Mar. 8, 2017 | The Reflector

CMYK

THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS

VOL.

95

I S S UE 8

reflector.uindy.edu

MARCH 8, 2017

GREEN facts

New position, vice president for equity & inclusion, filled

Glass

By Tony Lain EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Making glass from recycled material cuts related water pollution by 50 percent

Cardboard

Plastic

Recycling one ton of cardboard saves 46 gallons of oil

Americans throw away 2.5 million bottles an hour

Paper

Aluminum

Recycling a stack of newspapers just three feet high saves one tree

Recycling a single can produces enough energy to power a TV for three hours

http://www.recycleacrossamerica.org/recycling-facts

UIndy takes strides to help the environment Graphic by Juliana Rohrmoser

With the efforts of the Sustainability Committee and Sustainability Club, the UIndy community aims to make the world a little greener

By Ryan Wright-Jordan STAFF WRITER According to NASA, the icecaps are melting at a rate of 15 percent per decade, and the global sea level has risen 6.7 inches in the last century. Since 1950, there have been increases in record high temperatures and decreases in record low temperatures in the United States, the website said. NASA says that global warming is of “particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years.” At the University of Indianapolis steps are being taken on campus by faculty, staff and students to reduce the university’s carbon footprint.

Some individuals involved in reducing UIndy’s effects on the environment are on the Sustainability Committee, which is composed of eight to 10 faculty and staff members who meet every month

to track progress and propose new goals.

“We are still [relatively] new, but we are currently working on single stream trash flow,” said Executive Director of Facilities Management and Head Chair of the Sustainability Committee Pamela Fox. A single trash stream is a receptacle into which one may put both recyclable and non-recyclable trash. The trash would then be separated by the trash service (in this case Rays Trash) which would cut costs and make recycling easier.

“Most [people] don’t know that when they put non-recyclable material in a recycle bin, it contaminates the bin,” said Director of Grounds Dustin Bodart.

Currently, UIndy spends $95 for an eight-yard trash dumpster, compared

to only $50 for a recycle dumpster. Furthermore, the efforts of the Sustainability Committee have produced a 20 percent diversion of trash from landfills.

However, according to Bodart, there are still 1,100 tons of waste compared to 230 tons of recyclables. Fox said that future action of the Sustainability Committee involves communicating with students about good recycling habits, providing recycling options for tailgating and perhaps an urban garden initiative.

Proactive steps are being taken not only by the staff and faculty members, but students as well. Currently in its early stages is a student Sustainability Club that meets at 8 p.m. every other Tuesday. The faculty advisor of the group is Assistant

“I want to provide a platform for students to come together, gain experience and make a difference.”

Professor of Physics and Earth Space Science Leah Courtland. The club idea started when Courtland mentioned to one of her associates that she had an interest in starting a group relating to earth-space science.

“The next thing I know, after class a few students run to me saying they would like to help create it,” Courtland said. “It’s their club, and I’m here to help them.”

While not an official club on paper yet, students are brainstorming activities and future ideas to help UIndy become greener. Plans include working with the Sustainability Committee in order to help whatever green initiative is proposed.

“I want to provide a platform for students to come together, gain experience and make a difference,” Courtland said.

Some ideas for the future involve creating signs for recycle dumpsters, calling state senators about sustainability issues and having the sustainability director of Butler University come to talk with the students.

REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE REDUCING involves cutting back on products that create waste for the environment. Examples include: - buying in bulk: condensed products use less packaging - buying more durable goods that will last for more uses - printing two-sided copies to save paper Information from https://dnr.mo.gov/env/swmp/pubs-reports/threers.htm

REUSING involves using products more than one time to limit the amount you throw out. Examples include: - saving paper/plastic grocery bags to use for other purposes - selling or donating old clothes and toys - using a coffee mug or thermos instead of paper cups

RECYCLING involves taking plastic, paper and metal

products to recycling centers where they can be broken down and turned into new materials. Examples include: - soda bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes can be taken to your local recycling center - look for products made from recycled materials Graphics by Andy Carr

Sean Huddleston, who currently serves as the chief officer of diversity, inclusion and community engagement at Framingham State University in Massachusetts will take over next year as the first vice president for equity and inclusion at the University of Indianapolis.

“We started back in September developing the position and talking to stakeholders to see what kind of qualities we want[ed] in a candidate,” said Associate Vice President of the Professional Edge Center and co-chair of the search committee Corey Wilson. “We received over 100 applications for the position.”

After mulling over dozens of candidates, members of the search committee thought Huddleston’s work experience and vision made him the best fit for UIndy.

“I think Sean was the right person at the right time for the university,” Wilson said. “He brought forward the skill set in the form of his past work at the various universities where he had been employed.

He has been in an environment where he has started an equity and inclusion office from scratch, and he had the right temperament.”

Huddleston, originally from Detroit, Mich., said he was grateful to have been given the opportunity by the university.

He said a colleague of his referred him to the position, knowing he was interested in moving back to the Midwest.

HUDDLESTON While there are many diversity programs already active on campus, Huddleston will be UIndy’s first vice president for equity and inclusion.

“My responsibility is essentially to create a vision and lead initiatives that focus on building an inclusive and continuously welcoming environment for all students, faculty and staff,” Huddleston said.

While Huddleston said he has plans for the university, he first just wants to get a feel for the people and programs.

“My first task, when I get there, is to listen and learn as much as I can,” Huddleston said. “I want to make sure we are doing everything to honor some of the things that have already been done and reinforce some of the things we know that have already been helping inclusion and equity.... We want to take a look at the low-hanging fruit, those things that are out there that may need just a little bit more focus to get accomplished.”

According to Wilson, Huddleston’s past success at Framingham State University, especially receiving the prestigious Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, made him the right person to take effective action to improve diversity and inclusion.

“I think it is looking at the overall subject of inclusive excellence and figuring out ways that we can embrace that topic on campus,” Wilson said. “.... Inclusive excellence—to me—denotes action, and that’s something I’m hoping Sean will bring forward.”

According to Huddleston, in an everchanging world, evolving as a campus to match the needs of everyone is important.

“It’s important for us to pay attention to inequities, especially around education, so we can try to eliminate them while making sure everyone is growing at the same rate,”Huddleston said.“We want to be able to work with everyone so we can move forward as an entire human race.”

Huddleston will not start officially working at UIndy until June, but he is looking forward to the opportunity.

“I came in for my interviews in January and fell in love with that campus,” Huddleston said. “It is an absolutely beautiful campus, and I am so looking forward to being there every day.”

OPINION

2 THE REFLECTOR

MARCH 8, 2017

Gun permits necessary for public safety

By Ryan Wright-Jordan STAFF WRITER State Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, is currently proposing a law to eliminate required handgun carry permits in Indiana.

Gun safety is absolutely critical for anyone who owns a firearm. When I was younger, my father took me to a range to learn proper protocol and safety for firearm use. There were three cardinal rules the instructors continually drilled into my head.

The first rule was to never point the gun at anything I did not intend to shoot.

The second was to always treat the gun as if it were loaded. The third, and most valuable, is that using a firearm is the ultimate last resort in a volatile situation.

If people are able to purchase and use a handgun willy-nilly, then proper gun safety is in peril. Some people may purchase a gun with no knowledge about how to use it and the immense danger it presents.

I recall an ironic anecdote my instructor once told me. An officer would remove the magazine and un-chamber the bullet. Then he would pull back the top and hammer and shoot his hand.

He claimed to like the feel of the air on his hand.

One day he was doing it, and blood started pouring down his hand. He had

forgotten to remove the bullet from the chamber and shot himself.

Granted, it was one man and one story, but the officer had firearm training and still managed to shoot himself. If members of the general public were too easily able to obtain a handgun, then stories like this would become common.

Action movies and the like, inspire people to want to play hero during dangerous, life-threatening situations. If nearly anyone can purchase a gun, then nearly everyone has the power of life and death in his or her hands.

Some people are easier to anger than others, and some may not be able to think their way out of a situation and will simply pull out the gun.

The situation instantly explodes when an individual pulls out a gun. Some claim it would make selfdefense easier, but when to pull the trigger is not a decision that can be made lightly or in haste. In that moment, one could take the life of another human being.

Some may argue that the Constitution declares everyone has a right to bear arms and that licensing firearms is an affront to the Constitution. Sure, it is in the constitution, but the meaning is quite obscure.

W hile background checks will still be necessary to purchase a gun, a license requires a second background check, fingerprinting and

EPA: Extra Profits for Administration

registration of the weapon.Anindividualwhohasnever been flagged by the police may still be dangerous.

Regardless of record or not, ill intent may come to the surface.

Knowing who has a weapon is a life or death matter for a police officer. If the police raid a home for probable cause, before entry they could gain information on the inhabitants, such as criminal history or whether they have any firearms.

If the carry license is eliminated, police will have no preemptive knowledge about the danger.

Someone could surprise the officers, resulting in a more violent outcome.

The process to get a permit is not difficult. It involves simply filing the correct paperwork, getting fingerprinted, passing a background check and spending roughly $120.

Any law-abiding citizen can eas-

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$

$ $

$

$

$ $

$ $

$

Cartoon by Melvin Mendez

USDA purges animal welfare records, ending transparency

THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS

The Reflector is a student publication, and the opinions contained herein are not necessarily those of the University of Indianapolis. The Reflector is dedicated to providing news to the university community fairly and accurately.

Letters to the editor, suggestions, corrections, story ideas and other correspondence should be addressed to The Reflector, Esch Hall, Room 333, or sent via electronic mail to reflector@uindy. edu.

NOTE: To be considered for publication, letters must include a valid name and telephone

a database then a crime can be committed without any connection between the gun and the owner.

If this proposal passes, it will open the door to a plethora of catastrophic events.

Modern slavery

By Erik Cliburn OPINION EDITOR

$

I was shocked to discover that the United States Department of Agriculture had deleted thousands of nationwide animal welfare records from its website without so much as a warning. According to nationalgeographic.com, the USDA got rid of inspection records and annual reports for commercial animal facilities such as zoos, breeders, factory farms and laboratories, which had been posted publicly for decades. On many occasions, these reports have helped to reveal cases of animal abuse and mistreatment that likely would have gone unnoticed.

For example, when Mother Jones did a yearlong investigation of Ringling Bros.

Circus, the publication found that the elephants were kept in cramped living conditions and chained and whipped for years. The website said that many of the elephants even had “infected wounds and untreated diseases.” After the story was released, people signed petitions to remove the elephants from the circus.

Ringling said that it would discontinue using touring elephants in 2016, then later announced that the circus was being shut down permanently in January 2017. None of this would have been possible without

ily obtain a handgun. The name of the person purchasing the gun goes into a database, and in the event of a violent crime the weapon can be traced back to that person. If the weapon is not in

Human trafficking is an issue that all politicians should oppose

E P A

By Jessica Hoover NEWS EDITOR

Graphic by Juliana Rohrmoser

the use of the animal welfare records from the USDA website.

A statement from the USDA cites privacy issues as the primary reason for deleting the records. As a journalist, I see this as an illegitimate reason to remove something that was once public record.

This keeps journalists, animal welfare advocates and the public in general in the dark.

An organization’s privacy is not nearly as important as having access to records that could keep animals from being abused and mistreated. Why should an organization be so concerned with its privacy if the organization is doing nothing wrong?

The main reason the records were on the website was to keep an eye on the organizations that either could become abusive or already were abusive toward their animals.

The only way the records can be recovered now is through official requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, according to nationalgeographic.com.

FOIA requests are often tedious and can take months to process. This could be at the expense of an animal’s life or prolonged suffering. Previously, anyone could quickly look up the organization’s records on the USDA website. Using FOIA requests may prevent someone getting to the animals in time, before it’s too late. 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.

Advertisers: The Reflector welcomes advertisers both on and off campus. Advertising rates vary according to the patron’s specifications. For advertising, contact 317-788-2517.

Readers: You are entitled to a single copy of this paper. Additional copies may be purchased with prior approval for 50 cents each by contacting The Reflector business manager. Taking multiple copies of this paper may constitute theft, and anyone who does so may be subject to prosecution and/or university discipline.

The situation has created quite an uproar within the animal-rights community, and many groups initiated legal action against the USDA. The Humane Society of the United States argued that the “removal of records violates a 2009 settlement between the two parties.”

Groups such as PETA, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Born Free USA also have filed a joint lawsuit against the USDA. The argument is that the USDA is hindering these groups’ ability to identify violations of the Animal Welfare Act. Following backlash from these organizations and the public, the USDA has subsequently decided to post certain records back on the department’s website.

According to the USDA’s statement, they will repost only the annual and inspection reports of research institutions and some federal research facilities. This is only a small batch of what once appeared on the website and is insufficient.

A full restoration of these records would mean that the USDA would have to post thousands more. While the partial restoration is a good start, complete transparency and accessibility of these records is essential for keeping zoos, breeders, factory farms and laboratories in check when it comes to the preservation of animal rights.

