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Olympic swimmer Anthony Ervin speaks about career, adversity

By Quiaira Johnson ONLINE EDITOR

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Olympic swimmer Anthony Ervin talks with students after his speech. Ervin spoke at the University of Indianapolis on Tuesday, March 24 at 9 p.m. in UIndy Hall.

The University of Indianapolis Athletics Department hosted U.S. gold medal swimmer Anthony Ervin on March 24 at 9 p.m. in the Schwitzer Student Center’s UIndy Hall. The event was open to UIndy student-athletes and the general student population.

Ervin was invited to campus to share his story about how he overcame adversity while managing to break world records at a young age. Ervin claimed gold and silver medals at the age of 19 in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, plus two gold medals in the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. He is a Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association seven-time champion, 27-time All-American as well as an eight-time record breaker.

Ervin said that he has had the privilege of being a successful swimmer, but that the decisions he was making in his life were not in line with the type of athlete he eventually wanted to become.

“Just recently, I was reading some Plato, the philosopher, and he was like, you know, sometimes people feel compelled to go out to do some community services.

And I know that is something that is big here,” Ervin said during his presentation.

“But I’m somewhat caught up in a bind because I was reading Plato, and it says before you go out there and try to be help in society, you have to learn how to care for yourself. ” The event began with an introduction of Ervin by senior communication major Hayley Good, who is partly responsible for Ervin’s appearance.

Ervin was honest with the audience as he shared the struggles he faced as a student-athlete and how some of his life decisions drastically impacted his life.

He also said that he has terrible stage fright and almost had to cancel the event because of it.

“I was stunned that you guys don’t know me at all and have invited me to speak here,” Ervin said. “Truth be told, all I can really talk about is my life. I can try to give you guys ‘six steps to success,’ but the hard part is actually doing them. …

So I am going to talk to you about my life.

And the irony here is that because someone is a good athlete, or a great athlete, or the best athlete that does not make them the best person, or a great person, or even necessarily a good person.”

Ervin began his presentation by talking about his college experience, and how he failed at being a student-athlete. He said that he grew up with a father that was an alcoholic and a strict mother who did not allow him to do much while he was growing up. He said that because he was so sheltered growing up, when he got to college he was out of control.

“I didn’t get a lot of information from my dad, which is something that I really struggled with growing up,” Ervin said.

“My mother was an orphan in New York City, so she went through some serious stuff that she won’t even talk about anymore, or really ever. Needless to say, it was bad enough that she became the most controlling, overprotective mother ever. I never got to do anything. So when I went away for college I just went completely crazy.”

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ISA brings Indian holiday Festival of Colors to UIndy

By Kylee Crane MANAGING EDITOR Red, blue, green and yellow colors flew through the air and marshmallows roasted over a fire as the Indian Student Association hosted its own Holi Festival of Colors at the Campus Apartments on March 20.

Holi is a spring festival that has been celebrated for centuries in India. It is based on the story of Hiranyakashipu, who forced the kingdom to worship him instead of God. His son, Prahlad, went against his father’s wish and continued to pray to Vishnu.

Hiranyakashipu decided to kill his son and asked his sister, Holika, who was immune to fire, to burn Prahlad to death.

At the end of the fire, however, Prahlad was still alive because of his devotion to Vishnu and Holika was dead.

Holi is celebrated for two days in India with a large bonfire on the first night, and the color celebration is the next day. The University of Indianapolis celebration lasted four hours, but still included a bonfire, a chocolate fountain and playing with colored powders. According to

graduate student and president of ISA Bhumi Rathod, Holi symbolizes many things for those who celebrate it.

“The festivals are done so we can bring all the people together,” Rathod said.“Everyone gets to play together, and it is not separated by gender or social class. It’s a time for uncles, cousins and all the family really to come together and celebrate. We also celebrate to emphasize good over bad in the world.”

While planning the event was timeconsuming, Rathod said that finding ways to get the necessary supplies was the most difficult aspect.

“I and a few others have only been here seven months,” Rathod said. “And none of us have cars, so we had to beg our friends and people we know to take us to the store so we could buy supplies and food. It took a lot of planning.”

The event was open not only to students involved in ISA, but to the campus community. Junior psychology and pre-occupational therapy major Caryn Kiel was interested in coming to this event to learn more about the festival and Indian culture as a whole.

“I’m a part of Interfaith, and one of the big things is to learn about different

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Students play with colored powders at the Holi Festival of Colors. The event was hosted by the Indian Student Association and included a bonfire and chocolate fountain. cultures. I don’t know much about Indian culture, so I decided this would be a good place to start,” Kiel said. “I think it is very important to embrace diversity, and the best way to do that is to get people to see the diversity and celebrate it.”

Rathod also hopes students will take away knowledge about her culture and understand the events that occur in India.

“I hope students take knowledge about our festival from this,” Rathod said.

“I don’t think anyone has ever participated in Holi on this campus, so we want to show them more of our culture. We had Diwali, the festival of lights, and now this is another festival. And so we just want the world to know what all exactly happens in India. We don’t just have Diwali, we

McCleary Chapel hosts justice concert Human Traff icking Awareness Concert raises knowledge and fun showcasing bands and speaker

By Hayley Good STAFF WRITER McCleary Chapel hosted a Human Trafficking Awareness Concert on March 18 from 7 to 10 p.m. in UIndy Hall A. The event featured two local bands as well as a speaker from Purchased, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization that raises awareness about human trafficking.

The Purchased spokesperson informed students of ways that they can get involved and spread the message.

Craig Westberry, sophomore psychology and religion major and Chapel Steward of Justice, organized the campus-wide event with the help of the UIndy Keys Club President and junior psychology pre-occupational therapy major Michaela Thomas.

“As an intern at Purchased, it was my job to facilitate events to raise awareness, and I decided that this would be a great way to reach out and educate an audience,” Westberry said.

Both of the bands featured students

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Nation Ever Changed started the evening with some of the group’s hits. Junior criminal justice major Grant Koenig performed with his band.

“It was great to be able to perform at an event that raised awareness for a cause, rather than a regular concert,” Koenig said.

Between band performances, a represent a t i ve f rom Purchased spoke on the impor tance of educating people about human trafficking.

T h e Lasting H o p e then performed.

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communication major Craig Banister is the guitar player for The Lasting Hope.

“It was really cool to be able to play in front of my friends,” Banister said.

Logan Oakes, lead singer for The Lasting Hope, also was grateful to be playing at UIndy.

“Anytime we can come out and suppor t other ministries or other groups that are doing something meaningful, it’s really awesome,” Oakes said.

The Lasting Hope bass player, Ta n n e r

Marling, was equally excited.

“It’s a great cause, and we’d love to be a part of more events like this,” Marling said.

Students, faculty and fans demonstrated enthusiasm throughout the night by responding to cues from the bands. Not only were students able to hear music, but they were informed about human trafficking.

Senior criminal justice major Matt Mellencamp enjoyed his time at the event and said he learned about a serious issue.

“I didn’t know very much about human trafficking, but this event really opened my eyes,” he said. “I think that other students learned something, too, and that awareness was spread tonight.”

While the turnout was not large, Westberry was happy with the results of the event.

“I hope that this event taught students to be open to doing something that benefits society,” Westberry said. “If [ending] human trafficking is that passion, then they should know that there are organizations like Purchased out there to help them.”

have other things, too.”

While ISA has no other events planned for this semester, Kiel said she hopes to see more cultural events like this on campus and more students attend them.

“Students should really attend these events in order to be educated,” Kiel said, “and be able to interact better with their peers.”

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East Hall flood causes slight damage over Spring Break

The first floor of East Hall flooded, causing the lobby to be unavailable to students on March 7.

Justin Jones-Fosu gives lecture on life, career, passions, diversity

Leadership and diversity speaker Justin Jones-Fosu visited the University of Indianapolis on Thursday, March 16.

Bookstore raises awareness about the Thirst Project

The University of Indianapolis bookstore participated in the Thirst Project for World Water Day on Saturday, March 22.

Poet Teresa Mei Chuc shares Vietnam War experiences

Poet Teresa Mei Chuc shared her poetry as part of the University of Indianapolis’ ongoing Kellogg Writers Series on March 16 at 7:30 p.m.

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Pence should not stampede to Oval Office

By Leeann Doerflein EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Tax slasher, charter school champion, right-to-life advocate and legalizer of discrimination, Indiana Governor Mike Pence is a politician that some conservatives hope will throw his hat into the ring for the 2016 presidential election.

But if Pence ultimately does decide to run for the Republican presidential nomination, he has many hurdles to jump. He will need to boost his name recognition, fundraise like his hair is on fire and move to the middle from his ideological place on the right. And soon, he will have to choose between reelection as governor or election as president, or he will have to get the General Assembly to change the law so he can run for both simultaneously.

Pence has been crisscrossing the country at fundraisers and speaking gigs like other potential Republican presidential hopefuls such as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

Pence even has made trips overseas recently, to Israel, Japan and Germany in 2014. Whether Pence goes abroad or travels within the U.S., his speeches tend to have more national policy themes and less Hoosier focus.

Going to speaking gigs is one way that Pence has tried to strengthen his name recognition. Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Laura Albright said that lack of national recognition is one of the main barriers Pence would face. One reason, she suggested, is because of the state he governs. She said that Indiana is a lukewarm kind of state, where the government generally runs smoothly, and we generally get little negative media attention. In Indiana, we don’t have druginfluenced ‘zombies’ who eat people’s faces at the beach. We don’t have polygamist sects. We don’t have bridges to nowhere.

And we don’t have synthetically tanned people who fist-pump on TV. There’s not much reason for the national media to cover some corn fields and a fairly wellrun, middle-of-the road state.

However, the General Assembly, with a signature and probably some behindthe-scenes guidance from Pence, has been putting some very conservative, very

discriminatory ideas into legislation.

From the Supreme Court-overturned state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to Pence’s public spats with Democrat Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, to the controversial proposed state-run news agency JustIn and to the Restoring Religious Freedom Act, Indiana government is attracting some very negative media attention from outlets both local and national.

Albright said that state policies that are widely talked about in the national media are usually the only ones that matter in a presidential campaign cycle. For example, if Chris Christie were to run, people would probably talk about the Bridge Gate controversy, but something like the Pence administration’s JustIn would not get as much traction because it was a oneday news event, rather than a continuing saga. Albright said that although state policy seems big to Hoosiers, most people who would vote for Pence across the country don’t see the gory details of everyday governance unless it is an absolute train wreck.

However, when and if the Supreme Court gets a challenge on Indiana’s religious freedom bill—which essentially legalizes LGBTQIA discrimination— Pence and Indiana will be pulled into some seriously negative limelight on the nation’s stage yet again. Which, as Albright suggested, something of this magnitude could be detrimental to his presidential prospects. The prospects grow worse when one considers that the tide of public opinion is turning toward acceptance of LGBTQIA community.

