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Clery Act in action

By Taylor Strnad

BUSINESS MANAGER Since arriving back to campus in August, students have received three alerts regarding motor vehicle theft.

University of Indianapolis Chief of Police and Director of Campus Safety David Selby said that he has sent out three motor vehicle theft-related Watchdog Alerts since August, including an alert about a stolen golf cart. Under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or the Clery Act, a golf cart is considered a motor vehicle and an alert had to be sent out to notify students that one had been reported stolen, Selby said.

The two cars that were reported stolen have since been recovered, according to Selby, but the golf cart has not been found. UIndy Police were able to recover the two cars with the help of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.Those investigations were joint operations with IMPD, Selby said.

“The one vehicle that was actually stolen, the student invited a person into their apartment, and the person stole their keys and took their [the student’s] car,” Selby said. “The second one, it ended up the roommate moved the car and [the student] didn’t know it.”

Under the Clery Act, universities are required to send out timely warning notices about crimes that pose an ongoing threat to campuses, according to UIndy’s annual Clery Act Report. UIndy tries to educate the campus community about

crime and safety as well as improve safety for students, faculty, staff and the neighborhood, according to UIndy’s annual Clery Act Report.

Selby works with Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli to provide these warnings. There are several criteria in the Clery Act that universities must comply with.

“There are federal mandates that say if something is happening in that jurisdiction, within one of the crime categories in the Clery reports, then we are required to send out information to

“If something happens, call us. If it's an emergency, call 911.” the campus community,” Vitangeli said.

In addition to timely warnings, Vitangeli said she sends out information about safety risks as a courtesy. Vitangeli said she wants students to know about the safety risks so they can stay clear of the area or shelter-in-place in a safe area to ensure their safety. This information is sent out via Watchdog texts or emails.

However, each situation is different and needs to be evaluated, Vitangeli said.

According to Selby, the UIndy police patrol an area that is within roughly a one-mile radius around campus.

Not only does UIndy send out warnings and alerts to students, a daily crime log is kept by the police, as

required by the Clery Act, according to UIndy’s annual Clery Act Report.

These reported crimes include those on or around UIndy’s campus. Additionally, these cases are from IMPD as well as the UIndy police, Selby said.

The crime logs do not reflect the amount of crime at UIndy, Selby said.

The Clery Act requires that if a university police force has a jurisdiction that is bigger than the campus, then the police have to report those crimes on the logs as well.

Unlike most universities, UIndy police work closely with the Indianapolis police and fire departments, according to Selby. The working relationship between UIndy police and IMPD is very important, Selby said.

“We’re on the same radio channels as Metro [IMPD], county [Marion County Sheriff 's Office] and everybody,” Selby said. “We’re all working as a team. It’s not just us, it’s everybody.”

There are precautions that students can take to prevent theft and crime, Selby said. He said that making sure that students know the people they are interacting with is extremely important for their safety.

According to Selby, if there is suspicious activity, or if students notice something on campus, they should call the police.

“If something happens, call us. If it’s an emergency, call 911. If it’s not, get a hold of us as soon as you can,” Selby said.

“If you see something in the parking lot going on, call us. You’ll never be wrong.

It is our job to look into that, and we will look into it.”

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Professor publishes research Exorcisms explained Article discusses stem cell therapies for sports medicine by experts

By Jacob Walton SPORTS EDITOR

Bridging the gap between conservative care, which is traditional medicines and rehabilitation, and surgical options is stem cell therapy, according to a recent article published in the Strength and Conditioning Journal.The article, “Stem Cell Injections for Musculoskeletal Pathology: An Overview for Sports Medicine Professionals,”was authored by Morey Kolber,Paul Salamh,Joseph Purita, Bryan Sterling, Jaclyn Stermer, Michael Massaracchio and William Hanney.

In the article, they sought to explain the science behind stem cell therapies for sports medicine professionals, according to Nova Southwest University Professor Morey Kolber.

Stem cell therapy, according to University of Indianapolis Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy Paul Salamh, is the act of taking stem cells that are in their infancy and have the opportunity to grow into new cells and placing them in a location in the body that needs them. Kolber said that this type of therapy may be an option to those that do not want to risk their health in surgery and those that conservative treatment has not worked for.

“Well up until now, there is no intermediate treatment between conservative care and surgical care,” Kolber said. “When people do not respond to conservative care, they're often left with, wait and see or live with it. And there are a group of people who don't want to take that next step and have surgery. Stem cell therapy and other regenerative medicine treatments bridge

that gap.”

Stem cell therapy has certain attributes and benefits that make it a viable form of treatment, Kolber said. Physical therapy and stem cell therapy go hand-in-hand due to the nature of the treatment, Kolber said.

“I think the most important thing is that physical activity is most important and when we have an injury that impairs or restricts our physical activity, we want to find treatments that allow us to get

SALAMH back to physical activity as quickly as possible,” Kolber said. “And what's nice about stem cell therapy is, not only is it encouraged, but it works very nicely alongside of rehabilitation.”

The group hoped to bring a basic understanding of stem cell therapy from a sports medicine orthopedic standpoint, without much opinion placed into it, according to Salamh. He said that with stem cells, and many other new ideas in science, there can be many misconceptions about what is and what is not true about stem cells. He said that the group, which was led by Kolber, wanted to limit those misconceptions.

“It was just basically a nice way to package everything that's out there, kind of put it in a condensed version and give people an easy read to understand, sort of, currently where we are with stem cell regenerative medicine in the sports medicine field,” Salamh said.

Salamh said that the treatment has seen many challenges in the United States through the Federal Drug Administration and other agencies.There have also been arguments for and against stem cell research in the U.S. “I think we face different challenges here in the United States than [in] other countries,” Salamh said. “Which is why you hear about some elite athletes going overseas to get different injections or you know, different things that we don't offer here in the United States because our regulations are just different and some people feel they're a little bit more strict.”

Stem cell therapy first became popular in April 2010, when MLB pitcher Bartolo Colón went to the Dominican Republic to receive treatments for his shoulder and elbow, according to Kolber.

Colon was treated by Joseph Purita, a doctor based out of Boca Raton, Florida, Kolber said. Kolber studied under Purita and that is where his passion for stem cell therapy came from, he said. Salamh said this form of treatment does not affect a players performance in a negative or positive way, but allows them to return to the game.

Kolber said that this treatment has come a long way in a short amount of time and that they have four times the research on it now than they did two years ago. He said that we are five to 10 years away from having a true understanding of the science behind stem cell therapies.

By Justus O'Neil FEATURE EDITOR

The University of Indianapolis’ Catholic Student Association held an event with over 300 students in attendance to learn and ask questions about exorcisms on Oct. 23. The CSA executives presented three videos from sources that explained the history and current uses of exorcisms. The event also featured guest speaker and Holy Name Catholic Church Priest, Father Bob Robeson, who prefers to go by Father Bob, and gave his insight on exorcism and its relation to the Catholic Church.

