Feb. 21, 2018 | The Reflector

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Registration to change After two years of multi-term registration, the university will switch back to single term

By Noah Crenshaw ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Each year, students at the University of Indianapolis plan out their academic schedules and register for classes. Starting with the 2018-2019 academic year, the university will return to single-term registration after using multi-term registration for the past two academic years.

Registrar Joshua Hayes said this change resulted from concerns about schedule flexibility and student needs.

He said that scheduling courses far in advance had impacted the university’s ability to respond to changes in enrollment.

“If a department needed to add a section of a course or change the time a course was meeting or change the room [where] a course was meeting because the enrollment had grown, that caused problems and really caused some unnecessary headaches for students,” Hayes said.

“Schedules that they [students] had set potentially a year before were changed, and then we would have to notify [them].

It was really sort of hampering our ability to be flexible and to meet the needs of our students.”

Associate Department Chair and Professor of English Jennifer Camden said that faculty had to redo their work over and over under multi-term registration due to changing schedules.

“I used to submit a schedule, and as things changed — and they inevitably did — I would have to keep submitting updates and revisions,” Camden said. “It created a lot of work for the faculty and for the registrar’s office to keep tinkering with the schedule. I will not promise that we won’t still have changes or updates that need to be made, but it won’t be quite so many over such a long stretch of time.”

Associate Registrar Janna Ulbright said that the procedure initially used when changing to multi-term registration two years ago involved several behind-the-scenes changes to UIndy’s registration system. It also affected course planning for faculty because departments had to plan out Semesters I and II and Summer, rather than just planning for one semester at a time.

Hayes said the university had noticed the amount of communication between students and their academic advisors had decreased since implementation multiterm registration. Because students had to register for the entire year, they only saw their advisors once a year.

Hayes said that the university believes the communication between students and advisors is important enough that it should happen more than once a year.

Interim Director of Center for Advising and Student Achievement Sunni Manges said that she considers the change a win for faculty, students and academic advisors, and is excited about the return of single-term registration.

“The best part of my job is meeting with students and helping them navigate their time at UIndy,” Manges said. “Single-term registration allows advisors to meet with our students more frequently and cultivate those relationships. . . [and] allows academic departments the flexibility to adjust course offerings for Semester II to best meet the students’ needs.”

Camden encouraged communication between advisors and students. She said that she understands why some students may not be pleased with the decision to switch registration procedures but that they should try to seek out their advisors for guidance.

“One thing I think that students might see as not being a benefit to the change is not knowing what is going to be

offered in Semester II when they register for Semester I. But I would encourage them to seek out their faculty advisors,” Camden said. “The faculty, within the majors, know what kinds of course rotations we [UIndy] typically offer courses on or know who to ask to get the answers to those questions. So, if you say, ‘I need to take English 340, when will it be offered?’ the department chair or faculty advisor should be able to answer your question for you.”

According to Associate Provost for Academic Systems Mary Beth Bagg, the university had looked at studies from the Educational Advisory Board and the original idea of using multi-term registration was a part of a “pilot project” that the university was trying out to see if it would help with student retention.

According to Ulbright, one of the goals of multi-term registration was for students to plan their schedules in advance so that they would know exactly how their academic year would go and what their class schedules would look like.

Ulbright said that it is unfortunate that multi-term registration sometimes has negative effects on students.

“Sometimes students change majors, or departments have to change class schedules, so it [multi-term registration] didn’t work out exactly the way we thought it may have,” Ulbright said.

Switching back to single-term registration will help ensure that students are not placed in a difficult position or penalized when they have to change their schedule, according to Camden.

“If they [students] are making their best prediction for Semester II and then something happens, and they need to change their schedule, then [under the multi-term process] it was harder for

reflector.uindy.edu

Scheduling Preference

35.9%

One semester at a time

One year at a time

54.4%

9.7% No preference

Informal survey of 206 people conducted by The Reflector.

For a complete list of The Reflector’s findings visit reflector.uindy.edu.

Grade Breakdown

55.5% One semester at a time

71.4%

One year at a time

50%

69.8%

41.7%

One year at a time

One year at a time

No preference

54 Freshmen 35 Sophomores 63 Juniors

42 Seniors

12 Graduates

Student Quotes “I am able to get everything done at once and not have to worry about it throughout the semester.

It allows me to be able to plan out work hours for the year.”

Senior psychology & creative writing major One year at a time “Things change and it’s harder to adapt when you’re registered a year in advance.”

Senior communication major One semester at a time

> See Registration on page 3

“It allows for more flexibility if you can’t get into a class you thought you could. You can change it easier if needed.”

Freshman psychology/pre-OT major One semester at a time “It's easier to remember what classes to add and I don't have to worry about being wait-listed.”

Junior visual communiction design major One year at a time

Graphic by Johana Rosendo

Future Greyhound victim of Florida school shooting

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR

Photos by Cassandra Lombardo

The University of Indianapolis Criminal Justice Department is in the process of developing a criminal justice education lab that will open to the students in the fall of 2018. The house encompasses mock crime scenes and lab equipment testing, which will give the criminal justice students more hands on experience on the field.

Criminal justice program opens lab

By Sophie Watson & Cassandra Lombardo SPORTS EDITOR & EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year, the University of Indianapolis Criminal Justice Department will be opening a the criminal justice education lab where students will participate in mock crime scene investigations, to gain real experience in the field. According to Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Kevin Whiteacre, the house will be the only mock crime scene house in Indiana, and will be a historic event for UIndy.

The university previously owned a vacant house on Bowman Ave., and partnered with Indianapolis-Marion County Forensics Services Agency to have the lot rezoned for educational use. The IMCFSA will also be using the house, since they do not have a facility of their own. The Marion County officers will use the house to train and test their

agents, according to Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Kevin Whiteacre.

“The house will be used for several purposes. It’ll be used by UIndy as well as the forensics agency [IMCFSA.] It will be used primarily for criminal investigation and crime prevention,” Whiteacre said. “The benefit for the students is that they can come in and talk to the agents being tested. It’s great to see real world forensics going on.”

The students will be able to use equipment such as magnifying glasses, evidence marks and fingerprint dusting to study the crime scenes. According to Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Bruce Biggs, the students will get a different experience than other schools in the area because they have the ability to use this house and have access to the IMCFSA agents who will also be using the house.

“Most criminal justice programs use the most available space for mock crime scenes, where they borrow space to set

them up which gets tense because you have to a lot of conversion because someone is coming in to use that space,” Biggs said. “So here, we can leave stuff up.”

Sophomore criminal justice major Isabelle Christman will be visiting the mock crime house next year in many of her courses. She said that she is excited to have this experience and something that will give her the extra edge when she graduates.

“I'm excited to go to the crime house because it's supposed to be really realistic and supposed to be like a true crime scene. We're being judged on how accurately we can go through and make sure we hit each point that we have to, like interviewing and collecting evidence,” Christman said. “It’s the real life experience for the field I'm going into that every [criminal justice] student hopes for.”

According to Whiteacre, the house and the outside area will be utilized for class use. Despite the equipment clutter-

> See Lab on page 10

Nicholas Dworet could not wait to be a Greyhound.

Recruited by University of Indianapolis Head Swimming and Diving Coach Jason Hite, Dworet had received a scholarship to travel to Indianapolis in the fall and study physical therapy at UIndy. Hite said that he first heard about Dworet after his high school coach recommended Dworet as a developing talent.

“He and his coach contacted me, and [his coach] told me a little bit about him and his background between academics and his swimming,” Hite said. “He [Dworet’s coach] was seeing a lot of improvements in him [Dworet]. Goodsized guy, strong build. He’d really made some changes in the past couple of years in how he approached everything. And he’s just the kind of guy we look for here.

He was a UIndy guy.”

On Feb. 14, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School entered the campus and opened fire on students and staff, according to lawenforcement.

Dworet and his younger brother both were wounded by gunfire and hospitalized. Hite was in contact with the family and said he initially believed both boys would recover. The next morning, however, he received the news that the shooting had left 17 people dead — one of whom was Dworet.

Hite said that he has since been in contact with Dworet’s family and former coach, offering condolences and ensuring that there is nothing the family needs that UIndy could provide. “[His] mom made a point of really saying how much Nick was looking forward to being here, being a Hound, being part of our family, going to school here. He just loved it when he was here,” Hite said.

Hite said that Dworet was “just very

full of energy and life” during his official visit to UIndy’s campus. Dworet spent a weekend on campus, and the two discussed his future as a Greyhound student and swimmer.

“It was the first time he’d seen snow, [the] first and only time he [had] made a snowball, made a snow angel. It was a neat experience for him,” Hite said.

“Like I said, he loved every minute of it.

He bought three or four shirts from the bookstore when he was here. I mean, he had joined some of the social media pages…. He had already put his deposit down. Actually, in talking to one of our other future Hounds...on Tuesday night, on the 13th, [I was told] he and another one of our future Hounds had decided to be roommates next year. So just the night before.”

The day after the shooting, University President Robert Manuel sent an email to students, faculty and staff alerting them to what had happened.

“I am deeply saddened to share with you that we just received notification that Nicholas Dworet, who would have become a member of our Greyhound family as an entering freshman this fall, died in the shootings yesterday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,” Manuel wrote.

Manuel wrote that tragedies like this show how events such as those that took place in Florida can have far-reaching effects. He asked that the campus community keep Dworet and his family in their thoughts during the coming weeks.

“Nick’s death is a reminder that we are connected to the larger world, and when tragedy hits in places around the world, it oftentimes affects us at home,” Manuel wrote. “Today, and in the coming days, I hope you will hold up Nick, his family, all of the victims, as well as the Parkland community and first responders in your prayers.”

Although Dworet was not yet a UIndy student, students and staff who met him, even briefly, remember him as an

> See Dworet on page 10

OPINION

2 THE REFLECTOR

A step in the wrong direction

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Korean unification just for show

Republican tax plan increases income inequality in a technology-focused economy

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR As a proclaimed “Christmas present”to the citizens of the United States, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which lowers the tax rates of individuals and corporations across the country. The tax act cuts the corporate tax rate from 37 percent to 21 percent, which is a permanent change. For most individuals, however, the changes are far less significant.

With the GOP holding the presidency and a majority in each house, it seems the time has come for them to make some drastic changes in the U.S. tax system. Unfortunately, these changes that are a so-called “gift” to the people really only have a significant impact on corporations and the wealthy.

The act maintains the seven different income brackets and lowers the income tax rate across the board except for the lowest income range, $0 to $9,525 if filing as single and $0 to $19,050 if filing as married-joint, which will remain at the 10 percent income tax rate. The six other income ranges will experience a decrease in the income tax percentages, but more in the range of two to four percent, rather than the 16 percent drop that corporate entities will receive. While the corporate tax changes are permanent, the decrease in percentages for individuals will only last until 2025, and will then revert back to the 2017 percentages. Although the tax act does lower the income percentages, it eliminates personal exemptions, which

previously allowed taxpayers to subtract $4,150 for each person claimed. For those who have several children, this new tax plan may ensure that they pay more than they did under the previous tax plan.

Along with the large disparity between the haves and have nots, to which this tax cut seems to be adding to, the tax act also allows for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which seems unrelated to taxes. The act also repeals the Affordable Health Care tax, which was applied to those without health insurance under the Obama administration. In cutting the Obamacare tax, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that around 13 million people will drop their health care plan and save the government nearly $338 billion. While this may sound like a great way to balance out the losses of the large tax cuts, it comes at the cost of more expensive health care for those who do choose to keep their health plans.

The issue that I have with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is not the lowering of taxes; it would be foolish to expect anything different from a Republican-drafted tax plan. I am concerned with the large discrepancy in the cuts to corporate taxes versus personal income taxes. It is hard not to see this as anything other than the GOP helping out the big companies that donate to their campaigns and advertising while leaving the little guys in the dust.

The tax act is an obvious attempt to re-create the Reaganomics, or “trickledown economics,” of the 1980s, meaning that corporate tax cuts presumably would allow companies to hire more

I would consider it idealistic, unrealistic or even delusional in today’s economy.

employees, thus growing the economy, cutting unemployment and providing economic stability for more people. As great as this economic plan sounds in theory, I would consider it idealistic, unrealistic or even delusional in today’s economy. In a world that is constantly making great strides in technology, it is reasonable to assume that robots and technology will continue to replace many jobs over the next few decades.

According to Business Insider, the electric car giant Tesla has plans for the near future to create a fully automated assembly line for its vehicles. With this in mind, the likelihood of large corporations hiring a bunch of human employees that must be trained and paid is constantly dwindling.

Many of these companies, especially those involved in manufacturing, will most likely invest heavily in automating their process in order to maximize profits for shareholders.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against rich people making money.

I would want to grow my fortune, too, if I were in that position, but I have a problem when it comes at the expense of the people who struggle paycheck-to-paycheck. I am not advocating for handouts to the poor or extra taxes on the rich, but I think there should be a level playing field. Even if the tax plan had cut corporate taxes by only five percent, that is still a huge chunk of money when considering multimillion and multibillion dollar companies.

The elected officials in the government are responsible for representing the interests of their constituents and the citizens of the U.S. as a whole, but this tax act simply does not do that.

Instead, the act seems like a payout for continued corporate support of the politicians who passed it.

We are united as one!

Graphic by Alexis Stella

Anti-vaxxers’ argument invalid

By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR Despite overwhelming evidence that vaccines are rarely dangerous, many parents make the choice to not vaccinate their children. According to the World Health Organization, 19.5 million (nearly one in 10) children were not vaccinated or not fully vaccinated with the Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis shot that protects children from serious infectious diseases such as whooping cough and tetanus.

It is appalling that, despite the amount of evidence that vaccines are safe, parents are still choosing not to vaccinate their healthy kids. The actions and claims of those opposed to vaccines seem nothing but delusional, selfish and ignorant.

When my niece was born in August, my sister and her doctor decided not to let anyone who had not had the TDAP (a DTP booster) shot in the hospital room because she was afraid of the possibility that her could baby develop whopping cough due to the poor decision of someone else.

My niece was too young to receive the shot at the time, which is why others took precautions to protect her. Some children are simply not old enough for certain vaccines, and others with compromised immune systems cannot receive vaccines

and must rely on others to be vaccinated, to prevent diseases from spreading to sick and weak children.

A simple Google search will yield an abundance of evidence that vaccines are safe. Vaccines must undergo years of testing before they are put into the market for widespread use. Of course, there is always a possibility of side effects, as there is with any drug, but the benefits outweigh the risks.

