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What is tenure?

Several faculty members discuss what tenure is, the process of getting tenure and what it means for students and the university

By Mercadees Hempel MANAGING EDITOR

Assistant Professor of English Kip Robisch will go up for tenure in two years at the University of Indianapolis, and while tenure is frequently discussed among faculty members, it is not a common topic among students. Some students may not know a great deal about tenure and how it plays a role at universities, including UIndy.

According to Dean of the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences Jennifer Drake, tenure was created to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression.

“It’s really the idea that as faculty members we should be able to—and not just for our own edification, but for the betterment of society—we should be able to ask questions that might be unpopular, to engage in research that would be controversial, because that’s what intellectual engagement is and how we form knowledge,” Drake said.

Drake said that not only does tenure involve academic freedom, but a person will have his or her job for life, barring unforeseen circumstances such as institutional downsizing or closing, and the person cannot be relocated within the institution, or the person has committed a crime or an act of indiscretion.

“The job security of tenure is the kind only the Supreme Court has,” Robisch said. “Once you get tenure, you have to do something pretty severe to lose your job.”

Faculty members on tenure track at UIndy have six years to put together a dossier to be reviewed by the Promotion and Tenure Committee. The Promotion and Tenure Committee is made up of eight members, according to commit-

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“This is one of the things I love about the university. You get to go up for tenure based on what you give to students.”

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If the board approves, then the professor is granted tenure. If it does not approve, then the professor has one year to find another job.

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UIndy awarded $1.2 million grant from NSF

By Zoë Berg ART DIRECTOR The University of Indianapolis received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program that will help students pursue a Master of Art in Teaching degree. The grant was awarded to the Teach (STEM)³ Program, which works with students who already have an undergraduate degree in a STEM field and want to pursue a career in secondary STEM education.

While some of the students in the Teach (STEM)³ Program are coming directly from their undergraduate education, many of them have had some years of experience working in the STEM field.

The program has had students who have previously worked for Eli Lilly, Dow AgroSciences and as a veterinarian.

The Teach (STEM)³ Program is a oneyear clinical residency program in which

students work in a classroom setting in tional Science Foundation,”said Assistant one of the program’s partner schools in Professor of Biology Kim Baker. “There’s Decatur, Perry and Wayne townships. a specific track, the Noyce Scholarship, The students also take 36 graduate credit that is intended to promote having STEM hours, ultimately leaving with an MAT career changers then pursue a master’s in degree with a focus on eduteaching degree.” cating students in biology, Sachs, Baker and Assochemistry or math at the ciate Professor and Chair of high school level. the Chemistry Department The program began in Kathy Stickney worked to2009 as the Woodrow gether to research and create Wilson Teaching Fellowa 60-page proposal for the ship and has had about grant. They were required 70 students graduate. The to submit a description of Woodrow Wilson Teaching the project, specific budget Fellowship pulled out of allocations, documentation Indiana, according to Direcfrom their partner schools tor of the Teach (STEM)³ and more. Sachs, Baker Program Deb Sachs, so there and Stickney submitted SACHS was a need to look for fundthe proposal in Septeming elsewhere. ber 2016. The grant was “In order to continue what we think is awarded to the Teach (STEM)³ Program a very valuable experience and also help in the spring. meet the critical need for STEM teachers, “We were so excited for the future of we applied then for a grant from the Na- the Teach (STEM)³ Program,” Stickney

said. “This funding just means the world to us.”

According to Stickney, they were attracted to the grant because it requires them to give 60 percent of the money to the students. This will be in the form of stipends that will cover the full cost of tuition, with a stipulation that the students must teach at a school with a high need for STEM teachers for their first two years.

“It’s very difficult with a residency program at a master’s level for someone to leave their job or not be working and pay tuition on top of that,” Sachs said.

The other 40 percent will be used to pay the clinical faculty and pay for the mentorship program. After students graduate from the Teach (STEM)³ Program, they continue to receive mentoring from the university for two years.

Sachs, Baker and Stickney hope to fill the high need for secondary STEM educators and also inspire students to pursue a career in STEM.

“There’s a lot of high-tech industry in Indianapolis and Indiana, and so we need to establish a pipeline to bring educated students into these high-tech jobs,” Stickney said. “We really want to get students excited about science, math and technology at the high school level....”

Sachs, Baker and Stickney said they received a lot of help and support from Dean of the Shaheen College of Arts & Sciences Jennifer Drake and School of Education Interim Dean and Associate Professor of Secondary Education Colleen Mulholland.

“I think what else is really unique is that this is a really strong collaboration between the School of [Education] and the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences,” Sachs said. “So we work together, which is why that grant is so nice to have—a chemistry and a biology professor and an education professor working together to bring that to campus. And an NSF Noyce Grant brings with it some national recognition.”

OPINION

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Reflector seniors say farewell to UIndy Kylee Crane, Editor-in-Chief In conversations focused on my rapidly approaching graduation and years spent at UIndy, I have been asked, “So, are you satisfied with what you have done?” And I smile and immediately answer.

You see, I live by cheesy, Pinterestworthy, motivational quotes. One of my favorites that is displayed in my bedroom says, “Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” It’s a great reminder that playing it safe is a risk in itself, so you might as well take those steps out and see where that takes you.

Some of my “steps” have been successful—gaining experience and education through various leadership roles on campus, applying and receiving amazing internships and meeting some people I will call friends for the rest of my life.

Other steps have led to falling off broken branches, which may have led to heartache and failures. Either way, I grew and learned.

I spent weekends working in the newsroom or studying for an exam and other weekends out having fun and doing nothing productive with the best of friends. Either way, I created beautiful memories I can talk about for years.

Some weeks were filled with stress and tears—days when I could not wait for it all to be over. Others were filled with fun and laughter, days when I wished this time would never end. I have awards nailed along a wall to show for the hard work I’ve put in, and I have hundreds of photos to show the fun and other experiences I have had along the way.

So when someone asks me if I am satisfied with what I had done, I smile and say, “Absolutely.”

I hope you can do the same.

Mercadees Hempel, Managing Editor Ever since I was 6 years old, I have known exactly where I was going to be and what was going to happen: I was going to go to school. But now I don’t know where I will be next year at this time.

Luckily, there is always a choice. I can be anxious, fret about it and worry myself

sick. I don’t like that choice. Instead, I choose to be happy.

I am happy that I have spent four years on The Reflector staff at my dream campus. I have made amazing friends, connected with hundreds of people, interned at my favorite newspaper, NUVO, been mentored by the best professors, and even met the love of my life in the most unlikely place at the most unexpected time. I would like to thank my friends who always understood when I couldn’t hang out due to production. Thank you to my Reflector staff for the laughs, the tears, the stories and the love. I couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you, Kyle, for all of the rides home and for saying yes when I asked you to be my boyfriend on our second date. Thank you, Mom and Dad, for being in my corner since day one. Nobody in this world will ever love me as much as you guys do, and I love you more. Erik and Zoë, I would say don’t let me down, but I know you won’t. I would say make me proud, but you already have.

I cannot thank everybody who helped me get to this point enough. I don’t know what happens after this, but whatever it is, I can’t wait to share it with you all. In “Abarat,” the book that made me want to be a writer, author Clive Barker writes, “Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight’s stars.

But where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and in the Now—in this bright, laughing moment—and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.”

Quiaira Johnson, Business Manager “But even the worst decisions we make don’t necessarily remove us from the circle of humanity.” –Wes Moore You probably are wondering why I chose to base my farewell on that quote.

The simple, honest answer is because we are our own worst critics. College is the place where trial-and-error gives us the push we need to help propel us into chasing and choosing the very things that help us best live our lives. In that process, we fail. Sometimes we fail so badly that

From right to left: Mercadees Hempel, Kylee Crane, Quiaira Johnson and Ainger Alexander. we think we cannot recover. Whether a failed exam or class, a friendship, an intimate relationship—whatever the failure is, it does not remove us from the circle of humanity. In fact, it helps us search within our experiences to define what encompasses basic humanness.

My time at UIndy has definitely been a roller coaster ride, but it is one for which I am and will forever be grateful.The process of figuring out what I want to do for the rest of my life has not been easy; in fact, I still don’t have it figured out. One thing that I can tell you is that this journey, through its hardships and celebratory moments, has taught me that I, like you, can only get better from here. My advice is to “do you.”If you feel like going out to drink rather than studying for that exam, do it.

If you think that having an internship is more important than being part of a club or organization, do it. If you want to lie in bed and watch Netflix on days when you’re just not feeling it, do it. If you are even considering studying abroad, do it.

My point is that you should do what you

Size difference between MOAB & VW Beetle

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US bombings a concern

As tensions around the world intensify, will the United States keep its composure?

By Tony Lain STAFF WRITER

The United States dropped the Mother of All Bombs “MOAB” on an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan on April 13, killing more than 90 Islamic State militants and destroying many underground bunkers and ammunitions. Was this simply just a mission to attack a terrorist organization, or were there other motives at play for the Trump administration and its plan to curb North Korea’s missile testing?

Afghanistan has seemingly been ignored on most American news media outlets, with catastrophe in Syria and madness in North Korea on the rise.

According to CNN, there are still more than 8,000 U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan on counter-terrorism missions, and one U.S. soldier was killed in combat during an operation in the area just days before the attack.

The bomb that was dropped on the Afghanistan province of Nangarhar was the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat, equivalent to about 11 tons of TNT and with a blast radius comparable to nine city blocks, according to the Pentagon. The bomb cost about $170,000 to make and had to be deployed out of a cargo plane according to the Air Force. The MOAB was dropped shortly after President Trump authorized the demolition of a Syrian airbase a week earlier and is out of line with the “America First” platform that he campaigned on, and vow to take the United States out of Middle Eastern conflicts. The attack on ISIS in Afghanistan was not authorized

by President Trump, but rather by Gen. John Nicholson, the highest-ranking military official in the country. While the bomb’s use garnered enormous attention on the world stage, the weapon’s impact by any military standards was rather underwhelming.

According to Business Insider, ISIS has 700-1,000 militants in Afghanistan, far less than the 25,000 members of the Taliban. According to U.S. military officials, the Taliban control about a third of the population in Afghanistan, about 10 million more people than ISIS controlled in Syria and Iraq at the height of it’s power during the summer of 2014.

The Kremlin and leaders in Moscow have been supporting Taliban soldiers, claiming they are helping the fight against ISIS. However, the two radical groups forged a truce in August of 2016 and swore not to fight each other.

Although the bomb was dropped on an ISIS “tunnel complex” in Afghanistan, one can’t help but wonder if the use of one of the largest weapons in the United States’ arsenal was actually a forewarning to America’s enemies around the world.

The MOAB was built in 2003, right before the invasion of Iraq, and had more psychological implications than actual real uses. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said of the bomb after its creation,“There is a psychological component to all aspects of warfare. The goal is to not have a war. The goal is to have the pressure be so great that Saddam Hussein cooperates. Short of that, an unwillingness to cooperate, the goal is to have the capabilities of the coalition so clear and so obvious that there is an enormous disincentive for the Iraqi military to

fight against the coalition, and there's an enormous incentive for Saddam Hussein to leave and spare the world a conflict."

The MOAB could be a warning to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.

Shortly after the use of the “MOAB,” North Korea again tested a nuclear ballistic missile, but the launch was a failure.

With 28,000 U.S. troops currently in South Korea, the United States is looking to strong-arm North Korea away from nuclear testing. Visiting South Korea last weekend, Vice President Mike Pence had a message for Pyongyang: "Since 1992, the United States and our allies have stood together for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula," Pence said at a joint news conference with acting South Korean President Hwang Kyo-Ahn in Seoul. "We hope to achieve this objective through peaceable means. But all options are on the table.”The Vice President later added, “[The] era of strategic patience is over.”That Pence’s warning coincided with the bombing in Afghanistan seems to be no coincidence, but a showcase of power for Kim Jong Un and the North Korean Army. While talks are currently underway with China to impose tougher sanctions on Pyongyang to persuade the North to change its course on nuclear weapons, Kim Jong Un’s radical government is hard to predict. According to the New York Times, in a formal proposal last month, China said that talks should be framed on the basis of North Korea suspending its nuclear testing, and the U.S. and South Korea suspending their exercises on or near the peninsula.

Whether either is willing to put away their guns on the Korean Peninsula is uncertain.

want to do because you feel it is what’s best for you at that moment. Sometimes, our decisions may leave us in some crazy places, but learn from them, and use them as positive reinforcement. You are better than your last mistake, misjudgment, or failed exam. Take these years and make the best of them, and learn what it means to you to live your best life.