While politicians argue about the war on drugs, immigration, abortion and so on, another serious issue is happening right under all of our noses: human trafficking. This atrocity has been referred to as the “modern-day form of slavery” by the Department of Homeland Security, according to The Atlantic.

The largest component of human trafficking is sex trafficking, which is essentially forced prostitution. The most targeted group in the world of sex trafficking is adult women, and sometimes young girls. Soroptimist.org estimates that nearly 800,000 women and children are trafficked around the globe each year. And while these numbers alone are shocking, many more incidents of trafficking go unreported and unresolved.

Despite growing efforts to stop trafficking, it remains an issue that seems to take a backseat to other problems in society. Many people do not want to accept that something so terrible could be happening in their own community. So the issue is disregarded as something not as urgent, because people are content with the idea that sex trafficking is something to worry about only in seedier areas and other countries around the world.

This is happening in communities globally, not just in certain areas. An article in The Indianapolis Star covers the recent bust of a sex trafficking ring in Hamilton County. The article states that out of the nine girls involved, all were from the central Indiana area, and the youngest was only 11 years old.

Oftentimes the victims of sex trafficking are from more impoverished areas of the world; they generally are promised a better life in the United States, but then are told that they must work off their debts and are forced to prostitute themselves.

In some cases the victims of trafficking actually have been arrested on charges of prostitution, and either the police will not believe that the victims are actually being trafficked, or the victims are too afraid of what might happen to them if they speak out against their captors, according to The Atlantic.

Fortunately, this issue is being brought more into the public’s attention by organizations such as Polaris, the Not For Sale Campaign and even groups on college campuses, such as UIndy Keys on our own campus, along with countless others. For

example, actor Ashton Kutcher delivered a passionate speech against sex trafficking to Congress on Feb. 15. He also discussed his organization Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, which works to help identify the victims of child sex trafficking specifically on the dark web, according to wearethorn.org. Kutcher worked with Tennessee Senator Bob Corker to get this issue more attention within the American political system.

The issue of human trafficking should be completely non-partisan, but somehow politicians of the two major parties are using legislation that addresses human trafficking to throw in policies that support their own agendas.

For example, Senate Bill S. 178, titled “Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015,” includes things one would expect to find in such a bill. That includes harsher punishments for those who have committed crimes related to trafficking, plus establishment of a fund to help the victims of trafficking.

However, upon analyzing the bill, senate Democrats discovered that language referring to the Hyde Amendment (which states that abortions using federal funds can only be performed in cases to when necessary to save the life of the mother, or when pregnancy results from cases of incest or rape) had been included in this bill supposedly geared toward trafficking victims.

The issue of abortion is obviously controversial, but it should be confined to its own area and not piggybacked on a bill that could save the lives of so many. Although this bill did pass, with almost unanimous support from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, adding the extra, and somewhat unrelated, abortion policy muddled the bill’s passage and made that into a far longer process than it should have been.

Bills such as these that concern protecting against human rights violations should never include parts that could be used to further politicians’ own political careers and agendas no matter their stance on the issue. It is sad to think that because of the delay of this bill, and possibly others like it, victims may have slipped through the cracks in the system.

I hope Congress will begin to see human trafficking as a larger issue and not just an opportunity to further their agenda.

However, it is equally important that the people who elect these politicians know that human trafficking is a real and serious problem so they can elect those who will help put an end to modern-day slavery.

STAFF DIRECTORY EDITORS / MANAGERS

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.........................KYLEE CRANE • cranek@uindy.edu AINGER ALEXANDER ..............aialexander@uindy.edu MANAGING EDITOR .....................MERCADEES HEMPEL • hempelm@uindy.edu ANDY CARR...........................carraj@uindy.edu NEWS EDITOR ..............................JESSICA HOOVER • hooverjm@uindy.edu ABBY LAND............................landa@uindy.edu SPORTS EDITOR ...........................SOPHIE WATSON • watsonsl@uindy.edu MELVIN MENDEZ....................mendezm@uindy.edu PHOTO EDITOR .............................LAKEN DETWEILER • detweilerl@uindy.edu OPINION EDITOR ..........................ERIK CLIBURN • cliburne@uindy.edu FEATURE EDITOR..........................MAIA GIBSON • gibsonmb@uindy.edu ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR ...........MORGAN ELLIS • ellismn@uindy.edu BUSINESS MANAGER ...................QUIAIRA JOHNSON • johnsonq@uindy.edu ONLINE EDITOR............................MADISON HAYS • haysm@uindy.edu DISTRIBUTION MANAGER............ALEXIS STELLA • stellaa@uindy.edu ART DIRECTOR .............................ZOË BERG • bergz@uindy.edu Contact Us: The Reflector office 317-788-3269 ADVISER ......................................JEANNE CRISWELL • jcriswell@uindy.edu THE REFLECTOR • 1400 EAST HANNA AVENUE INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46227

Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 317-788-3269 after hours or fax 317-788-3490.

STAFF BADAR ALAGEEL KIUNO CANN MARIAH COLEMAN MAX GERHARDT TONY LAIN HANNA MCCLARD

ANGIE MERCADO CASSIE REVERMAN JULIANA ROHRMOSER JACOB SHAW RYAN WRIGHT-JORDAN

NEWS THE REFLECTOR

3 MARCH 8, 2017

2O3O

THE JOURNEY SO FAR It has been two years since Vision 2030 went underway.

In those two years, many changes have been implemented in the name of improving the university.

Take a look below at what has been accomplished so far. The following have all been launched or completed:

Professor writes book on wineries

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR

BUILDINGS

UIndy Health Pavilion Martin Hall Renovations Library Renovations Athletics Facilities Greyhound Village

PROGRAMS

iClassrooms & Digital Infrastructure Curriculum Changes Lacrosse Program International Experiences Summer Term Expansion MEGA Center Academic Programs

OTHER

Safety & Security Faculty Chairs & Professorships Transit-Oriented Development

(Engineering, Master’s of Professional Studies)

Graphic by Andy Carr

First Vision 2030 plan completed Through a series of five-year strategic plans, President Robert Manuel sets goals for UIndy’s future

By Zoë Berg ART DIRECTOR Vision 2030 is a goal set for the University of Indianapolis that outlines President Robert Manuel’s vision for UIndy in 2030. According to Manuel, Vision 2030 is completed through a series of five-year strategic plans. The vision is what guides each strategic plan and will not change, although the strategic plans will once each is completed.

“So the first five-year strategic plan, which is in support [of ] and guided by Vision 2030, has an update, a two-year update, which shows that 95 percent of it got completed or put away,” Manuel said.

“And we’re beginning the process now at the university of thinking about what the next set of five years will look like.”

This will be determined by reaching out to the community, students, faculty, staff and alumni, according to Manuel. He said the process will be similar to the way the university defined the first strategic plan, by having about 1,500 people involved in 150 different conversations and surveys that will take about a year to complete and process. According to Manuel, this process will begin this summer.

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Michael Holstein said that the first plan laid about 30 strategic initiatives that the university wanted to complete, and they have done a good job of checking off those goals so far.

“Good progress has been made on all of these,” Holstein said. “And of course the ones that are visible [are] the Health Pavilion, Martin Hall renovations, the library renovation. We put in the lacrosse

ONLINE THIS WEEK at reflector.uindy.edu

UIndy creates new scholarship program with Christel House Academy The University of Indianapolis has created a new full-scholarship program for students who graduate from Christel House Academy South.

Starting in the fall semester of 2017, the scholarship will be available to up to 10 students.

BSA hosts My Black is Beautiful Week for Black History Month The University of Indianapolis Black Student Association held a week of events dedicated to showcasing the love and appreciation one should feel for oneself as part of its Black History Month celebration Feb. 20-24.

Art Therapy adds variety to UIndy curriculum Art, refreshments and socializing provided a break from the daily grind for University of Indianapolis students during the “Art Therapy Discussion” event held in the Health Pavilion on Thursday, Feb. 23.The event was open to all students.

field. We put in the apartments. So those are all of visible things you can see, like the construction projects and things of that nature.”

According to Manuel, some of these also include adding 35 new faculty members to the Center for Advising and Student Achievement and the Professional Edge Center.

Holstein said there also are a lot of less visible or less tangible things happening, such as curriculum changes, implementing iClassrooms, transit-oriented development like the Indianapolis Red Line, summer term expansion and growing intellectual life. According to Holstein, the university recently has been focused on growing intellectual life. This means growing and expanding academic programs and curriculum at UIndy. Director of Communication and Content Strategies David Hosick said that it is important to focus on adapting UIndy’s intellectual programs to fit the needs of the community and state.

“A great example of the expansion of intellectual life—at least a recent example—is the launch of the engineering program,” Hosick said. “That fills a need that has been expressed widely across that state, that Indiana is lagging a bit in graduates with STEM [science, engineering, technology and math] degrees. There is a high demand for [these] people in the workforce.”

Manuel said he is proud of what has been accomplished so far.

“Well, what I’m proud of is I think that we have increased our appetite to aspire, to engage,” he said. “So we’re networking ourselves differently. We’re doing interdisciplinary work together.

We’re thinking about the entire experience of the student and beginning to change things that are impactful of that…. Our notion of who we are and what role we play and how we become a critical piece in the quality of life in our community has grown tremendously, and I’m proud of that.”

Manuel said the first set of achievements is due, in part, to engaged faculty and student populations that care about the university, and he said that is an important piece of what has been done as well.

Although the next five-year strategic plan is not yet defined, Manuel said he is looking forward to what it will be and moving closer to his vision for 2030.

“To have a vision for 2030 is a helpful tool for leading the university,” he said, “especially when it’s created by the voices of our people that belong to the community. And now that we’re on a strategic planning cycle of five years, we kind of know how to engage that and deliver it, so I’m excited to see what we can do. We were extremely successful in the first five years, and I’m excited to see what we can do with the next.”

“We were extremely successful in the first five years, and I’m excited to see what we can do with the next.”

Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Community Research Center in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice James Pennell’s first idea for a book had nothing to do with wineries. He was doing a research project about songs and social movements, but another book about the topic was published, so he chose to direct his efforts elsewhere. The inspiration for his first book, “Local Vino: The Winery Boom in the Heartland” came from a show his band performed.

“I play in a band, Acoustic Catfish, and one of our early engagements at Mallow Run Winery had over 300 people there,” he said. “So as a sociologist tends to do, I said, ‘I wonder what’s going on here?’ I study social and institutional change, why things come about in the social world and how they come about and the struggles that people have in making change. These wineries are a relatively new thing. I mean, historically, they didn’t exist before 1975 in Indiana, and they didn’t really take off until the 1990s.”

Pennell took five years to research and write the book. At first, he said, he only focused on wineries and Indiana.

“So I had done the research for that and wrote a 46,000-word manuscript, and I was hoping Indiana University Press was going to publish it,” Pennell said. “I got very good reviews from the reviewers, but the editorial board decided that they didn’t want to publish it. So I went to the University of Illinois Press. Their reviewers liked the manuscript as well. And the executive director of the press said he liked the manuscript, [and] he liked the idea, but they were the University of Illinois Press.

So they asked if I could include Illinois, Michigan and Missouri.”

Pennell and the University of Illinois press negotiated which other states’ wineries he should include, since he would have to travel and do more research in addition to teaching. He said they came to the consensus that he would include wineries in Illinois, Ohio and Iowa, where his wife, Professor of Teacher Education Greta Pennell, is from.

“Local Vino” required Pennell to conduct numerous interviews and do research, he said. He even spent part of his sabbatical working in wineries for two or three days a week.

“I interviewed winery owners in the four states. I interviewed state industry people, both [of ] the winery owners association people,” Pennell said. “Each state has an enologist and viticulturist, so I interviewed a few of those. I also interviewed three customers who regularly go to wineries, one I considered more expert and the other two were more novices. I pruned vines. I picked grapes. I bottled wine. And so I spent about six months a couple days a

week during my sabbatical doing some of the work that people at wineries do so I would have a good firsthand understanding of that work, crushing and pressing grapes.”

Pennell said that the book is focused on the owners and their wineries, the challenges of starting a winery and what drew them to do so. The topic is not one that many sociologists study, he said, because they usually look into troubling topics, such as poverty and unemployment. While Pennell still learned things about “people’s troubles,” he said that writing the book was a nice break from the topics he usually studies.

Pennell said that he has taken some of what he’s learned from writing the book and applied it to one of the courses he teaches at the University of Indianapolis: Food, Society and You. “It [writing ‘Local Vino’] gave me another perspective on the local food movement,”Pennell said.“Because a lot of the wineries are shipping grapes in from California and other places—and New York and so—then what’s it mean to be a local food producer? Obviously they’re doing value added by making wine, but they’re not actually producing grapes.”

“Local Vino” is part of the University of Illinois Press’ Heartland Food Ways series and is intended for a general audience, Pennell said, despite it being published by an academic press. He hopes that readers of the book take away a different perspective and appreciation for the winery industry.

