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One year later: Tim Jones’ recovery

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Officer Tim Jones was shot on March 19, 2016 and continues to recover in a rehabilitation center in Chicago. The members of the University of Indianapolis softball team decided to show their support of Tim by wearing blue ribbons in their hair on Officer Timothy Jones Day. (right)

By Jessica Hoover NEWS EDITOR It has been a little over a year since Officer Tim Jones, UIndy alum and former football player, was shot in the head and neck while responding to a burglary in Park Forest, Ill., on March 19, leaving him critically wounded. According to Tim’s father, Chief of Country Club Hills Police Department William Jones, he was sleeping when he heard “the knock of all knocks” on his door that morning.

“Tim’s police chief, Chief [of the Park Forest Police Department] Pete Green, was at my door telling me that my son had been shot,” William said. “As I tried to process what he had told me, I had one question: ‘Is my son dead?’”

Tim had to be put in a medicallyinduced coma, William said, so that the swelling in his brain was more likely to decrease and to prevent brain damage. According to William, all he and his family could do was pray, and the same went for Tim’s former football team and Head Football

Coach Bob Bartolomeo.

“When it happened, we had a lot of prayer with the team, a lot of thoughts and good wishes,” Bartolomeo said. “We had some guys go up and see him.”

One of the players who visited Tim in the hospital was graduate business in strategic leadership and design student Andrew Walker. The two football players met during Walker’s freshman year, and Walker describes their five-year relationship as being a “brother-like bond.” After discovering what had happened to Tim the day of the shooting, Walker said he was “dumbfounded” because he had just been visiting with Tim a couple of days before. He rushed back to see him the day after receiving the news.

After being taken out of the medicallyinduced coma, Tim went through two brain surgeries and continues to work toward recovery at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, William said.

Bartolomeo compared Tim’s resilience and determination to recover to his days as a football player at UIndy.

“I think Tim has always been a fighter,” Bartolomeo said. “Tim was a walk-on kid

here, who earned his scholarship. I think that tells you a little bit—that he was a real tenacious player, a guy that was a fighter.

He wouldn’t take no for an answer in terms of being too small, too slow as a wide receiver. He overcame a lot of odds here to play and ended up playing in our play-off game. So that shows you a little bit of the fighter in him. He wasn’t the biggest guy. He wasn’t the fastest guy. But he was a fighter. I think that carried over in enabling him to overcome his injuries.”

March 19 has since been declared Officer Timothy Jones Day by the Village of Park Forest “for the sacrifice he made one year ago … while working to keep Park Forest safe,” according to a Facebook post by the Park Forest Police Department.

William said that the community has been a large source of support for Tim and his recovery.

“The amount of people that came together to pray for him is remarkable,” William said. “The various organizations and communities that came together to support a complete stranger is awesome.

Social media shows multiple police departments all over showing support by

Engineering jobs in Indiana are projected to grow.

Within the R. B. Annis School of Engineering there are four programs to help fulfill this need.

Industrial and Systems Engineering Listed as a 2015

400 new jobs are projected annually in Indiana alone

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Software Engineering 30 percent projected

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UIndy launches School of Engineering The University of Indianapolis officially announced on March 21 the launching of the R. B. Annis School of Engineering. The school received a $5 million gift in honor of the late Robert B. Annis, an inventor and scientist.

Annis is from Indianapolis and went to high school there but had to drop out to support his family. He began his career working with radio equipment but expanded to magnetics and precision balancing equipment, according to indianahistory.org. He founded his own

company in the late 1920s and became very successful, according to Dan Yates, a trustee of the R. B. Annis Educational Foundation.

“He solved problems with his uncanny ability that other trained engineers could not solve,” Yates said. “His little company up on Delaware Street was sought after by government agencies from time to time, from larger corporations, huge corporations, because of his reputation and innovative ability to design whatever products it might be to solve problems or to address proceeds to solve problems.”

Annis had a history with UIndy and brought the Central Indiana Regional Science fair to the university. He also

New VP, provost starts transition to position that appealing,” he said. “UIndy has a very outstanding faculty, and I took the time to also look at the faculty rate and the things faculty members said about Stephen Kolison Jr. remembers leav- being at UIndy. The student and faculty ing the University of Indianapolis very interaction, along with the ability for impressed after meeting with student students to get involved in research, were government representatives during his attractive as well.”

Kolison also was interested in the interview process for the position of university’s achievements over the last executive vice president and provost.

“I was leaving the campus, and I re- two to three years, including the new engineering program, alum member thinking to myself, Zak Mitiche’s becoming ‘I would be thrilled to be a Fulbright Scholar and a part of this institution,” faculty members who have he said. pursued and received variKolison stepped onto ous grants. campus on April 1 to begin “This school is on an transitioning into the role as excellent path, and I want executive vice president and to be a part of this experiprovost and will officially ence and contribute to it,” assume the duties on July 1.

Kolison said. “President Prior to his new position [Robert] Manuel has treat UIndy, Kolison served as mendous vision for the the associate vice president institution, and I love the for academic programs, KOLISON motto, ‘Education for Sereducational innovation, and governance for the University of Wis- vice....’ I want to come to UIndy and use consin System Administration. Kolison my talents and experience to work with said that a plethora of things caused him everyone and move that agenda forward.”

Kolison’s selection came after months to pursue the open provost position, one of which was the emphasis on students of research, interviews and discussions by a search committee composed of more than and staff.

“One of the things that I enjoy doing 20 faculty and staff members on campus. has to deal with helping students achieve Associate Professor of Philosophy and their dreams. So when the institution Religion Jonathan Evans was a co-chair > See NEW PROVOST on page 3 has some student centeredness, I find

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Tim plans to return to his career as a police officer, William said, and that is one thing that helps him keep pushing forward with his rehabilitation.

“Tim’s relationship with God tells him that it’s not over,” William said. “He knows that God has a purpose for his life. There will be a testimony. Tim has always worked really hard towards his goals…. He wants to go back to work, so he’s grinding out in therapy.”

After seeing Tim go through everything in the past year, Walker said that his friend’s experience put a lot of things in perspective for him.

“He’s given me so much inspiration….”

Walker said. “I’m not a huge complainer, but whenever I’m feeling like I don’t want to get up the next morning … or give it extra effort, I think about him. I think about his situation, and I think about where he’s at in life and how far he’s come in just a short year. It seems like yesterday we were back in the hospital, but he gives me inspiration to continue to maximize every second of the day and just achieve whatever it is that I want to achieve in my life.”

Stephen Kolison will officially begin his new role in the summer

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wearing or holding TimStrong wear….

This has made him even more driven.”

On the one-year anniversary of the shooting, the UIndy softball team members decided to honor Tim by wearing blue ribbons in their hair at one of their games. Fifth year senior community health major Natalie Lalich and senior sports management major Katie Kelly are two team members who know Tim and describe him as a “genuine guy” and a “good friend.” Lalich said that they chose to wear blue ribbons so they could support Tim, even if they could not be there.

“We haven’t been able to talk to him, but it was just a way that we could show our support and that we’re still thinking of him,” Lalich said. “And we want him to get better.”

Lalich said that Tim’s strength and drive never to quit reminded her of what she and her team have to do on the field.

“You’re expected to not make it, and then you beat all the odds….” Lalich said.

“He’s been counting on his friends and family, and that’s exactly what we have to do on the field. You know, count on the person next to you.”

established a scholarship in his wife’s name that has helped more than 130 students, according to Yates.

The R. B. Annis Educational Foundation made a gift for the R. B. Annis Theatre in the Health Pavilion. The gift for the School of Engineering also was given through the foundation. The foundation primarily focuses on education and science but also has donated to the Indianapolis Zoo, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis-Marion County Library, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Children’s Museum and Interlochen Center for the Arts.

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OPINION

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APRIL 5, 2017

Right of privacy in the age of technology

By Madison Hays ONLINE EDITOR

Wikileaks recently released documents describing techniques that, according to the documents, the CIA apparently uses to hack into digital devices such as smartphones, smart TVs and laptops from Apple, Android and Samsung brands to reach contact information and any digital communication and even to record conversations or video through a device’s microphone or camera even when the device appears to be turned off.

The documents also suggest a possibility that the CIA could hack into smart cars, potentially putting drivers in danger.

Personally, I find this information that the CIA could have an eye and ear on me at all times to be terrifying and extremely intrusive.

Not only does this scare me because my personal right of privacy would be compromised; it would also make me fear for the future of our digital privacy and our nation. It is not legal for the government to spy on us—unless the situation falls under FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Security Act)—nor is it democratic. The fact that our government may have the capability to spy on us at all times makes our democratic values look like a complete sham. The trust between the American people and their government could be in a very vulnerable position because of this.

According to professor of history and political science David Root, a mistrust between a people and their government could very quickly turn into social chaos.

“It’s definitely going to disintegrate that trust. What becomes worrisome, then, as well… is that as the peoples’ mistrust of the government grows, the

peoples’ mistrust of each other will also grow…. It leads to social chaos and all the problems that come with that. Once social chaos happens, it’s the recipe for tyranny and despotism, because someone will come along and say, ‘I have the answers.

I can restore everything back to the way it was.’ That’s the big fear,” Root said.

“If you want a bluepr int about how this stuff plays out in general, read ‘1984, ’ by George Orwell, because that’s what his book is about. It is about [how], as the technology increases, it increases t h e

be phones or automobiles, for their purposes. Will government do that? That’s the question. The political power, the power of the people, has to persuade them that if they keep taking privacy away, people are eventually going to revolt on them, kick them out of power and probably kill them.

In order to keep your power, you must give up some of your ability to exercise that power, because that will help maintain the trust relationship.

If you lose that tr ust relationship, you’re on the road to tyranny, which is

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government’s ability to spy on us and threaten us in various ways. The government needs to restrain itself. For its own good, it needs to set out laws that very much restrain its ability to spy and manipulate various devices, whether they

March on for science

not good for anybody besides the tyrant.”

While these ideas may sound extreme, a brief look through history demonstrates the possibility. And while I am not giving up all hope for my home, I am disturbed with the road the government may be

on. I believe the lack of transparency about the CIA’s actions allows ideas of the government possibly “getting rid of certain people by means of smart cars” to seem plausable. I understand the need for secrecy, of course, when the CIA is keeping things from the public to protect the well-being of the nation, but if the government is spying on us at all times, and these documents are authentic and might never have become known to us, what else could the CIA be doing?

According to Root, the future of digital privacy depends heavily on the Supreme Court and whether or not it will look into the situation at hand promptly. The fear is that if the Supreme Court does not deal with the infringement of digital privacy, the government could take advantage a of specific situation to gain legal access to devices.

“It’s going to be something where something very bad happens, and people are upset about it, and the government uses that as its leverage to get a case into court,” Root said. “And the most likely way that plays out is that they are going to wait for something disastrous to happen—some sort of striking terrorist attack or something in which people for that case will say, ‘Yes, we would like to know; so open up the phone’. And then that cracks the door open. And once you crack the door open, it ends up swinging open over a matter of time.”

My hope is that the businesses creating these devices stand up for our right of privacy, because they know that there may soon be an association of governmental spying with Apple and Android products or Samsung TVs. This association would likely result in lower sales, and there’s nothing that will motivate a massive corporation like sales.

The lifestyle of American consumers has helped create our dependency on technology, such as having a small computer with us at all times that holds the answer to nearly all questions. We use our cell phones to drive to places even when we know how to get there. We second-guess our own thinking because we rely on a computer to give us the answers first. The scariest thing about this dependency is that it is almost impossible to get away from these technological devices, and with them comes the possibility that the government could know where we are, what we are doing, what we are saying, and and perhaps even our thought pattern, to a degree, based on our Google history.

Root said that the only way to get away from such technological concerns is to turn to pencil and paper, or a typewriter, for any written communication, because all digital communication puts more information about ourselves out there for someone to keep.

“For a while, I’ve kind of thought to myself, ‘Privacy is just an illusion for those ignorant enough to believe it,’ because [with] any type of digital communication, you are putting out data out there that somebody is able to collect,” Root said. “There’s this big computer out there that knows more about you than you know about yourself. It’s collecting all this stuff—what your diet is, the kind of clothes you wear, where you shop at.