Ainger Alexander, Editorial Assistant I am not the traditional student. I did not have the luxury of coasting by on mommy’s and daddy’s money while in school. I have supported myself ever since I was 17 years old, and that only grew more difficult when I turned 18 and came to college. I had to worry about paying bills, tuition costs and having emergency funds in case something went wrong. I worked two, sometimes three, jobs at a time while maintaining full-time status at UIndy and being involved on campus.

That’s very hard to balance when you have to support yourself, yet people are telling you that the only way to be a suc-

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cessful student is to simultaneously “be involved on campus as much as possible, volunteer, excel academically and work on your career.”

All of these things and more are the key to post-secondary success. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not complaining. I actually take pride in working for everything I have.

However, I wish that someone had told me that self-love and self-care are equally as important. Missing a class or failing an exam is serious, but not as serious as a decline in mental health and feeling burned out. These things cause emotional strain, physical strain and sometimes they’re just not worth it. Working my body and mind so hard and overextending myself are probably some of the things that most negatively impacted my university experience. If I could offer one piece of advice, it would be: take care of yourself. Take breaks from cramming, explore the city you go to school in, spend an afternoon doing things you love. And when you’re feeling overwhelmed, overworked and overextended, take care of yourself first.

‘Nuclear option’ in Senate

By Erik Cliburn & Madison Hays OPINION EDITOR & ONLINE EDITOR

PRO: The “nuclear option” that has been so covered and argued over recently is essentially a change in parliamentary rules within the United States Senate.

It established the need for only a simple majority (51 votes) to end the filibuster of the minority party during the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee, rather than the previously needed 60 votes.

Many, especially those to the left on the political spectrum, have argued that this change in the Senate rules undermines the need for compromise and takes away from democracy as a whole. This move came after a filibuster by Senate Democrats to block nominee Neil Gorsuch from being confirmed to fill the vacant seat of the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

While there is validity in the argument of wanting the opposing parties within the Senate should work together and reach a compromise, that was the last thing that was happening before the “nuclear option” was put into place. This essentially will be the first nail in the coffin for filibusters in the Senate, which is something that has been needed for a long time.

One of the most annoying cases of the filibuster was when Republican Senator from Texas, and later presidential candidate, Ted Cruz protested the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Cruz stood on the Senate floor for more than 21 hours filibustering because the then Democratic majority, in the Senate could not reach 60 votes to end the filibuster. Not only did he filibuster, but Cruz actually read from “Green Eggs and Ham” to fill more time. If that doesn’t make a mockery of the democratic process, then I don’t know what does. While the “nuclear option” won’t completely rid the Senate of the filibuster, it is a step in the right direction.

Abolishing the filibuster in the Senate for nominees is a two-way street. While the Republicans have the majority in the Senate now, the Democrats could have the majority after the midterm election. This means the change in the rules benefit not only the current party in power, but any future party in power as well, whether Democrat or Republican.

While those who oppose to the “nuclear option” have argued that it interferes with democracy, I say that it is, in fact, a shining example of democracy.

The members of the Senate are democratically elected by the people of the United States and therefore should use their representation of the people to reform government, create, change and abolish laws. The people who make most of the

decisions are in Congress. Those who disagree with the way government operates need to participate in the political process to change it.

—Erik Cliburn

CON: While supporters of Republican Senators’ recent use of the “nuclear option” may claim that the shortcut will make democracy quicker and more efficient, I find the nuclear option to only stifle the conversation and debate that makes democracy liberating.

The filibuster serves as a tool for the minority party, not only to buy time, but also to inform other members of Congress about who or what they are voting on and to provide the majority party a new perspective before the voting occurs. This allows the minority party to bring up thoughts and concerns about the issue at hand, and when the two parties can work together, compromises can be considered.

The filibuster allows for the minority party to have a voice and a way of affecting decisions. Using the “nuclear option” to bypass the filibuster, the minority party loses its voice.

The “nuclear option” makes rash decisions more likely because it removes the filibuster step in which members of the Senate can drive home important information about an issue that affects voters.

And while I hope that our Senators are always well-informed on every nomination or issue they vote on, sometimes it does take several hours of our diaper-wearing representatives fighting for the minority voice to get across a different perspective. The big fear is that the nuclear option will be used in the Senate when it votes on proposed legislation.

When first used in November of 2013, the “nuclear option” was said not to be intended for use in conformations of Supreme Court nominees. Now that it has been used for that, it is now being said that it is not intended for other uses in the Senate.

But now that door has been opened, it may well be just a matter of time before the “nuclear option” is used over some a controversial piece of legislation. If the “nuclear option” is introduced into our legislative system, legislators will find it easier to conceal legislation plans until the time of proposal, putting Senators more at risk of casting an uninformed vote.

The “nuclear option” puts the power solely in the hands of the majority party, allowing them to decide how long the filibuster will last, and to control the time the minority party is able to spend reviewing legislation.

—Madison Hays

NEWS

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Sexual Assault Awareness Month The first national Sexual Assault Awareness Month was held in 2001 and participants still continue “to raise public awareness about sexual violence and to educate communities on how to prevent it,” according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. UIndy PACT contributed to the cause by holding a number of events throughout the month.

Photo by Quiaira Johnson

Photo by Quiaira Johnson

Students at UIndy had the chance to sign up for the UIndy PACT from April 18-20 in Schwitzer.

UIndy PACT is a campus-wide movement to raise awareness of sexual assault and concern for others.

How to be a better bystander

By Melvin Mendez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Photo by Mariah Coleman

A lecture on April 20 aimed to teach students about how to become a successful bystander to sexual assault.

The Student Counseling Center held a Secrets of Success workshop as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, focusing on its “Step UP!” model on Thursday, April 20. Director of the Student Counseling Center Kelly Miller and Advanced Trainee of the Student Counseling Center Melissa Puthran both led the workshop.

The event began with a snowball activity in which everyone in the room was given a square sheet of paper to write about a time when they saw someone who needed help and their reason why they did not stop to help. Then they threw the paper across the room to someone else to read the anonymous paper out loud.

After a paper was read Miller and Puthran provided reasons why those situations happen and explained why it is good to go out of the way to help.

“It’s better to be wrong and still make an attempt to help someone than not make the attempt and realize you were right,” Puthran said. “It’s always better to

make the attempt. In the snowball activity, people said that they had a feeling that it was not their place, a feeling that it was that person’s fault or that person’s issue.”

One of the things that the lecture focused on was the “Step UP!” model.

The first couple of steps include noticing the event by being aware and alert and interpreting the situation as a problem by not minimizing the situation. The third step is to assume personal responsibility by engaging the situation. Another step is to know how to help by knowing the resources that are around you, such as the counseling center, RAs, staff members and even friends.The final and most important step is to Step UP! In that step you ask yourself, if not you, then who?

According to Miller, part of the “Step UP!” model is to try to help people around campus, with the intention of making it a safer place for everyone.

“We know that people want to help,” Miller said. “It’s just that there are these barriers, and some of those are that ‘I don’t have the skills’ or ‘I don’t know what to do’ or ‘I’m afraid.’ So the point that we wanted to get across in this model is that

here are some things that you can do, here are some ways that you can step up.

So we’re teaching skills on how to be a caring campus.”

Another model that was brought up was the “SEE” model. The steps in that model include safe responding and not putting yourself in harm’s way. It also includes being early and intervening while it is still safe, before the problem increases, and being effective and deciding a course of action that best helps everyone.

Miller also talked about why people do not always help and said that just because you do not help does not make you a bad person.

“When you’re making that decision about whether you should step in or not, think about if you would want someone to step in for you or your sibling,” Miller said. “There are a lot of barriers towards stepping in, like personal experiences, psychological reasonings, if there is a group of people and no one else is responding, fear and lack of skills at times.

None of them are because they [the bystanders] are bad people and don’t want to stand up.”

Speaker shares story of rape

By Mariah Coleman STAFF WRITER In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the university held a seminar with guest speaker and sexual assault survivor Liz Seccuro on April 18.

Seccuro said that it is important to be aware of sexual assault, since there are more cases that take place than are actually reported. She said only 3 percent of cases see a courtroom, which is even less than the number of cases reported. The seminar began with a discussion of the “red zone,” or the period of time that encompasses 50 percent of a student’s freshman year, when most cases of sexual assault occur.

Early in her presentation, Seccuro shared her own story. About five weeks into her freshman year at the University of Virginia, in the fall of 1984, Seccuro said she attended a party with a friend who asked Seccuro to accompany him as his date to a party at the fraternity house.

At the party, she accepted a drink from members of the fraternity.

Seccuro said she noticed something was wrong soon after as she began to lose

feeling in her arms and legs. She said she was taken to another room where she was beaten and gang-raped. She told students about the helplessness she felt as she looked out the window and saw people she knew walking by, unable to hear her screams. Seccuro said she eventually fell unconscious, only to wake up the next morning wrapped in a bloody sheet. She said she then walked to the nearest hospital with three broken toes only to be told that she could not receive care because the hospital didn’t have a rape kit.

After she told people at her dorm what had happened, Seccuro said some sympathized, others rolled their eyes and told her she should know better and others called her a “slut” or a “whore.”

Seccuro then decided to tell one of the deans at the university that she had been raped and that she wanted to press charges. He told her that she was “mentally ill.” Seccuro said she reported the incident to the campus police, but a case was never established.

In 2005, one of Seccuro’s attackers mailed a letter to her home to apologize.

She began corresponding with him via

email to get answers regarding the night of her attack. Seccuro said that despite his initial apology, the attacker continued to claim that he felt it was a “romantic encounter.” It was not until after his arrest in 2006 that Seccuro discovered that there were at least two other rapists and that she had been gang-raped. He was sentenced to ten years, but ended up serving less than six months.

During the trial, witnesses were also contacted to give statements. However, many refused to participate. Seccuro said she had also attempted to speak to the University of Virginia administration to attempt to reform the policies, but they ignored her, and those that met with her at the time of her attack denied ever meeting with her. Seccuro said that there are many sexual assault cases in which the victims are not taken seriously.

“We live in a world where the word of the victim means nothing because we live in a world that ‘needs to see receipts,’” Seccuro said.

Seccuro encouraged students to take the information they learned back to the faculty and make sure they know that this issue is important to students.

Lecture encourages diversity

By Ainger Alexander EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Photo by Jake Shaw

Elaine Penn gave her lecture, “One Student, Many Stories,” as part of the Diversity Lecture Series on April 11.

Photo by Mariah Coleman

Liz Seccuro came to UIndy to talk about sexual assault awareness and her own assault in her first year of college.

Nationally recognized speaker, trainer and performer Elaine Penn spoke as part of the University of Indianapolis Diversity Lecture Series on Tuesday, April 11. Penn has held numerous university positions including director of special projects, chief fundraiser and executive producer of five award-winning television documentaries, director of campus recreation and assistant volleyball coach.

Penn’s lecture, “One Student, Many Stories,” was part of the Sexual Assault Awareness month events on campus, but sexual assault was not the topic of her lecture. Penn interwove stories from her life and the lives of others to examine how stereotypes diminish a person’s dignity, create divisions and lead to prejudice and intolerance. Penn also invited students to share their own experiences with diversity in areas such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, LGBTQIA and gender by providing a three-question prompt on the monitor at the beginning

of the event.

“I believe her stories are how a lot of people come to a realization that we are all the same,” said senior exercise science major Wendell Brown. “Sometimes it just takes some significant life event or in-depth self-reflection to truly understand the concept of race and diversity.

It’s almost as if you need an [out of body] experience. Even when you were raised to treat every one equally, it is still a task that requires effort and is a lifelong learning process.”

Penn asked students to turn to each other and answer the following questions: What person has the greatest impact on your life and why? What is one of your greatest achievements? What is your dream? Senior secondary education and Spanish major Mizraim Lorenzo-Aguilar shared his experiences as a student speaker at the event.

“My dream since I was 16-years-old has been to become a teacher,” LorenzoAguilar said. “I believe that a dream comes from a passion that we have, and my biggest passion is teaching. It is more than a rewarding profession, and it is more than

[being] ‘just a teacher.’ I believe that a dream has the power to make someone happy and to affect change, and that’s what my dream is: to make an impact in the life of those students.”

Penn used her own personal testimonies to encourage students to take action in their own lives. She prompted them to help combat stereotypes among themselves and their peers, as well as to stand up to any kind of prejudice.

“Many times, when we hear people’s personal experiences, we only hear one side of the perspective, or like Elaine Penn’s idea, one story,” LorenzoAguilar said. “Usually, that side is only the bad experiences or bad encounters where that person has been a victim, where they were put down because of a certain group they belong to....

I wanted to let people know that even when I belong to a minority group, I haven’t had bad experiences.... I like to see the good in people, and I like to believe that some of the comments or experiences I’ve encountered is because of the idea of not knowing, or only knowing one story.”