“I hope that they [readers] get an appreciation for the work it takes to make wine and get it into the bottle for purchase and what it takes to create these interesting places,” Pennell said.

“I mean it’s a tremendous amount of work, a tremendous investment of time and money, and so I think people need to understand that. It seems very idyllic to go to a winery and you think, ‘Wow, this is really nice. This is the life. So maybe I should start a winery.’ I would hope anybody who thinks something like that would read this. And I think it gives people a lot of behind-the-scenes kind of knowledge that I don’t think they would have just visiting a winery.”

With “Local Vino” finished, Pennell is looking into his next project. He said he might return to the songs and social movements idea now that the other book has been out for a while, and he has ideas about how to differentiate his book. He also said he might return to his dissertation research about teacher professionalization.

For now, Pennell is working on a Local Vino Winery Tour with UIndy’s Alumni Office. “Local Vino: The Winery Boom in the Heartland” is currently available through the University of Illinois Press’ website and Amazon and became available in stores on March 6, 2017.

Event aims to reduce addiction stigma

By Madison Hays ONLINE EDITOR Joyce Beaven, a University of Indianapolis alum, shared her story of her battle with addiction to crack-cocaine at the Stamp Out Stigma event held in the Health Pavilion on March 2 at 6–7:30 p.m. Beaven spoke of her struggle through her first divorce, addiction and recovery and her work today as a case manager at CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions. After she shared her story, a panel of professionals including social workers, professors and a police officer took the stage to answer questions provided by the moderator and questions asked by students.

The panel discussed the stigma surrounding addiction and people with addiction and efforts that should be made to break down that stigma. A critical point that the panelists made was the need to educate politicians, police officers, doctors and peers about the disease of addiction and the fact that it is not something that can be fought with willpower alone.

Senior social work major Austin Elliott said the event helped him open his eyes about these stigmas and also gave him knowledge to help break down such stigmas. He also learned some tactics to try to break down the stigmas surrounding addiction and mental health when he talks to peers.

“I like how they commented on the language that you’re using. Instead of saying ‘the addict,’ say ‘The person with an addiction’ or just say their name and

not even bring up the addiction in general,” Elliott said. “So focusing on the language you’re using and the mannerisms in which you’re talking about people who face this is really powerful and how you show others by leading by example. So you’re showing your peers to be respectful and how to do that. That’s what I took away [from the event]. And if I were to talk to someone about what I learned, it would be about the language and how to use it. Because once you start using different language, people start recognizing it, and they will start asking you, ‘Why do you phrase it that way?’ And then you can go into your segue about what you know about it. So just using certain things that will strike up conversation and bring awareness.”

Co-Executive Director of Life Recovery Center and UIndy alum Eric Davis was also one of the panelists and said a big problem with the stigma of addiction is that people do not view it as a disease.

He said addiction is medically classified as an illness, and for us to break down this stigma, people need to educate each other.

According to Davis, people especially need to educate legislators because there is still a lack of funding, professionals, treatment centers, detoxes and education, which are needed to fight addiction.

Davis said that a good way to help break down the stigma that addiction is a battle of willpower is to explain addiction as more than a chemical dependency.

“The way I explain it is that chemical dependency is curable,” Davis said. “If I’m using heroin and a doctor detoxes me, I’m no longer chemically dependent.

That’s what detox is. So now that’s done, addiction is the thinking and the behav-

Photo by Madison Hays

A panel of social workers, professors and a police officer answer questions at Stamp Out Stigma on March 2. iors that exist long after the detox has been done. Those thinking and behaviors are why people go to 12-step meetings after 30 years clean or 50 years clean. It’s because that problem is not something we can cure. Me, I’ve been clean for 17 years.

I still think about using every single day.

That’s the truth. I don’t do it. I handle it in different ways, but that thinking is still alive and well every single day.”

According to Davis, it is important to have these discussions with peers, friends and family members because in some way everyone is affected by addiction.

Davis said that more information about addiction and finding help, is available at www.liferecoverycenter.net or by watching the film “Pleasure Unwoven: An Explanation of the Brain Disease of Addiction.”

4

SPORTS

THE REFLECTOR

MARCH 8, 2017

Photo by Kylee Crane

Redshirt sophomore Heath Lange claimed runner-up in the 157 weight class, which contributed to the team’s one point victory in the Super Regional 2 win on Feb. 24-25 in Nicoson Hall. Lange’s performance will also send him to the NCAA Division II National Championships.

Wrestling wins Regional meet by one point Abduljelil, Crume, Lange and Faulkenberg qualify for national meet while assisting in the team’s win in the NCAA Division II Super Region 2 meet

By Kylee Crane EDITOR -IN-CHIEF “Are we going to win?”

These were five words that Head Wrestling Coach Jason Warthan heard whispered from his Greyhound wrestlers as he walked around Nicoson Hall during the NCAA Division II Super Region 2 on Feb 24-25.

“I’m kind of superstitious a little bit, so I try not to look at team scores while the guys are wrestling,” he said. “I just kept saying, ‘I don’t know. I don’t know.’

Because that won’t change how we need to wrestle, we still need to win matches.”

They did win.

By one point.

Having won the second regional championship in program history, the first being in 2014, the team also will send four wrestlers to the 2017 NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships.

Freshman Ana Abduljelil, redshirt junior Nick Crume, redshirt sophomore Heath Lange and redshirt sophomore Dylan

Faulkenberg will represent UIndy in the 125, 141, 157 and 285 weight classes, respectively.

Warthan said that after a weekend of wrestling hard and seeing a successful end result, it is emotional.

“It’s a culmination of the hard work they’ve put in all year, and I think everyone contributed to the championship.

Everyone scored at least one point, so it’s special for sure,” he said.

Faulkenberg also won regional runnerup in his weight class and will be making his second trip to Nationals. He stressed that each individual wrestler made a difference in the meet, despite some obstacles that the team faced.

“Just going into regionals with things like Barry [McGinley] getting injured, and other variables, I didn’t know what the team outcome would be,”Faulkenberg said.“But we came together as a team, and there were people who had to fight for fifth, and those are the people that won it for us, for sure.”

Faulkenberg earned his trip with a 2-1

win in the semifinals. The scenario was much like the match to punch his ticket to the 2016 National championships, which went into three overtime matches.

“In the heat of the moment, I knew I could get away, and I knew I could ride him out,” he said. “It’s kind of nerve wracking, but I live for those moments. I focus on the conditioning because those bigger guys get a lot more tired than I do, so I just have to push them to that limit to where I can take advantage.”

Lange also claimed runner-up in the 157 class and earned his first trip to Nationals. He was ecstatic about this achievement upon winning his semifinals match, during which he pinned his opponent in 1:22.

“For me individually? I was psyched.

As a team, we were expected to send a few guys all year, and we were supposed to do well, but nobody thought that well, so it was nice to get it done,” he said. “….We had those big upsets in January and a lot of people thought that was going to be the peak of our season, but we kept winning.”

Abduljelil had to battle all day to earn his trip to Nationals for his first year of collegiate wrestling. He opened up the day with a loss, won his second in the consolation semifinal, but fell in the third place match. It took a 5-3 decision in his true fourth match to earn fourth place allowing him to continue on in the tournament. Abduljelil said his feelings were “through the roof,” and that it has been an amazing journey since joining the team this year.

“Having a team as good as ours, they were able to back me up and get me ready for competition,” he said. “Each of us has each other’s backs, and it was like a family as soon as I stepped onto this team.”

Crume was the lone Greyhound to win regionals in the 141 weight class, his second straight title, while also achieving his third trip to Nationals. And while he’s excited to make another appearance, he said he just wants to get the job done.

In four years spent with UIndy wrestling, Crume said that this season’s group could best be described as “determined.”

“Those of us who want to be here come here every day and work our asses off.

Everyone knows their job, and everyone knows their part, and we came and did just that,” he said.

In addition to determination, Warthan said “commitment” could be used to describe the team’s work and season.

“Some of these guys have overcome quite a bit and kept pushing. It means something to them, to be a part of this team. It wasn’t just the 10 guys either that wrestled, it was a culmination of the 33 guys who made a commitment back at the beginning of the year that they’re going to do it the right way, train hard, sacrifice some of the things that they wouldn’t in the offseason, live a clean lifestyle, and really put forth the effort in practice,” Warthan said. “I think that’s ultimately why we won, that commitment level all season.”

Abduljelil,Crume,Lange and Faulkenberg will head to Birmingham, Ala. for the National Championships on March 10-11.

Men’s basketball ends season in quarterfinals

By Melvin Mendez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Photo by Cassie Reverman

Freshman guard Tate Hall recorded 15 points in the victory over Rockhurst University on Feb. 11. Hall was also been named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Freshman of the Year, prior to the end of the season.

Despite a disappointing end to the University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team’s season, the Hounds made a true comeback from a rough start to the season, according to Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard. He said he is proud of the team’s accomplishment, and hard fight to overcome their obstacles that plagued the men at the beginning of the season.

“We recovered from our start,”Gouard said. “We had a really rough first part of the season starting off 3-7 at the start, and since then, we’re 13-4. We’ve made some changes from some things that we were doing in the first semester, especially on the defensive end and guys ball handling a bit more, and that’s why you would see the results that you’ve seen. We didn’t hang our heads with a 3-7. Start we turned it around in December and here we are today.”

Redshirt junior forward/guard Alex Etherington said the team’s defense is what really struggled during the start of the season.

“We really picked up defensively,” Etherington said. “At the beginning of the year, our defense really struggled.

And after we got back we really picked up our defense. So we’ve been clicking in that area, and our offense is coming along, too. We have better chemistry and we’re moving the ball well and sharing the ball as a team and that’s what really got

us together, putting our defense and our offense together...We really came together as a team. At the beginning of the season we were 3-7 which doesn’t happen very often here. And after that we had a team meeting and we really picked it up. I think now we’re 12-3 after the new year. We really came together and bonded after the new year. We came together on the court and we bonded off the quart.”

The Hounds finished the season in the quarterfinals of the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament, losing to the University of Wisconsin Parkside Rangers on March 2.

The Hounds started off the game, with a 12-2 run right after tip off. Over the course of the first half, the Rangers fought to take over the lead, and eventually did in the middle of the first half. The Rangers advanced on the lead, finishing the first half 42-34.

The Rangers did not give up the lead during the second half, and advanced upon it up to 19 points. The Hounds fell to the Rangers 97-82, which knocked them out of the conference competition and ended their season.

Sophomore forward Jesse Kempson recorded his 46th season block against the Rangers, setting a new record for the program. Kempson also recorded 18 points on the day. Redshirt junior Ajay Lawton led scoring with 20 points, followed by sophomore forward Jimmy King with 17 points and four assists.

The team advanced to the quarterfinal game by defeating the University of Missouri-St. Louis Tritons on Feb. 26,

winning 76-63.

Starting off with a tip from freshman guard Tate Hall, the Hounds were able to get the lead which they maintained for the rest of the game. Finishing off the first half UIndy was up 39-26. The second half was filled with fouls, adding up to 30, 14 coming from the Greyhounds.

Despite playing without lead scorer junior guard Eric Davidson, four of the starting Hounds, Etherington, Lawton, Kempson, each racked up 14 points each against the Tritons.

Prior to quarterfinals play Etherington said the team had hope for the tournament.

“We’re going to be playing Sunday [against the University of Missouri St. Louis], and we have to win that game to get to the conference tournament in Evansville,”Etherington said.“We played well and stayed with all the teams that we played, and we should have won all our conference games. All the games we lost were by less than 10 points so we were right there on every game” The Hounds capped off their season with a 16-12 record overall, as well as earning honors from the GLVC. Hall received the 2017 GLVC Freshman of the Year award and is the third in program history to be named to the title. Hall is one of few freshman who have earned a spot on Gouard’s starting lineup since he has been on staff.

Davidson, Kempson and King also earned a spot on the All-GLVC Second Team, and Lawton on the All-Defensive Team.

SPORTS

THE REFLECTOR

5 MARCH 8, 2017

Women’s basketball ends season with 17-14 record

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR Senior forward Nicole Anderson finished her final season on the University of Indianapolis women’s basketball team with her statistically most successful season as a Greyhound.

The women fell to the Lewis University Flyers in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship Tournament semifinals on March 4. Despite the loss, the women finished the season with a 17-14 record, the best since the 2013-14 season. This was also the first time the team made its way to the semifinals since the 2012 season.

Following tip-off, the Hounds had the lead most of the quarter until the Flyers took it with one point in the final minutes. Little scoring occurred in the first, with the Flyers leading 8-7. The Hounds took the lead once more in the second quarter, before giving it up for the rest of the game.

Scoring picked up by both sides in the second half, but the Hounds continued to trail behind the Flyers, losing with the score of 69-50.

In Anderson’s final game, she recorded seven points and three assists, following behind junior guard Martha Burse with 11 and Junior guard/forward Sydney Brackemyre with 8.

