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Library receives grant to purchase diverse titles, films

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR During former Library Director Matthew Shaw’s tenure at the University of Indianapolis, he applied for a grant from the Central Indiana Community Foundation to help the Krannert Memorial Library purchase diverse titles for students.

In September of 2016, the library was awarded the grant and had $10,000 to put toward new books with diverse themes and authors, according to Library Director Marisa Albrecht.

Shaw left UIndy by the time the grant was awarded, so the librarians interpreted the requirements of the grant in their own way. Cataloging and Acquisitions Librarian Lucy Fields began purchasing titles and films based on faculty suggestions and requests.

However, when Albrecht took over the position of library director in January of 2017, there was still money leftover that needed to be spent by September.

Albrecht said that she was going to have the librarians use the remainder of the money however they felt was appropriate. However, when the role of vice president and chief equity and inclusion officer was created and it was announced that Sean Huddleston would fill the position, Albrecht decided to reach out to him.

“I heard that Sean Huddleston was coming aboard, and so I decided to wait for him and give him the money to spend, which he happily did,” Albrecht said.

“We met really early after he got here and I said, ‘Hey, I have money for you to spend,’ which is kind of a surprising meeting. He was able to consult some of his colleagues and other lists of essential titles and he got us a nice, nice list. Again, some of them were things that we couldn’t get or we already owned, so I had to go back to him and say, ‘We still have more money, can you give me more titles?’”

Huddleston’s input was helpful to the library staff. Having an expert opinion helped them to find the best titles, Albrecht said.

ALBRECHT “We have six librarians and so our areas of background—we don’t have very much to draw from,” Albrecht said.

“I have a geology background, Lucy [Fields] has a theater background, we have English and history. But we didn’t have anything multicultural or anything like that, so just even our undergraduate backgrounds limited that... having Sean’s input, that was very, very helpful.”

With suggestions from faculty members and Huddleston, the library was able to purchase a variety of both research and fiction titles that fit with the theme of diversity, including books with a focus on Native American studies and disability studies, according to Fields.

“We tried to get titles in many diverse topics, not only the obvious race and color,” Fields said. “We also thought about gender—which is something you don’t automatically think about in diversity—and intercultural religion, freedom of religion.”

The titles purchased ranged from “Hidden Figures” to “Native American Studies in Higher Education” to “A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches,” and some faculty members requested books about teaching diverse populations, according to Albrecht and Fields.

The library purchases new titles regularly, based on department, faculty and student requests. Most of the time, the

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A legacy continued Leadership program honors values of former faculty member Paul Washington-Lacey

Photo contributed by Todd Moore

The Paul Washington-Lacey Emerging Leader Program was announced by Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer Sean Huddleston on field at halftime of the Nov. 4 football game. There was also a reception in Hines Room in Nicoson Hall for Washington-Lacey’s friends and family. The program will begin in January.

By Zoë Berg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Unique, genuine, transformational, full of advice and a student advocate and mentor are just some of the many ways staff, faculty and alumni describe Paul Washington-Lacey. Washington-Lacey came to the University of Indianapolis in 1979 and stayed for 35 years. He worked as an admissions counselor and senior associate for career development and employee relations, but was mostly known for mentoring and student advocacy. “[Washington-Lacey was] unique and unlike anyone else I’ve ever known,” Director of University Events and 2000 UIndy graduate Jeffrey Barnes said. “He had a way of reading people and knowing what they needed and what they weren’t saying. He had a way of pulling that out of people. He used a lot of humor. He wasn’t shy about anything.”

Washington-Lacey was both a mentor and colleague to Barnes. Clinton Sims, a 2004 UIndy graduate, also considered him a mentor. He said he first got to know Washington-Lacey when he was struggling to afford to attend UIndy. Sims said Washington-Lacey helped him to find scholarships for tuition and a way to pay for books, and even helped him to find his first job. “ Pe o p l e n e e d t o r e m e m b e r [Washington]-Lacey, and [Washington]Lacey was helpful, not just for AfricanAmerican students, but international students or anybody that needed help,” Sims said. “He was always there.”

For these reasons, alumni affected

by Washington-Lacey wanted to find a way to honor his legacy after he passed away in 2015. About a year and a half ago, a group of alumni from various graduation years came to Associate Vice President for Alumni Engagement Andy Kocher about starting a scholarship in Washington-Lacey’s name.

“He [Washington-Lacey] was a transformational figure in their [the alumni’s] lives,” Kocher said. “And that started a series of conversations that eventually led to the Paul Washington-Lacey Emerging

Leader Program. Sean [Huddleston, vice president and chief equity and inclusion officer] coming on board and providing some of the guidance for what the program might look like was really the final capstone for what the project needed to be successful.”

Soon after Huddleston began working at UIndy, he met with the alumni group to find a plan for creating the Paul Washington-Lacey Emerging Leader Program that would take into account Washington-Lacey’s legacy.

“From where I worked before I was able to talk about some programs that we did that sounded like it could be very similar to something we could have here,” Huddleston said.

“So we took that basic concept, and we customized it so that it captured Paul Washington-Lacey’s legacy. And so after those meetings with an external [alumni] group, we convened internal meetings with some of the resources on campus that would be needed to help make sure those pillars come into operation and become part of the equipment.”The Paul WashingtonLacey Emerging Leader Program will focus on mentorship and the areas that mattered the most to him . It will be spearheaded by Huddleston and the Office of Equity and Inclusion as one of the first campus-wide initiatives.

Huddleston explained that the program will focus on four pillars: academic excellence, career readiness, leadership development and personal growth.

The program will include a mentoring component and also involve various resources from across campus, including the Academic Success Center, Professional Edge Center, Student Affairs and Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning.

“For me, the cool thing about this whole program is that it’s working to fill that space that Paul did when he would notice a student that needed help.… He

would help them and also push them to do their best and strive for excellence,…”

Stephanie Hays-Mussoni, associate vice president for development, said. “It’s funny because. . . it’s looking like it’s going to take several different resources and people to do the work that one person did. It’s kind of a mark to how impressive and how transformational he was.”

The first cohort of students in the Paul Washington-Lacey Emerging Leader Program will start in January of 2018, according to Huddleston, and have about five students. Huddleston plans to see the program grow each year, with each cohort getting larger. Students in the program t y pic al l y wil l star t in their sophomore year and stay in it until they graduate. Currently, faculty and staff are nominating students to be selected for the first cohort.

“My absolute goal is that every single year we’re bringing in a new cohort of Paul Washington-Lacey Emerging Scholars, and that through the course of the experiences within each cohort, we see continuous growth and we ultimately see these leaders emerge,” Huddleston said. “When they graduate from the University of Indianapolis, my hope is that they have all of the skills, all of the connections, all of the social capital that they need to truly take that leader that has emerged and let the world see that leader.”

Barnes and Sims were some of the members of the alumni group that approached UIndy. Sims said it was important to honor Washington-Lacey because of the impact he had on so many generations of students who attended UIndy.

According to Sims, WashingtonLacey always was looking to keep an open dialogue about diversity and expand students’ cultural experiences.

Huddleston said he hopes that funding for the program will allow the students in

needed for the buildings to be put up.

Finishing the rest of the building, once the underground work is completed, is expected to take between nine months and a year.

According to Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli, once the buildings are completed, the application process will be similar to that of Greyhound Village and will be available for students to sign up this upcoming spring semester. The university plans to allow students to sign up for one semester on campus and then move into the new apartments the second semester, Vitangeli said.

“It’s an exciting option for upperclass students as they look to sign up for

housing, and students will be able to sign that six-month lease or an 18-month lease to allow them to stay all the way through the following year,” Vitangeli said. “We're excited about getting floor plans and having some models built so that students can see what this looks like. I think it will be very similar to Greyhound Village—one, two, and four bedroom apartments that look very similar to Greyhound Village—and so we’re really excited about the addition on campus.”

The success of Greyhound Village is why the new apartments will function and look similar. The model for the new apartments will not consist of an actual model like Greyhound Village but will

“I think a lot of people didn’t realize the depth of work that he did...”

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UIndy to build new apartments

By Melvin Mendez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Starting in December, the University of Indianapolis will begin the building process for the new campus apartments expected to be available to residents in January 2019.

The new apartments will be in two buildings with around 300 beds and located on National Avenue to the west of the athletic practice field.

According to University President Robert Manuel, the building process will begin with making sure the land is ready, starting with the removal of houses, setting up drainage, laying down concrete and finishing the underground work

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Marine veteran shares perspective on mental health

By Alexis Stella DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Students showed their support for United States veterans on Nov. 9 when the University of Indianapolis Psychology Club hosted “A Veteran’s Perspective on Supporting Our Troops.” The event featured a veteran speaker and an activity.

According to MyUIndy, the club’s goal for the event was to provide background knowledge about issues veterans face when they return home, talk about how mental health factors in and provide tips for students and community members who want to get more involved.

Marine veteran Ray Lay shared his personal struggles with mental health and severe substance abuse.