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APRIL 26, 2017

Baseball drops two against Bellarmine

Photo by Laken Detweiler

Freshman utility Will Smithey catches a ball during one of the games in the two doubleheader matchups against Wisconsin-Parkside University in Greyhound Park. The team went 1-3 over the weekend to the Rangers.

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR With two losses both by just one point against Bellarmine University on Sunday, April 23, the University of Indianapolis men’s baseball team has now endured five losses in a row.

The Knights were the first to score in game one, but the Hounds were able to make it 1-1 in the second inning with a run from senior infield Ryan Wood after double from freshman utility Will Smithey. Junior third basemen Storm Joop brought in two runners to give the Greyhounds a 3-2 lead. The Knights would eventually take the lead and win in the eighth inning, 4-3.

The situation was mostly the same in game two, with Bellarmine taking the lead and extending it to 3-0. Despite two runs in the sixth inning, the Hounds could not advance any farther, ending the game in the Knights favor 3-2.

Prior to the game, Associate Head Baseball Coach Al Ready said the team knew it would be facing multiple challenges from Bellarmine.

“Bellarmine has three left-handed starting pitchers. Their game one, game two and game four starters are left-handed . . . so we’re going to get our guys used to seeing left-handed pitching,” Ready said. “We’re going to work our tails off on pitching us in the practice setting the way we feel like they’re [Bellarmine] going to pitch us on the weekend and get ready to go. On the pitching and defense side, we have to stay sharp. We have to make sure that our guys are getting their throwing in, that they’re hitting their spots and that they’re not falling behind in the count.”

The Hounds played two doubleheaders against the University of WisconsinParkside Rangers on April 14 and 15.

In game one, the Hounds allowed the Rangers to score a total of five runs across the first and third innings. UIndy stranded two runners in the first, second, fourth and eighth but was unable to bring any players home and lost the game 5-0.

Game two started off with five Rangers’ runs at the top of the first. Both teams scored in the fifth and the Rangers added two runs to their score. UIndy scored its first run of the day at the bottom

of the fifth, thanks to a homerun from sophomore outfielder Kyle Orloff. Three Parkside runs in the sixth, and six runs in the seventh brought the score to 16-1 in favor of Parkside. UIndy scored their final two runs of the day in the seventh inning off a single from redshirt freshman catcher Jake Perreira. With scoreless eighth and ninth innings, the win went to Parkside with a final score of 16-3.

On April 15, the Hounds finished 1-1, winning the first game and losing the second. UIndy kept Parkside scoreless for the first five innings while scoring four runs from a homerun by Orloff and a hit from redshirt sophomore shortstop Macy Holdsworth. Parkside scored its one run at the top of the fifth, and UIndy responded by scoring two off a double from junior outfielder Conor White at the bottom of the inning. The final score was 7-1 in favor of the Hounds.

Ready said that one of the things that was different about this game was how the team pitched. Both he and redshirt sophomore designated hitter Dylan Jones agree that having Sprinkle on the mound was key in helping the Hounds pick up

the win.

“Really, it was just the presence of our pitcher, Jake Sprinkle, that helped a lot. He just got up on the mound, threw strikes, got people out,” Jones said. “It was the only game all weekend that we didn’t come to our first at bat down, which was huge.”

According to Ready, Sprinkle’s pitching has been a huge asset for the team.

“Jake Sprinkle has been a godsend for us. Getting him back into the rotation, the first few weeks we built his pitch count up, and now I think he’s had his third start in a row,” he said. “His first one, he went three innings, or four innings and then he went five innings, and then he went seven innings. He’s a guy that fills up the strike zone. He’s a confident young man, and he does a great job. You’re only as good as the guy you roll out there on the mound.”

Despite the win early on in the day, game two ended in favor of Parkside. The first 11 runs of the game were scored in the first inning, with five from Holdsworth, redshirt sophomore outfielder Nick Miller and Jones. The second inning was scoreless for both teams but Parkside increased

its lead in the third with six runs while UIndy scored one. The Hounds scored again in the fourth, gaining two points off a hit from Jones. Both the Rangers and the Hounds scored two in the fifth.

UIndy added one run to its score in the seventh, thanks to a homerun from Orloff, his fourth of the season. Parkside’s unanswered four runs in the eighth left the score 21-11 in favor of the Rangers.

Jones said that the weekend was a disappointment, and the team could have been playing better. The team’s primary struggle, he said, was with pitching, despite Sprinkle’s performance.

“I definitely expected to do a lot better than 1-3 vs. Wisconsin-Parkside. But I think we have the talent on our team to do well by the end of the year. We’ve just got to figure it out,” Jones said. “We really struggled to locate our pitches and just pitching. The first two games this weekend, we struggled to hit the ball a little bit. We struggled to hit off a few pitches and stay back on them.”

According to Ready, the adversity and challenges that every team faces each season caught up with the Hounds during their games against Wisconsin-Parkside.

Like Jones, Ready said that the team’s biggest weakness was pitching, “Every team that wins a championship, including last year’s team, we won the conference championship goes through adversity. And really, I think because our record has been so good so far, we’ve kind of been able to overlook some things. But this past weekend, the adversity really showed up,” Ready said. “One thing that cost us this past weekend was pitching behind in the count.. . [Overall], it was a tough weekend. A lot of guys aren’t used to a team walking into Greyhound Park and taking three out of four. It just doesn’t happen that often.”

With two conference weekends left in the season, the team is beginning to shift its attention to the GLVC Championship and the Division II regional games in May. “The top four teams get in on either side of the conference—there’s an east and a west—and we’re on the east side ...

And our goal is to be right there in the top four, if not win our side. We’re very capable of doing that, and I think we can get that done,”Ready said.“Hopefully, we can repeat as GLVC conference champions and hold onto that momentum going into the regional.”

Jones said that the players are going to have to play their best over the next two weekends if they want to make it to the GLVC and regional tournaments, starting with their next game, when they travel to the University of Southern Indiana to battle the Screaming Eagles on April 29.

“So just to do that [make the tournaments] really, probably, the toughest part of our season is coming up the next few weekends. So we just have to play our best baseball the next two weekends to make sure that happens.”

Men’s Lacrosse falls to 11th-ranked Seton Hill

By Laken Detweiler PHOTO EDITOR Four 15-minute quarters constitute a men’s lacrosse game for 60 minutes of play.That means 60 minutes of action, but sometimes there are bumps in the road.

The University of Indianapolis men’s lacrosse team has at least 120 minutes of play left in its second season.

“Our goal is to play 60 minutes, and that’s sort of what we have struggled with as a team,” said Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Greg Stocks. “I think we’ll do very well in all [two] of them, if we’re able to play from the opening whistle to the final horn.”

Heading into their 11th game of the season, the Hounds competed against Seton Hill University on Saturday, April 22. According to Stocks, the Griffins are a physically offensive team that has “some big boys that dodge pretty hard.”

Freshman attack Parker Johnson said that the team’s mentality became “there isn’t a team we can’t beat on our schedule,” and that all the Greyhounds needed to do was to put together a full 60 minutes of play.The turning point for the Hounds was against No. 5 Lindenwood University on April 1.

The men battled Seton Hill throughout the entire match, falling 11-9. UIndy

took the first goal in the opening quarter, and back and forth scoring continued for the rest of the quarter before Seton Hill pulled out the last point of the half. In the second, the men fell down one more notch, allowing SHU to lead by two most of the quarter, ending the first half 7-5.

In the third quarter, the men allowed just one goal to their two to slim the lead. In the fourth, SHU expanded on their lead to eventually earn the win.

Sophomore attack Parker Kump led with four goals, followed by junior midfield Sam Horning with two. As of Sunday, April 23, sophomore goalie Jarod Kimble was ranked No. 2 in the nation. Jarod also holds a spot in the top five in goals-against average. He sits at the number two spot with an average of 6.34 goals allowed. Junior defense Max Groves is another ranked Greyhound, with an average 2.4 turnovers per game to sit at No. 5 in the nation.

Both Horning and Johnson are two of the top three scorers for the Greyhounds.

Stocks has been impressed with their ability to have a large impact to the team despite their short time on the roster.

“Because of injuries they are new players to the program, but they’ve kind of been forced into roles and really excelled,” Stocks said. “They’ve been picking up our offensive schemes pretty quickly, they’re smart lacrosse players so they’ve been

able to kind of slide right in without any hesitation or setbacks. We’re not a very deep team, so they’ve done a great job stepping in and filling the roles.”

In a close game between UIndy and No. 7 Mercyhurst University, the Greyhounds took a 12-10 loss, despite having the lead at halftime.

“I think we just let our foot off the gas there—our offense slowed down, [and] our defense slowed down.

We gave up some easy opportunities to them,” Johnson said.

In the first quarter, three different Greyhounds found the back of the net for a total of five goals. Horning found the net three times, while Johnson and sophomore attack Tyler Johnston each tallied one a piece.

Before the end of the first half, sophomore midfield Kevin Spurlock recorded his first goal of the season on a man up situation. Kump added another goal to the books and currently leads the team in goals. After Kump’s goal to close out the first half, the Hounds scoring dwindled. Johnston scored his second goal of the game, and sophomore attack Shawn Kimble scored a goal in each of the remaining quarters. In return, Mercyhurst notched seven goals after halftime to take the win.

“I think we kind of lost our heads a little bit in the third quarter,” Stocks said, “[We] allowed them to get back into it with a few little mental errors that are easily fixed. But when you play good teams like that, they take full advantage of it.”

Despite the losses to topranked teams, Mercyhurst and Seton Hall, the Greyhounds have had an overall successful season according to Stocks,

with a current record of 6-5.

“We’ve had some rough spots, and I think the guys know when they’re at their best they’re pretty good . Our goal is to continue to keep playing at our best for full games.”

After facing Seton Hill, UIndy has two games remaining before learning whether it has earned a bid into the NCAA tournament. UIndy’s men’s lacrosse program currently is not part of a conference and in turn will not have a conference championship to try for. At the Division II level, winning a conference tournament is not an automatic qualifier for the NCAA tournament. According to Stocks, the Hounds need to finish out with wins to better their chances.

“We’ve put ourselves in a position where we are walking a fine line,” he said.

“But I think if we do win out it’ll look really good on our tournament resume….

Unfortunately, we dropped a couple of early ones that I don’t think we should have and have put ourselves in a tight spot right now…. I think the guys know, [that] when they’re at their best, they’re pretty good and our goal, is to continue to keep playing at our best for full games.”

For the Greyhounds’ next game, they will take on Alderson Broaddus on Saturday, April 29, at 1 p.m. This will close out the team’s play at Key Stadium for the season.

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5 APRIL 26, 2017

Spring Ball game prepares football for fall

By Juliana Rohrmoser STAFF WRITER

Photos by Cassie Reverman

Left: Freshman attack Grace Gunneson looks to pass the ball during a match against McKendree University on April 15. Right: Sophomore defense Genevieve Jablonski runs the ball down the field at Key Stadium.

Women’s Lacrosse beats NMU 26-3

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR With a record of 10-4 surpassing last year’s six wins, Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Jillian Howley is excited to see all of the growth made on the field and in the dedication by the University of Indianapolis women’s lacrosse team.

“One [accomplishment] is surpassing last year’s win total,” Howley said. “Last year, we won [eight] games, and now we’ve won eight so far. Hopefully, we’ll be able to add a couple more on top of that. I think if we do win a few games, we could finish over 500 which would be a huge accomplishment from this program.

It’s been a really exciting year. I would say the growth we’ve made from last year to this year is massive.”

The women recorded a significant 26-3 win over the Northern Michigan University Wildcats on April 23. They started off the day recording four goals in a row in less than three minutes. The team expanded on their lead in the first half, recording 11 more goals and allowing only two. The second half followed suit, and the Hounds allowed one more goal from the Wildcats and took 11 of their own, winning 26-3.

Ten women contributed to the 26 goals scored, with freshman midfield Micayla Gammon claiming the first goal in the first 40 seconds of play. Sophomore attack Hanna Priddy and junior attack Anna Rulapaugh led the high scoring Hounds with five goals and three assists apiece.

Rulapaugh’s performance extended her point total to 69, increasing her own single season record. Freshman attack Kylie Backus senior midfield Ericka Mackenzie and freshman defense Riley McClure all scored three goals, respectively. Backus and Mackenzie also claimed two assists each.

Senior attack Chalane Morrison scored two goals and provided one assist, leaving her with one more goal to score to match her team-best 44 goals during the 2016 season.

The previous weekend the Hounds fell to the McKendree University Bearcats by two goals, 12-10, on April 15. Despite the loss, Howley said she finds positivity in the loss and find encouragement with other losses the team has suffered this season.