Prior to the semifinal play, the Hounds earned their spot by defeating the 21st ranked University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles in the quarterfinals on March 3.

The Hounds quickly gained the advantage in the second score of the game, and maintained the lead for the rest of the match-up. The women led up to 30 points through out the course of the game, and finished with a 66-48 win.

Brackemyre and Burse led the team in scoring, each with 17 points, followed

by Anderson with 13 and junior guard Sarah Costello.

Anderson was looking forward to the game against USI because of the rivalry during past games the teams have played.

“I’m really excited,” Anderson said.

“We always have good games with USI. I mean, it’s a pretty big rivalry, I think.

So I’m pretty excited, especially since we’re the underdog going into it. I like being the underdog. We don’t really have anything to lose going into this game.”

To get to the quarterfinals, the Hounds beat the William Jewell Cardinals 66-48 on Feb. 26. UIndy had a double-digit lead over the Cardinals in the first quarter and was able to reclaim it late in the second.

Burse and Brackemyre scored 26 of the Hounds’ 37 points earned in the first half. For the remainder of the game, the Hounds led by at least 10 points.

Brackemyre and Anderson also scored in the double digits, with 15 and 11 points, respectively. The Hounds also out rebounded the Cardinals 36-24 and had 26 field goals with 12 assists. At the end of the third quarter, the score stood 54-37, and the Hounds stretched the lead into a win with 12 points in the final quarter.

Head Women’s Basketball Coach Kristin Drabyn said the win came from teamwork, good ball movement and the overall energy of the team and bench.

“First off, they moved the ball so well that game. They played great team basketball. And when we have good ball movement, a lot of people are able to get good touches and scores,” Drabyn said. “I thought that, defensively, we really honed in on who their better players were. We limited their touches, and the girls had a lot of energy, and I thought our bench had a lot of energy as well. It [the win] was great for the program and for those kids who have been through a lot, battled injuries and things of that nature.”

Anderson said that the team played well both defensively and offensively in order to pick up the win.

“I thought we just played really well defensively. One of their leading scorers only had six points. And then we played well offensively, moved the ball, and just played really well as a team altogether,” Anderson said.

Both Drabyn and Anderson agreed that their season had ups and downs.

Drabyn attributes that to the injuries the team faced but was impressed with the way the team has responded.

“We’ve battled some injuries throughout the year, and that’s been tough, but our kids have responded,” Drabyn said.

“They’ve gotten better, they’ve grown and they’ve kind of grasped what we want from them. We’ve seen a ton of improvement by a lot of the kids, and just wanting to work harder every day. So all-in-all I think they’ve done a nice job.”

The upcoming games are Anderson’s final games as a Greyhound. She said that she has enjoyed her years as a part of the team, including her last one with the new coaching staff.

“It’s been a great three years here, and I wouldn’t give it up for anything,” Anderson said. “I’ve loved all my teammates, and it’s been great with the new coaches in here this year for my last year.

I wouldn’t ask for anything else.”

Drabyn said that the team will shift into a new mode for their final games of the season.

“This is tournament time. It’s survive and advance,”she said.“You figure out how to win Friday in order to get to Saturday.

And we tell the kids that you worry about Friday, and we’ll [coaching staff ] worry about anything else after that.”

“It’s been a great three years here and I wouldn’t give it up for anything.”

Photo by Kiuno Cann

Junior jumper Lindsey Foster participated in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 25-26, hosted by the University of Indianapolis in the Athletics and Recreation Center. The team totaled nine medals, won four individual competitions and qualifying three runners for nationals.

Three track and field athletes advance to indoor Nationals

By Abby Land EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Breaking records, racking up nine medals and winning four individual competitions, the University of Indianapolis track and field team hosted the Great Lakes Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 2526. The meet, held in the Athletics and Recreation Center, featured 27 visiting men’s and women’s teams.

Amid this competition, junior hurdler Treyvon Matthews came in second in the men’s 60-meter hurdles and managed to break the UIndy school record for the second time.

Matthews and senior Miranda Braun both made the list of All-Region honorees for the 2016-17 NCAA Division II indoor track and field season, which was announced by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Feb. 27. Redshirt sophomore Austin Hogan was among the major winners of the meet, capturing the honors of GLVC’s Men’s Co-Field Athlete of the Year and the GLVC James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award along with Braun.

Performances by Braun, Matthews an Hogan will send them to the NCAA Division II Indoor Championship. The national meet will be held in Birmingham, Ala., on March 10-11.

Braun will be traveling to the national meet for the first time, ranking 18th in shotput. Hogan, ranked 11th, set a new school record of five GLVC Athlete of the week awards.

This is the first time that Matthews will be taking the trek to nationals as well, and he is excited for the opportunity to compete.

“This is my first year competing at a DII level for Nationals, so I’m kind of excited for that,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a great fun experience for all three of us: me, Miranda and Austin.”

Matthews said he is preparing himself mentally for the meet, as well as working with the teammates to get prepared.

“I try to get my mind set that this is the national meet, that this is the real deal,” he said. “As for the rest of my teammates, like Austin and Miranda, I think they have the mindset that this is going to be the real deal... It’s crunch time and if we really want to succeed, we need to go for it and get after it.”

Following the conclusion of the indoor season, the entire team will begin the outdoor season. The team will first participate in the Bellarmine Invitational on March 31-April 1.

Sophomore distance runner Mickayla Wenzel said that she looks forward to the outdoor meets more than the indoor competitions. She hopes the Hounds will gain an edge due to alternate events in the upcoming outdoor season that emphasize distance running, the team’s strongest performance point.

“Well, for the distance squad, the indoor season has the distance medley relay, which is more geared towards shorter distance, more mid-distance, which we are not as strong in,” Wenzel said. “Instead of having the DMR for outdoor, we are going to have 10K and the steeple, which is really going to benefit us, because we have a lot more long-distance people than mid-distance people. So adding the 10K and 3K steeple will be more beneficial to us than having the DMR, which is more shorter distances.”

Braun, Matthews and Hogan will travel to the NCAA Division II Indoor Championship meet on March 10-11 in Birmingham, Ala.

60.5 ft 43 ft

Softball:

Baseball:

Base distance:

Base distance:

Bat:

Bat:

Pitches:

Pitches:

Hitting:

Hitting:

60 ft

2 1/4” diameter, 31-34” in length, with a drop of approx. -8 Leveled pitchers mound, underhand, pitches go in straight motion towards batter Bats go out in a straight motion

90 ft

2 5/8” diameter, 32-34” in length, with a drop of approx. -3 Elevated pitchers mound, overhand, pitches leaves hand at top and goes in downward motion to batter

Bats go out in an upward motion Graphic by Melvin Mendez

FEAT

6

The importance of internships THE REFLECTOR

Whether recommended or required, internships help open doors for students in their future professions by providing work experience and connections

By Alexis Stella DISTRIBUTION MANAGER

Finding a job as a recent college graduate can be daunting and overwhelming.

Unfortunately, according to an article on Forbes.com, the common factor in student applicant rejections in 2013 was that the applicant did not have enough job experience, which is where internships come in.

According to Internships.com, polled in late 2012, more than 7,300 current students and recent graduates were offered full-time jobs after participating in an internship related to their particular field.

In many fields, employers favor prospective employees who have participated in at least one internship. According to Forbes.com, an internship has become the “new interview” in the job search process.

Associate Vice President of the Professional Edge Center Corey Wilson said that an internship makes what students learn in the classrooms concrete by placing the students in a real-life work situation with co-workers performing actual professional tasks that the job entails.

According to Wilson, getting an internship gives students a chance to

test-run the employment they may be considering and also lets them explore what they like and do not like about their career field.

“I am always a proponent for getting students real-world experience,” Wilson said. “And ever yone on campus does a great job with preparing the students with what it is going to take academically, and combining that with an internship is a win-win for the students.”

According to an article on Monstr.com, in addition to providing life-experience, participating in an internship also helps students establish references and acquire organizational skills.

According to Internships.com, the odds that a student will find a job after graduation increases. In many majors, an internship is more than just a recommendation, it is a requirement for graduation.

According to Associate Professor of Art & Design Julia Taugner, you can earn

credits toward your degrees.

“If the students go through me for the internship, because I am the internship coordinator, and the students meet all the requirements for the internship they can receive academic credit,” she said.

“But students are welcome to search for internships on their own, however. If it doesn’t go through me, then the students won’t get academic credit, and we require students to have three academic internship credits before graduation.”

According to Taugner, the job market is incredibly competitive in graphic design, so requiring an internship benefits the students greatly. However, the department did not always require students to complete an internship before graduation.

“When I was first hired here [UIndy], after a few years I decided they [internships] should only be recommended.

However, I had some difficulty in convincing students that they needed to do internships,” Taugner said. “And after

“I am always a proponent for getting students real-world experience.”

a few years I thought, our field graphic design or any of the arts is competitive, and it [getting an internship] is a big advantage in terms of the transition into employment and so I made the decision to make it required again.”

According to Taugner, students do have to apply and interview like any other job. Taugner explained that when the internships were only recommended many students opted out from applying and out of fear.

“It has been good requiring the students to get an internship,”she said.“Some students you know, were simply not doing an internship out of nerves, so once its required [the internship] students get over their internal battles and just do it.”

According to Taugner, when finding jobs in the graphic design field, an internship is an expectation.

“In this job market, it is an expectation at least in graphic design to get an internship so the students are at a disadvantage a bit if they do not get an internship,” she said. “So, that’s why we require them. It is extremely competitive.”

Wilson said that when applying for an internship,students need to remember that their resumes and portfolios are the

first impressions employers will have of them. He said preparing a resume is like preparing a selfie—the perfect angle is required to make it just right.

“It doesn’t hurt to get a second pair of eyes to look at their resumes because that is what is the first appearance the employers will have of you,” he said.

Wilson said, ProEdge will host a communication and job fair event for students interested in networking with potential employers on April 4. UIndy also provides a list of open internships in various career fields through Handshake, UIndy’s online job portal.

“On Handshake, there are about 858 internships that are listed,” Wilson said. “I recommend students look on Handshake and apply for internships that spark their curiosity and internships that they will be passionate about and an internship students are inquisitive about and wanting to learn from.”

Students interested in applying for an internship are welcome to set up an appointment with ProEdge or with an internship coordinator in their department to get one-on-one coaching in order to help them navigate potential job and internship opportunities.

UIndy students intern at Student receives experience from Mutual of Omaha

The University of Indianapolis provides many internships for students, but junior accounting major Shelby Lannan has had multiple internships and opportunities that she found on her own.

Over the summer and into the school year, Lannan has interned at Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, where she spends most of her time on the phone, calling potential customers to discuss life and home insurance.

She has also become certified to sell life and home insurance as well as Medicare supplements.

She also controls social media accounts, where she keeps up on clientele and forms good relationships with customers.

Lannan said that she got this internship by meeting people and networking on her own.

“I went to a career fair, and I met a woman there,” Lannan said. “Her daughter, at the time, was dating someone I went to high school with, and she really liked that I was

This internship is closely connected to her major and what she wants to do as a career, according to Lannan, so she is excited to start. Lannan got this internship on her own as well and will be one of the first students ever to be a part of the program.

“I won a scholarship through the Risk Management Association, and the lady worked at Huntington Bank. And then she met me, and she has this brand new program which is like a co-op internship, and I am one of three of the first people to ever have it,” Lannan said.

Lannan said she is excited to start her internship at Huntington Bank because of its connection to her major, which will allow her to discover what she actually wants to do with her career.

“I’m really looking forward to the Huntington internship because it’s never been done before,” she said.

“And I’m really excited to learn more about banking and see if that is a career I would potentially want to go into. I actually graduate in December, and I’m hoping to be some sort of financial planner or work in the banking industry,” Lannan said. “I’m hop-

from a small town. Then she looked at my resume, and she really liked it. There are not many females who work at the company, so they really wanted a female that was a business major.”

Lannan is involved in many activities on campus including being a resident assistant and serving as the UIndy Student Organization of Latinos Co-President.

Being so busy, Lannan values the flexibility of her internship and the freedom it gives her to get her school work done and participate in other activities.

“There is a lot of freedom in the internship,” she said. “They are very flexible with my school schedule as well as [my] being an RA. They really let me make my schedule the way I want to.”

In the summer, Lannan will begin an internship with Huntington Bank, doing credit analyzing, where she will assess companies’credit and determine whether they should receive a loan.

ing with the Huntington bank internship, I will really get to see if that’s what I want to do... I think it’s [the Mutual of Omaha internship] been a good experience, but I’m really excited for the Huntington one because I think it’ll be more toward my career and what I want to do. So I think that one will be a different experience.”

Being an RA and participating in other activities, Lannan said that she has learned teamwork and how to communicate with others, which she can apply in these internship opportunities.

