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Housing renovations to begin in the summer

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Student speakers to be chosen for 2015 Campus Apartments will undergo construction this summer and will be ready for occupancy in 2016 commencement

By Ainger Alexander

By Robbie Hadley BUSINESS MANAGER

STAFF WRITER The Campus Apartments will be torn down and replaced this summer, according to a campus-wide email sent by Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli.

“The Campus Apartments have been in need of major renovations for a number of years,” Vitangeli said. “We had the opportunity for the project to move forward this summer with the other projects that are taking place in line with the 2030 plan.”

Vitangeli said campus surveys and focus groups were done with students to determine areas of need around campus on the topic of campus housing. The Campus Apartments specifically arose as a concern for students.

Each apartment currently features two bedrooms, a living room, an eat-in kitchen and space for a washer and dryer on the main floor and one bathroom upstairs. While some features have not been determined, it is predicted that there will be two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments, and each bedroom will be single occupancy. Campus Apartments residents have their own hopes for possible new features and are excited for

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Campus Apartments currently have two bedrooms, a living room, an eat-in kitchen, space for a washer and dryer and a bathroom. After the renovations, each bedroom in the Campus Apartments will be single occupancy. the upcoming renovations.

“I’m happy that the renovations are finally taking place,” said senior international relations and communication major and Campus Apartments resident Leanne Bassi. “I think the bathrooms should definitely

be updated, and new washers and dryers should be put in.”

Sophomore social work major and Campus Apartments resident Taylor Kellam also thinks the apartments are in need of modernization.

“I think they just need a more modern

decor and maybe should be offered fully furnished,” Kellam said.“I’m honestly so excited they’re being renovated.”

According to Vitangeli, renovations will begin this summer and are expected to be ready for student occupancy in the fall of 2016.

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able to partner with us and that we can effectively partner with. So that is kind of how the locations are set up.”

Each trip will be led by two student site leaders and a staff advisor. There will be approximately nine student volunteers for each trip as well.

The Selma, Ala. trip is led by junior social work major Alexis Fort and senior psychology pre-occupational therapy major Aubriana Adney. They will work closely with the Freedom Foundation.

The Freedom Foundation, according to freedomfoundation.org, has been “facilitating service-learning programs since 2008 and believes in thoughtprovoking, challenging, life-changing service learning trips.”

Fort hopes that students will leave Selma with more awareness and knowledge from their experience, and she hopes to provide the group with an opportunity they will feel is life-changing.

UIndy Serves offers alternative breaks

Omaha, Neb.

Selma, Ala.

St Augustine, Fla.

Over Spring Break, students have the chance to travel out of state to work with nonprofit organizations in these cities around the country.

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President Manuel talks with students over Starbucks

President Robert Manuel hosted the first of three “Prez at the Perk” events from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the atrium of the Schwitzer Student Center on Feb. 17.

Whirling prize winners speak at Kellogg Writers Series

Whirling Prize winners Michael Meyerhofer and Teresa Milbrodt read from their award-winning books at the Kellogg Writers Series on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Schwitzer Student Center.

UIndy chemistry research program expands

Chemistry students at the University of Indianapolis are expanding their research with the department’s new equipment. A microwave plasmaatomic emission spectrometer, which is designed to detect trace elements of metals, came to the chemistry department just over a year ago.

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UIndy Serves is offering University of Indianapolis students an opportunity to do something that will be impactful during Spring Break. UIndy Serves is offering three alternative Spring Break trips to Selma, Ala., Omaha, Neb. and St. Augustine, Fla. According to Troy Heffron, one of UIndy Serves program advisors, the main purpose of UIndy Serves is to provide students the opportunity to engage in service over university breaks in communities outside of Indianapolis.

Each trip is led by student site leaders, according to Heffron.

“We have student site leaders who ultimately plan the trips.They pick an issue that they care about and that they are able to find an opportunity to volunteer with,” Heffron said. “They make a lot of phone calls to various nonprofit organizations until they find an organization that is

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For the University of Indianapolis’ 2015 commencement, one keynote speaker and two student speakers will address the graduating undergraduate and graduate students.

Although one of the speakers has been chosen, the two students will be selected by the classes they will represent.

After nearly a year of deliberation, a committee has chosen Edwidge Danticat to be the University of Indianapolis’ 2015 keynote commencement speaker.

Danticat is an author whose works often focus on social issues such as women’s rights and immigration. Danticat was born in Haiti but moved to America as a girl.

English Department Chair and Professor Kyoko Amano uses Danticat’s books “Breath, Eyes, Memory”and “The Farming of Bones” in her Multicultural Literature course. She said that one of the best aspects of Danticat’s work is her use of vivid language to express her points. Danticat uses her real-life experiences as a Haitian immigrant in her writing.

Amano spoke about how Danticat deserves the honor of giving the address.

“She [Danticat] strikes me as a person who is really down-to-earth,” Amano said. “She is connected to Haiti. When they had the earthquake [in 2010], she did fundraising and helped people there.

She is civically responsible.”

Alongside Danticat, two student speakers who also will give addresses to the graduating class. This recent tradition began last year when Peter Brown and Will Schnabel were chosen to speak for their classes. Vice President for Students and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli said the tradition started to give students a chance to speak.

“Last year was the first year that we started having student speakers at graduation,”Vitangeli said.“We thought it would be cool to have some student speakers. This year again, even though we have a graduation speaker, we still wanted students to have an opportunity to be represented in graduation.”

Last year, the process was done on a shortened timeline because the decision was made near graduation. This year, the committee had a whole new process for the students to pick who represents them. Vitangeli thinks the new process will excite students and help them to be more connected to their peer.

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Summer programs nearly double for 2015

By Kameron Casey PHOTO EDITOR The University of Indianapolis is offering more than 200 different courses for the summer of 2015.

T h e c o u r s e s a re a i m e d a t undergraduate students and include introductory as well as upper-level courses in fields such as business, mathematics, the sciences, and the arts and humanities. Classes are being offered on campus, online and in a hybrid of online and in-class formats.

The courses are intended for undergraduate students in an effort by the university to help students graduate in four years. According to Executive Vice President and Provost Deborah Balogh, most adult program students and many of the graduate students already take courses year-round. “ We want students to have opportunities to meet the goal of finishing their degree in four years,” Balogh said.“It can be a way for students that have double majors to keep from falling behind. It can be an opportunity for students that changed majors to catch up. It can be an opportunity [for those] who maybe need an extra math or English class to be on track. Those

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Summer Programs MUSIC

•Summer Piano Camp •Keyboard Academy •Vocal Arts Institute •Chamber Music Institute

SPORTS •Becoming a College

Student Athlete •Volleyball: Setter, Attacker, Blocker Camp •Volleyball: Pass and Serve Camp •UIndy Youth Volleyball Camp •UIndy Elite Volleyball Camp

CREATIVE DESIGN

•Future Vision: Experience Design Institute •3D Design & Print Camp •Young Writers Conference

THEATRE •From Story to State: Theatre Camp •Theatre Intensive: Acting/ Musical/Theatre/Technical Theatre

LEADERSHIP •Greyhound Leadership Institute

HEALTH CARE

•Health Careers Exploration Camp (Nursing/PT/OT/Kinesiology)

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gateway courses can become barriers for some students. The way to deal with that is to find a way to remove the barrier, and summer session becomes a way to do that.”

According to Balogh, UIndy is not the first school to increase its summer offerings.

She believes that the increase is not only

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positive, but also to be on the same level as other schools.

“Some institutions have experimented with summer school and experienced success, and they are increasing their offerings. Others have experimented and found it not to be successful,”Balogh said.

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“I think all schools should be looking at summer as an alternative to meet the needs of our students better. From that perspective, we are on par for what we should be doing for our population.”

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Jazz Ensemble

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A Tinder adventure Reflector editor explores Tinder in search of love and friendship and comes away with valuable lesson

By Emily Darr FEATURE EDITOR

Photo contributed by Emily Darr

Our generation is obsessed with having, defining and finding new relationships.

We enjoy meeting and talking to new people and the idea of having a fresh start with someone new.

One way people do this is online, whether that is meeting people through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter or participating in dating sites.

When it comes to Tinder, it can really be defined as both a social and dating site for a younger audience.

For those who do not know, Tinder is a social site that uses pictures of people that the user can either swipe right to like or swipe left to dislike.

If the person likes your picture as well, then it becomes a match and the two of you can send messages back and forth until you supposedly fall in love. Some people use Tinder to find new friends, and some use it to find a romantic partner.

I downloaded the application myself.

I found that I have chronic swipe left disease, because the longer I use the application, the higher my standards get and the more judgmental I become.

Despite this, I actually matched a few lucky men, although none have bothered to message me. I did, however, meet my

Think before you share

By Mercadees Hempel NEWS EDITOR In 1938, actor Orson Welles directed and narrated an episode for the radio anthology series “The Mercury Theatre on the Air.” This particular episode, broadcast on Halloween, was “The War of the Worlds,” based on the novel by H.G. Wells. “The War of the Worlds” is about an alien invasion, and when folks turned on the broadcast, some of them missed the message that this was a fictional story.

Urban legend says that panic spread, and this event went down in history for the hysteria it caused, even if it wasn’t on the grand order that some people say it was.

Last summer, for a couple of days, my friends on Facebook were sharing an article claiming “Orange Is the New Black” had been canceled. Sharers of the article were crying in outrage, demanding to know why such a popular show’s plug had been pulled.

Well, it hadn’t. The article actually was from the satirical news website “Empire News.” This hoax was so successful “Time” magazine published an article on its website on July 13, 2014 declaring that the show really had not been canceled.

This misunderstanding could be brushed off as an isolated incident, like “The War of the Worlds” broadcast. But then in January, I saw that many people were posting a certain status on Facebook.

This status said that Facebook was going to install software that would steal personal information from its users, so if you didn’t want your information to be stolen, you needed to copy and paste (not share) the status that denied them the right. I saw so many people post this status that for a couple of hours it seemed to be the only thing on my news feed. And again, it was a hoax.

Think back to when you heard a celebrity had died, but then it was revealed to be a hoax. Now remember the last time you had to explain to someone that “The Onion” is not a real news site.

There was a simpler time when everyone was in the know that “The National Enquirer” was not a reliable source for factual news. However, for every troll who makes a fake status on Facebook or every satirical news site that talks about something relative in pop culture or every Photoshopped picture of the president posted, there is someone who takes it at face value and has a knee jerk reaction to it. This bothers me.

It bothers me because it is the equivalent to someone sourcing “The National

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But mostly it bothers me because in 1938, the people who panicked during Welles’ broadcast had an excuse. Their main source of instant information came from the radio. There wasn’t a way to Google whether aliens were actually attacking. There were no 24-hour news outlets or online publications posting articles. But we in 2015 do have all of those resources.