“The fact that we lost to Lindenwood, Grand Valley and McKendree, all relatively close, obviously we were upset about that. But on the bright side, you have to look at it as actually a good thing. Last year, we weren’t even in those games. So now that we are able to look back and think,‘Hey, if we didn’t make this mistake, or if we capitalized on their mistake here, we could’ve won.’ So the fact that these are the conversations we’re having, and that we’re disappointed with those losses is incredible, especially in just one year.

We are just excited for the future of the program and hope to continue growing,” Howley said.

The Bearcats kicked off scoring with three back-to-back goals in just under a minute. Senior attack Chalane Morrison fired back with two goals of her

own, followed by free position goals from freshman attack Grace Gunneson and redshirt freshman midfield Sarah Konecny to take the only UIndy lead of the game, 4-3. The Bearcats scored one more goal to put them in the lead at the end of the half.

In the next half, Gunneson and Morrison led the team with four and two points, respectively. The Hounds fought to reclaim the lead again, tying the score four times before the Bearcats pulled ahead with the last two goals of the game.

The Hounds fell 12-10. Sophomore goalie Lauren Granville recorded six saves on the day and Gunneson who scored a career high five goals.

As the semester comes to a close, with only two games left in the regular season, Howley said the team has come a long way and is looking to finish the year strong.

The key being focus on and off the field.

“We’ve competed really well against the top teams in our program so now it’s just about trying to find a way to finish strong. Especially during the most challenging time of the year,” Howley said.

“Obviously it’s coming down to the wire in their classes and it’s coming down to the wire in the season. So it’s finding that balance of not getting too overloaded in the classroom and staying focused. It’s been a really successful season so far but we still have a way to go.”

Morrison agreed that the focus needs to be there to continue the success.

“I think the big thing will be just staying focused, because we are getting down to the wire in classes,” Morrison

said. “But I mean there are a really big couple of weekend coming up, so it would be really awesome to just win those [last games of the season] but it’s going to take everything we’ve got.”

Morrison also said that the team has really improved in it’s second season, and many of the women have stepped up their play. Finishing off her senior season, she is excited to see where the team is headed in the future.

“I’m really proud of all the girls who have stepped up this year,” Morrison said.

“Especially because we are still really young still. But they’re playing as if they aren’t, which is really nice to see. I’m really excited to see where they are going in the coming years.”

Howley commented the first season in 2016 was a rough start with so many young athletes. The team lacked leadership, which is typically brought by older members of the team such as juniors and seniors. After a year dedicated to developing the team, Howley said she is proud of how the team has grown and is looking toward even more development in the future.

“It’s kind of night and day,” she said.

“And we still have a long way to go.

But they are definitely a lot more self disciplined. We are still at times lacking leadership in areas, just someone stepping up and taking charge. I really want the culture to continue in the direction we are headed, very lacrosse focused.”

The Hounds next host the Tiffin University Dragons at Key Stadium on April 28. The game is set to start at 4 p.m.

In the making of a season UIndy coaches discuss how they make their schedules and decide what teams to put on their schedules each season

By Ainger Alexander & Sophie Watson EDITORIAL ASSISTANT AND SPORTS EDITOR Rivalries, friendships and battles stem from the precisely planned schedules made by the sports coaches of the University of Indianapolis. Among the 21 athletic teams here at UIndy, each coach plays their own part in planning their team’s season.

According to Head Baseball Coach Gary Vaught, most sports teams belong to an association, such as the NCAA and GLVC which is where their initial game schedule comes from. The conferences give the teams a basis for their schedules, and the coaches fill in the missing spots themselves. Going into conference or NCAA championships, the schedule mostly depends on the success of the teams which allow them to move on in the tournament.

According to Vaught, the NCAA has a 50-game limit on how many times a baseball team can play in one season. Of those games, 28 are pre-picked by the conference, and Vaught is left to fill in the remaining games. One of the major factors that he considers when selecting games is a specific team’s location.

Vaught said that playing regional teams is an important aspect for him in picking schools to matchup with.

“The goal is to play as many regional teams as possible,” Vaught said. “This helps us boost our standards and power ranking.”

Other factors that are taken into consideration are budgetary value and whether or not the opposing team is ranking at 500 or above. Vaught noted that oftentimes he must negotiate with teams to get them to play against UIndy because they fear that they will lose because of the team’s consistently winning program.

According to Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo the football team’s game scheduling works similarly. Seven games in an average 11-game season are decided by the GLVC, and the remaining four game dates are to be scheduled by him and Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Sue Willey.

According to Bartolomeo, sometimes he posts information to a website that shows when teams need to pick up game dates, or he reaches out to coaches with whom he’s formed relationships over his years of coaching.

Last season, the team was originally scheduled for only 10 games but Bartolomeo added another game against St. Joseph’s University, after a request from the seniors to add a final game. This addition to the schedule added another win to the Hounds season to move them into a winning record 6-5. Without this addition, the team would have suffered their first non-winning season since 2009.

There are no restrictions on Bartolomeo when it comes to scheduling games.

But again, location and budgetary value are taken into consideration when selecting each opponent. Bartolomeo also noted that playing against teams in the same region and winning gives UIndy football a better chance of reaching the playoffs, which is why such heavy emphasis is placed on location.

Being a new sport on campus, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Greg Stocks and Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach Jillian Howley had to make their schedules from scratch in the 2016 season. While every other sport on campus being a part of the GLVC, the women’s team is a member of the GLIAC, while the men do not belong to conference this season, after belonging to ECAC. Despite not belonging to a conference this season, Stocks still kept many of the same teams on the schedule. Not belonging to a conference allows Stocks to make his regular season schedule any way that he wants, without having to add in conference games.

According to Stocks, there are no NCAA tournament automatic qualifiers for DII lacrosse, and not having a conference does not hinder the team’s goal of a national championship. Despite the lack of conference not stopping them from

“Someone once told me ‘never schedule yourself out of a job’...We play the top teams so that we can reach top status.’”

achieving their goal, Stocks is looking to have a conference to call home sometimes in the next few seasons.

Women’s lacrosse has fewer stipulations than other sports, according to Howley. Like other teams, she said it still pays to play in-region teams that have a 500 ranking or above, but the game scheduling is completely in her hands.

Howley has complete free range to choose every team she plays and strives to make a difficult schedule for her team. The only downfall is when a double round robin occurs. A double round robin, according to Howley, is when each team has to play each other two times during the season.

Being able to completely make her own schedule, Howley said that it is important to play schools that will boost the team’s talent and competitiveness, which will prepare them for end of the season conference and NCAA tournaments.

“Someone once told me ‘never schedule yourself out of a job,’” Howley said.

“Because I have control over scheduling, it would be easy to schedule teams that we know we can beat, but that’s not how I do things. We play top teams so that we can reach top status.”

Regardless of how game scheduling plays out, each coach agreed that UIndy athletics want to play difficult schedules, and play competitive teams. The coaches all strive for schedules that refine the athlete’s skills and prepare them best for tournament play.

“I can fill my schedule with any team in the nation,” Vaught said. “We try to play only the best.”

The Spring Ball game on April 14 gave The University of Indianapolis football team a chance to refine its skills and prepare for the season. Defense dominated the game and the game ended 49-12 in their favor. The Hounds had been busy with their spring training, and the Spring Ball Game capped off their efforts.

The Greyhounds were divided into offense vs. defense rather than dividing the team into starters and backups as it had been in previous years. This format provided the players with more of a “scrimmage” situation, with the added pressure of officials and a crowd of cheering UIndy students.

Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo said that the Spring Ball game helps the coaching staff see how a player acts during a game-like situation.

“Anytime you put players in the game field with a crowd, set of officials and into a game-like setting, it shows up a little bit in terms of how players handle the pressure,” Bartolomeo said. “It was awesome for our kids to experience that and be put in that situation. We try to do that during practice, but it’s not the same as when the coaches are off the field, everybody is on the sidelines and the officials are there and the clock’s moving. That was very beneficial for us.”

The dominating performance of the defense made the game difficult for the offense, according to Bartolomeo. He commented that the defense players put forth more effort and played harder.

“The defensive guys played a little harder than the offensive guys did and made some plays,”Bartolomeo said.“Our upfront defensive linemen controlled the upfront offensive a little bit, which was really to be expected. We have about six to seven guys up there that can play and have played a lot, so we expected that.”

Leading up to game, the team had practices, meetings and lifting sessions for three weeks. During this time, the players, especially the younger athletes, developed their strength and skills. Bartolomeo explained that the practices were oriented toward individual development, because spring training is a chance for every player to compete for those starting spots in the upcoming season.

“I tell the players that they’re writing their resume for the fall in the spring,” he said. “It’s a lot about individual improvement from the last fall through the winter, and it really cements where they stand in the fall.”

Redshirt junior quarterback Jake Purichia commented that there is a mental development aspect to the spring ball game and training, but eventually it’s all about making sure all the players are working toward improvement.

“I have a mental checklist,” Purichia said. “What I need to do to be able to excel in my position. So that’s definitely the first part of it, getting your mindset locked in and your position. For me personally, it’s not just that, but also trying to become more of a leader, especially for the offense, because it’s who I work with the most. I think we have a lot of people in the offense that can lead and do that.

Making sure your personal checklist is complete, or going in the right path and then trying to help others is the way I prepare.”

Looking towards next season, the Greyhounds are working to make up for a statistically uncharacteristic 6-5 record last year. Bartolomeo said the UIndy football team is used to winning championships and going to the playoffs, and that is something that he hopes will come back next fall.

After the Spring Ball game the players started working on their own. Purichia said he and his teammates are eager to work during the summer and fall camp, to work on the playbook they have and the additions to come with the new Offensive Coordinator Casey Gillin.

“Looking back at last year, I know our mindset is different,” Purichia said. “We have a lot of guys that want to work hard, so I think that’s a big improvement, and we’re all motivated. In the spring we didn’t put in a lot of new offense. We kept the same concept so we could master those.

We want to master what we’re good at and then incorporate different stuff. We have a whole summer and fall camp to work and prepare for the season.”

Next year, the Hounds will start the season with their first six opponents winning 75 percent of their games last season.

The first game will be on Aug. 31 as the Greyhounds take on Grand Valley State University at Key Stadium. Bartolomeo said he trusts that this experience will challenge the team’s mindset, especially the freshmen who will be experiencing their first game as Greyhounds.

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Photos contributed by Sarah Reichle

UIndy alumna Sara Werling and her husband, Ben Ogren, finished a two year service with the Peace Corps on Mar. 31. They served in a youth center in a small village in Morocco where they taught English and art and theatre workshops and organized health and exercise classes.

Peace Corps provides experience for a variety of careers

UIndy alum Sara Werling finished a two year service in Morocco on March 31 while current student Kendra Shaw has plans to serve post-graduation

By Abby Land EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Since its establishment, the Peace Corps has offered unique opportunities for students and graduates alike to go abroad in hopes of improving the lives of people in less fortunate nations around the globe. Created by President John F. Kennedy via an executive order on March 1, 1961, the Peace Corps attracts many college students looking for an opportunity to travel and make a difference in the world they join after graduation.

University of Indianapolis alum and former nursing major Sara Werling joined the Peace Corps following graduation and is still involved in the organization.

Werling and her husband served with the Peace Corps in Morocco, from 2015 to 2017, under its Youth Development sector.

They lived in the small community of Alnif, Morocco during that period, splitting their time between “working at a youth center and being out in the community learning about the community, exchanging culture, working on language, drinking tea and generally spending time with people,” according to Werling.

Werling spent most of her time working with children and women, many of whom did not finish primary schooling.

She taught English, health and exercise classes three times a week and called the class “a continually rewarding and entertaining part of my service.”

Werling also found an opportunity to use her UIndy degree in efforts to educate the populace about their health.

“Being a nurse, I also found outlets of health education in one-on-one or small group conversations with my friends, neighbors, and host family [those that we lived with for the first months in our

community],” Werling said.“They would ask questions about nutrition, exercise, birth control and even topics generally not discussed in the public sphere, like sex and domestic violence. I have found that being an outsider was beneficial in this sense, as I was a ‘safe’ person to talk to. This was also a great place for me to learn more about Amazighr culture [sometimes called Berber- the indigenous tribe in Morocco], health practices and the beliefs surrounding them.”

Werling spoke of how UIndy piqued her interest in international travel, thanks to encouraging faculty, Spring Term trips, a trip to Ecuador with professors, and volunteering in Appalachia through the university. Werling explained that these opportunities and her experiences in the Peace Corps after her time at UIndy strengthened her abilities as a nurse and provided her with transferable skills.

“I always knew that traveling was an option for nurses, but I hadn’t considered the other soft skills that came along with nursing that applied to my work in Peace Corps like communication, observation and professionalism,” Werling said. “I also gained many transferrable skills that will be useful in future endeavors. Being shown compassion and grace as I was learning Arabic has equipped me with communication skills to better support non-English speaking patients.