It knows everything about you. The only way to keep yourself private anymore is to pull yourself off the grid, but good luck doing that. You can survive without a smart phone, but life is way better with a smart phone. You can get by without a car but life’s easier with a car. These technologies have benefits to them.”

Globally, scientists advocate for scientific literacy within politics

By Erik Cliburn OPINION EDITOR Science provides the framework for modern civilization, although it is often taken for granted, without it our world would resemble that of the Medieval era at best. Most people think of science as cool gadgets and technological advances, but it reaches far deeper than that.

Without research, development and experimentation, the world would not have the health advances that have allowed the average life expectancy of 35 to double in the span of 150 years, according to ourworldindata.org.

The cars, cellphones, computers and homes everyone relies upon on a daily basis would just be fanatic pipe dreams without the investment in and acceptance of science.

While I make no claim to being a scientist myself, I have the utmost respect for those who devote themselves to the variety of scientific fields that keep the world operating and advancing, as it has my whole life.

People like to claim how amazing science is, how technology is so great and that it has come so far, but when scientific evidence surfaces that is inconvenient, people often dismiss and ridicule the discovery. What is important and great about science is that it has nothing to do with conviction, beliefs or feelings, and everything to do with observable, provable fact. Even a scientist with a well-researched and thought-out hypothesis must accept the truth if proven wrong.

Because of recent administrative orders, scientific researchers from around the globe have found it difficult to attend meetings with colleagues in the scientific community.

According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, more than 150 scientific societies around the world have sent letters to President Donald Trump in hopes to counter the recent travel bans that were attempted.

In additional assertations, the denial of the impact of human activity on climate change have heighted tensions between the scientific community and politicians,

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Members of global scientific communities have organized a “March for Science” on April 22, which is also Earth Day. According to marchforscience.com, “The March for Science champions robustly funded and publicly communicated science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity. We unite as a diverse, nonpartisan group to call for science that upholds the common good and for political leaders and policy makers to enact evidence base policies in the public interest.”

The most prominent march will take place in Washington, D.C., but there are five marches that take place here in Indiana. Indianapolis, Evansville, South Bend, Terre Haute and Lafayette all will host their own marches on April 22.

These marches are important to show unity within the scientific community, which can benefit the public as a whole.

For example, flat-Earth theory, denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements grow more prevalent in the U.S. combating such ideas with facts, research and experimentation become more imperative.

The point is to take away irrational and emotion-based legislation that has become commonplace in the U.S. political system.

Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson has stated why having an informed public that is scientifically literate, including those who are not scientists themselves, is so important.

“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers—poets, actors, journalists— they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate,” Tyson said. “They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don’t fight science, and they don’t fight technology.”

While not all science has benefited humankind or been ethical, the quality of human life and society overall have been improved drastically because of it.

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Yates said he was impressed with the vision and strategic plan President Robert Manuel had for the university. After he and his fellow trustees Wayne Webber and Chuck Angus gave the gift for the R. B. Annis Theatre, he remained in contact with UIndy.

Manuel said that it was through the relationship UIndy had with the foundation that they were able to have the school named after Annis.

According to Yates, UIndy appealed to Annis because it provided students, especially first-generation students, with equipment and the means to do research, something he was very passionate about.

He also said UIndy shares a lot of the same values as Annis, including problem-solving, robust study, understanding the value of research, a high sense of ethics and making a difference.

“He was a very creative, applied yet expansive person,” Manuel said. “So he liked the arts. He liked taking ideas from other disciplines and applying them to the engineering problem that he had. If you look at the University of Indianapolis, because we’re a comprehensive liberal arts institution, we mimic those same characteristics.”

Manuel said it is through requiring students to take many different courses in arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences that UIndy shows this. He also said that Annis wanted to make the world a better place, something UIndy also tries to do by giving students opportunities for service.

Having a school of engineering named after Annis is the perfect legacy for him, according to Yates.

“He did not graduate from an engineering school, but that was his passion and really his self-taught discipline,” Yates said.

“So if it were a business school, he was also an entrepreneur and was very successful ... his focus and passion was science, engineering and math. So to have that school focus on engineering and train engineers and carry his name on—it is just such a fitting, lasting legacy.”

Director of the Engineering Program Jose Sanchez said that it is great that UIndy is able to have a school of engineering and that it was named after Annis.

“He [Annis] is from the area of Indianapolis,” Sanchez said. “He has great connections with the university, and he’s been an inventor and a scientist. You could say he was an engineer as well because he was creating things. So the fact that the School of Engineering is named after him [Annis], I think that it’s really great, because of the root of where he’s come from and what he’s done. And the fact that our program is extremely innovative would make him very proud. What we’re doing is not something many institutions are doing nationwide.

We’re providing students with an ability to solve the challenges of tomorrow through projects.”

Both Manuel and Sanchez said there has been an increase in jobs in the science, technology, engineering and math fields, so having a school of engineering will be helpful.

“If you look at the state and city, there’s quite a big need for STEM-educated folks and engineers,” Manuel said.“And creating this program will help our students in those fields gain access to those jobs. It’ll help the economic development in the area by providing educated students to take those jobs across the region.”

UIndy launched an engineering program in fall 2016. It had two sections: industrial and systems engineering and software engineering. The Annis School of Engineering will have four different programs within it: industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering and computer science. Computer science is currently housed within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, so work will need to be done to move it to the Annis School of Engineering.

Sanchez, who is leading the efforts to set up the school, said other things need to happen as well. These include creating a curriculum, hiring new faculty, working out the internal structure and becoming ABET accredited. According to its website, ABET is a not-for-profit, non-governmental accrediting agency that is recognized as an accreditor through the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. ABET makes sure colleges and universities have applied science, computing, engineering and technology programs that meet the quality and expectations of the profession.

The R. B. Annis School of Engineering will launch in fall 2017, something Yates feels would make Annis very proud.

“He [Annis] was such a modest man,” Yates said. “It [having the School of Engineering named after him] was not something that we would have affirmatively sought out on his own, but he would really be pleased…. He would look at this and be so proud that others thought that he was worthy of having this school named after him and that the university itself would accept the responsibility of providing quality science, engineering [and] math education for kids in his name. He would be truly humble and probably pretty emotional about it as well.”

of the search committee and described the search as a “daunting task.”

UIndy hired a consulting firm that helped manage the entire process. The firm worked with the committee, assisting in writing the job description and then using marketing and other skills to have informal talks with potential candidates. Applications were then released, and the committee received at least 100 applications for the position. Through discussions with the entire committee, together with the job description and the consultants, Evans said the committee was able to narrow that pool down so they could continue into the round of “airport interviews.” This meant that candidates flew into Indianapolis from across the country and were interviewed at a hotel. None of the candidates knew each other and were kept separate, and the firm arranged times when they were introduced to the entire committee.

Through this process, the committee narrowed its list down to four, who were then brought to campus. Evans said that throughout the entire process, Kolison continued to distinguish himself.

“He was thoughtful. He resonated with a very diverse constituency…. For someone to come in and resonate with those different personalities, including colleagues who I won’t name, who have a reputation for having high standards and a healthy skepticism—I could see their heads nodding in responses to Dr. Kolison’s answers,” Evans said.

Kolison also has a rich educational background, earning his bachelor’s degree in general forestry from the University of Liberia, Monrovia. He also earned a master of science degree in forest economics and marketing and a doctor of philosophy degree in forest economics from Iowa State University. He earned several certificates from Harvard University in various subjects. Kolison spent nine years in his previous role with the University of Wisconsin system and has years of experience working in various school systems across the country, all of which Evans said solidified the committee’s decision to select him.

Students can expect the new provost to be fully engaged, Kolison said, and eager to help them excel.

“We want our students to be so prepared that they are capable to stand out and be successful wherever they go....”

Kolison said. “Students can expect me to work with faculty and all the stakeholders, including student government, so that our students are the most successful students anywhere in the United States.

They will be competitive and ready for the world, period.”

While working on implementing new ideas, Kolison plans to work with the faculty, administration and president to build on what the university already does successfully.

“So overall, I am hoping to work towards student success, intellectual life and also faculty satisfaction,” Kolison said.

“As provost, I am also the chief advocate for the faculty. I want to work with the faculty so that they see UIndy as a place of destination, and that it is where they want to be. I want it to be a place where people want to come and contribute.

These are big goals, and I didn’t say they would be easy to do, but I truly believe that [by] working with everyone, we can take this school to the next level.”

Kolison said he feels very strongly that the position of executive vice president and provost at UIndy is the right fit for him, and that he was thrilled to accept it.

“One of the things I have always wanted to do I can do, finally, which is [to] work with faculty directly to help students become more successful and help the institution to operate at a much higher level,” Kolison said.

“Of course, I felt a bit emotional and humbled that the faculty, administrators, the president and the stakeholders in the interview process selected me to come to UIndy. I just felt very honored.

You know, when a winning organization or team asks you to join in on the winning, it’s an incredible feeling.”

While Manuel made the decision to hire Kolison, Evans and Anita Thomas, dean of the College of Applied Behavioral Sciences and co-chair of the provost search committee, sat in several discussions with Manuel to discuss their reasoning for selecting Kolison. Evans said that playing a large role in the search was an extremely rewarding experience.

“As much as some of us would have liked to say in some way, ‘Well, here’s my person,’ we ended up indirectly saying that, and all came to a consensus on Dr. Kolison,” he said. “Unlike any other search I have been involved in, it just seemed to me, for lack of a better words, ‘the stars aligned,’ and we all just came together. I really think one of the best things about this was just working with such a good committee and then, of course, that Dr. Kolison was there for us to be able to select. He is the right person for this particular time in UIndy’s history.”

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The UIndy Drag Show included performances such as, (top) a magic trick by Andrea Merlyn, (left) “The Stroke” by Sir Plus and (right) a “Fierce Medley” by Buttdea.

Drag kings, queens take center stage

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR

Music, dancing, makeup and glitter filled Ransburg Auditorium on Friday, March 24, at 8 p.m. as drag queens and kings performed in the 11th annual University of Indianapolis Drag Show.

UIndy PRIDE and Alpha Psi Omega, the theatre honor society, organized the event, which featured 16 performances

by UIndy students, alumni and drag queens from around Indiana.

The purpose of the UIndy Drag Show is to have fun, according to Director of University Events and Staff Adviser for UIndy PRIDE Jeffrey Barnes. Barnes has been involved with UIndy PRIDE for about 11 years, serving as adviser for two separate periods, and has even performed in prior drag shows.

“Drag is a really big part of the LGBTQ community for some people, and for some it is not at all,” Barnes said.

“For some people it doesn’t, to them, represent what they are; and for some, it really does. It’s a way to express yourself differently than you might normally.

And historically, it has a place in our culture history as well.”

The Drag Show kicked off with a performance by Envy Debeauté, a drag queen from Bloomington, Ind., and one of the judges. She performed a “Selfie Mix,” which featured The Chainsmokers’ song, “#SELFIE,” before taking her seat in the front row to judge the other performances. UIndy PRIDE President Austin Elliott and APO President Lizz Krull welcomed the audience and presented the other judges before turning over the show to emcee Stevoncé.

The first act included performances of “How Will I Know,” by Shaquanda Thunderpuss; a “Fierce Medley,” by the Slayoncés, featuring Buttdea; “Tears,”by Blair St. Clair; “The Stroke,” by a group called Sir Plus, made up of two drag kings; “Dear Mr. President,”by Pri Mary and “Reflection,” by Fifth HarMANy. It also featured a magic performance by Andrea Merlyn, “The Queen of Magic” and UIndy Class of 1975.

BoyGorge kicked off the second act with a performance of “Hush Hush, Hush Hush,” and was followed by drag king Mitch Moore’s performance of

“Jailhouse Rock.” Then Blair St. Clair took the stage again to perform her “Raining Men Mix.”Other performances included Miraja Monet and the Dreamettes, who threw it back to the early 2000s by performing “What Dreams Are Made Of ” from “Lizzie McGuire;” “Telephone,”

by Emily Dick’n’some; a “Booty Poppin’ Mashup,”by #TwerkTeam; “Side to Side,”

by Areola Grande and a Lady Gaga medley from Stevoncé.