In a 2014 Gallup poll, nearly eight in 10 young adults said that they support same-sex marriage. Though Pence is a values voter’s dream candidate, his policies might be hard to swallow for many Americans.

Albright doesn’t think Pence’s conservatism counts him out. She said his conservative credit could even be an asset, depending on the circumstances, and that especially would be the case if the Democrat looks very liberal. It might even be palatable to have someone more conservative as an alterna-

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tive. She also noted that there has been an influx of more conservative elected officials at the federal level, so there is reason to believe that the president’s office could also turn GOP red, given that trend. A conservative’s chances, whether Pence or anyone else, at winning the nomination, depend on whether he or she can be believable as a moderate and can appeal to enough of the electorate.

Another important consideration for Pence would be whether he can raise enough funds for a national run. Pence is reportedly trying to win over the influential conservative opinion leaders, the Koch brothers. “Politico” reports that the Koch brothers might have a soft spot for Pence-type policies, but sources in the article said there is no true indication of which way the brothers will go, as they also have shown support for Chris Christie and Rand Paul, who are on opposite ends of the Republican spectrum.

If he won Koch support, Pence would gain a huge fundraising boost and access to the upper echelon of conservative fatcat donors.

The biggest obstacle that Pence would face is the challenge of running

for president while trying to govern and/ or reelection as governor simultaneously.

Another obstacle is getting the law changed so he can run for both offices at the same time. It would be smart to do so only if he were also running for governor at the same time. That way he could step into the best office to which the people are willing to elect him. Presumably the General Assembly would change the law if Pence asked them to write a bill, but Albright said one thing that should be considered for changing the law would be the amount of time that would have to be spent on running for one or two offices as well as governing the state. She noted that running for office, especially for the presidency, would likely make it more difficult to focus on governing.

Though some states allow it, permitting a sitting governor to run for another office cheats the people by allowing his or her attention to be focused beyond the state’s business. For many states, including Indiana, the governor’s office is a very powerful one, so it is in the state’s best interest to make sure the chief executive’s No. 1 priority is running the

state to the best of his or her ability.

As for Pence, he would be wise to sit this one out for the presidential election.

With all of the controversial issues that he has signed into law in his term, he might have a tough reelection fight just here in Indiana, let alone going national.

If Pence can get reelected governor, his run for president might be a greater possibility, because many conservatives would want a more tested leader with more executive experience. If Pence does ultimately want to seek the Oval Office, he also should work on his polish when dealing with partisans from the other side of the aisle. From the way Pence has dealt with Ritz, he clearly needs to work on the fine art of compromise. He will not be able to count on Congress being in his corner and having all but one of the state-wide elected officials as members of his party as he has as governor.

To echo the adage of putting lipstick on pigs, if you put lipstick on Pence, he would still be unprepared to be president. Though it would be cool to see a Hoosier in the Oval Office, I hope that Pence will not be that Hoosier now or ever.

The curse of American ignorance Are we students or

In the information age, there are no excuses for not learning about the big world around you

By Robbie Hadley BUSINESS MANAGER In 2004, the pop punk band Green Day came out with the concept album “American Idiot.” The band’s aim was to draw attention to the ever growing trend of Americans simply being stupid. Songs such as “American Idiot,” “Jesus of Suburbia” and “Holiday” highlight the social and political issues about which Americans were misinformed.

It highlighted, all too simply, A m e r i c a’s idiocy.

According to an article by the wire. com, 37 percent of Americans believe that climate change is not real, 7 percent believe that the moon landing was faked, and 4 percent believe that the United States is run by lizard people. Idiocy is no longer the problem. Ignorance is the problem.

Times have changed since the release of the album, but it is hard to argue that it has been for the better.

The difference between idiocy and ignorance is that idiocy is simply someone who is misinformed. Ignorance is someone who does not have any concept

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of an issue. Ignorant people don’t have any information at all, wrong or otherwise. Even the people who think that the moon landing was faked have that bad and falsified information in any number of documentaries.

Ignorant people do not even know that we landed on the moon. In an age of easy and reachable information, we still often do not even know many of the world’s problems.

A m o n g them, bees are dying rapidly which could dr astic al l y decrease world food production, according to the Washington Post.

M o n e y is only worth what we believe it el should be worth. We d ed A could all just decide it is A hm y b n Cartoo worthless, causing the world’s economic systems to be obliterated in an instant, according to Forbes.

There is a massive super volcano underneath Yellowstone National Park that is due for an extinction-level eruption any day now, or 20,000 years from now for all we know, according to the New Yorker.

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they should be things everyone should be aware of. We plunge deeper into our social media and Netflix accounts consuming more than 14 hours a week of material that has no bearing on our real lives, according to the L.A. Times. I am as guilty of this as anyone else.

However there is one hope for us Americans, a redeeming idea that I myself was ignorant of until I came across a quote from one of the least ignorant people of all time that could change my perspective on life.

As Albert Einstein said, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.”

We know more today than we have ever known before. We know how bees pollinate flowers, how advanced economics work in the world and how plate tectonics shape the very ground beneath our feet. The only difference between Americans today and the indigenous people who lived here thousands and thousands of years ago is that we have the technology to understand the problem.

We are able look at the world with all of our knowledge and see that there is something there that doesn’t fit. We can acknowledge our own ignorance.

In a way, this is encouraging. Though there will always be people who believe the lies that others tell them, or that they tell themselves, we come closer every day to understanding the world that we live in. We may never truly grasp how much we don’t know, because we don’t know enough to see just how ignorant we truly are.

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Thirteen thousand, three-hundred and twenty six dollars. That, according to a study by Business Insider in 2012, is the difference between the average college cost in America versus what it would cost in Denmark.

The cost includes tuition, books and other fees, but not room and board. To put it simply, higher education is more expensive in America. According to the same article, American colleges are, together on average, the third most expensive in the world.

While America does have 51 of the top 100 colleges in the world, the land of the free is actually pretty expensive to get ahead in.

Cappex.com, a website I personally used during my college search, shows over the past twelve years tuition has continued to increase without coming down.

Twelve years of rising costs. In those twelve years, we have managed to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, but having a part time job hardly puts a dent in the expected $35,234, that it will cost to attend UIndy next year. That includes tuition, plus room and board, plus the 14 meal plan, as reported in the February 15 issue of The Reflector. If you want to live off campus, the UIndy website predicts that you will be paying another $1,000.

Now remember that our school is a private school, so it is bound to be more

expensive than state schools. If you were going to IUPUI for instance, according to collegecalc.org, you would be paying $18,690 annually. That is a huge difference from UIndy’s own tuition.

The costs previously mentioned are only for four-year bachelor’s degree. So if you plan on pursuing a master’s degree or a doctorate, get ready to pay a lot more. With the amount of money that I paid for my books alone this year, I could have had two month’s rent at a decent apartment.

One of my books actually cost about $200. We used it no more than five times. I understand that some college books are more expensive because some are not produced very often, but I honestly cannot see spending so much for something I will not need for long.

Colleges are getting more and more expensive. Instead of being mainly institutions of learning, they seem to be just looking for a way to make a quick buck off of students and the education just a by-product of the vast amounts of money we borrow and spend to get our degrees.

Even with spending all of that money, we still have to actually go to classes, do homework, study and get good grades to get our degrees.

I long for a day that we can make college affordable for everyone so that our society can grow and prosper. I dream of the day when can realistically save for my children’s college educations without having to worry about debt.

I want to see a day when student’s minds are valued more than their money.

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Understanding student rights on campus

By Anna Wieseman EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

One of the first things students do when they arrive on the University of Indianapolis campus is sign a contract that outlines rules and regulations that the students must abide by during their stay in the residence halls.

Students also are given a planner with 54 pages of guidelines for student conduct.

Students may rarely read those pages but are encouraged to do so.

Misconceptions exist about many of the disciplinary processes. Kristin Weeden, the associate dean of students, has one of the newer roles on campus. She deals with conduct issues that happen outside of the classroom.

While Weeden does not have to deal with many conduct issues, she does see some consistent issues.

“As a whole, we don’t have a huge conduct issue, to be quite honest,” Weeden said. “I will probably warn students against the freedoms of social media and how their communication on social media can reflect back on things that are going on on campus.”

Weeden said that most of the issues she deals with come from social media sites. Instead of directly posting to social media, she wants students to contact her office directly.

“Sometimes people go to social media to express frustrations with different things they may experience on campus,” Weeden said. “It’s important for students to know that our office is—specifically in terms of students affairs—here, so if someone has a concern about, say parking or dining hall service, they can come up here and express those concerns to see what we can do to meet their needs.”

Even though each situation is handled slightly differently, Weeden said the base of her job is to get an accurate story. When processing an incident, Weeden will bring in all parties who may be able to provide

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a piece of the story. Once all of the information is compiled, she decides what type of punishment or sanction is appropriate.

Once a decision is made, students have the right to appeal. According to Weeden, she makes sure to outline the appeals process when she gives students the paperwork that outlines their sanction.

“It’s nothing that we’re hiding. It’s their right to know,” Weeden said. “I want students to know the process. I want students to know what avenues there are that are available to them so they can utilize them. But students should take the initiative to know that on their own and that is why the [student] handbook is there. So not only does it have the policies, but their rights.”

Weeden strongly suggests that students take time to read their handbooks and the contracts handed to them at the beginning of the year in order to avoid conduct issues.

Weeden also trains residence directors in the various residence halls.

Timeshia Keys is the RD for Roberts Hall and says even though she does not

get many situations that come to her, she still trains her staff the same way.

“I think, for me, the biggest thing is always handling each situation as a separate or individual situation,” Keys said. “It’s never okay to go into a situation and automatically accuse someone of something. It is always important to get the entire story, or as much as you can.

So that it is easy for me if I do have to intervene to make a judgment call based on all of the information, that is there.”

One of the things Keys also emphasizes to her staff is that they are not decision makers in the judiciary process. This is important to Weeden so that she can deal with issues as swiftly as possible.

“One of the things that we stress to them is that they are simply information gathers,”she said.“It is important for them to listen and to gather the information and get details that are true to the situations.”

Keys and Weeden both emphasize the educational part of the UIndy judiciary process, meaning that they both try to teach students about the incidents and why they were punished, instead of simply handing down a punishment. This part of the system is something UIndy Chief

of Police David Selby always has enjoyed about the academic world.

“For us, law enforcement can mean [that] I catch you smoking marijuana [and] I can arrest you, or I could take you through the judicial system, or I could do both,” Selby said.“We typically go through the judicial system. That has always been the beauty of this job.”

UIndy campus police officers are fully vested police officers in the state of Indiana. Selby said this means that they have all of the capabilities that a sheriff ’s office or city police force would have.They have a district set up around the school and follow the same guidelines as metro officers do. Selby said that his department does not have to get involved in residence hall incidents very often, but he wants students to know that his department can carry out the same procedures that apply in situations of probable cause and search warrants.