Being able to quickly assess and identify cultural norms and see how they impact choices will factor into the considerations and techniques for patient education.

And as an American ambassador ... being welcomed with such open arms has charged me to extend the same welcome to our Muslim neighbors in America.”

Like Werling, UIndy student and senior international relations and Spanish major Kendra Shaw plans to embark on

her own journey with the Peace Corps following graduation in May. Shaw said that she respects the Peace Corps’ commitment to long-term goals, because she has learned through her studies that shortterm aid often leads to further turmoil within developing countries.

“I like that it ’s a longterm goal whereas two years isn’t necessarily long, but it’s more than just going for a few weeks and then leave,” s a i d S h a w.

“I’ve learned a lot in my international organization class that aid industries can actually upset a region more than help if there is too many people going in and out. So I really want to do something more long-term.

And the fact that it was teaching, which I have background in, was a bonus.”

Shaw is committed to a two-year program with a three-month training period, a popular choice for recent graduates.The future UIndy graduate will be working in Nicaragua, although she does not yet know the exact location, only that she will undergo the three-month training period in the city of Managua.

Shaw said that UIndy helped prepare her for her decision to commit to the program and realize her desire to volunteer and make a lasting difference in a community.

“UIndy has led to so many opportunities,” Shaw said. “First off would be the internship I had through the International Relations Department with Exodus Refugee Immigration. And I never knew

a lot about nonprofits before I came to UIndy, and to be able to work with one and teach in a community classroom for refugees that are coming into Indianapolis really opened my eyes to how I wanted to go overseas.”

Shaw will teach English in a secondary school in Nicaragua, giving her an oppor tunit y to expand her knowledge of Spanish while improving others’ knowledge of English.This effort will earn her a certification when she returns to the United States to apply for graduate school.

Apart from teaching, the Peace Corps offers tracts in fighting HIV/aids, combating hunger, environmental protection and improving access to technology, to name a few.

Shaw encourages students who have a passion for travel or philanthropy to inform themselves about the organization and its unique opportunities for recent graduates.

“I would say apply, because even though you think you don’t have the experience, they work with you,” she said. “You’re trained, and they give you all the information before you go.

So it’s a way to step out and get involved in a country that you’re not used to, but actually do good. I feel like so many people are focused on how to apply it [their education] around here when they need [it] overseas, too.”

According to the Peace Corps website, many former volunteers apply their expe-

“. . . Being welcomed with such open arms has charged me to extend the same welcome to our Muslim neighbors in America.”

rience to careers in education, business, or health-related fields. Some also work as journalists, writers, members of Congress, or even astronauts.

Central America, Eastern Europe, South America, the Caribbean Islands, Africa, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia are all locations where the Peace Corps offers programs, according to their website. It also states that to apply, prospective volunteers for the two-year program need to be U.S. citizens over the age of 18 who can depart in 19-20 months.

The site also provides featured openings abroad utilizing a variety of skills. The organization offers many opportunities for students to consider for life after UIndy, both at home and abroad.

While Werling plans to continue working as a nurse when she returns to the states, like Shaw, she also hopes that other students will consider the Peace Corps as they decide on post-graduation plans, despite the anxiety they may feel being so far from home.

She said that the Peace Corps is not only an opportunity to learn new skills, but to also understand cultures from a more intimate point of view than solely through media coverage.

“When talking to people from home, the first question was often,‘Were you safe there?’ To be completely honest I was safer in my small Moroccan town than most places in the U.S.,” Werling said.“Millions of Muslims around the world, not limited to those in our town, practice Islam that is peaceful, and oftentimes there is no worse insult than being associated with the radical sects that populate the news.

My hope for America is that we all can look at those different from ourselves with open-mindedness and tolerance, because when we step back, there is so much to learn about ourselves and humanity.”

Willey creates equal opportunities for athletes

By Ryan Wright-Jordan STAFF WRITER “It takes a village to raise a child,” is a proverb that conveys the need for the collective efforts of individuals to provide for the future. It is also what Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Suzanne Willey describes as the means of success in the athletic department at the University of Indianapolis.

“Our success comes from the great people we surround ourselves with,” Willey said.

In 1975, Willey started coaching and teaching part time while obtaining her master’s degree at the University of Indianapolis. Since 1977, she has been formally employed at UIndy. Over her 47 years at the university, she has witnessed many changes, including different university presidents, three different names for UIndy and different fight songs.

As a freshman in high school, Willey received tutelage from her physical education teacher. The inspiration from her teacher is a partially why she is at the university today.

“It was my ninth grade PE teacher.

She came from Iowa [and] just graduated from here. I always knew I was going to be a teacher. I loved athletics, so I would gravitate towards the PE teachers,” Willey said. “I learned everything about then ICC [Indiana Central College]. I learned the fight song before I ever came to

the university, and I learned more about it my high school year when I came to visit.”

With school spirit in her heart, Willey decided UIndy was the right college for her. After graduating from UIndy in 1975, she decided to work with the athletic department.

“I’ve coached five different sports. I’ve played five different sports,” Willey said.

“I actually started the tennis team when I was a sophomore here.”

Throughout her years as a student and administrator,Willey has been advocating women's equality in sports. With the help of Title IX, Willey said she is able to ensure that male and female athletes receive equal opportunities. For example, she said if that if the coaches and uniforms of the male and female teams were switched, the teams would still be the same. Furthermore, she explained how the teams swap who practices in what locations.

“The boys would practice in Nicoson, and the girls in Ruth Lilly, and they would switch,” Willey said. “Additionally, they would both receive similar accommodations for travel.”

According to the Women’s Sports Foundation, Title IX states that equal opportunities for men and women are mandatory for any school receiving federal funding, including students receiving federal scholarships. Therefore, one part of the three-pronged test must be fulfilled in order to adhere to Title IX standards.

The first is that the sports teams must equally represent the gender demographic

of the population on campus. The second involves expanding opportunities to the underrepresented gender in a way that is responsive to developing interest. The third involves sponsoring all sports in which there is interest by the underrepresented gender.

“Number one, I’m here to serve the administration, to serve the coaches, and to serve the student athletes,”Willey said.

Willey makes sure that UIndy adheres to the second prong. By providing surveys across campus and receiving feedback, she ensures that expansion of opportunities to the underrepresented gender on campus is a priority.

Considering the gender composition of UIndy is roughly 60 percent female and 40 percent male, according to Willey, and including the nearly 100 men on the football team alone, the percentages of student athletes are nearly inverse.

Nearly 60 percent of men are in athletics and only 40 percent of women. As such, the ability to adhere to prong one is nonexistent, Willey said.The third prong, sponsoring all sports, would stretch the department and its funding too thin, according to Willey.

But it is not just the female athletes for whom Willey advocates, it is all student athletes.

“You [must] make sure there is a positive experience for student athletes,” Willey said. “That’s why we are here.”

In addition, she has a hands-on approach to the teams, choosing to talk

Photo by Jake Shaw

Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Suzanne Willey has been advocating for athletes for over 40 years. to every team at the beginning of the season. While the positive experience is important to Willey, she also keeps a gold standard for the athletes. By mandating additional drug testing that surpasses National Collegiate Athletic Association standards, she makes sure every athlete is held responsible.

Willey has received many awards for herself and UIndy, from the 2010 Central Region Athletic Director of the Year, to

helping UIndy to be one of the top overall athletic programs in NCAA DII and the state of Indiana in four out of the past five seasons.

Overall, UIndy has been the highestranked athletic program in the state of Indiana across all divisions and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

After her contributions to the university and its athletes, Willey still says it takes a village.

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From UIndy to Latvia

Senior Erica White earns the Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to teach English abroad

Photo contributed by Nemanja Ostojić

Music professor Nemanja Ostojić and three students traveled to Belgrade, Serbia to attend the Guitar Art Festival, where they took lessons, competed, attended and performed concerts and were able to sightsee.

Professor takes guitar students on Serbia trip

By Erik Cliburn OPINION EDITOR

The opportunity of a lifetime was presented to sophomore music majors Jamie Johnson and Evan Hawk when they were invited to travel with music professor Nemanja Ostojić to attend the 18th annual Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade, Serbia.

Ostojić, Johnson and Hawke left shortly after the end of spring break on March 18 and returned the following week on March 26.

Ostojić was invited to perform as one of the guest artists for the festival and extended the invitation to both Hawke and Johnson, as well as a pre-college student (12 years old), who has been taking lessons through the pre-college program at UIndy.

This was Ostojić’s first time organizing any trip of this nature for UIndy students, but he hopes make the trip something that is available to future guitar students as well.

“What I would like to try in the future is to open this possibility to more of my students,” he said. “I am already having conversations about repeating this, so that other students can have this experience as well.”

The schedule for the trip was incredibly tight and hectic, according to Johnson.

Each day Johnson and Hawk attended master classes, clinics and workshops, nearly two or three a day, according to Ostojić.

The students also received three private lessons each from a renowned guest at the festival.

Along with the lessons there was an international competition for several age groups at the festival.

Ostojić’s pre-college student actually won the first prize in his age group, against 30

other children from around the world.

As well as the other events, there were three concerts that everyone attended each day . The students also participated in the “World Guitar Ensemble,” which included about 100 different guitar students from around the globe coming together to play as one large, guitar orchestra.

However, the students did manage some sight-seeing on the trip, visiting to visit the Belgrade Fortress at Kalemegden Park and the Nikola Tesla Museum, along with other parts of Belgrade.

While in Belgrade for the festival, Ostojić had several interviews with various television stations, radio stations and newspapers across the city. He was excited to be able to advertise the students of UIndy through the examples of Hawk, Johnson and his pre-college student.

According to Johnson, she spent less than $1,000 of her own money for the whole trip, and her round-trip plane ticket cost only about $700.

Ostojić worked with the U.S. embassy in Belgrade to get grants for both Johnson and Hawk to attend the festival for less out-of-pocket costs.

“I would like to bring more students,” he said.“And that, obviously, entails having more sponsorship,because it is quite expensive to pay for these things out of pocket.

I was very fortunate that the U.S. embassy was willing to help with this. So my students [Hawke and Johnson] ended up spending very little, just a little of the air fare, which was fantastic.”

Ostojić said that the most fulfilling aspect of the trip was getting to expose his students to the cultural differences as well as the performances of world-renowned musicians.

The students had not previously left the United States, Ostojić said this trip was a perfect opportunity for them to experience other cultures as well as improve and learn their craft.

Photo by Mercadees Hempel

Senior English literary studies major Erica White earned the Fulbright Teaching Assistantship. She will leave to teach upper-level English in Latvia in mid-September.

By Mercadees Hempel MANAGING EDITOR Some college students know they eventually want to work abroad, but they may not get the chance to experience it right away. But for senior English literary studies and creative writing major Erica White this is not the case.

White was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which is a scholarship given to students who want to teach English abroad.

After a training session in Washington, D.C. in June, White will go to Latvia in mid-September to teach English to an upper-level classroom for nine months at least.

White said the purpose of the scholarship is to create better relationships between the United States and whichever country the student is sent to.

White learned about the scholarship from one of her professors, and since she wants to teach abroad, she decided to apply.

“I wanted to try something new, and I wanted to push my boundaries in going to a place that I’ve never been before and is not very heard about,” White said. “I really love learning about the Baltic nations and about their culture and history, so I wanted to see what it would be like to teach there.”

Latvia is between Lithuania and Estonia, and White said that she is fascinated

by Latvia’s history and culture, especially its arts and crafts and its people’s connection to nature, a connection White is tries to make as well.

“A lot of their folklore and original religion and crafts, and just way of life, generates from this balance with nature. And they’re a lot closer to the natural world,

and they work more with the natural world than you see here,” White said. “You can go to Latvia, and you can collect mushrooms out of state parks, and it’ll be OK. There’s only 1.9 million people there, and a lot of the country is still forested.

And just that ability to see how people still connect with nature on that level is cool.”

Chair of the English Department and Professor of English Kyoko Amano said she is excited for White to experience living and working in Latvia.

“I’m so proud,” Amano said.

“This is just the first step, because she has been studying teaching English as a second language as a concentration and she’s been teaching at Christel House, the second language speakers.

And after this one, she will now have an opportunity to work at other places.…

She doesn’t have to become a teacher.

She’s creative, so being able to live abroad might give her a good chance to write about her experiences.

She might become a writer. There are a lot of different things she can do.

So I’m sure she’ll be able to find something that interests her.”

White said that while she is in Latvia, she is excited to write poetry based on her experiences as well as to learn if teaching abroad is right for her.

There are some things White said she will have to get used to in Latvia.

“I’m a really smiley person, and that’s not a thing, unless you’re a tourist,” she said. “Then you know they can see you, that you’re an outsider.

Another thing is in regards t o h o w m e n a n d wo m e n a c t .

So like what Americans would say are women’s rights or just liberal issues haven’t spread so much there.