Sophomore visual communication design major and one half of Sir Plus Olivia Moor said that Areola Grande and Pri Mary’s performances were her favorites of the evening.

“I thought Areola Grande’s performance was stunning because of the sheer number of people involved! I could never imagine coordinating a number that detailed with that many people,” Moor said. “Pri Mary’s performance stood out to me as well, because she was the definition of the word ‘fearless’

“I am so proud to be a part of a school that is so supportive of people who are used to being labeled as different...” on that stage. She took something she believed and made an amazing piece of art out of it.”

Throughout the show, audience members tipped the drag queens and kings while they performed. All the money went to the Indiana Youth Group, a local LGBTQ+ youth center, according to the program and Barnes.

“The drag show has always been a charity event,” Barnes said. “Previously it [the donations] went to Broadway Cares: Equity Fights AIDS, and the past couple of years, it’s been going to Indiana Youth Group. IYG is a local organization. I think that’s part of the reason they [the students] chose that. It also benefits youth who are maybe struggling with their identity or coming to terms with their identity.”

To conclude the show, awards were presented. Miraja Monet and the Dreamettes won Best Queen with Pri Mary as first runner-up, while Sir Plus took home

the title of Best King.

This was Moor’s first time performing in a drag show. She and her partner, Hannah Clifton, an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis student, spent about 25 hours over the two weeks before the show putting together and practicing their performance, Moor said. She felt that performing in the UIndy Drag Show was the perfect way to get into drag.

“Ever since I started getting more involved with the LGBTQ+ community, drag has been something that has fascinated me. I love the theatrics and the characters people get into, and the costumes are always so impressive,” she said. “I’ve never performed before, and I know the drag show here at school is one of the most supportive environments, so I thought this would be the perfect way to dive into drag.”

In addition to performing, Moor, who is the digital media executive for UIndy PRIDE, spent 20-30 hours designing flyers for the show and creating a promotional video, she said.

Moor was not the only student working to plan and promote the show. Other students from both UIndy PRIDE and APO worked together to choose a date and location for the show, recruit students, choose judges, spread the word and run rehearsals and the show itself, Barnes said.

Moor said that one of the goals of her performance was to bring awareness to drag kings.

“I wanted to show that drag kings exist,” Moor said. “Most people aren’t familiar with the term or the subculture because drag queens get more of the spotlight, but there’s no reason women can’t be part of this incredible world.”

In addition to marking the 11th year of the drag show, 2017 is also the 20th anniversary of UIndy PRIDE being a Registered Student Organization on campus. Barnes said that UIndy PRIDE hosted a reception prior to the banquet for students, faculty and alumni to celebrate.

Moor was not able to attend but said that she is grateful for UIndy PRIDE having a place among the UIndy community.

“I am so proud to be part of a school that is so supportive of people who are used to being labeled as different and makes it a priority to give them a place to call their home,” Moor said. “I cannot wait to see what PRIDE does in the years to come.”

4

SPORTS

THE REFLECTOR

Baseball defeats Lewis 3-1

Photo by Laken Detweiler

Junior pitcher Pete Allen was credited with the win in the first game of the double header against the Tiffin University Dragons on March 29 at Greyhound Park. Allen racked up four strikeouts in the 7-5 win over the Dragons.

By Laken Detweiler PHOTO EDITOR Eight conference games down, 30 total games in the book and 22 regular season games remaining.The University of Indianapolis baseball team is checking in with a 3-3 conference record, and a 18-9 season record, prior to competing against the University of Missouri St. Louis on Tuesday, April 3.

According to Associate Head Baseball Coach Al Ready, the Hounds divide the season up into three parts—preseason, which is the nonconference games, conference games and postseason.

“We were happy with the way the first season ended up record wise,” Ready said.

“We don’t think we’ve really played that great, just yet. We haven’t really put all three facets together, pitching, defense, and offense-together consistently. We’re hoping to see a little bit more of that in conference play.”

For conference play, the Great Lakes

Valley Conference has its baseball teams play a four-game series in its respective division, and Ready said that the Hounds’ goal is always to walk away winning the weekend.

“You’re always looking to win the series,” Ready said. “The road games are tougher to win, no matter who you play.”

Prior to traveling to Lewis University for a GLVC matchup, the Greyhounds were aiming for a winning series.

“I think 3-1 is our goal this weekend,” Ready said. “It’s where we need to be. I think our guys understand how important the series is, and we’ll be ready to go.”

The Greyhounds achieved Ready’s goal, going 3-1 on April 1 and April 2 in two doubleheaders against the Lewis University Flyers.

The team opened up the weekend with a 4-2 victory. Junior third baseman Storm Joop earned the first run off a double from sophomore shortstop Macy Holdsworth.

Lewis quickly answered with two runs of their own, taking the lead. The Hounds

did not allow another run from the Flyers but added three runs of their own to take the win 4-2.

In game two, Lewis started the scoring with two runs in the second inning, taking the lead that they maintained for the rest of the game. They added two more insurance runs, which paid off when UIndy scored three runs. The runs were not enough, giving Lewis their only win of the weekend 4-3. Freshman pitcher Josh Helton surpassed some of his older teammates, earning four strikeouts in just three innings.

The Hounds avenged that loss on Sunday, when they stepped out quickly in the first game scoring four runs in the first inning. They tacked on another three runs to the Flyers two, before taking the win 7-2.

The Hounds earned their last win in an 8-6 victory. UIndy racked up a quick six runs, before settling down for a few innings, and allowing Lewis to get four runs. The competition came back in the

in Florida in a matter of five days and then two days of flying. And we had conference, four games before that, four games after and two games in the middle.

So we’ve been going nonstop here for a while. So I was happy with the outcome of last week, winning four games after a road trip. We’ll take it.”

Frost earned her 500th win in the first game of doubleheader against Ohio Dominican University on March 22. She said she credits this accomplishment to the great team, staff and players that have been a part of her program.

“500 wins in the GLVC is just a testament of where our program has started and where we’ve come and the great people that have helped build this program,” she said.

Later in the week, the team took on William Jewell College on March 25 followed by the Rockhurst University Hawks the next day.

The team went 1-1 against the Hawks and only allowed two runs in both games.

The women won the first game against Rockhurst with a last-minute effort in the top of the seventh, where hits by Liceaga and Kelly scored three runs to overcome the Hawks, 3-1. Honkomp racked up seven strikeouts and allowed just two hits, crediting her with her 17th win.

Frost said that she was impressed with the all-freshman pitching staff and the time and effort they have dedicated to the team.

“We’ve had a lot of production from Lauren Honkomp. She’s been our go-to pitcher with [Freshman pitcher] Crystal Sicard,” Frost said. “They both have just really bought into the program, and just from day one. And I think those results have shown the willingness to change and willingness to find what will make the team successful, and I think that’s a huge contributing factor.”

In the second game, a sacrifice fly that scored one run was enough to secure Rockhurst’s victory over the Hounds 1-0. Sicard threw much of the game before Honkomp came in for the relief.

Honkomp accounted for the Hound’s lone strikeout of the game, while senior infield Tayler Weck earned two of the three hits for the team.

The previous day, the team battled the Cardinals. Despite the Hounds’ fifth inning run rule win 11-0, the Cardinals overcame the Hounds in the second game 6-3.

Turner recorded her first grand slam as a Hound after transferring from DI Southeast Missouri State University this season. Freshman pitcher Lindsey Bowers finished off the game, pitching the last three outs for a perfect last inning.

The matchup took a turn in the second game, when the Cardinals came for revenge, scoring five runs in the second inning. The Hounds attempted to catch up by scoring three runs in the fourth and fifth innings. William Jewell scored one more run, taking home the final game of the day. The loss snapped the Hounds’ previous 11-game winning streak.

Kelly said the team has changed since a batch of fresh faces joined this year, but the goal to get into the NCAA World Series tournament remains constant.

“The team has been a lot different because there are so many young girls. I think we have to have a bigger mentality and get that hunger for knowing we can get to the world series and knowing we can do it together,” she said.

The women are set for the annual MDA game against the University of Illinois Springfield on April 15. The team fundraises for MDA and for Greyhound softball alumnus Megan Slightom’s nephew Liam Ealy, who suffers from muscular dystrophy.

“We invite everyone out to come and celebrate MDA, buy some tee shirts, make a donation or whatever you can do,” Frost said. “This is a cause that we want to give back to. This is a huge part of our program and a big part of our heart goes to Liam’s family.”

The team will travel to Louisville, Ky., to battle the Bellarmine University Knights on April 8.

remaining innings of the game, when Lewis tried to catch up to UIndy trailing closely behind. They did not surpass the Hounds, moving the Hounds record to 20-9.

The Greyhounds took on nonconference opponent Tiffin University on March 29 and split the doubleheader 7-5 and 0-5. Although Tiffin is not a conference team, they are a regional opponent and will play a part in the Hounds’ NCAA tournament chances.

“You never want to overlook your nonconference opponents,” Ready said. “The NCAA criteria to make it to the postseason does not distinguish between whether it’s a conference game or a nonconference game. They’re region games, that is how we look at it, both conference and nonconference. They’re just as important as this weekend [against Lewis.] We’re not overlooking Tiffin at all.”

In the face-off between Tiffin and UIndy, the Hounds took the first game 7-5 with junior pitcher Pete Allen getting

APRIL 5, 2017 the win, and redshirt junior pitcher Chris Boettcher coming in for relief. Combined, the two had five strikeouts and allowed 11 hits. The time on the mound during game two was split between five Hounds, with senior pitcher Connor Mailloux and freshman pitcher/outfield Bailey Buescher spending the most time.

On the offense in the first game, freshman catcher Will Smithey hit his first home run as a Greyhound. Smithey had two hits through both games, along with transfer junior outfielder Conor White.

The Dragons out hit the Greyhounds 23-8 throughout two games.

For the Greyhounds’ first GLVC matchup of the season the team traveled to Rensselaer, Ind. ,to take on Saint Joseph’s College for possibly the last time in history. The two teams split 2-2 on March 24-25. The Hounds won games one and three, 15-11 and 6-1, respectively, while the Pumas won 9-4 in game two and 18-8 in game four.

With this possibly being the last matchup between the two, Head Baseball Coach Gary Vaught presented a plaque to the Pumas Head Baseball Coach Rick O’Dette, who has been the Pumas coach since 2000. The plaque gives thanks to O’Dette for his contribution to GLVC East baseball. The Puma’s Twitter page quoted the plaque giving honors to O’Dette.

“Through your leadership, your players have learned and displayed the characteristics of what college baseball is truly about. We would like to thank you for everything you have done for the GLVC and the respected rivalry that we have developed.”

Looking forward, the Hounds will take on conference opponent the University of Wisconsin Parkside. The first game against the Rangers is set for Saturday, April 15, at noon, with a game to follow.

The same pattern will ensue on Sunday, April 16. Ready hopes to see the sun shine for the team and the fans for the remainder of the season.

“Well, hopefully they can see some warmer weather, to start with,” he said.

“But I think the rest of the season, you know, if it goes as scripted, we’ll be playing our best baseball as it leads up to the postseason. And of course, that happened last year. We won the conference tournament, and moving into the regional, that’s right where we were.That’s where we hope to be this year, playing for a conference championship, and also playing for a national title.”

Softball sweeps Lewis, moves to top of GLVC

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

After winning both games against Lewis University on April 2, the University of Indianapolis softball team moved to the top of the conference standings, tied with Rockhurst University.

The Flyers were tied with Rockhurst and the Greyhounds prior to the weekend, something Head Softball Coach Melissa Frost said made the stakes much higher. “...It’s definitely going to be a knock down drag out type of weekend and something we are really looking forward to,” Frost said. “Anytime you’re playing for first place in a conference, there is a lot on the line.

The Hounds won the first game 1-0, with freshman pitcher Lauren Honkomp pitching her second consecutive shut-out.