Va c c i n e s have dramatically reduced, and in some cases eradicated, dangerous diseases. Take polio and smallpox as prime examples.

I can’t comprehend that some choose to ignore the science and the evidence Graphic by Johana Rosendo

of vaccines and would rather listen to antivaccine groups on Facebook.

I n 2015, the Centers for Disease Control found that out of 25 million people who received a vaccines, only 33 people had a serious reaction from the vaccine. In the study, no one under the age of four had complications and the median age of complications was 17. Only one of those 33 people was hospitalized and no deaths occurred. The benefits outweigh the risks by far. I am not a mother, but one day I may be, and I would rather take a one-in-one million chance that my child could have vaccine complications than my child to get sick, and possibly die, from a disease that could have been easily

prevented.

The most ridiculous argument of all is that vaccines cause autism. I find this argument laughable and the cherry on top to the delusion of antivaccines. Extensive research has been conducted and concluded that there is no correlation between autism and vaccines, according to the CDC. Hypothetically speaking, even if vaccines caused autism, I would rather my child be alive and have autism than dead without autism. A child having a development disability seems far better than losing a child to an easily preventable disease.

People are allowed to have their own opinions and make their own judgements, but when those opinions and judgements come at the expense of others lives, a line needs to be drawn. The only reason a child should not be vaccinated is if their immune system is compromised or it is already known that the vaccine is ineffective on that child or if vaccinations go directly against someone’s religious beliefs.

Not because some mother on Facebook has read something and decided that vaccines were bad.

The situation would be different if there wasn’t extensive research put into vaccines. But there has been, and science has proved most, if not all, of the falsities that people claim in order to not vaccinate their children.

Piracy laws don’t work

By Shayla Cabalan STAFF WRITER

Graphic by Johana Rosendo

Many millennials have been pirating their whole lives, according to Torrent Freak, a site specializing in reportage of piracy.

I knew pretty early on society frowned upon this behavior. In 2005, the Motion Picture Association launched a series of public service announcements that, instead of being taken seriously, swiftly became a meme.The PSAs featured gritty text and overly-dramatic cinematography that loudly proclaimed, “You wouldn’t steal a car, you wouldn’t steal a handbag…

Downloading pirated films is stealing.”

For years afterwards, I dealt with these PSAs playing during the opening sequences of DVDs my family had purchased. There was always something off-putting about them, and revisiting the subject now, I understand why: the over dramatization of unequal forms of theft make the PSA pretty laughable.

There are clear differences between

stealing a car and stealing a movie. In common theft, the owner of the property loses all use of the stolen good. If I were to up and steal a car, I would gain a car, and that person would lose their ride home entirely.

Conversely, if I were to steal a digital file of a copyrighted property, things would be a bit different. In downloading a video game, I would not have excluded the creator from its use, and I most certainly haven’t deprived them of the ability to profit from it.

The movie, music and video games industries rake in billions of dollars every single year, even though people decide to pirate the content that gets published. A $10 album, $20 movie or $60 video game is just a small drop in the ocean of these industries’ gross sales each year.

The Supreme Court of Sweden tried Pirate Bay, a piracy website, in 2009 for copyright infringement. However, Pirate Bay is still up and running, which goes to show that piracy laws do not seem to have much of an affect.

Furthermore, according to Nick Bilton

of the New York Times, attempting to end piracy is like playing the world’s largest game of “Whac-a-Mole.” For every push against it, it shifts position and evolves.

This is because of YouTube’s Content ID tool. When a movie studio uploads footage of its film, the Google tool automatically blocks any other copies of the product on the platform.

To get around this, uploaders have started placing films within a photo of a cat watching television. While annoying for the viewer, it gets around the Content ID tool. It’s a loophole, and it works, which honestly seems kind of clever.

There are many more examples like this. According to Torrent Freak, unauthorized content is consumed via piracy sites millions of times a day. While many believe new laws will help fix this, still more believe that any more laws will just push people in new ways get the content they crave.

Having evolved alongside piracy, I cannot say I disagree at the current generation has not been deterred by anti-piracy campaigns in the past.

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THE REFLECTOR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Schwitzer Perk changes brands

Weigand announces retirement after 38 years at university While the Perk II and Perk III will remain partnered with Starbucks, the Perk I is now partnered with Metropolis Coffee

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR

In 1974, Executive Vice President for Campus Affairs and Enrollment Services Mark Weigand stepped onto the University of Indianapolis campus for the first time as an undergraduate student.

In mid-Jan. 2018, after spending more than 38 years on campus, Weigand and the university announced his decision to retire in June.

Weigand graduated from UIndy with a Bachelors of Science in business education in 1978. After teaching briefly at Greenwood High School, he returned to UIndy in 1980, working first as an admissions counselor and then working his way up to director of admissions.

In 1999, he took the position of vice president for enrollment, then became vice president for student affairs and enrollment management in 2006 and was named to his current position in 2013.

As the executive vice president for campus affairs and enrollment services, Weigand said that his primary job is to work with various faculty and staff to help increase and maintain enrollment.

Those who head to the Perk every day for their daily caffeine fix will have, most likely, noticed that it no longer serves Starbucks coffee. While the Perk II and III still serve Starbucks drinks, the Perk I now serves coffee, along with various other drinks, from Metropolis Coffee Company.

Metropolis is based in Chicago and, according to President of Quest Food Management Services Nick Saccaro, because of the close proximity the coffee beans are much more fresh than those that the Perk received from Starbucks.

“We’re ordering it [coffee beans] on Wednesday and it’s getting delivered on Friday,” Saccaro said. “It’s a really fresh product. It’s not sitting on the shelves for weeks on end…. It’s a little more of a coffee shop experience in terms of how we have to make the drinks. It’s not as automated as it was before. It requires a little more of a true barista approach to making the coffee.”

Lisa Rucker-Smith, a barista for the second shift at the Perks, said she enjoys freedom and opportunity for experimentation that the new coffee offers her.

“Starbucks has a specific [way of ] how you have to make it [coffee]. They don’t want you to alter it [the recipe],” Rucker-Smith said. “Over there [Perk I] we can play around a little bit. I can say, ‘Hmm, let’s infuse these flavors.’ The chocolate strawberry frappe is my new flavor over there right now. So I’m having fun with that.”

Dispite the Perk having a new coldbrew coffee machine, graduate student studying teaching English to speakers of other languages Sigi Ferguson said that she is not a fan of Metropolis’ cold-

WEIGAND He helps faculty and staff design academic programs and is involved in making decisions about financial aid and admissions. In 2008, Weigand was involved in making the decision about how to best support students after the Indiana Senate and House of Representatives cut funding for student aid by 30 percent.

He said that the faculty and staff agreed to a wage freeze in order to put more funding toward student aid. Enrollment for the 2008-2009 academic year was strong, according to Weigand.

Weigand works closely with staff in the graduate and School for Adult Learning enrollment division, the undergraduate admissions office and the financial aid office as well as the provost.

He also chairs the university’s retention committee, sits on the budget committee and has been a part of various other commissions, boards and committees during his time at the university. It is the people he has worked with over the years that he said he will miss the most.

“It’s very unusual in this day and age to have worked with people so long and to have been in a place that there were so many changes that we all worked together and embraced, that we worked as a team,” Weigand said. “And when you work with people that long, those people become sort of an extended family. We see our kids graduate from college, we go through struggles when we lose somebody close to us, and we all help each other. So, it’s really kind of an extended family. I think the people are probably what kept me here so long — the students and the people that I work with.”

One of the individuals Weigand works closely with is University President Robert Manuel. According to Manuel, Weigand was helpful during Manuel’s transition to UIndy because of his knowledge of the history of the university.

“When you become president — especially for the first time — it's hard to find truth,” Manuel said. “Everything is coming at you. It's all new….And I had one true guide in that, and that was Mark [Weigand]...And so the greatest gift that Mark gave to me in my presidency was the ability to kind of be a sounding board for all of the visioning stuff we were doing, both to test whether it made sense to the history at the university but also to the culture of the university.”

In addition to working with Manuel, faculty and administration, Weigand also said that he has enjoyed having the opportunity to get to know students and watch them grow. Some of those students have returned to UIndy and are a part of the team that Weigand is leaving behind, he said. His team is one of the reasons he felt comfortable leaving UIndy. “...I've spent a lot of time at the university and I want to leave when I know there are people here that can carry on what’s going on,” Weigand said. “...In the place of enrollment this is a good time to have a change, since I've been here so long. We have great leadership that is more than capable of carrying on.”

Photo by Noah Crenshaw

The Perk in Schwitzer Student Center is now serving drinks from Metropolis Coffee Company, based in Chicago, Ill.. While the other two Perks are still affiliated with Starbucks, the partnership with Metropolis has allowed for new items to be added to the menu at the Schwitzer Perk, such as cold brew coffee and fruit smoothies. brew coffee.

“That iced coffee machine that they [Perk I] have, I think it’s a nice idea, but I haven’t really seen the execution follow through with that,” Ferguson said. “I’ve heard a lot of complaints that it’s watered down… I literally just had a sip of that iced coffee and I could not have thought of anything worse. If I’m being honest.

I’m not the biggest fan of iced coffee to begin with, but I did like the Starbucks iced coffee a little bit better. I don’t know it’s just because I’m used to how they’ve been doing it for the past year or it’s the [new] machine that they have.”

Although Ferguson does not like the new iced coffee from Metropolis, she said she does think that the new caramel frappuccinos taste better and that she

enjoys the addition of fruit smoothies to the menu.

Saccaro said that fruit smoothies have been some of Metropolis’ best-selling products so far. He also said that the addition of smoothies was one of the several reasons that the Indianapolis Student Government decided to move ahead with making the switch to Metropolis.

“What we heard from student government was they felt like because it wasn’t a full Starbucks experience…that it was limited in the offerings,” Saccaro said.

“With those ‘Proudly Brew’ programs there’s only certain beverages you can sell. There’s beverages you can’t sell. You’re limited with what seasonal promotions you can and can’t offer, and the prices are also dictated in terms of what you

Photo by Marissa Burton

The Burmese American Community Institute held the Myanmar Union Day Ceremony in Ransburg Auditorium. They celebrated the 71st Anniversary of the Union Day of Myanmar. Students performed traditional Burmese songs and dances and Mayor Joe Hogsett and Myanmar’s Ambassador to the United States spoke at the event.

Event celebrates Union Day

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR

The Myanmar Union Day Ceremony brought traditional Burmese songs, costumes and dancing to Ransburg Auditorium on Feb. 12 as part of a collaboration between the University of Indianapolis and the Burmese community of Indianapolis.

The Union Day ceremony, however, is not the first collaboration between UIndy and its Burmese neighbors, nor will it be the last.

Associate Provost for International Engagement & Shared Governance Jodie Ferise said that the partnership is valuable to UIndy and is one the university hopes to continue.

“They are a really important community partners to us, especially because they’re right there. They’re such an integral part of our community and so we really want to continue to work with them, and even in increasingly deep ways in the years to come,” Ferise said.

“Because, to us, it feels like that makes perfect sense. That is our community, they are our neighbors.”

The event handout explained that the Union Day festival commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the Panglong Agreement in Burma/Myanmar on Feb. 12, 1947.

This agreement, signed by leaders of the dominant ethnic groups of Burma — including Kachin, Chin and the Shans — created the first Union of Burma, which was the nation’s first post-colonial

government.

Lian Sang currently serves as Programs Director of the Burmese American Community Institute in Indianapolis, which helps Burmese migrants adjust to living in the community.

BACI’s collaboration with UIndy, Sang said, reflects the organization’s goal of reaching out to youth the community.

According to Sang, the festival offers a unique opportunity for Burmese Americans from various ethnic groups to celebrate their culture together. “ This celebration is also to share Burmese culture, what a diverse culture we have.

We wanted to share among our ethnic groups within the Burmese community as well as the broader community,” Sang said. “Each ethnic group is celebrating their own national day, but not necessarily coming together and celebrating together, and that [the day to do so] is Union Day. This is a great opportunity, I think, for all the ethnic groups to really come together and share their cultures together.”

The Myanmar Union Day Festival featured traditional Burmese songs such as “Tha Ma,” dances that included the Kayah Dance and a cultural fashion show.

In addition to numerous members of the community, the event was attended

by Indianapolis mayor Joe Hogsett and featured video remarks from Indiana

Senator Todd Young. The keynote address was delivered by Myanmar Ambassador to the United States U Aung Lynn.

In his address, Lynn congratulated the Burmese population of Indianapolis and stressed the importance of a strong work ethic to the community.

“The United States of America is a federal republic where all of its citizens are living in harmony and working hard for the betterment of their beloved country,” Lynn said. “I am very happy to see all of you working hard in the place where you live. By working hard, you will get good results.

G o o d re s u l t s will make you happy, and your family will enjoy your happiness. Happiness in your family will spread to towns, cities, your country and eventually to the world that we all belong to.”

Sang said that he hopes the Myanmar Festival will become an annual event shared between BACI, UIndy and the Burmese community of Indianapolis.

“The goal is to celebrate this annually.

I think every year we get better,” Sang said. “And we plan to do this annual event; we [would] really like to continue to have it at UIndy, of course, because UIndy is such wonderful partners and very supportive, so I think this collaboration will continue. There are so many exciting projects and collaborations that we have in store.”

“This is a great opportunity, I think, for all the ethnic groups to really come together...”

charge.”

From a monetary standpoint, the switch from Starbucks to Metropolis is, at minimum, a cost-neutral move for the consumers and the University of Indianapolis, according to Saccaro.

He said that UIndy plans to keep the Starbucks options available at Perk II and III for those who prefer the Seattle-based chain over the new option.

“We’ll go whatever direction the university asks us to go,” Saccaro said. “We don’t really have a preference one way or the other. So we’ll see what the student feedback is, what the faculty and staff feedback is…. We’re pretty impartial, so we don’t have any plans to do it [phase out Starbucks on campus] or not do it at this time.”

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them to have the flexibility,” Camden said. “I think [that by] going back to registering a semester at a time, by the time registration comes around, you know how you’re doing in your classes and what you should be taking, and it sort of returns to a level playing field of everyone making those decisions at the same time.”

Before changing procedures, the university sought feedback from faculty, departments and students. CASA conducted the survey in the fall of 2016, the first semester after switching the registration process. According to Bagg, the combined feedback led to the decision to change back to single-term registration.