Lay works as a volunteer peer support specialist and Indiana veteran recovery specialist through the National Alliance on Mental Illness and is now a board member for the organization. NAMI dedicates their time to improving individual, families and the community on mental illness.

Lay said he has been sober for more than a decade and now devotes his time to helping other veterans, specifically those in recovery for substance abuse and veterans struggling with mental health issues. He said that devoting his time to others has helped him in his journey to sobriety and he feels honored to be a part of the organization.

After years of being undiagnosed and uninformed, Lay said, he found himself addicted to drugs, homeless and serving jail time. Lay explained that, until 2009, he went through several psychiatrists until one finally sat down and properly diagnosed him with a mental health disorder. Now, on the proper medications, Lay strives to tell others about his life experience, hoping that it will one day help someone in the same situation.

Lay said that despite the mistakes he made, becoming a Marine wasn’t one of them.

“I am a formerly homeless, honorably discharged United States Marine,” he said. “I live with and in recovery of a dual diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder and a polysubstance abuse issue.”

According to Lay, schizoaffective disorder is a severe mental illness, a mix of schizophrenia and a mood disorder, which he explained is bipolar disorder.

With the help of his psychiatrist, who also acts as his psychologist, a doctor of psychopharmacology and his personal clinical psychologist, Lay said that it has been more than 13 years since he was hospitalized following his diagnosis.

“Recovery is possible. I am a living, breathing example of that,” he said. “The average age for someone to be diagnosed with schizophrenia is between 15 and 30 years old. If you start to notice your friend acting strange, sit down and talk to them.

Talk to your instructors. Treatment is effective. It really does work.”

Freshman psychology major Kara O’Flynn came to the event to help show her support for veterans and help give back to community.

“It is important for UIndy to have these events, not only for people to be aware of the issues but to not keep them behind closed doors,” she said. “Having events like these gives us an open discussion on ways to help them [veterans] but in a way where the veterans don’t feel like their feelings are invalid. As a community, we should help give support.”

O’Flynn said that having an open discussion is important because people in the community may know about the struggles veterans face in regards to mental health and substance abuse, but may not know how to handle them or how to talk about them.

“People may think it [mental health and substance abuse] is a delicate topic and they may think it is best to not talk about it. But that is exactly what we should be doing,” she said. “Addressing the problem, and having an open discussion, keeps people from shutting the issues away and forces people to talk about it without hurting someone’s feelings.”

Veteran Health Indiana has volunteer and internship opportunities. Those interested in volunteering can call 317-9882734 or visit the medical center voluntary service office to schedule an appointment.

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TV ratings are misleading: MLB isn’t back

By Tony Lain EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

During the last two World Series, it was hard to find a sports fan who did not watch any part of the Chicago Cubs or the Houston Astros’ championship runs.

When the Cubs broke their 108-year championship drought against Cleveland Indians team that happened to also be playing against a 68-year championship dry spell, 40 million people tuned in to watch.

This year, months after a devastating hurricane hit Houston, the Astros won and took home the Commissioner’s Trophy. The 2017 series averaged 18.9 million viewers, according to Foxsports.com.

The average baseball fan would look at these numbers, note the rising stars around the league such as Aaron Judge, Kris Bryant and Mike Trout, and tell you baseball is in a renaissance. However, it is not. Let me be clear in saying, I do not like baseball. Generally, I only watch the postseason or watch it with friends who are fans. After these past two years of average same-old baseball, I can’t stand the constant conversations I hear about how “baseball is back” and “It’s so much better than x years ago,” because it’s not true.

Television ratings can be misleading, and individual teams can affect millions of people. It’s pretty simple.

When teams such as the New York Yankees, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs are good, baseball gets better ratings. That does not mean the quality of play is any better.

The New York Mets, Chicago White

Sox and Los Angeles Angels, play in the three largest cities in the United States, so it is no surprise they get more viewers. When they are good, or more importantly, playing for the World Series, they not only have more fans to tune in and watch, but also more people tuning in to root against them. In a survey commissioned by FiveThirtyEight.com, the Yankees are the most hated team in the country, with the Dodgers and the Cubs also in the top five.

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Graphic by Erik Cliburn

Comparing the television ratings of good teams to their less-successful city counterparts, makes clear that being good increases a team’s ratings. The Cubs finished the season with a 92-70 record, which was better than the White Sox’s 67-95.

Even with numbers that were worse than a season ago, when the Cubs made their historic run, they still had a much larger television audience than the White Sox. In fact, the White Sox had the second smallest television rating in the league

this year, despite also playing in the third largest market.

According to fangraphs.com,“Eight of the 12 teams to have recorded at least a 20-point improvement in win percentage from last season have also experienced a more or less corresponding improvement in television ratings.”

Like any other sports league, including the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and even the titan-esque National Football League, which garnered 111.9 million viewers dur-

ing the most recent Super Bowl, Major League Baseball is a business. A Yankees vs. Cubs or Dodgers vs. Cubs World Series would be great business, but not necessarily great baseball. On the same note, a matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Oakland A’s would be horrible for ratings and revenue for the league. Baseball isn’t suddenly a better sport and more entertaining to watch because a Los Angeles team or New York team is good this season; it will always be the same boring game.

Turkey or ham: The age old question.

Celebrities should not get a free pass for harrassment

By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR An ongoing stream of harassment and sexual misconduct allegations against big-name celebrities has recently come to light. Whether victims and accusers stepping forward is because they are more comfortable identifying those they accuse, or because society has been taking harassment and sexual misconduct allegations more seriously in recent years is unclear.

If it is not already obvious, we should not support celebrities who participate in this disgusting behavior.

“Jeepers Creepers 3” was released Sept. 26 in select theaters, however, many chose to boycott the film because director Victor Salva was convicted in 1988 of molesting a 12-year-old boy who acted in two of his films, according to the Los Angeles Times website. The premiere/ early screening event of the film hosted

by TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, was shut down due to threats of protests because of the director’s ugly past, according to movieweb. com.

To m a k e matters worse, the assault occurred on the set of a previous movie Salva was filming. Salva was convicted, according to the Mississippi Sex Offender Registry, with production of obscene material. This behavior is repulsive, and Salva’s film career should have ended after his conviction. But still, the “Jeepers Creepers”franchise has made more than $100 million in box offices, according to IMDb, and the victim, Nathan Winters, has not acted since the incident.

Threats of protests against a convicted child molester’s new movie is exactly what fans should do. We would not support any other regular citizen who is a convicted child molester. So, we should not support any celebrity who has been convicted, or even accused, of such crimes, either.

No one should excuse such behaviors, and we should hold celebrities to a higher standard in our society. In fact, because they are a celebrity, their conduct should be exemplary. It is probably hard for any accuser to come forward with their experience, but it may be even harder for them to come forward when the person they are accusing is rich and powerful.

Kevin Spacey, known for his roles in “American Beauty” and “House of Cards,” was accused of making a sexual advance toward actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was 14, according to Buzzfeed News. After allegations, Spacey tweeted, “I’m beyond horrified to hear his story. I honestly do not remember the

encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes as having carried with him all these years.”

Spacey can be sorry and maybe even forgiven, but he must face the consequences of losing fans and their support because of these allegations. Being drunk does not excuse his actions, if what he has been accused of is true.

Gay Talese, an author and journalist told Vanity Fair his opinion on recent accusations about Spacey. He said, “I feel so sad, and I hate that actor [Spacey’s first accuser] that ruined that guy’s [Spacey’s] career.” According to the Washington Post, the Old Vic theater in London uncovered 20 more allegations against Spacey. It is extremely sad and disheartening that Talese seems to care more about Spacey’s career than the possible trauma that his accusers may have gone through.

That being said, it is often easy to dismiss a person’s feelings when you have not been through a similar situation.

I ’m s u r e i t takes extreme courage to speak public ly, not only about such experiences, but about someone powerful.

To c o n t i n u e t o s u p p o r t celebrities with such allegations made about them only feeds into the ideology that it is OK to behave inappropriately and get away with it.

One of my favorite music artists was accused of sexual harassment at a musical festival two years ago. When he released an apology statement and admitted that the accusations were true, I stopped listening to him. I encouraged friends to do the same. Sure, I can’t enjoy his music anymore, but at least I’m not supporting someone who thinks it’s okay to sexually harass people. I believe his others fans should do the same, as should all fans of celebrities accused of sexual harassment or assault. They do not deserve fans continued support or defense, Ne t f l i x h a s c a n c e l l e d K e v in Spacey’s “House of Cards” series after allegations against him.

They also cancelled Louis C.K.’s stand-up special after C.K was accused of sexual misconduct. Since then, C.K. has admitted the allegations are true. All companies should follow suit with Netflix and stop supporting celebrities accused or convicted of sexual misconduct and harassment and we, as fans, should do the same.

Spacey can be sorry and maybe even forgiven, but he must face the consequences of losing fans and support.