Freshman Cathy Skaggs scored the only run of the game off of hits from junior outfield Jessie Noone, junior catcher/ infield Julia Liceaga and senior infield Katie Kelly.

The second game was just as close, with the Hounds holding on to win 5-4.

Senior utility Natalie Lalich earned her tenth homerun of the season, bringing in three runs. Honkomp put two more on the board with her two-run single.

The day before, the team went 1-1 against University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

After five innings, infield/outfield Taylor Podschweit hit a triple, also bringing infield Tayler Weck to end the game 2-0. Honkomp walked only one Ranger in her first shutout.

Parkside came back more aggressive in the second game with three multirun innings and took the 6-2 victory.

Podschweit and Skaggs brought in the two Hound runs.

Previously, the Hounds played three doubleheaders March 22-26. Frost said that she was proud of the women’s 4-2 record on the week.

“I think we had an extremely long week,” she said. “We played nine games

Photo by Angie Mercado

Junior outfielder Jesse Noone had three hits out of four attempts at the plate in game two in the double header against the Ohio Dominican University Panthers. The women won both games 4-1 and 6-0.

SPORTS

THE REFLECTOR

5 APRIL 5, 2017

Track & Field

Swimming & Diving

Wrestling

So Rodrigo Codo Berti 4th in 200 back 7th in 100 back 7th in 800 free relay

Redshirt Jr Heath Lange

Jr Treyvon Matthews

8th place at 157

6th place in 60 m hurdles

So Guilherme zavaneli 7th in 100 free 3rd in 200 free 7th in 800 free relay

Redshirt So nick crume 3rd place at 141

Fr diver Payton Staman 5th in 1 meter dive

Fr diver Josh Zylstra 8th in 1 m board

So Vitor Botana 7th in 800 free relay

Sr Romano Hoffman 7th in 800 free relay

“It was really awesome. The energy of the team: me, Guilherme Zavaneli, Vitor Botana and Romano Hoffmann. It looked like we were in the right place at the right time.... We were in the top eight, afterthe morning [qualifiers], so we had to wait for the [other] teams to swim in the afternoon, so we could make seventh place.”

-Codo berti

“In my head I was thinking, ‘This is Nationals. It may just be another meet, but it was a big meet. It was Nationals. This is it, right here.

It’s a make or break time, and I have to really get in there and try to win something.’ My thought process was the same as everyone that was in there, and that was to be the champion.”

-Matthews

“I was pretty calm. I knew that I wasn’t really worried about Nationals. I just knew that if I wrestled really hard and got to my stuff that things would work out for me. I was just trying to keep the right mind set, stay feeling good and just get in there and get the job done.”

-Lange

NCAA All-Americans

Photos contributed by UIndy Sports Information

Graphic by Melvin Mendez

Men’s and women’s tennis Men’s lacrosse defeats sweep Illinois Springfield fifth-ranked Lindenwood

By Morgan Ellis ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Three doubles and six singles victories earned the No. 16 men’s tennis team their fourth consecutive win over the Illinois Springfield Stars.

No. 2 doubles pair junior Christoph Drechsler and sophomore Magnus Mueller, and nationally-ranked No. 1 pair senior Arklon Huertas del Pino and junior Andrea Morlet both won their matches 8-4, respectively. Wrapping up the doubles was junior Nils Hoffacker and senior Marco, winning their fourth consecutive match 8-2.

Freshman James Weatherhead opened up the singles play with a 6-1, 6-1 win in No. 5 singles and Huertas del Pino improved his record to 16-1 with a 6-0, 6-1 victory at No. 1 . Razo, Hoffacker, Mueller and Drechsler also earned victories in their individual matches.

The scene was much the same for the women’s team as they improved to 11-3 with a 9-0 victory over the Stars.

In doubles, senior Selenay Heper and Stephanie Hirsch blanked their opponents 8-0. Junior Florence Renard and sophomore Hanna Volikova won 8-4, and juniors Paige and Dana Olsen finished the sweep with 9-7 victory.

Volikova, Renard, Hirsch and junior Mara Hofstetter each won their singles matches in straight sets. Freshmen Bella Bergman and Pam Brito Torres both rallied into three sets to earn their wins.

Previously, the Hounds hosted Lewis University, a match-up the team was looking forward to, according to Heper. “ They are our biggest rivals, especially in the eastern side of the conference.”

Heper said. “We always have had group matches against them that we have beat a couple of times. I think that we should beat them again. We will just go out there, fight, and give everything that we have

and we should be fine.”

The matches against Lewis on March 31 proved to be successful on both the men’s and women’s ends.

The Olsens started the women’s team off on the right foot, quickly winning their matchup 8-0. All three doubles teams overcame their Lewis opponents, while five singles players won their respective matches, winning overall 8-1.

The win over Lewis marked the men’s 20th straight GLVC win in the regular season. The Hounds surrendered just one win in each singles and doubles. Both doubles pair Drechsler and Mueller and pair Hoffacker and Razo won their doubles matches, as well as individual matches. The team overcame Lewis 7-2.

Both teams defeated Grand Valley State University on March 25 and McKendree University on March 26, putting them as the highest-ranking teams in the latest national poll.

Hoffacker believes the credit for this ranking goes to his team’s competitive opponents and Head Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach Malik Tabet.

“Of course our coach, but we also played really good teams,” he said. “We played a couple DI teams at the beginning of the semester and a few, four or five, DII teams later. I think those really helped us earn that ranking…. We went to Florida over spring break, and the guys placed 8 in the region and ranked 40 in the nation…. It was a great experience for us to play against such good teams.”

Tabet acknowledges that there is room for improvement, especially in some of the younger players’transition from freshman to sophomore year of college.

“I’ve seen improvement in the level of experience in the players and how they handle things better,” Tabet said. “Obviously, when you transition from freshman to sophomore, you have that change in experience. Freshman year is typically the toughest, in my opinion. There are kids coming from much different environment,

“It was such a great experience for us to play against such good teams.”

different coaching style, and other players that are way more competitive than those in high school. So when the new student athletes come in, it’s almost a culture shock. And so they adjust, they digest and when they come back for their sophomore year, that’s where we can see the changes and improvements,” Tabet said.

Hoffacker said that he has been adjusting to the tennis program at UIndy and believes his progress and improvement on the team is showing in not just himself, but his team and coach.

“I think that I’ve improved a lot. Last semester when I came in, we only played regionals at the beginning of the semester.

I worked a little more on my technique, my forehand and backhand and also my serve. Physically, we had a lot of workouts: lifting, running and things of that sort. I think from those I improved a lot of my weaknesses. I wasn’t so fit then, but now I’m pretty comfortable playing in longer matches. I find that, in all, those are some of the biggest improvements that I’ve had so far,” Hoffacker said.

Tabet said he finds value in his players but sees Hoffacker’s improvements shaping him into not just a better player, but a better student athlete as well.

“He’s been here [Hoffacker] for a year with us, and I’ve seen great improvement in his tennis, but also in his personality.

He came in, and he was shy. He played with a certain style, and I explained to him that to make a few changes in his game would help him in the long run, which is now,” Tabet said. “If you look at the results, which he has produced in the last few weeks, you can tell that he grew as a player and as a person.”

Before hosting the matches against Bellarmine University in the UIndy Tennis Center on April 7, Tabet hopes to instill confidence and the chemistry behind the game into his team.

“It’s preparation. Whenever we have a deadline at a match, I talk a lot about how to get ready physically, mentally and make sure that we fix out knick-knacks.

We need to make sure that we take care of our bodies, especially right now since it is toward the end of the season,” Tabet said.

By Melvin Mendez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Defense was key in the Greyhound’s 9-4 upset over Lindenwood University on April 1.

After a scoreless first quarter, the Lions claimed the first goal in the second. The Hounds answered back with sophomore Tyler Johnston scoring his first goal of the season and freshman Parker Johnson snagging another 20 seconds later. Johnston finished the match with three goals while Johnson led the team with four.

Sophomore attackers Parker Kump and Matthew Johnson also claimed goals for the Greyhounds.

Sophomore goalkeeper Jarod Kemp led the team defensively with seven ingoal saves.

After outscoring their opponents in the fourth quarter, the team was able to add another win to the schedule after defeating the Lake Erie College Storm 10-7 on March 25.

UIndy was first on the scoreboard after an early goal by Kump, who was assisted by sophomore attacker Shawn Kimble. A minute later, sophomore midfielder Luke Allen added another goal to put the Greyhounds up 2-0. The Storm then scored their first goal of the match with about seven minutes left on the clock. The first quarter finished tied, with three goals for each team. After outscoring Lake Erie in the second quarter, making the score 6-4, the Storm was able to come back and tie up the game 7-7.

The Greyhounds were able to net three goals and keep the Storm scoreless in the final quarter. The final goal of the match came from Matthew finishing off the match 10-7.

According to Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach Greg Stocks, the team did what it needed to do to win but there is a lot more that can be improved on to get the same results later in the season.

“Our transition defense needs to improve a little,” Stocks said. “We’ve got to get the right personnel on the field a little faster than we did against Lake Erie and just kind of clean up some of the little

mistakes that we had on the defensive end. On offensive, we took much better care of the ball that game than we have pretty much all year. We definitely have to shoot a little bit more this Saturday than we did and try to find that extra pass because their defense is a lot stronger.”

According to sophomore defender Adam Dobis, if the team drops a game, they cannot dwell on that for too long and have to move forward, stay positive and stick together for the rest of the year.

“Moving forward coming into the main stretch of our schedule, we’re playing four top ten teams, and I think all of them are on the road. So we are definitely going to be battle tested these next couple of weeks,” Dobis said. “We just have to stick together and get after it in practice all week. Moving forward, we need to stick together.”

As the season progresses, the team is getting more used to each other and is starting to do the work that is needed for them to be successful, according to Stocks.

“We are definitely getting stronger as a team,” Stocks said. “We started very slow.

We had some new people playing new spots, and I think we struggled a little bit with it and as we are getting further into the season, they [the players] are getting a little bit more comfortable with what’s asked of them and they’re starting to perform a little bit better.

In the program’s second year, the team has learned a lot about playing at the college level.

“I think it’s been an eye-opening season for these guys,” Stocks said. “We’re now seeing what college level lacrosse is and the work that’s being put in, and we now know that the successful teams are the ones that do all the extra stuff. Now that we’re starting to do it a little bit, we’re getting better but for us to take that next step we got to do a lot more on our own whether it’s film, or weightlifting, or running, or stickwork or anything like that.

The really good teams, their players just do it on their own, and I think that now we are starting to realize that as a program.”

The men will host Walsh University on April 8 in Key Stadium. The game is set to start at 1 p.m.

FEAT

6 THE REFLECTOR

Photos by Tony Lain

Art & Design Coordinator Hazel Augustin (left) and Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Earth Space Science Administrative Assistant Lisa Battiato (right) support UIndy students and staff behind and beyond their desks in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center and Martin Hall.

Administrative assistants, coordinators work hard to keep departments running

By Tony Lain STAFF WRITER When it comes to running an academic department, no day is the same for the administrative assistants and coordinators that maintain the office and serve as a jack-of-all-trades for faculty and students.

No matter the department, there is an administrative assistant or coordinator working to help the department run smoothly.

Art and Design Coordinator Hazel Augustin has been at UIndy for five years. Augustin’s duties are numerous and constantly changing, encompassing everything from emails, to faculty relations, to setting up artwork around the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, to helping students, to placing orders and more.

“There is no normal day in the art

department… I don’t just sit behind a computer and type all day. I am all over the place. I basically do everything the art department needs,”Augustin said.

Across campus in Martin Hall, as the administrative assistant for the Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Earth Space Science Department, Lisa Battiato has held similar responsibilities for the 14 years she has been at UIndy.

“Every day is different. The same things I do every day all come along with surprises,” she said.

Battiato is currently working to get things ready for the banquet held on April

12th by her department. She’s in charge of getting RSVPs, inviting parents and getting awards ready.

She is also hand ling her normal duties such as budget and course management, tracking majors, dealing with alumni, major changing, handling adjunct faculty contracts, helping out professors who are not computer savvy, taking care of communication and processing scholarship funds.