A survey that was conducted by CASA polled 1,660 students, according to Manges. According to the results, 41.1 percent of students wanted to register for only Semester I, 23.2 percent of students wanted to register for only Semesters I and II, 18.2 percent of students wanted to register for Semester I, Semester II and the summer semester and 17.3 percent of students wanted to register for either the first, second or third option.

In an anonymous, informal survey of 206 students conducted by The Reflector, 9.7 percent did not have any preference and 54.4 percent of students said they preferred registering for one year at the time. The survey provided a place for students to describe why they chose the response they did. Most students who said they preferred registering for one year at a time noted that they liked being able to see what courses would be available for the entire year and plan ahead for both school and work.

“I need to know the class year round schedule because some classes offered Semester I are not offered Semester II, and it screws everything up,” said a junior health and physical education major.

Of the students surveyed, 35.9 percent preferred single-term registration.

A majority of those students said that this is because registering for one semester at a time kept students from wasting time on inapplicable classes in the event of a major change. Many also said that it is easier for them to plan one semester at a time.

“Registering for one semester at a time reduces a lot of stress,” said a junior English professional writing major.

“It also allows me to know what classes I need each semester so that I don’t miss a class I am required to take.”

Hayes said the decision to change back to single-term registration was not one the university took lightly and it required a great deal of collaboration between the Registrar’s office, CASA and the provost’s office. Hayes also said that the provost’s office had been in charge of coordinating communication among different constituents across campus and that the decision was not made unilaterally.

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Men’s and women’s swimming and diving place 1st and 2nd in GLVC Swimming and diving team earn high rankings and garner multiple major awards during their trip to Crawfordsville, Ind. and the GLVC tournament

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After a record breaking weekend in Crawfordsville, Ind. at the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament, the University of Indianapolis men’s and women’s swimming and diving team brought home first and second place, respectively. The men’s accomplishment garnered them the only ever first place victory at the GLVC tournament in program history, while the women placed the highest in five years.

Drury University was one team that stood in the Hounds’ way of placing on top in the past few years. This season, the team was prepared and ready to take on Drury as well as other opponents, according to Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Coach Jason Hite.

“The main focus wasn’t winning it, to be honest with you,” Hite said. “It was making sure that we made as many qualifying times for nationals and it was giving everyone their best opportunity to give their best performances of the year, whether that’s on the board for the divers or off the blocks for the swimmers.

So for me, the winning is a result of our preparation. It is a result of our energy and the togetherness that we had as we approached the meet. It was an amazing thing to watch our group be as one and everybody took care of what they were supposed to take care of, but they also supported each other, and I think the loudest team on deck which made it a lot of fun.”

The Hounds also set six conference records at the meet and earned five major awards. The team swept the men’s awards, with freshman Hector Gomez Diez as Freshman of the Year, junior Rodrigo Codo Berti as Swimmer of the Year, sophomore Josh Zylstra as Diver of the Year and Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Coach Jason Hite as Coach of the Year. On the women’s side, freshman Cassie Kury received Diver of the Year.

Hite said that the awards were due to the amount of energy and focus that the team has had over the year, and each of the winners were a major asset to the team.

Zylstra won the Diver of the Year award last year, being the only Hound to take home a major award two years in a row.

Hite said that Zylstra has a great coach in Men’s and Women’s Diving Coach Dave Mckown who has helped him, and the rest of the diving side develop tremendously.

“Josh is just a workhorse. He’s got a teammate in [sophomore] Payton Staman who is right behind him. If Josh has one dive that’s not as good and Payton has one that’s a little bit better than those are reversed,” Hite said. “I think that’s just what you have when you have someone like that who is always pushing you.”

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two UIndy records, won three individual gold medals, added to two relay wins as well as being voted the DII National Swimmer of the Week.

“It [Rodrigo’s accomplishments at conference] just says how versatile he is.

He wasn’t even rested for this meet. That just shows what kind of talent that he is,” Hite said. “The competition is getting harder and harder every year and he has risen up to that.”

According to Hite, Diez and Kury have both made a great impact as freshman on the team, but the real test will be seeing them in nationals. As for the Coach of the Year award, he said that award is more about the effort that the team put.

Berti said that Hite’s work with the team put them at the level that they are today.

“I think the Coach of the Year award is just about the work that Jason did with us throughout the season until now,” Berti said. “When I first came here my freshman year, I talked to Jason about the swimming team and the program and he said to me that the swimming program was going to go really high someday. We could see

it. Two years ago we got third [at conference] on the men’s side, last year we got third and now this year we are third in the nation, and we won conference.”

With multiple individual wins, as well as the overall team accomplishments, Hite said that the recruiting that has occurred in the past three years he has been the coach has put the team at a much more competitive level. He said the captains have dictated the energy and positivity on the team, and it showed with the support that the team had for each individual during the conference tournament.

“There’s a different aura about a person who swims and a swimmer, and I think we have more swimmers,” Hite said. “I think this is a very intelligent group. Our men’s team has the third highest GPA out of all DII men’s swimming and diving programs in the country. So you’re not only talking about a fast group but you’re talking about a smart group. And a hard working group.

And it’s their choice to work together and put aside any differences, or where they are from because they’re all Hounds. That’s the pretty neat thing about this group.”

Despite the accolade of winning conference, Hite said that the focus is on nationals, starting on March 14. After the men placing 10th and the women in 31st last season, Hite’s goal is for the team to get top three and top ten, respectively.

“When you win, and you have to perform and win to beat other stiff competition. I think it sets us up for a good environment and energy going into nationals. As far as exceptions in placing, we would love to bring home some hardware from nationals,” Hite said. “That’s reasonable for us to do. We have relays on the men’s side that could all be top five. And we have incredible individuals who can score really high in multiple events and then we have a supporting cast of a couple divers who will rock on the board… What we can control, we will control and we will let the points fall where they may.”

Hite has been working with much of the team for the past three years, and said that having a core team that knows how to work together well allows the team to increasingly improve each year.

“These guys are getting more and more

used to each other. They know each other better as just human beings, they’ve grown together,” Hite said. “Last year [at nationals] it was ‘Can we break through?’ and this year it is ‘We know we belong.’ People are watching us, we aren’t watching other people. People know what UIndy is and the presence that they are and that they are a definite contender. There is just a different mentality that is hard to establish in three years.”

Berti said that he is hoping to install a good mindset in the team to have fun and not be too stressed in nationals.

“Last year when we got there [nationals] we knew we were in the top five or top eight and I don’t know what happened, I think that we just think that we were so nervous about the situation to make the top eight but this year we learned more about it, and just how to be more natural in the water,” Berti said. “So we don’t put so much pressure on ourselves… the environment already puts so much pressure on you, just being there. But if you just put more pressure it’s going to be overwhelming. Just take it easy, no worries.”

The previous weekend, al of the Hounds competed in a series of three separate meets; the Grand Valley State University Big Meet and Hoosier Hills on Feb. 9 and the UIndy Invitational on Feb. 10.

Robinson explained that athletes are sent to different locations based on their competitive levels.

“It really depends on a few things. First and foremost, competition level adequate to the athletes that are going to compete that weekend,” Robinson said.

“So there’s actually three different places we went to. We had some our hurdlers and throwers in particular went to IU because the competition was appropriate for them there.”

According to Robinson, many of the most competitive runners traveled to Grand Valley State because of their large track and better atmosphere for competi-

tion. For many of the athletes, they had the opportunity to compete only on Sunday at UIndy in the Athletic and Recreation Center.

“The reason we went there [Grand Valley] is because it’s an oversize track, so 300 meters. It’s a very distanceheavy meet so it’s more suitable for athletes competitionwise. Then the rest of the athletes who didn’t go to IU or Grand Valley competed at home here on Saturday.”

Throwers competed at the Hoosier Hills Meet, held in Bloomington, Ind., where redshirt junior thrower Katie Monk replaced her previous school record in shot put by launching a 15.54 meter shot and finishing third overall. Daley also reached a provisional time running 6.86, placing him first in the conference for that event.

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distance runners had the opportunity to compete against difficult competition, according to senior distance runner Casey Wendorff. He completed in the 5K race with a time of 15:37:40. Wendorff said the variety of athletes present at meets as large as the Grand Valley State Big Meet helps motivate UIndy athletes to perform their at their top level.

“That is the best possible competition for a 5K,” Wendorff said. “That’s where everybody goes to get a good 5K mark in the Midwest because the track is an oversize track, so that means less turns, which means you can run a faster time.

The competition that’s there is just incredible. There were seven heats of the 5K and there was over 30 guys in the race for each section, so you always have someone to push you, someone to race throughout the whole race even when you’re finishing.”

At UIndy, the Hounds celebrated Senior Day with senior jumper Lindsey Foster tying a school record of 5.60m in the long jump and sophomore Deju Miller advancing her high jump ranking in conference to third. Junior distance

runner Brianna Leonard also competed at UIndy and said that she hopes the team’s momentum will carrying into conference. A number of the team members are already set to compete in the GLVC meet on Feb. 24-25.

“I expect a lot of competition from our runners [at upcoming meets],” Leonard said. “I know we’re just going to try to get the most points we can and get the highest placement. I know that’s the goal, everyone is going to come with their best.”

Leonard’s sentiment was echoed by Robinson, who said that the team’s recent success is evidence of the athletes’ hard work and effectiveness of training strategies.

“It [the scores] was a very big benchmark for us on how our training is going preparing for conference,” Robinson said. “It kind of shows that the training we’ve been putting in is adequate, it’s on pace, on par. For several of our athletes that qualified for conference, [it has put them] in strong position not only to just be competing in conference but in position to score as well.”

Track and field gears up for conference meet

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR

With a focus on preparing for the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship meet, the University of Indianapolis Track and field team has participated in a variety of events to better prepare for the conference meet.

The team has spilt among multiple different meets in the past weeks to allow each entity of the team to see the best competition that they can, according to Assistant Track and Field Distance Coach Brad Robinson.

On Feb. 16, many of the runners and throwers participated in the Buckey TuneUp Meet in Columbus, Ohio.

Redshirt junior Austin Hogan placed at the top in multiple events, earning fourth in shot put and fifth in the weight throw.

Senior sprinter Sanjay Daley also placed in the 60 meter dash. On the women’s side sophomore Kerigan Ertel earned eight in the 60 meter hurdles, followed by senior Majaica Brooks in ninth.

“It kind of shows that the training we’ve been putting in is adequate, it’s on pace, on par.”

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Davidson becomes 40th player to hit 1,000 points

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR

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Prior to senior guard Eric Davidson’s 1,000th point accolade against Missouri University of Science and Technology, Davidson contributed to his career total with 11 points against the Barry University Buccaneers.

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Redshirt senior guard Ajay Lawton recorded 13 points in the 77-70 win against the University of Missouri St. Louis. Lawton sank three free throws before the buzzer, tying the score and sending the game into overtime.

Wrestling goes 1-2 due to injuries and forfeits

By Melanie Arnold STAFF WRITER

Despite multiple injuries which forced forfeits, the University of Indianapolis wrestling team earned one win against Ouachita Baptist University during the Dr. Lombardi Duals on Feb. 11.

The Hounds started off the day facing the Limestone College Saints. UIndy began with two losses, by fall and technical fall.

A f te r, t h e Ho u n d s g o t their points up with wins from redshirt senior Nick Crume, redshirt junior Angelo Robles, junior Shelden Struble and redshirt sophomore Brody Conner who all recorded victories against the Saints.

To end the match up, the Hounds acquired two losses by injury default and a forfeit in the heavyweight, giving Limestone the victory, 33-14.

Head Wrestling Coach Jason Warthan said that the team was coming into a hard week. Many of the starters such as redshirt junior Heath Lange were out with injury, which made the team forfeit multiple matches over the course of the day, “We did intend to beat Limestone, but it just wasn’t really in the cards with the guys we took, the number of backups,” Warthan said.

Following the dual with the Saints, the Hounds took another loss against the Notre Dame College Falcons, 40-6. The Hounds were only able to win two battles, one win came from redshirt freshman Matt McKinney with a decision over his opponent. 12th ranked Conner earned a victory in double overtime against the No. 4 Falcons. The victories could not compensate for the last two matches that the team was forced to forfeit.

According to Warthan, the team has been through many injuries this year.

These injuries have been with them for most of the season and have set them back not only in the Lombardi Duals, but other meets throughout the season.

“Our starting 125 pounder was hurt, our starting 197 pounder was hurt so we brought a couple of backups,” Warthan said. “We were without a few starters and ended up forfeiting a couple weight classes. We had wrestled Notre Dame

before so we kind of wanted to make sure we had a couple match ups but kind of conceded to the dual to preserve health.”

The Hounds concluded their day with their lone win against the Ouachita Baptist University Tigers, 30-15.

To start the match, the Tigers also forfeited a match, putting the Hounds up 6-0. Redshirt freshman Elliot Molloy, redshirt sophomore Austin Robbins, Conner and Crume all took victories over the Tigers before forfeiting the final two weight classes.

Crume’s win in the dual awarded him with his 100th win, making him the 14th wrestler in UIndy wrestling program to reach t he mi lestone.

Crume is ranked second in the nation, is a three time All-American, and has three trips to national’s under his belt.

Lange said that as he recovers from a shoulder tear, he has been able to observe the team from the sidelines.

“It’s just hard to compete at such a level when you have so many of our starters out,” Lange said. “Last weekend isn’t really important as far as the overall success of the season.”

Though the team has struggled with injuries that have put them back in meets throughout the year, Lange said that the duals and other minor meets do not show the strength and ability that this team has. The main focus of the season now is regionals.

“We will be ready for regionals and that’s all that really matters,” Lange said.

“We’ll get a couple of our starting guys back up for regionals.

With regionals coming up and nationals in mind, both Warthan and Lange said they have high expectations for the meet and know the men will do well overall.

After being one of four team members to visit nationals last season, Lange said that despite his, and many of his teammates injuries, there are men on the team that have the talent to make it to nationals this season. He said for the Super Region 2 Tournament on Feb. 23-24 in Findlay, Ohio, the focus is getting the starters healthy and on the mat.

“I think we can make another round for championship. We have more guys on the team this year that have the capability of making it to nationals, so I’m excited,” Lange said.

“We will be ready for regionals and that’s all that really matters.”

Following the 90-79 win over William Jewell College Cardinals on Feb. 17, the University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team extended their winning streak to five games, with three road victories. Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard said that building a win streak is important to build confidence and get the players ready for the upcoming post-season.

“It’s definitely a confidence builder [going on a winning streak],”Gouard said.