Graphic by Alexis Stella

The joys of Black Friday

By Juliana Rohrmoser ART DIRECTOR Thanksgiving is the day when families gather together “to give thanks in grateful acknowledgement of benefits or favors, especially to God,” according to dictionary.com. After the joys of spending time with your family and eating delicious food, the fun continues with Black Friday.

Black Friday has long been regarded as the first day of the traditional Christmas shopping season and is special because retailers offer generously reduced prices on their items. Shoppers take to the streets, even on Thursday evening, and shop until they drop, sometimes literally. Some shoppers spend all night Thursday and all day Friday filling carts, swiping their credit cards, and buying goods for their loved ones and sometimes themselves.

I love Black Friday. Every year I save money specifically for Black Friday. Once the day comes, I’m ready. I’m not going to break the bank or overspend. And I’m super excited to go shopping. It is the perfect chance to score the best deals on all the gifts you want to give your loved ones.

Let’s face it, you can’t afford that super cool watch you wanted to get your dad

that was originally $550, but you can score it for $300 on Black Friday. It doesn’t get any better than that. Black Friday is almost like a holiday made for shopping. All the stores build the enthusiasm by releasing their Black Friday ads days or even weeks in advance. They also host preview sales so shoppers know what to expect. There are deals on small gifts like home decor or video games, but there are major deals on big ticket items, too.

I did a quick google search on “Black Friday” and immediately found some of the most popular deals. Target is offering a $250 Target gift card when you upgrade to and activate an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 plus. While this isn’t necessarily a discount, you can use the gift card to save money on future purchases.

Black Friday is not only a chance to score gifts for Christmas, but also for some people to take advantage of it to buy things they need or want for their homes and themselves.

If you take a look at the Best Buy Black Friday ad, you can get a Sharp 50-inch LED 2160p Smart 4K Ultra HD Roku TV for $179.99, saving you more than $300 according to forbes.com.The perfect purchase if you’re hosting a Super Bowl party next year. Walmart will also be selling select movies for just $5.

Black Friday shopping also can be an opportunity to have fun and bond with family and friends. That’s how I’ve done it every year. My sophomore year, I went with my grandma, and we spent all night and all day browsing stores for things that we liked; we also kept each other company while standing in line.

Last year, I went with my dad. He enjoyed an opportunity to go out with me and shop for my mom and sister. Seeing him so proud of himself for picking out the perfect purse for my mom was awesome. So for those of you who think that Black Friday takes away time with your family, well, you’re doing it wrong.

Some people think that Black Friday is overrated, and it’s just an excuse for American greed to take over, and for people to spend thousands of dollars in things for themselves that they don’t need, but in my opinion, it is not. While I can’t speak for everyone who shops on Black Friday, I can say for myself that that’s not the case.

Black Friday is not an excuse for me to be greedy and buy things I don’t need.

Black Friday is a day where I can go find things for people I love; and without the deals, I would not be able to buy for them. But sure, I might find a really cute sweater for myself while I’m at it.

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School of Education program awarded grant

By Zoë Berg EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The School of Education at the University of Indianapolis was awarded $262,801 from the Indiana Commission of Higher Education through the 2017 Indiana STEM Teacher Recruitment Fund Grant. The grant will help fund recruitment and retention efforts for the Teach Today: Transform Tomorrow program and focus on elementar y teachers who teach science, engineering, technology and math.

The Teach (STEM)3 Program, a Master’s program that works with students who have STEM undergraduate degrees and want to become teachers, has gotten the grant in the past, according to Director of Elementary Education and Professor Nancy Steffel. The Teach (STEM)3 Program was asked to apply for it again but had just received a grant for the National Science Foundation so the faculty suggested Steffel and Instructor in the School of Education Libby Turner apply. Steffel and Turner said they had about three weeks to put together all of the materials and submit the application.

“It wasn’t that we didn’t have stuff formulated because we had tried for another grant,” Steffel said. “So we had materials that we could start pulling from plus this evolution of the program that we’ve started working on since 2013. We had a lot of documents... [and] data.… We felt a little more solid about how we wanted to focus this application.”

Turner said that there are three main selling points for the program. It follows the K-6 school calendar and not UIndy’s calendar, so students graduate in three and a half years. Students will have a recommendation for three licenses in elementary education, special education and reading, as well as a STEM concentration. Students also will have their STEM education running throughout the program.

Steffel described this as a rope with three areas of learning running through to make up the larger program. Students

Graphic by Zoë Berg

will learn content, methods and have field experience at the same time, as opposed to a traditional program that has two years of content, a year of methods and then a year of field experience, according to Steffel.

Turner said when writing the proposal, they looked at the programs strengths and also focused on what the grant was looking for.

“We knew they wanted recruitment so, like we said, we looked at the schools around us….,” Turner said. “The second piece we put into it is thinking about underrepresented populations because that is a big thing. So, we’ve created a scholarship that will be available for $1,000 for students who are interested in coming into elementary education, staying in the STEM focuses piece. And then we’re also looking at ways then that we can retain them.”

According to Turner, the grant will allow them to reach surrounding populations and recruit students interested in teaching elementary education but also STEM. Steffel said just having a program or having the money for a program does

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not guarantee that students will come, so this grant helps to frontload the program and get students in the door. Interim Dean of the School of Education Colleen Mulholland said this grant allows the School of Education to go into local high schools and recruit students.

“In fall of 2018 we will start a highly revised almost new elementary education program,” Mulholland said. “That’s what this grant money is for, to recruit. The recruitment is important because we want to make sure that we get not only people that are interested in being teachers but interested in being teachers in this new program.”

Steffel said teaching STEM to elementary age students is all about teaching the content, for example how to observe, experiment and hypothesize. Science is everywhere, according to Turner, and people are born naturally curious, so children are often exploring science without realizing it.

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1. Greyhound Village: 3701 Shelby St 2. Physical Plant: 1218 Campus Dr 3. Cory Bretz Hall: 1236 Campus Dr 4. Central Hall: 1308 Campus Dr 5. Crowe Hall: 1320 Campus Dr 6. East Hall: 1408 Campus Dr 7. Athletics & Recreational Center: 3833 Campus Way 8. Krannert Memorial Library: 1233 Greyhound Ln 9. Martin Hall: 1307 Campus Dr 10. Lilly Science Hall: 1325 Campus Dr 11. Schwitzer Student Center: 3856 Wesley Dr

victim to stereotypes.

“Our motto is that we want to create teachers who lead and not leave,” Steffel said. “We want teachers who are going to stay in the classroom and move on to leadership modeling, mentoring, coaching and sponsoring clubs after school on robotics.”

The program will be integrated and involve faculty from across campus.

Turner and Steffel said the creation of the program and the program itself has been a collaborative effort.

The S chool of Education has partnered with the Shaheen College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Applied Behavioral Sciences, numerous community partners and other people, according to Turner.

“This has been a lengthy program in development and it would not be possible without the expertise, the passion and the commitment of faculty in the Shaheen College [of Arts and Sciences] and the School of Ed, as well as multiple community partners,” Mulholland said. “Those years of work have set us in a position to be able to get this grant in the first place.”

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Each building on the University of Indianapolis campus has received its own address. According to Construction Project Manager John Leck, this change was made to make locating each building easier for first responders. The process of giving each building an address took approximately one year to complete and involved the university, the city of Indianapolis and campus police.

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18. Cravens Hall: 1442 Hanna Ave 19. Roberts Hall: 1512 Hanna Ave 20. Warren Hall: 1532 Hanna Ave 21. Health Pavilion: 1643 Hanna Ave 22. Alumni House: 4021 Otterbein Ave Information gathered by Jayden Kennett

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International Food Expo offers taste of culture

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR Various dishes from six continents were on full display at the “Hounds Top Chef: Cultural Learning Through Food” event on Nov. 7 in UIndy Hall A. The event was organized by students from two separate Experience Design courses, EXD 101 and EXD 480, and offered an opportunity for students to learn about cultural foods from across the globe as well as the United States.

Each Experience Design student was responsible for a table featuring a poster giving information about the origin of a particular food, often with samples provided. These foods ranged from Vegemite, a yeast and vegetable spread favored by Australians, to regional American dishes, such as Texan chili.

The time period, history and location that inspired or created each food was explained by students and their posters,

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and visitors could fill out information Freshman experience design major about each dish for LP credit.

Alexis Kavanaugh oversaw the Western Senior history major Sarah European table, which featured Shorter oversaw the table various baked snacks designated for Eastern common to the region.

Asian food, mostly Kavanaugh explained how noodles. She said using food as a method that she felt personally for experiencing interested in the region cultures was but also enjoyed seeing entertaining to her, the origins of food especially reactions from the United States of participants trying being presented. samples.

“I really want to visit “ I t h i n k i t ’s South Korea one day, cool for people to and Japan and China,” come through and Shorter said. “I think it’s experience these really important to learn cultures through different cultures, including food,” Kavanaugh where different U.S. foods come said. “I like telling from.” people about the food Various games and samples Graphic by Andy Carr and watching their allowed participants to actively reactions as they eat it.” experience the culinary heritage of each Many of the tables also provided location. interactive activities for students to take

part in. For example, a Cajun and Creole display allowed students to touch concealed ingredients and attempt to guess what ingredients were characteristic of each cultural background. These ingredients included noodles, rice, spices and squash.

