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OCTOBER 13, 2010
HOME IS WHERE THE HOUNDS ARE
Homecoming events were held daily throughout the week of Oct. 4-9 By Kayla Prosser STAFF WRITER ‘Home is where the hounds are’ was the theme for the University of Indianapolis homecoming, which was the week of Oct. 4-9. Each day contained events for students to attend, leading up to the homecoming football game on Saturday evening. Homecoming is planned by the Student Homecoming Committee. The committee plans months in advance for the week of homecoming. “For having a small committee, I’m very pleased with how well the events went,”said senior and homecoming committee member Katherine Allen. “The turnout for all the events this week was more than I was expecting.” Monday was Show Your Spirit Day. Students wore their UIndy gear to show off their spirit. CPB sponsored the Pep Rally that took place on Smith Mall at 8:45 p.m. This year the pep rally was held outside and was meant to be a social gathering rather than the usual rally in the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center. The office door decorating competition took place on Tuesday and was sponsored by Student Affairs. Each UIndy department showed their spirit by decorating their office doors. Greyhound Ace’s 1st birthday party was held in Schwitzer Student Center from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. In honor of the celebration, students were invited to enjoy cake, drinks and games. The Homecoming Court Competition was also held in Schwitzer at 7 p.m on Tuesday. Wednesday, Colts Chaplain Ken Johnson and his son K.D Johnson presented their testimonies to students. The event was held in Christel De Haan Fine Arts Center at 7 p.m. Thursday, the annual Celebration of the Flags, sponsored by The International Division was held on Smith Mall at 2 p.m. Students were invited to celebrate the on-campus diversity. Show Your Spirit night, sponsored by CPB, was held in Schwitzer at 8:30 p.m. Students decorated their own signs to show off their spirit. Friday, students could dance the night away at Dancin’ Through the Decades.
HOMECOMING ROYALTY Sophomore Mark Nania and junior Sophia Gonzalez were crowned king and queen during halftime of the homecoming game.
Students dressed in their favorite decade attire from 1902, when the school was established. Before the game on Saturday, various organizations from UIndy decorated golf carts showing off their Homecoming spirit. The Golf Cart Parade took place at 5 p.m. in Key Stadium. Students gathered in the parking lot beside the football field to tailgate. The Office of Alumni Relations sponsored Tailgate Town with which Greyhound Club also helped. Students and alumni tailgated before and during the football game. At halftime, the Homecoming Court gathered on the field to await the decision of who would be crowned king and queen. Sophomore Mark Nania and junior Sophia Gonzalez won king and queen. UIndy battled with Northwood all four quarters of the game. Northwood took home the victory with the score 24-31. Following the game, students could wind down with coffee and dessert at the Coffeehouse in Schwitzer UIndy Hall. Students gathered to listen to coffeehouse performer Beau Bristow. “Overall homecoming was OK,” senior Khylee Woodford said. “A win would have been nice, but all the campus activities were fun and got a lot of people who wouldn’t normally go to head to it.” According to Allen, the planning for next year has already started. “The committee will be looking at ways to improve next year’s homecoming,” Allen said.
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Adjunct instructor joins Indiana Supreme Court
Gov. Mitch Daniels chooses Adjunct Social Sciences Professor and Boone County Circuit Court Judge Steven David from 30 applicants By Sarah Haefner MANAGING EDITOR
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Gov. Mitch Daniels announced that University of Indianapolis Adjunct Faculty Member and Boone County Circuit Court Judge Steven David would be one of Indiana’s Supreme Court justices on Sept. 17. David replaced Justice Theodore R. Boehm, who retired Sept. 30. David taught a course called Criminal Evidence in the spring of 2010, while filling in for Associate Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Program Dennis Williams. “I live in Lebanon, and I’m one of the public defenders of the county,”Williams said. “So I practice in his court, and he’s also the juvenile court judge for the county. So I asked him to take a class, if he’d be interested, because he’d mentioned it before.” A circuit court judge for 16 years, David didn’t have much teaching experience before stepping into the classroom at UIndy, but his unique experiences and insight into criminal justice really resonated with some of the students. “He was very active, involved, and always prepared,”junior Ian Duncan said. “I particularly liked his ethics lecture,
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when he told us lots of stories from his days in Guantanamo Bay.” His interactive teaching style peaked the interest of other students as well. “One day he brought in an interrogator, a lady from corrections, and they gave us tips and advice regarding criminal evidence,” junior Ashley Boxley said. “It made it a lot easier to learn.” David’s diverse experience in law and criminal justice impressed more people than the governor. “I had a lot of personal talks with Judge David, and he gave me a lot of great advice,” Duncan said. “I already had an interest in criminal justice. He just helped it along.” David’s professional career includes more than a quarter of a century in the U.S. Army, where he rose in the ranks to colonel and completed at least one tour in Iraq, according to Williams. With experience in private practice and corporate business and having served as chief counsel for the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, David’s appointment to justice was not surprising to Williams. “They had three really strong candidates,”Williams said.“And there were 30 who originally applied. To go through the interview process and make the
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final three is an honor in and of itself. I just figured he had as good of a chance as the other two.” How David will influence the court has yet to be seen, although Williams does not consider him to sway too far to the right or the left. “He’s fairly conservative, but he also understands and sees the broader picture of how society changes,” Wiliams said. “Of course, the Supreme Court is the guardian of the state constitution, and I think he will be a strong proponent of constitutional rights. He has a keen awareness of what society needs, and he won’t be extreme in either direction.” David had been asked to teach another class next semester. Williams figured that, with this news, David would be hardpressed to find the time and energy, but that wasn’t case. “We had him scheduled to teach Juvenile Delinquency, and then he got appointed to the Supreme Court,” Williams said.“Well, I talked to him yesterday because I had some books for him, and he’s still going to do it. We’re going to have an associate justice of the Indiana Supreme Court teaching on this campus.” This came as good news to Duncan. “If he’s teaching another class next semester, I’d take it no matter what it is.”
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