“They [the players] are more in tune now with what we want as coaches, because they believe more in the process.”

Sophomore guard Tate Hall finished the game with a career-high 31 points on 13 of 16 shooting, including five of seven made three-pointers, along with an assist and two blocks. Redshirt senior Alex Etherington scored 15 points and contributed on the defensive end with two blocks and a steal. Senior guard Ajay Lawton ended the night with 11 points, sinking seven of his eight free throw attempts. Junior forward Jesse Kempson also scored 11 points, dished out two assists and recorded two steals.

According to Gouard, the Hounds had to make adjustments to their game, due to Willam Jewell’s untraditional lineup.

“They [William Jewell] play a five guard lineup,” Gouard said. “It’s a non-traditional lineup and it’s going to put us in a situation we haven’t been in, especially for our big guys. At the same time, those guys have to defend us.”

During the Hounds’ 97-85 victory over Missouri University of Science and Technology on Feb. 15, Senior guard Eric Davidson became the 40th player in the history of the UIndy men’s basketball program to score 1,000 career points. Gouard said he was proud to see Davidson reach the 1,000 point milestone and to see him continually grow as a person and a player.

“It ’s just special,” Gouard said.

“.... Watching him [Davidson] develop over the years, not just as a basketball player, but as a person, as a man. I’m just happy to be part of that. You have the opportunity as a coach to mold a young man’s life, and that’s what it’s all about....

Last night [against Missouri S&T] when he got it [his 1,000th point] I think I was celebrating more than his dad. That’s a special club to be in, especially at the college level.”

Davidson attributed his success and maturation as a player to his various teammates and coaches throughout his time at UIndy.

“I couldn’t have done it [reach 1,000 career-points] without all my coaches and teammates along the way,”Davidson said.

“They [have] put me in a great position to succeed, and they’ve really helped me a lot.... It’s really an honor to join the club, and I couldn’t have done it without them.”

Throughout the game, five players scored in double digits. Hall finished with the most points of any player, coming away with a then career-high of 27 points on eight of nine shooting, including 10 of 12 free throws, and a block. Lawton scored 24 points on nine of 11 shooting, including three of five from three-point range.

Although Lawton only sunk three of seven free throws on the night, he racked up seven assists, an accounted of four of the Hounds’ seven steals while only playing 27 minutes throughout the whole game.

Davidson ended the night with 18 points, including a perfect percentage at the free throw line, an assist and a steal.

Junior guard C.J. Hardaway finished with 15 points, one assist and two steals for the night. Junior forward Jesse Kempson scored 10 points and dished out one assist.

A week prior, the Hounds defeated the University of Missouri-St. Louis Tritons 77-70. Missouri-St. Louis led by 11 at halftime, but the Hounds came back to outscore the Tritons by 11 in the second half and send the game to overtime. In the extra period, the Hounds outscored their opponents 10-3 to win by seven

points. Four players finished with points in double digits.

Kempson finished the game with 22 points, two assists and a steal to lead the way for the Hounds. Hall ended with a varied stat line, coming away with 15 points, four assists, two steals and a block. Redshirt senior forward Alex Etherington scored 14 points, including two three-pointers, two assists and two steals. Lawton came away with 13 points, one assist and a steal, but only shot two of nine from the field and turned the ball over seven times.

The Hounds were able to scrape by to get the 77-76 win over the Maryville University Saints on Feb. 3. They outscored Maryville’s bench by nine points.

The Hounds also scored 18 points off turnovers compared to only one point off turnovers from Maryville. Maryville led at the half by eight points, but the Hounds were able to come back and outscore the opposition by nine in the second half.

Lawton led the Hounds in scoring with 12 of his 19 points coming in the second half. He also dished out two assists and grabbed two steals. Similarly, Davidson scored 11 of his 17 points in the second half, while also sinking four of five three-pointers, recording two steals and an assist. Freshman forward Trevor Lakes scored all 12 of his points from the three-point line on four of eight shooting, while also recording a steal.

Hall finished with 10 points, five assists, one block and a steal.

Lawton said that close wins like the Maryville game, although stressful, can be very exciting especially when the crowd gets involved.

“It’s surreal,” Lawton said. “I really didn’t expect that big of a crowd, but I’m glad they came out. They gave us energy the whole time… and really helped us get through this game today.”

The Hounds will face the Bellarmine University Knights in Louisville, Ky. on Feb. 22. Tip off will be at 8 p.m.

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Sophomore attack Grace Gunneson scored the first goal against the Lindenwood University Lions on Feb. 10. The Hounds fell 11-7 in the first game of the season.

Women’s lacrosse earns No. 3 in preseason poll

By BreAnnah Nunn STAFF WRITER

After being chosen as the third seed in the GLIAC preseason coaches poll, the University of Indianapolis women’s lacrosse team split its first two games of the season, with a win to the Rockhurst University Hawks on Feb. 17. and a loss to the Lindenwood University Lions on Feb. 10.

In their first win against Rockhurt, the women started off on top, scoring seven goals in under 20 minutes, before allowing a single goal from the Hawks with eight minutes left in the first half. Both teams scored twice more by the end of the half, going into the break 9-3.

The Hounds mocked their first half performance by starting of the scoring again in the second, scoring another seven goals before allowing the Hawks a chance at the net. Despite another two goals from the Hawks, the Hounds did not let up and defeated Rockhurst 20-6.

Redshirt attack Abigail Lagos, sophomore attack Grace Gunneson and freshman attack Laura Hardoy all led the team with three shots on the goal.

Despite women losing to the Lindenwood University Lions on Feb. 10, Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach James Delaney said that the team gave it their all on the field and that the future of the season is still bright for the women.

“I think we have a great opportunity ahead of us this season,” Delaney said. “If

we play our best lacrosse we can run with any team in the country and hopefully grow from this experience and show a little more composure down the stretch.”

Within the first three minutes of the game, sophomore attack Grace Gunneson struck the first point of the game, followed minutes later by freshman midfielder Gina Jablonski. Lindenwood fought back and ended the half with a score of 6-5.

In the second half, the Lions only allowed the Hounds to score one goal to their six, ending the game with a score of 11-7.

The Lions caused 12 turnovers and won 20 ground balls over the Hounds.

UIndy averaged 14 out of 26 shots while the Lions average a 23 out of 30.

Delaney said that despite the large number of underclassmen heading into their first game of the season, the team did not play like freshman and carried themselves well on the field.

“We executed our game play pretty well and I’m proud the way we went into the game expecting to win,” Delaney said. “We have a philosophy as coaches we focus on ourselves everyday getting better as at offense and defense. Getting better everyday so that ultimately we can put ourselves in a position that we have the expectation to win.”

According to Gunneson, the mistakes made in the first game were little and could be easily fixed for the next games.

She said she has confidence in her team being able to come back from a loss, and

that there is always room for improvement.

“As a team we can learn from our mistakes and try not to make them again in other games,” Gunneson said.

Now that the team is in season they work out six times a week with yoga on Saturdays, according to Delaney. He said he is grateful for the strength training staff for keeping the team in shape mentally and physically. “[Assistant Strength and Conditioning] Coach Matt [Wagner] really has our girls ready to play from the first day. I think we physically outmatched the number three team in the country,” Delaney said. “We talk a lot and don’t need to play perfectly.

We need to play our best game.There are a few plays throughout that everyone looks back on and feels that it could have went differently.”

Delaney said that the experiences are only going to help the team and the program grow throughout this year. He that he is confident that the girls will make the right plays and learn from moments where they do not always win.

“You don’t become a top team overnight. It takes growth and experiences and there is a lot of positives to take out of the loss of Saturday,” Delaney said. “I think those kids [Lindenwood] showed the girls what real high level lacrosse is but I think our players handled their pressure very well.”

Next, the Hounds will travel to Charleston, W.Va. on Feb. 24 to battle the University of Charleston Golden Eagles.

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Religious diversity shapes UIndy

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR

Since its founding in 1902, the University of Indianapolis has been affiliated with both the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the United Methodist Church. Over the course of the last 116 years, however, the religious traditions held by students, faculty and staff have continued to diversify, according to University Chaplain Jeremiah Gibbs.

According to Special Assistant to the President for Mission and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Michael Cartwright, the first members of the UIndy faculty were members of the EUB church, and several of them were ordained clergy. Cartwright said that after World War II, however, former University President I. Lynd Esch instituted a policy that there would be no chaplains on campus. At the time, one out of four members of the faculty were ordained clergy, and he wanted them to be available for spiritual counseling. By the 1970s, according to Cartwright, the number of faculty who were ordained began to decrease steadily.

To this day, however, UIndy has faculty members who are ordained ministers and many who practice other faiths including Judaism, Christianity and Paganism.

Initially, the religious diversity on

campus was limited to the first Catholic student in the 1930s, according to Cartwright. By the 1970s, UIndy started to welcome students from other faiths.

Cartwright said that the one of the causes of this was higher education becoming more accessible because of federal funding for grants and loans.

According to Gibbs, partnerships and programming also have contributed to the diversity of faiths on campus. By the end of the 1990s, there were enough students and faculty from various faiths that the university created a code of ethics for religious organizations, according to Cartwright.

Both Cartwright and Gibbs said that the number of students from different faiths fluctuates based on programming and immigration regulations in various countries. Cartwright said that the diversity of faith has enriched the United Methodist traditions upon which the university is based.

“We have had examples that are richly hospitable and those examples grow out of a long Christian history,” Cartwright said. “But as our statement of values indicates, we want to extend hospitality that is informed by the United Methodist Church and enriched by the traditions, religious and secular. So that tries to tie things together in the midst of obvious differences. But, I would say, if we can

succeed in giving and receiving hospitality in ways that make sense, according to the United Methodist traditions, and can be enriched by the contributions and other religious traditions and secular folks, then we are succeeding.”

The Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Programs offers on-campus resources for students of all faiths, according to Gibbs and Associate Chaplain Arionne Williams. Students can use the chapel, prayer room and soul care room located on the second floor of the Schwitzer Student Center. Several times a semester, the EIP office sets up a labyrinth in the chapel which students and faculty can walk and pray or meditate.They also created a list of interfaith resources, given to each resident assistant, that lists on-campus and off-campus resources, tips for engaging in interfaith dialogue and an explanation of the different traditions of the religions represented on campus, according to Williams. Gibbs and Williams said that the chaplains also are available to support students of all religious backgrounds and to connect them with others of their faith on campus and in the community.

“The thing about being a chaplain that people don’t realize is [that] the term of chaplain is always supposed to be a spiritual leader in a secular space,” Williams said. “That’s why you don’t have chaplains

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By Angie Mercado ONLINE EDITOR Sikhism is a religion founded in the 15th century by Guru Nanak that encompasses parts of Islamic and Hindu religions, according to senior organizational leadership major Arwinder Kaur.

School of Business Adjunct Instructor Guriq Trana said that Sikhism began in India and is the fifth largest religion in the world.

“It started in India. But really at the time, the two dominant religions in India were Hinduism and Islam, so Sikhism borrowed a little bit from each,” Trana said. “The founders of Sikhism said, ‘There are some things we don’t like about Hinduism, [and] there are some things we do. And then there are some things we do and don’t like about Islam.’ It’s kind of a combination.”

According to Trana, being a Sikh

involves a number of practices. For example, men never cut their hair or shave their beards, and they wear turbans. Sikh practices, however, go beyond dress.Trana said there are also health-related guidelines by which Sikhs also abide.

“If you are a practicing Sikh, [that means] no smoking, no drinking and no meat. That’s the part that comes from India,” Trana said. “Most Indians are vegetarian, and they certainly don’t eat beef. It [Sikhism] is a monotheistic religion that believes, like most religions do, that we are all the same.”

Sikhism sees all humans as equal and does not discriminate based on appearance.

“It is a universal religion where we recognize all human beings as equal,” Kaur said. “That is very important, for us to treat everyone as equal. We don’t recognize race, class, caste or any distinctions which make us. So we don’t believe in the color or anything. Men and women

According to the Pew Research Center, there are more than 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and more than 3 million live in the United States.

The Five Pillars of Islam are daily and yearly practices for Muslims, according to Adjunct Professor of Religion and Philosophy James Willis. He said that these rigorous practices are not seen as a burden to Muslims, because the practices allow for a meaningful, practice-based faith.

Senior political science and international relations major Tosin Salau was raised in a Muslim household, but did not start seriously practicing her religion until she left Nigeria. She said she was inspired to rediscover her faith when she met friends in a Quran study group during her freshman and sophomore years.

“When I actually started practicing my religion, it kind of gave me a voice of my own,” Salau said. “I [have] always wanted to speak out for something.”

Salau credits her desire to speak out about her religion to misconceptions about Islamic practices and beliefs in the media. According to Salau, Islam is not a culture or ethnicity — it is a religion, and

generalizations about Muslims portrayed in the media often are skewed.

For example, Salau said, Saudi Arabia’s not allowing women to drive is often interpreted for Islam not allowing women to drive, although the strict laws of Saudi Arabia do not reflect the beliefs of all Muslims. To prevent misinformation, Salau encourages others to ask questions whenever they have concerns about Islamic practices or beliefs, rather than make assumptions.

Like Salau, junior supply chain management major Mashaer Musayri feels that Islam is often misrepresented.

Musayri said that assumptions have been made about her because she dresses in accordance with her religious beliefs.

“Many people judge me by what I wear,” Musayri said, “For example, my [head] scarf. And I hate that, because I would treat you like [a] human. I will respect you if you respect me.”

Willis agrees with Salau and Musayri that many people form opinions about Islam without being fully educated.

“I think a lot of people have a very uninformed view that is based on not much information,” Willis said. “People hold views, but they don’t particularly know why. They haven’t read the Quran

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are both equal. We believe that God is the internal power that lives in everybody’s body. Equality is for all mankind, and [we believe in] speaking up against injustice and speaking up for others.”

Trana said that because he understands how difficult adapting to life on campus can be for a Sikh, whenever he sees students on campus who look to be a of practicing Sikhs, he likes introduce himself to them.

“I just go up and introduce myself and speak in Punjabi. That’s the language that the Sikhs speak,” Trana said. “I go up and I say, ‘Hello,’ just to introduce myself and see how things are going. It’s tough when you’re younger. You know you want to be different, but you also want to be like everybody else at the same time.”

Sikhism is a part of the campus community, Trana said, so exposure to it and other religions helps students see what they will be experiencing when they go out into the world.