“Something different that I’ve learned is actually understanding the business world and a lot of the terms and things like that, that I learn in accounting. I am also learning in my internships,” she said. “So I think that is the most beneficial thing.”

Lannan will finish her internship with Mutual of Omaha this semester, before beginning her work with the Huntington Bank Co-Op Program.

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

Photo by Zoë Berg

Kristen Gandenberger (left) is the digital media intern and Rachel Gravens (right) is the assistant for immigrant outreach and programming at Big Car Collaborative.

Students intern for art nonprofit

By Jessica Hoover NEWS EDITOR Big Car Collaborative is a nonprofit art organization that focuses on “placemaking and socially engaged art” and collaborates with artists and placemakers from around the world, according to the Big Car website. Since the beginning of the semester, junior studio art and anthropology major Rachel Gravens and sophomore digital media major Kristen Gandenberger have been interning at Big Car, where the mission statement is, “We bring art to people and people to art, sparking creativity in lives to support communities.”

The Project for Public Spaces website defines placemaking as reimagining and reinventing public spaces in a community, and that aspect of Big Car is why Gravens was interested in the internship, she said.

“With anthropology and studio art being my two majors, it’s a really perfect combination,” Gravens said. “Because that’s [placemaking is] what they [Big Car] do. They use art to work with the community and engage people in the community and bring people together.”

Gravens is the assistant for immigrant outreach and programming at Big Car, which she said was a good fit because of a research trip she took this winter break.

The trip involved going to South Texas to identify migrant bodies on the United States-Mexico border.

She said that the trip made her eager to start the line of work that she would be doing at Big Car. A specific project that Gravens is working on at the moment is a series called “Migration Stories.”

“We’ve had people in the community who’ve migrated to the U.S. come and kind of talk about their home country and the culture there and why they came here and what it was like trying to kind of settle into life in the U.S. and what kind of reactions they received, if any,” Gravens said. “So far, we’ve had a man come to speak from Nigeria, and I think we’ll have a couple from Mexico that are lined up and some others as well.”

Gandenberger works as Big Car’s digital media intern, a position in which she said she does a little bit of everything. She said she has done everything from taking inventory to even cleaning out a closet.

She also helps to write the organization’s eblasts, which are its weekly newsletters. The e-blasts tell about all of the upcoming events for the month. Gandenberger said she also does website upkeep and writes content for the website.

Both Gravens and Gandenberger have worked events that Big Car hosts, such as the gallery openings held in the building out of which the organization works.

There are two gallery spaces, and they change out the exhibits every few months.

The current exhibit is called “The Hairy Man” and was curated by author and Sasquatch expert Christopher Murphy.

The exhibit features “artifacts, stories and evidence of Bigfoot’s existence with a focus on the creature as a part of cultural conversations through the centuries,” according to bigcar.org. The exhibit is free and will end on April 15. Gandenberger said that she would like to have a career at a place like Big Car in the future.

“I can see how it [working at a place like Big Car] would be very rewarding, to have an idea and then bring it to fruition and have it help people or benefit the community in any way.... I think an organization like Big Car would really work for me because I like to have my hands in a little bit of everything,” Gandenberger said.

Gravens said she would advise others to go out and apply for an internship at Big Car. “If this is the kind of work that you’re interested in, it’s a really unique organization that’s involved with art and placemaking and community building,” Gravens said. “So I think it’s a really great opportunity for people to be a part of and kind of see how that whole process works.”

TURE

7 March 8, 2017

Tips for landing your dream internship Update your resume

1.

JS

John Smith (821) 555-0913 • smithj@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION University of Potatoes Master of Cheese

Cookies College Bachelor of Chocolate

AWARDS World's Greatest Grater Best Pot Brownies Master at Souping Most Talented Eater

SKILLS • • • • • • •

Chip Making Rolling Eating Movie Maker Throwing Pizza Improving Tastes Making Love

VOLUNTEERING Children Need Corn Three weeks abroad

People for Eating Tasty Animals 50 hours per week

Pizza Steve’s Pizza Shoppe • 2017 Threw dough, made pizza, breadsticks, and pizza breadsticks. Learned the importance of not touching hot ovens. Ate all of the extras. P.S. I was not fired after burning my hand on the oven.

Candy Cain’s Candy Canery • 2013 Helped Candy make her famous candy canes. Dyed white canes of candy red. Made a giant candy cane that would make you look like a gingerbread man.

Asiago Joe’s Cheese & Stuff • 2013 Watched the cheese every night to make sure that the mice that live in the building did not eat it. Fought the large mice that made a move. Grew time management skills because I was also required to make butter while I watched.

The Baked Bakery • 1822-2011 We did not make pot brownies. We did not smuggle cocaine in the croissants. We did not corner the drug market and drive out the gangs by decreasing their sales. We were not illegal. We did not buy police protection with drug donuts.

EXTRA CURRICULARS Kookie Klub We just made cookies and experimented with different types of cookies; Chocolate, pistachio, mint, orange, pizza, fruit.

Taters, Taters, Taters: The Club Persuaded people to get behind the eating and production of potatoes. Raised awareness of potatoes by 80 percent.

Ice Creamers Melted ice cream into a delicious pool of goodness each week and taught swimming lessons in it to children.

2.

Know what to wear

3.

Understand the interview process

• Try to dress like you

???

would if you got the job • Wear clothing that fits properly • Groom your hair • Don’t be flashy • Avoid revealing clothing • Wear comfortable shoes • Avoid clothes with logos • Wear clean, pressed, lint-free clothing

• Focus on what’s relevant

• Be respectful to the receptionist or secretary • Have a good handshake • Appear confident & smile • Ask questions at the end • The impression you make

• Make it skimable

when coming & leaving

• Avoid over used words

matters. Pretend the

• Keep it at one page

interview starts a mile

• Send it as a PDF

away

• Put the most recent

• Follow up with a thank-

experience at the top

you note

t a variety of businesses https://www.themuse.com/advice/43-resume-tips-that-will-help-you-get-hired

http://theinterviewguys.com/what-should-i-wear-to-a-job-interview/

Graphic by Zoë Berg

Dryjanski assists Indy Eleven on field

By Cassie Reverman STAFF WRITER

It is 7:15 in the morning and senior sports marketing and sports management major Justin Dryjanski is out the door and on his way to Grand Park in Westfield, Ind. Dryjanski could complain about the early wake up call and 40-minute drive, but he does not. He is on his way to his internship with Indianapolis’ professional soccer team, Indy Eleven.

Dryjanski is the equipment manager intern and begins his day by preparing the materials needed for a morning practice.

“I make sure all the gear is ready,” he said. “I get the balls, the pinnies [and] help the trainers with the Gatorade coolers and put them on the golf cart.”

Besides preparing the equipment, he also is an integral part of practice itself.

“I help with the drills, shag the soccer balls for the team and set up the next set of them,” Dryjanski said. “I also help those who are staying after to work on shooting drills.”

Along with those duties, he makes sure the team has a clean set of practice gear waiting for them in their lockers for the next practice.

Dryjanski has connections at the

University of Indianapolis to thank for his internship. He previously worked as the men’s basketball team manager, and that position helped him land the Indy Eleven internship.

“This wasn’t an open internship,” Dryjanski said. “One of the [UIndy] players’dad is good friends with President Manuel and emailed him.

We met up at the senior banquet, we talked and he set me up with the trainer for the Indy Eleven, Brian Gerlach.

Brian gave me some advice and asked me what I would want to do and other internship possibilities.”

The position Dryjanski has was not available until January, but he kept in contact with Gerlach.

Then around November, the previous intern left, and they asked him if he would like the position.

According to Dryjanski, the process was slow but eventually he interviewed with the head coach, who asked him if he could come to Grand Park.

Dryjanski said that one of the perks of this internship is that he gets to watch the team play. Growing up an all-around sports fan and now being able to sit on the sidelines with a team is something he has looked forward to.

“We played Butler University in an exhibition game,” Dryjanski said. “It was my first experience with a game day

Photo contributed by Scott Stewart

Senior sports marketing and sports management major Justin Dryjanski (back) practices with the Indy Eleven soccer team. He interns as their equipment manager. and how everyone gets ready. We had to be there early, and it was raining, so we were all wondering if we were even going to play. It was cool getting set up and watching everyone play. It was a different environment.”

As equipment manager, Dryjanski spends a great deal of time with the team so he gets to interact with the players and coaches.

“In the mornings, they always come into the equipment room and say hi and

give high fives,” he said. “The assistant coach is really helping me get to know what I need to be doing and keeping me on the right track.”

Dryjanski said that his background prepared him for this position, but it comes with much more responsibility. When he worked with the UIndy men’s basketball team, he shared duties with the coaches, players and trainers.

“This has a lot more gear [than UIndy basketball],” he said. “The basketball

coaches did a little more of the inventory.

But with the Indy Eleven, it’s more up to me. The coaches right now are helping me, but eventually I’ll be on my own.”

Dryjanski hopes that this internship may lead to a full-time job, and maybe to one day move up to the front office with the Indy Eleven or another team.

He said his advice for those looking for an internship is “don’t give up, stay positive and be on the lookout for any possibilities.”

that will sponsor him, Cunningham will also have to apply for Optional Practical Training. OPT more than $400 to apply for, and international students must find work within the field they studied as undergraduates.

Interning with Baldwin and Lyons this semester has given Cunningham hope for his post-graduation plans.

me something to look at there in terms of project management, which I’m kind of interested in.”

According to Cunningham, there are around 25 to 30 interns, and Baldwin and Lyons hires about 70 percent of it own interns. Baldwin and Lyons also provides intern sessions, which are created to promote feedback and to allow

“Baldwin and Lyons is willing to do it if it has the right job opportunity for me,” he said. “It’s giving me something to look at there. I know I wouldn’t go into Claims and Legal first of all because I probably need a law degree, which I don’t have and probably won’t ever have, but it’s giving

interns to network with other interns and employees higher in the corporation.

Cunningham said this internship gives him a better idea about what he does and does not want to do post-graduation, and he is able to find the value of professional experience in his internship and encour-

ages students to pursue opportunities outside of the conventional careers within their field.

“If you know what you want to go into or if you have an idea of something you, think might be interesting, seek it out,” Cunningham said. “Go and try to meet them, apply and contact these people.

Try to speak to Kirk in the Professional Edge, because he will do whatever he can to try to get you to where you need to be. Internships aren’t always going to be fun. I’d be lying if I said I’m there having such a fun, gay time, but it’s worth it. It’s definitely worth putting in the effort to try to get that professional development and put it on your resume. So I’d say you just need to make sure you go at it and try to be proactive about it [rather] than just expect it to come to you. It’s something you have to go search for.”

Baldwin & Lyons gives international student experience

By Madison Hays ONLINE EDITOR

Senior operations and supply chain management major Leo Cunningham interns at Baldwin and Lyons three days a week working in the claims and legal department. Baldwin and Lyons is an insurance underwriting company located in Carmel, Ind. that writes policies for trucking and fleeting services. Much of Cunningham’s time is spent preparing information for lawyers to use in their cases.

“I create large loss reports for new cases that come in, which is basically a summary of everything—you know, where, when, who, why, police reports, summaries of speeds, angles of roads— stuff that lawyers are going to need to make a case,” he said. “I spend a lot of time doing that and assessing how much I think a case is worth, like how much they should payout to someone who has been critically damaged and [within] two years of their life, their standard of living has gone downhill, which is interesting.

It’s not something I would do long term,

but it’s definitely interesting to see what this is about.”

Cunningham learned about this internship opportunity through Kirk Bryans, assistant director for financial services, manufacturing & logistics and entrepreneurship at the Professional Edge Center, who introduced Cunningham to the Baldwin and Lyons’ human resources representative.

Cunningham moved to the United States from London to attend college in upstate New York, then transferred to UIndy and has decided to stay in the United States after graduation.

To stay in the United States after college, he will need a working visa. Cunningham said that a working visa can be expensive for a company, but some companies will sponsor international students to work for them post-graduation.

In addition to finding a company

ENTERTAINMENT

8

MARCH 8, 2017

THE REFLECTOR

Musicians travel, perform adventures of musician Abell

By Quiaira Johnson BUSINESS MANAGER

Photos Contributed by Todd Moore

Joanna (right center), friend Linda (far left), interior designer Allistair (far right) and Linda’s lover Walter (left center) try to help Joanna’s husband’s career by hiding their true identities from a popular and prude author.

British comedy comes to life in dinner theatre All’s fair in love and adultery in UIndy’s dinner theatre production of Ray Cooney and John Chapman’s “Move Over, Mrs. Markham”

By Mercadees Hempel MANAGING EDITOR Love, deception, adultery, misunderstandings, mistaken identities and doggie-woggies are part of this British farce comedy and this year’s dinner theatre production at the University of Indianapolis.