We have a device, whether a tablet, a phone or a computer, that we can potentially access and obtain any kind of information we want. Depending on the device, we can get that information whenever and wherever we want.

These resources are at our fingertips, but we do not utilize them properly. It also is not just the common, everyday person who will fall for this. It is damaging to a news site or publication’s credibility when it shares false news as true, but it is damaging to a person’s credibility as well. If you want to debate politics with me, that’s fine, but if you shared that article from the “Daily Currant”website about Obama creating a new American flag, then most likely, your credibility has been damaged in my eyes.

It may not seem like a big deal in the examples I’ve given, but I can’t help wondering what would happen if something on a more dramatic level were shared at the rate these other examples were. It isn’t too difficult to imagine the aforementioned “War of the Worlds” broadcast could be replicated. So to prevent that from happening, be sure to question what you see online.

The time it takes you to copy and paste that Facebook status or share that article is the same amount of time you could spend googling and verifying the information. If you’re not sure where to look, Snopes.com is a good first resource. The website is dedicated to verifying stories that may or may not be true, and it busts anything from celebrity rumors, new laws, Photoshopped images or social media hoaxes.

The world has grown smaller since the birth of the Internet. And as always, we have to be careful what we share online. This goes beyond just name and age now, to the information we choose to share as well. Most of us can recall a time where we have been duped by a hoax, but we can become more informed and better users of the Web if we take the time to use the resources that we are so lucky to have. number, which will be verified. Letters are subject to condensation and editing to remove profanity. Submission of a letter gives The Reflector permission to publish it in print or online.

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soul mate. Pizzazz, age 24, whose profile picture is of pizza asked me to have little pizza roll children with him. I only lost interest after he told me he hated California. I don’t understand how pizza can hate California.

While on my Tinder adventures, I felt the application itself was safe. It only uses first name and age, and I am in no way obligated to share more information.

However, there are some accounts on Tinder that are scams.

“Pretty much when I get scammed, I swipe right on some girl, and then within a span of 5 seconds, it will be a match, and then within maybe a span of 5 to 10 minutes, I’ll get a message from the person, who basically has three somewhat pixilated pictures,” said University of Indianapolis Office Coordinator of the Student Business Center Brian McCarty.

“They will respond with something like ‘Hey, I like to have sex with strangers, give me a call,’ and they will give me a phone number. So I just unmatch and report spam.”

McCarty said he uses Tinder when he is bored. I have to agree that it can be entertaining. It is intriguing to talk to people who know absolutely nothing about you. But how safe is it actually to meet a person from Tinder?

Although most people have heard stories of people meeting in person from

Tinder, I haven’t found anyone actually to comment. However, if anyone is considering meeting someone he or she meets on the internet, whether it is Tinder or another site, I would say the same thing.

Be smart about it.

Talk on the phone or video chat a few times. If and when you set up a meeting time, make sure you tell a friend where you are going and make the meeting in a public setting. These precautions seem like common sense, but you can never be too safe.

Most of the people I have spoken with, use Tinder as a social site just to speak to new people. It is almost like the new MSN Messenger. The only difference is that instead of friends, you are talking to strangers.

Tinder may have become just another social media site, where actually meeting with its participants is at your own risk.

The application only shows my name, age and the About Me section, which says, “I’m pretty basic,” along with a flawless picture of me with bangs. I haven’t had bangs for two years.

The Tinder version of me has 64 matches and has spoken to only four of them, including Pizzazz. I am still not sure if Pizzazz is a real person or not. So use good judgment.

Tinder may be safe, but meeting a stranger may not be.

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Indiana deserves better leaders

By Michael Rheinheimer OPINION EDITOR My pride as a Hoosier has been wounded.

We became a laughingstock when Gov. Mike Pence’s office announced the creation of Just IN News Service, a news agency that “The Indianapolis Star” reported was to be completely funded by taxpayer dollars. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made a punch line from the planned agency. A joke on Twitter ran along the lines of,“If you search ‘state-run media,’ your first three results are North Korea, Iran and Indiana.”

The concept of a state-run news agency is a clear violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of the press.The fact that such an initiative came from the same state that gave the world Ernie Pyle is truly shameful.

More recently, the Indiana State House has voted to remove Glenda Ritz from her democratically elected position as chairperson of the State Board of Education. This has risen from a disagreement over how long ISTEP testing should take. Instead of working with his democratically elected colleague, Pence prefers that his way be the only way.

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If you voted for Ritz in 2012, you must have voted incorrectly. The vote to strip Ritz of her position as chairperson was passed with 55 of the Indiana House of Representatives Republicans voting in favor of the measure. It has not yet passed the Senate. Again, the state of Indiana was shown in a bad light.

According to “U.S. News & World Report,” Indiana had the lowest voter turnout of all 50 states for the 2014 midterm election. The boyhood home of Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest presidents this nation has ever elected, should be ashamed that it has become so apathetic.

Last week, the state Senate passed a religious freedom bill that, according to Fox 59, “could potentially allow Indiana businesses to refuse service to newly married same-sex couples.” The bill passed the Senate 40-10. If it passes the House of Representatives, it will become law. I do not want our state to be known for everything I have previously mentioned, and for being a state that bars certain people from going to certain stores or restaurants.

This list of negatives might make it easy to become discouraged. But do not lose faith in The Hoosier State. Bear in mind that the people responsible for three

Correction In the Feb. 18 issue of The Reflector, a headline states “New art gallery opens in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.”

The Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery is an established gallery

of these problems are up for reelection next November.

The problem not directly caused by our elected officials is one of the causes of lackluster leadership. It is true that 100 percent voter turnout would not guarantee good leadership, but if enough Hoosiers cared to vote, than we at least could show the General Assembly that we care. And you should care about your state.

This is an amazing state with amazing people. Whether you were born here or not, I am willing to bet that something in the state has blown you away. You may come from the mountains and are amazed by the stretches of flatness in the northern half of the state, or you may be amazed at the hilly terrain and hiking in Brown County. Maybe it’s the shrimp cocktail at St. Elmo’s Steakhouse, or the fact that our little state is the setting for one of NBC’s most popular sitcoms. Whatever it is, we each have something we love about Indiana, so I know I am not the only one upset by the negative press our state government is bringing upon us.

Next November, remember whatever you love the most about this state and elect leaders worthy of it. Let’s turn around those low turnout rates and send the people who make our state look bad packing.

within the building. Exhibits staged in the gallery are all housed in the established space. Therefore, “opens” should have referred to the exhibit rather than the gallery.

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Mealski app provides jobs for students

By Kylee Crane MANAGING EDITOR Dan Owenby, a recent University of Indianapolis graduate, launched a test run of his website and application called Mealski on Feb. 13 on campus. Mealski not only has created a way for students to have their favorite food delivered to their door, but also has created another opportunity for students to have a job while they are in school.

To order, a customer visits mealski.com on his or her mobile device and logs in with his or her information. The customer then selects a restaurant available in their location, selects food off the given menu, pays at check-out and then waits for the food to be delivered. Owenby said that while there are other delivery applications available on the market, Mealski provides a unique service that can satisfy any customer.

“Other apps and websites,like GrubHub, are similar in the sense that they offer food.

But Mealski is unique because you can actually get food from places that don’t deliver. When you get on the app, it will automatically program where you are at, and you can find local restaurants,”Owenby said. “Some of our competitors are more of an online takeout or delivery app for pizza, so we try to program into our customer’s eating habits. ” The results from the test launch of the application have been positive, according

to Owenby, and he believes the official launch with the public also will go well because of the convenience Mealski can provide customers.

“We think it will be really exciting for people, and it will not only be convenient but also improve your productivity,” Owenby said. “If you think about the time it takes you to get to your car, drive to the restaurant, wait for your food and then drive back, it adds up. So if you’re sitting at work or you are studying in the library, we can get it to you faster, and it won’t take away from your time.”

The convenience of a fast delivery would not be possible without the students who deliver for Mealski. There are currently 10 to 15 drivers working for Mealski. Junior exercise science major Dylan Whetstone is one of them.

Whetstone said that the convenience and uniqueness Mealski offers is what made him decide to apply to be a driver.

“I decided to become a driver for Mealski because I think that Mealski has great potential and [I like] the extremely flexible hours it offers,” Whetstone said.

“I also like it because Mealski stands out from competitors by delivering to your door a variety of restaurant options.”

Drivers are paid five dollars per delivery and keep any tips made as well.

According to Owenby, there are several benefits that come with being a Mealski driver that are great for college students.

“The best thing about the job [as

Mealski is currently delivering in both the University of Indianapolis and Broad Ripple area. The company plans to eventually expand into all of Indianapolis

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Find the restaurant you want to order from.

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Select the your desired food, choose your options and add them to your cart.

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Check out.You’ll be charged with a $3.69 delivery charge.

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Wait for your order. You will be texted when your order is on its way.

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a student driver] is that you can do it whenever you want to. . . . You’re making far more than minimum wage if you want to take it like a real job. Or if you just want to deliver some food between classes or on a study break, you can program and be on the app, so you don’t have to stop what you are doing or be at a standard location like a Domino’s delivery driver would have to be,” Owenby said. “You can also text your friends within the app.

So there might be some interaction and

might be more of a driver community, so it might be a way to meet friends.”

Whetstone also has seen many advantages of his job in these first few weeks of Mealski’s test launch. These benefits have made the experience great so far without any difficulties, according to Whetstone.

“I haven’t seen any challenges as a driver yet. I pick my hours I want to work and when I’m able to work. If I can’t work, I just turn off my notifications

on my Mealski app, which means I’m off the clock,” Whetstone said. “This is huge as a driver and really cool for college kids. We need extra money, but have extremely busy schedules. Mealski offers you the chance to pick the hours you want to work without making your schedule a mess.”

Mealski launched in the Broad Ripple area on March 1 and will expand to other Indianapolis areas at times yet to be determined.

Honors College is renamed after alumni Ron and Laura Strain donate $1 million to endow Honors College

By Sarah Hunker STAFF WRITER

The University of Indianapolis Honors College has received a $1 million donation from alumni and board of trustee members Ron and Laura Strain.

To honor the Strains, the Honors College has been renamed the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College. The Strains met at UIndy, formerly called Indiana Central, when they were students.

The Strains feel that the university has continued to keep its close relationship with all of the students who attended, even after all of the years that have passed since they were in college.

“Even though the university has grown in size and certainly in infrastructure, it still has that feeling of very much one-on-one with your professors,” Laura said. “That was very important to us at the time we were here…. Fortunately, this school has been able to maintain that very personal relationship with your professors. That says something really.”