After showing the three videos, students were able to ask questions to the CSA board and Father Bob. Senior nursing major and CSA President Tiwin Chackochan said that having Father Bob present to verify the quality of the videos before the event and to field complicated questions during the event made him an important resource for the event.

“I really like how we came up with the idea,” Chackochan said. “It’s more interactive with discussion questions and we found really good videos online… I think he [Father Bob] brings a lot more insight… It’s good to have him to answer some of the questions and he screened the videos to make sure they were good.”

Chackochan said that CSA has had the idea to put on an event centered around exorcism for several years and felt that the Halloween season was an ideal time for it. The organization of the event was unlike many of their other regular events, according to Chackochan.

“All of our events are lecture [based],”

Chackochan said. “We either talk about Mass, other catholic things or [the events] are like socials, so this is the first time we’ve had anything like this. We’ve never had a turnout like this… it was just more than we could ever expect.”

Among the people who attended the event in the Health Pavilion’s R. B. Annis Theater was sophomore software engineering major Annalie Ciszar. Ciszar said that because of her prior enjoyment of exorcism movies, she wanted to see how accurate movies were compared to the real life exorcisms.

“I think some of it seemed pretty accurate, and there [were] other things that didn’t seem accurate,” Ciszar said.

“It left me with some questions about if there was any scientific proof for it and what that would be.”

Also in the audience was sophomore computer science major Braxton Laster.

Laster said that he also has seen his fair share of horror films and that he was pleased to see some truth behind the ‘Hollywood magic.’

“It shone a good light and it made me realize that maybe Hollywood isn’t exaggerating their stories as much as I’d thought,” Laster said.

Laster said that he found the exorcism event to be very informative. Exorcism is a little more dramatic in the movies though, Father Bob said.

“I do think it’s important for the students here to understand that there is evil in the world and [it is] manifested in many ways,” Father Bob said. “It’s important for people to be aware of that and to try to do what they can to live in a way that pursues the good rather than evil.”

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Rethinking religious values Catholic faith should not discriminate against the LGBT+

By Madison Gomez OPINION EDITOR

Some Roman Catholic schools in the Indianapolis area have let go of staff members for being LGBT+. This is intolerable to those being discriminated against and to progressive members of the public. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis needs to reevaluate tradition and values to better fit today’s culture. Discrimination should not occur in schools because of beliefs framed in the past. This is the present, and we need to deal with these issues as they are and address them.

I have nothing against any of these schools. While I have no religious affiliation, I have attended both Catholic and other Christian services. I know religious values are important to these schools.

But I do have a serious issue with the discrimination being practiced in my state by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. While its decision to require Indiana Roman Catholic schools to let go LGBT+ individuals for those schools to remain affiliated may appear justified, the reality is that, behind the religious curtain, this is not humane. Human beings are themselves before they are their sexuality or their religion, and those factors have nothing to do with the qualit y of their job performance.

Although tradition may not agree with the LGBT+ c o m m u n i t y, new ideas are needed for the Roman Catholic schools to fit today’s culture better.

Two Roncalli High School employees lost their jobs for being married to a person of the same sex, according to the Indianapolis Star article, “Gay Roncalli guidance counselor files lawsuit against Indianapolis Archdiocese, school.” The archdiocese threatened Cathedral High School with losing its Catholic ties if it did not fire its LGBT+ employee, so the school fired the staff member, according to the CNN article, “An Indianapolis Catholic school has fired a teacher in a same-sex marriage after a Jesuit school in the city did not.”

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School refused to fire its employee in a samesex marriage and was subsequently not recognized as Catholic by the archdioscese, according to the same

CNN article, which was published on June 25. However, the Vatican stepped in and suspended the status change, according to the CNN article published on Sept. 24, “The Vatican for now won't penalize a Jesuit school for refusing to fire a married gay teacher.” There is a trend here, and what ties these cases together is the Archdiocese of Indianapolis’ pursuit of the issue, according to the same Indy Star article.

I have never seen this degree of prejudice against the LGBT+ community by private schools in Indiana.

When a school that is not even an hour’s drive away from me fires someone, who has shown years of dedication to the institution, for being married to a partner of the same sex, that shakes me.

The archdiocese has said it has a right to determine appropriate conduct for employees, according to the Indy Star Article “Cathedral fired a gay teahcer, Brebeuf protected one. They are married to each other, lawyer says.” In that article, the writer quotes a statement from the

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archdiocese: “Religious liberty, which is a hallmark of the U.S. Constitution and has been tested in the U.S. Supreme Court, acknowledges that religious organizations may define what conduct is not acceptable and contrary to the teachings of its religion, for its school leaders, guidance counselors, teachers and other ministers of the faith.”

Cathedral was transparent on its website, gocathedral.org about firing its teacher in a same-sex marriage.

Cathedral listed what led to its decision to let the teacher go, such as the possible loss of its Catholic school status being taken away and “ability to celebrate the Sacraments as we have in the past 100 years with our students and community.”

Brebeuf also made a statement on

its website, brebeuf.org, declaring its response to the archdiocese: “Brebeuf Jesuit has respectfully declined the Archdiocese’s insistence and directive that we dismiss a highly capable and qualified teacher due to the teacher being a spouse within a civilly-recognized same-sex marriage,” wrote Brebeuf ’s President the Rev. William Verbryke, Board of Trustees Chair W. Patrick Bruen and Board of Trustees Chair-Elect Daniel M. Lechleiter.

It was interesting to see how Cathedral and Roncalli complied with the archdiocese. These schools and the archdiocese put their religious views and rules above consideration of what losing employment might do to the individuals’ entire lives.

Roncalli and Cathedral could have protected their staff members. So while I am blaming the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, these high schools also are at fault. Letting someone go because of the way her or she was born is discrimination, and this should not occur anywhere.

Members of the LGBT+ community work in ever y other occupationthey are family doctors, dentists, college professors, police officers and more.

These are people we trust, look up to and depend on for care in our lives.

This should not be happening now. These schools need to p u s h back and set an example for their students. Schools are supposed to be a productive place of learning and progress.

I am only a college student, but I can imagine what it would feel like to be discriminated against. Hard to fathom, truly.

According to Rawls’veil of ignorance, “we should imagine we sit behind a veil of ignorance that keeps us from knowing who we are and identifying with our personal circumstances. By being ignorant of our circumstances, we can more objectively consider how societies should operate,”says the website of Ethics Unwrapped, a program from the Center for Leadership in Ethics at the University of Texas.

Take the advice of the philosopher.

Discrimination is simply wrong.

Everyone's voice matters in all elections

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UIndy should offer ASL

By Jayden Kennett EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

When I was a server, I once had a party of 15 people who could only communicate in American Sign Language. All 15 of them were Deaf or partially so. Only one spoke, but his speech was hard for me to understand.

I had no idea how to communicate with them. I feel I should have the opportunity to gain this knowledge at my university.