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at a church. You have chaplains in places that are secular, or at least religiously diverse….We are supposed to be able to engage people from a variety of different traditions. Built into our role is the idea that we are a resource, and accessible and approachable for people with a variety of faith traditions, as well as those who don’t claim a faith.”

There is also a variety of interfaith programming on campus, according to both Gibbs and Williams. The Interfaith Scholars and the Better Together registered student organization both host events such as the Interfaith Winter Festival and the Interfaith Peace Service.

The goal of these programs and the EIP office, according to Gibbs, is to help students have the ability to ask questions and learn about other traditions.

“I think I would want to encourage students across our campus that this may be — for some of you — the best opportunity of your life to engage persons of religious diversity in ways that are safe, to be able to talk about hard questions to be able to ask another person why they believe the things that they do,”Gibbs said. “...You have the opportunity to begin to probe that diversity in those hard questions in a way that, hopefully, is safe and can alleviate some of the conflict that we often see in the world. And not only the conflict, but just the misunderstanding.

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By BreAnnah Nunn STAFF WRITER The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, was born around 563 BCE into a wealthy family. Gautama, however, rejected his luxurious life in favor of a simpler existence based on self-discipline, or asceticism. After 49 consecutive days of meditation, Gautama became the Buddha, or “enlightened one.” His teachings, according to Khan Academy, are the foundation for modern Buddhism.

Junior human biology major Auy Rueangnopphasit was raised Buddhist and has continued practicing into adulthood. A self-proclaimed “curious Buddhist”since the first grade, she said has been mixing elements of Christianity into her denomination of the Buddhist faith.

“My branch is called Theravada,” Rueangnopphasit said. “We follow a scripture that the monks wrote when the

Buddha passed away. In the scriptures were the Buddha’s teachings, and we follow that [as a guide].”

The scriptures of the monks have been passed down for Buddhists to follow since the time of the Buddha’s death, according to Rueangnopphasit, and these writings are the focal point of Theravada Buddhism.

Rueangnopphasit said that she believes that as long as she practices what she preaches and gives basic respect to others, she is following her inner faith. She also said that she wants to give her perspective on her faith and stand as the voice for her religion on campus.

“I just want to share that it’s OK that people are going to do their different faiths or even [have] no faith. We should have people who are going to learn to accept each other and not being like their faith is the best,” Rueangnopphasit said.

“Even though we are different, we are still human.”

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for themselves.They haven’t studied Islam for themselves.”

From the religion’s beginnings, Islam has stressed a sense of equality and a sense of justice, according to Willis. He says that right and proper relationships between people, families, members of communities and different faiths are established in Islam.

Willis said that having a space on campus for Muslim students to pray is vitally important.

He said that as long as UIndy recognizes interfaith students and provides them with a place to freely practice their religion, then the university is accommodating its diverse student body.

“I know for a fact [that] UIndy does a number of things and sponsors a number of events talking about interfaith,” Willis said. “I think as long as we can contribute to that [interfaith dialogue] and I think that falls on both Muslim students and non-Muslim students, it falls on members of leadership, it falls on members of the community, and it falls on everyone that is a part of UIndy, to contribute to interfaith understanding and discussion. And I think that those are things that UIndy does well, and that is always something that we can do more of.”

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Worship only Allah & Muhammad

Offering prayer five times a day

Giving alms or charity

Fasting in the month of the Ramadan

Going to pilgrimage to the House of Allah at Makkah

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By Tate Jones STAFF WRITER While some students at UIndy are practicing their own belief systems, they can overlook the other beliefs and traditions on campus. However, there is also a system with no belief in gods, referred to as atheism.

Freshman exercise science major Alex Flickinger identifies as an atheist, and he sees the ideology as based on the logical and natural order of the world.

“If I’m correct, [atheists] are believer[s] in science and logic,” Flickinger said. “[Atheism is] a belief in science and [that] there are no gods and there are no other forces ruling the world except for science.”

Beyond science, Flickinger said he also has personal reasons for being an atheist.

“Most of my family is Christian, and they all started like that. I didn’t like the church, so I opted out of it,” Flickinger said.“I haven’t seen any evidence that there is a god, or that there is any other evidence except science that causes change.”

Junior psychology major Lauren Cohen sees atheism as an aspect of identity too. Just as she would respect someone’s identity as a Christian, Cohen said, she wants others to show the same respect for atheism.

“I’m just what I identify as — an atheist — just the same way as someone would identity as a Christian or being Muslim,” Cohen said. “Believe in whatever you want; just don’t ask me to believe in it, too. People who identify as an atheist don’t believe in a divine being or beings.

We don’t think there is a god or that there was a god that created everything around you.”

Freshman chemistry major Landon Weber describes his atheism as something akin to an ongoing experiment. According to Weber, his beliefs are very similar to those of Flickinger and Cohen, in that there are no gods, only logic.

“Atheism is the belief that there are no gods. Atheists believe to a certainty that there are no gods. I know almost certainly that there are no gods,” Weber

said.“I believe in science, experiments and proof that things are the way that they are.

Religion doesn’t apply to it.”

In science, Weber explained, hypotheses are generated to test why and how things work. Weber believes that atheism is very similar to that same scientific process.

“I wish people knew that atheists aren’t certainly atheists forever. Most atheists believe that you can test a hypothesis, and religion is a hypothesis,” Weber said.

“I doubt being an atheist all the time.”

On a diverse campus such as UIndy’s, cultures often intermingle with one another, but Flickinger feels that he has not experienced anything negative about his beliefs that would affect his time as a Greyhound.

“I would say [I feel accommodated], until there is a point that I feel like other religions are bearing down on me,” Flickinger said. “I still feel like as long as that’s taken care of, and no one is forcing me into anything, [I am satisfied].”

According to Cohen, there is a societal stigma against those who are atheist. She said the public is quick to denounce the practice of atheism as being immoral, or its practitioners of having no moral compass.

Flickinger, however, said that morals come from a variety of sources and not necessarily from organized religion.

“My [morals] are indirectly connected to the Bible because of my upbringing and my parents,” he said. “In my opinion, it’s based on your upbringing and your parents raising you. You could say that my morals come from Christianity, because I was raised Christian.”

Flickinger believes that it is important for the general public to understand what being an atheist is in order to gain a better understanding of how it differs from various faiths and traditions. He also emphasized the many interpretations of atheism and the importance of not generalizing the ideology.

“I feel like atheism is an open concept,” Flickinger said. “Depending on the person, it can be different. It’s important to talk to other [atheists] and see what atheism is to them.”

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Although the UIndy is Methodist affiliated, the university is home to students from all denominations of Christianity and offers many registered student organizations, fellowship and ministry opportunities for practicing Christians.

Among these organizations are the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship, Campus Crusaders for Christ, Delight Ministries, the United Methodist Student Association and the Catholic Student Association. Senior nursing major Marisa Boris is the president of the CSA, and said that the organization’s goal is to be an outlet for Catholics to practice at the university.

“There is a lot of religious affiliation here, but not necessarily Catholic,” Boris said. “So that’s just our main goal: to have a Catholic presence on campus and make sure that the students that are Catholic and want to be involved are able to find that community that they’re looking for.”

Junior psychology major Abby Yochum is the liturgical coordinator for the CSA, and her role includes setting up for mass held every Sunday in McCleary Chapel, organizing readings and other activities during mass and marketing for monthly events. Yochum was raised Catholic, and

said that her family was part of her growth in the faith.

“About [my] sophomore year in high school, I really became strong in my Catholic faith, and I just really loved being Catholic,”Yochum said. “It was just really nice to have a community here [at UIndy] because back home I didn’t have a youth group. So it’s nice to have Catholic people I can hang out with a lot [on campus].”

Boris said that she was also raised Catholic, but fell away from her faith for about six years. Once she had her own transportation and driver’s license, however, she began following her faith again and attending church.

“At that point it was the only thing that was constant in my life…..So I said ‘Hey, I’m going to cling to that then,” Boris said.

“My conversion kind of started when I was a freshman in high school, and then I got super close with my youth minister. It was super hard moving away from all of that [when coming to college]...I transferred from IUPUI [Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis], and I got built up there with their Catholic group, and then I kind of just brought it here with the resources that I learned there.”

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Perry Kea said that he is a follower and scholar of Christianity and the Bible. He teaches multiple classes about the Bible and early Christianity at UIndy and identifies with the United

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Jerusalem Jerusalem has been the holiest city in Judaism.

Jerusalem was considered the center of the world, where God resided.

Sources Neusner, Jacob (2004).The Emergence of Judaism. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. p. 57 Korb, Scott. Life in Year One. New York: Riverhead books, 2010. print, 155. ISBN 978-1-59448-899-3.

Religions - Judaism: The First Covenant. (2009, June 25). http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/firstcovenant.shtml

By Noah Crenshaw ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Judaism is one of the world’s oldest religions with more than 5.7 million followers in the United States alone, according to the 2016 World Jewish Population Report. Some of those followers can be found at UIndy as faculty, staff and students, including Instructor of Religion and Philosophy Kevin Corn. Corn teaches Christianity, Judaism, World Religions, and an FYS course in American Religious Movements at UIndy.

Corn said that one of the key ideas about Judaism is that those who identify as Jewish are not Jewish by faith alone.

According to Corn, a few of the basic beliefs of Judaism include monotheism and the idea of a covenant, or a relationship with God. “It is a radical monotheism, very much like Islam,” Corn said. “We don’t try to parse God. We don’t try to figure out what’s going on with God. That attitude precludes making a lot of statements about God being ‘3-in-1’ [the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit] and things like that.

God is an ever-present, underlying reality.”

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God promised to make Abraham the father of a great people and said that Abraham and his descendants must obey God. In return God would guide them and protect them and give them the land of Israel.

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Corn said the relationship that Jewish people have with God is what distinguishes the religion from others.

He also said that Judaism places more of an emphasis on community values rather than individual.

“A lot of Christians want to talk to Jews about salvation sometimes. But as far as Jews will talk about salvation, we’re generally talking about a collective salvation, as opposed to an individual one, and that all goes back to this idea of covenant,” Corn said. “Insofar as we make this deal with God — [that] we will follow these rules and do these things as God said to do them — it is really a pledge we make to each other and the idea that there is this thing called Israel.”

According to Corn, the Israel that he is referring to is not the modern state of Israel, but an entity that all Jewish people are a part of.

Corn said that this emphasis on a communal bond with God, rather than an individual relationship, makes Judaism unique.

“Most other people conceptualize religion in terms of some kind of individual salvation,” Corn said. “We [ Jews] generally don’t.”

Junior sociology major Cyle Moskowitz said the university is very accommodating towards his Jewish beliefs. Both Corn and Moskowitz said that Judaism itself is also accommodating because it allows for many different styles of worship.There are three different types of Jewish practice, according to Corn: Reform, Conservative and Orthodox. Moskowitz practices Reform Judaism.

“It is a lot more accommodating, I would say, than most religions,” Moskowitz said. “Reform Judaism is a lot more accommodating to where you don’t really, technically, have to believe in God or believe in anything like that. It is more open to questioning things and stuff of that sort.”

Corn also said that one of the basic ethical principles of Judaism is to “treat other people the way you want to be treated.” This belief, Corn said, is one that is present in many other religions and a key similarity of Judaism and other faiths.

“That’s [the belief is] kind of a universal moral rule, and it is certainly explicit in the books of the Bible,” Corn said. “That would be an idea that we share with everybody, but we certainly try to govern our community based on those ideas.”

Judaism and Islam. As a result, Paganism covers a broad spectrum of beliefs.

“Depending on the practitioner or the organization, Paganism can really be fluid, depending on what speaks to them,” MacPherson said.

Because the Pagan spectrum is so broad, the label can imply a number of different things. For example, MacPherson said that some pagans take a polytheist approach, subscribing to a plethora of gods from different pantheons, such as ancient Egyptian, Greek or Roman. Others, like MacPherson and sophomore art major Shelby Coffelt, use a pantheist approach.

“There are multiple theisms,” Coffelt said. “Pantheism is just the acceptance and belief of all.”

MacPherson said that pagans tend to be very open to anyone regardless of race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sexual preferences, polyamory and so forth. Paganism, she explained, acknowledges that at the base of everything, everyone is the same and deserves

respect. Consequently, Coffelt, who embraced Paganism because of bullying, said she was first drawn to its openness and flexibility.

“The idea of being whole with the universe and every single individual thing helps me calm down when I get too worked up about things,” Coffelt said. “It helps bring me back to center.”

While both Coffelt and MacPherson believe the university has accommodated their beliefs, but they also believe that more could be done to raise the visibility and awareness of the community on the UIndy campus.

While efforts are currently underway to establish a Pagan group on campus, according to Coffelt, more people will need to show an active interest in establishing a group before it can actually form.

“I know there’s got to be more than three of us on campus,” Coffelt said. “It would be cool to have the visibility of a group, even if it’s small, just so we know we’re all here.”

Methodist denomination.

According to Kea, he became a biblical scholar “by accident” when he took an “Introduction to the Bible” course as an undecided freshman at the University of South Carolina to satisfy a humanities general education requirement. He said that he was very impressed with the academic approach to the Bible and that it was different from anything he had learned in church.

After completing the course, Kea took an upper-level course the following fall and decided to make biblical studies his major. He said that after completing his undergraduate degree, he did not receive a “calling” to go into ministry, saw his place in academia and went on to get a Ph.D. As a follower of the faith and professor, Kea said that it is easy for him to keep his beliefs and teachings separate.

“I make it very plain to my students that they will never be evaluated on what they believe or choose not to believe.They are going to be evaluated on how they perform in the class,” Kea said. “...To the people that are in my classes that are of different faiths or of no faith, I say, ‘I hope that what we do in this class gives you a better appreciation for these texts and why they’ve endured. So that at the very least, when people are talking about these texts, you have some way of understanding the conversation and participate.’”

Kea said that the critical methods

that he employs in his classes are often different from anything his students have learned before. This way of thinking can be threatening to students of particular traditions, according to Kea, but he encourages his students to be open to the new ideas he presents.

“My field is dominated by the historical critical approach. In the sense of developing tools that help you raise good questions so that you can try to come at these texts and find some answers,” Kea said. “I am primarily a biblical historian, so I am trying to put this document in its historical context. What was going on when the author wrote it, what kind of problems, concerns, issues might the author been trying to address. In other words, the critical method understands the text had a certain meaning in its original context and we want to try to uncover that first.”

Boris said that people often misconstrue Christianity, finding it to be too strict on rules. Boris said that the payoff and having something to live by is gratifying to her, and that she appreciates how her faith accepts her as she is.