Executive Director of the Honors College and Associate Professor of French Amy Allen Sekhar said the endowment money will be distributed to the Honors College over time and will change the way the college operates and help the budget.

“The idea is that they wanted it to enhance the types of programs that we offer,” Sekhar said. “President Manuel mentioned in his email to the campus that it was to help build an affiliated faculty.”

With the affiliated faculty containing current staff, they will be equipped to teach courses offered through the Honors College. The Strains contacted President Robert Manuel to get an idea of where they should donate.

“We sat with Rob to explore with him, and he came up with the Honors College specifically [because] he felt it would be a greater impact,” Ron said.

The Strains felt that the Honors College would flourish from the donation because of all it has to offer to the students who are in it.

“I think we feel [that] the Honors College—with its interdisciplinary approach [and] the ability to be pursuing your career.… [It] prepares students for the world that you are going to be in,” Laura said.

Education was important to the Strains as they made their way through the university, and they feel that the Honors College portrays that as well.

“You need to be prepared with a broad spectrum of education and knowledge and experience in order to be able to

make the transition to what may be the way the world is going,” Laura said.

Ron Strain had come to the university to study pre-med but changed his major to business. Ron’s father had worked in business, and because his father was paying for his tuition, Ron thought that business would be a good direction to go in. Both Ron and Laura agree that it was the right move.

Ron’s career in business spanned to North and South America. He received an offer from Radio Corporation of America [RCA] in Indianapolis and soon became the plant controller. He also expanded his career to Brazil. After working for RCA, Ron worked for Miller Brewing Company as vice president of finances and treasurer. Laura also received a job at the U.S. Bank as senior vice president for marketing and public relations. Both are retired now.

The Strains have worked on 15 different boards and have been together for 58 years. The couple now resides in Naples, Fla., and they have two children.

“We have always had common goals, we have always worked as a team and we have never been in competition with each other,” Laura said.

More information on the Strains is available through the UIndy Honors College website.

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Campus police will be wearing these body cameras while they are on duty. The cameras are meant to protect citizens and the officers.

New policy requires campus police to wear body cameras The University of Indianapolis Campus Police will begin implementation of a new policy requiring officers to wear body cameras. This policy was settled at the end of last year, and cameras arrived the third week in February.

According to the body camera policy outline document, the use of body cameras will provide documentation for law enforcement interaction with the public by providing recorded evidence of actions, conditions and statements that could be used for judicial or internal review or by the public through formal requests.

The document states that the primary function of the body cams is to be able to accurately document statements and events during the course of an incident.

The data collected also may be used to determine the accuracy of a complaint.

The body cams will be worn during shifts and used to record traffic stops; pursuits and vehicle apprehensions; use of force situations, citizen contacts;

statements made by suspects, victims and witnesses; Miranda warnings; interviews and more.

“They’re going to protect us, citizens, students and the community of UIndy,” said Lt. Hailey Padgett-Riley. “With everything going on in the media surrounding officers, we just want to do our due diligence.”

Sophomore communic ation major Ally Moyer said that she supports the use of the body cameras.

“It only makes sense,” Moyer said.

“This way, all parties will be protected and the truth will surface.”

Community members are recognizing the importance of this new policy.

“With cases like Mike Brown and Eric Garner circulating in the media every so often, it eases my mind to know that cameras will now be involved,” said South side resident Shonna SteeleEdmondson.

Riley said there will be no trial period, and the use of the new body cameras is here permanently. Officers have been trained in the use of the cameras and began wearing them on Feb. 16.

This nonprofit’s mission, according to sjhp.org, is to “promote safe, decent and affordable housing in North Florida … by creating links between the public and private sectors on projects that create lowand-moderate-income housing, rebuild neglected homes and neighborhoods, thus benefiting disadvantaged areas and enhancing community economic and social development.”

These trips are structured to be a learning experience for students, and Heffron hopes they enjoy and appreciate the opportunity to be able to serve others.

“In my undergrad, I participated in a lot of these trips as a participant, then going to a site [as a] leader and then ultimately working on the back end setting up the trips. For me, it was a huge growth experience to learn about what it means to be committed to service, to community, as well as being able to share that experience with other students,” Heffron said. “So I am hoping to share similarly impactful opportunities with students. I hope this program can grow into something the UIndy students really take ownership and take pride of.”

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The Honors College Office is located in Esch 210. The donation from the Strains will be distributed over time and help enhance the programs offered by the Honors College.

SPRING BREAK from page 1 “We chose the Freedom Foundation because we wanted give our students at UIndy the opportunity to learn about the civil rights movement,” Fort said. “I hope the volunteers gain more awareness about communities and individuals who are outside of their own communities. I really hope they gain a lot of knowledge from their experience and become eager to make a difference for others that deal with discrimination and social injustice.”

Junior international relations major Siglinde Ferguson and senior biology and chemistry major Rochelle Short will be

leading the Omaha, Neb. trip. They will be working closely with Habitat for Humanity, which according to habitatomaha.org, is a “grassroots organization that builds and renovates houses, forges community partnerships and breaks down barriers.”

Ferguson feels students participating will learn a great deal from this particular location.

“Omaha is a city that has a lot of need, especially a need for housing. Habitat for Humanity has all of the resources needed to help supply the expertise

for volunteers to properly build houses and help with deconstruction of existing houses,” Ferguson said. “I hope that they [they] will gain the appreciation for service just as I did in their shoes just one year before. I hope that all of the participants become the active citizens that I know they can become.”

Senior psychology major Anthony Jackson and junior exercise science pre-occupational therapy major Sarah Humbird will lead the trip to St. Augustine, Fla. They will work closely with St. John’s Housing Partnership.

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Men’s basketball wins over Pumas

After two straight losses, UIndy claims final regular season game 113-96, prepares for GLVC tournament against Lewis

By AJ Rose SPORTS EDITOR Despite a statistically poor showcase of defense by both teams, the No. 16 nationally ranked University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team found no trouble in its offense during its regular season finale on Thursday, Feb. 26, in front of a crowd of 3,228 people at Nicoson Hall, outscoring the Saint Joseph’s College Pumas in an offensive shootout, 113-96.

Behind senior center/forward Joe Lawson’s team-leading 25 points, the Greyhounds finished the regular season on a winning note, bringing their overall record at this point to 22-4, 14-4 Great Lakes Valley Conference.

At the conclusion of the contest, both teams finished above 50 percent shooting from the field. The Pumas shot 56.3 percent, but were outperformed by the Greyhounds, who made 60.6 percent of their shots. Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard said after the game that he was pleased by the way his team performed offensively.

“The clock couldn’t get to zero fast enough with the way they [the Pumas] shot the basketball,” he said. “But I’m proud of our guys. I think our confidence is back on the offensive end of course, scoring 113 points. I was really happy with the way we moved the ball on offense.”

Besides Lawson’s contributions, five other Greyhounds finished with doublefigure points on offense.

Junior guard Jordan Loyd finished with the second highest number of points at 21, followed by seniors guard Dai-Jon Parker and forward Brennan McElroy with 15 each, senior guard Kendall Vieke with 14 and junior guard Lucas Barker with 12 points. McElroy also finished with 10 rebounds that evening, giving the senior a double-double for his last home performance.

Defensively, UIndy forced the Pumas into 14 turnovers, which resulted in 23 points for the Greyhounds. UIndy also collected four blocks, nine steals, and snatched 19 defensive rebounds compared to the Pumas, who had 16.

The Greyhounds allowed the Pumas to seize the lead for a brief moment early in the game, but after the Pumas held the lead by one point with 16:07 to go in the first half, the Greyhounds regained the lead 12 seconds later and never lost it for the rest of the contest.

The final regular season game of the year also was Senior Night for the Greyhounds, who celebrated four players—Lawson, Parker,Vieke and McElroy.

McElroy, who is currently playing his fifth year as a Greyhound, after medically redshirting earlier in his college career, said that he was happy to have played his last regular season game in Nicoson Hall in front of a large number of his family and friends who traveled to watch him play.

“It was absolutely great [to have them here tonight]. I cannot thank them enough [for traveling to watch me play],” he said. “I had my high school buddies

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Above: All four seniors of the UIndy men’s basketball team celebrate their dedication and hard work before the final home game of the regular season against the Saint Joseph’s College Pumas on Feb. 26., which the Hounds won 113-96. Below: (Left) Senior forward Brennan McElroy goes up for a dunk against the Pumas, adding to what would be a double-double performance for him. (Right) Senior guard Dai-Jon Parker drives to the goal for a layup.

[here tonight], and my parents have been great. I love them [my parents] to death, and they have been to all of my games for five years now. Their friends are also very supportive, and I can’t thank them enough as well. They have done a great job [supporting me].”

After the celebratory evening, Gouard said that he has enjoyed coaching this group of seniors.

“They are winners, they are warriors, and they are going to be successful, not only in basketball, but in life, period,” he said. “All of those guys are going to do a good job working somewhere at some point. They are always welcome to come

back to do anything. I will do anything for those guys, and I am just happy to have had the opportunity to coach them.”

With the regular season at an end, the Greyhounds will approach the GLVC Men’s Basketball Championship in St. Charles, Mo., tomorrow evening as the No. 4 seed to battle the Lewis University Flyers, following a first-round bye, which gave UIndy an entire week of rest and preparation since last Thursday.

The Flyers handed the Greyhounds their second loss of the season earlier this year, but Gouard is confident his team can claim that game and even take the tournament crown.

“The only thing I am thinking about right now is winning the conference championship,” he said. “Our goal is to leave this week, go down there [to St. Charles, Mo.] and win three games and come back with the trophy.”

McElroy said that he feels the team is prepared to make a deep run in this year’s conference tournament as well.

“This is a very mature group for having so many young guys,” he said. “We also have so many upperclassmen who have been here [at the conference tournament] before, and we will take them under our wing, and tell them everything that they need to do. And they do a great job of

listening.”

Despite having faced health issues lately, which has limited McElroy, he said that he is prepared to do what he needs to do in March to help his team be successful.

“I am going to give it all I got,” he said.

“I have no excuses. If I am out there, I am healthy enough to play.”

Quarterfinal action between the Greyhounds and the Flyers is set to take place tomorrow at The Family Arena at 2:30 p.m. CST. The teams met each other once this season at Lewis on Jan. 31, when the Greyhounds fell to the home team by a final score of 70-61.

season and honor its seniors on Senior Night. UIndy earned a victory following three overtimes, which marked the first back-to-back overtime games for the program since the 1999-2000 season, after the Greyhounds lost to Bellarmine University the weekend before in double overtime 80-77. Head Women’s Basketball Coach Constantin Popa said he was pleased with the team’s performance against Saint Joseph’s.

“We played all the way to the last second [of the game]. We played really hard, and I’m really proud of the way we [the team] played,” Popa said.

