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Modern Language Department may undergo changes By Zoë Berg FEATURE EDITOR

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The Greyhound Village Apartments should be ready for students to occupy by August of the Fall semester. The apartments will feature a fitness center, study room, lounging areas, sand volleyball courts and more.

Greyhound Village to be completed by fall semester By Tony Lain STAFF WRITER

The Greyhound Village Apartments currently under construction should be ready in August in time for the fall semester, according to Greyhound Village Marketing Manager Zach Brown. “Right now, we’re actually a little bit ahead of schedule,” Brown said. “We should be ready to give hard hat tours in the next couple of weeks.” The apartments will be available for mostly upperclassmen. The apartments will feature a fitness center, sand volleyball courts, lounging area, study room, outdoor lounging area with a fire pit, their own social events, on-site management

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Provost’s Lecture speaks of Belize Central Prison Spring Term trip The seventh annual Provost ’s Lecture took place at Ruth Lilly Performance Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 16. The lecture was a part of the Changing the Conversation sequence of the University Series.

Activist Bree Newsome tells her story of racial inequality The University of Indianapolis began its spring Diversity Lecture Series on Feb. 17. The first speaker of the series, activist and artist Bree Newsome, talked about what brought her to become an activist in her lecture called, “Tearing Hate from the Sky.” Newsome said at first she had not meant to become an activist when she made her now famous climb up the flagpole.

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and annual agreements with no extra charge for vacation or summer access, unlike other current residence halls on campus, according to www. greyhoundvillage.com. “The most exciting aspect of the Greyhound Village Apartments is that they combine the best of both worlds,” Brown said. “People can enjoy all the perks of on-campus life with relaxed apartment guidelines.” The Greyhound Village allows residents to live with whomever they wish, regardless of gender. The Greyhound Village also will be the only on-campus housing that allows for the lawful and responsible consumption of alcohol by anyone over 21 years of age, according to Brown.

Sophomore accounting major Colten Black will live with three other friends in the Greyhound Village Apartments next year. “I’m just excited about having a place to myself and my own room and bathroom while living with good friends,” Black said. “It will feel like a home away from home.” There are still vacancies for those interested in living in the Greyhound Village Apartments next school year. The most available units are the twobedroom, two-bath suites. About 75 percent of the three-bedroom suites are taken, and 85 percent of the singles have been spoken for. Only 32 percent of the beds have been filled in the fourbedroom suites. All bedrooms have their own bathroom regardless of which type of unit they are in.

Each apartment will come with furniture and appliances, including a washer and dryer, hardwood-style flooring, granite countertops, a fullsized kitchen, balconies and patios (for select units) and access to the University of Indianapolis cable and Internet services included, according to www. greyhoundvillage.com. To promote the Greyhound Village Apartments, students who take a tour before Feb. 28 have a chance to win a $500 giftcard. There is a partial model of the Greyhound Village’s interior featured on the main floor of the University of Indianapolis Schwitzer Student Center, located directly behind the Hub Information Center, for those interested in learning more.

UIndy Gamers hosts charity event Club raises money for Extra Life, a non-for-profit charity that works with Riley Hospital By Robbie Hadley BUSINESS MANAGER The registered student organization UIndy Gamers hosted a charity event to benefit Extra Life on Saturday, Feb. 20. In the Schwitzer Student Center, UIndy halls there was a plethora of games ranging from Nintendo 64 “Mario Kart” to Arcade Cabinets, classic board games and “Magic: The Gathering.” Participants were asked to donate to play games and have pizza. Vice President of UIndy Gamers and junior nursing major Levi Ward explained what the event was trying to accomplish. “We are working with Extra Life, which is a non-for-profit charity that works really closely with Riley Hospital,” Ward said. “You play games all night, you eat food, you hang out with friends, and you pledge money for this charity.” Ward said UIndy Gamers first got the idea to work with Extra Life a few months back when a board member pitched the idea. Once the group solidified their plan, they contacted Extra Life, which helped them find things like video game arcade cabinets. “It just kind of got rolling from there,” Ward said. “We got numerous different game centers around town like Game Preserve and Game Paradise to donate a game for raffle prizes. If you go to places and say, ‘We are doing a charity event,’ then they will be more than happy to give you stuff [for the event].” Kevin Trehan is president of the Indianapolis Guild for Extra Life. He offered some additional insight into Extra Life and what it does. “Extra Life started roughly seven or eight years ago,” Trehan said. “There was a family who had a daughter who was suffering from leukemia. So in order to raise money to help pay for her hospital fees and other things like