Sophomore marketing major Jordan Nussear said that she particularly enjoyed the Cajun and Creole display because of this activity. Nussear said that it provided a chance to engage the ingredients of the food in an unexpected way.

“I liked how interactive the program was. All of the different countries represented had interesting boards and creative displays,” Nussear said. “My favorite was the Cajun [and]Creole display. The game was a great touch and they had the most creative setup.”

The purpose of the event was to provide a learning experience for students and allow them to enjoy the traditions of the United States and other nations through the universal language of food.

University of Indianapolis History and Political Science Instructor David Root delivered a lecture about former Chief Justice John Marshall on Nov. 15 in UIndy Hall as part of the History and Political Science Department’s Symposium Series.

Root started off by telling the audience about Marshall’s early life before he became a Supreme Court Justice. Root said that Marshall had grown up in rural Virginia and spent some time as a soldier at Valley Forge during the American Revolution.

According to Root, Marshall was admitted to the bar in 1780 and spent time in the Virginia state legislature before being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in February 1801.

Marshall was, at the time of his appointment, also serving as Secretary of State, according to Root, which raised some Constitutional questions that were never addressed.

Root said that Marshall built the Supreme Court and that it would not be the way it is today without his influence. “[The Supreme Court] very likely would have been a very suppressed branch of federal government and with that it disrupts separation of powers, checks and balances,” Root said. “Our governmental system would be completely different than it is today, if he had not done what he did.”

Root also provided background on what the Supreme Court was like in its early days. Marshall used his influence as the Chief Justice to make the other justices come to a unanimous decision on cases and that the decision usually followed what Marshall wanted, according to Root.

“He was able to exercise autocratic leadership on an institution that is democratically built and over time that democracy or democratic default has grown on the court,” Root said.

According to Root, when Marshall was the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court only met for two to three months out of the year and the justices lived together in boardinghouse during those sessions.

Marshall’s first case as Chief Justice was the case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803, according to Root. He said that this case made the concept of “judiciary review” an important part of the Supreme Court’s duties and that this case was Marshall’s way to assert the power of the court.

According to Root, in the case of Dartmouth College v. Woodward in 1819, Marshall used his authority to unilaterally postpone the Court’s decision in the case until the next session without informing the other justices.

Root said that Marshall then wrote a letter to the New York Supreme Court’s Chief Justice to ask him to convince some of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices to join Marshall’s side. When the case was decided, the Court ruled that private colleges have the right to stay private and cannot be forced by the state to become public, according to Root.

In McCulloch v. Marlyand, in 1819, the Court’s decision established important constitutional rules, according to Root. He said that the Court was not originally unanimous in their decision, and that Marshall made life difficult for the justices who had not agreed with his position. At points, Marshall woke up those justices in the middle of the night and repeatedly bothered them until they switched to his position, according to Root.

Root said that he believes that there will never be another Chief Justice like Marshall. According to Root, Marshall’s leadership style is a style that could never be repeated.

“His brand of leadership…was unique to his court,” Root said. “It’s way too entrenched now to have a chief justice, or really any justice, come in and tell them, the other justices, what they’re going to do. That leadership style is Marshall’s alone.”

The Symposium ended with a Q&A session, where Root said that the current Supreme Court bench is the result of political polarization and that Marshall was trying to build a Court that has the power to do its Constitutional duties.

Freshman psychology major Hanna Burris thought that Root’s presentation was very entertaining.

“He was really good at portraying John Marshall himself and he was very good about showing how the Supreme Court changed over time,” Burris said.

This was the third and last History and Political Science Department Symposium of the fall semester, according to Root.

He said that there will be three more symposiums in the spring of 2018.

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THE REFLECTOR

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Football ends historic season with playoff loss

By Juliana Rohrmoser ART DIRECTOR After a record-breaking season, garnering multiple awards and achieving an undefeated record for the first time since 1963, the University of Indianapolis football team concluded their season in the first round of the NCAA playoffs.

The Hounds hosted the Harding University Bison on Nov. 18 in Key Stadium after receiving the home field advantage as a reward for their high ranking and undefeated season. The Bison’s previous record was 8-3 and were ranked 7th.

The Bison were first on the scoreboard with a touchdown early in the first quarter.

They scored another touchdown in the second before the Hounds matched them with a touchdown of their own. Next, a field goal from redshirt senior kicker Brad Schickel put the Hounds down only four points going into a lightening delay right before half time.

Coming back after the extended break, the Hounds fought to gain the lead with another touchdown, putting them up 17-14 in the third quarter. In the fourth the lead shifted back and forth before Harding scored the final touchdown of the day, ending the game 27-24.

When the regular season came to an end, the Greyhounds became GLVC Conference Champions for the sixth time and qualified for the playoffs with their 11-0 record. On Nov. 11, the Hounds won their last regular season game against

Photo Illustration by Juliana Rohrmoser

the Notre Dame College Falcons, 42-27.

The day started by honoring the largest senior class of 17 graduating students, when they walked on the field with their family prior to the game to commemorate their last regular season home game. This was the program’s largest senior-class ever.

Head Coach Bob Bartolomeo said the seniors played a large factor in the success of the program this season.

“We’ve got a great group of seniors,” he said. “It all starts with them. It’s their football team, and all 17 of them bring something to the table for this football team. They’ve contributed a lot that then filters down to the rest of the team.”

After the initial kick-off, the Falcons were first on the scoreboard with a touchdown on their first drive. Less than two minutes later, the Greyhounds responded with a 11-yard touchdown pass from redshirt junior quarterback Jake Purichia to redshirt senior wide receiver Garrett Willis. This was Willis’ 10th touchdown of the season. Both teams scored another touchdown making the score 14-14 by the end of the first quarter.

The second quarter started with the Greyhound special teams making a play and putting the Falcon offense at their one yard line to start their drive. Defense then successfully forced the Falcons to punt and start UIndy’s upcoming scoring drive. Purichia connected with redshirt sophomore wide receiver Malik Higgins for a touchdown, capped off by Schickel’s extra point. Before the end of the half, the Greyhounds put up seven more points on

the scoreboard with redshirt freshman Ryan Topper scoring his first collegiate touchdown. Topper came in the game after fellow wide-receiver Willis suffered a severe injury which left him out of the game. Bartolomeo commented that this was the opportunity for players who do not regularly get the spotlight to step up.

“They’ve been playing; they just haven’t been the feature guys,” Bartolomeo said.

“Malik and [redshirt freshman wide receiver Aaron] Matio are going to have step up to the feature role and then the other guys are going to have to step in.”

The second half started with UIndy up 28-14 over Notre Dame College. The Greyhound offense started the half with a touchdown, extending their lead to 3514. Both team’s defense did not allowing any more points to be scored until the fourth quarter.

The Falcons scored two touchdowns during the first five minutes of the fourth quarter. Before the end of the game, Walker found the end zone for the final touchdown of the night. The game ended 42-27 with the Hounds extending their winning streak to 11-0, currently the longest winning streak in Division II football.

According to Bartolomeo, this year’s program is one of the best that he has coached. He was honored coach of the year as well as having three members of his team win GLVC honors as well.

Purichia received offensive player of the year, McKeller was freshman of the year and Shickel received special teams player of the year.

Photo by Juliana Rohrmoser

After extended lightening delays, UIndy was defeated at home 27-24 by the Harding University Bison on Nov. 18 in the first round of the Division II NCAA playoffs

No. 3 Lewis knocks volleyball out of tournament

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

The No. 3 Lewis University Flyers defeated the University of Indianapolis volleyball team in the first round of the GLVC tournament on Nov. 17, ending their season with a record of 13-19.

Prior to the match, Head Volleyball Coach Jason Reed said that the last month of practices have been really good for the team, and the most important thing to do is make that carry over into the game. Reed and sophomore outside hitter Rachel Irbe agreed that playing loose and having fun would be the most beneficial way to play the high ranking team.

“I talked to them before the match about playing loose. Going into it we know that we are the underdogs,” Irbe said. “We don’t need to shy away from the fact that they [Lewis] just won the conference and they are nationally ranked.

So it kind of just freed us up and let us play our game.”

The Flyers defeated the Hounds in three sets with scores of 25-12, 25-16 and 25-19.

Despite the loss, sophomore outside hitter Anna Fehribach surpassed 300 kills this season, with five in this game.

Prior to the conference game, the team had the opportunity to play Lewis the week before, but fell 3-1. Despite the loss, Reed said that the women played well and he was proud of their performance.

With Lewis being a nationally ranked

team, Reed said that their performance really showed that they can compete with these high level teams.

“We know we have a really talented team,” Reed said. “We haven’t really had the record to demonstrate that, but we know we can compete with these teams.

So having a good performance this past weekend was really good for our mental game. Knowing that we get to see them again and knowing the result could be different next time.”