The women played an extra 900 seconds of overtime to earn the win.

The first overtime was initiated when sophomore forward Nicole Anderson fouled the Pumas’ redshirt junior guard Lauren Davis with 1:23 left on the clock.

Davis made both of her free throws, tying the game 63-63, which would remain the score for the remainder of regulation.

For the rest of regulation, UIndy was in control of the ball, up until the last two seconds, but failed to capitalize. With

the remaining two seconds, the Pumas had the ball but were unable to make anything happen as well, pushing the game into overtime.

In the first overtime, the Greyhounds fell silent for around a minute, which allowed Saint Joseph’s to take the lead when Davis sank a 3-pointer. Freshman guard Sarah Costello responded and was the first to put UIndy on the board in the first overtime with a layup that made the score 66-65. UIndy continued to trail throughout the rest of the first overtime until they finally tied the score after senior guard Kelly Walter made a fast break layup inside the last second reaming.

In the second overtime, the women trailed Saint Joseph’s again after the Pumas got the lead after 20 seconds with a layup that put the Pumas up 73-71.

A few minutes later, freshman forward Ashley Montanez added a layup for the Greyhounds, with 1:46 left on the clock, which put UIndy within two points, 7573. In the next 46 seconds, Walter tied the game with a layup, taking the game into its third overtime period.

After trailing through most of the first two overtimes, UIndy finally was able to take the lead in the third overtime.

Freshman guard Devin Ferguson fouled Saint Joseph’s Davis in the first minute and a half, but Davis would only make one free throw bringing the score to 76-75 with Saint Joseph’s leading. From there, it was all UIndy. Walter responded to the free throw with a shot from behind the arc, putting UIndy up 78-76. Then Costello scored four more points for the Greyhounds in the last minute and a half.

After Costello’s final jumper of the game, Saint Joseph’s junior guard Courtney Kvachkoff hit a 3-pointer to bring the game within one point, 82-81, with 40 seconds left on the clock.

In the last 40 seconds, both teams missed shots and four 30-second timeouts were called. In the end, the Greyhounds held on for the victory.

Despite having an uncharacteristic rollercoaster season of wins and losses, Popa said that his young roster has done well showing resilience.

“Obviously we’ve been up and down

this season. It’s not easy to keep staying positive and to keep pushing through and fight,” he said. “We fought again, and I mean it took us three overtimes. It is what it is, and we won the game. That’s the bottom line.”

Overall, Walter led the Greyhounds in scoring with 26 points, while Anderson and Costello joined her in double-digit scoring with 20 and 17 of their own.

Anderson also added nine assists, placing her one short of a double-double. Senior guard Carly Lythjohan also aided the team in its victory with 10 assists.

“It was good to get a win, since we just came back from Bellarmine and had a double-overtime loss there. It was good to finally get a win after the triple OT,” Anderson said. “Hopefully, we can keep our team chemistry up and stuff. We’re starting to play well together, so hopefully we can make it far in the conference.”

UIndy will compete this Friday at The Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo., against the No. 1 seeded Drury University Panthers. Action is set to begin at 2:30 p.m. CST.

Women’s basketball advances to GLVC quarterfinals

By Laken Detweiler EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Despite having to make a road trip to Kirksville, Mo., being the lower seed at No. 11, the University of Indianapolis women’s basketball team defeated the No. 6 seeded Truman State University Bulldogs in the first round of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Basketball Championship Tournament by a lopsided score of 72-51.

After the game remained close early on, the Greyhounds took command of the contest at the 5:22 mark in the first half, following a good layup by junior guard Princess German that put UIndy up by four points. From that moment, the Greyhounds added 16 more points to go on an 18-0 run all the way until halftime. The Greyhounds maintained their statistical dominance throughout the second half.

Before taking on Truman State in the first round of the conference tournament, UIndy took on the Saint Joseph’s College Pumas on Feb. 27 to close out its regular

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Wrestling competes at regional competition Freshman J.D. Waters wrestles in the 149 lb. weight class against an opponent during competition at the Greyhound Open at the Athletics and Recreation Center on Feb. 7.

UIndy advances three to NCAA Division II National Wrestling Championships

By AJ Rose & Hayley Good SPORTS EDITOR & STAFF WRITER Three University of Indianapolis wrestlers earned a trip to the NCAA Division II National Wrestling Championships this past weekend at the NCAA Super Regional No. 2 Tournament, as redshirt junior Josh Kieffer, redshirt freshman Nick Crume and sophomore Shelden Struble each placed inside the top four of their weight class. UIndy as a team placed ninth of 14 teams that competed at the tournament with 54 points, while Newberry College claimed its program’s seventh regional title with 99 points.

Headed into this past weekend, Head Wrestling Coach Jason Warthan said that he wanted to find success for the Greyhound wrestlers who competed at the regional tournament.

“The goal is always to send as many guys to nationals as possible,” he said. “In other sports, the regular season matters.

For us, it is how you do at regionals.”

Kieffer also held that same expectation for himself, saying that his “goal is to win super regionals.”

Although the Greyhounds did not advance as a team, Kieffer, along with Crume and Struble, will be moving on, making this his third trip in three seasons at UIndy. After finishing first in the 125 lb. weight class, Kieffer became just the 10th wrestler in program history to compete at the national wrestling championships.

Struble earned his second trip to the national wrestling championships, after emerging victorious in a true fourth place match over the No. 2 seeded wrestler in the 165 lb. weight class. In order to reach that point, Struble opened with an upset victory over the No. 1 seeded wrestler, before taking a loss in the semifinals against the eventual champion of the weight class.

In the consolation semifinal match, Struble was victorious again, but fell in the championship round in a rematch with the No. 1 seed, which sent him to the true fourth-place match, where he

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Despite falling in the championship round at 133 lbs., Crume will be advancing to the national wrestling championships as well, which will be the redshirtfreshman’s first trip in his college career.

Although the Greyhounds sent just three wrestlers to the national wrestling championships this season, Warthan said that he also wanted to use the regionals this year as a teaching moment.

“This will be great experience for the underclassmen,” he said. “I told them this may be their best opportunity, so make the most of it.”

One of those young wrestlers, sophomore Barry McGinley, took the opportunity his coach spoke of to place sixth in his bracket at 157.

McGinley advanced all the way to the semifinal match before suffering his first loss of the tournament, and then fell once more in the semifinal round of the consolation bracket.

UIndy will now prepare to send three of its own to the national championships, which will begin March 13 at 10 a.m.

The No. 8 nationally ranked University of Indianapolis women’s golf team kicked off its spring season by participating in the St. Edward’s Invitational in Austin, Texas on Feb. 23-24. The team placed first out of the 12 teams present with a score of 606. Junior Brooke Beegle had the low score for the Greyhounds with 147.

Head Men’s and Women’s Golf Coach Brent Nicoson said that he was pleased with the results and how the women’s team performed.

“It felt good to get started off on the right track,” he said. “For us to go down and not to play a practice round, it felt good to get off to a good start.”

Nicoson said that he was particularly happy with the way the team adapted to the less-than-ideal circumstances they faced.

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Guisewite said that being on a break since the fall has presented challenges for the men’s team in preparing for the spring season.

“It was nice to have a break, but you also don’t have much competition throughout the winter, and you kind of lose that feeling,” she said. “Starting up in the spring, you’re going to be rusty. But we have so much experience from the fall [that] we will be all right.”

With the men’s team winning backto-back Great Lakes Valley Conference championships in the past two seasons championships and the women’s team winning three in a row themselves, Guisewite said the pressure is on to defend their titles.

Nicoson said that he and both the men’s and women’s teams have championship expectations for this year.

“On both sides, defending the conference championship is a goal,” he said. “The guys are coming off two straight, and the girls are coming off three straight, so we have a chance to do some really great things in the program. For the senior girls, they have a chance to win four straight conference championships and win four straight NCAA East Regional Tournaments. That is definitely a goal of ours.”

Nicoson said that he enjoys the challenge of maintaining championshipquality teams and that the feeling is mutual with his players.

“It [winning expectation] drives us.

Both programs have targets on their backs. The girls and the guys both seem to thrive on it,” Nicoson said. “I love it as a coach. I love being the one that everyone is trying to hunt down. It feels that much better when they can’t do it.”

The men will begin their spring season at The Battle at the Beach in Murrells Inlet, S.C. March 13-14, and the women see action next, that same weekend, at the Southwestern Minnesota State University Spring Invitational in Buckeye, Ariz March 12-13. Both events for the Greyhounds will begin at times yet to be determined.

It was an unsuccessful day for both the University of Indianapolis men’s and women’s tennis teams this past Sunday, as each team suffered losses at Northwood University against the Timberwolves.The men’s team dropped a 5-2 decision, while the women lost by a final of 6-3.

A few days earlier on Saturday, Feb. 28, both teams claimed victories on the road against the Ferris State University Bulldogs. The men emerged victorious in their match for the fourth-straight time, claiming a 5-4 advantage over the Bulldogs, while the women took their third-straight victory with a statistically lopsided 8-1 win.

During the weekend before, the Greyhounds competed in the annual Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference/Great L akes Valley Conference crossover in their fourth and fifth matches of the season. The Greyhounds hosted the Walsh University Caveliers on Feb. 20 and the Rockhurst University Hawks on Feb. 22.

The women took an 8-1 victory against Rockhurst giving the Greyhounds their second victory on the season. The Greyhounds won all three matches in doubles competition against the Hawks, for their second doubles sweep of the weekend. They suffered their only loss in singles competition, but improved their record to 2-3 with the victory.

The Greyhounds’ victory over the Hawks was the second in a row for the women, after an 0-3 start to the season.

Yet according to senior captain Brooke Boyts, the team is confident in their ability to get back to its winning ways.

“We’ve gotten a lot of new talent, so our team has really beefed up in that way,” Boyts said. “I think at this point we need to focus on the skill that we need to have to do really well. We have the raw talent, we just need to apply it well.”

The men also played against the Hawks on the same day, claiming a 7-2 victory. In doubles, they suffered only one loss in a tiebreak during the No. 1 match. The other loss in the men’s match

came in another tiebreak decision, in No. 5 singles. The team victory improved the Greyhounds record to 4-1 on the season.

Junior Tony Kostadinov attributed the Greyhounds early success this season to the extra work that the men’s team has been putting in, on and off of the court.

“We are coming early to practice, [and] we are doing individual sessions with coach and coming early to serve baskets,” Kostadinov said. “It showed here [against Walsh] in No. 1 singles, coming out on top in the third. It [the extra work] is working.”

Earlier in the weekend, the women faced Walsh to begin the GLIAC/GLVC crossover competition, winning 9-0 and claiming their first doubles sweep of the weekend. As a team, only one set was dropped the entire match, as the Greyhounds grabbed their first win of the season.