The University of Indianapolis is wellrounded and diverse, which I love, but I feel as a community we’re missing out and would certainly benefit if ASL courses were offered. Even having a semester or two of ASL would be beneficial.

Indiana considers ASL a standard, independent language, so it could easily be incorporated into the university’s general education offerings. According to the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, estimates from the federal government’s Survey of Income and Program Participation indicates that “fewer than one in 20 Americans are currently deaf or hard of hearing,” meaning that “nearly 10,000,000 persons are hard of hearing and close to 1,000,000 are functionally deaf.”

I think everyone should have at least a basic understanding of ASL, and we should have the opportunity to learn.

If I had had the option to take an ASL course at UIndy, I can think of at least a dozen times when it would have been beneficial. I can’t imagine how incredibly frustrating it must be to be unable to communicate something as simple as what you want to drink. With my party of 15, I had to have them write down their orders on napkins, which sounds way easier than it was. I had to keep going back to their table while putting in their order to ask them follow

up questions such as add ons or choice of sauce. While I didn’t mind taking the extra time to do these things for them, I know things would have gone so much better if I had known at least a little ASL. Another server and I did learn later how to sign “Happy Birthday” in ASL for our tables whenever one of our deaf customers wrote down that it was his birthday. When we performed it for the table, their faces lit up every time, and they thanked us for going the extra mile for them. I don’t think that should have been an extra mile for us. It should have been something that we already knew.

I certainly can sing “Happy Birthday” in Spanish, so I should know how in ASL, too.

Despite the obvious advantages of knowing a second language, learning ASL provides insight into deaf culture and allows us more opportunities to communicate with those who are Deaf or have hearing loss. ASL is said to be the third most common language in the United States, according to startASL. com.

According to its website, The Indianapolis School for the Deaf offers ten-week ASL courses for $155. While this may seem like an easy alternative, learning ASL as an extracurricular activity in addition to college courses isn’t plausible for most people.

While I would love to take these external classes, doing that in addition to working two jobs and taking 16 credit hours, for me, and many students like me, that would not be feasible.

Having ASL courses on campus could provide not only opportunities for new events and experiences by incorporating Deaf culture more, but could offer another progressive and inclusive course for students to take. I hope to see this implemented, if not for me, then for future generations of students.

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Professor shortlisted for photo prize

By Anthony Vlahovic STAFF WRITER

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A woman waits for an IndyGo Red Line bus at the University of Indianapolis' stop on Shelby St. on Oct. 25. The free ticket period for the Red Line was recently extended until Nov. 10.

Red Line works on updates

By Hallie Gallinat STAFF WRITER

IndyGo’s new Red Line station next to the University of Indianapolis’ opened along Shelby Street on Sept. 1, giving students a new way to travel across the city. Since its opening, some new updates have come to the Red Line system, including how riders pay and the free ticket period.

Originally, the Red Line was planned to be free to riders only through the month of September. However, the free period has been extended until Nov. 10, according to an IndyGo press release.

One reason for the change was to improve the fare system, according to UIndy Associate Vice President and Special Advisor to the President for External Relations Corey Wilson.

“I think that [it] was a decision largely driven by the need to continue to work out some of those logistics on the payment system that is going to be utilized,” Wilson said. “It benefits everybody for that additional grace period to allow people to test it out while it's still warm outside and get out and really enjoy a good time throughout the city.”

According to IndyGo Director of Public Relations Lauren Day, the new fare system includes an app called MyKey, which will allow users to load money into

the app and pay by scanning a QR code. ride more frequently, but in order to do Riders can also use a physical reloadable that you have to have a technology that card that they can tap at the station or can essentially count the trips.” on the bus to pay.

The other reason for the free ticket MyKey, according to the IndyGo period extension is due to the Red Line website, is a system that is an alternative still being a new service for the city, Day to the month and week passes. Instead said, and as the Red Line continues to of paying on the first of the month or improve, riders are also experiencing the week, users now pay as they ride, with a changes that come to the service. limit placed on how high the price can go.

“We have kinks to work out and The program the riders are also features with us along fare capping. the way as we Using this continue to "It benefits everybody system, a rider improve the for that additional would never service,” Day have to pay said.“We know grace period...” more than we have things $4 in a day to work out and or $15.75 in a so we wanted week, Day said. to expand that free period both for the “It's an incredibly equitable way of fare reasons, but also to recognize that providing fare for transit because the we’ve had a couple of mishaps along the more you ride, you're always getting the way and we wanted to make sure that best value and many of our riders… feel riders knew that we were aware of that right now the best value is if you spend and looking out for them and just add $60 at the beginning of the month and a couple more weeks of free rides on.” you get a 31-day pass,” Day said. “But, On Sept. 7, a few days after the Red how many of us, every month on the Line opened, a drunk driver hit the first of the month, have $60 and make UIndy station. The station, according a trip to the transit center and buy it? to Wilson, is still operating. However, And so, for folks who ride often, you're some technological elements and the map not getting the best value and this fare case still need some repairs, according capping is a really wonderful way to to Day. provide the best value to our riders who “Making sure that [the station] was

safe for riders is going to be the number one priority and then those [repairs] will come afterwards,” Day said.

Wilson said that he believes the Red Line has been doing well so far. Part of the success he said is due to the Red Line currently being free.

“I think that [the Red Line being free] doesn't hurt with people that are just curious about it, but then I also think the fact that it's so convenient, [and] thinking about parking and not having to deal with that,” Wilson said.

“Whether you are going to Fountain Square, downtown or even up to Broad Ripple, all of those areas you're likely going to have to pay something to park and riding the Red Line, you don't have to worry about that.”

Two new rapid-transit lines, the Blue Line and the Purple Line, are currently undergoing early discussions, Wilson said. He said that these future lines are dependent on the success of the Red Line.

“We’ve [UIndy] been at the table of being a strong supporter of any type of mass transit,” Wilson said. “So we were really excited when we learned that the [Red Line] station would be on campus... and [we] continue to have conversations about—with the IndyGo folks—about how to continue to enhance and maintain our site. So that’s where we’ve been and I really like the position [of ] where we are.”

Marion County marijuana policy changes Some pot possession cases are no longer being filed by prosecutor's office

By Noah Crenshaw NEWS EDITOR

Marion County will no longer prosecute possession of marijuana cases that are one ounce or less, according to a policy change Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced on Sept. 30. In a press release, Mears said that the change applies only when possession is the only or most serious charge against an adult and does not apply to people under the age of 18.

Mears said that before the change, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office had been looking at how it had handled marijuana cases for the past couple of years. In 2018, the MCPO dismissed 74 percent of its marijuana possession cases, according to Mears. So far in 2019, the number has been at about 81 to 82 percent, he said.

“What I thought to myself was ‘Hey, you know, why am I, as a prosecutor, filing these cases if I ultimately know that there’s an 82 percent chance it’s gonna get dismissed?’” Mears said. “Then we took a little closer look at the numbers and who we were actually prosecuting for possession of marijuana cases and who was getting arrested…. I could not demonstrate or find a clear nexus to violence.”