It’s still a very traditional culture, and

that kind of worries me, because I’m very outspoken, I’m very feminist. I don’t take people’s b*******…. But I think I’ll get the hang of it.”

White said that others interested in applying for this opportunity should do so, but should know that when they travel to a different country, everything —Internet service, transportation, toilets, music and other ways of life—will be much different.

“You have to understand that you will go without things when you’re there and to not expect everything to be handed to you,” White said. “And it’s not all going to be similar to where you came from. But at the same time, because of that, you’ll be learning a lot of different things about yourself, that it’s worth it.”

Overall, White believes that by traveling and connecting with others from different countries and cultures, it helps close the gap between people and provides for more understanding and connections.

“There’s this growing idea that the best thing that somebody can do is only care about their own nation, and you can see that on both sides of the playing field.

But at the end of the day, that’s nationalism, and you can’t have a healthy role with a country or a group of people that only care about themselves, because then you’ll only be staring at your navel, and you won’t know people.

Immigration issues will happen.

Racial issues happen. You have to understand people, and you have to let them understand you.”

Like other teachers, at home and abroad, White hopes to make a difference for others through education and learn about herself as well in the process.

“If I can impact somebody’s life by going there and teaching English,” she said. “I think I will have done my job.”

Library staff lends helping hand with research to students, staff

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR

Shelving, checking in and out and processing books, assisting patrons and working on any projects that the library needs completed are just some of the responsibilities of student librarian and senior creative writing major Heather Nickolich. Nickolich has been working in the Krannert Memorial Library since 2014. Working in libraries ultimately led Nickolich to change her career goals to becoming an academic librarian.

“I’ve worked in libraries since my sophomore year in high school. I realized that I just enjoyed it a lot more than possibly becoming a doctor to help people,” Nickolich said.“You work with such intelligent people, or people who are willing to learn, and that’s something I value.”

Nickolich said that she likes working at Krannert because she has more responsibilities than she did as a page.

There are also more opportunities for her to interact with people and more projects for her to work on.

“I love the people, and I love doing the things I do, like checking in books and making small talk with people and returning ILLs and helping Jill with projects,” she said. “I love being in that assistant’s position because I don’t have to work with a lot of the numbers or a lot of the tech . . . I can work with people all day.”

Unlike Nickolich, student librarian and music education major Katie Stuart is not planning to continue working in a library after graduating. However, she said she is going to take some of the things she learned working in the library into her future classroom.

“It’s taught me how to communicate with people that might not understand what has to happen with whatever their request is. So if you ask me for something over the moon, and I have to work way harder to do it than you think, I’ve learned how to describe that,” Stuart said. “I’ve learned how to communicate with people that don’t necessarily speak English, because our campus is really diverse.”

Public services librarian Marisa Albrecht did not take the same path into librarianship as Nickolich.

“I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was kind of floating around,” Albrecht said. “I worked at the library while I finished my undergraduate. While I was there, I just really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the environment. I enjoyed helping people. I never made the decision when I was young, ‘Oh, I want to be a librarian when I grow up.’ I never said that. But it was just kind of natural; it made sense.”

Since January, Albrecht has also served as the interim library director, so she is not only covering the responsibilities of her original job but those of the director as well. Albrecht covers the circulation desk and reference questions, hires, trains and schedules the student assistants and handles budget issues and decisions that fall on the director’s shoulders.

“With being the director now, I get to see a little bit more of the whole picture, which has been nice. I get to learn a little bit more about all aspects of the library,” Albrecht said. “This has been a good learning experience too.”

Albrecht said that despite the additional responsibilities that make it harder for her to interact with students, helping people is still one of her favorite

Photo by Kiuno Cann

Public services librarian and interim library director Marisa Albrecht helps a student librarian during her shift. parts of the job.

“I always like it when I can make somebody’s day,” she said. “Like if they have been struggling finding something ,and I finally find the thing that they need. That always makes me happy that I have…gotten them what they need. ” Reference Librarian Tedra Richter said that she also likes being able to help and interact with the library’s patrons. In addition, the ever-changing nature of the job is one of her favorite aspects.

“No two days are ever exactly the same,” she said. “One day, I might get a question of something very routine and then an hour later, I’ll be helping somebody halfway across the country with a question on something I’ve never

even heard of before, which keeps things from getting boring. That is the one thing I remember when I graduated high school: I did not want a regular office job. Yeah, there are some office-y aspects, but it allows for a lot of flexibility.”

Richter worked as a page in her public library during high school and graduated as a licensed nail tech. She worked as a manicurist to help pay for her undergraduate degree. Upon graduatng, Richter talked with a professor and her former bosses at the public library, who all suggested that she look into becoming a librarian, an idea to which she initially resisted.

“It was, ‘Well, OK, maybe it’s time I just say I’m an information specialist and

bite the bullet,’” Richter said. “And so I started. At IUPUI, you can take three classes in grad studies before you had to officially commit, so I thought, ‘OK, let’s try this out,’ and it started to fit.”

Richter started at UIndy as a parttime reference assistant before moving up to reference librarian. Richter covers reference questions on several different fronts, including in-person, via an email form, the Ask a Librarian Chat and Text a Librarian. She also teaches the library instruction courses, which help students learn how to navigate and search the library’s databases.

Having access to all the books, articles and information within the library is one of Circulation Assistant Susan Miller’s favorite parts of the job. Miller came to UIndy 12 years ago when she was looking for a career change.

“I’ve always loved being in libraries,” Miller said. “I was a journalist for years before I came here, and the newspaper industry was changing rapidly, and so I was looking for something else. I’ve always loved being in libraries and I heard about this job and I applied and I got it.”

As interim library director, Albrecht focuses on making students’experiences in the library as positive as possible. Recently, the library added a bulletin board and a microwave for students to use. Albrecht also has set up a feedback whiteboard where students can write requests or ideas they have to improve the space.

“We want students to feel like they can be open with us and say what they want. We’re here for students. That’s why we’re all here. And so we want to make their experience positive,” she said. “The little things that I can do, I will try to do.”

ENTERTAINMENT

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APRIL 26, 2017

THE REFLECTOR

Squeaking desks, ocean drums make music in CDFAC

Retiring UIndy cellist gives final string concert

By Morgan Ellis ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

By Kylee Crane EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

In a week of music and art performed and showcased by the fine arts students of the University of Indianapolis, a group of student composers added their personal compositions to the mix in the Student Composers Forum on April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

Students of Professor of Music John Berners and Associate Professor of Music Pete Schmutte showcased their original compositions in a non-traditional concert format for an audience. Student composer and sophomore music education major Rachel Harden and piano accompanist and junior music performance major Brandon Vos performed together on piano and ocean drum, while junior technology and recording major Luke Garrigus and junior general music major Dalton Kloeker performed in the dark by the light of their phones with squeaky desks.

Student composers whose pieces were featured in the concert included Garrigus, Angela Regalado, Harden, Zach Losacker, Meghan Farris, Kloeker and Kenneth Sell. All works were performed in one of the two formats: two-channel digital fixed media or live performance.

Harden chose to write a piece based on healing and overcoming the passing of her late husband.

“The piece [‘Requiem’] was in memory of the loss of my husband, whom I lost over two years ago,” Harden said. “It was just a piece to really express the anger that I felt about some of the unresolved issues of our relationship, but as well as the grief that I was going through.”

As the composer, Harden chose the piano and ocean drum as her instruments to represent the elements of her grieving process.

“The piano is reflecting my emotions —the anger, the sporadic emotions that can go with grief. Sometimes you’re fine, but then sometimes you’re kind of walking along, and you all of a sudden get smacked upside the head, and then you’re grieving really hard,” Harden said. “The ocean drum is to represent God’s presence.There was always this sense of peace, throughout all of my life, but especially during this time when I was still grieving. When it first happened, the time afterwards, I just felt this calm over me all of the time, even though I was having really erratic emotions all of the time.”

According to Harden, Vos was the right pianist for her piece because of his extensive skills in piano.

“I chose Brandon because he is a phenomenal pianist. And I really appreciated what he brought to the table as far as his talent, as well as some of his interpretations and suggestions for the piece that really brought it to life,” Harden said. “I really liked working with him.”

Garrigus wanted to show his audience a side of music that is unfamiliar to the listening ear.

“Dalton and I were behind the pond on campus, geese were honking and I said, ‘I think it would be really funny to make a piece out of geese,’” Garrigus said. “So I clicked ‘record’ on my phone, recorded the geese and recorded the piece.”

Garrigus decided, according to his program notes, to illustrate worlddomination by the Goose Overlord with a collection of sounds such as explosions, cars honking, a funeral mass and the live geese.

“In the middle of the piece, I asked, how could I go over-the-top with this?

What is the most over-the-top thing a goose could do?’” Garrigus said. “Then I thought, ‘Oh easy, [a goose could] destroy humanity.’ So in the mid section, I thought it would be great to have the geese chanting the ‘Dies Irae’ and then juxtapose that immediately with cars honking and build it up again to geese ripping apart humanity.”

Kloeker enjoyed Garrigus’s composition and found it thought-provoking about the power of geese.

“It sounded like a single cell of a goose speaking, and then it eventually grew into a regular sized goose.

But then it grew into a giant monstergoose that destroyed all of humanity,” Kloeker said. “It was [a] really interesting growth of power in a goose.”

The geese on UIndy’s campus lawns, sidewalks and buildings during this spring semester reminded both Garrigus and Kloeker of the piece they were crafting for their performance.

“I always got the giggles, and my friend Brenden Everett was with me. He said ‘I’m never going to be able to see a goose the same way again,’” Garrigus said.

Continuing from the previous week, the Student Directed Productions will be held April 27 through April 29, all at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre of Esch Hall.

Associate Adjunct Professor of Music Dennis McCafferty remembers starting the first chamber ensemble at the University of Indianapolis with one string quartet. After 40 years of various roles within the music department, McCafferty watched his final Student Chamber Ensembles Recital as the strings ensemble coach on April 11 at 8:30 p.m. in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

After launching the chamber music program, McCafferty has watched it grow from one string quartet to a course that had to be split into two separate classes for strings and is offered for brass, guitar and woodwind ensembles as well.

“It’s been very gratifying to see how it’s grown and how the students have responded to it,” McCafferty said. “It’s been a great benefit to them to do something other than solo playing. It’s a total different experience to come together in a small group and have to work together and figure out music problems together.”

The performance began with the guitar ensemble, which included Jamie Johnson, Evan Hawk, Nathan Dirck and Brandon Meece, all coached by Nemanja Ostojić. The group performed the “Minuet” movement from “Orchestral Suit No. 20,” by J.S. Bach, arranged in Sakura method, and “Prelude II” and “Prelude I” from George Gershwin’s “Three Preludes.”

Faculty Adjunct of Music Tamara Thweatt was the ensemble coach for the Flute Choir, which included Meghan Farris,Connor Furgason, Morgan Knight, Sam Kubina, Meredith Ondrejack, Henri Pensis, Sommer Philpott, Claire Scudder, Madison Thompson and Tori Zimmerman.

The choir performed “Le Tic-TocChoc,” by François Couperin, arranged

by Trevor Wye and “Munster Bacon” and “The Girls from Farranfore,” both from “Two Irish Tunes for Pennywhistle and Flutes,” arranged by Dennis W. Ritz.

The group closed by performing all three movements of “Piccolos in the Pub,” by Jonathan Cohen.

A violin trio, of Arie Schreibman, Angela Regalado and Allison Kepley performed Jan Levoslav Bella’s Allegro movement from “Sonata for 3 Violins.”

Jaqueline Wiernicki, Melissa Zwickl, Bailey Swift and junior general music major Dalton Kloeker worked together for the first string quartet and performed two movements from “String Quartet, K155,” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Kloeker was happy with the pieces he and his quartet performed, which they spent the spring semester learning and rehearsing.

“I really loved the second movement.

It’s really pretty, and all the top three parts interact in the dotted quarter, and then the bass line goes under it,” he said.

“I especially love the combination of the second and third movement, because the second is very slow and pretty, and then it just goes into this really happy, energetic song.”

Kloeker first began playing the viola in sixth grade and migrated to cello in junior high school, which he has been playing since. He said he gets tense rather than nervous while playing, but every time he performs, it’s an “ecstatic” experience.

“The music stops becoming this thing you’ve rehearsed for 12 weeks, and it becomes this alive, magical and beautiful thing that jumps out in Technicolor around you, and you can hear the parts interact with each other. It’s just this wonderful thing,” Kloeker said. “Afterwards, it is a lot of relief and ecstasy. It’s like going to church and taking a test at the same time.”

The second string quartet, which featured Madeline Bowling, Lisa Kim, Danny Gerth and Brynn Stebbe, performed two movements, “Un Poco Andante” and “Allegro molto ed agitato,” of Edvard Grieg’s “String Quartet in G Minor.”