“You have to consider your dorm room like an apartment complex,”Selby said.“All of things that apply in the outside would apply here. The difference is that there’s a contractual relationship between the student and university. The students give up

some rights because of that contractual relationship.”

Selby said most incidents are dealt with by the residence halls staff, which Keys said can sometimes cause tension.

“I think the biggest thing is realizing that the RAs or myself are not there to police you or to quote unquote ‘get you in trouble,’” Keys said. “I think that’s the biggest thing that students should understand about our job. We are there for a reason. We are also there to make sure that you will just enjoy your college experience.”

Weeden takes the time to explain and teach students about their actions.

She said that the educational environment of a university makes dealing with incidents unique.

“Once you are out in the real world, no one is going to care to teach you or have that teachable moment,” she said. “While you are in an institution of education and higher learning, let’s do it now. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be moments where we will have to do some sanctioning and punishment in [a] traditional way, but even with that, it will always accompany a conversation.”

Senior Co-Chairs unveil Senior Week schedule

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Contributed by Todd Moore

Twyla Tharp speaks at UIndy on March 10. The event was from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Before the event, Tharp had a question and answer session with students who were recommended to attend by professors.

Acclaimed choreographer Twyla Tharp lectures about being successful in life

By Shane Collins-Yosha DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Choreographer Twyla Tharp visited the University of Indianapolis’ campus to teach and answer students’ questions on Wednesday, March 10. Before Tharp spoke in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, she held a small group question and answer session, with students recommended by professors. At this small group session Tharp was introduced by junior music theory and composition major Andrew Wegg.

“I received the email asking if I would be willing to do that, and I said, ‘Absolutely,’” Wegg said. “It was wonderful. So with that I was able to go on her [Tharp’s] website because I wanted to introduce her in a way to show all the accomplishments she did, but at the same time reflect exactly what it was that I wanted personally to take out of the discussion.”

During the small group session, Tharp asked students to share a little about themselves such as why they attended the event, their major and their class level. Tharp then

took questions from them, but did not limit the questions to choreography.

“Overall, I came away with a really well-rounded impression of a creative person who clearly knows what she does, knows who she is, and [has] really integrated her life with her work,” said junior mathematics and philosophy major Joe Krall. “I think it’s important [for people like this to come to UIndy], because people need to realize that creativity is something that all of us possess. And we need opportunities to have conversations such as the one we had with Twyla.We need conversations like that to happen.We need people from disciplines, even disciplines other than our own giving us the encouragement to be creative, be ingenious so to speak.”

After the small group session, Tharp attended a dinner with President Robert Manuel and students and spoke at her event in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“Overall, I came away just really impressed with Tharp’s unwillingness to not let anything to distract her,” Krall

said. “As someone who has two majors, I find my attention being divided in different ways, and it’s really encouraging and inspiring for me to see someone with so many talents be so focused.”

The biography on Tharp’s website says Tharp has choreographed more than 160 works, 129 dances, six Hollywood movies, four Broadway shows and is the winner of one Tony Award, two Emmy Awards and more.

“She certainly brought an incredible amount of energy that could be transformed into, I guess you could say, a disciplinary high for us to know that this is what we, as performers, have to do in order to be better at our craft,” Wegg said, “We have to be willing to give up time with family and friends to become better.

We dont have to give them up all together, we just have to be willing to put in more work than what we’ve ever thought before in order to become successful in the way that she was successful herself.”

Tharp will continue her tour at Lesley University in Cambridge and then at Barnard College in New York City.

ANTHONY ERVIN from page 1 Ervin’s wit and honesty throughout his presentation had a lasting impact on student-athlete and junior environmental sustainability major Jordan Loyd.

“I thought he was as real as it gets,”Loyd said.“He spoke freely and uncensored about his life, which made his stories easy to follow. I could tell that he was very talented, to make the Olympics without trying, and very fortunate to still have his own life.”

Ervin said that he was not a typical athlete. His goal was to do anything he could to get kicked off the team. He also talked about his first Olympic experience and how he was kicked out of the Olympic village and forced to watch the closing ceremony on a television.

The biggest realization Ervin came after he stopped swimming.

“I had become so alienated from who I thought I was supposed to be and who others thought I was, the life I was supposed to be living and the life I had gotten myself into, and I just couldn’t do it,” Ervin said. “I started over, and I was like, ‘You know what? I am going to quit swimming. I’m going to start doing that thing that I stopped doing: music.’

It’s funny, [but] once I stopped swimming, once that competitor’s mind-set was let go, a lot of my unhealthy habits really scaled back. I wasn’t abusing the drugs, the alcohol and the women. I started living a healthier lifestyle, and

I needed that.”

After Ervin finished sharing his story, the floor was opened for questions and comments for students. Sophomore sports management major Chelsea Yeadon was really moved by Ervin’s life story and felt very motivated by his presentation.

“Listening to him speak was a bit of a riot,” Yeadon said. “I love how honest he was. It was great to see that someone who was really lost got to find their way and improve their life and actually admit to the mistakes that they have made and own up to them. He was very inspiring and definitely wasn’t what I was expecting him to be. I definitely wish him luck in his preparations for the next Olympics.”

Senior marketing and German major Regina Spielmann and senior operations of supply chain management and information systems double major Emily Bielefeld have been named the University of Indianapolis’ Senior Co-Chairs.

These new positions are dedicated to planning Senior Week, which includes daily events exclusively for seniors during Finals Week. The Senior Co-Chairs also are in charge of fundraising for, and selecting, a gift to the university from the graduating class.

“Some of the gift ideas that we are going to be using the money for is possibly getting some hedges that spell out ‘UIndy’ or maybe a fire pit in Schwitzer Park,” Spielmann said.

Senior Week will take place from April 27 through May 1 and will begin with an event for seniors at Midnight Breakfast.

“We’re going to have a pre-senior party at the president’s house before Midnight Breakfast, and then we’re going to let the seniors go in early, and they can eat first,” Spielmann said. “Pretty much kicking it [the week] off and making the seniors feel special from Midnight Breakfast all week through.”

On Tuesday of Senior Week, Bielefeld said the seniors will go back to President Robert Manuel’s house for a cookout.

“It’s just a fun, laid-back opportunity, and it’s going to be from 5 [p.m.] to 7 [p.m.], so it’s before night class, but you can come anytime during [the event],” Bielefeld said. “We will have music, games and fun stuff for people to do.”

Seniors will get the opportunity to decorate their graduation caps on Wednes-

day in UIndy Hall. Spielmann said all the materials that will be used to decorate caps will be supplied.

“Also, Chick-fil-A will be helping us fundraise that day,” Spielmann said.

“So whatever you buy at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday, the proceeds will go towards our senior gift.”

Senior Week will host Thursday’s event off-campus.

“Thursday is a senior night out and will be hosted at Revel nightclub downtown.

It’s going to be really fun,” Bielefeld said.

“It’s just seniors, so it will be a great opportunity to mix and mingle.”

On Friday, seniors will migrate back to downtown Indianapolis for an event hosted at the Skyline Club. Seniors and their families are invited, and it is a business casual event.

To help raise funds for the senior class gift, the Senior Co-Chairs also are hosting a silent auction in the Schwitzer Center Atrium that started Monday, March 23, and will end April 2. The Professional Edge Center and Alumni Association have donated gift baskets for the auction, and there also will be baskets for a pizza party and for reserved seating and parking at commencement.

“We are also donating a study group in the library with your friends and then dinner with the president,”Bielefeld said.

“There’s actually going to be two baskets for that. They are each for two people, and he will take you out to St. Elmo’s, so that’s a big deal.”

All events for Senior Week are free to seniors. Buttons will be given to seniors at all events and will then serve as their pass for the remaining events.

Bielefeld said, “I am just excited to interact with all of the senior class throughout the week.”

MONDAY Pre-party at president’s house and Midnight Breakfast

TUESDAY Cookout at President Manuel’s house

WEDNESDAY Decoration of graduation caps

THURSDAY Senior night out hosted at Revel nightclub

FRIDAY Business casual event hosted at Skyline Club Silent auction in Schwitzer Center Atrium all week Graphic by Kyle Dunbar

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Track and Field has outdoor season start

Greyhounds travel to Louisville for challenge

By Mercadees Hempel NEWS EDITOR The University of Indianapolis men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in their first outdoor meet at the Louisville Challenge in Louisville, Ky on Saturday, March 28.

Junior Lissette Mendivil threw 46.54 meters to earn a provisional mark in discus and senior Farin Hickman achieved her mark in the hammer toss with a throw of 54.67 meters. Mendivil also placed fifth in the discus throw with a toss of 46.54 meters and Hickman threw 12.98 meters to earn a third place finish in the shot put.

On the track, senior LaTisha Martin finished second in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.9. The 4 x 100-meter relay, comprised of junior Maya Caudle, junior Jasmin Jackson, Martin and sophomore Melissa Rios, finished third.

The 4 x 400-meter relay team, made up of senior Keagin Green, redshirt junior Jourdin Heinrichs, junior Jireh Hart and Rios, placed fifth.

For the men, junior Josh Bass jumped 6.79 meters to earn a first place finish in the long jump. Sophomore Andrew Kittridge finished fifth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.25.

The last meet the men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in was the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Indoor Track and Field Championship in Birmingham, Ala. March 13-14. Senior thrower TJ Lovejoy received All-American status by placing fifth in the men’s weight throw with a 20.15-meter toss. Senior distance runner Alex Cushman finished 14th in the nation in the men’s 5000 meter race, while freshman distance runner Kieran Casey placed 17th after running the mile preliminary in 5:03.13.

Practice for the teams moved outside after Spring Break because of the weather, said Mendivil. Mendivil placed second in nationals last year and hopes to place first this year. However, she said she is not going to obsess over it.

“My coach is like, ‘You know that can’t be your main focus, to get first place. Just do what you did last year, focus on your technique,’” Mendivil said. “And last year, I wasn’t trying to get second. I was like, ‘I just want to throw far, do good and have fun,’ and I ended up taking second.”

Mendivil said the next big meet for the teams is the outdoor GLVC Track and Field Championships May 1-2 in Liberty, Mo. Lovejoy, who will not be competing outdoors, said he plans to support his teams and has high hopes for all of his teammates this semester, including the freshmen, Hickman and freshman Austin Hogan.

“I have high hopes and expectations for her [Hickman],” Lovejoy said. “ …

I’ve seen her grow since her freshman year. … I have high expectations for him [Hogan], too. He’s one of the best recruits we’ve got.”

Head Track and Field Coach Scott Fangman said that while expectations for the outdoor season are not that different from the indoor season, they are going to try to qualify as many people as possible for the national meet and do well in the conference.

“We have a particular tradition of success that we try to live up to,” he said.

“We don’t say it. We just have to get it done. If the expectations are already there, you don’t need to be reminded.”