Both Augustin and Battiato take pride in how they have decorated their offices with their own personal touches. Over the years, their offices have become a part of who they are and the impression they hope

“Every day is different. The same things I do every day all come along with surprises.”

to give to others who stop in for a visit.

“My office is kind of like a jungle... I love gardening, [and] I put in all of the plants to give it more of a welcoming feeling,” Battiato said. “This is my home away from home.”

Augustin’s office is filled with ceramics, some of which are the property of the department, but most were she made herself.

“I want to continue with my clay… I would like to get to a point where I could actually profit off of it,” Augustin said.

The one thing that seems to drive these coordinators to put forth so much effort in their jobs is their love for the university and the students, according to Battiato and Augustin.

Both enjoy how closely they get to work with students on a daily basis.

“Everyone has welcomed me and been very helpful. It’s a community… I don’t have much family out here [in Indiana],

so basically this is my family,” Augustin said.“I hope to retire from here. I’m happy with where I’m at. I’ve formed such great relationships here; this will be my last job.”

Staying in touch with former students is a perk that Battiato loves. She stays in contact with former students from over the years either on Facebook or by seeing them at university and alumni events.

“There is just a lot of involvement with our students, which is very cool… We’re [UIndy] small enough to have a family setting and for faculty and students to really be close,” Battiato said.

While neither coordinator plans to leave anytime soon, they do have dreams for the future.

“I strive to better myself. At one point, I was going to go back to school, but I decided to wait until my kids were done with college,” Battiato said. “You’re never too old to learn.”

UIndy’s ties to UMC evolve, remain strong

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR

Photo by Kiuno Cann

After working at Ford Motor Company and as a rehab technician, Danny Higgins came to UIndy. He has been working in RLFC as a Desk Worker for almost 12 years.

A warm welcome to RLFC

By Kiuno Cann STAFF WRITER

With the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center being one of the main hubs on campus for athletics, as well as a good workout, students and visitors likely have had the opportunity to meet one of the men at the front desk, Desk Worker Danny Higgins. Greeting everyone who enters the building with a welcoming smile, Higgins said he thoroughly enjoys his current line of work.

Born in 1945, Higgins is an Indianapolis native. He attended Howe High School and then got his first job at the age of 19 working at Ford Motor Company.

While at Ford, Higgins worked seven days a week.

Retiring after 35 years, Higgins looked for a new challenge in life, and that new challenge was becoming a rehab technician. Taking an interest in some courses being offered by Community Hospital (East), Higgins jumped at the opportunity to become a rehab technician.

According to a Study.com article, a rehab technician assists occupational and physical therapists with treatments and schedules, prepares and transports patients to rehabilitative treatments, maintains client files and records and sets up, cleans and maintains equipment and treatment areas under the supervision of therapists.

Higgins said he knew what it was he

wanted to do and wasted little time taking the opportunity to do it.

“I asked them [at Community Hospital] what it was that they offered,”Higgins said. “When I heard them mention rehab technician, I told them that that’s me.”

After Higgins completed the course, he was under contract with International Harvester [East Side], where he worked for four years as a rehab technician. Higgins said that he worked in the fitness center while employed at International Harvester. One of the many ways Higgins said he helped people was by providing them with advice on specific exercises, including telling them which ones would help get rid of unwanted fat.

When a job came open at the University of Indianapolis to work in the RLFC, Higgins said he was more than happy to apply for the job. With the help of Associate Director of Athletics Matthew Donovan, Higgins became a UIndy employee and has been working at the front desk in the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center for nearly 12 years.

One of Higgins’ main responsibilities when he first began working at UIndy was checking students’ IDs before they entered the RLFC. “When I first started working here, we used to take the student’s ID and run it through a scanner,” Higgins said.

“We did that because the school wanted to know who had entered the building at certain times. We don’t scan the IDs

anymore. It went from scanning the IDs to just checking it, and now we don’t have to check it.”

Outside of checking student IDs, Higgins also finds joy in helping visitors and students by showing them around the RLFC. Higgins also is responsible for regulating who enters the building at specific times to use the workout facility.

“There are certain times when I have to stop people from coming in to use the gym downstairs,” Higgins said. “That’s because I can’t allow people to use the gym if there isn’t anyone on duty. It is mainly for safety.”

Higgins said he enjoys working in the RLFC. He works five days a week for four hours, with weekends off.

“When I first started working here, I had worked long hours,” Higgins said.

“Now that I have worked my way up, I am now only working from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday.”

Higgins attends most of the sporting events held on campus to show his support for UIndy. He is a firm believer in treating others as you’d like to be treated.

“I contribute to the school, and they return the favor,” Higgins said. “It is a great place to work, [and] I love it here.

I love working around younger people.”

The university has become more than just a place of employment for Higgins, he said it has become a happy place, associated with fond memories and relationships that will last him a lifetime.

Since its establishment in 1902, the University of Indianapolis has had an affiliation with a denomination of Christianity. UIndy was founded as a United Brethren of Christ institution. In 1946, when the Brethren denomination merged with the Evangelical denomination, UIndy became an Evangelical United Brethren school. UIndy has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1968, after the EUB merged with the UMC. According to Director of the Lantz Center for Christian Vocations Jeremiah Gibbs, the university was founded as an extension of the mission of the church, and those same values continue to be a part of UIndy’s mission.

“I think, at the founding . . . this university was an expression of the mission of the church,” he said. “That ethos that we’re about—things like our education for service, for instance, the prominence of our nursing program and our education program—those really are core to what they understood themselves to be about earlier, and it’s still right at the heart of who we are.”

Since the founding of UIndy, religion and the UMC have remained an important element of campus life, the running of the university and the general education curriculum. According to Vice President for University Mission Michael Cartwright, at least six UMC clergy and laity and the bishop of the Indiana UMC conference sit on UIndy’s board of trustees.

However, the relationship and involvement of the UMC on campus has changed since the 1960s, Gibbs said. The UMC stopped providing financial support to the university, with the exception of some scholarships, around 2008 or 2009, according to Gibbs. In addition, while a number of faculty are members, laity or clergy within the UMC, it is no longer something looked at when hiring.

To maintain its affiliation, UIndy is evaluated by a team from the UMC every 10 years, two years after the Higher Learning Commission accreditation visit.

The UMC team evaluates the university within the context of that report, Cartwright said, but also looks at the courses offered on Christian topics, such as religion and Christian vocations, the campus

ministry program and its partnerships, such as with University Heights UMC for a Taize service and service projects and missions such as the Appalachian Service Project. Those programs that benefit students are why the university continues to be affiliated with the UMC, Cartwright said.

“I think some of it has to do with the desire to make certain kinds of opportunities possible for students who are learning about the world around them. It’s not possible at state universities to have all of the conversations about God that you might want to have,” Cartwright said. “So we make it possible for students to talk about issues of ethics and issues of theology and issues of personal integrity. That doesn’t mean that it’s all about Christianity, but it is the case that being a church-related institution makes it possible for us to offer that kind of hospitality to learn.”

Both Gibbs and Cartwright work to maintain the relationship with the UMC by communicating with representatives, going to the UMC Annual Conference, responding to institutional review materials and filing an annual report each year with the UMC to keep the church updated about programming and changes at the university, according to Gibbs. Cartwright said that he sees himself as a liasion for UIndy and the UMC. “I think that I help both sides hear one another. I’m an interpreter, a translator,” Cartwright said. “I understand the context within which the church operates. I understand the context in which the university operates. My role as Vice President for University Mission gives me the opportunity to create opportunities for faculty, staff and students to discuss the university’s mission and identity. One of the aspects of that mission and identity is the church affiliation. . . . I’m making it more likely that people understand what the church is about, what the university is about.”

Both Gibbs and Cartwright agree that the affiliation is beneficial to the campus community through programming, collaboration and the university’s support of campus ministry through chaplains and the EIP office.

“We have one of the largest campus ministry staffs of any pluralistic institution,” Gibbs said. “I’m really grateful that the university is supporting religious lives in that way.”

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Making the United States home Professors from Barbados and Japan make new homes, friends, careers in the U.S. while continuing to honor their own origins, culture, traditions

By Erik Cliburn OPINION EDITOR The faculty of the University of Indianapolis is diverse in racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Department Chair and Professor of English Kyoko Amano and Associate Professor of Teacher Education Terrence Harewood contribute to this diversity that can be found throughout campus.

Amano was born in Tokyo, Japan, but spent her early years growing up in Berlin and Düsseldorf, Germany. Her family later moved back to Tokyo, which is where she studied during her junior high school years.

For high school, Amano decided to pursue her education in the United States, more specifically Kokomo, Ind. She later returned to Japan and earned her undergraduate degree and first master’s degree, then once again returned to the United States to study for her second master’s degree and her Ph.D. Although many cultural differences exist between the United States and Japan, the most prevalent for Amano was the closeness of families in the United States as compared to Japanese families.

“The biggest difference ... I have noticed is that in the [United] States family seems to be really close together,” Amano said. “Families in Japan tend to separate into these nuclear families more and not go back to their extended family as often. I think it’s interesting that my [high school] host family and my husband’s family stay in the same area, not going out of the state or abroad. Whereas in Japan, it is somewhat expected for children to move away to a different prefecture.”

Amano chose not to apply for U.S. citizenship. She would have to denounce her Japanese citizenship and lose the pension that she receives from the Japanese government for residing in a foreign country.

“Quite often Japanese citizens will give birth to their children in the U.S., because the U.S. says that where you are born is where you are naturalized,”Amano

said. “But Japan has a different system.

The family line is how they determine citizenship. So Japanese children who are born in the United States would have American citizenship. But through the family line, they have Japanese citizenship at the same time. At age 20, when they become adults, they have to decide which one they choose.”

For Amano, the hardest adjustment to living in the United States instead of Japan was adapting to the difference in language and appearance to what the “typical American” is supposed to look and sound like.

“As a professor of English, it’s particularly troublesome,”Amano said.“Because Asians in the [United] States, especially in the Midwest, are never American. You would not expect Asian people to be American.

But there may be a lot of JapaneseAmericans and Chinese-Americans [that] might have migrated, but aren’t accepted as citizens.

The fluency in English matters so much that even though I’m really smart, my intelligence is often questioned because of the lack of fluency in English. That’s probably the most difficult part of adjusting to the U.S.” Harewood is originally from the Caribbean island of Barbados. Because he was on the Barbados national track team, he received a track scholarship to come to the United States to study. He moved in 1990.

He said that one of the most noticeable differences between the United States and Barbados is the structure of relationships in everyday life.

“Here, [the United States] people are kind of caught up in their everyday life,” Harewood said. “There are a lot of dynamics that we did at home to really preserve relationships. It’s common for people [in Barbados] to get off work or out of school and go play cricket or football [soccer] at the end of the day, or play dominoes under the street lamp until you had to go to bed. We tend to be more relationship-oriented, whereas the U.S. tends to be more task-oriented.”

According to Harewood there are only a few ways to become a full United States citizen—through refugee status, employ-

“I made the choice; I love being a U.S. citizen, but I will always put that within the context of my place of origin.”

ment and through marriage. Harewood obtained his citizenship through marriage.

He was given a green card and then five years later was able to apply for his citizenship in the United States. However, the choice of citizenship was not an easy one for Harewood, and it took him longer than five years to decide.

“It was a struggle for me. It took a long time to make that decision, because this is the only country in the world that actually requires you to denounce your citizenship,” Harewood said.“Most places acknowledge and accept dual citizenship, but the U.S. does not. The thought of having to denounce my country of origin and to pledge allegiance solely to the United States was problematic, because I am an ambassador for Barbados, and a lot of my foundation was there. I made the choice; I love being a U.S. citizen, but I will always put that within the context of my place of origin.”

Harewood realized one of the biggest challenges in coming to the United States was balancing conformity to the “American lifestyle” with the preservation of his own culture and background.

“The dominant pattern of dealing with immigrants here is an assimilationist kind of approach, where the expectation is that people just give up who they are and conform to the dominant values in this culture,” Harewood said. “For me that was a struggle, because I recognized that it’s important to conform in some ways, but it was it was also important for me to preserve some things that were relevant and important to my background.”