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Junior exercise science major Will Vermillion plays “Crisis Zone.” Students were asked to donate to play games. that, they [Extra Life] got together and started doing a gaming marathon. People come in and play some games for 24 hours. Unfortunately, she did pass away, but they keep that legacy going on. It grew from starting out with a small family and it is now a worldwide event.” Aside from the annual large event, Trehan said that Extra Life Indianapolis tries to have events similar to the one UIndy Gamers hosts at least once a month, if not several times a month. They also go to conventions such as Indiana Comic Con, Gen Con, Indy Popcon and others, to raise awareness for the charity. “We try to go to a lot of the smaller ones [events]. Right now, we have people working at Anime Crossroads,” Trehan said. “We also have [a] partnership with the Microsoft store up in the Fashion Mall in Keystone. On Super Bowl day, they [the Microsoft store] were hosting Madden tournaments at their store, so we went up there and hung out with them. We try to go to big events, small events, as many as I can go to.”

Trehan said in the end, the goal for an event such as the University of Indianapolis’was more exposure for Extra Life. “The biggest goal really, is just spreading the word,” Trehan said. “We don’t really ask for donations but we always welcome them. Our biggest thing is getting other people to know about Extra Life and sign up for it, because the important thing is expanding the outreach. That in itself brings in the donations for the hospitals.” Ward said in the future, UIndy Gamers wants to try to make their event even bigger. “I would love to see this happen again on a bigger scale,” Ward said. “I’d love to see more arcade cabinets, more things to do in there. Hopefully this event will grow and kind of be one of those huge events that people look forward to.” The group raised more than $200 for Extra Life and Riley in its inaugural event. Anyone interested in the Extra Life charity can go to extra-life.org for more information or to sign up.

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The Department of Modern Languages is set to change its name and curriculum beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year. According to the Chair of the Modern Languages Department and Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies Peter Vakunta, Modern Languages will be called Global Languages and Cross Cultural Studies, to better represent the new curriculum. Beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year, both the French and German majors will no longer exist and will instead be replaced by a Franco-Germanic Studies major, Vakunta said. A Latin American Studies major also will be added to the department’s new curriculum. Associate Professor of Spanish Daniel Briere said that because of the change, the department also is planning to remove some courses that are currently offered. “Obviously there have been a number of classes that will be eliminated,” Briere said. “We are in the process of going through the curriculum committees, so that they can approve the deletion of French and German as majors and minors and incorporating these two majors that we have into one we call Franco-Germanic Studies. The other [new major is] Latin American Studies.... They are interdisciplinary majors because they’re pulling from a variety of sources of disciplines like international relations, communication … and history.” Within the new majors are courses intended to teach students more about the culture of the people whose language they are studying. Students can take courses such as COMM 333: Intercultural Communication, ANTH 200: Global Problems, HIST 331: History of Latin America, IREL 100: World Regional Geography and others that pull from other departments to enhance students’ knowledge of history and culture. According to Vakunta, students need to obtain 32 credit hours to graduate with a major in Global Languages and CrossCultural Studies and are required to take the basic languages—101, 102, 201—from which they will earn eight credits. The language they choose to study will be specific according to the student’s chosen major. For example, Franco-Germanic Studies majors can pick between taking the basic levels of French or German and students who focus on Spanish or Latin American Studies can take the basic levels of Spanish. Students who pursue Spanish can continue to take upper-level courses, but the upper-level French and German courses may been eliminated in the curriculum change. Briere and Vakunta said they were being eliminated due to the 10-student minimum policy put in place by the university. “Last summer, it was announced that the 100- and 200- level classes would need a minimum of 10 students to be allowed to go ... in the coming year,” Briere said. “[In] the academic year 2016-17, all classes would have to have at least 10 [students].… When we looked at the history of the enrollment of French and German, it became crystal clear that having 10 [students] was more of an exception than a constant.… French and German realized they could not meet this minimum of 10 [students], so that engendered our looking into what other possibilities can we work up.” Briere said that when they realized French and German would not meet the requirement, they began looking into other possibilities, so that they did not have to completely eliminate those languages. He said the Department of Modern Languages worked together in a very collegial manner, making sure they agreed with the changes, but that the process was still complicated. According to Briere, the department wanted to make sure it could retain the Spanish major and upper-level courses, while still finding a way to work in a major including French and German. He said the department began to look online at what other colleges were doing, to get ideas, and also checked what kinds

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