The play, written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, takes place in Joanna and Phillip Markham’s flat in London in 1969. Joanna (played by sophomore theatre education major Mary Schreier) agrees to let her friend Linda Lodge (played by freshmen theatre major Katie Carter) use her flat to have an affair while she and Phillip are out. However, Phillip (played by alum Kirk Fields) has promised the flat to his friend and Linda’s husband Henry Lodge (played by Noel Robleto).

Meanwhile, interior designer for the Markhams Allistair (played by Stephen Cox) is planning to spend the evening with the Markhams’ au pair Sylvie (played by Carly Wagers) while they are out.

After a series of misunderstandings, Phillip begins to believe that Joanna is cheating on him with Allistair. Outraged

by the accusation and Phillip’s walking out on her, Joanna decides to have an affair after all. However, after a series of interruptions, misunderstandings, switching of identities and a comedy of other errors, Phillip and Joanna make up at the end.

Performed in the Schwitzer Student Center Dining Hall, “Move Over, Mrs. Markham” previewed on Feb. 23 and ran until Feb. 26. The show also ran from March 2 through March 4.

Dinner started at 6:45 p.m. and featured popular British food such as breaded fish, chips (French fries) and Dutch potatoes.

Schreier said that this play is an incredibly funny production, and as a first year transfer student from the University of Oklahoma, she was not expecting to earn the role of protagonist Joanna Markham, whom she admired for being a strong yet impulsive woman who is true to herself and not childish, even though she often gets what she wants.

“I had no desire to be any specific character until I really delved into the play,” she said. “And it was right before callbacks that I decided I was really going to push for Joanna Markham. I really wanted that role. Being a first year transfer,

I didn’t think there was going to be any chance in hell that it was going to happen, but we’re here now, and I am the part.”

Schreier said that while she was thrilled to be Joanna, there were some difficulties in developing the character, including speaking with a received pronunciation British accent, which Schreier had never done before. Schreier said the play also was very different from “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a UIndy production she had performed in previously as Marcy Park.

“Finding Marcy Park as a character was really difficult for me. When I was cast in that part, I was very surprised because she is good at everything, and that’s something very foreign for me because I’ve always had to work hard for everything in my life,” Schreier said. “So trying to become a person who is naturally good at everything and trying to make that character built around that was really, really difficult. I ended up making her a pageant girl and sort of going with a gimmick. It was easy to find Marcy Park with a gimmick. With Joanna Markham, she can’t be a gimmick.

She has to be realistic while being in this unrealistic situation.”

Carter said that her character Linda,

who is Joanna’s best friend, is impulsive and someone who usually thinks that minor setbacks are terrible. While Carter was at first drawn to the role of Sylvie, the Markhams’ au pair, she soon found herself connecting to Linda.

“The first time at callbacks, I really felt this connection with her, and I was like, ‘This is me.’ I relate to her in a lot of ways.

And so from then on, my mission is like, ‘I have to be Linda. There’s no other part I want to be,’” Carter said. “I love that she thinks if something goes wrong, that the world is ending. I relate to that on a spiritual level.”

Schreier said that she had a lot of fun with this production and that this was the kind of production audience members could have fun with as well.

“Farce is sticking everybody in one place who should never meet and seeing what happens,” she said. “That’s sort of the basis that it revolves around, and that is exactly what this play is.”

The next theatre production will be the Student Directed Productions. A free preview will take place on April 20 at 8 p.m., and performances will be April 21-23 and April 27-29 at 8 p.m. in the studio theatre in Esch Hall.

Photo by Madison Hays

Yvette Morga’s piece “Really Safe in America” portrays the growing political tension between the United States and its southern neighbor, Mexico, especially concerning matters of illegal immigration.

Exhibit ‘Herencia’ showcases Latin heritage, culture

By Abby Land EDITORIAL ASSISTANT The most prominent piece in the University of Indianapolis’ “Herencia” art exhibition is a large wall adorned with pink paint and icing. On one side, meant to represent the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border, are the words “Go back home, Illegals.” On the other side of the wall is a slideshow of the poverty and drug wars ravaging the United States’ southern neighbor, adorned with images of drug lord El Chapo and soldiers, that wrap-around to the other side of the piece.

This work, “Really Safe in America,” by Yvette Mayorga, is one of many pieces contributed by Latin American artists for the “Herencia” exhibit, which showcases works by local, regional, national and international artists.

Latin American identity is the center of UIndy’s “Herencia” art exhibition, a varied display that opened to the public on Feb. 20.The exhibit features sculptures, paintings and performance art centered on the theme of Latin American culture within and outside of the U. S. The pieces portray a variety of subjects, including Latin American artists’ family dynamics, personal identities, indigenous roots and political beliefs.

Gallery Coordinator Mark Ruschman said that although the university has no political affiliation, the themes of the gallery run parallel to “topics on everybody’s mind,” such as immigration and border policies.

“It speaks to some of our politics… the immigration issue, policies and how they affect people’s lives,” Ruschman said. “It says a lot about this community and university.”

The pieces in the exhibition feature themes of identity, heritage, everyday life, stereotypes, politics and even satire. According to the UIndy website, the goal of the exhibition is to tell the story of what it means to be Latin American.

The various media displayed in the exhibit included works such as “Undocumented and Unafraid,” by William Camargo, an inkjet print of a middle-aged Latin American man and woman seated, unsmiling, on a couch beneath an image of the Virgin Mary. The acrylic on wood painting “Embracing the Past,” by Mirvia Eckhert, shows a woman holding three mirrors, each of which contains a separate ethnic identity found within her heritage. Continuing with the theme of the celebration of heritage, the digital print “La Muerte de Quetzalcoatl,” by David Gremard Romero, portrays an array of images associated with Latin American

indigenous cultures.

Curator Daniel del Real explained that pieces such as “La Muerte de Quetzalcoatl” indicate a resurgent interest in the native cultures of Latin America. Del Real also spoke of how each of the works “have a different point of view” about Latin American identity in Indianapolis and the U.S. as a whole. “[The exhibit is] interesting for Americans who are not used to it,” del Real said. “I said [to the artists], ‘Give me something that shows what it means to be a Latino.’”

“Herencia” will be displayed in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery from Feb. 20 to March 15. The next UIndy exhibition, “Art & amp; Design Juried Student Exhibition,” will be held from April 3 to May 6. This annual event will feature art and designs by UIndy students.

Focusing on English Baroque, the ensemble Echoing Air performed at the University of Indianapolis as part of the Faculty Artist Concert Series on Feb. 27 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.The concert was entitled “The Harmonious Vagabond: The Music and Adventures of Scottish Countertenor John Abell” and featured faculty musicians Steven Rickards and Thomas Gerber.

The ensemble included countertenors Rickards and Nathan Medley, recorder players Jeffrey Collier and Keith Collins Gerber playing the harpsichord and Christine Kyprianides playing the viola da gamba and cello. As a traveling ensemble, Echoing Air spends time in many cities delivering performances and informances to students, according to Rickards and Gerber.

“The tour that we just did most recently down south had three concerts in it....the whole time we spent in Miami was.... [performing in] public schools, and I think some private schools, too,” Gerber said.

“Mostly, they were underserved parts of the Miami area that don’t have a lot of arts funding, or their programs don’t have money, so the kids don’t get much music...

So educationally, it was a very valuable [experience], I think for us, because most of us are teachers.”

The many pieces inspired by folk, English and French composers all were connected to the life of countertenor John Abell. The program followed the life and music of Abell as he traveled and integrated into Scotland, England and France.

The composers whose works were featured in the telling of Abell’s adventures included Simon Ives, an anonymous Scottish composer, anonymous composers, John Playford, Henry Purcell, Giovanni Draghi, Nicolas Derosier, François Couperin, Marin Marias, Daniel Purcell, an anonymous Irish composer and Abell himself.

Echoing Air used this concert as an educational experience with a concert structure, connecting the audience to an individual who modeled the life of a musician in the 1700s.

“I think what was kind of exciting about his life was that he was a guy who probably told us what life was like for a real performing musician back in the 1700s,” Gerber said. “He wasn’t well-known, he wasn’t rich. He was what most would have been like back then. He traveled from place to place and got jobs where he could get them.”

It took roughly a year to construct the concert, from researching who Abell was and picking pieces that Abell wrote or premiered, according to Rickards.

“It takes a year because it takes some digging to find information about these people. If it were Mozart we were talking about, it would be one thing,” Rickards said. “…But finding information out, [such as] the music that he would do... then it’s not just that. Things had to be changed in order for us to take that music and present it.”

The pieces performed at the beginning of the concert left senior human resource management major Lena Gehrke impressed by the unique style of music.

“As soon as the performers began, I was immediately blown away by the range of their voices,” Gehrke said. “It was nice to be introduced to not only a unique style of music, but also learn about the history and background of John Abell.”

The music in the concert was used to display an intimacy in music that people don’t always experience through the showcasing of a rarely-known artist, according to Rickards.

“It is beautiful music that we do. There is an intimacy in the music that we do….

The whole point of what we try to do is unveil the past and make a connection with the past,” Rickards said. “When you think that things have changed a lot since the Renaissance and Baroque eras, the passions, love, hate, fear and longing all of those things that come from music are eternal.”

According to the UIndy website, opening after spring break on March 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, “The Final Four: Basketball Meets Baroque” will feature the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra.” This program will include the “Big Four” composers from the Baroque era. This program will include pieces such as Telemann’s Double Flute Concerto in G and selections from Handel’s Water Music.

ENTERTAINMENT

6

9 MARCH 8, 2017

THE REFLECTOR

REVIEWS LOGAN MOVIE

THE RATINGS

CLASSIC

PAUL MCCARTNEY SINGLES

BAD

HORRIBLE

CARVE THE MARK BOOK

f you feel like detoxing after eating like a typical college kid for weeks,The Garden Table is just the right place.

The menu follows the popular farm-totable trend, with locally sourced food that changes depending on the season. I went during brunch hours, so the food options varied from avocado toast and acai bowls, to spinach wraps and hot smoked salmon.

Some also may recognize GT from the numerous social media photos of their juice flights–four sample glasses of their cold-pressed juices–which I was eager to try. My friend and I decided to get two flights and try all eight of their juice options. Of the eight I liked only four, my favorite being the Amped Almond, which consisted of filtered H20, almond, cold brew coffee, date, vanilla bean and Himalayan pink sea salt. Surprisingly, I also enjoyed the Detox Dream, which contained filtered H20, lemon, maple, ginger, activated charcoal and cayenne. I understand that juices are meant for their nutritional purposes and not so much for their taste, so I would not take my less-than-par juice experience into too much consideration. The food, though, is easy to love. I went with the Tuscan toast, a Semolina bread topped with pesto, tomato, olive relish, lamb bacon, peppery greens, feta and olive oil. It was absolutely delicious and I left with no regrets. My friend ordered the rolled omelet, and although she was not a fan of the sauce with which it was paired, she thoroughly enjoyed the omelet itself. My toast, one juice flight and a reasonable tip came to just under $30, so a little pricey. Overall, I left feeling a refreshed and satisfied customer.

eronica Roth, the bestselling author of the “Divergent” series, delivers yet another action-packed, science fiction series called “Carve the Mark.” The story follows two important characters, Cyra and Akos, who live among nine different planets, Othyr, Koloande, Ogra, Essander, Zold, Pitha, Trella, Tepes and Thuvhe/Urek, of which all live by different rules under different governments. In this galaxy, an invisible force called “the current” flows through every living thing, giving every person a “currentgift.” Cyra Noavek is Shotet and her brother, Ryzek Noavek, is the current leader of the Shotet. Cyra’s currentgift gives her the ability to inflict pain with a simple touch. Sibling rivalry goes to a whole new level in this book, both with Crya and her brother Ryzek and with Akos and Eijeh. The Shotet have a ritual during which they use a currentblade, a type of knife, to carve a mark on their arm every time they kill someone. By this, the Shotet remember those who are gone and show respect to the family of the victim. On the other side of the planet, Akos Kereseth and his family lived in peace and happiness until the Shotet found that he and his older brother, Eijeh, and were fate-favored, meaning they are destined to have a bright and successful future. The two brothers are ultimately captured, and Akos becomes a servant to Cyra, and they are forced to depend on one another in ways neither could have forseen, not only to save each other but those they love. With unbelievable twists and turns, Roth’s new series will not disappoint. The sequel is expected to release soon.

he second the jail cell door slammed shut, I was flung into a world of hidden clues, secret doors and framed murder. Before my imprisonment, I was competing with a real estate developer to buy land from a local farmer, but since the farmer wanted to sell to me, the developer hired a hit man to murder the farmer and framed me for the crime. After being tossed in jail, I learned that there was a piece of evidence that proves my innocence hidden in the same jail where I was imprisoned.Thrown together with strangers, we had to work as a team to find the evidence and the key to escape the jail. The Escape Room gives you the choice of escaping not just a jail, but also rooms called “Bank Heist,” “Hoosier Hysteria,” “Art Gallery” and “KGB Interrogation.” Each room varies in difficulty of escape, but the time limit stays the same; you have one hour to escape with only three hints available to you. My team and I used all three of our hints and managed to escape with about 18 minutes remaining. The hints are given to you through a walkie-talkie or displayed on a screen, but if you need more than three, it will cost you. Everyone on my team was new to the experience of escaping a room, so it was pretty remarkable that we got out in time and from an intermediate-level room! An added bonus to this experience was how friendly the employees were. To me, The Escape Room sounded like it would be an intimidating place, but the employees were there to help you every step of the way. Although the $30 tickets were a bit pricey for a college student like me,the experience and rush of being able to escape are definitely worth the cost.