“It’s not as many rules as everyone thinks,” Boris said. “We have the Eucharist, which is the body and blood of Christ, and there’s nothing better than that. He literally meets you where you’re at.”

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Hinduism is one of many faiths practiced on UIndy’s campus and one of the largest polytheistic religions practiced in the world. According to graduate student Tanvi Jhaveri, Hinduism is dominant among the many religions practiced in India.

“In India, we have a radius of faiths — we have Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islamism and Christianity,” Jhaveri said.

“Hinduism follows many different gods and goddesses, and the magical stories associated with each god or goddess.

Hindu ideology revolves around worshipping various forms of gods and goddesses all over India, and among Hindus in the world; but in general all gods are one.”

Hinduism, according to Jhaveri, follows the holy text known as the Bhagavad Gita, which was written by Lord Krishna, and highlights important life lessons that Arjun, Lord Krishna’s disciple, was given during the time of the Mahabharata War. Jhaveri said that the Bhagavad Gita is important because it teaches lessons that Hindus use to live according to their faith.

“In the Bhagavad Gita, whenever you are told to work hard, always work hard, but don’t think of the results. You will always get rewarded from hard work,” Jhaveri said. “Another lesson is [that] God always gives you what you deserve, and the problems he gives you is only such problems that you can handle. He [God] never gives you more than you can handle.”

Jhaveri said that although she has not personally experienced prejudice, one misconception she has faced regarding

Hinduism is that many people are unaware that Islam and Hinduism are two different religions.

Graduate health science major Anita Lalwani said that she has experienced miscommunication regarding her Hindu faith. She said there have been times when people from other cultures, who are unaware or uneducated, misinterpret the faith and it practices.

“Our chanting and mantras do have a scientific background to it,” Lalwani said. “Every ritual has a reason behind it. [Only] when I grew up and started reading through it [the Bhagavad Gita] did I understand how important each and every thing is.”

Jhaveri said that the holy text, the Bhagavad Gita, promotes peace and harmony among those who read and practice it.

“I am not biased to any religion or faith of any kind. This is purely my take on it [my faith],” Jhaveri said. “I have visited a mosque. I have visited a temple. [I have] visited a church and have visited every temple of faith or religious structure in India. I believe god is one; there is only one god.”

Lalwani said that she has had only positive experiences with students and faculty on campus regarding her faith. She also said that when choosing a graduate school, she wanted an opportunity to explore a different in culture, as well as to experience an independent life apart from her country.

“I would say that [UIndy] is very accepting and accommodating my faith,” Lawlani said. “The kind of respect they [members of the UIndy community] show for every culture — it is very welcoming and warm.”

The lotus flower is associated with beauty, fertility, prosperity, spirituality and eternity.

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By Shayla Cabalan STAFF WRITER One religion making its presence known on the UIndy’s campus is Paganism. Paganism, according to the Pagan Federation, is defined as “a polytheistic or pantheistic natureworshipping religion.”

Oftentimes, according to Assistant Professor of Nursing Caron MacPherson, lack of knowledge about Paganism results in misconceptions about the religion itself.

“People make assumptions that as someone who is Pagan, I would harm animals or harm people,” MacPherson said. “However, in 40 plus years of my life, I have yet to meet a pagan who would intentionally want to do that kind of harm.”

MacPherson explained that Paganism refers to any belief structure that does not stem from an Abrahamic beginning— that is, anything other than Christianity,

Artha stands for all forms of security in life: wealth, power, influence and fame.

Kama stands for all forms of sensual pleasure.

Food, travel, sex, music when pursued solely for pleasure fall under Kama.

The human goal of Dharma can be thought of as an invisible form of wealth. It manifests in our life in the form of good fortune or good luck and contributes to our well being.

Moksha is a pursuit followed by only a few. These few recognize that what they want is not more security or pleasure or Punya, but freedom from all “binding” desires, freedom from the sense of insecurity. http://explorevedanta.com/vbc-the-4-goals-of-human-life/

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Theatre professor offers first-hand experience Robert Neal teaches theatre students how to become better performers by using knowledge from his real-world, acting experience

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR When he is not helping theater students at the University of Indianapolis with their voice and diction Adjunct Professor of Theatre Robert Neal is either performing or rehearsing at the Indianapolis Repertory Theater, working on a show for another theatre or acting company or spending time with his wife and two children. Neal has been performing with the IRT for 18 seasons, appearing in over 40 shows, he said. He is currently appearing as Lord Capulet in their production of "Romeo and Juliet."

Neal’s first experiences with acting and performance began in his sophomore year of high school in Brazil, Ind. He said that his speech teacher also taught drama classes and encouraged him to explore acting and performance.

“She was a huge influence on my life because I took this speech class and—I was a shy kid—she saw potential in me and I don’t know why,” Neal said.

“She would always say ‘Come and take this class,’ or ‘We’re going to do this thing called oral interpretation of literature.

Come and do that.’ She would drag me in there kind of against my will half the time.”

Neal said that because he played football and basketball and ran track, that he never participated in the school’s plays.

He attended college at Indiana University and changed his major three times before settling on English.

According to Neal, he first realized he had an interest in performing on stage when he came home one summer, and his former teacher convinced him to participate in a community theater performance.

“She was involved in a community theater performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ and she goes, ‘We need men. Come on, you’re going to be in this,’” Neal said.

“I’m like, ‘No. I’m not doing that,’ and she forced me into it. I just started to realize that this is something that I think is really cool.”

After graduating from IU, Neal taught high school English for three years.

During that time, he also participated in productions at night. According to Neal, that was when he realized that theater was what he wanted to do. He got into the MFA program at Pennsylvania State University, and after graduating, started

traveling and performing. He said that his interest in the arts and the connection he was able to draw between performing and athletics was another factor that drew him to theater.

“When I started doing theater, I guess the way I’d describe it is it kind of felt like me. I felt at home. I felt like this is my tribe, these people,” Neal said. “I’d been a jock in high school . . . I loved playing sports, and when I started doing theater, it just felt similar. It’s physical. The mental preparation is also the same. I always tell my students, ‘You are athletes of the theater,’because that’s what it’s like.You’ve got to use your bodies. I think it just felt comfortable and like home.”

Prior to coming to UIndy, Neal was adjunct faculty at DePauw University from the mid 1990s until about 2000, he said. He left to focus more on performance, which is when he began working at the IRT. Former Chair of the Department of theater Jim Ream got Neal’s contact information and asked him to teach a class at UIndy shortly after, according to Neal. He has stayed at UIndy because he enjoys teaching and they are willing to work with his schedule at the IRT, which consists of day and weekend performances and, at times, six to eight hours of rehearsals daily, Neal said.

In the almost 16 years he has been at UIndy, Neal has taught acting, an introductory theater course for non-majors and movements courses. He currently teaches a voice and diction for the stage course. Junior theatre education major Bailey Williams took the class with Neal last academic year and said she found it helpful. Williams said that one of the standout moments came during finals week, when Neal took the class out to Smith Mall and had them perform their Shakespeare monologues. The class sat in the concrete seating near Schwitzer Student Center while the performer stood near the canal, according to Williams.

“We had to stand in the middle of that big field and say our Shakespeare monologue for everyone to hear,” Williams said.

“We were closer to the canal than the actual class, so that was really cool. There were people walking around and people stopping and looking at us, but we were just doing our monologues and yelling in the big field. It was fun.”

"When I started doing theatre...

I felt at home. I felt like this is my tribe, these people."

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In the Indianapolis Repertory Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" [from left to right] UIndy Adjunct Professor of theater Robert Neal plays Lord Capulet, Sophia Macias plays Juliet and Constance Macy plays Lady Capulet. 'Romeo and Juliet' premiered at the IRT on Jan. 27 and will run until March 3.

Williams said that Neal’s professional, real-world experience provided a different perspective for the students in his classes.

She said that he was not only able to advise them on performance and acting, but also how to put together a resume and audition for a theater. He also was able to help the students see the importance of being able to perform without a microphone.

“The cool thing about the IRT is they don’t use microphones,” Williams said.

“That was his biggest thing . . . since he had that experience, he was able to say, ‘Well, even on stage at the IRT, you have to project because we don’t have microphones,’ and ‘Here are the healthy ways to do it. Here’s what I’ve learned over the years.’…He was able to show us how it is at different theaters, not just here when we perform on the big stage.”

Neal said that because he acts at the IRT and other theaters, he is working on the same techniques his students are and that it helps him to better teach them. He said that he enjoys his students, helping them work on developing their craft and that teaching helps him get better, as well.

In addition to performing at the IRT and teaching at UIndy, Neal also per-

forms with the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company. This year, Neal is directing "Coriolanus" for the company. He said that the collaborative piece of directing and the ability to take a play that he loves and bring it to life are his favorite parts of the directing process. Neal said that he enjoys having opportunities to both act and direct.

“It [directing] is a different muscle in a way,” Neal said. “When you’re an actor, you’re in the middle of it. You can’t see the forest for the trees because you’re focusing on this one thing—it’s not your job to do that, either. But as the director, what’s great is you invite all those people into the room and you share your germ of an idea of how this show is going to go. And then it mushrooms because it’s so collaborative and they [actors, designers] bring so much to it. And you see this thing grow that was only a tiny thing to begin with.”

According to Neal, he has been in over 100 plays in the 30 years of his career. Some of his favorite roles include James Beard in the one-man-show “I Love to Eat,” which was written with him in mind by the IRT’s playwright James Still, Helen

Keller’s father in “The Miracle Worker,” performed at the IRT, Ed’s father in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime,’ which he performed at the IRT and in New York and Lennie in ‘Of Mice and Men,’ performed with the Cardinal Stage Company in Bloomington, Ind. Currently, Neal said he is focused on his role as Lord Capulet. He played Friar Laurence in a previous production of "Romeo and Juliet" at the IRT. According to Neal, he has liked coming back to the script and playing another character. Neal said that being a dad has helped him relate to Lord Capulet, but that Lord Capulet is not the same kind of father Neal is, which has been both difficult and rewarding.

“He’s [Lord Capulet is] trying to do what’s right, but he can be authoritative and authoritarian and a bit of a dictator. In some ways, I try to relish that part of it,” Neal said. “But it’s ultimately the idea of losing a child to suicide as they do at the end. It’s horrific. So to journey into that world has been life expanding in a way.

Difficult, but also rewarding in its way.”

The IRT’s 90-minute production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ will have public shows that run until March 3.

'Masterclass: Drew Peterson' showcases students' talents

By Noah Crenshaw ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Photo contributed by university photographer Todd Moore

Tara Bradley [left] played Clara Johnson and Brenden Everett [left] played Fabrizio Nacarelli in the Department of Music's opera theater production of 'The Light in the Piazza' which was on Feb. 9 and Feb. 10 in the CDFAC.

Opera theater performs 'The Light in the Piazza'

By Kiuno Cann STAFF WRITER

The University of Indianapolis Department of Music had an opera theatre performance on Feb. 9 and on Feb. 10 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. The performance was titled ‘The Light in the Piazza’. It consisted of two acts in which both students and alumni were able to showcase their abilities through song as well as acting.

According to the program, ‘The Light in the Piazza’ is a heartwarming story consisting of humor and wit which at times captivated the audience. One of the main characters in the production is Margaret Johnson, an elegant, self-possessed, practical and attractive American woman, played by senior music education major Ivy Bott. Another character is Johnson's daughter Clara, who was

described as being young and naïve, was played by senior music education Tara Bradley. In the performance, Margaret and Clara Johnson explore Florence, Italy in what was described as a routine vacation. They then meet a young man named Fabrizio Nacarelli, played by junior music education major Brenden Everett, and he takes a liking to Clara to the dismay of her mother.

One of those who enjoyed the performance was junior music major Claire Scudder.

“It was really cool to see our music students singing in such a unique style,” Scudder said.“The production was amazing and super fun to watch.”

Rachel Gravens, a senior anthropology major also said that she enjoyed the performance.

“I think the singing was really strong and the actors portrayed their characters well,” Gravens said. “They did a good job in drawing in the audience to the story”.

Many students do not have the chance to perform in front of an award-winning pianist, but those who were performing at the ‘Masterclass: Drew Peterson’ event had this opportunity. The piano masterclass took place on Feb. 14 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center and featured performances from several students. After each performance, University of Indianapolis’ artist-inresidence, Drew Peterson, critiqued the student’s performances and gave them advice on how to improve.

According to senior music performance major Brandon Voss, who also performed at the event, the masterclass was essentially a critique sesson for student performances. Voss said that professors usually handle the masterclasses, but sometimes guest pianists are involved in the process.

“A few of us will play...and he will give us his thoughts, critique us and [give us] suggestions on what to do with the piece,” Voss said. “He’s not telling us how to play it, but he’s just giving us ideas on what to do with it.”

Senior music performance major Allison Vickery performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s "Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 892" from the "WellTempered Clavier, Book II" at the event.

Vickery said that being able to work with Peterson in a masterclass was a unique experience for her to have.

“I love the atmosphere of a masterclass,” Vickery said. “In music, a lot of the time you’re working on music you’re by yourself in a practice room [and not around others].”

Photo by Gysai Durgans

Drew Peterson [right] talks to Carrie Atkinson [left] after her performance at the masterclass event in the CDFAC. Drew Peterson is the University of Indianapolis' current artist-in residence.

Vickery said that Peterson gave her valuable insight and that she appreciates his approach to performing music on the piano.

“His knowledge base is incredibly broad, so he brings a lot to the table,” Vickery said. “He made me think more about contrasts and just bringing the music to a new level of life. It’s one thing to be correct musically…and it’s another thing to... bring a new level of emotional expression [to the music].”

Voss said that he memorized Frédéric Chopin’s "Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38" for the masterclass.

“Some sections are harder [to memorize] than others, especially towards the middle,” Voss said. "I didn’t have any memory slips, which was great, but I’ve been playing it out for a little bit, so that helped. I had memory slips afterward, when we were rehearsing small sections,

but not during the actual performance.”

Sophomore music major Lucy Shirley performed "Winging It: No. 2, January 3, 2008" by John Corigliano at the masterclass. She said that working with Peterson was a good experience and that this was her first time participating in a masterclass event.

“He’s really laid back and he’s very accepting, but he gives you really good suggestions and tips on how to make your piece better,” Shirley said. “But, if you don’t do something right, he’s not upset with you [and] he’s not judgmental.”