The next meet for the men’s and women’s track and field teams will take place this weekend, April 3-4, in Louisville, Ky., in the Bellarmine Track and Field Invitational, at a start time yet to be determined.

“ If the expectations are already there, you don’t need to be reminded.”

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The UIndy men’s basketball team plays defense while the Bellarmine University Knights’ offense sets up a play during the NCAA Midwest Regional Final on March 17.

Men’s basketball falls Greyhounds’ historic run in NCAA Tournament ends to rival Bellarmine

By AJ Rose SPORTS EDITOR The 2014-2015 season consisted of many historical moments for the University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team, including a No. 1 national ranking, several individual milestones and the first-ever trip to the “Sweet 16” in program history.

That season came to an end with an overall record of 25-6 on March 17, however, as the Greyhounds fell in the NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Championship Midwest Regional Final to its rival, the Bellarmine University Knights, 81-72.

In front of a sellout crowd of 2,196 fans, the Greyhounds jumped out to an early 14-7 lead in less than four minutes, giving the No. 3 seeded team momentum at the start of the game. The Knights fired back quickly, however, going on a scoring run that would eventually put them over UIndy by double-digit points, 33-23, with 2:38 to go in the first half. In response to the run, UIndy took back its momentum to end the half as they closed the lead

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threw everything we had at them today, and they did a great job of responding to every run that we made.”

The Greyhounds will say goodbye to four seniors who will be moving on from the program this year, including Lawson, guards Kendall Vieke and Dai-Jon Parker and a fifth-year senior in forward Brennan McElroy. Parker, who transferred from Vanderbilt University before arriving at UIndy this past year, said that even though his time with the Greyhounds’ program had been short, he enjoyed it.

“For me, it [the experience] has been a blessing, and I really appreciate the coaching staff, as well as Coach Gouard, for taking me under their wings and basically showing me the ropes in and out. It’s my first time being around here [in Indianapolis] for a year, and I got to meet a great group of guys and a great group of seniors,” he said. “It’s not over for us, and when I say us, I mean UIndy.

We are going to be here [in the national tournament] next year. We are going to be here for years to come, and I just want to make sure everybody knows that.”

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senior outfielder Erika Goodwin went 4-for-7 at the plate, and senior outfielder Casey Williamson went 3-for-7. Foley picked up the pitching duties in the first game throwing seven straight innings and striking out 10 of the Hawks batters in seven innings. Tirpak threw five innings the second game earning herself a win, and then was relieved by Foley. With the two wins, the Greyhounds ended the Hawks’ six-game winning streak.

“Rockhurst had won six games in a row and beat[en] good teams in our conference,” Frost said. “The games against Rockhurst were must win games. We now have an upper hand because of those wins against Rockhurst,” W illiamson said.

Frost agreed with Williamson about the importance of the two Rockhurst wins. “ This win was huge because Rockhurst played a very good team last weekend, and anytime you can pick up conference wins it’s good for the region. Any win is a big win,” Frost said.

Earlier in the week the Greyhounds split their doubleheader with William Jewell after an eight inning 7-5 win and a 5-4 loss. Throughout the two games, Williamson said that one particular challenge stood out for the Greyhounds.

“We need to keep our energy levels up throughout the entire game. We will score runs but fall off a little bit, and then the other team will score. We need to refill our energy and keep winning,” Williamson said.

During game one senior utility Taylor Russell came through with three hits on five at bats to bring in three of the Greyhounds seven runs.Throughout game two sophomore infielder Katie Kelly went 2-for-3 and brought in two runs.

The team moves forward with this in mind, as its next game will be April 3 at Bellarmine University. Action between the Greyhounds and Knights is set to begin at 3 p.m., with the second game scheduled to follow immediately after.

Nationally ranked softball wins at home The University of Indianapolis softball teams doubleheader against Lewis University on March 29 was cancelled due to rain, and will be rescheduled.

UIndy competed at Baumgartner Field on March 25 against Ohio Dominican University in a doubleheader, during which they secured two more wins in their home opener. Previously, the Greyhounds traveled to Rockhurst University and William Jewell College to compete in doubleheaders against each team. UIndy’s only loss came in the second game against William Jewell.

The Greyhounds home opener ended with scores of 7-2 and 4-3. In the first game, junior Morgan Foley got the pitching win for the Hounds, throwing 5.0 innings, tallying seven strikeouts, and allowing three hits. Fellow junior pitcher Coryn Tirpak relieved Foley in the first game with two innings remaining allowing one hit. In the first game, the Greyhounds had seven runs on 13 hits. In the batter’s box, sophomore utility Natalie Lalich hit a two-run homerun in her first trip to the plate during the first game, and hit her fifth homerun of the year in the second inning of the second game.

The second game’s pitching duties were split between freshman Samantha Hogan, Tirpak and Foley. Combined the three struck out three and gave up eight hits. At the plate Lalich excelled for the Hounds again going 3-for-3.

The team’s success comes from moving on and doing its best to control the situation at hand, according to Head Softball Coach Melissa Frost.

“Controlling what we can control and pushing ahead is how we will succeed,” Frost said.

While facing Rockhurst, UIndy secured two additional significant wins of 5-1 and 5-3. During the doubleheader,

“Controlling what we can control and pushing ahead is how we will succeed.”

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to just three points, 35-32, following a 3-pointer by junior guard Jordan Loyd with five seconds left before intermission.

In the second half, UIndy quickly took back the lead in less than a minute, 37-35, following a pair of free throws by senior forward/center Joe Lawson. The two teams would continue to trade baskets for the next several minutes of the half, with several ties and a few lead changes, until the Knights went on a 9-0 scoring run at the 8:04 mark, seizing a 71-60 lead with 4:06 remaining. The Greyhounds could not bring the deficit to any less than six points throughout the remainder of the game, as Bellarmine continued to make shots that held off the Greyhounds, securing the top-seed and host team’s Elite Eight bid and the victory.

Following the end of the game, Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard said that the Knights’ game plan kept UIndy from accomplishing what they wanted to do to have a successful outcome.

“These guys [Bellarmine] proved today why they are the league champs. They did not crack under pressure,” he said. “We

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Gary Kinkead retires after 21 seasons

Head swimming and diving coach departs from University of Indianapolis, will work for recruiting company in Canada

By Leeann Doerflein EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Head Swimming and Diving Coach Gary Kinkead has led the Greyhounds to success in and out of the pool for 21 years. Under his leadership, the team has racked up countless All-American finishes, placed at nationals most years and won accolades for academic performance both as individuals and as a team.

Kinkead has been coaching UIndy’s swimmers and divers since 1994. He has been coaching the sport since he finished his own swimming career at the University of Michigan in 1970. He has coached from the club level right up to the Olympic level, with a gig in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

To avoid boredom and to stay involved with the sport he loves, Kinkead will work in Canada with the American College Connection recruiting company to help prospective student athletes find the right school to suit their needs. Kinkead said he is excited to start the next chapter of his life.

“Watching other people retire—and this might sound a little macabre—I have always felt like once you retire it is the beginning of death…,” Kinkead said. “There are certain directions I want to pursue, and I felt like this was a great opportunity to do that.”

Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Sue Willey described Kinkead as a swimmer and diver’s coach who has focused on more than the times or scores.

She said Kinkead gets the NCAA Division II and UIndy motto of academics first.

“Priority number one is academics, priority number two is to reflect well on the program … priority number three is to be a successful swimmer or diver,” Willey said.

Kinkead said that he will pull aside any swimmer or diver who has below a “C” and ask what is going on with the grade and the class. He said that he does this because academics are ultimately what will get a student athlete through life post-graduation.

“We sell them on the fact that they probably won’t be a professional swimmer,”Willey said. “Priority number one is your education, and the athletic achievements are icing on the cake.”

Willey said Kinkead’s commitment to

a student athlete’s full UIndy experience sets him apart from other coaches. She said that the athletic department tries to instill the value of student athlete first, which Kinkead exudes, but not all coaches get it. Kinkead, she said, has the mark of a good Greyhound coach.

“Being a good coach at UIndy means that you improve the lives of student athletes...,” Willey said. “Some coaches only care about the wins, but I think he cared about the total swimmer or diver.”

Kinkead said that choosing to whom to give a scholarship was one of the hardest tasks as a coach. However, he said that it was gratifying to see a swimmer or diver thrive at UIndy.

In another aspect of recruiting, Willey said Kinkead excelled at striking a good balance of international and American students.

Senior Daniel Chan, a four-time AllAmerican swimmer from Brazil, said that Kinkead helped him find a place at UIndy where he could have a balance between getting the education he needed and pursuing swimming. In addition to that, Chan said that the cultural differences of team members come together to create a richer experience for him and his teammates.

“We are exposed to all kinds of different cultures [through the team], and that enriches our lives,” Chan said.

One of the most enjoyable parts of being a coach at UIndy for Kinkead was seeing student athletes grow from mistake-prone kids to mature adults during their time at UIndy.

“They come in as boys and girls in high school, and they leave as men and women out of college,” Kinkead said. “They may just be around for three or four years, but it’s fun to watch them mature 20 years.”

One of Kinkead’s fondest memories from his time as UIndy’s head coach came in 2011 at the NCAA Championships in San Antonio, Texas. He recalls taking several women swimmers to nationals, where they placed second in the 800 freestyle relay but were disqualified due to an accidental false start.

Even though they were disqualified, he said that their effort stands out among all the women or men he has coached, especially because one of the women swam faster than she previously had, even though she was sick. He recalled how amazing it was to see their performances

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Former Head Swimming and Diving Coach Gary Kinkead embraces senior Aaron Stevenson during the Greyhounds’ Senior Day on Jan. 24 at the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center. build on each other into almost a second place finish and the greatest effort he has Swam at Assistant Coach Worked seen as a coach.

University of at University of Olympics in Beyond his swimmer’s and diver’s Michigan Michigan Montreal accolades, Willey said that Kinkead’s leadership was instrumental in bringing 1966 - 1970 swimming and diving to the Great Lakes 1976 1970 Valley Conference and that he helped secure the partnership of UIndy with Indiana Sports Corp to host the NCAA Division II Championships at IUPUI’s Coached Coached at IU Natatorium. at Kokomo Indianapolis Willey said that the athletic departHaworth Ben Davis ment cannot truly replace Kinkead because his record as a coach was remarkable.

1988-1994 1980-1988 She also said that they do have a shortlist for a new coach, but they are still in the process of finding the right person to continue Kinkead’s legacy.

Kinkead said he hopes that the next Greyhound swimming and diving coach Head Coach at American Director of will grow the program even more.

University of College Westside “I want my legacy of 21 years to go Indianapolis Connection Aquatics Club forward,” Kinkead said. “I want to watch this program grow; I want to watch this 1994-2015 1993-1994 2015 program get better. I want to be proud of what I’ve established, and I want to see the academics continue in the same vein.”