Boyts said that the toughness of the early season schedule has helped the team prepare for the long season.

“We purposely plan tough schools at the beginning of the season to help us get prepared for important matches towards the middle and end of the season,” Boyts said. “But we don’t let our record really affect us mentally. The tough matches make us better, and if we just played easy ones, we wouldn’t improve.”

The men also came out on top against the Cavaliers, claiming a 9-0 sweep.

Besides taking three doubles victories, the men also won every singles set on the day.

Head Tennis Coach Malik Tabet said mental toughness and discipline will serve as key factors for success as both the men and women move forward.

“I’m very satisfied with the talent on this team,”he said.“We need more mental toughness.That’s really what it is. How to grind, when to play the important points and when to let go whenever we lose an easy point. And that’s just maturity. We’ve got a fairly young team, the season is young, and we scheduled tough matches in the beginning of the season.”

The men’s and women’s teams will play next on the road against the University of North Georgia Nighthawks on March 1. Action for both teams is set to begin at 2 p.m.

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The movie is delightfully self-aware. It takes its lowbrow comedy to new lows that certainly made me laugh, but also cringe.

The basic plot of this movie is that after the events of the first movie, all of the characters have become rich and famous.

After one of the characters is assassinated, the whole crew goes 10 years into the future to try to prevent the killing. While in the future, they encounter a number of hilarious obstacles, including sadistic game shows and psychotropic ladybugs.

For me, the highlight of the film was watching Craig Robinson, known for roles in “The Office” and “This is the End,” make joke after joke. His comedic timing and obvious ad-libbing provide a contrast to the scripted nature of the rest of the film. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is not an intelligent comedy but it is a great movie to put on for some cheap laughs.

>>The indie rock group Imagine Dragons released its sophomore album, “Smoke + Mirrors.” The band keeps with its recognizable style from the first album but has some more experimental elements, creating a mix of familiarity and originality. Influences from many styles of music can be found throughout the album, from folk to pop to electronic.

Overall, I found the music pleasant, and the variety of music kept the album from becoming boring or repetitive. But there was very little that grabbed me to make me come back for more. There were a few songs that I thoroughly enjoyed, but none of them caught me like many of their hits from the previous album, “Night Visions.” This album doesn’t have anything that immediately jumps out as a chart-topping hit. In the end, I found the album pleasant to listen to, but never grabbed my attention in a way that made it truly great, a problem many second albums tend to have.

>>Walking into a small local company that smells of delicious beef broth can make anyone happy.

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Not only did the whole meal only cost me about $12, I was full afterwards. I enjoyed the Buffalo Chicken Soup, with a small Endless Summer salad. The establishment was very nice. The waiters were very professional but light-hearted enough that the restaurant didn’t feel like it was a formal place. From the floor to the ceiling, everything looked professionally cleaned and ready for customers. Having driven by a few times since, I have seen that it seems they are usually pretty busy during lunch hours. Everyone there was very friendly, including the waitress who served us, and more than happy to help with any request we had. Overall, my taste buds were extremely pleased, and I will almost certainly go back again sometime in the near future.

>> If anyone has ever had the pleasure of going to a public high school, “The Distance Between Lost and Found” depicts the cruel world that most people think it is.The main character, Hallelujah, has been reduced to nothing after a rumor about an incident with the preacher’s son, Luke, spreads around her high school.

Now, six months after the rumor began, Hallie is on a youth group retreat, hiking in the Smoky Mountains with the people who continue to bully her, as well as fresh new faces. During a hike, Hallie is pushed to her limit and gets separated from the group, along with Rachel, a girl who just wants Hallie to open up, and Hallie’s former friend Jonah.The three must trust each other to survive in the wilderness together. This book takes the reader on a journey in the lives of three teens who discover themselves amid the harsh world of the wilderness.This book is for anyone who is looking for the perseverance to survive, one day at a time.

>>Circle City Mall recently renovated its attraction on the fourth floor, Tilt Studio Arcade, which gives a fun environment for families and friends.Tilt features air hockey, mini kart racing, laser tag, video games, photo booths and more.

My friends and I had a blast spending an hour and a half chasing each other in laser tag and then competing in various video games. Game cards are required to play, which is great because you control the amount of money you wish to spend, making the experience as cost-efficient as you need. Hours of operation are Monday - Thursday, 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.; Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.; and Sunday, 11:00a.m.

- 8:00p.m. Coupons and deals are available to be printed and redeemed on the studio’s website. Food and gift cards are also available for purchase. However, I was slightly disappointed in the small food selection. Tilt is definitely a fun place to be.

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The Real Group visits campus

By Kameron Casey & Kaley Gatto PHOTO EDITOR & STAFF WRITER

Photo by Kameron Casey

(Left to right) Steve Allee, Jesse Whitman, Kenny Phelps and Matt Pivec practice their set before their performance at the Jazz Concert Series on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

Jazz Concert Series continues in CDFAC

By Jessica Scott STAFF WRITER

The University of Indianapolis hosted Matt Pivec on Feb. 18 as part of the Jazz Concert Series in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.

The performance featured four musicians, Pivec playing the tenor and soprano saxophones, Steve Allee playing the piano, Jesse Whitman playing the bass and Kenny Phelps playing the drums.

The performance included songs from Matt Pivec’s album released in 2013 “Psalm Songs.”

All of the songs from the performance were composed by Pivec. Steve Allee and Kenny Phelps also were featured on the album as piano and drum players.

Senior communication major Amber Derrow attended the performance for her Introduction to Music course.

“I love that the University offers experiences like this. It was really cool to see non students and adults come to campus just to see this show,” she said.

Jacob Noe, a senior at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, was one of the audience members who came from outside the UIndy community.

“I came because I heard there would be a sax performance, and I really love to hear live music,” Noe said. “I play some instruments myself, so I really appreciate and enjoy going to concerts where other people play their instruments live.”

According to Pivec, the album was inspired by the book of Psalms from the Bible. One song in particular from the

album, “Days Gone By,” was inspired by his twin six-year-old boys.

In previous performances of the album, Pivec displayed a picture of his sons’ feet side-by-side when they were infants, while the song would play.

The performance featured songs from the album including “As Far as the East,” “One End of the Sky,” “Whiter than Snow,” “Like the Cedars,” “Can’t Take It With,” “Days Gone By” and “Head and Beard.”

The next Jazz Concert Series performance will be tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center entitled Tucker Brothers and Friends.

The performance will feature bassist Nick Tucker and guitarist Joel Tucker.

Both musicians are natives of the Indianapolis area.

Swedish a cappella ensemble The Real Group performed at the University of Indianapolis on Sunday, Feb. 22. in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. The quintet is currently celebrating their 30th anniversary, while wrapping up their United States tour before returning to Europe in March.

The Real Group is comprised of five members: Emma Nilsdotter, Katarina Henryson, Anders Edenroth, Morten Vinther and Anders Jalkéus. According to the UIndy website and the group’s website, the group was formed at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden in 1984.

Since they assembled,they have released 22 albums, received 12 Contemporary A Capella Recording Awards and performed thousands of concerts worldwide. Since its formation, the group has only had eight different members. Two of the original members, Henryson and Jalkéus, still perform and record with the group today.

The ensemble is known for its unique sound, which is a blend of jazz, classic rock, contemporary pop and Nordic choral music. During the performance they performed a number of jazz and pop renditions, including a Michael Jackson arrangement, which received a great deal of positive reactions from the audience.

Freshman communication major Braylen Morgan was very impressed with the group’s sound.

“I knew the group had many different styles of music that they sang, such as jazz and pop. And I knew they weren’t all from the same country, so I was interested to

hear their sound,” Morgan said. “It was surprising during the performance that you couldn’t hear their accents. I was very surprised by the Michael Jackson tribute medley as well.”

The group also held an instructional and informational workshop on Friday, Feb. 20. It was attended largely in part by students and faculty from the music department, as well as high school choirs, but was open to anyone who wanted to attend.

For the first portion of the workshop, the group answered questions about their experiences, origin and other topics of interest from attendees. In the second part of the workshop, the group listened to UIndy vocal groups Crimson Express and Schola, in order to give feedback and help the groups with different techniques.

Morgan attended the workshop and learned a few new musical techniques.

“I really enjoyed the whole performance and not only was I entertained, but I learned a lot too,” Morgan said. “In their workshop I learned about improving as a singer, technique-wise. For example [they talked about] listening to each other while singing and how to take care of your voice.”

Freshman general music major Kelly Hartley also recognized the group’s signature sound and expressed appreciation for the unique experience.

“Whenever I go to concerts in the performance hall, the performers play older stuff, so it was fun to experience the change of style,” Hartley said. “It was a really cool show and they’re very well trained performers. It was something that I would attend again if they were to come back.”

The group still has 34 concerts remaining in 2015 that will be held across Europe and Asia.

Jazz Ensemble performs in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall

By Sarah Hunker STAFF WRITER The University of Indianapolis Jazz Ensemble performed on Tuesday, Feb. 17, with special guest Vince DiMartino in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.

The ensemble played eight songs with guest performers Amanda Gardier and Will Fraiser and was directed by new faculty member Freddie Mendoza.

Before DiMartino performed, the ensemble played four songs: “Blues in the Closet,” “Walk Don’t Run,” “Fables of Faubus” and a German piece “Bie Mir Bist Du Schon.”

Each piece showcased individuals in the ensemble. Vocalist Katelyn Myers also performed during “Bie Mir Bist Du Schon.”

After the four songs, Mendoza introduced DiMartino.

W ith enthusiasm, DiMartino expressed his love for music and shared

his wisdom about music itself.

DiMartino graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 1972 and taught at the University of Kentucky and Centre College in Kentucky before retiring in 2012.

After DiMartino showcased his trumpet skills, the ensemble played four more songs: “Autumn Leaves,” “When I Fall in Love,” “Sky Dive” and “Jump the Blues.”

Junior communication major Katie Ayers was impressed by the use of different instruments in the ensemble.

“I liked the use of the vibraphone, and the bass and drums are a good mix,” she said.

Since Ayers works on a jazz station, she enjoys listening to the music.

Sophomore social work major Kasey Craig also was impressed by the ensembles overall performance.

“I thought it was really cool that they got Vince to get here,” Craig said.

Craig also enjoyed the use of trumpets

in the jazz ensemble, from her own experiences playing the instrument.

“I kind of have a bias to trumpets because I played trumpet in high school,” Craig said.

Freshman jazz studies major Sidney Carpenter-Wilson performed with the ensemble and shared his thoughts on DiMartino coming to teach a master class at UIndy.

“He is an incredible performer.

The way he merged styles together was virtuosic, it was really impressive.