Multiple women tallied high scoring nights. Irbe recorded her eighth doubledouble of the season with 15 kills and 15 digs. Fehribach followed closely behind with 13 kills, and ended the season leading the team in kills with 298.

The team achieved a regular season record of 13-18. Earlier in the season the team had set a goal to win 20 matches, according to Reed. Despite missing this goal, he said there were a lot of accomplishments this season.

“We’ve had some pretty incredible individual performances both in our wins and our losses, but we’ve kind of strung together multiple players doing that on a given night, as much as we need to,” Reed said. “So that’s kind of the next step for our group. So kind of instead of having one or two players having a career nights, we need everyone to kind of have that consistency.”

After spending her freshman year at Eastern Michigan University, Irbe transferred to play at UIndy. The program welcomed a number of other transfer

students to the program this year as well.

According to Irbe, the multitude of new players made it more difficult to gel as a team.

“I think that middle patch [of losses] was kind of us not knowing each other very well. And I was new in the spring so I think it helped me more knowing some people on the team, but the new girls that came in, we had to get to know five or six new playing personalities. And that’s kind of hard to do. You have to do that every year, but you usually get to play with the same core majority of people,” Irbe said.

“So I think that middle of the season was us kind of not knowing each other’s capabilities, and how to communicate with each other and that kind of stuff.”

Irbe was one of many transfer students added to the program this season. She said she feels more at home at UIndy and has made better connections to the people she’s playing with, as well as people on the academic side.

“The smaller school makes a big difference. I feel like I connect better with the professors and even the coaches too, Irbe said. “When I went into Eastern Michigan, I was expecting something completely different than what happened, but here I just said that I was going to leave my expectations out in the open and try not to expect anything. It ended up exceeding it, and I was like ‘wow this is so much better’ I just love it here a lot more and I knew some girls coming in here so it just helped me connect with the team a lot more.”

Photo by Cassie Reverman

Graduate setter Alexis Waugh concluded her career at the first round of the GLVC tournament on Nov. 17.

The Hounds lost to the no. 3 Lewis University Flyers in three sets, which sent them home for the season.

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THE REFLECTOR

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Men’s soccer falls short in NCAA tournament

After defeating USI and winning the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, the Hounds ended their season with a loss in the first round of the NCAA tournament

By Cassie Reverman PHOTO EDITOR

After they swept the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament, the University of Indianapolis men’s soccer team fell short to the Maryville University Saints in the first round of the NCAA Division II tournament on Nov. 11.

The Saints scored early in the game, getting their first and only goal in the 29th minute. This lone goal was enough to defeat the Hounds, and send them home for the season.

In total, the Hounds took eight shots. Junior midfielder Callum Walsh, sophomore forward James Jenkins and sophomore forward Javier Steinwascher, each had a shot on goal, but were deflected, while junior goalkeeper Miles Palmer recorded four saves on the night.

Even with the loss, Higgins did see some positives out of the experience. He said there were some parts of the game that were a bit disappointing, but by the end the men really fought to try to get back in the game.

“The first half wasn’t what we expected, but we started the second half really well.

It had to do a lot with the response of the guys,” Higgins said. “They came back out better prepared for the second half.”

Injuries were also a factor going in the match, according to Higgins. Senior defense David Kurz was out with a concussion, senior back Kiuno Cann with a hip injury and freshman forward Adrian Lopez and sophomore Julian Zylfiu were both out with knee injuries.

Prior to the NCAA tournament, the Hounds won the GLVC tournament.

In the final round the Hounds battled the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles on Nov. 5.

The first half remained scoreless by efforts of the Palmer and the USI senior goalkeeper Adam Zehme. After the break, both teams took multiple shots on the goal before sophomore midfield Ben Rohder found the net in the 90th minute. The goal granted the Hounds the win 1-0, and sent them into the NCAA tournament playoffs.

By Megan Richards & Sophie Watson STAFF WRITER & SPORTS EDITOR After ending last season with a record of 17-14, statistically their best since 2013-14, the University of Indianapolis women’basketball team began their 201718 season. The women hosted the Grand Valley State Lakers on Nov. 17, and came out with a loss of 77-57.

After taking the early lead with the first basket, the Hounds led with the Lakers following closely behind for most of the first quarter. A three point shot by GVS put the Lakers in the lead with only 24 seconds left in the quarter. After taking the 19-14 lead, the Lakers did not give up the lead for the rest of the game.

The week prior, the women kicked off their season at the GLIAC/GLVC Challenge games, falling short to Northern Michigan University on Nov. 10, 53-59 and Hillsdale College on Nov. 12, 70-76.The Hounds started the scoring against Hillsdale with two three-pointers before allowing the Chargers to score.

Hillsdale moved in to take the lead in the middle of the first quarter.

The Chargers kept the lead for the rest of the game with the Hounds trailing closely behind. The Hounds almost recaptured the lead at the beginning of the second quarter, when senior guard Sarah Costello hit a three point shot. This brought the Hounds within one point of the Chargers, before they pulled ahead and expanded their lead over UIndy, and eventually captured the win.

In the women’s season opener against Northern Michigan, senior guard Martha Burse scored the Hound’s first basket of the season to open up the game. The

Photo by Cassie Reverman

Freshman back Connor Campbell made one shot attempt in the first round of the NCAA tournament against the Maryville University Saints on Nov. 10. The Hounds concluded the game with a 1-0 loss, to end their season.

The Hounds took 24 shot attempts at the goal over the course of the game. Roder contributed four, Steinwascher with five and Jenkins with four. The Screaming Eagles took 10 shots, and Palmer blocked all five shots on target.

In their first conference match-up, the Hounds defeated Bellarmine 2-1. Jenkins attempted five shots with two finding the net, granting the Hounds the win.

The Hounds defeated the Miners 1-0 with a goal off of the foot of Steinwascher in the 25th minute. Despite the Miners outshooting the Hounds 18-14, Palmer deflected each of their four shots on target.

Hounds led for almost the entire first half, going into the break with a 30-27 lead. The Wildcats pulled ahead at the beginning of the third quarter and kept the lead going back and forth until the middle of the fourth quarter, where they pulled ahead and defeated the Hounds.

According to Head Women’s Basketball Coach Kristin Woodrich, the Greyhounds played strong games despite the losses.

“I think from the first game to the second game we got better, we took what we did wrong and improved it in the second game,” she said.

Woodrich said that there are areas they need improvement including rebounding and ball movement, however the girl showed strength in press defense, hustle, and effort. Woodrich said in just her second season as head coach, she has learned a lot about coaching.

“I think the biggest thing is to stay consistent and to keep working hard, keep teaching the game, and every day just try to get a little bit better,” Woodrich said.

Burse also said that she is positive about the team’s effort so far this season, and said that they are getting even better this year.

“I feel like we are gelling a lot better compared to last year still trying to figure each other out. Things are better gelled so you know what to expect from certain people and what certain people bring to the table,” Burse said. “We are a lot stronger both physically and mentally...I feel like we didn’t go as far as we wanted to last year,” Burse said. “So this year we plan on going even further and making a bigger name for ourselves than we did last year.”

The Greyhounds will travel to Tiffin, Ohio to face off against the Tiffin University Dragons on Nov. 22 at 7 p.m.

As the season came to a close, Higgins said that the team achieved their goal of winning the GLVC tournament and advancing to NCAA play.

Looking forward to next season, Higgins said he has some big plans for the team. He has already set up some goals for the returning men, he reserve squad and any additions they may add to the 2018 roster.

“It’s exciting to build from this [season],” Higgins said. “We’ve got a bunch of young guys who grew and got better.

We’re fired up for the long term. The goal for this group of guys is to win an NCAA

tournament game.”

According to Higgins, the Hounds have a lot to be proud of looking back on the season. They ended the season 13-6-1 and won the GLVC Championship,which is the second championship win in program history.

Although senior midfielder Josh Ling said that he was disappointed that they did not get the win in their first round of the NCAA tournament, he also said the team played well the second half. Ling also had some words of advice for the returning players.

“Listen to the coaches, give it your all

everyday because time flies quickly and enjoy it,” Ling said. “That’s what we play the game for.”

In years past, the team has played with the motto “United as One.” According to Higgins, the graduating seniors have really impacted the program and the returning players by living out this motto.

“The most important thing to remember going into next season is the culture that has been created,” Higgins said. “Above all the wins and records broken, the culture this team, especially the seniors have created, makes this UIndy men’s soccer.”

Photo Illustration by Sophie Watson and Juliana Rohrmoser

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR Despite losing their first game of the season, the University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team defeated their next two opponents in triple digits, the first time since 2013. The men defeated the Kentucky State University Thorobreds on Nov. 15, moving their record to 2-1.

The Hounds scored the first point of the game and maintained that lead for most of the game. Senior guard Eric Davidson led the team in scoring with 28 points, followed by sophomore guard Tate Hall with 20 points and junior forward Jesse Kempson with 17.