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Baseball hosts consecutive home doubleheaders

By Laken Detweiler EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The University of Indianapolis baseball team is in the midst of a schedule consisting of 10 games in eight days that began Sunday, March 29, and will conclude April 5. Early this week, the ball club competed against the University of Illinois Springfield, and the week before, faced Tiffin University and Missouri S&T. According to Head Baseball Coach Gary Vaught, the week will come down to how good the team is and how well the players stay focused.

“We’re going to play one game at a time,” he said. “Our goal is to sweep everybody or win the series, and we’ve done that right now.”

Before competing against Illinois Springfield, the Greyhounds were ranked first in the Great Lakes Valley Conference East standings, with a conference record of 5-3, and they hope to hold that position, according to senior first baseman Daniel Lee. “Now that it is all conference play, these games are all pretty important. So especially being top in the conference, it means a lot to stay there,” Lee said. “These upcoming series are really important.”

During Sunday’s doubleheader against Illinois Springfield, UIndy began the series 2-0, with a 6-5 and 11-0 win. In the first game Lee hit a two-run walkoff homer with senior infielder Luke Andrade in scoring position. Sophomore Jordan Tackett excelled on the mound during the second game with 11 strikeouts.

While facing the Tiffin University Dragons and the Missouri S&T Min-

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Senior infielder Luke Andrade swings at an incoming pitch during a home game against the Missouri S&T Miners March 21-22. UIndy went 3-1 in the four-game series. ers, UIndy used small ball tactics with a total of 12 sacrifice bunts in the six games against those opponents. In regard to how the team played in both matchups, Vaught said that the team’s style of play has changed a bit.

“We thought we were going to be more of a power team, and we went back to small ball again. We’re getting people on, bunting them over and hopefully getting them in,” Vaught said.

The small ball approach was active in their two games against Tiffin, with five

sacrifice bunts. UIndy beat Tiffin, 7-2, in seven innings during the first game, but the second game was a different story. In a 10-inning game, UIndy earned a 6-5 decision over the Dragons. The win was earned by senior pitcher Brett Collins, after he threw four innings allowing only three hits. Even with the two wins over the Dragons, Vaught saw some unusual actions committed by his ball club.

“We did some things that were uncharacteristic for our ball club,” he said.

“But then [again], the way they [the

Greyhounds] grinded and came back, getting a couple of key bunts down and [creating] great defensive plays, we found a way to win the game.”

According to Lee, these past wins brought some confidence to the team, and with the conference games coming up, that confidence is essential.

“I think winning those games yesterday [Wednesday against Tiffin], especially [with those wins coming in] midweek games, we can take a lot of confidence into a weekend series,” Lee said.

Before they faced Tiffin, UIndy faced Missouri S&T in its season home opener on March 21-22 and took the series 3-1.

On the first day, the Hounds were led by senior outfielder Sean McCracken, as he created two homeruns, five RBIs and went 3-for-7 during that day’s two games.

On the second day against the Miners, UIndy took its first and only loss of the series, despite the performance by senior outfielder Zach Jacobs throughout both games, who statistically excelled as he went 4-for-7 in the box.

Looking at the rest of the Greyhounds’ season, Vaught said that his emphasis is on executing plays in an effort to win a championship and to do so by taking the season one game at a time. He also said that he hopes to do so with fellow athletes and students in the stands supporting them.

“It’s always nice to see your fellow athletes from other sports out there. It’s nice to see the support that we’re getting, and not just in baseball, but in all the sports,” Vaught said. “Against [the] Saint Joseph’s [College Pumas], they pack it when we go there and play, and I would love to see our stands packed this Wednesday [tonight].”

Prior to going into this week’s matchups, Vaught said that he believes if the Greyhounds execute well, they will have a good chance to make it into the playoffs.

“The next 10 games are tough,” he said. “If we do what we’re suppose to do, we could set ourselves up pretty good in conference with a good chance to know that we’re going to make the playoffs.”

The Greyhounds will be back in action tonight at home in a doubleheader against Saint Joseph’s. The first game is set to begin at noon,with the second to follow.

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>> Insurgent is a movie that I was really looking forward to seeing, and it did not disappoint me one bit. This movie, for those who don’t know, is the second film from author Veronica Roth’s bestselling “Divergent” trilogy. I enjoyed the first film,“Divergent,” but “Insurgent” definitely surpassed the first film with its action as well as the clean graphics.

The movie starts out with Tris (Shailene Woodley), and “Four”Eaton (Theo James) running into the woods as they attempt to escape the reigns of the power - seeking Erudite faction leader Jeanine (Kate Winslet). The movie continues to show that Jeanine will not find satisfaction in the faction system until they have gotten rid of all of the “divergents” because of the threat to society she feels they pose. The film is filled with great moments of action and great acting. I recommend that those who are interested in checking out this movie to watch the first film, “Divergent” in order to understand the plot.

>> Coming off of the group’s previous album, “Megalithic Symphony,” which included the wildly popular song “Sail,” AWOLNATION released its latest creation, “Run,” on March 17. “Run” has the tone and edge that fans love about this electronic group.The first song on the album, appropriately also named “Run,” warms up listeners’ ears with a powerful electronic mood and even the sound of a few string instruments. My favorite song “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf )” is catchy and sure to get stuck in your head. Even though most of the songs on this album have the theme of love or heartbreak, that doesn’t mean they are boring, sappy songs. The songs all have a powerful bass line that will make you want to move along and listen to them over and over again. Overall, AWOLNATION did not disappoint with its latest album release. I recommend this album to anyone looking for music that has the power to pump you up and just make you feel good.

>> BL&T is a new restaurant in the Indianapolis wholesale district that offers something a little bit different than other downtown restaurants. The restaurant’s name says a lot about it, with the B, L and T standing for Bacon, Legs and Turntables. The establishment specializes in comfort food, especially the namesake bacon and various legs - including chicken, duck, turkey and frog, just to name a few. The music is the usual club style music. A live DJ was at the turntables for the latter half of my visit, but the music was at a comfortable volume, definitely noticeable, but not too loud to not be able to hold a conversation.

My meal began with an appetizer of fried pickles, followed by a turkey leg over a side of bacon mashed potatoes with a serving of cranberry jam.The price was reasonable, with the turkey leg meal coming in at $10.95, about what one would expect from dining downtown. I definitely plan to pay BL&T another visit.

>> Alan Furst’s latest spy novel is set in what one character refers to as the “overture” to the Second World War: the Spanish Civil War. The novel follows an international lawyer, who is recruited

by Spanish Republicans to buy arms for the fledgling nation being overrun by an enemy that is allied with Hitler and Mussolini. The writing is exciting and the novel manages to humanize even the fascists. I never thought I would feel sympathy for a fascist spy, but I did. Furst does an incredible job of showing the war from all angles. Although historical fiction, it explains why the United States stood on the sidelines of the war, and why the Soviets provided aid to the Republicans. The best part of this book is that it teaches the reader while keeping him or her entertained throughout the entire book. Whether you are a fan of action thrillers, no matter the setting, or a history buff looking for a hint of adventure, this is the book for you.

>> Rhythm! Discovery Center is a drummer’s paradise, and I’m not even a drummer. Located on Washington Street next to Weber Grill downtown, this small, tucked away museum offered me the most fun I’ve had in weeks. This place not only taught me the history of various percussion instruments, it also gave me the chance to play any percussion instrument I could imagine. The staff was exceptionally friendly and helpful, answering any questions I had. I learned so much about percussion - from ancient African slit drums to the set up of the famous drummer of Rush, Neil Peart.The best part about this museum is that no prior percussion experience is required. As a musician, not a percussionist, I found it interesting to experience a side of music that I had never explored that much. To top it all off, Rhythm! Discovery Center offers discounts to students. Needless to say, I will be going back to this museum very soon.

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Guest violinist Robert Simmonds performs at UIndy Student Chamber Ensembles Perform Performance includes pieces commissioned and written only for violinist

By Josie Clark STAFF WRITER Robert Simmonds, principal second violin in the Louisville Orchestra, performed on March 17 in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. The program lasted just over an hour and included 12 songs, most of which were composed within the last decade.

The guest recital contained two pieces about Simmonds’ home state of Kentucky: “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive,” written by Darrell Scott in 1997, and “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” written

by Bill Monroe in 1946. “‘Blue Moon of Kentucky was made famous by Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley,” Simmonds said.“There are two songs that will get the people of Kentucky on their feet. ‘Blue Moon’ would bring a tear to their eyes, and ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ would bring a smile ear to ear.”

Many of the newer pieces were pieces that Simmonds commissioned composers to write for him, including “I Lost My Life Savings in the Bitcoin Crash of 2014.”

“The piece was composed by Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer, a graduate of Arizona State University who currently resides in Phoenix, Ariz.,” Simmonds said.

Simmonds contacted Bayer to write a piece for a solo violin. Other pieces

composed specific all y for Simmonds included “Music for Violin,” by Daniel Gilliam, and “Miniature #1 & #2,” by TJ Cole.

Several other artists had pieces featured in the guest recital.Three songs were composed by Kenji Bunch, an Oregon artist who studied at Julliard.

Simmonds described Missy Mazz oli, who w rote one of the pieces he performed (“Dissolve, O My Heart”) as “a young American composer standing on the shoulders of Bach.”

J u n i o r biolog y major Searra Flynn attended the program for Lecture/Performance credit.

“It was nice to hear an individual who

was that passionate about not just playing music, but creating it,” Flynn said.

Freshman elementary education major Taylor Smith also attended the recital.

“He used a variety of different styles, and I felt like he really got into it and expressed himself through each piece,” Smith said. “I would love to watch him perform again.”

The last piece was appropriately entitled “Until Next Time.” The piece was written and performed in 2010 by Kenji Bunch.

“I’m not sure where this tune comes from,”Simmonds said of the last song in his set, “but it’s a type of American hymn tune . . . . It’s been great playing for you - ‘Until Next Time,’ by Kenji Bunch.”

The next performance in the Christel DeHaan Ruth Lilly Performance Hall is the Student Chamber Ensembles, tonight, April 1 and is scheduled to last from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. This concert is free and is open to the public. For more information, visit the arts page on the UIndy website.

By Ainger Alexander STAFF WRITER

The University of Indianapolis Student Chambers Ensembles performed on Thursday, March 26 in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.

The performance featured the UIndy Brass Quintet, Saxophone Trio, and UIndy Trumpet Ensemble, all led by UIndy Ensemble Conductors Larry Powell and Scotty Stepp.

The Brass Quintet is composed of trumpeter Joel Walters, trumpeter Braden Strole, horn player Aaron Erlandson, trombone player Aaron Cowgill and tuba player Trevor Crowe.

The Saxophone Trio is composed of alto Michael Carnagua, tenor and alto Kenneth Sell and baritone Blake Wilde.