He also said another hard adjustment to the United States was dealing with the issues of racism and prejudice.

“I was encouraged to see myself as being different from people of color here [the U.S.], especially African-Americans,” Harewood said. “So I was treated differently, even in college I had professors say, ‘You guys don’t act like that...’. I never though ,about myself from a racial perspective here, because we were taught to deny it in Barbados and that was confirmed a lot when I got here. But I did have some racialized experiences and based on those, I was really able to reflect differently about my identity. It was a process and it still is a process.”

According to Harewood he visits Barbados at least once and sometimes multiple times a year, even though most of his family now lives in the United States.

Photos by Erik Cliburn

Born in Tokyo, Amano (top) chose not to denounce her Japanese citizenship upon immigrating to the United States, while Harewood (bottom) denounced his Barbadian citizenship to become a full United States citizen.

Undocumented student shoots for the American Dream

By Mercadees Hempel MANAGING EDITOR “I can remember some things—like the most vivid image I have is us being at our house and on the front porch. There was people saying goodbye and everything, and I knew we were going somewhere else, but I didn’t know where.”

Senior biology major Rolando Mendoza came to Indiana from his hometown in Mexico on June 9, 2002, when he was 6 years old. Mendoza said that he has lived in Indiana for the last 15 years. Mendoza said that he is from a small town in the southern part of Mexico, and he lived in a neighborhood in which his parents did not feel safe and did not see a lot of opportunities.

“Part of the reason [why we left] was that my grandfather was killed right in front of my house. So it was kind of a violent atmosphere to be in, and there were some drug cartels. It wasn’t as bad as other places,” Mendoza said. “It was still kind of dangerous to be there…. It was a really small town with 500 people, so there weren’t many opportunities.”

Mendoza said that there was only one elementary school, one high school and one middle school, and his family had one of two phones in the town.

He said that out of all the people his family knew in the town, only two went to college, and most either ended up working on the farm or in the fields. So, the undeveloped area, combined with the crime, convinced Mendoza’s parents to move to Indiana, where they already had family living undocumented.

Mendoza said that his parents did not qualify for a visa because they did not meet certain requirements. Therefore, they decided they had to migrate into the United States illegally.

He said he and his family had to ride the bus to the border, where they would meet a guide who would lead them across. Mendoza said it took a few tries to get across because the guide his family agreed to meet with did not show at first.

They then switched guides and began the journey.

Mendoza said that the walk across

Photo by Mercadees Hempel

At 6 years old, Rolando Mendoza immigrated to the United States from Mexico to escape violence and lack of opportunities in their town. In the United States, Mendoza dreams of becoming an optometrist and owning his own practice and is committed to attend graduate school at Indiana University in Bloomington this fall. the border takes four to six hours, and if they had been caught, they would have been sent back.

He said, that on the walk, he saw bags and other things people would leave behind, and they often heard stories about people being kidnapped or killed. Eventually, Mendoza and his family were picked up and taken to the United States where they lived with some relatives and began attending school.

Mendoza has lived in the United States ever since. Mendoza is under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration policy that allows certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States when they were young to obtain a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

He said he does have some peace of mind, and things such as getting a driver’s license and applying for jobs became easier when he was able to get a Social Security

number. However, there is still fear. “[There’s] the fear of losing everything, because I’ve been here since I was 6, and I’m 21 now,” Mendoza said. “So it’ll be 15 years in June, and in all that time, I feel like I’ve invested so much time in myself and in my community, and it could really just end whenever the government decides. Knowing that makes me work harder and motivates me to keep going.

But I feel like for a lot of people, it kills their motivation, and they just think it’s not worth it.”

Mendoza dreams of being an optometrist and having his own practice, a dream that began in middle school. He also has done a lot of community work since high school and is helping recruit more Latino students at the University of Indianapolis, to help uphold UIndy’s diversity values.

Mendoza said that he likes to be involved with this type of work, and that if there was a direct path to citizenship, he would have done it by now.

To become a U.S. citizen with full citizenship rights, one can go through the process of naturalization. The most common way, according to legalzoom. com, is to “obtain legal permanent resident status by residing in the country” for five years, which is used by people who have an immigration visa.

A person can also marry a permanent resident and become a citizen or be sponsored by a company. Someone going through the naturalization process must also have good character, be at least 18 years old, have basic reading and writing skills and understand U.S. government and history. However, Mendoza said he does not have a visa, so he cannot go through this process.

“There’s not a direct opportunity for me to apply for citizenship or anything like that,” Mendoza said. “I don’t think it would be ethical for me to marry someone to become a U.S. citizen regarding where I’m at. And as for my career, I couldn’t

get sponsored by a company because I don’t have certain skills for whatever the need may be.”

Mendoza said that while DACA has helped some things become easier, he wishes the government would make a direct path or way to become a legal citizen.

He also said that many would take the path to become legal if it meant being able to stay in the place they consider home.

“It’s not that we don’t want to follow the law,” Mendoza said. “It’s just that it is very difficult to follow certain parts of the law when you don’t have proper documentation.”

Mendoza said that he is going to attend graduate school at Indiana University in Bloomington next fall, and this process has been frustrating.

He does not qualify for any federal loans or grants, and any loans he gets approved for will have higher interest rates than most other students.

“It’s frustrating just because I’m on the edge of things, and I have to live off hope and hope that things work out,” he said.

Mendoza said he is always willing to share his story with others, and he hopes that it will lead to people being more open-minded about immigrants.

He said that even though he could lose everything he has worked for in one day, he is not giving up.

“I’ve always felt that diversity is the best way to get things done,” he said. “The more ideas you have, the more efficient you can be. So I think that’s made America thrive over the centuries, because if you work hard, you’ll have the opportunity to put your ideas to work.”

Mendoza said that he feels America has always been accepting, and he is happy to have a chance at achieving the American Dream.

“I went back to my home country for the first time in 14 years this summer, and honestly, the only thing that changed in terms of technology was there was like two Wi-Fi bars,” he said. “It was still the same whereas over here, in the last 14 years, there’s been so many changes in the city. And I just feel like me wanting to work hard and become better and make something of myself makes me American.”

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March Madness meets Baroque in CDFAC

By Morgan Ellis ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra’s interpretation of March Madness was to feature works by what the IBO considers to be the “Big Four” composers of the Baroque Era: J.S. Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi and Handel. However, due to the weather on the East Coast, according to Kuijken, rehearsal time was limited, therefore resulting in the removal of the piece by Vivaldi, which would have set the theme of the performance that was March Madness.

The IBO Artistic Director Barthold Kuijken conducted and performed in the event on March 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.

“Suite in C, BWV 1066” (c. 1720-24),

by J.S. Bach, opened the performance.

According to the program notes, “J.S. Bach composed four suites for orchestra but is thought not to have intended them, as he did in the six ‘Brandenburg Concertos,’ to be a set. . . . The ‘Suite in C’ opens with a French overture, which is considered to be a stately grave section, full of dotted rhythms, and is followed by a quick polyphonic section.

“Concerto in G, for 2 flutes, bassoon, TWV 53:G1” c. 1719, by Georg Philipp Telemann, was next in order. According to the program notes, “Telemann is thought to have written 125 orchestral suites and known to have been equally prolific to many other genres of music, including the concerto. Telemann’s ‘Concerto in G’ falls into the category of concerto grosso, which is a grand concerto. Grand is to represent that instead of just one soloist, there are two or more.

Selections from “Water Music, HWV 348 and 350” (1717), by George Frideric Handel, ended the performance. According to the program notes, “Handel made his first appearance in London in 1710 at the age of 25. He became successful through first, composing Italian opera seria and later of the English oratorio.The work entitled ‘Water Music’ is because the entertainment during that time took place outdoors, on barges progressing from Whitehall to Chelsea and back on the Thames River.”

The Performance for sophomore music education major Jacqueline Wiernicki, was her sixth IBO concert and it is through UIndy that she has been able to attend.

Music majors at UIndy are required to have an equivalent of six semesters of concert recital attendance, according to the music curriculum for music education majors.

“I attended the IBO concert because I have really enjoyed their performances in the past and it is a great way to get music or L/P credits.”

Like Wiernicki, freshman music education major Anna Miller attended the IBO’s performance to fulfill one of her requirements for recital attendance.

“The piece that I found most interesting included the baroque flute,” Miller said. “I had never heard of that instrument and definitely hadn't ever heard it played by someone. It was definitely very interesting to listen to with its unique timbre compared to the traditional flute.

When you think of a flute, you think of its higher timbre and not at all what the baroque flute sounds like.”

Miller said she favored the “Concerto in G” featuring flautists Leela Breithaupt and Kuijken and bassoonist Keith Collins.

The piece was originally set to feature flautist Barbara Kallaur rather than Kuijken, to outside circumstances intervened, and the ensemble worked together to help the performance process flow smoothly despite the change.

“I pay attention mostly to the violinists because violin is my primary instrument, but I also like to listen to the harpsichord and cellos for the bass line motion as well,” Wiernicki said. “I mostly listen to the violas because my old violin teacher is the principal violist [Rachel Gries] in the IBO.” In Wiernicki’s years of music at UIndy, she has learned to direct her attention as an audience member in performances to the instrumentalists and other performers as they present their art form.

“Something I don't think I would realize or listen to if I was not a music major is the bass line in the harpsichord and cello,” Wiernicki said. “[The bass line] really sets the foundation for all of the other instrumental parts.”

During the first week of April, jazz performances from jazz vocalist Typhanie Monique on April 5 at 7:30, Director of Jazz Studies Mark O’Connor on April 6 at 7:30, the Dan Haerle Trio on April 7 at 7:30 and a jazz combo featuring Tim Coffman and the Dan Haerle Trio on April 8 at 7:30 will all take place in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.

Photo by Morgan Ellis

Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra’s violonist Philip Spray plays alongside violinists Yaël Senamaud (left) and Rachel Gries (right) during the J.S. Bach “Suite in C, BWV 1066.”

Phelps brings all-star musicians to UIndy in performance

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR When Director of Jazz Studies Mark O’Connor hired drummer Kenny Phelps to perform the last concert of the Jazz Concert Series, he said that he knew Phelps would put together a great band.

Phelps called on six other local jazz and blues artists to perform with him on March 22 in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall at 7:30 p.m.

“This is the final concert of the Jazz Concert Series [for the semester], and I wanted to celebrate,” O’Connor said.

“This series is based on featuring all the Indianapolis musicians, and I figured that it was appropriate to have an Indianapolis all-star group to complete the series.”

In addition to Kenny Phelps, the local all-star band featured his wife and vocalist Valerie Phelps, three members of The Tucker Brothers: bassist Nicholas Tucker, guitarist Joel Tucker and tenor saxophonist Shawn Imboden, pianist Steven Jones and blues vocalist Tad Robinson.

Kenny Phelps, Valerie Phelps and Nicholas Tucker started off the concert by performing “Them There Eyes,” originally performed by Billie Holiday. Jones and Joel Tucker joined them on stage to perform Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life.”

Following that, Jones, Kenny Phelps and Nicholas Tucker—who sometimes perform as the Steven Jones Trio—played two pieces, “Fud,” by Jones, and a rendition of Prince’s “Thieves in the Temple.”

Sophomore pre-art therapy major Reagan Moorman liked the trio’s different take on the Prince song.

“I really like how they did a Prince song, and the bass didn’t have that classic sound,” she said. “There was kind of a jazz tone to it, but it had a modern feel.”

The trio was joined on stage by Joel Tucker and Imboden’s performance “Inner Urge” and “Writing Prompt Number Three”by The Tucker Brothers. Moorman, who plays the baritone saxophone in the UIndy Jazz Ensemble, took an interest in Imboden because of her experience playing saxophone.

“The jazz saxophonist had a really smooth tone [that] was very nice. Everything felt like it fell really nice on his

Photo by Mariah Coleman

Valerie Phelps, the wife of percussionist Kenny Phelps, performs with her husband in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall for an evening of jazz among other locally-known artists, including UIndy’s own bassist Nick Tucker. fingers. His [Imboden’s] demeanor was interesting, honestly,”Moorman said.“He was very cool, like he didn’t have a lot of expression on his face; it all came out in his horn. His tone was flawless.”