After looking at the number of possession cases, Mears said that he

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caught in the act of distributing drugs, noticed that the number of arrests and driving impaired under the influence of prosecutions for marijuana possession marijuana and/or using marijuana in disproportionately affected people of public, the MCPO will still prosecute color. He said that he thought it would be those cases. a better use of resources for the MCPO Mears said that he hopes his decision and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police will eventually spread to neighboring Department to focus on violent crime, counties and across the state of Indiana. rather than marijuana possession cases.

“Ultimately, our job at Mears said that since the the prosecutor's office is policy change, the MCPO trying to make this city a has dismissed about 240 safe place...” Mears said. possession of marijuana “Prosecuting marijuana cases.The prosecutor’s office cases was not making also has turned down 25 Marion County any safer, to 30 case referrals from and we were devoting way law enforcement agencies too many resources to those following the policy change, types of cases.” he said.

University of Indianapolis Before the change, Assistant Professor of IMPD already had left History and Political Science the handling of marijuana Laura Merrifeld Wilson said possessions in the hands of MEARS that she does not think the officers, according to Mears. policy change will lead to major changes He said that in 2018, when people were across Indiana. While other counties arrested on only one charge of possession could draft a similar policy to Marion of marijuana, IMPD arrested 200 people.

County’s, Marion County is much more “There’s 950,000 people in Marion liberal than most of Indiana, she said.

County. I feel pretty confident and steady “It could spread if people find that that there’s probably more than 200 it’s successful,” Wilson said. “If they say, people who possessed marijuana over the ‘Look at what Marion County’s doing, course of 2018,” Mears said. “... I think we could do this too, and we'd also enjoy the police were already kind of acting on these kinds of successes,’ [then] they their own in a way [that's] consistent with have that option and ability. They may be the policy that we announced.” waiting it out to see what comes out of it."

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resulting from a marijuana conviction, ranging from eligibility for student loans and government subsidized housing, for example, according to Mears. He said that he considers these consequences very important factors in his decision.

Mears said that because a lot of people have been convicted of marijuana possession, the MCPO is going to help remove those convictions from people’s criminal records. Two of the issues that the office will focus on are traffic court issues, such as helping people get their licenses back, and assisting them with reintroduction into the community. “[We want to] make sure we help people get their license[s] back [and] make sure they get insured...”Mears said.

“I’ve actually reassigned people who are working on these marijuana cases.They’re now helping out with expungements, and it’s not just limited to marijuana cases.”

Mears said that it’s a question of whether or not the MCPO’s time would be better spent prosecuting marijuana cases or helping people get their licenses and insurance back. Doing this, he said, would help those people get back on their feet, be reintroduced into their communities and rejoin society.

The legalization of marijuana is different from Marion County’s new policy, Wilson said. While this issue has gotten attention nationally, she said, Indiana is not yet having a conversation about legalization.

University of Indianapolis Professor of Digital Photography Sarah Pfohl does not have a hard time sticking out when compared against a group of people, according to Art & Design Department Chair and Professor of Art & Design James Viewegh.

“When she applied for the position… there was almost 100 applicants for the job and I mean it, she stood out immediately,” Viewegh said.

Pfohl went on to stand out again for her work when she was shortlisted for the 2019 Palm* Photo Prize earlier this year. There were 3,860 total submissions for the international photo prize and only 104 submissions made the shortlist, with one of those images being from Pfohl, according to UIndy Intercom. Pfohl said the competition focuses on strong, standalone images for the submission.

Pfohl said she was surprised when she found out she made the shortlist, but Viewegh said he wasn’t surprised at all that she made the list. According to Pfohl, she first got into photography 20 years ago and has been in love with it ever since.

Although this specific prize was not a goal of hers, sharing her work with others always has been, Pfohl said.

“Sharing my work with a more broad public, especially internationally, is definitely important for me so that I can connect with different opportunities to share my work and different folks who might be interested in it,” Pfohl said.

The specific piece that was selected is part of a bigger project that she has been working on since 2012, Pfohl said. She said that she hopes to have it

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published in a book when the project is finished. In terms of numbers, Pfohl said, this is her biggest accomplishment, but the piece was not the thing that she was most proud of in her career.

“I think that we don’t necessarily live in a world where there are a ton of opportunities to make art what you do all day, every day and my biggest accomplishment is being able to centralize art in my life as much as I do now,” Pfohl said.

Being named to this list not only helps Pfohl’s career, but the photography program at UIndy, Viewegh said. “[Pfohl being named] shows that our program here at UIndy, the photography program in particular, is very successful and has highly skilled people teaching it,” Viewegh said.

Pfohl said she not only loves making art, but that she also has a love for teaching it.

“It means everything to me,” Pfohl said. “I don’t just teach because it’s a thing I feel like I have to do, I really love teaching and I really love being an artist and the two practices making art and teaching form and inform one another.

So my students inspire me, and hopefully, I inspire them.”

Her care for the students and the Department of Art & Design in general does not go unnoticed by the people working alongside her, according to Viewegh.

“She’s extremely knowledgeable, as far as photography goes, and is an extremely hardworking member of this department, who is very conscious about the students, about the curriculum,[and] how to make the department successful,” Viewegh said.

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Denham selected to coach International Bowl UIndy’s Denham will coach the U.S. National Team in January 2020 at AT&T Stadium in Texas

By Anthony Vlahovic STAFF WRITER

The success of the University of Indianapolis Football Team does not just earn the players recognition, it earns recognition for the coaches as well.

Defensive Line Coach and Special Teams Coordinator David Denham has been named a coach on the United States National Team, which will compete in the 2020 International Bowl.

The International Bowl is a football tournament played by high school students from all around the world.

They compete with teams from all across the world such as Japan, Mexico and Canada, according to the International Bowls website.

The game will be played Jan. 14 and 15 in 2020. According to the National Team’s website team USA has seven different teams across four age groups from U16 Select to the U19 National Team. The game is held every year at AT&T Stadium according to the National Team’s website, home of the Dallas Cowboys.

Football is an American born sport, but Denham said countries like Canada and Mexico are more advanced in American football than most people might think they are and they are catching up to the United States in the sport.

Some current National Football League players who have suited up for the National Team including Todd Gurley, a running back for the Los Angeles Rams, Jameis Winston quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dwayne Haskins quarterback of the Washington Redskins, Tyrann Mathieu a safety for the Kansas City Chiefs and many others, according to the International Bowl’s website.

Denham, who has been coaching for 13 years, is in his second year at UIndy according to UIndy Athletics. He previously coached at Wabash College where he held the same positions.

Prior to that he was at the defunct St. Joseph’s College for five years where

he was named Conference Assistant Coach of the Year in 2011. It came as no surprise to his players when they heard the news that Denham would be coaching the team, according to senior defensive lineman Rondell Weathers.