The Trumpet Ensemble is composed of Joel Walters, Braden Stole, Tyler Russell, Christopher Martinez, Zach Losacker, Ben Van Camp, George Morrell, Brenda Clark and Jen Suikola.

The performance included selections from “The Sound of Music,” by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Other pieces included “The Lonely Man,” by Joe Harnell, and “Gabriel’s Oboe,” by Ennio Moriconne.

Senior psychology major Shelby Reid attended the concert for Lecture/Performance credit.

“I only came because I needed credit for L/P, but I definitely did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did,” Reid said.

“I mean, I don’t even like jazz music, but this has somewhat changed my views.”

The piece that really caught the attention of the audience, when the audience erupted into applause, was the last piece performed: “Seven Come Eleven,” by Bill Holcombe.

This piece, unlike the standard jazz pieces played throughout the concert, was a strong and upbeat number.

Shemaiah Alexander, a Raymond Park Middle School student and a resident of the surrounding community also attended the concert with her parents and older brother.

“I came to the concert because I love to hear music, especially live, and there aren’t many other places in the community that I can go to hear it,” Alexander said.

Alexander was excited that she got to come to UIndy for the concert and was inspired by what she saw.

“I’ve asked my parents to bring me to a few other concerts here and I’ve loved them all,” Alexander said. “I sometimes think about learning an instrument myself.”

Upcoming Music Events in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Jazz Combo - Monday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.

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Jazz Ensemble - Tuesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.

Faculty Adjunct of Music Larry Powell directs the Brass Quintet in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall in CDFAC.

Steve Alee - Wednesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

Danny Walsh and Mark Busell - Thursday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.

Tim Horner - Friday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.

Rufus Reid - Saturday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.

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(Left to right) Aaron Erlandson, Aaron Cowgill, Trevor Crowe, Braden Strole and Joel Walters perform in CDFAC.

FEATURE

THE REFLECTOR

7 APRIL 1, 2015

Student volunteers at Mental Health of America Mercadees Hempel NEWS EDITOR Senior psychology major Emily Ludwig’s shift begins at 6 a.m. on Wednesday and Sunday each week. If the phone rings, she answers and is told whether the phone call is a Midtown Crisis call or a Mental Health of America call. If it is a Midtown Crisis call, she may be on the phone for a minute or two, directing people to where they need to go for resources. If it is a MHA call, she could be on the phone a lot longer.

The person on the other end could be dealing with a breakdown, paranoia or fear that his or her friend may be having problems. As one of 35 volunteers for Mental Health America of Greater Indianapolis, Ludwig’s job is to lend an ear and help the caller through whatever issues he or she may be having.

Ludwig said she saw that MHA Indy needed volunteers while she was looking for internship opportunities and decided to volunteer to help build her resume and gain experience within her field.

After filling out applications at mhaindy.net, potential volunteers are brought in for a job interview and then undergo a 40-hour training session that lasts for 11 days. Ludwig began training in August of 2014 and officially started taking calls in October.

MHA service is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays.

According to MHA Indy Director of Crisis and Suicide Intervention Mike Dunn, a texting service was also set up three years ago for people to use during the same hours as the regular hotline.

Dunn, who first volunteered eight years ago and became director two years ago, said that the hotline receives on average 75 calls a day.

According to both Dunn and Ludwig, volunteers are required to work six hours a week, but they can make their own schedules, due to the 24 hour service.

Volunteers also can do the work from home if they have a phone, a computer and a quiet space, Dunn said.

According to Ludwig, the number of calls she receives during her shift can depend on the day, the weather and whether it is near the holidays. A log is kept of the phone numbers of those who called and how long they were on the phone.

When the phone rings, Ludwig answers, says hello and tells the caller her alias. Ludwig then asks for the caller’s name and zip code. The caller can remain

anonymous.While the MHA system does keep track of phone numbers, Ludwig said phone calls are not recorded, and MHA cannot backtrack calls the way 911 can. She listens to what the person wants to discuss and for what he or she needs, whether suggestions, referrals or just someone to listen. For referrals, Ludwig said she and other volunteers use the MHA Indy’s database to find support groups for people, services from the Community Mental Health Center and more.

Ludwig said one of the misconceptions associated with suicide and crisis hotlines is the idea that only people who are having suicidal thoughts or are in the act of suicide call. However, she said she receives a variety of calls, from adolescents to adults, from people dealing with paranoia, people needing a safe place and once from an adolescent girl who suspected her friend was going to commit suicide.

“It’s not the gun to your head, the knife to your throat,” she said. “And very rarely do I get them [those calls] on my shift.…

Most of the time, it’s a personal crisis. And some of the people have had thoughts of suicide, but they’re not in the act of [it].

A crisis is a time-specific event, and you have to just be there to get them through that time-specific event, whatever it may look like, because a crisis is different for everyone.”

Dunn said that a lot of the calls MHA Indy gets are about relationship issues, dealing with grief, dealing with substance abuse, sexual assault issues, mental illness or people who may be having problems with family members. He said no matter the reason, there is something that a person can gain by calling.

“It’s not so much that they need someone to talk to as much as it is they need someone to listen to them,” he said.

“And we provide that non-judgmental, compassionate ear and try to meet them where they’re at emotionally when they call. We allow them to vent, we validate their feelings, we affirm the courage that it took for them to reach out to a complete stranger and we provide information referrals as far as should they want to take a step toward professional help.”

Ludwig said that volunteers do not often know what happens after the callers hang up the phone, but sometimes there are victories.

“It’s always nice when you have success stories, when people end the calls saying, ‘Thank you, thank you for listening, I will try this suggestion that you made,’” she said.

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Dunn said that if potential volunteers feel they need to know what happened to the callers or may look through obituaries, then this kind of work may not be the best for them. For Ludwig, learning to empathize with callers was the most difficult thing to learn, but she gained techniques from Assistant Professor of the School of Psychological Sciences Jacqueline Hess and had to accept that she could not always solve the problems callers are experiencing.

“A lot of the time, it’s sitting and listening and letting them know that somebody is there and cares, and they can talk to us about anything,” Ludwig said.

“So I just had to learn that it isn’t always about solving other people’s problems.”

Ludwig said that talking with her husband and other volunteers about her day helps, as does the fact that each situation is different.

Dunn said self-care is very important in this work as well, and he encourages volunteers to speak to supervisors after calls, whether they were intense or not.

Field Coordinator of the Phylis Lan Lin Department of Social Work Michelle Meer also said that self-care is a huge factor in this work as well.

“When you work in an extremely stressful job… it is extremely important to make sure you’re always full versus empty,” she said. “Whether that’s giving support to colleagues—whether it is physically, mentally, emotionally—you’ve got to make sure that you’re well balanced

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in all of those areas.”

Dunn said that a part of the self-care is holding talking sessions, going on retreats and every year holding a volunteer recognition banquet for everyone and letting volunteers know that people are there for them as well.

Ludwig and Dunn said that volunteers bond with one another and create a family among themselves. And while some volunteers do have personal struggles of their own, a person does not need to have these experiences to volunteer. Ludwig, who volunteered from an academic standpoint, and Dunn, who has depression, said people who are motivated to help can do this job.

“It’s hard to listen to people’s pain,” Dunn said. “And if you go into it with the wrong attitude, you’re going to quickly become disenchanted and burned out, and certainly won’t be of help to anyone who calls in.”

Meer said that if someone knows a person who is going through a hard time, reaching out to that person to remind him or her that what he or she is going through is not worth ending his or her life is important and that it needs to happen before a tragedy occurs.

“That’s the key: to let people know it’s temporary, as bad as you feel, as low as you feel. You may not feel like it’s temporary,” she said. “But really, if we can get you help, we can get you past this moment in time.”

Dunn said that people should not let myths keep them from starting the

conversation about suicide with their friends or family, that one cannot “plant” the idea of suicide into someone’s head by asking them about it.

“Anyone can be at risk of suicide, whether they talk about it or not,” he said. “You’re not violating someone’s confidence by getting help for them if they share with you that they’re having suicidal thoughts.

Dunn said it is common to receive calls from family or friends asking what to do about their loved ones who may be struggling with suicidal thoughts, so people should not be intimidated to call.

“If you knew all you had to do was make a phone call to get them help, but yet you didn’t because you were afraid that you were going to make them angry, wouldn’t it be better for them to be angry with you for a while and alive rather than [you] having not done anything and they’re no longer here?” he asked.

Dunn, Meer and Ludwig encourage people to remember that there are services to help those who need it, whether that means calling the hotline or seeking counseling.

“It’s [anxiety or depression] not a character flaw or a sign of weakness or being a loser,” Dunn said. “We all get overwhelmed from time to time, and the point is [that] help is available. But the person needs to give themselves permission to let other people help them. And most of the time, that’s one of the most difficult things to do.”

CPB brings music festival to campus

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The University of Indianapolis Campus Program Board will host the inaugural Spring Music Festival on Saturday, April 18, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event will be held on Smith Mall and will be open to UIndy students and community members. Senior marketing and German major and Campus Program Board Major Events Chair Regina Spielmann is spearheading the event, working with other members of CPB. “This is the first year for the festival,” she said. “We are hoping it will turn into a traditional event at UIndy. We are expecting four performers of all types of genres of music and [overall] just a relaxing and fun event for everyone.”

Four of the performers are confirmed for the festival at this time and include Austin Moody, David Paige, Damien Escobar and Blake Lewis.

According to his Facebook page, Moody is a young, self-taught country talent from Kingsport,Tenn., who moved to Nashville, Tenn. to pursue his dream at the age of 18. He is best known for his song “Be Ready,” which has more than 8,000 views on YouTube.

Paige and his four other band members hail from Chicago, Ill. and according to the group’s Facebook page, have a sound that “rocks harder than pop and is more accessible than much of today’s alternative rock.” The band’s most popular songs to date are “Inside Out”and “Are You Ready,” both of which are on music videos that can be found on YouTube.

According to his Facebook page, Escobar is a two-time Emmy winning hip-hop violinist from Queens, N.Y., who may be familiar from his appearance on “America’s Got Talent” as part of the duo “Nuttin’ But Stringz.” Since the business he and his brother grew disbanded, he has been re-launching his career and has received more than 200,000 downloads on his first R&B mixtape, entitled “Sensual Melodies.”

Lewis, the best known of the performers, is a vocalist and beatboxer from Bothell, Wash. He first appeared on “American Idol,” where he was runnerup during the sixth season in 2007. He has since released three albums, his most recent came out in May 2014, entitled “Portrait of a Chameleon.”

“The festival will have a wide range of performers, as well as other fun activities for students to participate in,” Spielmann said.

Students will be able to purchase food from a food truck at the event, climb rock walls and get temporary henna tattoos, as well as a range of other activities yet to be announced. According to Spielmann, CPB currently is handling the bulk of the event, but they plan to work with registered student organizations around campus to make the festival “bigger and better.”