Robinson joined The Tucker Brothers, Jones and Kenny Phelps on the stage to perform a few blues pieces. His first song was “Trouble in Mind,” by pianist Richard Jones, followed by “Mean Old World,” by T-Bone Walker, and “There’s a Train,” by The Holmes Brothers.

Moorman said that Robinson’s rendition of “There’s a Train” was her favorite piece performed.

“I liked ‘There’s a Train.’ It was soulful, and it highlighted each of the instruments

really well, including the vocals; and the piano had an amazing solo in that piece,” Moorman said. “It had a lot of emotion; it was very real.”

Valerie Phelps joined Kenny Phelps, Jones and the three members of The Tucker Brothers for the final piece of the performance, “What a Difference a Day Makes,” made popular by Dinah Washington.

Moorman said that she enjoyed the concert overall, especially Kenny Phelps, Valerie Phelps and Robinson’s performances.

“There was a great quiet energy. Even if he [Kenny Phelps] wasn’t making a lot of noise, there was still a quiet energy that

added a lot to the group,” Moorman said.

“Valerie Phelps used her voice as more of an instrument, and it didn’t overpower or wasn’t masked by the group. It was just another instrument, especially if she was scatting. Tad Robinson, I just really liked him. He had a great voice and a lot of energy.”

O’Connor said he hopes to see community members, students and faculty at the music department’s upcoming Jazz Week, which takes place the first full week of April.

“That [ Jazz Week] features regional, nationally-known performers and/or nationally-known performer educators,” O’Connor said. “There are wonderful

opportunities to hear the concerts, but also there will be jazz improvisation workshops, and the UIndy Jazz Ensemble is performing with all of the guest artists, with the exception of my own group. I hope to see as many people out for Jazz Week as possible. It’s a lot of world class music that we’re able to put on.”

Jazz Week began April 4th at 7:30 p.m. with a performance by the UIndy Jazz Combo and Ensemble in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. Other performers for the remainder of Jazz Week will include the Dan Hearle Trio, trombonist Tim Coffman, vocalist Typhanie Monique and O’Connor’s ensemble, which features Kenny Phelps.

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by Tom McGrath, premiered on Mar. 31. McGrath, who is best known for the three animated “Madagascar”films and “Megamind,” delivers a satisfying message regarding the sensitive aspect of a growing family. Narrated by Tobey Maguire, the movie follows seven-yearold Tim as he tells the imaginative story of when he got his baby brother.Tim soon realizes that he is no longer the center of his parents’ universe. Boss Baby, voiced by Alec Baldwin, takes sibling rivalry to an entirely new level with Tim. They both seek their parents’ undivided attention, and Boss Baby prepares for his mission.

Sent by BabyCorp, Boss Baby is investigating PuppyCorp., where their parents are currently employed. Afraid that parents will no longer want babies but rather puppys, the two boys, setting aside their differences, and form a bond in order to help stop their parents’ evil boss, Francis Francis, who is voiced by Steve Buscemi.

They come up with a plan to uncover the new “forever puppy”that is being launched in the next few days. By the end of the movie, the two boys finally learn the true meaning of the love of their family.

Aside from, witty, one-liner jokes, that only parents will really understand, the movie is uncharacteristically mediocre.

With only minimal entertaining scenes, such as when Boss Baby dresses up in a puppy costume; all of the comical scenes were already shown in the TV movie trailers and promotions. In my opinion, the movie could have spread out the comical scenes instead of having them all within the first hour.

ompared to some other Drake albums, “More Life” is much more chill and doesn’t contain styles of his hit singles the way “Views” did with “Pop Style,”“Hotline Bling” and “One Dance” (except for “Fake Love,” of course). Drake seemed to take it down a notch after his harder music in “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.” I really enjoyed the features from some of my favorite artists such as PARTYNEXTDOOR, Quavo and Travis Scott, as well as Kanye West, 2 Chainz and Young Thug.

I was most excited when I noticed the PARTYNEXTDOOR feature, because a mix of vocals with Drake are my favorite, especially after hearing their collaboration in “Come and See Me,” “Recognize” and “Over Here.”After listening to the album repeatedly, I struggled to find one song that was my favorite. If I had to choose, it would be “Portland,” featuring Quavo and Travis Scott. I also give honorable mentions to “Since Way Back,” featuring PARTYNEXTDOOR, “Do Not Disturb” and “Ice Melts” featuring Young Thug. Out of 22 tracks, I only listened to about 10 and enjoyed the sounds with featured artists much more. I was hoping to hear more younger featured artists that many other rappers have been working with lately. Since this record has more of a calm R&B feel, I like listening to it while I’m just casually hanging out with my friends or doing homework. As much as I like all the music, though, I felt that some sounds were recycled from other works by Drake, and none with originality. Despite the lack of originality of some of the beats, I still loved the album and continue to be a devoted Drake fan.

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ith locations in nine different states, Metro Diner seems to have made quite the name for itself. Serving what it calls “comfort food with flair,” the restaurant’s cozy yet trendy atmosphere goes hand-in-hand with its style of food.The restaurant chain even has made its way onto the television show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” by showcasing dishes such as Pittsburgh Steak Salad and Yo Hala on the Square.

The Pittsburgh Steak Salad differs from the normal, everyday salad with the addition of both New York strip steak and fries on a bed of leafy greens. The Yo Hala on the Square is an upscale French toast that has “two thick slices of challah bread stuffed with a mixture of bananas, brown sugar, cream cheese and hazelnut syrup,” according to the Metro Diner website. What I loved most about the diner is that its menu consists of popular comfort food mixed up in a way that makes each recipe unique. Chicken and waffles consists of a waffle topped with chicken tenders and powdered sugar and maple syrup, but the Metro Diner’s recipe kicks it up a notch with fried chicken, waffles topped with strawberry butter and a sweet and spicy sauce on the side. I chose one of their extreme-sounding dishes, J.C.’s Vortex Burger. The half-pound burger had mounds of lettuce slaw with cheese, tomatoes, bacon and a fried egg, but the best part was that the buns were grilled cheese sandwiches. The burger was near the top of my list as one of the best burgers I’ve had, receiving extra points for originality and the grilled cheese that was grilled to a perfect golden brown on both sides of both buns.

ood Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women,” is a children’s book written by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. Each story is concise at one page in length and about women breaking gender norms and making advancements in the name of feminism in areas as diverse as working in the fashion industry to being the first empress. These are stories that I will tell my children someday, whether boys or girls, because of their reoccurring theme of women empowerment. These stories allow children to learn at a young age not only about the strength of women overcoming inequality, but also about adapting, believing in themselves and pursuing what they believe is right. I do wish each story was longer, though, to include more detail and better exemplify the dangers these women faced in challenging the status quo of the time. I also wish the individual stories were longer because children’s books possess details and storytelling elements that this one lacks. If each story were longer, the kids might be tuckered out sooner. The book is educational in moral and historical aspects, and an interesting read for anyone wanting to learn more about important women in history, but it may be a little too concise even for children.The storytelling aspect is lacking and the book is more of a collection of short summaries. Overall, I am in love with the idea of this book. I think it offers powerful messages, and I may even read it to my children someday, but I find that this book missed out on some great opportunities in its childcentered design.

ip City offers nonstop fun, which is good for college students and families, as an indoor park with trampolines, zip lines, rock walls, laser tag, knocker soccer and more. I went on a Saturday with my dad and younger brother, and the place was full of families, though the lines were never long to wait in. I started the day by battling my brother in the gladiator pit and knocking him off the balance beam into the sweaty foam pit. If you’ve ever been to Sky Zone, the trampoline area at Zip City is a little smaller but not overcrowded.

The zip lines were by far my favorite.

It’s exhilarating to fly from one end of the building to the other with the wind through your...helmet. The rock wall was cool, and I am proud to say I made it to the top on the second easiest section. I would recommend doing the rock wall last because it really hurts your fingers. The laser tag was pretty fun, but it’s located in a well-lit area, which isn’t as much fun. Still, there are lots of obstacles to hide behind.

Knocker soccer was available the day I went, which was a blast. You get into an inflated plastic bubble and can run into other people. I did get knocked down and rolled completely over, which was kind of scary, but fun. Zip City also has food and an arcade that cost extra. With a college ID, the price is $17.95 for three hours and includes a free water bottle. I recommend wearing comfortable clothes, sneakers plus a lot of deodorant. In three hours, I got a chance to do everything and do some stuff I wanted to repeat. It was a lot of fun to go with my family, but I think it’d be even better to go with a big group of friends.

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Week for women held on campus Delight Ministries and Salt and Light Ministries organize events for first ever BABE Week, a national week meant to empower women and celebrate their authenticity

Photos by Morgan Ellis

(left and right) Students spent the night of March 29 eating treats and painting masterpieces at the cookies and canvas event. (middle) The Tampon and Pad Drive helped raise money and feminine products for the homeless women and girls of Fletcher Place Community Center.

By Morgan Ellis ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR During the last week of March at the University of Indianapolis, Delight Ministries and Salt and Light Ministries organized activities for a week that goes on nationally called BABE Week. BABE is an acronym for Be Authentic Be Empowered. The two women in charge of the events held on campus were sophomore nursing major Adrienne Henke and sophomore elementary education major Erin Burton.

Along with the events for BABE Week, a table located in the Schwitzer Student Center was set up for the Tampon and Pad Drive. The drive was organized by Brianna Myers.

Haley Bowers, formerly the chapel steward of Salt and Light, graduated in December of last year. Bowers’initial idea, according to Burton, was to have a week to celebrate the authenticity and empowerment of women and incorporate that into a week of self-care and relaxation for UIndy’s female students. Bowers wanted

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Course evaluations affect professors, their careers Toward the end of every semester, students at the University of Indianapolis find themselves filling out course evaluations either on paper or online. Sometimes they are written by the professor, other times they are the standard IDEA form, issued by the IDEA Center in Kansas.

Documentary shows workers with disabilities get paid less The University of Indianapolis hosted the screening of “Bottom Dollars,” a Rooted in Rights original documentary, regarding the issues on segregated workplaces and low wages for individuals with disabilities, on March 28 in Annis Auditorium.

Rooted in Rights is based out of Seattle, Wash. and produces videos, social media campaigns and various multimedia projects that they hope will advance advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities worldwide.

UIndy hosts Special Olympics basketball tournament The University of Indianapolis hosted a Special Olympics basketball tournament for the seventh consecutive year on Saturday, March 25. The event lasted all day and was organized by students in the Applied Event Management course taught by Associate Professor of Kinesiology Jennifer VanSickle.

this event to happen during a time that is most stressful for students on campus and out of the way of other holidays and major campus events during the fall semester of 2016-17. Burton was selected to take over Bower’s position and organize the events for the spring semester.

“The whole week is a collaboration between Delight Ministries and Salt and Light by promoting BABE Week within our own groups. But of course we didn’t want to make anything exclusive, so we put stuff up on the My UIndy events calendar.

For the most part, we were promoting it among our girls,” Burton said. “We have a different event for every night. We have a little scripture for each night. In the first one, it talked about self-care and how it is important to be yourself and just remember that God has everything under control.”

Events for BABE Week included the self-care kick-off, with DIY face masks and bath salts on March 26 at 7 p.m., a guest speaker for missions and tie blankets for missions ministries on March 27 at 7 p.m., worship night on March 28 at 7 p.m., an evening of cookies and canvas

on March 29 at 7 p.m., an hour of yoga on March 30 at 7:30 p.m. with chapel to follow at 9 p.m. and a movie night featuring “Mona Lisa Smiles” on March 31 at 8:30 p.m.

“Because it is the time of the year where everything is stressful, everyone is busy getting ready for finals and stressed out, we wanted to take time to all come together as a group of women who want to encourage and empower one another in love,” Burton said.

Burton wanted the events for BABE Week to centrally focus on women’s empowerment.