That’s the level I hope to be at one day,” Carpenter-Wilson said.

Mendoza mentioned the ensemble did not have much time to prepare for the concert.

“We had about a month and a half, and it wasn’t as hard as it seemed because last semester we learned the language of Jazz,” Carpenter-Wilson said.

The next Jazz Ensemble performance will be held on Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

Photo by Kaley Gatto

The Real Group performs at the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center on Feb. 22, in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

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THE REFLECTOR

7 MARCH 4, 2015

Students attempt half court shot for free tuition Kylee Crane MANAGING EDITOR

Photo by Shane Collins-Yosha

Students participate in a belly dancing workshop with Belly Dance United held by CPB on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

CPB hosts belly dancing Erik Cliburn STAFF WRITER

First-time belly dancers graced the floor of the packed Studio Theatre in the basement of Esch Hall Wednesday, Feb. 25. Campus Program Board hosted an event with the group Belly Dance United, inviting students to attend and try belly dancing. CPB Sports and Recreation Chair Da’chera Baker organized the event for students to enjoy dancing and learn more about the culture behind belly dancing throughout the world.

“We went to NACA [National Association for Campus Activities], and basically you see all the talent there and if you like them, you book them to come to your school,” Baker said. “So we actually saw them there and realized, ‘Oh you’re pretty cool. We would like you to come to our school’.”

Before the energetic dancing, students were given a brief history of belly dancing and the culture surrounding it. The instructors also said that belly dancing is not limited to a specific gender or body type and that people of all shapes and sizes belly dance all around the world.

According to one of the instructors, Tamira Gonzalez, belly dancing is prevalent in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, Southern Asia, Eastern Europe, the United States and parts of Japan.

Gonzalez also discussed her personal history with belly dancing and how it has become part of her life.

“I’ve been belly dancing for 13 years,” she said. “I was always interested in dancing, but I was never one of those kids whose parents took me to dance class, so I just had to make up dance on my own. I joined my high school dance team

and later, became an aerobics instructor, which was around the time belly dance got really popular over here [the United States]. I had a lot of friends doing it, and I thought, ‘Wow, I really want to do that!’

And now, here I am.”

After the history lesson and personal testimony came the first steps of dancing.

With “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson, featuring Bruno Mars, as the first song, the students followed the moves of the instructors. According to junior nursing major Jacqlyn Hicks, the event was full of energy.

“It was fun, really fun. I felt more nervous when I first got here, but I was excited before that,” Hicks said.“But once I started dancing, it was just really fun.”

The students danced for roughly 45 minutes, learning the basics of belly dancing from the instructors. After the workshop, students were given a refreshment break before the BDU instructors began their routine. Freshman sociology major Amber McAtee, who participates in the on-campus Zumba, was excited for the chance to belly dance.

“I’ve always wanted to take belly dancing lessons, but I never went out and did it,” McAtee said. “It is definitely a lot different than the Latin dance in Zumba.

It was actually better than I expected it would be.”

The BDU instructors mentioned that they hoped the students would continue in belly dancing after learning the basics from them. According to sophomore nursing major Jessica Vormohr, the event was exactly what she excepted, that the students would just be learning the very basics of belly dancing.

“I danced in high school, so I wasn’t nervous at all. I was ready for it,” Vormohr said. “On a scale of one to ten, I probably danced a three. It was fun though.”

Forty-seven feet stood between a missed shot or free tuition for a semester when two University of Indianapolis students had the opportunity to attempt a half-court shot on “Pack the House” night for men’s and women’s basketball on Feb. 26.

Throughout the semester, the Professional Edge Center has hosted more than 20 different workshops ranging from resume review to post-graduate planning.

Students had professional headshots taken for their LinkedIn profiles for the first event held on Jan. 20 and then had the opportunity to talk with Professional Edge staff at the last event of “Careers & Coffee” on Feb. 25.

Everyone who attended the workshops was eligible to be selected for the halfcourt shot, and one male and one female student were randomly drawn during the pep rally in the Schwitzer Student Center on Feb. 26.

Sophomore supply chain management and entrepreneurship major Aaron Vaughn was selected to take the halfcourt shot. Although the ball hit the rim and bounced off, Vaughn said that it was a great opportunity and that there are many benefits that come from visiting the Professional Edge Center.

“I think the Pro Edge Center is a great way to get started in an internship or career search. They provide you with a lot of resources that can help you get where you want to be,” he said.

Associate Vice President of the Professional Edge Center Corey Wilson said that the center received a positive response from the students and that many of the faculty on campus can be credited for pushing students to attend the various workshops hosted over the past month.

“The faculty has also supported the activities we have hosted by encouraging the students to come, which I think is helpful. We’ve had events in the residence halls at 9 p.m., and we’ll have students come and say, ‘Well, my professor told me I needed to be here.’ So that’s been helpful in addition to having the free tuition carry them as well,” Wilson said.

The process of giving a student free

Photo by Kameron Casey

Student Breanna Bassett attempts a half-court shot for free tuition at the basketball game Thursday, Feb. 26. tuition was quite a long one, according to Wilson, and many offices across campus can be given credit for making it happen. “[It takes] a whole lot of magic. It involves working with the President’s Office, Financial Aid, Athletics and even with the Provost’s Office to make sure all things are in order. This is a definite campus-wide effort; it’s not done in a vacuum by any means,” Wilson said.

The students were announced at noon on the day of the game, giving the two several hours to practice for the big night, if they desired. Vaughn said that his strategy was more mental than physical when preparing for the half-court shot.

“I didn’t practice at all. I figured if I thought about it, I would try to figure out a way to try and better my shot. So I just went out there and shot,” Vaughn said.

Both participants came fairly close to making their half-court shot. The two students chosen in the Fall of 2014 to make a field goal for free tuition were not too far off the goal post either. Vaughn believes that because the students seem to be getting closer, the Professional Edge Center should continue to make this possible for students.

“I do think the university should

continue these [opportunities] because between the field goal kick first semester that was close and the couple of shots this semester, the next person is going to get some free tuition,” he said.

Wilson also believes the university should continue events such as this and said that there already has been discussion about other ways to get students involved on campus while also giving them this opportunity.

“We have already been discussing what we’ll do in the fall of 2015. You always want to be creative. You never want to get stale. So we’ll look at it and see if there is interest in the students,” Wilson said.

“We definitely want to see more and more students participate because what the Edge Center is offering outside of the field goal or basketball shot is an opportunity to build your social skills.

We would hope the students would take advantage of that.”

The Professional Edge Center is located in the Stierwalt Alumni House, and no appointment is necessary if a student wants to meet and discuss internships, careers or their future. Any questions or comments also can be tweeted on Twitter at @UIndyEdge.

It’s time to start thinking about

UIndy student interns at ‘The Bob & Tom Show’ Jessica Hoover EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

“The Bob & Tom Show,” a morning radio show created in Indianapolis, features an assortment of comedy, news, talk and sports. It is one of the longestrunning and highest-rated morning shows in the United States and airs nationally on more than 150 stations, according to 103 GBF. When senior communication major Kaitlyn Kopetski learned about the opportunity to intern with “The Bob & Tom Show,” she knew she did not want an internship where she had to go get coffee or do paperwork. With Bob and Tom she could get real-life experience in comedy writing for up to four hours a day. Kopetski went for an interview and started on Jan. 12.

“I walked in on my first day and had no idea what to expect,” Kopetski said.

“Everyone was very willing to take me aside and say,‘Hey, we know you’re here to learn, and we want to help you,’ because a lot of people don’t have that opportunity in an internship.”

Kopetski has had the chance to work in a variety of different fields during in her internship. She recently did a voiceover for one of the show’s many comedy skits, took pictures in the studio and ran the show’s cameras. She continues to write jokes and puns for Bob and Tom to use on the air, several of which have been used during the show.

“I’m trying to dabble in as many things as I can right now,” Kopetski said. “As far as the show goes, the writing is kind of what I’m more focused on, because that’s something that I love to do…. But if it so happens that I’m doing more videos and voice-overs, I don’t have a problem

with that at all.”

Being one of the few women writers for “The Bob & Tom Show,” and with the age gap between her and the target audience, Kopetski has had a few hurdles to jump through.

“I’m the youngest person in the building, and one of the only women who writes for them,” Kopetski said. “I’m surrounded by this masculine culture as a 21-year-old female.… It was very different, especially in the beginning, because I was a little bit intimidated for that reason. But now [I’ve learned] that I can try to bring in my own flavor.”

During Bob and Tom’s skits, they have fake celebrity call-ins, such as Bill Clinton or Larry King. Kopetski noticed that there were not really any women who did voice-overs for the call-ins. She emailed the producer, suggesting a skit idea with a female calling in and was chosen to do the voice-over for that skit.

Although Kopetski’s internship is far from over, she already has learned many valuable lessons in comedy writing.

Kopetski said that the writing experience she gained from both her professors and teaching herself has been completely different from what she has learned at “The Bob & Tom Show.”

“I always had this understanding of comedy writing, and they [Bob and Tom] just blew that out of the water,” she said.

“I’m taking something that I’ve learned, and I’m breaking the rules on it, because that’s what the audience likes to hear.”

Kopetski compared what she has learned at “The Bob & Tom Show” to how art students are taught.

“For art students, they learn all of these rules the first couple [of ] semesters, and after they learn those rules, they are allowed to break them,” she said. “That’s what I’ve been able to learn.”

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MARCH 4, 2015

Lecture on civil rights given by professor History and political science professor Ted Frantz talks about Ferguson, “Selma” and more at “Civil Rights Legacies of 1965”

By Michael Rheinheimer OPINION EDITOR

Photo by Kameron Casey

Associate Professor of History and Political Science and Director of the Institute for Civic Leadership and Mayoral Archives Ted Frantz gives his lecture about civil rights.

The lecture was on Feb. 18 and was co-sponsored by the Black Student Association.

Students record reformation of Belizean prison for Spring Term

By Mercadees Hempel NEWS EDITOR University of Indianapolis Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Kevin Whiteacre and Associate Professor of Sociology Amanda Miller shared the results of their Spring Term trip in 2014 in a faculty forum on Feb. 5.

After getting permission from both UIndy and Belize’s Institute for Social and Cultural Research, Whiteacre and Miller took 12 female students to Belize to collect oral histories from the staff members of Belize Central Prison. Ten of the students were undergraduates and two were graduate students, according to Whiteacre. For three days, each student interviewed staff members of Belize Central Prison, which is the only prison in the country. Whiteacre said the reason they wanted to collect the oral histories from staff members was to document the changes that had occurred at Belize Central Prison.