Junior human biology major Brandon Smith expressed interest in the event because CPB is bringing notable artists to the festival. Smith also said that he believes the event is something different for this campus and that he has not seen many other schools, if any, hold a music festival.

“I know that concerts are held at every single campus in America,” Smith said. “[But] I honestly have never heard of a music festival hosted by a university. It makes it seem like a really special and cool event for our campus.”

Smith has only been to one other festival so far, as he traveled to the annual “Vans Warped Tour” to see bands he has been listening to since he was young.

When he heard about the festival, Smith said he commended the university and CPB for creating an event that catered to the entire UIndy community.

“Am I surprised? Yes and no. Yes, because it is a pretty big deal to have artists like these performing at a small private college on the south side of Indianapolis,” he said. “Also no, because UIndy has been doing a fantastic job in trying to expand the university and all of the social aspects that come with it.”

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Krannert Memorial Library • • • •

Café offering both food and coffee Updated/contemporary look Additional windows on east side More technologically integrated

Library to be completed for next year Graphic by Kyle Dunbar

By Erik Cliburn STAFF WRITER The renovation of the Krannert Memorial Library will begin after the current semester ends. The overhaul will touch every floor of the library, including the basement and the computer labs. According to Director of the Library Matthew Shaw, the plan is to have all of the library renovations completed by the upcoming fall semester of 2015.

“This is a pretty ambitious project,” Shaw said, “but we have been working incredibly hard to get this done. So I don’t

think we will have any issues.”

There will be new additions to the library along with improvements to existing features. The new additions will include a café on the first floor that will offer food options as well as coffee. Freshman community health major Cheyenne Kern hopes the café will offer healthy foods as well.

“Some healthier options would be nice, because I know at The Perk they serve a lot of muffins and cookies,” Kern said.“Sometimes they have fruit, but it would be nice to something not so sugar heavy.”

Sophomore Tyler Knierim, a double major in political science and international

relations, looks forward to seeing the completed design of the library. Knierim said a more contemporary design will bring an updated look and feel to the university as a whole.

“I saw a diagram that had a picture of how they want the library to look when it’s done, and I really like the aesthetic look of it,” Knierim said. “Plus the café will be nice, too.”

As of now, the library’s only window space is on the north side of the building facing the Martin Hall parking lot and Cory Bretz Hall. According to Shaw, the plan for the new design includes adding windows to the east side of the library to give students a view over Smith Mall

as well.

“When the library was last renovated, Smith Mall was just a parking lot,” Shaw said. “Now that it’s aesthetically pleasing out there, we want to give people the opportunity to have a good view while they are studying.”

Shaw said the library will offer more areas where study and project groups can work together. However, there will still be spaces where students can have peace and quiet to study and finish their individual work.

“We want the library to become more socially and technologically integrated,” Shaw said. “Students will be able to come here for the discovery of information all the

way up to the final product that they are working on.”

The writing lab in the Sease Wing of the library will remain part of the library and possibly become even more integrated into it. Renovations also will bring a restroom to the first floor rather than students and others having to go to the second floor.

Shaw and the rest of library staff ’s goal is to bring more convenience to those who use the library. The library will still be partially functioning for summer courses, according to Shaw. The online catalog will be entirely available, and a large chunk of its physical catalog will remain accessible to students.

Camp-In gives students campus life sneak peek

By Erik Cliburn STAFF WRITER

Photo by Kaley Gatto

Freshman Rene Ibarra and sophomore Annette Zajac perform in the Drag Show on March 20. The show raised $313 to support Braodway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Drag Show raises funds for nonprofit

By AJ Rose SPORTS EDITOR

In front of a crowd that packed every seat in Ransburg Auditorium on March 20, UIndy PRIDE and the theatre honor society Alpha Psi Omega came together again to present the 11th annual UIndy Drag Show. The organizations raised a total of $313 from donation tips to support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a nonprofit organization that raises money for people with AIDS and other illnesses in the United States according to its official website.

The audience was treated to a lineup of performances that featured talents including singing, dancing, standup comedy and magic performance. Many of the performers who showed off their talents also altered their appearances to look like the opposite sex during the event.

At the conclusion of all the performances, a judge panel that included individuals such as Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli and President Robert Manuel, voted on which performances would receive awards.

Some of the awards included the best dressed, which went to Twilight Lorraine, portrayed by sophomore Kevin Feutz; the best drag king, which went to Papa Cherry, portrayed by alumna Abby Krug; and the best drag queen, which went to Melody Monet, portrayed by senior Glen Hall.

Most creative performance was awarded to Foxy St. James, portrayed by senior Stephen Fox, and best Janet Jackson

lookalike was awarded to Areola Grande, portrayed by senior Anthony Jackson.

Jackson, who appeared in the drag show for the fourth consecutive year and is the current UIndy PRIDE co-chairman, said that overall he felt the show went really well and he heard nothing but positive reviews about the performances.

He also said that he was pleased with the large attendance, even though, he felt it was typical, and he felt it truly showed the strength of support UIndy has for the LGBTQIA community.

“A lot of people obviously don’t know what a drag show is, so they go to it thinking, ‘Oh, neat,’” he said. “But being exposed to it [the LGBTQIA community] at the drag show, I think, is good for the campus. I think overall, we have better acceptance [of the LGBTQIA] on our campus than other campuses.”

Another performer during the drag show was senior Nate Coder, who not only performed a dance routine and standup comedy, but also is president of APO, which, along with PRIDE, helped provide the stage, sound, lights, performers and anything else needed to make the event a success. According to Coder, his organization supports the event not just because his organization has the resources to make it possible, but also because the organization supports PRIDE and the LGBTQIA community.

“Given that we are an organization that wants to provide entertainment and theatrical experiences for everyone, regardless of what walk of life they come from, or what gender, race or anything like that, we want to be able help put that

on,” he said. “Just in general, this whole school is pretty open and welcoming of the LGBTQIA community and everything, so I think that is really good.

“If you look at the arts community in general, there is a very big LGBTQIA presence in that. So it’s almost kind of second nature,” he said. “A lot of our friends that we work with in the department are part of that community. . . And the drag show is always such a blast, so everybody wins out in the end, when we have a chance to help put it on.”

Jackson said that he would like to see preparations for the show begin sooner than they have before, because he believes that would help improve the show even more. He also believes that if they can get more drag performers from the community outside of the university, it would help expose UIndy to more of those involved in the LGBTQIA community.

Coder said, that since this is his last year being involved with the show as a student and the president of APO, he hopes to see the two organizations continue to work together to make the event possible.

“Luckily, some of our officers now, and people that are active in APO, are planning on being active next year, and they helped with the drag show this year,” he said. “As far as I know, PRIDE is very pleased with the way things turned out.

So I would guess that this is just going to kind of be something that just remains kind of a staple for the second semester heading forward, and I think that is really good because if the past couple of years are any indication, it is just going to get bigger and bigger each time.”

The annual Campus Camp-In brought high school seniors to experience life at the University of Indianapolis on Friday, March 20. The camp-in was organized by Admissions Counselor Kimberly Webber, with Campus Program Board planning some of the events.

According to Webber, the camp-in allows high school seniors who already have committed to UIndy to get a preview of what they will experience next year, and it also can narrow the search for students who still have not decided on a college or university.

“A lot of the students are already deposited, so they are planning to come here,” Webber said. “And then there are some that aren’t deposited but may be trying to decide between us and another school.”

First, the students were to meet with the hosts that they would be staying with overnight. Afterwards, the students attended an opening address and dinner with their hosts and the other camp-in staff.

The next activity was an icebreaker for the students to get to know each other, the mentors and the staff. After the icebreaker, students attended what was called the FYI Challenge, which taught them how to adjust to college life in the first year.

“We do an activity with Experience Design called the FYI Challenge which helps the students with getting to know campus and different resources,” Webber said. “It’s a first year seminar. It resembles

college life throughout the first year like doing different tasks and getting reality checks that might slow them down, such as getting sick.”

The FYI Challenge was the last mandatory event of the night. Students were then free to choose among the events at UIndy that night. CPB had board games, video games and food set up for students to enjoy. The Drag Show held by UIndy Pride and the volleyball tournament also were options for students to attend.

Breakfast was available for the students in the morning, but according to Webber, many students like to use this time to catch up on lost sleep during the night. The community service projects began after breakfast from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Students could sign up for the Builda-Bear event with Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the no-sew blankets event with Girl Scouts or build playhouses for Habitat for Humanity, according to Webber.

At a closing session after the service projects, students reunited with their parents and were free to explore and have lunch on campus.

Freshman undeclared major Cassidy Smith worked at the event, getting involved with visiting students and getting to know them better.

“It was great getting to know them and their personalities,” Smith said.

“And I know that I’m going to see them over the summer again. It was awesome to have that opportunity to connect with them.”

Photo by Kaley Gatto

High school students work on their service project, which was to make no-sew blankets with the Girl Scouts at the Campus Camp-In on March 20.

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WORLD

Harry Reid announces he will not run for re-election

WASHINGTON—Longtime Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid will not seek re-election, he said Friday, March 27. Reid, who sustained face and rib injuries earlier this year in an exercise accident, made the announcement in a video to supporters.

—CQ-Roll Call

Study shows Antarctic ice shelves melting 70 percent faster in last decade

French prosecutor Brice Robin, center, discusses evidence pointing to deliberate actions by the co-pilot in the crash of a Germanwings jet, killing all 150 people on board, during a press conference on Thursday, March 26. Robin confirmed that Andreas Lubitz, a 28-year-old German citizen, refused to reopen the cockpit door for the pilot and pressed a button that sent the plane into its fatal descent. (Ruoppolo Guillaume/Maxppp/Zuma Press/TNS)

Due to Germanwings crash, airlines plan to revamp security, cockpit regulations

By Ralph Vartabedian and Kim Willsher LOS ANGELES TIMES PARIS (TNS)—The apparently deliberate act of a German pilot that caused the deaths of 150 people in France is leading to a broad re-examination of international airline security rules, which allowed the pilot to lock his more senior crew member out of the cockpit.

The cockpit door-locking system, which was designed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, was intended to prevent suicidal terrorists from seizing control of jetliners, but may have had the unintended consequence of allowing a single pilot to do the same.

“We are absolutely headed to a reevaluation of the system,” said Robert Ditchey, an aviation safety expert and former airline executive. “This is now an issue of how we keep mass murderers out of the cockpit.”

In response to the revelations about the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, the German Aviation Association announced Thursday, March 26, that all German carriers had agreed to new procedures, similar to those already in effect in the United States, that would require two people in a plane’s cockpit at all times. Several other carriers —including Air Canada, EasyJet, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Icelandair— announced similar changes in protocol.

French authorities said Andreas Lubitz, the German co-pilot of the flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf, Germany, on Tuesday, March 24 kept the cockpit door locked after the pilot left, presumably to use the restroom. The pilot could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder pounding on the door after Lubitz purportedly set the aircraft on a deadly descent into the French Alps.