“He’s a great coach, words can’t explain how hard he works,” Weathers said. “His work ethic is crazy, he has every detail for us for every single game and always has us ready. We always get a plan sheet. It’s just a lot of stuff that he does that’s just different.”

Last season, all four of Denham’s starting defensive linemen earned all conference honors at the end of the year, according to the UIndy Athletics website. Weathers said Denham does not just teach the players about football, but also how to be good men in general.

“I’ve learned so much,” Weathers said. “He’s a genuine person that actually cares about your well being.

He’s a coach that not only wants you to be better on the field, but as a person,” According to Denham, being selected to coach for the National Team was not something he set out as a goal when he began coaching, but getting to the highest level was. He said that this is certainly a large stepping stone for that. Denham said he has done some work with the U.S. National Team prior to getting selected to be in the International Bowl.

“Working with the National Team was something that came about five years ago, just working with the regional camps and working my way up through the system,” said Denham.

“I was head coach for the U16 team in Canton, Ohio in the summer and then they called and asked me if I wanted to work with the International Bowl.”

Denham said coaching at UIndy is the same as coaching in the International Bowl, but he is happy to be working with the talent that the National Team has.

“In a sense, coaching is coaching and I don’t care where you are,” Denham said. “I don’t care if your coaching at UIndy I don’t care if you are coaching for the national team, you’re working with kids and to have the opportunity to work with different young men from all aspects of life.”

Photo by Jacob Walton

Defensive Line Coach and Special Teams Coordinator David Denham signals to players during the homecoming game win. Denham will be a coach for the United States National Team which will compete in the International Bowl taking place Jan. 14 and 15 in 2020.

Volleyball prepares for GLVC playoffs Reed said that the team has many qualities as individuals which allows for PHOTO EDITOR wins at the end of most matches when those qualities are brought together.

Last season, two seniors graduated “This is such a cliche thing, but I from the University of Indianapolis’ would say the strength of our team is the volleyball team. This allowed for the strength of our team,” Reed said. “We team to maintain a more experienced don’t have a ton of weak links.... obviously group this season, which is looked at as we try to put the best out there every time one of their greatest strengths according but if we need to make a change, there’s to Assistant Coach Hannah Nimrick. no drop off. The girls that are coming in As the team prepares for GLVC off the bench are doing such a good job. playoffs, they hold a 15-6 record overall We just have a really good homogenous with a 6-2 record in the conference. group who is able to do their job over Senior defensive specialist Jena Davis said and over and over again.” the team is trying to focus on one day at Reed said team leadership from a time. Head Coach Jason Reed said he the players has been very beneficial likes their chances at making the NCAA to their success tournament. overall this “ We just season. With really need to the team being “Our highs can’t get much keep worrying an older group, higher, but our lows are a b o u t it has allowed ourselves and for more pretty low.” putting our leadership from best product upperclassmen on the floor and a more each night,”Reed said.“...We have a really diverse leadership than past groups, good group this year, our senior leadership according to Reed. has been exceptional and we also have a “There’s always a transitional period, bunch of freshmen on the floor.” the way that one group leads the team Nimrick said the team holds many is going to change every single year and strengths from their shared bond to there’s really no right or wrong way to playing styles such as ball control. The do it,” Reed said. “But what I want to team is focusing on improving other do as a coach is kind of help them find areas in order to perform better in the that voice that makes sense for them. So GLVC tournament, Davis said.

I think the best leadership is authentic to “We need to improve on being more that group that’s trying to lead.” consistent, our highs can’t get much Junior outside hitter Katie Furlong higher but our lows are pretty low,”Davis said the addition of the team’s assistant said. “So if we could just work on evening coaches Julie Street and Nimrick have that out and just being consistent all the been a large part in their improvement. time, that would really help us out in Furlong said, they brought numerous the playoffs.” improvements to the team. Some of The team has had a few bad weekends them including new methods of coaching this year Reed said, and the mistakes were and more focused work within practices on their side of the net. He said it seemed Furlong said. like there was something wrong, but there “Julie [Street] implementing her wasn’t and the team more so used those system, Hannah [Nimrick] working so mistakes as learning opportunities. hard with our setters and our setters have The connection they share and their gotten so much better too which is a big ability to play as themselves has led to piece of our offense,” Furlong said. “So I a lot of success this season, according think adding those two to the staff and to Reed. then Jason has always been really good.”

By Shylah Gibson

Photo by Emily Del Campo

Head Coach Alex Waldherr brings the water polo team in for instructions during practice before their first meet. The team regularly runs different drills that he explains through drawing on a white board. They will compete at Lawrence North High School on Nov. 9.

Water Polo prepares for season

By Ally Nickerson STAFF WRITER

In their fifth year as a program, and with a new head coach, the University of Indianapolis Water Polo Team is preparing for their upcoming season.

According to Water Polo President and senior biology major Brad Moon, this year Student Affairs launched a new, three-tiered classification system for Registered Student Organizations.

UIndy’s RSO Handbook states that the first-tier includes traditional RSOs, the second tier contains RSOs that actively support university goals for recruitment and retention, and the third tier is for club sports. This year, water polo was elevated to a third-tier RSO, which entitles the team to extra funding.

“So now, we’re a club sport RSO,” Moon said. “What that means is that we have all the same rules as normal RSOs, but we get increased funding, and then we also get the opportunity to have a coach and specific uniforms purchased for the team.”

In Sept. the team welcomed a new coach, Marian University medical student Alex Waldherr. Waldherr said, water polo is a complicated and difficult

game.

“I would describe water polo as a hyper-physical blend of basically every characteristic of a sport,” Waldherr said.

“Power, finesse, tactics, endurance, speed.

You name it, water polo demands it in some way, shape or form. It’s got a shot clock like basketball and power plays like hockey. And with no protective padding.”

Moon said there are currently 15 team members who vary in age and experience.

Moon said most students are freshmen and sophomores who come to the team with no experience in water polo, but have history in swimming or other sports.

Moon said that new players have a lot to gain by joining the team.

“They [the team] have a great source of how to keep off the freshman 15.” Moon said. “So, the great exercise that you get, but also the team camaraderie… I like to say that water polo is the first family I found on campus.”

Freshman music education major Jenna Crafts said she has enjoyed these same aspects of being on the team.

“I was looking for an activity that would encourage me to stay active,’’ Crafts said. “And something that was different than all the music courses that I was taking.... It’s kind of nice to escape to a different group of friends.”

Waldherr said that he is optimistic about the upcoming season, but having reasonable expectations is important since the team may be playing against teams who are much more experienced.

He said he hopes that students develop a good understanding of the game and perform better at each tournament so that eventually the program can be selfsustaining.

“I just want to emphasize that the team has done really well thus far,” Waldherr said, “They’re very receptive to the feedback I give them, and they’re receptive to the ideas that I bring to the table. And I think that with this positive attitude, this is a team that is going to grow and a program that is going to thrive if this continues to be the culture.”