Shirley said that whenever Peterson comes to campus that it is always inspiring to see him.

Peterson also gave a piano performance with UIndy's chamber orchestra on Feb. 16 in the CDFAC. He performed three pieces from Chopin and one piece from Bach.

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THE REFLECTOR

REVIEWS

Entertainment reviews, by Greyhounds for Greyhounds!

THE REFLECTOR RATING SYSTEM MGMT "LITTLE DARK AGE" ALBUM

BLACK PANTHER MOVIE

AMAZING An unforgettable experience in its category. The highest of recommendations.

Extremely satisfying and entertaining, with few (if any) issues worth noting.

VERY GOOD Incredibly well-done, engaging, and stands above the crowd. Perhaps a few minor grievances, but nothing that substantially takes away from the overall experience.

DECENT May have some worthwhile positives; makes for a good experience, but perhaps brought down by frustrating issues.

Entertaining on a basic level.

MEDIOCRE Maybe moderately entertaining to the right crowd, but too riddled with elements that don’t work or aren’t original/ interesting enough for most audiences.

BAD Poorly executed on almost every level. Any positive notes are a chore to find amid the abundance of mistakes and frustrations.

Not worth anyone’s time, except someone with a special interest in the subject matter.

WORTHLESS Nothing positive worth noting in the slightest. Difficult to endure, annoying and generally mundane. No reason to experience this, unless to witness how awful it is.

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o say I was excited for this movie was an understatement. Ever since T’Challa, a.k.a. Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman, made his appearance in "Captain America: Civil War" I could not wait to see him in action. The movie starts off with an animated sequence with King T’Chaka, the father of T’Challa, telling him how the Black Panther and Wakanda came to be.This sets the storyline in the movie as T’Challa faces a series of trials that helps him to decide whether or not he wants to follow the strict Wakandan traditions or start his own.

The movie does a fantastic job of immersing the viewers into this fictional world. This is impressive given the fact that Wakanda is not a real place and most places that Marvel characters venture to are real. The scenery is well shot and even the animated ones look real and not cheesy.

I also enjoyed how well-written all the characters were. None of them felt flat and each felt like a main character in the story which added the plotline feeling full and not underdone. This movie also could not have premiered at a better time.

Representation is desperately needed in Hollywood and this movie definitely set the standard.

"Black Panther" has also set a new standard for Marvel stand-alones. They often fall a little short of expectations and total execution, minus "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." The first half of the story and the second half of the story match intensity levels fairly well. Each part has something important to say and adds the right amount of comic relief.

I cannot wait to see what else T’Challa has to offer in "Avengers: Infinity War" and future films.

I

've always been a fan of the Alternative music genre, but was not familiar with MGMT. Before I started listening to their new album, “Little Dark Age,” I had no idea what to expect. It came out on Feb. 9 with ten songs that were different than the music I’m used to and soon found out it wasn’t the album for me.

The album is a mix of slow and fast melodies. With a mix of electro-punk and a little bit of pop, “Little Dark Age” was definitely not my favorite.The first track of the album ruined it all for me, titled “She Works Out Too Much.” It was very similar to how a workout video would sound as if someone is instructing me. I couldn’t even listen to the whole thing because honestly, it made me uncomfortable. As I listened to the album over and over again, I had trouble picking out a favorite track because I wasn’t interested in any of them at all. Once I forced myself to listen to the lyrics of each track more in depth, I decided that “When You’re Small” is the only song I somewhat enjoyed off the album. It’s slow, but talks about how you feel when you’re sad compared to when you’re happy, which had me thinking about certain situations in my life and how to come to terms with them. If I had to pick a favorite part about the album, it would be the lyrics. When you really listen, they all have something to say on a deeper level.

The album gave off very calm vibes, but it wasn’t for me at all. If I would’ve liked it more, it would be something that I could listen to while doing homework or just hanging out, but I had to force myself to listen to all the tracks. It’s for sure not something I’m planning on listening to again.

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Music education students win award

By Noah Crenshaw ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

The dedication and work of two University of Indianapolis students has led to them winning an award from the Indiana Music Education Association.

Junior music education major Maddison Kinter and senior music education major Samantha Burkey, received the Outstanding Future Music Educator Award during the IMEA's Professional Development Conference in Fort Wayne, Ind.The conference ran from Jan. 11 -13 and featured music educators from across the state of Indiana, according to the IMEA's website. IMEA is a member of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), according to the their website.

Burkey said the award was specifically for music education majors who were pursuing a Bachelor's degree and that as part of the process that she had to write an essay to the organization.

"I wrote an essay highlighting why I would be a good candidate for it [the award]," Burkey said. "Several of them [essays] were submitted...and they chose mine."

Kinter also said that she had to write an essay and that the qualifications for the award were to have a good grade point average, be involved with a chapter of NAfME on a college campus that is a member of the organization, and to have contributed in some way to the music education field.

Burkey said that she was surprised to receive the award because there were at least thirty or so applicants from universities across Indiana that partipate in IMEA. She said that she first received news that she had won the award when she had started at her first week of student teaching at Southport Middle School.

“Student teaching is very difficult, so it was a little bit of reassurance that ‘Yes, you’re on the right path. Yes, you’re doing the right things’” Burkey said. “It just felt really good to be recognized

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Burkey also said that she will only be student teaching at Southport Middle School until March. After March, she said that she will be teaching at an elementary school in Decatur Township.

Kinter said that winning the award was awkward because she does not like being under the limelight. She said, however, that it was nice to know that she was making positive contributions to the field and that she was doing something right.

There are seven chapters of NAfME on college campuses across the state of Indiana, according to Kinter. Their role on campus is mostly community service-based and for networking for their members.

“We have chapter meetings where we bring in speakers to talk about hot topics in the music education world…[and] we are always encouraging our students to go out and work in the field as much as possible,” Kinter said.

Burkey attributes her winning her award to her experiences here at the university. She said that her professors and her education at UIndy had made her very qualified to win the award.

“I think that my professors did a really good job preparing me throughout the music education curriculum, because we [UIndy], unlike other places...[and] other schools, we get out into the classroom our freshman year, and we’re in there doing stuff all throughout our four years [here], up until we student teach,” Burkey said. “I don’t know if [students at] a lot of other schools get that experience, so I felt that it was something that really helped me get that award.”

Both Kinter and Burkey have plans for careers in music education after leaving UIndy. Kinter said that her goal is to become a high school band director and Burkey said that her goal for the moment is to graduate in May. "Ideally, [my] future plans [are to] find a job teaching middle school choirs, or at least music," Kinter said.

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f I had to make a quick judgement and declare my favorite restaurant, my first instinct would be to pick Milktooth.

Some other restaurants may have slightly better food or a more inviting atmosphere, but the way Milktooth brings together every aspect of an enjoyable restaurant experience together is unparalleled.

When I visited Milktooth I first noticed that the restaurant is in what looks like a repurposed garage.

Not only does Milktooth offer some of the best food in Indy, it has an extensive coffee menu that would put most coffee shops to shame. I ordered a mocha latte that had the perfect amount of sweetness, and I thought it was cool that the barista made a leaf design out of the cream.

I love Milktooth’s confidence as well, as the bottom of the menu says: “Modifications politely declined.” To me this implies that the chefs at Milktooth put a lot of time and effort into creating their menu and expect people to experience each dish as a whole, rather than picking it apart. For my main dish, I decided to order the lamb and chorizo posole with fresh hominy. The dish was absolutely incredible in every way possible, having just the right amount of every ingredient and strong, but not overwhelming, spice. This paired extremely well with the Bloody Mary I ordered from the large cocktail menu.

Overall, I spent about $36 including tip for my meal. For those who enjoy predictable food, Milktooth, unfortunately, is not for you. Those willing to venture out of the usual and try new things, however, will find that Milktooth offers a unique and authentic experience that no other restaurant in Indianapolis can replicate.

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When my friends and I arrived, we were the only ones who were there, which gave us a lot of room. The staff there were very friendly and answered every question we had.

The first thing I noticed when we started playing was that the holes were not as challenging as I imagined and that the area between the holes was very small.

This did, however, give us extra time to play each hole.

We had a hard time going from one side of the mall to the other when we were looking for the second location. It took us approximately 10 minutes to find the second location. The second course had more space between each hole, had less glow-in- the-dark art and was more about just the lights.

In terms of cost, we paid $10 for both courses which is pretty pricey. If you are in a rush and can only do one course, then you would waste most of what you paid. If you do have time to do both courses, the price ends up being $5 per game which includes 18 holes.There were several deals on websites such as Groupon, which had a deal for 3 rounds for $6, compared to two rounds for $10.

The idea of having a glow-in-the-dark minigolf is a fun idea, but we could see the lack of execution. The only “special” thing is the glow aspect, however, Glowgolf provides a great experience for a decent price.

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Lab from page 1 ing the area and adding increased traffic to the vacant house, Whiteacre said that the surrounding neighbors are supportive of the development of the criminal justice program.

“It seemed the neighborhood was supportive of the crime house. The house has been intermittently owned, but now it’ll have a more consistent presence and a consistent police presence,” Whiteacre said. “So it makes this area safer, and it’s cool what is going to be going on here.”

According to Biggs, the students will be visiting this house for hands on investigation and crime scene work in many of his classes in crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, police management administration and other classes across the scope of the Criminal Justice Department.

“We’ve increased the experiential learning experience for the students and then maybe see how we can expand it.

This house is a really good start,” Biggs said. “We’ll talk about it in the classroom, and then come here and actually learn it.

It’s like double loop learning.”

Christman said that she is excited to get on the grounds of the house and learn in a more hands on way.

“I'm most excited to learn all the techniques that people have to go through in order to accurately go through a crime scene and all the behind the scenes that happens when interviewing and collecting data that not many people know about,” she said.

According to Whiteacre, the Criminal Justice Department will be debuting a criminal scene investigation tract next fall. This tract will be added to the existing art, digital photography, biology, chemistry and criminal investigation tracts.

“There’s a lot of good opportunities with it, so I think it’ll be popular,” Whiteacre said. “Not only that, we want people to come here and get trained and get ready to find jobs.”

A new course in criminalistics will also be added to the Criminal Justice Department, specifically in the CSI track.

According to Whiteacre, the course will be taking advantage of the mock crime house the most, and give the students who plan do be doing the most work on crime scenes, the opportunity to get the most practice in investigating.

“In the fall, we’re offering our criminalistics course. It’s part of our new crime scene investigation tract and that’s where you’ll do a lot of the lifting of the fingerprints, measuring bullet holes and where they are and that sort of thing,” Whiteacre said. “Starting next year it will become a four hour class, two in the classroom and two hours on site in the lab.”

The house is still under renovation and the process to get it ready for students and IMCFSA agents will continue until fall of 2018.

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Panelists discuss misconceptions

During a lecture and panel event, pagans and atheists share information about their beliefs, traditions and rituals

Photo by Zoë Berg

(From left to right) Assistant Professor of Nursing Stephanie Kemery, Rev. David Sassman from Circle Sanctuary, High Priestess Tamrha Richardson from Novices of the Old Way and Michael Messer were part of the panel.

By Zoë Berg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF After hearing a derogatory comment being made about Pagans in a public space on the University of Indianapolis’ campus, Assistant Professor of Nursing Caron MacPherson said she decided to organize an event to help inform the campus community. Exploring Paganism, Myths, Assumptions, and Prevalence in the World Today featured a lecture focusing on the different types of religion and how they related to paganism and the sociology behind religion. The event, which was held twice on Feb. 9, also featured a panel discussion directed by questions from the audience.

The lecture portion of the event was led by Associate Adjunct Professor of Sociology Jackie Rhoades, who focused on the sociology aspects, and MacPherson who gave more background information as it related to Paganism.

MacPherson began the event by explaining all Wiccans are considered Pagan, but not all Pagans are Wiccans and witchcraft is about intention and the use of energy, not religion. According to MacPherson, Paganism is any faith that does not come from an Abrahamic base.

She also said that Atheists can fall under the category of Paganism.

The panel discussion featured five speakers including MacPherson, who both facilitated and acted as part of the panel.

MacPherson is a pagan who believes in Pantheism, which she described as the idea that everything is god. Admissions

& Curriculum Counselor for Graduate & Adult Learning Enrollment Brandon Doty and Assistant Professor of Nursing Stephanie Kemery from UIndy consider themselves atheists.

Tamrha Richardson is a doula and the High Priestess of the Novices of the Old Way. She is specifically a priestess to the Goddess Hecate, but considers herself to be a polytheistic Wiccan. David Sassman is a Reverend from Circle Sanctuary and the Executive Director of the Pagan Education Network and said he is openly Pagan. Michael Messer described himself as a call center employee by day and an artist by night. Messer said he is a witch and Pagan, does not stick to any one culture and is not affiliated with any local groups directly.

The panelists shared that they had been raised in Christian homes of varying denominations and strictness. Messer said that his parents were unstrict Methodist, and he became more interested in religion when he read Revelation in elementary school. Messer began to explore religion by reading other books and one day came across a book on Neo-Pagan spirituality.

“There’s a lot of things, as a gay young man, even at that age [during elementary school], I knew that the Christian practices didn’t mesh for me,” Messer said.

“They didn’t work for me. And here I was, I found one where right out at the start [it said], ‘We don’t care who you are as long as you’re a good person.’”

Sassman also explored religion before becoming a Pagan. He said as a teenager he went through Lutheran confirmation, but later explored Episcopalianism, and then did not have a set religion for

Photo by Zoë Berg

The event was the first time Admissions & Curriculum Counselor for Graduate & Adult Learning Enrollment Brandon Doty and Assistant Professor of Nursing Caron MacPherson publicly shared their religious beliefs. a while.

The panel addressed many misconceptions that people may have and also provided those in the audience with more information.

According to Richardson, ideas that people have about witchcraft from the times of the Salem Witch Trials and witch hunts in Europe portray witches as worshipping the devil, but she and Sassman said that is not true. The devil, or Satan, is a Christian construct and Pagans are not Christian so therefore they do not consider Satan to be one of their deities, Richardson said.

The panel also addressed some of the practices of Paganism. According to Richardson, Paganism oftentimes does involve rituals and magic but for a lot of Pagans their relationship with their faith is centered around the gods and goddesses they believe in.

Most Pagans have a strong connection with the Earth and often involve crystals, stones and herbs in their healing process, Sassman said. However, this does not mean that they do not believe in modern medicine.