According to Whiteacre, in 2002, the Belizean government handed control of the prison to the nonprofit organization Kolbe Foundation. The Kolbe Foundation, according to its website, is an organization dedicated to managing the prison system of Belize and was started by Belizeans as well.Whiteacre said that since the management of the prison shifted, everything from sanitation to food to programs offered to the inmates has improved.

“It’s the one prison for the country, and it was a pretty bad place,” he said.

“And just by simple professionalization of the management, they really turned it around.… We just thought that could serve as a model for other developing countries, maybe, who are looking to transform institutions and whatnot. So we just decided it was something that needed to be recorded.”

Miller, who was co-leader for the trip, said that documenting the progress the Kolbe Foundation had made with the prison was not the only reason the trip was interesting. She said she was excited to learn about the perspective of the staff and the criminals the prison held.

For three days, each student who went on the trip interviewed one person per day, resulting in 36 interviews total.Whiteacre, in the meantime, interviewed Chairman of the Kolbe Foundation John Woods.

Whiteacre said there were two shifts on the days they interviewed the staff members. One group of six students would interview their assigned person before lunch, and the next group would interview

their assigned person after lunch.

Sophomore criminal justice major Katie Budd was one of the students on the trip. Budd said she interviewed the prison’s accountant, one of the counselors and a female officer. Budd said all three interviews gave her a wide range of perspectives on what life was like working in the prison. She said her average interview was about two hours long.

Senior environmental sustainability major Misty Padilla was another student on the trip. She learned about it after seeing Whiteacre’s promotional table in the Schwitzer Student Center and said that she chose to go because she thought it would help her gain a lot of real-life experiences. Padilla interviewed the chief of security, who she said had seen the transition happen when the Kolbe Foundation took over the prison management.

She also interviewed the head of construction and the head of the records department. Padilla said she learned a lot about Belize, as well as the prison, through the interviews.

“After transcribing everything, I feel like I got a lot of valuable information, and not just on Belize. I learned a lot about where they came from and why they think Belize is the way it is. And I think ultimately that is what we were looking for,” she said. “ … I feel like each person was different in what they thought, so it was interesting to hear everyone’s different opinions.”

Whiteacre and Miller said the changes the Kolbe Foundation has made to the prison include having woodshop, mason, and computer programs as well as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Other changes include having proper sanitation, better meals, drinking water and more privileges for the inmates. Whiteacre and Miller said that most of the program’s purpose is to equip the inmates with skills, so they can get a job when they are released, which could decrease their chances of returning to prison.

“One of the people we interviewed said, ‘Prison is the punishment,’” Miller said. “‘Not being free is the punishment.

We shouldn’t be punishing you further.

We should be helping you to avoid this in the future.’”

Whiteacre said that unemployment in Belize is a big problem, so if inmates can get a job, they may not resort to crime again.

“The extents to which you increase their odds of getting a job when they get out, you increase the odds of success,” he said.

One of the interesting things Whiteacre and Miller said was learned from the trip is that many of the staff members either had been previously incarcerated or had family that at one point had been incarcerated, a finding they shared at the faculty forum.

“All the staff that we’ve talked to so far have a very much rehabilitative view towards corrections,”he said.“And a lot of them made a point of talking about how they are not all that different from the prisoners.”

After the inter views w e r e concluded, the students, W hiteacre and Miller spent the next seven days visiting M a y a n r u i n s , canoeing and seeing Belize’s National Museum. Whiteacre and Miller said the next step, since the interviews are complete, is to collect their findings and publish the transcriptions in a book, which they would donate to the museum. Budd said that the idea of the book is really exciting for her.

“It’s kind of fascinating for me because it makes it seem like we’re part of something that’s so much bigger than going on a trip and interviewing people,” she said. “…I never thought I would be a part of helping someone do research that would go into a book. So that’s kind of fascinating.”

Miller said she hopes this book and this experience will provide countries with a model to use for their prisons.

“I hope this is encouragement for a lot of staff training programs in the U.S. and abroad,” she said. “There’s a very clear attitude of redemption among this staff [Belize Central Prison’s staff ] that inmates are worthy of and capable of rehabilitation. And I think a lot of people understand the ‘capable of,’ but I think it’s harder to get people to buy into the ‘worthy of ’ aspect.”

Whiteacre and Miller plan to take students back to Belize to interview the prison’s 35 female inmates aiming for the Spring Term of 2016.

“All the staff that we’ve talked to so far have a very much rehabilitative view towards corrections. And a lot of them made a point of talking about how they are not all that different from the prisoners.”

Associate Professor of History and Political Science and Director of the Institute for Civic Leadership and Mayoral Archives Ted Frantz hosted “Civil Rights Legacies of 1965” on Feb. 18 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. Frantz said that the lecture was part of the history department’s ongoing symposium, “Why Does History Matter?”

The event was co-sponsored by the Black Student Association. Frantz was introduced by junior social work major and club member Alexis Fort.

Frantz began the lecture with a brief introduction, discussing the film “Selma” and the recent unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City. He then played the trailer for the film. He discussed some of the film’s historical inaccuracies.

“It wasn’t his [Martin Luther King Jr.’s] call to be in Selma,” Frantz said. “Selma wasn’t about Dr. King,nor was the civil rights movement about Dr. King … but about the people of Selma. It was about connecting the local to the national. It was about justice.

It was about fulfilling promises laid out in our Declaration of Independence when Thomas Jefferson memorably declared,‘It’s self-evident that all men are created equal.’”

Frantz talked about the portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Frantz said he is portrayed in the film as being inactive in the cause of civil rights.

In reality, Johnson fought to ensure that Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In closing, Frantz discussed the civil rights movement’s loss of momentum and its legacy.

“I have this part of my talk titled after a film, more recently, a documentary [called] ‘Waiting for Superman,’” Frantz said.

“The Voting Rights Act was a massive landmark that finally fulfilled what the 18th Amendment was supposed to do—making sure that people could cast a ballot. That is the essence of what it means to exercise democracy in this country … but after that, people couldn’t decide what was next. There had been unity of purpose within the movement … they knew they had to have that piece of legislation. After it was passed, it made people feel complacent.”

Frantz explained the significance of the “Waiting for Superman” reference, saying that the next generation should not wait for a single leader to inspire them to change the world.

“I truly enjoyed the talk that Dr. Frantz gave on the civil rights era,” said sophomore political science major Hallie Bates. “He touched on many issues.… I learned that there were many people involved in every aspect of the movement. There were a lot of ideas associated with Dr. King that actually came from people around him.”

Frantz said that at the beginning of the year, he knew he wanted to discuss the 50th anniversary of the March on Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

“It more stems from the course on the civil rights movement, which I’m teaching right now, and there is a lot of overlap with the Mayoral [Archives],” he said.

Freshman political science major Alexander Mimms enjoyed the lecture.

“I thought it was really great, really inspirational. It gives you good insight into what happened,” he said. “I think there’s a good underlying tone about trying to push kids to try and change the world.”

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Contributed by Ben Zefeng Zhang

UIndy graduate Will Schnabel speaks at the 2014 commencement. Schnabel was elected by students to be the speaker last year, which was the first year the voting process was used.

Vitangeli said the selection process will be different this year.

“We are doing a similar process [to pick the student speakers] but a little more elevated,” Vitangeli said. “We asked for nominations from both undergraduates and graduates. Now we are going back and asking those individuals who were nominated to make a video, with a preview of what they would want to say.”

The next step is for the students to vote on the speakers. Vitangeli said that students

should expect these videos to go up shortly after Spring Break. She hopes that this selection process for student speakers will become a lasting tradition.

“We are looking forward to two more great speakers,” Vitangeli said. “I think the tradition of having student speakers will continue for a long time to come.

After voting is finished, the selected speakers will prepare for the combined undergraduate and graduate ceremony on May 2.

SUMMER from page 1 Balogh said that many of the classes are 100- and 200-level, and that courses are in high demand. One consideration in deciding which courses would be offered, was the number of students who were waitlisted and unable to get into a course during the regular school term. Balogh aimed for diversity when selecting courses, but student demand ultimately decided what would go in the summer catalog.

“We are going to look at what the student demand is for certain kinds of courses, and that may mean additional diversification,” Balogh said. “But at some point, that diversification will come to a halt because of the size of our population and the number of majors we offer on campus.”

Balogh said the university assembled a task force, made up of faculty and administrative and professional staff, to create the catalog for the summer term.

The staff examined courses that had been successfully offered in the past as well as current interests in the different academic departments. They also looked at gateway courses, courses that are often repeated and courses that are in the Core Transfer Library.

“It [the Core Transfer Library] is a cen-

tral menu of courses that any private or public school in the state can subscribe to,”Balogh said.“There is an articulation agreement that [states] our course—let’s say we offer a basic writing class—the other institutions review the course and indicate what of their courses that particular course will substitute for. It’s like an exchange agreement.”

Junior exercise science major Maya Vance is taking four courses at UIndy this summer so she can graduate early.

“I think summer classes are a great idea to get ahead in your curriculum, whether you want to graduate early or just have a lighter load during the school year,” Vance said. “I think they also help me to not lose or forget info I learned in the past year.”

Vance also said that she prefers to take the courses at UIndy rather than IUPUI or Ivy Tech like other students do.

“If I take classes at IUPUI or Ivy Tech, I earn the credits, but my grade isn’t added onto my GPA,” she said.

The first seven-week and 14-week sessions begin on May 11 and the second term will begin on June 29.

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Statehouse to shake up education policy

By Leeann Doerflein EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The Indiana General Assembly has voted on, and seeks to vote on, several bills that will affect Hoosier children and Indiana’s education policy.

The Indiana State House and the Senate have passed two separate and controversial bills to allow the State Board of Education to choose its own chairperson rather than have the Superintendent of Public Instruction chair the board. The superintendent has been automatically made chair of the board since 1913, according to the SBOE website.

The House bill simply gives the board the power to select its own chair from among the members. However, the Senate bill goes much further, revamping the process of appointing the board as a whole. Currently, the governor appoints all members of the board other than the superintendent.The Senate version would have Indiana’s chief executive share the power of appointment with the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.The bill also reduces the size of the board from 11 members to nine.

For this revamped board, the threshold for bipartisanship is lowered, with only two opposing party members required, instead of the current four.

Neither bill has passed both houses yet.

Each bill is currently being considered by the opposite house and each house will make a decision to adopt one of the bills or to make a compromise later in the legislative session.

Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Laura Merrifield Albright said one explanation why the general assembly wants to revamp the SBOE is probably to ease gridlock in the board.

Albright said many state-level

education positions have appointed leaders and there could be some debate about whether it would be helpful to let the board choose its own chair. However, she said this does not appear to be the reason why the general assembly is acting on this legislation in the middle of Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz’s term. She said if the general assembly had waited to rework the board before the next superintendent election, it would have looked more politically neutral.