The Hounds came back to win 100-70 in their s e c on d g a m e of the season against the Saginaw State University Cardinals on Nov. 11, following a loss the night before to the Northwood University Timberwolves. Along with the team’s win, senior guard Ajay Lawton scored 27 points and dished out nine assists, both career highs for him. Lawton attributed the high-scoring win to an increase in team aggressiveness compared to the previous night.

“Last night [against Northwood] we weren’t in attack mode as much,” Lawton said. “So we knew that if we got to the line more that it would create more opportunities for our shooters to get open shots.”

As the clock counted down the final seconds of the Hounds’ first game of the season against the Northwood University

Timberwolves, Lawton pulled up for a three-point shot as a last effort to win.

However, the shot did not fall, and the Hounds were defeated 71-73. Senior guard Eric Davidson led the Greyhounds in scoring with 24 points, one assist and one steal. Lawton scored 15 points and recorded four steals and senior forward Devin Dixon scored 18 points.

Although the close loss was tough, it was not enough to shake the Hounds’ confidence going into their next game against the Cardinals, according to Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard.

“I told the guys, ‘It’s easy to hang your head and feel sorry for yourself after a tough loss’,” Gouard said. “I also told them, ‘It’s hard to have to a good game, but it’s easy to play hard and be tough.’”

Gouard also said that intensity and aggression were key to earning the victory over the Cardinals. “[Against Northwood] we missed a lot of layups, we were changing our shots, weren’t as physical on defense and we were worried about getting beat,” Gouard said.

“It was totally the opposite tonight, and we’ve got to keep playing that way. I’m going to make them play that way, because that’s what works for me and it obviously works for our guys.”

Kempson came away with 11 points, one rebound and one block against the Cardinals. He said that the Hounds’focus on defense created opportunities for the team’s offense, which was integral to get the win. ” According to Kempson, the win should

“Tonight we are going to enjoy this win as a team, but then it’s on to the next one.”

not come as a surprise to the team, because they have the ability to dominate games regularly.

“It feels right honestly [dominating the game], we know we can do that,”Kempson said. “If we play together like that and everyone contributes like we did today, I think we can do that to a lot of teams.”

Gouard and the coaching staff decided to go with the approach of playing bigger and taller players together in order to put more defensive pressure on the opposition and to improve the Hounds’ rebounding. According to Gouard, the game plan against the Cardinals also called for some team members to reduce their playing time and allow for lineup experimentation.

“A number of guys on our team had to take a back seat to what they’ve been doing,” Gouard said. “Tate Hall came off the bench tonight, he started a number of games for us last year. We asked some guys to reduced their roles, we decreased some minutes and played more guys tonight. And I thought we were better down the stretch.”

While the team enjoyed its victory over the Cardinals, Lawton said that their work was far from done, being so early in the season. He emphasized maintaining an aggressive mindset when going into upcoming games.

“It ’s good[winning against the Cardinals], but we’re not satisfied yet,” Lawton said. “Tonight we are going to enjoy this win as a team, but then it’s on to the next one. [We need to] just have the same mindset that we did today. To come out with that mindset to attack, find open guys and play good defense.”

The Hounds’ next game will be on Nov. 21 at Ashland University against the Eagles. Tip off is at 5 p.m.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Greyhound takes to the track for motocross Senior accounting student Addison Clouse manages her academic and personal life alongside a passion for competitive motorsports

By Angie Mercado ONLINE EDITOR

about an hour and a half away from her apartment. Clouse said she occasionally rides for fun, but mostly only rides on race weekends. Because of this, she has to prepare in other ways for this sport.

“ESPN has called it the most physically demanding sport; I do know that.

If you just count the number of times in one lap that you have to stand up and sit down on the bike and just all of the movements you have to do,” said Clouse.

Assistant Director of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing Kirk Bryans first met Clouse when she visited the Professional Edge Center to work on her resume. When Bryans asked whether Clouse possessed any qualities that would make her stand out, she mentioned her motocross racing.

"I found it fascinating that Addison was so humble about all of her achievements both in the classroom as well as on the track," Bryans said. "Her motocross showed that she was competitive and successful at the highest level of her sport."

Clouse said she used to be a softball player, so during her first years in racing, she could not fully commit her time. She would only do half-seasons, so she felt behind at times.

It was not until last year that Clouse fully committed to the sport and trained full-time.This year she ended up winning eight championships, but was halted by an injury.

“I decided to take the first half of the year off, because I had an internship and school was really demanding. So I was just going to come in a the end of the year and defend my state championship because that meant the most to me,” said Clouse. “It was the night before state. I was leading a race, passed a lapper and he got out of control and ended up on top of me. I don’t remember it all. I’ve just been told what happened. I’m in physical therapy now for my shoulder and my knee so hopefully [I] can get that all healed up and get back at it. It was really disappointing because I have nothing

Claus was first introduced to motocross racing by her father, and she eventually earned a state title. She said that although balancing her hobby with her schoolwork sometimes proves challenging, it is worth the effort.

that something could happen every time you put the helmet on. But when you do put the helmet on, and you go out there and you line up, you just have to push that out of your mind and do the best that you can,” Clouse said. “I’ve seen first-hand people getting paralyzed in a crash and you think, ‘That could be me. That could have been me.’ So if you’re going to keep doing this, you kind of have to push that out of your mind or you won’t be able to take it seriously.”

Clouse’s father was interested in motocross in the 1980s. He got Clouse her first bike at age four. Clouse and her father would ride around for fun; only a few years ago did the hobby become competitive.

“From the time I was four until fifteen, we [my father and I] would just go riding.

Maybe once or twice a year, we would go to a track and it would just be [me] following my dad around and kind of riding over everything,” said Clouse. “Then four or five years ago, we saw up north they were having a women’s championship race at a track. And so we decided to go up there, and I actually ended up leading the race, but I got passed in the last turn, so I got second. It kind of clicked and I really liked it, to be competitive. Then I decided I wanted to race more and do it competitively.”

According to Clouse, the sport is very male-dominated. She said that there is a women’s only motocross class. Clouse occasionally competes in this class, but also is a part of a second class with male participants called the ‘College Boy Class.’

She said there are challenges that come with being a woman, but also many of the male participants are on a different level since they only focus on motocross and do not attend school. Clouse explained that this was a disadvantage for her since she has to balance school and motocross.

“It’s really hard, because I'll try and make a schedule at the beginning of the week and set aside hours and then it’s like, ‘Oh I have a paper due tomorrow so I can’t do that workout,’" said Clouse.

"You’re kind of cutting yourself short. I hate doing that. I hate cutting it out, but in my mind, school always has to come first.... It really takes away, and it’s hard to balance sometimes.”

When it comes to preparing for races, she discussed how other racers have race tracks in their backyards to make it easier to practice at any point. She lives in Indianapolis, so she does not have a track in her backyard and the closest track is

Harrison Center for the Arts

By Tony Lain EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

“In the art community, the first Friday of the month is kind of like a ritual for art galleries to be open to the public and for artist to get their work out,” Zarco said. “What we do here is we turn the first Friday into a night market… the last two months, Oct. 6 and Nov. 3, we’ve had different local vendors from Indy out here [as well].”

While there are limitations to how much change can be made in creating understanding through the center, Big Car Collaborative strives to reach the neighboring community to spread cultural awareness and environmental awareness, Zarco said.

“As a non-profit, you can only do so much and go so far with the amount of money that you have and I guess our purpose is to build relationships and sustain those relationships for as long as possible through the art,” Zarco said.

Another less known place to find art is the Harrison Center, located on Delaware St. downtown. It is home to five different gallery spaces that showcase the work of local and some out of town artists for free on the first Friday of every month.

The project Pre-Enactment Indy is focused on renovating the Monon 16 neighborhood so that it will become more "equitable, vibrant and just” according to the website www.harrisoncenter.org.

Monon 16 is a planned downtown neighborhood located between 21st and 16th streets, in the Kennedy King Park area. The area features several different neighborhood breweries, restaurants and distilleries.

The Harrison Center is focused on addressing community problems with cultural solutions while also providing studio space for 36 local artists, according to Arts Coordinator for the Harrison

“I love the adrenaline rush,” she said.

Senior accounting major Addison Clouse is a student at the University of Indianapolis student, but also a motocross champion. Clouse described the feeling when she is on her bike during a race as one of high energy that she thrives on.

“I’m a really competitive person," she said. "Riding is fun, but when I’m just out riding around, it’s not the same as being in a race and getting that rush that you

feel when you’re in line with twenty other guys and you are getting ready to go into the first turn. It’s just crazy.”

Motorsports racing is inherently dangerous due to a high risk of injuries, so riders should ride with the proper medical insurance and at own risk, according to americanmotorcyclist.com. The article states that the riders should dress for the crash and not for the race and that crashes are inevitable, so the more safety gear that the rider has on, the better.

“I think about it [the danger] a lot, probably more than I should. I mean, it’s kind of always in the back of your mind

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Indianapolis has a large art scene that is constantly growing within the city. While most Indianapolis natives are probably familiar with the Indianapolis Museum of Art located on 38th Street or have been on a field trip to the historic Indiana Repertory Theatre, there are many other sites around the city that offer opportunities to appreciate local art.