Moon said they have competed with other teams in recent years such as the University of Notre Dame, Oakland University and Purdue University. The team aims to compete in at least two tournaments a year, mostly against other startup teams, because UIndy’s program is still being established as a team Moon said. The team will be competing at Lawrence North High School against Ball State University and the Indianapolis Masters Water Polo team on Nov. 9.

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6 THE REFLECTOR

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Hounds in strength sports

By Anthony Vlahovic

Photo by Madison Gomez

Working with Information Technology at the University of Indianapolis, Zappia spends her free time creating original works of fiction.

Staff book release Francesca Zappia ‘15 publishes “Now Entering Addamsville”

By Noah Fields STAFF WRITER

During business hours, University of Indianapolis alumna Francesca Zappia works as a Tech Support Specialist at UIndy Information Technology.

However, in the evenings, Zappia develops her career as a writer.

Zappia’s latest novel, “Now Entering Addamsville,” was published on Oct. 1.

The Greenwood Park Mall Barnes & Noble held a party and book signing to coincide with the book’s release.

Zappia said she began telling stories when she was eight years old, and she cites her friends, family and the “Harry Potter” book series as inspirations. While she initially told her stories with drawings, she found as she grew older that words were more effective for her storytelling.

“When I read books, I see them kind of like movies in my head…. I want to do that for other people,” Zappia said.

Zappia entered her freshman year at UIndy in 2011. Wanting to study something other than writing, she majored in computer science with a mathematics minor. The summer after her freshman year, she began working as a Student Tech in IT and did so until the end of her senior year. With her IT job, Zappia said she thought she could obtain useful skills. Full-time positions in IT were made available by the time Zappia graduated in 2015, and she was hired and continues to work four years later. Between her education and her employment at UIndy, Zappia spent most of her free time writing, including publishing her poem “In The Mist” in the fall 2013 edition of Etchings.

Two weeks after graduating from UIndy, Zappia’s first novel, “Made You Up,” was published on May 19, 2015.

She has since published two additional young adult novels, a serialized novel,

and has also expressed interest in publishing a webcomic after releasing a teaser on her Wattpad page. According to UIndy Intercom, Zappia received a 2017 Emerging Author distinction at the Indiana Authors Awards. The article said that Zappia’s second novel, “Eliza and Her Monsters,” won Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2017, a Junior Library Guild Selection. It was among the Top 10 of the Young Adult Library Services Association 2018 Best Fiction for Young Adults list. In addition to these accolades, Zappia said she took on many opportunities for public speaking, such as writing workshops and conventions.

“With the writing side of things,” Zappia said, “I get to go talk to… educators, librarians, teachers, all these people who have a whole different way of looking at things, and I think that’s been my favorite part of it.”

Zappia said she aims to explore several themes in her writing. In addition, she also said that many of these themes come about through her writing style.

“Most of my stories are about friendship of some kind or another,” Zappia said. “I attribute a lot of that to my friends and how great they are.”

Zappia said one particular way in which she likes to incorporate themes of friendship in her work is through what she calls a “Scooby Gang aesthetic,” referencing the comradery in the Scooby Doo franchise. She also said she touches on themes of mental health in her work.

“For the first two [novels] mental illness was a big theme,” Zappia said.

“Dealing with it appropriately, creating a support system around yourself, really listening to yourself [and] seeking help.”

Zappia said she frequently hears comments that her writing is weird.

However, she also said she views this as a strength rather than a weakness.

“I think that is one of my favorite

Alum publishes “Diary of the Soft World”

By Megan Copeland STAFF WRITER

University of Indianapolis alumna and Records and Curriculum Coordinator Carol Hatfield wrote and published “Diary of the Soft World,” a collection of poems. During her time as a student at UIndy, Hatfield wrote poetry as a side hobby while obtaining a degree in music. While a student, Alice Friman, an award winning poet, taught Hatfield as her professor. Without her knowing, one of Hatfield’s friends slid her poems under Friman’s door for her to read and critique. When Hatfield was called into Friman’s office, she was shocked at what Friman told her.

“I’ll never forget when I first met her [Friman],” Hatfield said. “She called me to her office and she sat me down and she said ‘Who are you?’ because she loved my poems, and I was just floored.”

Since then, Hatfield has gone on to publish a few poems through small presses, her biggest publisher being Cricket Media for children. She has had three poems published through Cricket, the latest poem published last month called “These Syllables Fly.” Hatfield started a Wordpress page to publish her works online and to get feedback from her audience. When she received positive responses from readers, her friends urged her to write a book.

“Diary of the Soft World” is 304 pages with poems that revolve around nature, ancestry and emotion that Hatfield wrote. There are various types of poetry featured within the book including free verse, rhyme, haikus and song lyrics Hatfield said.

According to Hatfield, the book is

for everyone’s enjoyment varying from kids to avid poetry readers to people who are not necessarily a fan of poetry.

Hatfield said that she hopes her book of poems connects with people who don’t typically read poetry and that they will find enjoyment reading them.

Freshman chemistry major Margaret Southern had not heard of Hatfield prior to reading a sample of her poems from “Diary of the Soft World,” but enjoyed the freeness of her poems.

“I liked the free nature of her poems, and I liked how woodsy and nature filled it [the poetry] was because it was very open,” Southern said. “I liked the structure of how she laid it out because it wasn’t boring. It was open ended and a lot of her poems had different structures and I could really tell what she was trying to say by her different writing styles.”

Hatfield said her top three favorite poems include “Orange Cat,” “Stone” and “Four Gyrfalcons.” According to Hatfield, the title of the book comes from one of the last sentences from the poem “Stone.” She said that she got the idea for the conclusory words of “Stone” and the book title “Diary of the Soft World” from her sister, who is mentioned in the acknowledgments in the beginning of the book.

Hatfield said she is looking forward to continue writing in the future. She is also hoping to improve and advance in her writing abilities.

“I’m very excited to do that [write more poetry], yes, and I’m hoping it will be even better poems. I hope I’m growing as a writer, I’m trying to,” Hatfield said.

The book is available on e-book through various outlets such as Amazon and Kobo sites. Readers can also purchase the book as a paperback copy.

things that anybody says about [my writing],” Zappia said. “I do something that is weird, and I think that helps it stand out a little bit.”

Above other literary elements, Zappia believes that readers are drawn to YAL in particular due to the connections they make to the main characters. She said that while elements such as plot and world-building are important, the main character’s internal struggles draw readers in the most.

“I think what really makes people diehard for a story is that they see themselves in the character so much they want to live in that world,”Zappia said.“I think there is an immediacy of emotion in young adult books that you don’t necessarily always get in other categories of fiction.”

In terms of big takeaways, Zappia has several hopes for readers of her books.

Above anything else, however, she says her biggest hope is that her readers are entertained.