“By doing it at this point of the legislative session, it is very clearly a political maneuver,” Albright said. “They [members of the general assembly] can’t say that they dislike that [the chairship] is an elected position. It is very clear that they dislike who is in that position because she [Ritz] is a member of a different party.”

Regardless of partisanship, Albright said the public and politicians should consider the long-term effects of changing policy and taking some of the power of the SBOE out of the hands of the people.

Education policy shifts According to the Indiana Code, the SBOE is responsible for, but not limited in scope to, the following duties: distributing funds to schools in Indiana, establishing accreditation standards for schools in Indiana, establishing standards for teacher licensing, establishing a rating system for schools and other duties.

Assistant Professor and Faculty Development Facilitator Susan Blackwell has been in the education field since she became a teacher in 1970. Blackwell worked in the State Department of Education in the 1990s and is an education policy activist. She said that the SBOE has changed focus over the years

“Indiana is not taking care of our children.”

New net neutrality rules are celebrated

By Meg James & Yvonne Villarreal LOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES (TNS)—The Federal Communications Commission’s landmark vote on open Internet rules is being cheered by some in Hollywood who see the Internet as the new frontier for creativity and free expression.

The FCC voted, 3-2, on Thursday, Feb. 26 to adopt tough net neutrality rules that would provide greater government oversight of Internet service providers, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and AT&T. “This is clearly a victory for everyone—not just Hollywood—but everyone who uses the Internet,” said Chris Keyser, president of the Writers Guild of America, West. “It is a critical moment in the ongoing fight for free expression and robust competition.”

Hollywood’s creative ranks—the WGA, producers and entrepreneurs who have brought us Netflix and thousands of YouTube channels—have lobbied for the increased freedom to create and distribute content to users without a media company go-between.

The WGA, for example, has been a leader in Hollywood in the push for net neutrality rules, which forbid broadband Internet providers from blocking or slowing traffic on their networks.

Netflix and Amazon.com also have voiced strong support for the measure.

from a rating system that was designed to help schools rather than punish them.

The system used under Superintendent of Public Instruction H. Dean Evans, she said, evaluated performance and was used as a tool to get the school back on track, rather than shut it down or force it to be privatized.

Blackwell said that the SBOE is now so caught up in holding schools accountable in incremental ways that they do not look at the big issues in Indiana education, such as teacher retention and student success.

“We are caught up, right now, in really bad ideas for education, and it doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican,” Blackwell said. “Some of the ideas coming out of the federal Department of Education aren’t very good either. There’s a lot of competition, there’s a lot of comparing schools. This is all part of a business model that just doesn’t make any sense.”

Blackwell thinks there needs to be more consistent and long-term policy for future teachers and for the good of Hoosier children. She said that one election can mean a major shift in policy because most Indiana education policymakers are chosen by elected officials. She believes Indiana needs a strategy for recruitment to fight the teaching shortage, to help increase wages for teachers, to get parents involved and to incentivize schools to improve.

“Indiana is not taking care of our children,” she said. “What is happening in education is endemic to what is happening elsewhere. I think legislators care, they just have their priorities mixed up.”

Blackwell said Indiana appears to be moving to a two-tiered school system in Indiana—public schooling and charter schooling. She does not buy into the idea that charter schools are the cure-all for

Movie studios, television networks and other legacy businesses in Hollywood have largely stayed quiet on the issue. Major Hollywood interests are already grappling with tectonic shifts in consumer behavior. Thanks to the Internet, more viewers are watching programming on streaming services, and some are cutting the cable cord.

Media companies rely heavily on the billions of dollars they receive each year from pay-TV companies to distribute their channels. But they also see a new revenue stream created by licensing their shows to Internet streaming services.

The celebration this week has been particularly loud among the next generation of content producers. They have turned to the Internet to reach a large and growing audience.

“This battle has been such a long slog,” said Jay Bushman, who created the show “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries” on YouTube.

“I don’t expect Thursday [Feb. 26] to be the end of it, by any means. But it’s certainly better than the alternative,” he said.

Bushman said he turned to the Internet several years ago because it was less restrictive than dealing with the entrenched networks.

“I didn’t need anybody’s permission,” he said. “You can make stuff, put it online and go directly to an audience.” ___ (c)2015 Los Angeles Times. Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes. com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

Indiana schools.

The House has proposed an education budget that would shift funding from urban school districts such as Indianapolis Public Schools to suburban and rural districts. Although the budget boosts school funding by $469 million, the proposed budget would reduce the IPS budget by $18 million, according to the Indianapolis Star. The budget also includes a possible per pupil grant for charter schools of $1,500 and removes the $4,800 per pupil cap on school vouchers, according to the Indianapolis Star.

“The [proposed] budget is set up in such a way to increase the number of vouchers and increase the amount of money going to charter schools,” Blackwell said. “There is this belief that charter schools are better and there’s not any research. Charter schools are better at getting kids graduated and involving parents than public schools, but they are no better than public schools in achievement.”

The future of education policy Blackwell said that among other issues in education policy, many teachers are upset about Ritz is likely being unseated as chairwoman because they elected her to fill the role. Blackwell said teachers are active on Facebook and have been showing their support for her in statehouse protests.

Albright said that this type of policy shift invites all Hoosiers to become more informed and involved in the political process. She noted that Indiana has a consistently low voter turnout rate, but that this type of policy shift might give some Hoosiers a reason to go out and vote.

“This signifies to me that voters need to pay more attention, to contact their legislators, [to] become more politically involved,” Albright said. “These kinds of decisions have huge implications for us.

You don’t have to be a kid in public schools or have a kid in public schools to see this impacting the community.”

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NEWS BRIEFS

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

WORLD

Executioner in Islamic State videos is identified

LONDON— The knife-wielding militant who appears in a string of grisly beheading videos, his face concealed by a black balaclava and speaking in British-accented English, has come to personify the brutality of the extremist group Islamic State. Nicknamed “Jihadi John” in the world’s media, he was unmasked Thursday, Feb. 26, as Mohammed Emwazi, who is in his mid-20s and was born in Kuwait, raised in West London and studied computer programming at the University of Westminster.

—Los Angeles Times

Homeland Security funding still being discussed

WASHINGTON— House Republican leaders on Thursday, Feb. 26, floated a plan to pass a short-term bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, avert a partial shutdown and prompt negotiations with the Senate, which is poised to pass its own measure to fund the agency.

—McClatchy Washington Bureau

Pits of oil wastewater discovered in Kern County

TNS—Unbeknown to California officials,oil producers in Kern County have been disposing of chemical-laden waste water in hundreds of unlined trenches in the ground without proper permits, according to an inventory that regional water officials completed this week.

—Los Angeles Times ©2014 McClatchy Tribune News Service

Teacher Svetlana Djananova monitors students as they take an ACT test in preparation for the college admission exam at HS2 Academy in Arcadia, Calif. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Racial bias plagues college admissions

For Asian-Americans, applying for colleges can be harmed by racial stereotypes

By Frank Shyong LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES (TNS)—In a windowless classroom at an Arcadia tutoring center, parents crammed into child-sized desks and searched through their pockets and purses for pens as Ann Lee launched a PowerPoint presentation.

Her primer on college admissions begins with the basics: application deadlines, the relative virtues of the SAT versus the ACT and how many Advanced Placement tests to take.

Then she eases into a potentially incendiary topic—one that many counselors like her have learned they cannot avoid.

“Let’s talk about Asians,” she says.

Lee’s next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant’s race is worth. She points to the first column.

African-Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.

She points to the second column.

“Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”

The last column draws gasps.

Asian-Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points —in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.

“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college?

The answer is yes,” Lee says.

“Zenme keyi,” one mother hisses in Chinese. How can this be possible?

College admission season ignites deep anxieties for Asian-American families, who spend more than any other demographic on education. At elite universities across the U.S., students of Asian descent form a larger share of the student body than they do of the population as a whole.

And increasingly they have turned against affirmative action policies that could alter

those ratios and accuse admissions committees of discriminating against Asian applicants.

That perspective has pitted them against advocates for diversity: More college berths for Asian-American students means fewer for black and Latino students, who are statistically underrepresented at top universities.

But in the San Gabriel Valley’s hypercompetitive ethnic Asian communities, arguments for diversity can sometimes fall on deaf ears. For immigrant parents raised in Asia’s all-or-nothing test cultures, a good education is not just a measure of success—it’s a matter of survival.They see academic achievement as a moral virtue, and families organize their lives around their child’s education, moving to the best school districts and paying for tutoring and tennis lessons. An acceptance letter from a prestigious college is often the only acceptable return on an investment that stretches over decades.

Lee is the co-founder of HS2 Academy, a college prep business that assumes that racial bias is a fact of college admissions and counsels students accordingly.

At 10 centers across the state, the academy’s counselors teach Asian-American applicants countermeasures. The goal, Lee says, is to help prospective college students avoid coming off like another “cookie-cutter Asian.”

“Everyone is in orchestra and plays piano,” Lee says. “Everyone plays tennis.

Everyone wants to be a doctor and write about immigrating to America. You can’t get in with these cliché applications.”

Complaints about racial bias in college admissions have persisted since the 1920s, when a Harvard University president tried to cap the number of Jewish students. In November, a group called Students for Fair Admissions filed a suit against Harvard University for admissions policies that allegedly discriminate against AsianAmericans. The group cited the 2004 Princeton study and other sources that offer statistics about Asian-Americans’ test performance.

At the University of Texas at Austin, an affirmative action policy that allows admissions committees to consider the race of prospective applicants has been argued all the way to the Supreme Court.

(The policies were upheld by a lower court, but that court’s decision was voided by the Supreme Court. Another court upheld the policies, and another appeal is pending.)

Those who defend “holistic” admissions policies insist that considering a broader range of variables ensures that all applicants are judged fairly. And the Princeton study Lee refers to has been widely criticized by academics who argue that it relies too heavily on grades and test scores to draw conclusions about racial bias and that the data the study uses are too old to be relevant.

Still, anxiety over racial admissions rates is peaking as cash-crunched public universities increasingly favor highpaying, out-of-state and foreign students at the expense of local applicants of every ethnicity. A 2014 bill that would have asked voters to consider restoring race as a factor in admissions to public California colleges and universities sparked multiple public protests and scathing editorials in Chinese newspapers. The bill, Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, was shelved last year.

Lee says that she usually tries to at least mention arguments in favor of diversity at her free college seminars. She mentions how the black student population at UCLA has declined precipitously and how student bodies at elite universities probably shouldn’t be 100 percent Asian.

When she looks to see their response, she sees mostly slowly shaking heads.

“It’s really hard for me to explain diversity to parents whose only goal is getting their son into Harvard,” Lee says. ___ (c)2015 Los Angeles Times. Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes. com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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