For the last set of the evening, Ana Vitova, Paulina Beleckaite, Emma Bryant, Shaina Lescano and Allison Vickery performed “Quintet in A Major,” by Antonin Dvorák.

McCafferty said the students do most of the work on their own, learning their own individual parts and then coming together once a week for rehearsals.

After years of coaching, he said he gets anxious while watching his students on performance night.

“I feel like a father figure. You know, I probably get more nervous than they do because I know what we have worked on and what could possibly go wrong,” McCafferty said. “I’m just really proud of them when they pull it off, as they almost always do.”

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The women of Crimson Express come together to tease the audience with “Mister Sandman” and follow up with “I’m A Woman” to stop the show with their powerhouse vocals.

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By Angie Mercado STAFF WRITER “Here you kind of get to sing fun music and the crowd seems to respond more to this, so I definitely think it is its own variety of something good and something different for sure,” said junior music education major Samantha Burkey after her performance as a vocalist in Crimson Express on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

The Crimson Express Jazz and Pop vocal ensemble performed pieces such as “I Can See Clearly Now,” originally by Johnny Nash; “Lately,”by Stevie Wonder; “Sweet Georgia Brown,” by Louis Armstrong; and “Seasons of Love,” from the Broadway musical “Rent.”

The musical genre of Crimson Express differs from Concert Choir, Schola and all other instrumental ensembles that are not jazz. According to Burkey, the music in Crimson Express concerts attracts an audience that prefer the music that pops.

“When singing in concert choir, it’s just a totally different mood, and there is a difference in the techniques,” Burkey said.“When I’m singing classically I really have to focus on my vowel shapes and the kind of sound I am creating to blend with everyone else. And with Crimson Express, the music we do in there, it’s a lot different and we get to kind of add more modern vocal techniques [such as] slides and stuff like that, and the blending is not so much an issue. So we really get to let loose a little bit, which I think really helps us to feel it.

The songs gave the performers the freedom to let loose and add their own physical movements to emphasize their singing and overall stage presence.

“I feel like I perform better when I am physically into it. Anybody can sing a song.

It’s like when you put in the extra effort and really put yourself into the music, it [becomes] a really good performance,” said freshman music education major Anna Miller.

Work put in throughout the second academic semester, on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30 p.m. to 5:50 p.m., helped the vocalists and instrumentalists prepare for the concert.

“I felt like it [the concert] was really good. This was my last one because I’m student teaching next semester, so I can’t be in it [Crimson Express] next year, so it’s pretty sentimental to me no matter what.

We have times [in our rehearsals] where we do our sound checks, and it’s a really new environment,especially for new freshmen who are like, ‘What’s going on?’ We then have really rough rehearsals, but this year it was smooth-sailing all the way up,” Burkey said. “And I think we gave a really strong performance. I really hope for our next one, we can have more people come. Yeah, I would definitely like to have more people here so we can have a higher energy, because it takes the audience a little while to get out of their shell, since they are used to the classical concerts.”

Burkey explained that during concerts like these, the audience members can sometimes take time to get into the music and reciprocate what the performers give them. She said the song “Sweet Georgia Brown” was a song that helped lead the audience in that direction, with the help of Crimson Express director and Associate Professor of Music Peter Schmutte, but the song “Mister Sandman,” the ladies’ number, took the audience by storm.

The ladies began “Mister Sandman” in a huddle on stage, interacting with the audience and acting cute. Once Schmutte realized how cute the number really was, he told them that the performance was too sweet, and he wanted them to really

let loose. Schmutte began a new number first with a beat, then some riffs, and soon, the ladies transformed into women with the piece “I’m A Woman,”again surprising the audience.

“Once the audience gets into it, we can start interacting with them and find a person, look at them and sing to them and you know you see them really getting into it and that’s just really exciting,” said Miller.

Despite Crimson Express consisting of six women and three men, with one man missing, they believed there was a vocal balance in the ensemble.

“It was kind of scary at first, [I’m] not going to lie. We were thinking, ‘We have to rearrange who’s singing what.’ I think that for what we did and [with] the size of the group, I feel like it worked really well. The guys were awesome, and they gave 200 percent.

They didn’t really have a choice,” Burkey said. “We were really nervous, but it worked out really well. And I think that the guys were energetic enough to cover for their missing ensemble mate there,” Burkey said.

The performance consisted of group pieces with solos in them and solo songs as well.

“I was really nervous for mine because, you know, this was my first one. And I’ve come to them before, and I’ve seen people do well. I feel like everyone held their own tonight and did really well on their solos,” Miller said.

Towards the end, Schmutte welcomed any alums in the audience to sing the encore piece, “Oh, Happy Day,” with the ensemble.

“I’m very sad because this is my last semester, because I’m just kind of finding my style singing in this kind of ensemble so I’ll definitely come back and sing that encore,” Burkey said.

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During “Happy,” made popular by Pharell Williams, (upper left) Matthew Hill and (upper right) Gabe Castro dance along with (lower left) Anna Miller to emote being happy.

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015’s “Furious 7” marked an emotional, critical and financial high point for the 16-year-long “Fast & Furious” franchise, mostly thanks to the larger-than-ever all-star cast and the unfortunate but admittedly profitable death of series star Paul Walker.

When Vin Diesel announced soon after the release of “Furious 7” that three more films were in the works, it was hard to imagine how the series could continue on an upward trend after having lost one of its leading men and having reached unparalleled emotional weight for the franchise. The eighth installment, “Fate of the Furious,” thus had the unfortunate task of trying to maintain audience interest and up the ante on action and audience thrills. In “Fate,” Dom Toretto and the F&F gang travels to Cuba, Germany, New York City and Russia, visiting urban streets, prison complexes, a decommissioned military base and a frozen lake, all the while picking up newer, sexier and more fantastically souped-up cars along the way. This film is as ridiculous as any in the series, and it can be frustrating at times to have your experience broken by hammy dialogue and plot devices.

That said, the advantage “Fate” has over “Furious 7” is that it is at least consistently absurd. “Fate” mostly manages to maintain engagement simply because it’s never not ridiculous, and it’s therefore easier to buy into.

In the end, “Fate of the Furious” feels like just another episode in the over-the-top adventures of the series. And while that’s not totally a bad thing, it certainly doesn’t make two more installments sound all that appealing.

he first taste of Kendrick Lamar’s new album,“DAMN.,”came after the release of “HUMBLE.” Just in the beginning, Lamar’s beats and lyrics collided beautifully. “HUMBLE.” is the kind of song that you play when you want to get your blood flowing and head nodding. So once the whole album came out, I was expecting similar music. This was not the case.The whole album consists of 14 songs and although not every song has a faster beat like “HUMBLE.,” the album is great. It has a lot of the usual Lamar lyrics that make you sit there and think about what he really meant and how it applies to the U.S. Once again, as with his past album releases, Lamar does not let us down with his lyrical genius.

“DAMN.”provides us with sick beats and his signature artistic rhymes. As in most of his music, Lamar is able to tell a story with his music in a way that only he can.

In his track titled “YAH.,” the chorus is about how his head is always buzzing, and about alcohol and drug abuse, and how he’s seen it. Another song in the album that pumps your mind is “DUCKWORTH.” The first lyric is “It was always me versus the world until I found out it was me versus me.” Lamar is known for asking “Why?” in “DAMN.,”he does not lose that strategy. I enjoyed this album so much because I am a little biased as a fan of Lamar and because of the way the album was formatted. It is one of the only albums that I believe is hiccup-free.

The album is hype and even has its own twist, as many of Lamar’s albums do.This was one of the first albums I listened to through the night and then woke up the next day still listening.

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nown as the “Godfather of Trumpmania,” according to his website, Michael Savage has produced the book “Trump’s War: His Battle for America,” which walks through President Trump’s appointments, speeches and especially his tweets. The first chapter, “Trump’s War Against The Enemies Within,” opens with a gentle surrender from Savage, as he claims to be “a broadcaster and a writer who can think.” His postlude to his surrender is history on “The Shot Heard Round The World,” which is the first shot fired by the British subjects at Lexington and Concord followed by America’s own shot and dodged bullet, which was President Trump’s election and a national disaster of the Obama administration. Each chapter opens with “Savage Solutions,”containing Savage’s personal suggestions to Trump’s presidency. My personal favorite “Savage Solutions” are “Kill Common Core at the State Level,” and “Abolish the Department of Education.” Savage explains the solutions at the beginning by ending the book well with, “I’ve provided bullet points in the beginning of each chapter summarizing the specific solutions we’re looking for in each area of governance.”

Savage even touched my heart by saying, “Unlike the radical, hate-filled feminists, communists and illegal aliens who threw tantrums the day after the inauguration, we know what we need Trump to accomplish if we are to win Trump’s war.”

Savage’s personality clearly attracts an audience that gives him 110 percent of its attention. He must be one Hell of a character to speak what he means and mean what he speaks.

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s someone who always jumps at the opportunity to see a ComedySportz show, I was extremely excited to attend one of CSz Indianapolis’ “Friday Late Nite” shows.

The major difference between the late shows and the traditional matches is the fact that there are no “brown bag” rules, meaning there are no restrictions on subject matter or cursing for the audience or performers.While this did allow a wider variety of comedy on adult subjects and controversial issues, sometimes it felt like the performers were trying too hard for a laugh. Also, at this particular show, the structure was much different than the traditional ComedySportz match, which I actually enjoyed. Where a regular match would include a blue and a red team facing each other in a series of games, the late show had a much looser feel to it.

During the first half of the show, different performers would take the stage and give hilarious monologues about subjects, such as Comic-Con, the naming of the Pacers, Sean Spicer and a recent news story about a Kokomo man selling meat from the back of his truck. The second half of the show was by far the best. It was an improvised musical called “Dudesical.” Jon Colby and Will Pfaffenberger, who also performed in the first half of the show, came out in the second to deliver a gut-busting and absolutely hilarious musical completely based on audience suggestions. I was skeptical going into the show that the “Dudesical”would be very funny, but I was incredibly wrong. For lovers of comedy, especially improv comedy, the Late Nite shows at ComedySportz Indianapolis are a no-brainer.

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f you are looking for a new brunch option that bypasses a basic omelette and toast, Mile Square Bistro is the perfect place to try out a new dish.

Before visiting, I truly thought that I had tried all that Indy had to offer in terms of brunch. I had not heard about this restaurant before, which is only minutes away from the UIndy campus in the middle of downtown. My mom, who is my go-to brunch partner, and I were excited to see gourmet options on the menu. Even though the menu is not extensive, everything sounded delicious, and each item had an interesting spin on it that I had not seen done before.

On the front side were breakfast items such as veggie frittatas, pancake stacks, omelettes and other breakfast favorites with a hint of personality from the chef.

On the flip side, lunch items were offered such as shrimp and grits, sandwiches and salads. I ordered the beet salad, which contained oranges, goat cheese, avocado and chicken and was topped with a lemon vinaigrette. It was one of the best salads I have ever had. The chicken was perfectly grilled and juicy, and the beets were extremely fresh. We went at about noon on a Wednesday, and we were with only a few customers inside, and the staff was very attentive to our needs. The only disappointment at Mile Square was the check. After paying to park, our salads, a coffee and a tip, the trip came out to around $40 for the two of us. Ouch! Despite the big bill for a simple lunch date with my mom, we are excited to go back and try all of the delicious looking items on the menu, even if we break the bank a little.

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Film fest features student filmmakers

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The Film Festival featured student works such as “Good Night, Baltimore,”“Breaking A Habit,”“Ants,”“The Perfect Client,”“The Process” and “Launch.” The filmmakers were students from the Applied Television course, and they created their short films over the course of the semester.

By Mariah Coleman STAFF WRITER The UIndy Film Club showcased films on a variety of topics at its Film Festival on April 19. Both beginners and seasoned veterans in Assistant Professor of Communication Steve Koehn’s Applied Television course participated in the film festival.

Of the six films that were shown,a music video entitled “Good Night, Baltimore,” produced by senior communication major Dylan Listner, kicked off the evening.

Following Listner’s work was a short film directed and produced by junior communication major Kasey Nethery, entitled “Breaking A Habit,” which tells the story of her father’s smoking habit

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‘Verge: Art & Design Student Exhibition’ opens to public

For two semesters, the art and design students work on a variety of projects for a variety of reasons, but at the end of each year, they get a chance to share their work in a gallery setting with all of their friends, families and visitors.

UIndy recognizes student leadership with annual banquet

The University of Indianapolis held its annual Leadership Banquet in UIndy Hall A on April 23 to recognize outstanding student leadership across campus. Student organizations, the Admissions Office and the Professional Edge Center presented the Mindy Owens Outstanding Junior Awards and Ron Strain Outstanding Senior Awards at the end of the banquet, according to Dean of Students and Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs Kory Vitangeli.