“First and foremost, I just hope they enjoy it,”Zappia said.“I hope they maybe get a little bit of hope out of it.”

Zappia went on to say she hopes her books allow readers to think about aspects of the world they had not considered before. Furthermore, she says she hopes the themes of mental illness give her readers something to think about as well.

“I particularly hope it helps for certain people who deal with those things,” Zappia said. “I hope it helps them be kinder to themselves.”

Dalton Lowry is a part of the culture as a bodybuilder. Lowry said he has wanted to STAFF WRITER get into bodybuilding since his senior year of high school, but sports like football got in the way of that. After leaving another There are various misconceptions university and their football program about powerlifting and bodybuilding to come to UIndy, he said he is strictly according to former powerlifter and focused on bodybuilding. Lowry said University of Indianapolis Strength his training regimen is lifting five to six and Conditioning Coach Steve Barrick. times a week, focusing on a new muscle According to bodybuilding.com, the group each day. He is also very particular difference between bodybuilding and about his nutrition. powerlifting is that bodybuilders need “Currently, I’m bulking so it’s around to look like they can lift a lot of weight 4,000 calories. I’m trying to eat a lot while powerlifting is all about lifting a of carbs and a lot of protein and then lot of weight. More of these powerlifters when I’m dieting down it’s going to be and bodybuilders are starting to come primarily high amounts of protein so about at the UIndy.

I don’t lose a lot of muscle mass while Senior sports management major dieting,” Lowry said.

Andrew Donati competes in powerlifting The nutrition aspect is one of the competitions and knows all about biggest differences between powerlifting planning that goes into training and and bodybuilding according to Barrick. competing. He got into powerlifting “When it comes to bodybuilding your after sustaining four concussions in high diet has to be really on point because school sports and he has been in love you’re really working to get your body with competing in powerlifting events fat percentage down to a certain level,” since his dad recommended it to him.

Barrick said.“With powerlifting, you can According to Donati, he spends two to be a little bit more free with your diet.” three hours in the gym everyday and Barrick said that another stark competes in three competitions a year. difference between the two sports is the On top of lifting, Donati said he spends types of lifts an athlete does for their a lot of time focusing on nutrition. respective sport.

“I go with meal prep companies “With powerlifting, you are shooting because I don’t always have time to cook for the highest number that you can hit on and I also work 30 hours a week,” Donati squat, bench said.“I usually and deadlift, eat about five therefore your to six times “If you really want to training is a day, every two hours but become a great powerlifter... going to be different,” since I’m in it becomes your lifestyle.”

Barrick said. the offseason “There’s going my c alor ie to be a little bit intake is more of a higher intensity [and] more rest around 3,000 calories a day.” so it’s very different in terms of volume According to Donati, he also drinks and intensity.” about two gallons of water a day. Barrick Similarly, Donati and Lowry both said this level of preparation is what it wish to use their own sports as a platform. takes to be successful in the sport.

Donati said he wants to be a powerlifting “I don’t think people understand how coach one day for younger powerlifters as much thought, how much planning, how he feels the sport is dying off from what much really goes into the set up of how it used to be. He said he wants to help you’re going to train...” Barrick said. these younger powerlifters become the “If you really want to become a great best they can be at the sport. Lowry said powerlifter or bodybuilder it becomes he wants to use his platform to share the your lifestyle.”

Gospel with others.

Junior mechanical engineering major

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ENTERTAINMENT

OCTOBER 30, 2019

UIndy theatre presents "Cabaret"

Photo by Kiara Conley

By Reid Bello

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR From the moment the doors of the auditorium opened, the cast of “Cabaret” was in character, greeting and ushereing audience members to their seats with German accent of their characters.

The University of Indianapolis Theatre Department cast 15 students in the show about the underground life in Berlin, Germany.

“Cabaret” tells the love story of an American novelist and English cabaret singer in the 1930s coming of Nazi Germany. The novelist, Clifford “Cliff ” Bradshaw, traveled to Berlin to write his next novel and finds himself at a local club where he meets English cabaret singer, Sally Bowles and the people in the underground party life, who either help or hurt the love story of Cliff and Sally.

The cast was taught by a dialect coach to speak with a German accent, according to senior theatre major Carly Wagers, who plays the role of Fräulein Schneider.

Her character is the owner of a small hotel in Berlin where Cliff and Sally stay.

She said her favorite part of the show is when she sings what the cast refers to as the pineapple song, but is actually called “It Couldn’t Please Me More,” because it is a tender moment for her character.

Her character’s love interest gifts her a pineapple, which was an extravagant gift during this time period.

According to Wagers, the Theatre Department often hires professionals so that the students have the opportunity to work with and also to help the students gain experience. Wagers said that an outside director was hired to direct the production, along with many others. She said that having an outside perspective was a good opportunity for students to work with someone in the theater profession.

Wagers said that the show was not what she was expecting, but when she began learning lines and practicing, she fell in love with it. That is also what she loves about theater, she said, that an actor can become a different person onstage.

“It's so emotional....The collaboration of this exchange of emotions and energy with your cast members, with your crew, everyone,” Wagers said. “You're

there was a large difference from the all coming together and really throwing start of rehearsals compared to what was yourselves into this one project for two performed for the audience. months at a time, and by the end, you're “There's a lot of different pieces to a family. You have to be so vulnerable this crazy big puzzle [the show] we and you have to be so open and to make put together good art, you have and each to be able to give a rehearsal lot, take a lot, and was kind of “There's a lot of different to see it all come just the actor together in the pieces to this crazy big giving what end is beautiful, then to tear it puzzle we put together...” they have,” Williams down like it never said. “Then, happened.” each time S o p h o m o re [rehearsal] the director's adding one theatre major Chase Williams was the assistant stage manager for “Cabaret,” thing and each time everything pieced together a little bit by little bit. It's just and said that although he is normally been so fun watching the actors.” on stage, he decided to stay behind the Sophomore psychology and prescenes for this production. He said that physical therapy assistant double major being the assistant stage manager was Phillip Moses performed for the first time a great opportunity to learn because at UIndy, playing multiple characters in he is interested in stage management.

“Cabaret.” He said he has always been Williams said that he enjoyed having interested in theater and was excited to the opportunity to work with so many get involved in “Cabaret." diverse people, not only from UIndy, Moses said one of the hardest parts but also the people that were hired in to was making sure to stay in character help. He said he was able to witness the while ushering. actors grow throughout the rehearsals;

Handbell ensembles UIndy handbell ensembles perform in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall

By Kiara Conley ONLINE EDITOR

With the sounds of handbells ringing throughout Ruth Lilly Performance Hall on Oct. 24, the Beginning and Advanced handbell ensembles performed under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Peter Nichols.

The handbell ensembles are a part of a class that Nichohls teaches. There are 20 in the begginers class and 9 in the advanced class.

The beginning ensemble opened the concert with “UIndy Alma Mater” and then performed “Kiss the Girl” from “The Little Mermaid.” They went on to perform “The Wizard of Oz” the group finished with a piece named “Rondo Celebration,” Nichols said that the piece was written specifically for the beginning ensemble.