“I’m just as likely to drink some chamomile, lavender and valerian tea to go to sleep as I am to meditate with a chunk of amethyst as I am to take some melatonin or a shot of NyQuil,” Messer said. “They all will do the same thing, it all depends on how badly I need to sleep.”

“...I knew that Christian practices didn’t mesh for me.

They didn’t work for me.”

10th annual DM raises funds for Riley

By Tate Jones STAFF WRITER

Photo by Cassie Reverman

(Center) Sophomore exercise science major Brianna Myers kneels during UIndy Dance Marathon in support of Riley Hospital. Participants kneeled instead of sitting because they were standing for those who cannot.

Donations to UIndy DM 38,008.77

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21,121.17

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UIndyDM held a six-hour long dance marathon in support of Riley Hospital on Feb. 10. UIndyDM collects donations for Riley Hospital.

DM is UIndyDM’s annual event that hosts Riley Hospital children, their families and the campus community. This year was the 10th DM held at UIndy. Partcipants and UIndyDM raised $38,000.77, which was $1,000 more than their fundraising goal.

Freshman psycholog y and preoccupational therapy major Mackenzie Williams is a member of the Morale Committee, which is in charge of creating the line dance and generating energy.

Williams said she has raised over $1000 for DM on her fundraising page.

Williams, like many many other DM members and participants, also helps manage the area where the activities take place. “[DM] is six hours of all of our dancers and our team raisers standing on their feet and raising awareness for the kids at Riley,” Williams said. “[The morale committee] teaches a line dance. We bring in kids from Riley and we hear their stories.

We also have tons of food and games throughout the entire event.”

At the marathon, there was a donation table where UIndyDM donors and participants posted on a bulletin what they fundraised.

Each time a name came up, a cowbell was rung and all participants cheered and clapped in response. There was also a raffle table and food tables with pizza and other snacks. The ground area was also open to children if they wanted to participate. Many themed areas for children were set up for playing games.

One of those areas was an inflatable, bounce house. The committee members also danced to songs throughout most of the event. A pre-choreographed routine

The event marked the first time MacPherson and Doty spoke publicly about their faith, while Richardson, Messer and Sassman have spoken out on other occasions. Although all of the panelists said they had never personally felt in danger because of their beliefs, they and people in their lives have been discriminated against.

Richardson said it typically affects Pagans in parenting and marital separations.

B e i n g discriminated against for being Pagan can also commonly affects people in the workplace, according to Richardson.

“I know there are many people in my close knit group of friends that have very well paying prestigious jobs, that if it got out to the greater populous and to their coworkers and whatnot that they’re pagan, they’d be done for,” Messer said. “I don’t have that fear because like I said, I work in a call center. I don’t have any of the fancy titles or societal pressures that a lot of people might otherwise have.”

Through this event MacPherson hoped to inform the UIndy community about Paganism and give them a chance to learn and ask questions.

“I don’t do what I do to change the minds of other people. I do it [speak out] to let people like me know that it’s safe, and they’re not alone…” MacPherson said. “I’m [still] trying to make it safe, but they’re not alone.”

was taught during the DM to children and participants. There was also a DJ.The event had both members and UIndy students watching and participating.

DM allowed families and children from Riley Hospitals onto the balcony and the event’s main floor.

Sophomore nursing major and Director of Marketing for DM Abby Spencer is in her second year with UIndyDM. According to Spencer, the fundraising methods allow different ways for individuals to directly donate to DM. “We have online fundraising pages through [Riley’s Children Foundation] and each committee member posts their pages on social media,” Spencer said.

“Anyone who is their friend on Facebook or on social media can send-in emails and click to donate on the [member’s] page.”

Spencer said there are also goals to the donations that go into DM. Members and participants have an individual goal of $500. DM’s full goal was to raise $37,000 for Riley Hospitals and the Riley’s Children Foundation.

According to Spencer, there were events throughout the week leading up to DM., referred to as “Riley Week.”

On Feb. 5, they worked with the Southport Chick-Fil-A for a giveback night. Participating members could show a flyer to their server or the manager, so that 20 percent of the bill contributes to the fundraising efforts of DM. DM also held a Trail Mix Station where participants could purchase their own trail mix bag for $3 in Schwitzer Student Center.

For one of the final events leading up to DM, UIndyDM held a tie dye event.

Those who took part in the activity could purchase a pair of socks to tie dye for $3.

Individuals were also allowed to bring their own shirts to dye for free.

According to Spencer, UIndyDM events happen throughout the whole year that lead up to DM. Spencer also said each dollar that they make towards DM is then matched by the government with $12 to every $1 that DM raises.

Dworet from page 1 energetic and enthusiastic person who could not wait to start his time at UIndy in the fall semester.

Upon hearing the news, junior communication major and swimmer Jake Renie tweeted: “I remember just weeks ago that he was here on his recruiting trip, & he was so excited he bought 3 UIndy shirts for him & his loved ones.

We were so thrilled that we gained an amazing young man next year. Words cannot express how heartbroken I am.

Thoughts & prayers for all.”

Hite said that he and the university have reached out to Dworet’s family and want them to know that the thoughts and prayers of the UIndy community are with them.

“Nick’s death also reminds us of the far-reaching impact of these national acts of violence,” Manuel wrote. “We will find ways in the coming days [to] help Nick’s family — and I hope our UIndy family can come together to engage the questions raised by these shootings and ensure that our community continues to be a safe place for all of our students, faculty, and staff.”

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Bill to permit Sunday alcohol sales passes

If the amendments to the bill are approved by legislators, Governor Holcomb, Sunday alcohol sales could be legal in Indiana by the end of March

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR Following the Alcohol Code Revision Commission’s decision to move forward with Sunday alcohol sales in Indiana, both houses of the Indiana General Assembly have approved repealing a prohibition-era ban.

The House of Representatives voted 87 to 10, while the Senate voted 39 to 10. The bill was authored by State Sen. Ron Alting (R) D-22, co-authored by State Sen. Lonnie Randolph (D) D-2, and sponsored by State Reps. Ben Smaltz (R) D-52 and Sally Siegrist (R) D-26.

This bill allows for alcohol to be sold from noon to 8 p.m. on Sundays as opposed to the other six days, when it can be sold from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. It would allow convenience stores, grocery stores, liquor stores and big box stores to sell alcohol as they would during the other six days of the week.

If passed through both houses and signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb, the bill originally would have gone into effect July 1. However, the House Public Policy Committee voted 9-1 in favor of the Sunday alcohol sales going into effect immediately after passage, meaning that Sunday alcohol sales could come to Indiana within the next few weeks if the amendment passes through the Indiana House and the Senate.

Several similar bills concerning Sunday alcohol have been proposed in the General Assembly in the past, but all died at some point in the legislative

process.

According to Alting, the failure of previous, similar bills had to do with the addition of unnecessary provisions and strict regulations against the retailers that sell alcohol.

“One thing I would say that has killed Sunday alcohol sales in the past is that we [the legislature] have been too restrictive to the entities it effects,” Alting said. “…

All kinds of obstacles that, quite honestly, just didn’t go over well. All this bill does is move the same entities of people that are serving alcohol six days a week to seven days a week, from the hours of 12 [p.m.] to 8 [p.m.].”

According to President of the Indiana Retail Council Grant Monahan, Indiana has been losing close to $12 million each year, taking into account lost Sunday alcohol sales and missed excise tax revenue.

He said that those who live near bordering states often cross over the border on Sundays to buy alcohol and, as a result, take their money with them. Monahan said that he and the Indiana Retail Council have been supporting Sunday alcohol sales for 10 years. “ This is the right thing to do,” Monahan said. “This helps to move Indiana’s alcoholic beverage laws into the 21st century. Our members hear form their customers every Sunday: ‘Why can’t we buy alcoholic beverages?’ And to be honest, there is not a good answer to that question.”

In a 2017 survey conducted by the Indianapolis Star, 70 percent of surveyed Hoosiers supported Sunday alcohol sales.

While many Hoosiers are in favor

of the bill passing, others like Director of the Indiana Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking Lisa Hutcheson, are disappointed in the bill’s lack of language regarding underage drinking.

“I was displeased that out of the nine lay members [of the Alcohol Code Revision Committee], there was not one person who represented prevention [of underage drinking] or

Graphic by Alexis Stella

public health,” Hutcheson said. “We’re not prohibitionists. We know that alcohol will continue to have a role in our society, as it always has.”

I n t h e S e n a t e P u b l i c Po l i c y Committee, Hutcheson urged legislators to collect data over the next two years to determine whether or not Sunday alcohol sales will have a negative effect on underage drinking.

Out of the House Public Policy Committee, the bill will head to the House floor to be voted on soon. If passed by the House, the bill will move back to the Senate to approve, or disapprove, the minor changes that have been made.

However, with the overwhelming support it has received, the bill will likely pass in both houses and become law, according to Alting.

time she was also working and taking care of their two daughter so she told his staff not to bother her on her days off.

She said when the Obama’s went to the White House her mother moved there as well, “kicking and screaming.”

According to Obama, her mother would have rather been at home in Chicago than in Washington, D.C. and as soon as the Obamas left the White House her mother went home.

“It [constantly being in view of the public] is hard on the people in your life...before you jump in, you’ve got to know that it’s hard,” Obama said. “There’s sacrifice, not just from you but from the people you love.”

Obama also spoke about opening up the White House to children. She said that they would have children come to the White House to try out the meals before state dinners and invite them in to spend time with musicians and performers before evening concerts.

Obama attributed these actions to the perspective she had from childhood and the feeling that it gave her.

“That experience will change a life and I guess, selfishly, I enjoyed the feeling of giving kids that feeling,” Obama said.

DeCoudreaux also asked Obama about topics related to the organizations that Women’s Fund supports, such as Dress for Success, and asked Obama about being a fashion icon.

“It’s interesting because I never sought to make a fashion statement,” Obama said. “I approached clothes like most women do, we want to look cute. That was my goal, to be cute and be comfortable.”

Women’s Fund also focuses on mental health with the Campaign to Change Direction. DeCoudreaux discussed the five signs of emotional distress and asked Obama to comment on mental illness.

Obama mentioned her time living in a military community and how they focused on mental health. She also said that the way people thought about mental health in the past was different than they do now. She explained that it used to be ignored or thought of negatively, but now

there is more of a focus, however, it could still be improved.

According to DeCoudreaux, the Women’s Fund Helps women struggling with economic insecurity, so she asked Obama was what she would say to those women. Obama spoke about the importance of fixing the problems that cause poverty and economic instability. She said that there is not much to be said to those who have little to no opportunities.

“The better use of my time is trying to fix those problems that they’re facing,” Obama said. “Not spend the energy trying to pump up people who don’t have options when we need to be doing the work to change those circumstances….

You can’t just ask people to live on platitudes and wellwishes. That ’s why we have a social safety net in this country, that ’s why we have welfare, that ’s why we have school grants and pell grants because sometimes people need a hand up. And it’s not enough to tell them that. You, know you, can’t pull yourself up by bootstraps if you don’t have boots...It doesn’t make sense to ask people to make something out of nothing when most of us who are successful have something. You don’t make something out of nothing.”

Obama also gave advice for those looking to have an influence on politics.

She said not everyone has to be a politician to influence politics and society. According to Obama, people can also volunteer or work on a political campaign, but what she recommends everyone do is vote. She said each person is the only one who knows what he or she wants, so they need to get out and vote on every level. Obama also said the main thing that people have control over, however, are their own individual actions every day.

“Waking up everyday and being a decent person, being kind, and open, and generous and compassionate, showing empathy for others, just trying to figure out what’s happening in other people’s shoes. Assume the best in your neighbors, not the worst,” she said.

Moderated conversation features Michelle Obama

Photo provided by Photography by Daniel Arthur Jacobson

On Feb. 13, the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana hosted A Moderated Conversation with Former First Lady Michelle Obama at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse. Moderator Alecia DeCoudreaux (right) asked Obama questions about her formative years, time in the White House, fashion, mental health, public service and being authentic.

By Zoë Berg & Maia Gibson EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & NEWS EDITOR On Feb. 13, over 12,000 people gathered in Bankers Life Fieldhouse to attend A Moderated Conversation with Former First Lady Michelle Obama put on by Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.

Created 20 years ago, Women’s Fund of Central Indiana is a special interest fund of the Central Indiana Foundation that creates opportunities for women and girls by distributing grants to organizations that are female focused, according to their website.

Executive Director of Women’s Fund Jennifer Pope Baker welcomed the audience and spoke about the Women’s Fund.

The event was a fundraiser for Women’s Fund. According to Baker, the funds raised will go toward supporting women who struggle with addiction, are victims of domestic violence/abuse, economically insecure or need help with childcare.

“By purchasing a ticket for this event, you [the audience] have helped to raise more than one million dollars for women and girls in the area,” Baker said.

Baker introduced one of the bene-

factors of the event, philanthropist and Chair and Founder of the Samerian Foundation Cindy Simon Skjodt, who introduced former first lady Michelle Obama. Founding member of Women’s Fund board Alecia DeCoudreaux moderated the event. DeCoudreaux was the president of Mills College in Oakland, Calif. for five years and a former employee of Eli Lilly and Company.

DeCoudreaux started the conversation by asking Obama about her formative years. Obama said that her family was her support network growing up and spoke about going to church and celebrating birthdays with her extended family.

“You don’t get anywhere in life without people holding you up, and I was absolutely no exception,” Obama said.

“I was fortunate that I grew up like a lot of folks on the southside where families and extended family lived very near….

We grew up with this amazing extended family.”

Both of Obama’s mother’s parents lived close to where she grew up, as did her aunts and uncles. She said that although as a child she thought her father’s side of the family lived on the other side

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of the city, they only lived five minutes away. Obama said having family close by gave her good role models while she was growing up.

“A lot of young kids think a role model has to be someone far away,” Obama said, “That it has to be the former first lady or somebody important, but the truth is, for me and for so many people, the most important role models you have are right in front of you.”

DeCoudreaux asked about Obama’s experience as First Lady. As a people person, Obama said she did well in her role as First Lady because she enjoyed being around people.

“That gave me energy. It gave me strength. It gave me purpose,” Obama said. “I didn’t have to be anybody other than me… I wasn’t tired, because I was Michelle Obama… When you know who you are, nobody can take that from you. So that made the job for me, easier.”

Although she enjoyed being around people, Obama said at times she would be so exhausted she would just pass out in a chair. Obama explained that while her husband was campaigning, she would limit her activity in the campaign to three days a week. Obama explained that at the

“You don’t get anywhere in life without people holding you up.”

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