Interfaith scholars work to bring different faiths together

At the beginning of every calendar year, students at the University of Indianapolis have the opportunity to apply to be an interfaith scholar.

The program is one of the ministries of the Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Programs and is overseen

by Associate Chaplain Arionne Williams, who designs the program, recruits students and faculty mentors and works closely with the group.

from Nethery’s perspective. Featured next at the festival was a film entitled “Ants,” produced and directed by junior visual communication design major Andy Carr and sophomore biology major Taylor Kleyn.The film focuses on the level of one’s pessimism as one ages and encourages viewers to stay hopeful, as opposed to falling victim to pessimism. Following “Ants”was a film about a man whose wife is under the impression that he goes to work every day, when in fact he has an entirely different agenda. Senior communication major Adam Mahan Williams produced and directed this movie entitled “The Perfect Client.”

The fifth featured film was a piece produced and directed by junior communication major Cassie Reverman, entitled “The Process,”which documents the story

of junior communication major Kyle McGinnis and his journey to and from body building, as well as some life lessons he learned along the way. Lastly, the festival featured a film entitled “Launch,” which tells the story of graduate business in strategic leadership and design student Andrew Walker and his quest for prosperity as well as his adventures in establishing himself as a successful entrepreneur. The film was produced and directed by senior communication major Russell Collins. After the film showcase, some of the directors and cast members participated in a panel to answer questions from the audience. The members of the panel discussed their roles and thoughts about the films.

“I hope what people get from ‘The Process’ is that life is going to throw

you some curve balls and send you places you didn’t think you’d end up in, but at the end of the day, you have to trust what the universe is telling you and be patient,” Reverman said.

Walker, the subject of “Launch,” said he had some new perspectives that he discovered after seeing the film for the first time.

“For myself, seeing the documentary done by Russ [Collins] has given me a different perspective,” Walker said. “First off, he did a spectacular job, seeing how passionate he was about not just the film but the culture…. That gave me life. That gave me fire to take my game to the next level, towards the brand and life. I’m just excited for the future, but more focused on enhancing my day-to-day operations. I’m just so grateful for Russ and the people that support [me].”

Collins discussed not only his perspective on current experiences, but also where his passion for filmmaking began.

“I’ve always loved stories, and I’ve always been a storyteller, since I was very young,”Collins said.“Stories, along with their messages and the impact of those messages, have always captured my attention. From the beginning of my career, I noticed something that would allow me to translate stories into more than just words and allow me to truly bring the stories and their messages to life. It can be difficult to explain, but it’s just something that I love to do, and something that I’m blessed to say has taken me farther than I could have ever imagined.”

The UIndy Film Club will host another film festival showcase next year.

Event aims to reduce stigma of HIV, AIDS The Damien Center, founded in the AIDS crisis of 1987, works to prevent the spread of HIV, AIDS and support victims of the diseases

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The University of Indianapolis and Steward of Justice and pre-nursing major Erin Miller hosted the “HIV/AIDS Stigma Event” on April 18 to inform students, future professionals and healthcare providers about the disease and the stigma associated with it.

A representative from the Damien Center, Director of Development and Communication Jeremy Turner, shared information about the center, what services it provides and the issues regarding the stigma of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

The Damien Center, located in Indianapolis, was founded in 1987 in response to the AIDS crisis. According to Turner, HIV can only be transmitted through four bodily fluids: blood, semen, vaginal fluid and breast milk.

Turner said the Damien Center’s mission is to “work each day to lead the fight to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to empower persons in Central Indiana affected by HIV/AIDS to move forward each day with dignity.”

The center provides six major services: housing services, testing and prevention, medical services, care coordination, linkage to care and counseling services.

Their housing services include long- and short-term housing, direct emergency financial assistance, food pantry and career development.

According to the Damien Center’s website, damiencenter.org, the center believes that safe, stable and affordable housing offers the best opportunity for its clients. Turner explained that having proper housing gives the patients better access to drug therapies, treatments and other services that will enhance their life.

“When people are housed properly, they can better manage their needs and

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become more healthy and self-sufficient,” Turner said. “Our Housing Assistance Program helps patients whether they need short- or long-term housing.”

According to the Damien Center’s website, its Housing Assistance Program helps with rental subsidy, utility assistance and paying for incidental expenses that affect other areas of a patient’s life, such as for one patient who needed help with repairing his electric wheelchair battery.

“The only time this patient [who was HIV positive] was able to interact outside of his nursing home was when he came

to the center,” Turner said. “But when we noticed that he [had] stopped coming for a couple weeks, we called him up, and he explained that his wheelchair battery had died, and he couldn’t afford a new one.

Through our Emergency Financial Assistance Program, we went ahead and fixed it for him.”

According to handouts from the event, more than 1,100 patients are diagnosed as HIV positive. However, through the center’s care coordination and linkage to care programs, it has helped reduce the HIV viral load by an average of 93 percent within the

first six months of the program.

The Damien Center provides free HIV and STI testing, pregnancy testing, prevention counseling and outreach counseling as well. Its medical services include help in retrieving prescription drugs, medical case management and psychiatric care. It also provides an onsite medical clinic.

According to Turner, HIV transmission can be prevented between an HIV positive person and an HIV negative person by taking a pre-exposure prophylaxis, which can provide as much as a 92 percent to 99 percent reduction in HIV risk for an HIV-negative individual.

The stigma associated with HIV and AIDS has not changed much throughout the years, according to Turner.

“Today, living with an HIV positive diagnosis is more manageable than it was 30 years prior,” he said. “HIV is considered more of a chronic illness because there may not be a cure, but with advances in prevention, care and medical prescriptions, those affected can live normal lives. With these advancements, we can stop the spread of HIV. I had a patient a couple of years back whose husband was HIV positive, and he failed to tell his wife. And she became extremely sick with an HIV-based pneumonia, and the hospital nurse refused to treat my patient because she was HIV positive. So the stigma associated with HIV can be life-threatening.”

Both Miller and Turner explained that one way to reduce the stigma regarding HIV and AIDS is to be informed.

“Future professionals should be well informed in not only being able to properly treat those affected medically but to also treat them with respect and dignity,” Miller said. “It is important to be well-informed and educated, not only regarding HIV, but for anything.

The more someone is educated, the more they can sympathize and better relate to the individual.”

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MIAMI (TNS)—If sea rise weren’t scary enough, scientists have now found another phenomenon threatening the Florida Keys and other coasts protected by reefs: a vanishing ocean floor.

In a study published Thursday, April 20 in the journal Biogeosciences, a team from the U.S. Geological Survey documented a dramatic erosion of the sea floor around coral reefs, ranging from a few inches to nearly 3 feet since the 1930s. Combined with sea rise, the disappearing bottom means the hazards facing coasts—storm surge from hurricanes and even erosion from everyday waves—will likely be worse than now projected, especially for the low-lying Keys.

“We worked very hard to try to prove ourselves wrong because the change was so striking,” said lead author Kimberly Yates. “And we just could not do that.”

The study, which focused on the Upper and Lower Keys, the Virgin Islands and Maui, found water now at depths that had not been predicted to occur for another eight decades. That’s because with sea floor loss factored in, sea rise occurred at a far faster rate than previously thought.

Other reefs are likely experiencing the same losses, Yates said, meaning many more coastal communities armored by reefs may face higher threats.

“We knew sea rise was happening,”she said. “But the loss of the sea floor makes this worse.”

The study focused on the changes— comparing historic water measurements to modern ones—and did not address causes or re-calculate future sea rise. The team suspects the loss is tied to ailing reefs, which generate sand, and have been in sharp decline since the 1970s, pounded by pollution, increasing coastal development and overfishing, among other things.

Among climate scientists, reefs have become a focus of research because they play such a vital role in protecting coasts. Sand they generate keeps shores shallow to absorb waves, while the reefs themselves can buffer pounding storm surge from hurricanes. Erosion is a particular concern, with some fearing new impacts could overtake healthy sand-producers, like parrotfish that eat

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A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey has documented the loss of sea floor around coral reefs that could increase risks to coasts from sea rise. In parts of the Keys, they found losses from a few inches to about 2 1/2 feet.

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Until now, Yates said, no one ever took a look at the net loss from erosion to assess widespread impacts.

“It’s like an elephant, and you’ve got one scientist measuring the tail and another measures the ear or length of the trunk and those things are really important, to the elephant. But we found a way to measure the whole elephant,” she said.

To calculate the change, the team looked at nautical charts dating back to the 1930s and compared them to modern charts, using complicated calculations to assess change. Engineers have done similar assessments to track shifts in shipping channels. But no one had ever applied them to reefs at such a large scale, Yates said.

There were also many variables. Old nautical charts can be famously inaccurate.

So the team turned to more precise readings that until the 1950s were collected

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by dropping lines or dipping poles into water to measure depth.They then aligned them with modern readings and compared changes at the same location.

As they collected their data, a pattern began to emerge, and some astounding results.

“It was like a punch in the gut,” said co-author David Zawada.

Where reefs had shrunk, the ocean floor nearby had grown deeper. In the Keys, elevations near Pacific, Elbow, Carysfort and Molasses reefs had dropped dramatically, sometimes more than 3 feet.

Nearby habitats like seagrass beds, which need shallow water to survive, were also deeper. Meanwhile sand was piling up down slope in deeper waters to the south toward Molasses Reef, where it does little to help the shoreline, Yates said.

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Map on changing sea floors. Miami Herald 2017 ferent habitats. Water had deepened the most—meaning elevation was lost—on patch and aggregate reefs or rocky bottom dominated by coral. The largest volumes of sand were lost on seagrass beds and other shallow sandy bottoms.

The amount of sand lost at the five study sites ranged from 3.4 million cubic meters to 81 million cubic meters—the higher figure enough to fill 81 Empire State buildings, Yates said.

The problem is also a cascading one, she said. The more sand washes away, the worse erosion becomes. And the worse conditions get for life on the reef.

“We stand to lose a lot,” she said. ___ (c)2017 Miami Herald Visit Miami Herald at www.miamiherald.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Trump meets with ex-presidents of Columbia, causes speculation

By Tracy Wilkinson & Chris Kraul TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON (TNS)—President Donald Trump has met secretly with two former Colombian presidents before holding any face-to-face talks with one of their political enemies: the sitting president, Juan Manuel Santos.

The unusual meeting with former Presidents Alvaro Uribe and Andres Pastrana has led to speculation in Colombia that the pair was enlisting Trump’s support against a historic peace accord brokered

by Santos with left-wing guerrillas.

Trump received Uribe and Pastrana on Good Friday at his Florida resort, Mara-Lago. The meeting was widely reported in the Colombian news media but never announced by the White House.

When White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about it at a briefing this week, he responded that he was unfamiliar with the event.

Trump has spoken to Santos twice on the telephone, but they have not met in person. Negotiations were underway for a possible White House encounter next month, Colombian officials said.

In Bogota, the Colombian capital, the Santos government was said to be livid at news of the Mar-a-Lago session. Uribe and Pastrana are vehemently opposed to the hard-fought peace accord that ended more than half a century of civil war.

Santos’ stewardship of the accord, signed with Marxist guerrillas who long battled successive Colombian governments, was enthusiastically championed by the Obama administration.

And it earned Santos last year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

But critics like the right-wing Uribe and Pastrana oppose the deal because they say it grants too many concessions to the

guerrillas, and they have courted support in some U.S. conservative circles.

The pair apparently hoped to bring the deal to Trump’s attention and enlist his backing against it. Reports in Colombia said the meeting was brokered by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Rubio’s office would neither confirm nor deny that.

Uribe followed up with a letter to members of the U.S. Congress, claiming the peace agreement would lead to an increase in cocaine production.

In response, a group of 40 Colombian lawmakers wrote to Congress in a bid to counter Uribe’s claims, accusing him and Pastrana of waging an overt campaign against the peace accord for domestic political reasons. Colombia holds presidential and parliamentarian elections next year, and Uribe is hoping his political party can make a comeback.

“It is not standard diplomatic practice for a president to receive opposition politicians before meeting with a legitimately elected head of state,” Virginia Bouvier, senior adviser for peace processes at the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace, told the Los Angeles Times/Tribune Washington Bureau via email.

“The Trump administration would be wise to steer clear of internal divides within a polarized Colombia and keep its eye on the prize—the opportunity for peace after half a century of war,” she wrote.

She said it was not clear the episode would have an impact on U.S. relations with Colombia, but that it was likely to deepen the political divide within Colombia as the nation attempts to recover from a conflict that cost more than a quarter of a million lives and brought the nation to the brink of collapse. ___ (c)2017 Tribune Co. Visit Tribune Co. at www.latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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