Big Car Collaborative is a nonprofit arts organization and collective of artists that is located just north of the University of Indianapolis campus on Cruft St. in a building called the Tube Factory. The factory was first a dairy and milk company in the 1800s before being converted into a peanut processing plant in the 1940s, and finally a tube factory in the 1980s.

According to Alexis Zarco an AmeriCorps, Immigrant and Refugee Service Corps member of Big Car, the collaborative was then created by Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh in 2004.

“They had a goal and a vision to bring people together through art, to create a closer community and build relationships, so far I think they’ve been successful,” Zarco said.

The Tube Factory is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is completely free. Inside the building, various works from local artists and others are displayed throughout the day, and a lending library is also available for perusal. Outside, there are putt-putt holes, ping pong tables, foosball tables and chess that can be used free of charge.

The Tube Factory also hosts events throughout the month, including introduction of new works to the gallery the first Friday of every month.

to show for this year. It [the season] runs from about April through October. I don’t know how long physical therapy is going to take, but hopefully I will be able to get back in the gym and hit it hard before the [next] season starts.”

Clouse compared motocross to other team sports and the skills those sports present that can be applied to other aspects of life, such as teamwork and independence.

“It’s more of an individual sport because you are out there, but you have a whole team behind you. The pros, they have endless amounts of guys on their teams, but [for me] it’s still my dad. He does most of my bike work for me. So if he doesn’t tighten a bolt, I’m not going to finish the race,” Clouse said. “You definitely have to rely on people, but I think at the end of the day, it’s all on you. If you don’t perform well or you’re having a bad day, if you miss a line and crash, it’s on you. So I think the accountability is really there that you have to take responsibility for your training and you really have to take it seriously,” With graduation coming in December for Clouse, she has been thinking about what it is that she will focus on in next phase of her life and the sport of motocross. Clouse said that although she will focus on finding a career first, she hopes she will be able to return to motocross and continue doing it once she stabilizes her postgraduate life.

"I don't know how quick I will get into it [motocross] next year because I want to make sure that I have a job and that I am set in place," Clouse said. "I do want to get back into it. I would really like to go to nationals some day.”

Whatever the future holds for Clouse, she will be able to apply the skills and lessons in time management she has learned from balancing personal and academic lies with motocross racing.

Photo contributed by Addison Clouse

Center Pam Allee.

“We partnered with other arts organizations, theatre groups and community organizations [for Pre-Enactment Indy] to point attention to the neighborhood history along the Monon 16 and the redevelopment that’s being done there," Allee said. "[We’re] trying to make sure the longtime residents are honored with all the new development that’s going on."

The Harrison Center's objective is to reflect the culture and beauty of the city.

One of its galleries, the City Gallery, is dedicated to using art and culture to tell the story of Indianapolis’ urban neighborhoods.

For those who are looking to enjoy art outside, the 92 County walk is mapped course that includes a set of 92 sculptures and installations built into and around the Indiana State Museum, one for each of the state’s counties. The entire display is outside along the canal, making it free for anyone to view and learn about different areas of the state.

Each county has a plaque and artwork that describe the county’s history, wildlife, terrain or oddities.

For example, Shelby County’s plaque notes the first railroad in Indiana being built, the writings of best-selling Indiana author Charles Major and Shelbyville resident Sandy Allen, who was the Guinness Book of World Record’s tallest woman alive during her lifetime.

Also near the museum and along the canal, within walking distance are many other sculptures and the scenic White River State Park.

There are many opportunities for Indianapolis residents and UIndy students to enjoy the city’s artistic culture only a short drive from campus and often free of charge.

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KDP chapter receives recognition Instructor and students of UIndy chapter acknowledged at KDP biennial convocation

By Reid Lorey STAFF WRITER

Photo by Nancy Shannon

Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Global Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies, will provide input on how to better incorporate Latin American culture into the television program, which will be pitched in February.

Professor contributes to children's program

By Maia Gibson NEWS EDITOR

Professors at the University of Indianapolis are required to research and serve in addition to their role of teaching students. Assistant Professor of Global Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies Ana Maria Ferreira has a different opportunity to serve. In addition to her duties at the university, Ferreira is currently consulting on writing and character creation on a children’s TV program that focuses on Latin American culture and Latino heritage.

According to Chair of the Department of Global Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies Dan Briere, getting faculty involved in the community and outside programs and activities not only helps them grow, but also gives the university publicity. He said that Ferreira had a great opportunity and that she was more than qualified for the position.

“When she [Ferreira] told me [about the opportunity] I thought, ‘Well, she’s qualified. Definitely qualified,’” Briere said. “She has degrees from Georgetown University.... Georgetown has a number of international programs. She obviously has caught that contagion to go out there and help the public understand better and to get the image of Latin American culture…so that reflects a genuine culture.”

At the end of October, Ferreira spent a long weekend in Miami, Fla. with writers, the CEOs of the production company, animators and others involved in the program to discuss the show and share her knowledge of Latin American culture with the team. One of the things that they focused on was Latino representation in the United States and in the media.

“So, they were saying that sometimes when TV shows now are thinking about diversity, they just want to have one girl and one boy, one black character, one Latino character, one Asian character and that’s it,” Ferreira said. “But they all act the same. They don’t have things that make them real Latino or real Asian.They are just racially different, but they all act the same. [For us] it’s not just to put a girl as a character, but we were going to make this girl special because she is a girl and she is Latina.”

Natalia Becerra, a former student of Ferreira’s from Colombia, is also involved in the program and recommended Ferreira for the position. Becerra currently works as the Art Director for Mundo Lanugo, a preschool entertainment company.

According to Becerra, the company’s focus is to create characters that children can relate to and connect with their Latin American culture and heritage. Becerra said she suggested Ferreira for the consulting position because of her personal and educational knowledge of Latin American culture and her continuous work with it through teaching.

“We’re really good friends and I think she’s awesome to work with,”Becerra said.

“I learned a lot from her in school, so I figured that she would be a perfect fit, not just because she knows about the culture but because she’s just overall a cool person to work with.”

According to Ferreira, the creator of Little People, a writer from “Grey’s Anatomy” and Bob Peterson, who voiced

Roz in Monster’s Inc., are also involved in the show.

Ferreira said that the program will be geared toward children between the ages of five and eight and will feature a cast of Latino characters from different parts of Latin America. The show will be in English, but will also feature Spanish words and important values in Latin American culture, like multigenerational homes and an emphasis on the importance of extended family.

The creators of the show are also going to feature characters from different countries in Latin America to show the diversity within the culture based on local and geographic traditions. Ferreira said that exposing children to these cultural differences is important.

“So, I think the importance of this project is bigger than the show itself,” Ferreira said. “Of course, the kids will learn...not just learn about the cultural difference and diversity but also about geography.The other characters may have names in Spanish. We are going to use a lot of words in Spanish, like grandma [will be] ‘abuela.’"

In February 2018, the program will be pitched to representatives from major networks and companies such as Netflix, Nickelodeon, Hulu and Amazon, according to Ferreira. Only a few of the people working on the program will attend, and they will have about 10-15 minutes to pitch their idea, characters and importance of their show to the executives.

If the show is selected, Ferr ier a’s involvement could continue, depending on how much input the network wants from the original team of writers, animators and consultants. Ferreira said that she hopes to continue to be able to work on the program because it is so different from what she does on a day to day basis.

“Normally, as a professor and as a researcher, it’s [creative work] a very lonely process,” Ferreira said. “I work on my syllabus, I work on my classes and I don’t ask anybody’s help for that. I’m by myself.

With the syllabus, I prepare my class and then I teach the class and I can see if it works or not, but with the research it’s even worse because I’m always at my computer by myself and no one is going to read anything I write until I’m finished, and it could take years. Normally the creative part of my job is very lonely… So, it was very interesting to work in a very creative and collaborative environment like that.”

Ferreira said that she liked working on the TV show because it helps spread cultural awareness, which is also one of her goals as a professor. She also said that she looks forward to a project that will represent Latin American children in the United States and their culture.

"I think it's very, very important for the kids to see their own race on the TV show, their own culture, their own values," Ferreira said. "That will not only help the Latino kids grown in the states, but any kid who has different views or ways to see the world....the more diverse the better. I think it's important and I would love to see—even if it's not this show—as many shows showing that."

Ferreira said that she hopes the show will offer an opportunity for young viewers to embrace the Latin American heritage they have, or to learn about a culture they may never have appreciated before.

The Sigma Omicron chapter of Kappa Delta Pi took home two awards at this years KDP biennial convocation held in Pittsburgh, Penn. on October 26-28.

KDP is an international honor society for education founded in 1911, with the mission of advancing education quality by inspiring teachers to prepare learners for future challenges.

Director of Elementary Education and Professor Nancy Steffel was awarded the Lucinda Rose Counselor Award at this year’s 51st KDP convocation.