“Something that we really wanted to focus on is the fact that there is no right way to be empowered as a woman,”Burton said. “There is no ideal woman of who other women should be like…. We just need to empower ourselves. And as long as we have a clear picture of who we want to be, and to be confident in ourselves, then that’s great, and we should pursue that with all that we’ve got.”

BABE Week, which is not just specific to UIndy alone, is a national week for all females who choose to celebrate it.

“Each BABE Week is independently run by those who choose to engage,” Burton said. “A lot of people have decided that they like the idea of being authentic and being empowered, so they adopted their own week. We decided, then, to adopt our own, too.”

Throughout the week, Delight Ministries and Salt and Light Ministries were able to receive several donations. Not only was there money donated, but feminine products were donated as well.

“We’ve had a couple hundred individually wrapped product donations as well as monetary donations,” Burton said. “So far, we’ve got[ten] about $60 to $70 in [monetary] donations. Our goal was to be able to set up at a lunch table, because what girl doesn’t have a tampon in their book bag or purse, and they could just throw a couple or a few products into a tub as they walked by.”

By UIndy partnering with Fletcher Place Community Center, located within close proximity to UIndy, the donations, both monetary and products, will serve the women and girls they have taken in.

“We chose to donate to a community center that is for the homeless where there

is a soup kitchen, a free store, a kindergarten school for those who can’t afford to send their kids to a good school right away.They informed us that they needed tampons and pads for their girls because it is considered a luxury item, and they can’t get them with food stamps,” Henke said. “Partnering with them worked out really well in collaboration with BABE Week because of the women we’re serving here and there.”

Because women do not consider feminine products to be luxury items, Henke and Burton researched what women who lack the products do in order to get through the days of their cycles.

“We researched what homeless women do when those products are not readily available for them. They either choose to pay for those products with the money that they have and not eat for a week or they do eat and somehow figure out an unhygienic way to go about their periods without feminine products,” Henke said.“That shows that those products are a necessity and that there should be no reason for them to be considered a luxury item.”

Student groups aim to unify UIndy

By Erik Cliburn OPINION EDITOR

Unity among different groups of people has always been a struggle in the United States, according to slam poet and spoken-word performer Mariah Ivey.

Ivey, along with several others, spoke at the first Unity march to take place at the University of Indianapolis on March 26.

The Unity March was an effort by several on-campus organizations to bring people from different cultures, backgrounds and ethnicities together so they might better understand one another. One of the main points of the event brought up by UIndy President Rob Manuel during his opening speech, was that just because UIndy is diverse does not mean that it is always unified. Graduate student in political science Sigi Ferguson found this to be one of the most important points of the entire event.

“We [UIndy] have a lot of diversity, but there is a lot fragmentation within that,” Ferguson said. “Although there is a lot of diversity and a lot of diverse communities, they are not necessarily working together to promote unity.”

Sophomore religion and applied psychology major Natalie Benson had a hand in organizing the Unity March. Planning for the event started in February after junior political science and international relations major Tosin Salau along with other members of the Muslim Students Union, brought concerns to Interfaith and Kory Vitangeli about the current political climate in the United States and how it could affect the unity of students at UIndy, according to Benson. Salau said that the Unity March was proposed after executive orders from the Trump administration banned entry into the United States from several predominantly Muslim countries.

“The university gave out a statement [in response to the travel ban], and normally when they give out a statement, there is some kind of stance on it,” Salau said. “‘But that statement did not do any of that. It was literally just a statement of facts, which kind of bothered me.”

The groups involved with the Unity March included the Indianapolis Student

Photo by Mariah Coleman

Rolando Mendoza was one of the many students that shared their stories at the Unity March, an event with a goal to bring people of different backgrounds together.

Government, Muslim Student Union, Black Student Association, Interfaith Scholars and Honors Student Association. The Unity March took place in the atrium of Schwitzer, and although the event was titled “Unity March,”the actual march was canceled due to rain. However, the rain was not enough to deter the speakers from sharing their stories with the audience.

The event opened with Salau introducing Manuel to the stage. Manuel highlighted the importance of students educating themselves about the cultures and experiences of others at UIndy and in the community.Three student speakers followed Manuel: senior biology major Rolando Mendoza, junior international business and Spanish major Leekshika Pinnamneni and sophomore political science major Aml Alkatib. The students spoke about their personal stories as immigrants, children of immigrants,

religious minorities or other minorities within the United States. Afterwards, Ivey gave a short speech and performed two of her spoken-word poems to the audience.

“The Unity March is important because it is a part of direct action,”Ivey said.“I think it is a start. It is a beginning to something much larger. But if you can get people to come together, get on the same page and understand, then you are starting. I hope that they [students and faculty] will get the significance of unity, of revolution. Unity is a very broad term, but I’m hoping that everyone will understand the importance of it and their role. Everyone has a role in this whole thing. It’s about taking ego out of the picture, pride out of the picture, and understanding that as humans that should be the first thing: humanity coming together.”

Associate Professor of Education Terrence Harewood was the last of the speakers for the afternoon. He emphasized that

students and faculty should get to know one another, and what each person’s story and situation is, to better relate and understand one another. Junior biology major and BSA President Melina Hale closed the Unity March with the chants that had been planned for the actual march outside.

According to Ivey, the Unity March is a step in the right direction for places that do not usually have similar discussions.

“It [unity marches and rallies] will help in spaces where it does not happen,” Ivey said. “Conversations, panel discussions and things like this are not always helpful. When they are done often, they can become redundant.

When they are done in spaces where they have been done often, then you are kind of preaching to the choir. But in spaces where people are ignorant to the things that are going on, they are extremely important.”

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Trump will make another attempt at health care bill

By John T. Bennett CQ-ROLL CALL WASHINGTON (TNS)—The White House is inching ever so slightly toward another try at a health care overhaul package—and Trump administration officials signaled Wednesday, March 29 that they want a more methodical process this time.

In the hours and days after President Donald Trump and Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., decided to pull a GOP-crafted measure aimed at repealing and replacing the Obama administration’s 2010 health law, the chief executive and his top aides signaled the effort was dead.

The message from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. as recently as Monday, March 27, was clear: We’re moving on to tax reform, getting Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court and avoiding a government shutdown when federal funding expires late next month.

But when House Republicans got back to work in earnest, rank-and-file members decided there was too much politically at stake to drop the matter, and they began talking among themselves about how to get the needed votes.

The White House on Tuesday, March 28, played coy, with press secretary Sean Spicer saying little more than that Trump administration officials were having some talks with individuals from Capitol Hill about next steps and ideas about a new health overhaul bill, but had no plans to launch a renewed effort toward a new bill.

But nearly 24 hours later, after a New York Times report that Trump had deployed his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, to talk to members about how he might get the win on health care he craves after promising to repeal and replace the 2010 law during the campaign, Spicer signaled that the administration is dipping its metaphorical toe back into the health care overhaul.

“The president, from the early days

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Flood in Peru leaves 94 dead, 700,000 homeless LIMA, Peru—Extreme weather has battered many parts of the world this year, but few countries have suffered more in lives, homes and crops lost than Peru, the Andean country that has been beset with torrential rains and massive flooding for much of this year.

—Los Angeles Times

Islamic State traps people, uses snipers to draw airstrikes BAGHDAD—The Islamic State militants arrived at Khalida Abd Jamal’s house through holes they cut in the concrete walls. Holding a gun to her husband’s head, they corralled the family of seven into a room on the first floor.

“We were stuck in the room,” she recalled. “We had to stay. We couldn’t leave.”

—Tribune Washington Bureau

Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor, seeks immunity

Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the Daily Briefing at the White House Wednesday, March 29, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS) of his campaign, talked about repealing and replacing,” Spicer said. “It’s a commitment that he made. I think he’d like to get it done.”

But Trump’s chief spokesman stressed to reporters that Trump is not going to pursue a deal with Republican—and perhaps some Democratic—lawmakers for the sake of it.

“But he also understands, and I want to be completely consistent with two things.

One is, he understands that in order to get to 216, we have to make sure that it does what he says it was going to do—that it achieves those goals of lowering costs and creating more options.

“And so we’re not going to create a deal for the sake of creating a deal that ends up being not in the best interests of the

Manatee to be taken off endangered list

American people,” Spicer said. “You’ve got to know when to walk away from a deal that is going to end up bad. And he wants to have a good deal.”

Trump is newly willing to “engage” members of both parties on their ideas about an overhaul package that will “grow that vote,” he said, adding some Democrats have reached out to White House officials with their insights.

“We’ve seen members of both sides of the aisle engage with the White House on ways that are potentially ways to get there,” he said. “It’s an ongoing discussion.”

But after Trump demanded the House vote on the bill just 17 days into the overhaul process, the White House now seems set on a slower approach.

“We’re not trying to jam that down

anyone’s throat right now,” Spicer told reporters. “Over the course of 17 months, Obamacare, you know, failed and started (again) multiple times. Went off on multiple different tracks, including single payer, until ... they jammed it through.

“And so we’re 20 days, 21 days into this process, 22 probably today. So we’ll see,” he said. “But I think the idea that the president has put out there is that if people want to float ideas and suggestions on how we can grow this vote and get to a majority, he’ll entertain them.” ___ (c)2017 CQ-Roll Call, Inc., All Rights Reserved Visit CQ Roll Call at www.rollcall.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, has been seeking immunity from prosecution in return for testifying to the House and Senate intelligence committees, a congressional official confirmed Thursday, March 30. The negotiations were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

—Tribune Washington Bureau

Pence votes to let states withhold funds from Planned Parenthood WA S H I N G T O N — S e n a t e Republicans needed Vice President Mike Pence to dash to the Capitol twice on Thursday, March 30, to cast tie-breaking votes to pass legislation that will make it easier for states to restrict federal funds for Planned Parenthood and other providers of family planning services.

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Environmental groups say the reclassification could be ‘devastating’

By Jenny Staletovich MIAMI HERALD MIAMI (TNS)—The manatee—for decades the poster mammal for environmental decline in Florida—is officially no longer an endangered species.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Thursday, March 30 that the manatee will instead be designated “threatened”—a status change that reflects a boom in population over the last decade. In February, Florida wildlife managers released preliminary results of an annual count that recorded 6,620 manatees lumbering in the warm waters of Florida’s lagoons, springs and canals.

It was the third straight year the estimated population increased— a trend that federal wildlife managers pointed to as a sign of successful recovery for a species that once numbered in the hundreds in Florida waters when they announced plans in 2016 to reclassify the iconic species.

“The Florida manatee population has continued to increase. We see that in the surveys done every winter,” Larry Williams, the agency’s state supervisor, said in a press briefing.

But environmental groups argue the rebound comes along with a growing number of manatee deaths, particularly from boat strikes, and that the manatee’s fate remains uncertain. There is, for instance, a growing trend by manatees to huddle during cooler winter months in artificial habitats created by power plants. If those shut down, there could be major losses.

“We believe this is a devastating blow to manatees,” Patrick Rose, executive director for Save the Manatee Club, said

in a statement. “A federal reclassification at this time will seriously undermine the chances of securing the manatee’s longterm survival.”

Without first coming up with a plan to replace habitat around power plants if they shut down, the move is premature, he said. And while population numbers are up, so are deaths by boats.

“Manatees are still in danger. With ongoing threats posed by boat strikes and habitat loss, we don’t support reducing protections through down-listing yet,” Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.

But wildlife managers say the change in status is largely symbolic and that the slow speed zones and other protections that have helped manatees recover will remain in place. “ The same level of protection is in place,” Williams said.

“We expect no change in speed zones, in the enforcement of speed zones, no change in manatee protection area. No changes in anything.”

Defenders of Wildlife also pointed to an analysis it commissioned that found the wildlife agency used outdated population information that failed to reflect deaths between 2009 and 2016.

While the down-listing may not reduce protections, said CEO Jamie Rappaport Clark, “it may create the incorrect impression that the manatee is doing better than it is, and that those protections can be reduced.” ___ (c)2017 Miami Herald Visit Miami Herald at www.miamiherald.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

“A federal reclassification at this time will seriously undermine the chances of securing the manatee’s longterm survival.”

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