indianapolis can continue to build upon its past while still moving forward. The event will be moderated by a panel of The Indianapolis Star journalists. While open to the public, seating is limited, and tickets must be reserved through the Chamber of Commerce website. “We feel very fortunate to have had good relationships with the mayors whose papers we have,” said Deborah Balogh, provost and vice president of academic affairs. Lugar, Hudnut and Goldsmith are all former members of the UIndy Board of Trustees, and Peterson is a current member. Balogh was part of the planning committee for the BALOGH institute housing the materials. “We worked for several months to conceptualize the center and what its service to the campus and communities will be,” Balogh said. The new institute will help to jump-start renovations on the library. “There is a broader, long-term plan to modernize the library, bring it into the digital age and make it the sort of place where people can work together and have access to digital resources in the 21st century,” said Scott Hall, assistant director of university communications. The collection includes a wide variety of documents which reflect a time of expansions in the city’s history. Personal correspondence, photographs, meeting minutes, microfilm, invitations to various events and other official documents will be included in the archive. Highlighted documents include notes on race relations, public opinion polls of the mayor in question, budget reports and notes concerning projects in the city of Indianapolis. “These papers cover a period of time where Indianapolis went from being a sleepy Midwestern town to being a major American city and a model to other cities on how to revitalize downtown and how to strengthen your community,” Hall said. The archive was conceived as a continuously growing and evolving collection of historical papers that reflect the HALL changing nature of Indianapolis. Documents that show the development of the city will be constantly added to the archive, which will be digitized to assist those who wish to research civic development. “There had been some discussions for some time about how can we capitalize on these documents and materials we have,” Hall said. “We decided to make it available to our own students and to anyone nationwide who wants to study the progress in Indianapolis and go back and look at the historical source materials of how these changes were made in the city.” The collection helps tie UIndy to its namesake. “It’s another way to connect us to our home city in ways that set us apart from other universities,” Balogh said. The university hopes that the event will serve as a public introduction to the initiative, in addition to raising awareness of the planned library renovations.
Security concerns hit home Lack of campus communication raises concerns following attempted armed robberies By Bob Helfst NEWS EDITOR Two female students at the University of Indianapolis were approached on Feb. 9 on separate occasions by an armed man who demanded money. When they were unable to produce any money, the man fled south on Shelby Street. Campus police were contacted immediately after the incident, at approximately 7:25 p.m. A lockdown of campus residence halls was issued by the campus police. Resident Assistants worked to keep their residents inside the building until the lockdown was lifted. No Watchdog alert was issued until approximately an hour and 45 minutes later. Mick Reddick, chief of police and director of campus safety, declined to comment on the situation.
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The suspect remains at large. was still nowhere to be found. “Our university communications “There was a temporary communicapolicy calls for students and faculty and tions gap,” Hall said. “In the meantime, staff to be alerted as soon as students got information in possible when there is any other means and a lot of missort of risk to their safety information went around.” on campus,” said Scott Hall, A Watchdog alert was isassistant director of universued via phone call, text messity communications. “The sage or e-mail around 9:10 policy also gives discretion to p.m. to signal an all-clear to our campus police to follow the campus community and their training and handle to clarify false rumors about each unique situation in the the attempted robberies. way that seems best to them.” “That’s one of the goals of As students sought claricommunicating to people,” fication of the situation, Hall said. “It’s not only to inconsistent rumors went viral give them information about a VITANGELI throughout Twitter and other security issue, but also to keep social media websites. Local news media rumors from spreading.” covered the developing story, which was Kory Vitangeli, associate vice-president picked up by wire services and relayed for student affairs and dean of students, by national outlets such as the Chicago typically helps organize Watchdog alerts. Tribune’s website, while a campus alert “At that time, once we realized that social
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media had taken hold and false information had gotten out there, we decided to use them to get accurate information out there,” Vitangeli said. “The intent of the Watchdog alert was to clarify to everyone what had really happened.” Vitangeli noted that in typical situations, such as weather-related closings, staff members have time to prepare a script for the Watchdog alert. Many students were upset by the lack of communication on the university’s part. “Typically, if a campus is going to be locked down, the only way to make the campus aware would be a Watchdog [alert],” Vitangeli said. “That’s the only way that we have to notify the entirety of campus. In this situation, when the decision was made to notify just the residence halls, you’re leaving out everyone in Campus Apartments and classes.”
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HOW TO REGISTER FOR WATCHDOG
Step one: Access MyUIndy
Step two: Click on Self Service Banner
Step three: Choose Personal Information and Watchdog
Step four: Update Emergency and Watchdog Contacts
Step five: Enter your information
Step six: Choose primary phone number
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