Investigators said Lubitz ignored radio calls and could be heard breathing normally as the aircraft went into a

fairly steep descent from its 38,000-foot cruising altitude to about 5,000 feet, while passengers were screaming as they presumably saw the mountains looming and watched the pilot frantically trying to re-enter the cockpit.

European authorities, along with the chief executive of Germanwings’ parent Lufthansa, said that nothing in Lubitz’s background could explain his behavior.

The 27-year-old pilot had no known association with extremist or terrorist groups, said German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the news had given the tragedy “a new, simply incomprehensible dimension.... Something like this goes beyond anything we can imagine.”

The dead included three Americans, the last of whom was identified by the State Department on Thursday, March 26 as Robert Oliver. It provided no further details, but he was described in news reports as a Barcelona resident who worked for Spanish clothing company Desigual.

Half of the victims were German, including 16 students and two teachers from a high school in the northern town of Haltern Am See. “I am asking myself, when is the nightmare going to end?” the town’s mayor, Bodo Klimpel, said Thursday, March 26 at a news conference that was broadcast live in Germany. “It is even much, much worse than we had thought.”

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the aviation industry and U.S. law enforcement officials decided that cockpit doors would have to be hardened and locked securely to thwart a repeat. At the time, experts knew that the system would have to be tamper-proof, or it would not ensure an end to hijackings.

“We discussed the unintended consequences of leaving a single pilot in the cockpit and we did an analysis of the greater risk, a suicidal pilot or a terrorist,” said Michael Barr, a U.S. air safety

expert and former accident investigation instructor at the University of Southern California. “The decision was [that] a terrorist was the greater risk. We don’t want to reopen that door now.”

But the Germanwings incident was among more than half a dozen documented instances of a crew or crew member suspected of deliberate acts to crash a passenger plane.

In 1999, in one of the most notorious cases, an EgyptAir Boeing 767 jetliner plunged into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from New York. U.S. investigators said the co-pilot had sent the jetliner on a dive after the pilot left the cockpit.

“It’s striking that in both instances it sounds like the pilot left the cabin,” said John Pistole, the agent who investigated the accident.

In another case, a Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared over the Indian Ocean in 2014 without a trace, and although the crew may have been incapacitated by a loss of cabin pressure, or some other cause, a deliberate act has not been ruled out. And a 1997 crash involving SilkAir in Indonesia was determined by U.S. investigators to be a deliberate act, although Indonesian officials sharply disputed the finding.

Notably, none of those cases involved U.S. pilots or airlines.Though not perfect, the United States has by wide agreement the world’s most experienced pilots and tightest safety regulations. Indeed, the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday, March 26 emphasized its twoin-the-cockpit rule.

“When one of the pilots exits the cockpit for any reason, another qualified crew member must lock the door and remain on the flight deck until the pilot returns to his or her station,”the FAA said in a written response to questions raised by the French disaster. “A qualified crew member could be a flight attendant or a relief pilot serving as part of the crew.”

Under U.S. security rules, there must be

positive visual identification of the person seeking to re-enter the cockpit, including verification that the person is not under duress, a procedure done by looking through a spyhole in the cockpit door, said Brian Schiff, an American Airlines captain. That verification is performed by the other crew member because the lone pilot is not allowed to move from the aircraft controls, he said.

Had a flight attendant been in the cockpit of the Germanwings plane, he or she might have been able to intervene or open the door.

Although the United States does not perform mandatory psychological tests on pilots, it has other advantages over foreign carriers, particularly in the experience of its flight crews. Lubitz had logged 630 flight hours, substantially below the U.S. minimum requirement of 1,500 hours for any co-pilot. In practice, the vast majority of U.S. co-pilots have far more than 1,500 hours, Ditchey, the safety expert, said.

And though the cockpit security doors may have assisted Lubitz in taking over the Germanwings flight, an opposite set of circumstances also has occurred. In an unusual March 2012 incident, a JetBlue co-pilot determined that his pilot was acting irrationally and managed to lock him out of the cockpit. While passengers subdued the captain, the co-pilot safely landed the jetliner in Amarillo, Texas.

The pilot, Clayton Osbon, was later found not guilty by reason of insanity of interfering with a flight crew.

(Times staff writer Vartabedian reported from Los Angeles and special correspondent Willsher from Paris.

Times staff writers Matt Pearce and Hugo Martin in Los Angeles and special correspondent Jabeen Bhatti in Berlin contributed to this report.) (c)2015 Los Angeles Times. Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes. com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

TNS— The frozen fringes of western Antarctica have been melting 70 percent faster in the last decade, raising concern that an important buttress keeping landbased ice sheets from flowing to the sea could collapse or vanish in coming decades, a new study shows.

—Los Angeles Times

Poll shows Americans less likely to care a ‘great deal’ about environmental threats

TNS—Americans’ concerns over environmental issues including air and water pollution, plant and animal extinction and rainforest loss has crept downward since last year, according to a new poll. Gallup measured how many Americans care “a great deal” about those issues and found a drop of 5 to 8 percentage points, the polling organization said Wednesday, March 25. That came after an uptick from 2013 to 2014.

—Bloomberg News

Activists tell court that killer whale Lolita lives in inhuman conditions

MIAMI—The government “rubber stamps” the license for the Miami Seaquarium despite the park keeping Lolita the killer whale, in inhumane conditions, an animal rights group told a federal appeals court Tuesday, March 24.

—Miami Herald

University of Texas votes to remove Jefferson Davis statue from campus

AUSTIN— Renewing an on-again, off-again effort to rid the campus of a handful of monuments to the Confederacy, the University of Texas student government has passed a resolution to remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

—Austin American-Statesman

Shiite militias withdraw from Tikrit fighting, U.S. joins battle

IRBIL, Iraq— Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias, angry that the government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has asked for American help in ejecting Islamic State fighters from the central Iraqi city of Tikrit, began Thursday, March 26 withdrawing their forces from the battle, the first major break between the Iranian-trained militias and Iraq’s military establishment since the Islamic State advance last year.

—McClatchy Foreign Staff ©2014 McClatchy Tribune News Service

Online college provides nontraditional students with education

By Koran Addo ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

ST. LOUIS (TNS)—Two years ago, it might have seemed strange when Gov. Jay Nixon starting pushing for Missouri to create its own branch of Western Governors University.

After all, WGU is a bit of an oddity.

It’s a nonprofit online university that doesn’t use teachers. Students work at their own pace and are assigned course mentors who offer tutoring, advice or pep talks as needed. Students also can skip large sections of the curriculum if they can demonstrate command of the subject.

After two years and a state investment of $4 million, WGU-Missouri leaders say the school is doing what it’s supposed to do: providing access to students who don’t fit the mold of a traditional student.

Students, they say, are earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees more quickly and for less money.

However, skeptics say the WGU model cheats students out of the one-on-one interactions between teachers and students that typically drive the learning process.

There’s also concern that the idea of quicker and cheaper degrees could entice students who aren’t disciplined enough to be successful in WGU’s hands-off approach.

Sarah Powell, 39, is perhaps the pro-

totypical WGU student.

She had an associate’s degree in veterinary technology from Jefferson College that she wasn’t using. Later, as a stay-athome mother caring for her three children, she opened a day care center at her house.

“I was working 14- to 16-hour days taking care of other people’s kids, and I just finally decided I wanted something more,” she said.

Powell eventually enrolled in WGU, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in teaching in a little over three years.

Powell said she liked WGU’s competency-based model, where instead of the traditional A-F grading system, students pass or fail.

“Either you know it or you don’t,” Powell said. “If you are struggling on your assignments, you redo them. They don’t allow you to get by. You have to pass with the equivalent of what would be a B grade.”

Powell is now a seventh-grade science teacher at Valley Middle School in the Northwest School District in House Springs. Powell graduated from the national WGU before Missouri started its own chapter. Missouri’s version has 1,400 students enrolled and has graduated just under 550 students in two years of operation.

A recent Harris Interactive survey of new graduates found that 82 percent of WGU graduates were employed full time,

compared with the national average of 77 percent. A Gallup-Purdue survey of students who graduated in the past five years, showed that WGU students were more likely to self-report as engaged and thriving in their jobs than graduates of other schools.

Matching productive people with jobs they can thrive in follows one of the loftier goals in higher education circles: putting a dent in the estimated 36 million Americans who’ve completed some college but didn’t earn a degree.

“We are doing what we were created to do,” said Angie Besendorfer, WGUMisouri’s chancellor.

Dedicated students, she said, can earn a degree 30 percent more quickly and for half the cost of students enrolled at a traditional four-year university. Rather than offering semesters, WGU is organized into six-month periods, each costing roughly $3,000. Students can take as many classes as they can handle in each period.

But a Washington State study of more than 50,000 students found that those who enrolled in online courses were more likely to fail or drop out of school than students who enrolled on brick-andmortar campuses. A Columbia University study found similar results.

Both studies dealt with community college students, but the logic translates to four-year schools: Significant numbers of students require a strong connection

with their teachers to succeed.

Besendorfer said she didn’t put too much stock in critics who say WGU students miss out on one-on-one interactions with instructors. Students read course materials, watch Web videos and turn in assignments, much like traditional students do. Besendorfer said students who had a good grasp of a course could test out of a course immediately by passing an exam, writing a paper or completing a project demonstrating their knowledge of the subject. Students who struggle can lean on course mentors for one-on-one tutoring, she said.

“This model has been around for a long time,” she said, and has been successful.

WGU was founded in 1997 by 19 sitting governors. So far, WGU has enrolled more than 55,000 students, with an average age of 36.

With its origins as an economic development engine, WGU isn’t the place to earn a liberal arts degree. Instead, the focus is narrowed to a number of key areas: information technology, business, teaching and health.

WGU is based in Utah, but so far five states have created their own offshoots.

Some—including Missouri’s—were started with taxpayer money, but each one supports itself through tuition and private donations. WGU-Missouri got started with a $4 million community development block grant from the state

to help with startup costs.

Because Missouri created an affiliate of the national university, WGU spends more marketing dollars there than in other states, WGU officials said. Nixon has appeared in television ads touting the benefits of WGU-Missouri.

As an online-only school, WGU competes with schools such as Kaplan University and the University of Phoenix.

But unlike many of its competitors, WGU is a nonprofit.Even so, Chief Executive Officer Robert Mendenhall earns more than $600,000 a year.

Rusty Monhollon, assistant commissioner for academic affairs with the Missouri Department of Higher Education, said two years wasn’t enough time to assess how well WGU-Missouri was doing.

As WGU-Missouri produces more data, the school will ultimately be judged on how well its graduates perform on standardized tests, licensing exams and other precursors to employment, he said.

“Ultimately, the purpose of any institution is to help students learn and to get students to be successful,” Monhollon said. “The competency-based model is a proven way for some students to achieve that.” (c)2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Visit the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at www.stltoday.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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