Alexis Stella • Distribution Manager

Jessica Hoover • News Editor

IF YOU LIKE THIS, CHECK OUT: “INTO THE FUNHOUSE” BY WALTER HARP

200 S. MERIDIAN STREET, SUITE 220 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46225

I

I

Andy Carr • Editorial Assistant

Erik Cliburn • Opinion Editor

Kylee Crane • Editor-in-Chief

IF YOU LIKE THIS, CHECK OUT: “HELL OR HIGH WATER”

IF YOU LIKE THIS, CHECK OUT: “GRANDVIEW” 342 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE

BY JOHN MELLENCAMP INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46204

always love listening to new music by Paul McCartney, my favorite Beatle.

Even if some of his recent music has been subpar, I like the idea that the guy is still making unique music and working with new artists up into his 70s. However, his two newest releases, “That Day Is Done” and “My Brave Face,” stand out because they are actually original demos of the songs of the same name from McCartney’s 1989 album “Flowers in the Dirt.” But don’t be fooled, these aren’t just re-releases of some of McCartney’s old songs. They are unique in their own way from the originals, mainly because both of the songs feature famed British singer song-writer Elvis Costello. What I like most about these demos is that they drop the somewhat stereotypical, cheesy production value of the late 80s and early 90s that was prevalent in the original releases. The demos strip the songs down to a raw, unadulterated state that makes the tracks much more authentic. Listening to the demo tracks of “That Day is Done” and “My Brave Face,” I get an image in my head of McCartney and Costello just having fun, jamming out and almost coming up with these songs off the top of their heads.“That Day Is Done” reminds me of a traditional country sound, reminiscent of Waylon Jennings or Johnny Cash. It is truly beautiful to hear the combined voices of McCartney and Costello along with the simple but equally catchy backing chords of the guitar and piano. “My Brave Face” is my personal favorite of the two singles.

The demo versions of both songs, in my opinion, are superior to the album versions in nearly every way.

MEDIOCRE

THE GARDEN TABLE RESTAURANT

O

ver 17 years, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine has become a film icon thanks to his roguish lonewolf disposition. But after 10 appearances, even Jackman’s charm and enthusiasm struggle to offset the fatigued eyerolls brought on by seeing Wolverine shoehorned into every mediocre “X-Men”film.

So when Jackman announced his final time donning of the claws, many were excited to see his farewell to ol’ Weapon X.This send-off takes the form of “Logan,” a personal reflection on the character as a man who’s lived his life trying not to be a weapon. Director James Mangold swaps leather jumpsuits and sleek interiors for dusty jeans and beautiful American vistas reminiscent of old Westerns. These visual choices reflect the tired, battered Logan the film opens on. After a human-led genocide wiped out most mutants years before, Logan and his deteriorating mentor Charles Xavier find a new mutant in the form of a little girl. Charles insists that Logan help secure a peaceful future for her in a world where mutants are vermin.

Despite its overall strength for emotional groundedness, some major moments feel poorly timed or not focused. Occasionally, story tropes and antagonist clichés reveal the story’s cracks, cheapening the experience. Overall, “Logan” brings a wildly different perspective to the subgenre, opting to focus on the fragile human sides of its super-subjects. While sadly not reaching the emotional heights it seems to set up, “Logan” accomplishes enough by analyzing its namesake character creating an appropriately sentimental swan song for both Wolverine and who has played him.

GREAT

College Grad Rebate

V

THE ESCAPE ROOM ADVENTURE

T

COLLEGE GRADS WELCOME HERE Congrats, college grads! Start your new life in a Toyota!

THE OFFER* $750 rebate on select new untitled Toyota and all new untitled Scion models when you finance or lease through a Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services.

Plus, enjoy competitive APRs on all new untitled Toyota and Scion vehicles as well as Toyota Certified Used Vehicles and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles!

THE QUALIFICATIONS *College Graduate Finance Program is valid on the lease or finance (including preferred option) of select new untitled Toyota or Scion models or on Toyota Certified Used Vehicles (TCUVs) or Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles. College Graduate Rebate is only available on new untitled Toyota Camry, Camry Hybrid, C-HR, Corolla, Corolla iM, Prius (excl. Prius Prime), Prius c, Prius v, RAV4, RAV4 Hybrid, Tacoma, Yaris, Yaris iA, 86, and all new Scion vehicles (TCUVs and Scion Certified Pre-Owned Vehicles are not eligible for the Rebate Program). The College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program are available upon credit approval from and execution of a finance or lease contract through a participating Toyota dealer and Toyota Financial Services (TFS). Not all applicants will qualify. To qualify for the College Graduate Rebate Program and College Graduate Finance Program, customers must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program from an Eligible School (as defined below), or enrolled in or be a graduate from an Eligible School (as defined below) and provide proof of graduation (showing an upcoming graduation within six months OR a recent graduation within two years from the date of signing your vehicle lease or finance contract) from one of the following Eligible Schools located in the 50 United States, Puerto Rico, or U.S. Virgin Islands: (a) an accredited four-year college, university or registered nursing program; OR (b) an accredited two-year college associate degree or an undergraduate academic degree as awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges and universities; OR (c) an accredited two-year trade or vocational school; OR (d) an accredited graduate school. In all cases, the student will have two years from receipt of their degree to take advantage of the program.

Must provide proof of qualification and any one of the following documents will be accepted: (a) copy of diploma; OR (b) letter from the college/university/trade school registrar’s office stating graduation date and type of degree or certification earned; OR (c) copy of the final transcript confirming graduation date and type of degree earned; OR (d) copy of current transcript (or letter from college/university registrar’s office) confirming current enrollment in a graduate degree program. Eligible customers must also meet credit approval requirements and furnish proof of present employment or proof of future employment (which will begin within 120 days of credit approval) when submitting credit application. Rebate offered by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Rebate will be applied on TFS lease agreements toward the amount due at lease signing or delivery or capitalized cost reduction or the down payment on TFS finance contracts. Limit one rebate per lease or finance transaction. College Graduate Rebate Program is not compatible with the Toyota Military Rebate Program or iFi Program. Rebate valid on contracts executed between January 4, 2017 and July 5, 2017.

College Graduate Programs are subject to change or termination at any time. Some restrictions apply. Programs are not available in AL, FL, GA, NC, and SC. Rebate terms may be more generous in your local area. Ask your participating dealer about the college graduate rebate terms in your area. Competitive APRs and lease terms are available on eligible finance contracts with terms up to specified number of months for retail and lease and preferred option financing on new vehicles. See dealer for details. Must pay sales tax. Void where prohibited by law. Not redeemable for cash. ©2017 Toyota Financial Services. All rights reserved.

Toyota Financial Services is a service mark of Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC).

TMCC is the authorized attorney-in-fact and servicer for Toyota Lease Trust.

Proof of graduation in the past 2 years or in the next 6 months and proof of current employment.

APPLY FOR CREDIT Your Toyota dealer and TFS are here to help you with your financing. To apply for credit online, visit toyotafinancial.com/apply For more information, contact your Toyota dealer.

To find a Toyota dealer, visit toyota.com/dealers

All Prius (except Prius Prime)

86

Corolla 17-078 (12/16)

NEWS

10 THE REFLECTOR

MARCH 8, 2017

Interims make transitions easier When positions open up, interims temporarily take the place of the previous employee while the search continues to find a candidate to permanently fill the position

Interim Provost and Executive Vice President

Interim Dean of the School of Education

Interim Dean of the School of Nursing

David Wantz

Colleen Mulholland

Norma Hall

Graphic by Zoë Berg, Photos by Zoë Berg and Erik Cliburn

By Zoë Berg and Erik Cliburn ART DIRECTOR & OPINION EDITOR There are several interim positions currently in place at the University of Indianapolis, the highest of which is held

by Interim Provost and Executive Vice President David Wantz. By establishing an interim position, an organization (UIndy, in this case) is able to set up a temporary leadership role in order to fill a position for a limited time while looking for someone to fill the position permanently.

According to Wantz, the duty of someone taking on an interim position is to prepare an organization for its next permanent leader.

“An interim’s job is to respect the structures and momentum that the organization has,” Wantz said.“....The interim’s job is to clean up decisions around the edges so that the first thing the new person [filling the permanent position] does isn’t to have to make personnel decisions or big budget decisions. You want the next leader to be able to enjoy a honeymoon and to get to know things, and then to start leading.”

Wantz worked for six months in an interim position as the director of public safety under Greg Ballard during his time as mayor of Indianapolis, and also worked for five months in the same position for

Mayor Joe Hogsett. Wantz said that although his title was the same under both mayors, the job was quite different under each mayor, because Ballard was leaving office during Wantz’s interim time and Hogsett was coming into office during the second interim period.

Flexibility, eagerness and optimism are all attributes that Wantz cites as essential to taking on the challenges of an interim position.

“In my case, in all three of the positions I have been in, I have [had] to remain calm, optimistic and encouraging,” Wantz said.

“I often said that I’m the ‘encouragerin-chief.’”

Wantz said he enjoys being able to take on different roles within an organization in order to challenge himself.

“I have been here [UIndy] for 35 years, but I have had five or six different careers while I have been here,” he said.

“It’s intellectually challenging because I have gotten to where I start seeing patterns really quickly and assess what’s going on in order to move forward.”

Interim Dean of the School of Education Colleen Mulholland recently began her interim position in January and said she has been learning what it means to act as a dean for the School of Education.

Before being selected as the interim dean, Mulholland was the assistant dean of the

School of Education, so she had direct contact with the dean, but had more of a focus on students rather than faculty.

“Being an interim is a nice way to see if this is something that I want to do in the future,” Mulholland said. “And to see really what the role [of this position] entails.”

According to Mulholland, a challenge that comes with the territory of being an interim dean is being able to keep in touch with everyone and to ensure that the department is running smoothly and efficiently.

“A challenge is being available to everyone who needs you,” Mulholland said. “I really want to make sure that I am responsive in a way that keeps everything moving for people. I don’t want to be the barrier.”

Interim Dean for the School of Nursing Norma Hall began transitioning into this role in the fall of 2016 and assumed the role in mid-December.

The School of Nursing focuses a lot on the community, according to Hall, so she has had a larger role interacting with the community and the School of Nursing’s academic and clinical partners.

Hall said much of what she does as the interim dean focuses on forward thinking and planning.

“I’m already thinking about what needs

writing better.

“That [teaching] was always my goal,” Ash said. “Ever since I started college, I knew I wanted to teach. I knew that I wanted to teach at the college level, and I knew that I wanted to write. I love those things.... I really think about teaching and writing as just going hand-in-hand. My writing is so much better because of the work that I do with my students.”

A few hours after the Q&A, Ash and Ross took the podium in UIndy Hall C to read excerpts from their works. Ash was the first to read. She opened with “Building as Cradle,”a collaborative work between herself and poet Callista Buchen.

Her next selections were from one of the collections she is currently working on called “Malady,”about disease, specifically her parents’ battles with cancer. “Lullaby with Broken Lung” is about Ash’s mother’s battle with lung cancer, she said.

“Not Flower but Fire” was inspired by the image of the burning, tall grass prairie as Ash drove from Kansas home to Ohio for her father’s surgery.

To close out her reading, Ash shared eight poems from “The Open Mouth of the Vase,” her collection that won the Whirling Prize in Poetry. She read “He Said Come On,” “After Dinner,” “Gutting,” “Taken,” “Why We Will Not Have Children”and “Prayer.” “Public Rest Area I-90” had alternating couplets: one Ash wrote and one that she took off a bottle of Lysol toilet bowl cleaner, she said. “Lies” was a short poem written after Ash visited a Kansas sunflower field too late and saw broken stemmed flowers instead of yellow ones in bloom.

After Ash, Ross read three chapters from “What Was Mine,”her second novel and the Whirling Prize winner in Prose.

Ross’ novel tells the story of a woman desperate for a child who kidnaps a baby from an IKEA store in August of 1990 and raises the child as her own. The novel is told from the perspectives of everyone

the event affected, especially Lucy, the kidnapper, Marilyn, the birth mother and Mia, the daughter, Ross said.

“At first, I was telling the story from the point of the view of the woman who took her [Mia], and then I realized that that doesn’t really work, because what I was trying to do was tell a really defining story of family-hood and motherhood and parenthood,” Ross said. “.... So I felt like I needed to speak from different perspectives on the story, so my story is actually from 15 points of view.”