“Very rhythmic, very driving and it should be a lot of fun,” Nichols said.

“And I do love that is was written for that group, but specifically the director that I studied under….”

After the beginning ensemble finished their performance, Nichols introduced the ensembles to the crowd and took time to explain the design of the bell.

Nichols told the crowd that in his class, they will do what they call bad joke Thursdays, but told his students they had to wait until the concert for the bad joke that he also told the audience.

The advanced ensemble began their portion of the concert with “Candle on the Water” from the movie “Pete’s Dragon.” The ensemble was then joined by junior music therapy major Moira John, who played trumpet for the piece “Trumpet Tune Fanfare.”

They performed “They’ll Know We Are Christians” but instead of playing with handbells, they used chimes.

Nichols said that chimes are played like the bells, but sound different and are more mellow. The group finished out the concert with an arrangement of “Kum Ba Yah.”

Photo by Shylah Gibson

The beginners handbell ensemble performed during a concert on Oct. 24. in Ruth Lily Perfromance Hall. The performance was a part of a class that Peter Nichols teaches.

Sophomore criminal justice major Dakiya Jenkins is a member of the advanced handbell ensemble. She said that her favorite song that she performed at the concert was “Candle on the Water.” She said that it was the best song and took her interest.

“I played most of the time and my notes kind of held up the back of the song and it’s really nice and I actually like the movie, so it made a nice connection for me,” Jenkins said.

Senior music therapy major Rachel Brinson is also a member of the advanced ensemble and said her favorite piece that she performed was “They’ll Know We Are Christians.”

Brinson said she sings it in church a lot and she liked being able to hear the song in a different way than she has heard it before.

“I like the chimes and the effect that it gave to it," Brinson said. "It just had this different feel to it, I’m used to hearing it [played on the] piano and sung with a choir or the congregation, so just having it as an instrumental piece and the certain ambiance that the

chimes give just made it extra."

On Dec. 5 the ensembles will play for their entire class time in Schwitzer Student Center to benefit United Way, Nichols said.

“We will be accepting donations at that one and those donations will go straight to the university’s United Way campaign, which benefits people right here in central Indiana, which is fantastic,” Nichols said.

Both ensembles will be playing at the Christmas concerts that will be taking place on Dec. 6 and 8 in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, according to Nichols.

They will be going around and performing Christmas carols, as they do each Christmas season Nichols said.

“We try to go out and we park ourselves in various locations around the campus and play a couple tunes," Nichols said, "like pop in ‘Surprise, hey, here we are’ pop out, go somewhere else and play a couple [songs] somewhere else.”

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“Every time I walked into Ransburg to do rehearsals, I did feel some type of pressure. But I did adjust to it eventually,” Moses said. “I'm glad that it did take me out of my comfort zone because I look at the theatre department a little bit different now that I have... more understanding of how things work.”

Moses said what he really appreciated is how the theatre majors went out of their way to make him feel welcome. He said that he will remember this experience of performing “Cabaret” forever, and that he is happy that he got involved.

“It's been really cool to see everyone grow. We've had a lot of freshmen involved in this process. And as an upperclassman who's transitioning out of collegiate theater now into professional and they're transitioning from high school into college and all of these different worlds coming together,” Wagers said. “I like the exchange of knowledge that happens cause as upperclassmen, you have so much to hand down and to pass on to these younger ones... To be able to be a voice of support for them and to help guide them through that, I think that's really nice.”

Editorial: Ghost Tales

By Ally Nickerson STAFF WRITER

I’m much more of a history buff than a haunted house fan, so Candlelight Theatre’s new production, “Ghost Tales of the Civil War,” sounded right up my alley. With my best friend in tow, I headed downtown to the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site where we watched small performances by actors in each room of the museum.

According to the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site website, the play features spirits of people who died during the Civil War, and now haunt the property.

The first thing my friend and I realized was that we were the youngest patrons there by about three decades.

The tour group was small with 16 per group, and the performances were intimate. Our tour guide introduced herself as Emeline Piggott, a Confederate spy, and showed a stolen note she had hidden under her belt while she told us her story. She then took us from room to room, interacting with other ghosts and griping about the eventual Union victory. The show started with a bang and set the tone for the evening; a man in a Confederate jacket came into the first room, screaming about the carnage he saw on the battlefields, the thousands of lives that were lost under his command and the nightmares he now sees. Some of the oldest guests were clearly shocked as the man yelled in their faces, “Can you forgive me? Because I can’t forgive myself, my hands are stained with their blood!” Clearly, the evening was off to a great start.

Though multiple tours snaked through the house at a time, they did an incredible job of coordinating so that we never saw or heard the other groups.

The Presidential Site was the perfect location for the performance. The antique furniture and decorations in the museum helped us immerse ourselves in the experience. The house felt sprawling and empty, excluding the hollow sounds of soldiers or slaves singing from the halls as we went to the various different rooms.

We met actors who played spies, commanders, nurses, soldiers and even Harriet Tubman, a conductor on the Underground Railroad. As we neared the

room upstairs, we heard a deep sorrowful voice singing “Go Down Moses,” and drawing out the final line, “let my people go,” as we filed into the room to find her kneeling. Harriet Tubman’s monologue was piercing yet triumphant, as she described bringing slaves to Canada to live in freedom.

“We had the right to two things: liberty and death. If we couldn’t have one, we’d have the other.”

The actors were well prepared, but also ad libbed as guests moved slowly throughout the house. They’d converse with each other over Confederate/ Union divides or ask the guests things like, “What year is it again? I get so confused.”

What I noticed about the actresses we saw in the first few rooms was the intricacy of their costumes. Period dresses, wigs, elaborate hairstyles and fancy hats enhanced the believability of their performances. However, the men’s costumes were surprisingly lazy.

They often wore coats that were too big and modern shoes that stood out. Even Abraham Lincoln was wearing navy blue pinstripe pants with a black jacket, a classic fashion faux pas.

Despite taking some historical liberties, the last room was my favorite.

We saw a rendition of the first and only trial of an American to ever be tried for war crimes against other Americans.

After the man and his associates were sent to the gallows, President Lincoln entered the room, and described to his wife, Mary Todd, a dream where he sees his own corpse in a coffin in the White House. Mary waved off his concerns, then said, “Come along dear,” and mentioned that they’d be spending the evening at Ford’s Theatre to see a play. That was definitely the cheesiest line of the show.

O verall, I really enjoyed the experience at "Ghost Tales". The actors were entertaining and the stories were engaging. I loved getting to experience the stories within the eerie halls of the Presidential Site, where they played up the low green and red lighting to highlight each scene. However, at about $18 for an hour and 10 minute experience, I wouldn't recommend going if you aren't a big fan of history. In that case, I would suggest celebrating spooky season with a horror movie on your own couch.

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