Even though the novel begins when the truth of her birth is revealed to Mia, Ross read chapters from the novel that set up the story. First, Ross read a chapter from Lucy’s perspective that illustrated her desire to have children. She also read two chapters about the kidnapping, one from Lucy’s perspective and one from Marilyn’s. She said Lucy’s perspective took multiple attempts to write, because she wanted her readers to buy into it.

Being able to connect with the authors was Whiteacre’s favorite part of having the authors visit campus.

“It’s a special thing to hear authors read their work and later hear their voices when I return to their books, or be able to ask them questions about the choices they make while they write,” she said.

In addition to the Whirling Prize, the UIndy English Department awards prizes for UIndy students’ writing during the spring semester. Whiteacre said that students interested in submitting work can pick up entry forms and find more information in Esch 004. There is an essay contest for freshmen, a fiction prize for short stories, a poetry contest, a literary essay contest and a Ferlini essay contest. The department also awards a senior professional writing student the Professional Writing Award.

Students interested in judging the next Whirling Prize contest should enroll in ENGL 479 for the fall semester of 2017.

Whirling Prize winning authors read their pieces

By Maia Gibson FEATURE EDITOR The University of Indianapolis welcomed Whirling Prize winning authors Helen Klein Ross and Amy Ash to campus on Monday, Feb. 27. Ross, a novelist, and Ash, a poet, read selections from their works and also participated in a question-and-answer session with students and faculty prior to the event.

The Whirling Prize winners are chosen each year by the students in the ENGL 479 Etchings Press class. Assistant Professor of English Elizabeth Whiteacre taught the class for the first time in the fall of 2016. Her roll was to help facilitate the judging process and help the student judges learn how to judge a book competition. Whiteacre said that she thought the students’ decision was a difficult one.

“I think the four student judges had an incredibly difficult decision to make in each category, and they selected excellent works,”she said.“Both books are dynamic and complex. I feel the judges were drawn to them because Ash and Ross had compelling characters who wrestled with really challenging problems.”

During the 45-minute session, Ross shared that she had been in advertising for more than 20 years before making the switch to writing full time. Part of the reason she went into advertising came from her father.

“It’s really hard to make money as a writer,” Ross said. “When I was a kid, my father said to me, ‘You like to write, so here’s your choice. You can be a novelist and live in an attic—making no money— and maybe never sell your work, or you can go to work for a company who will pay you a wage to write.’”

Ash currently teaches at Indiana State University in addition to writing. She said during the question-and-answer session that teaching helps to make her

to occur this semester to make [the] next academic year successful,”she said.“So some of the things I do is I collaborate with other departments to work on that.”

Hall is working with admissions, focusing on incoming students, working with clinical partners to check on students’ preparedness and setting up more educational partnerships. While acting as the interim dean, Hall still holds the title of graduate program director. She said she still has oversight and works with that but has had some graduate faculty members step up to help her.

There is currently a search to fill the dean position full time and, according to Hall, those involved in the search are in the process of interviewing applicants for the job. However, she does not know much about the applicants because she also is applying for the job.

“I think the interim role can be challenging, especially when you are also interviewing for it as well,” Hall said. “Basically for me, personally, because I am interviewing for the job, the actions that I have taken in my interim role have been kind of a 90-day job interview, because people look at you to see what you are going to do and how you are going to perform.”

The Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences is in the process of filling two interim positions: dean and associate dean. Jennifer

Drake, current dean of the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences, is leaving UIndy in June to take a position as provost and vice president at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., so the search is on to look for someone to fill her position as an interim. Then a new search will begin to find a permanent replacement for the position. Associate Dean of the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences William Dynes, who was meant to serve as Drake’s interim, left the university due to unforeseen circumstances. According to Drake, it is unclear how long he will be gone, but they do plan to find someone to fill the associate dean role as an interim until his return.

Drake said she sat down with Wantz to discuss detailed job descriptions for both positions and let him know the initiatives and programs that are in the works so he and University of Indianapolis President Robert Manuel can select the best person for each job.

“You try to match skillsets and experience with the position that needs to be filled,” Drake said. “And we do have lots of experienced folks, lots of people who will bring different strengths to the table. So I’m very comfortable that we’ll find two very, very strong people to come into those roles.”

Photos by Max Gerhardt and Laken Detweiler

(Top) Ross reads from her novel, “What Was Mine.” (Bottom) Ross’ and Ash’s works were for sale at the event.

NATION & WORLD

11

THE REFLECTOR

North, South Korea ties are the worst in decades

By Kanga Kong, Sohee Kim & John Micklethwait BLOOMBERG NEWS SEOUL,South Korea (TNS)—North Korea relations have fallen to their worst point in decades and talks are off the table until Kim Jong Un’s regime is ready to give up its nuclear weapons, South Korea Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo said in an interview.

“It’s been over 20 years since North Korea’s nuclear threats started, and tensions are at their worst,” Hong, who oversees policy on North Korea, said on Thursday, March 2, in Seoul. “For the time being, the South Korean government’s stance is that the North should show a will to denuclearize,” he said. “That means any dialogue should be based upon denuclearization.”

The comments show how difficult it will be for China, North Korea’s biggest benefactor and ally, to restart a dialogue to ease tensions. South Korea and the U.S. have said they want Kim to commit to abandoning his nuclear program before heading back to the negotiating table after talks collapsed in 2009.

South Korea and Japan both rely on the U.S. to provide a “nuclear umbrella” to deter threats from North Korea. About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed below the demarcation line on the Korean peninsula, which has been divided since Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founded North Korea in 1948.

The U.S. and South Korea on Wednesday, March 1, conducted joint military exercises involving fighter jets, prompting North Korea to threaten the “toughest counteractions.”President Donald Trump had vowed to deal with North Korea “very strongly” after its latest missile test in February.

South Korea is seeking more clarity on U.S. policies, Hong said. Trump’s administration had yet to appoint personnel to deal with Pyongyang or unveil a detailed

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

WORLD

Scientists find possibly the oldest fossils on Earth Scientists have found what they claim are the oldest-known fossils on Earth, embedded in Canadian rocks that are at least 3.7 billion years old. If they are right, the discovery suggests that life on Earth began within 200 to 500 million years of the birth of the planet 4.5 billion years ago.

—Los Angeles Times

BEIJING—A North Korean diplomat said Thursday, March 2, that Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of ruler Kim Jong Un, probably died of a heart attack, despite Malaysia’s finding two weeks ago that he was killed by VX nerve agent, one of the world’s most toxic substances.

—Los Angeles Times

Yucca Mountain could become America’s nuclear waste dump

Photo provided by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sept. 30, 2016, shows top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un recently providing field guidance to the Ryongaksan Mineral Water Factory. (Xinhua/Sipa USA/TNS) strategy, he said, adding: “We still have to wait and see as its North Korea policies take shape.”

Meanwhile, Beijing’s leaders are seeking to rein in Kim and halt American plans to deploy a missile-defense system known as Thaad in South Korea, in part on concerns that it will undermine China’s own security.

A flurry of diplomatic activity recently has yet to yield results. Last week China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi met Trump,Vice President Mike Pence and other officials at the White House to discuss regional issues. China also hosted North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Kil Song in Beijing, one of the highest level contacts in months.

That meeting came after a public rift between the allies, with North Korea accusing China of “dancing to the tune

Plants could provide clues about spread of ancient civilizations

(TNS) Indiana Jones might have found a few more lost temples if he’d known a thing or two about plants. By mapping the distribution of tree species with known archaeological sites in the Amazon basin, scientists have discovered that humans shaped the makeup of the Amazon forests over thousands of years.

The findings, described in the journal Science, highlight the complex relationship between pre-industrial humans and the ecology of the environments they lived in—and may offer archaeologists a new tool with which to look for undiscovered human settlements.

The rainforests of the Amazon—those that have not been chopped or burned down to make use of lumber or clear land for crops—are largely seen as “pristine” terrain, largely untouched by humans. But before Europeans arrived in the Americas, indigenous peoples had been domesticating (or partly domesticating) species that were useful for food or other resources for thousands of years. Surely they had left some mark on the makeup of their environments, even if their settlements were hidden from sight.

“I was wondering if we can detect in the forest effect of past societies—and how we can use the species in the forest to really see these effects,” said lead author Carolina Levis, a Ph.D. student in ecology at Brazil’s National Institute for Amazonian Research and Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands.

Using 1,170 forest plots in the Amazon Tree Diversity Network, a data-sharing collaboration between more than 180 researchers to track tree diversity in the Amazon Basin and the Guyana Shield, the scientists identified 4,962 species, of which 227 were “hyperdominant,” or extremely abundant.

They then took 1,091 of those forest plots in nonflooded lowland Amazonian

NEWS BRIEFS

North Korea blames Kim’s half brother’s death on heart attack

Plants help scientists learn about Amazon

By Amina Khan LOS ANGELES TIMES

MARCH 8, 2017

forests and layered them on top of a map of more than 3,000 archaeological sites in the region. These sites include preColumbian settlements; earthworks such as mounds, causeways, raised fields and terraces; and rock art, including paintings and petroglyphs.

The researchers focused on 85 tree species that Amazonian people are known to have cultivated over several thousand years, including Brazil nut, cacao and acai.

Twenty of those species were “hyperdominants”—which was about five times higher than would be expected by chance.

And the closer these cultivated plants were to an archaeological site, the more abundant and more diverse they were.

These forests, then, are not just an ecological resource to be treasured and preserved—they’re also a part of cultural heritage, Levis said. In fact, following the domesticated plants might allow scientists to find undiscovered archaeological sites.

“It would be very cool to use the plants to detect new sites because archaeological sites are sometimes difficult to find in the forest,”she said. After all, she added,“many of these groups are not there anymore to tell their story.”

That’s all the more reason to preserve these ecosystems, many of which are under threat from deforestation for lumber or to make way for plantations of exotic crops such as soybeans, she added.

Many of the trees being chopped or burned down have been useful to humans for thousands of years and are still in use by local populations. And those preColombian peoples managed to cultivate these plants within the forest ecosystems, rather than completely destroying them.

“We should learn more from this type of food production that people used in the past that didn’t lead to widespread deforestation,” she said. ___ (c)2017 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www. latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

of the U.S.” with a ban on coal imports.

On Thursday, March 2 Hong played down the spat while calling the sniping “unique.” China-North Korea ties have “never faltered” despite ups and downs, he said.

Tensions between China and North Korea increased after the murder of Kim Jong Nam—the half-brother of Kim Jong Un—in Malaysia last month. Malaysia has said the chemical weapon VX nerve agent was used in the killing, and charged two women for the crime last week. North Korea has identified the man as Kim Chol and says he died of a heart attack.

South Korean authorities have said Kim Jong Nam was under Chinese protection. In the interview, Hong said that the deceased man’s son is probably living in Macau and would be welcomed to settle in South Korea.

More than 30,000 people have defected to South Korea from North Korea since the peninsula was divided, Hong said. While the flow has slowed since 2010, defections by members of the isolated nation’s elite have increased, he said.

Thae Yong Ho, a senior diplomat based in London, defected to South Korea last August in the most high profile case in recent years.

“The decrease in numbers is because Kim Jong Un has stepped up border controls,” Hong said. “In the past defections were mainly due to economic or food reasons, but these days they are defecting more for freedom and political reasons.”

(With assistance from Peter Pae) (c)2017 Bloomberg News Visit Bloomberg News at www. bloomberg.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

WASHINGTON—Thirty years after Nevada’s Yucca Mountain was designated as America’s only dumping ground for nuclear waste, not a single isotope has been sent there. The state’s political clout in Washington made sure of that, effectively hitting pause on a process of scientific studies and planning that began in 1987. But times changed dramatically this year. Suddenly, Yucca Mountain is being discussed again.

—McClatchy Washington Bureau

According to report, Pence used private email for public business WASHINGTON—Vice President Mike Pence regularly used personal email to conduct public business while serving as governor of Indiana, and his account was compromised last year by hackers, according to The Indianapolis Star. Pence communicated with top state advisers through the private AOL account, according to the Star, which cited emails obtained through a public-records request.

—Bloomberg News ©2016 McClatchy Tribune News Service

Jimmy

WE DELIVER! TO FIND THE LOCATION NEAREST YOU VISIT JIMMYJOHNS.COM ©2017 JIMMY JOHN’S FRANCHISE, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

ADVERTISEMENT

12 THE REFLECTOR

MARCH 8, 2017

Within Walking Distance of UIndy • • • • •

FREE High-Speed Internet & Cable Online Payment Options Energy Efficient Appliances Washer & Dryer in Every Apartment Controlled-Access Building

• • • • •

24 hr Study Lounge 24 hr Fitness Center 24 hr Computer Center 24 hr Maintenance Private Rooms

317-788-2700

$485 per person

www.huntercollegecrossing.com

$425 per person

1840 National Ave.

$389 per person

www.hunterlp.com