The award recognized Steffel as the Outstanding Counselor of KDP. Steffel was then inducted into the Eleanor Roosevelt Society for her contributions.

Steffel did not have any notice of winning the award prior to the convocation, making the award a complete surprise.

“I was really shocked, because as they were describing the award, I was thinking how it would be neat to win sometime,” Steffel said. “The award was a really nice validation to show they [KDP] appreciated the efforts you put in to be available and that you had done the extra things.”

The Achieving Chapter Excellence award was presented to the entire University of Indianapolis KDP chapter.

The ACE award recognizes KDP chapters that exhibit outstanding programming in support of the society’s mission and strategic goals.

The President of Sigma Omicron chapter Emily Taylor and Historian Lyndsy Eslinger, both senior and education majors, accepted the award on behalf of the UIndy chapter.

Taylor said the ideals of the UIndy chapter are fidelity to humanity, service, science and toil. The KDP members discuss these ideals and try to implement them in the work that they do for the chapter and society.

“Being an officer and a member of KDP has added a layer of leadership that I needed to take,” Taylor said. “It’s given me the opportunities to step into a leadership role by leading membership meetings, working with others and delegating responsibilities for the chapter."

Taylor also said that she has gained skills through KDP that will benefit her in her later career.

"It’s given me the opportunities to step into so many roles that have helped me develop leadership skills that make my possibilities when I leave this university so much greater," Taylor said. "It ’s also opened places I never thought I could see myself reaching for as new possibilities because of the leadership piece KDP has given me.”

There are over 600 KDP chapters internationally, and UIndy Contributed by Nancy Steffel was one of just 22 chapters to re- The University of Indianapolis' Sigma Omicrom chapter of Kappa Delta Pi took ceive the ACE home the Achieving Chapter Excellence award at KDP's biennial convocation. award this year Additionally, this is the UIndy chapter’s toward providing literacy for students. seventh consecutive ACE award victory. The chapter has donated books and items KDP provides leadership and profes- of comfort to the teen oncology units at sional development opportunities for Riley Children’s Hospital and Peyton juniors, seniors and recent graduates who Manning Hospital.

In addition to these measures, the are in the top 20 percent of their initial chapter also hosts an event that helps education program.

The chapter has been recognized as current chapter members network with one of the top chapters in the nation. alumni and hear their experiences in The chapter received the Dr. Florence B. education.

“We hold what we call a 'conversaStratemeyer Award for Chapter Excellence tion,'” Eslinger said. “We do one per in 2013, the highest award given.

After doing seven ACE applications, semester, so every spring we will host a Steffel said she believes this years was the conversation with beginning teachers, most “brilliantly”done and well-executed. which is a really great opportunity to Steffel also praised Taylor for her invite alumni back so they can talk about leadership and commitment to team- their first year of teaching, and we also do work in preparing applications for the conversations with teacher-partners and teacher leaders depending on the needs competition.

“Emily [Taylor] delegated, and all of the program.”

KDP will host a conversation this these members were doing a section so when they won it wasn’t two or three spring that will feature a panel of recent people who contributed,” Steffel said. UIndy graduates. Those graduates will "She has a magnificent ability to delegate share their experiences from their first and get everyone involved without hav- year of teaching and give advice on aping to be authoritative and it’s amazing plying and interviewing for jobs. KDP members will also receive honor cords to to watch.”

According to Taylor and Eslinger, the wear at graduation as a symbol of their organization does an annual Literacy commitment and time spent with the Alive project. It is a service project pointed organization.

“I think the importance of this project is bigger than the show itself."

Support the University’s service trips to help communities around the world. When you make a gift of $28 or more on #GivingTuesday, you will receive a cozy UIndy scarf!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

THE REFLECTOR

Photo contributed by Jessi Plourde

Junior elementary education major Jessi Plourde has been playing piano since she was a child, including playing the fast-paced music of Ragtime. She currently provides piano and backing vocals for her band, Pushing Daisy’s.

Photo contributed by Jessi Plourde

The current lineup of Pushing Daisy’s, from left to right, includes Chris Willsey, Tony Stinnett, Chuck Wilson, Mark Stinnett, Jessi Plourde and Max Heyob. Willsey and Heyob formed the band in sixth grade. They perform all around Indiana, including cities like Bloomington to LaPorte, and they hope to release a new album within the month.

Pianist pursues musical passions with band, Pushing Daisy’s

By Andy Carr ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Being in a band during one’s formative years is considered by many to be a classic American coming-of-age trope. All-night jam sessions in a garage, performing at restaurants and bars, balancing band practice with school work—these are all commonly associated with this cliché, but for junior elementary education major Jessi Plourde, these experiences or similar ones are very much a reality.

Plourde plays piano and provides backing vocals for Pushing Daisy’s, a “jam rock” band formed by Indiana University sophomores Max Heyob and Chris Willsey. She first got involved with Pushing Daisy’s during her senior year of high school, but Heyob and Willsey formed the band when they were in sixth grade. They did not settle on the name for the band until they got to high school. “‘Pushing Daisies’ was also a TV show back in the day, so they just did ‘Daisy’s’[to distinguish themselves]. It [the spelling] only bothers me a lot,”Plourde said, laughing. “But it is a good name, I would say.”

According to Plourde, Pushing Daisy’s is influenced by the Grateful Dead and Phish, as well as several 1960s and 1970s funk and rock bands. Heyob also gave his take on the band’s influences.

“Our style very much pulls from classic rock, 90s rock, and rock-funk,” Heyob said. “We take the classic rock sounds and themes and incorporate improvisational techniques to create funky rock jams.”

The band currently consists of Plourde on piano and vocals, Heyob on lead guitar and vocals, Willsey on auxiliary drums and vocals, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis juniors Tony and Mark Stinnett on drums and bass, respectively, and IU senior Chuck Wilson on rhythm guitar and vocals.

“Five of us graduated from Perry Meridian High School, and the newest member, Chuck, is from IU,”Plourde said.

“Max, Chris and I were in the jazz band in high school together, and then Tony and Max were doing baseball together...

Mark is Tony’s twin brother. I connected with Tony and Mark through the band, but Max kind of knew all of us.”

Although being in a band was not something Plourde thought about much while growing up, she said she was excited by the opportunity when it came to her.

“It’s probably the best way I have to express myself through music because I get to jump around and be ridiculous while I perform,”Plourde said.“I was also in wind ensemble with Chris. He came up to me one day and said, ‘Hey, Max is going to talk to you later,’ and then three days later, Max was like, ‘Hey do you want to be in a band, on piano?’ and I was like, ‘Yup.’ So it just kind of happened like that. It was super cool.”

AccordingtoPlourde, the writing process in Pushing Daisy’s is a fairly open group effort. Despite Heyob and Tony Stinnett doing most of the preliminary writing, all the members are able to contribute to the final product. Though describing herself as too much of a “perfectionist”to write music for the band herself, Plourde said she and the other members manage to contribute creatively by essentially writing their own parts on top of the music that Heyob provides them.

“Stylistically, [Plourde] brings influences outside of traditional rock’n roll to our songs, adding a very unique sound,” Heyob said.“In the band we always preach the idea of listening to each other and playing off of each other. Jessi’s training and style gives her the skills to do so in a way that balances the style of the lead guitar and rhythm guitar. And now she’s getting into jazz which is adding more and more interesting sounds and comping skills.”

Practicing as a group also requires a hefty amount of dedication for all members, according to Plourde. Pushing Daisy’s often puts in their heaviest workload the week prior to a performance.

“If there’s a gig, we’ll practice that week before it,” Plourde said. “We just had a show last weekend, up in LaPorte, Ind., which was a Grateful Dead tribute show.

So we had to learn all Grateful Dead covers, and we only had an hour of Grateful Dead music, maybe. The show was on a

Friday night from 2:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m., so we had to meet twice throughout that week to learn an hour more of stuff, so we learned a bunch of songs all day on Sunday, the week before … We met for another four-hour practice on Wednesday night and got done at 1:00 in the morning. There’s a level of commitment to it.”

But the preparation is worth it to experience the performance, according to Plourde, who credits that as the most rewarding quality of being in a band.

“I think performing is the culmination of all the work we do outside of a performance,” Plourde said. “For that Grateful Dead show, all of those late nights and four-hour practices—or Sunday, which was an all-day practice—what keeps us going through all of those late nights that we have for any gig is knowing that we have to perform and show ever ybody what we’ve got, and that we’re actually pretty good.”

However, audiences are not always the most receptive, Plourde said. Pushing Daisy’s has experienced its share of both enthusiastic and apathetic crowds.

“Sometimes we get hired at parties, and they just don’t really engage with us as much, and we feel unwanted, but we just use it as a chance to practice,” Plourde said. “Sometimes we’ll try songs that we wouldn’t do if people were paying attention to us.”

Plourde said she enjoys engaging with an audience in fun ways to add to the band’s performance. She called herself the “most animated” member of the band on-stage.

Being close as a group helps make the experience a positive one, Plourde said.

“They are some of my best friends,” Plourde said. “But it’s just different—see, I’m the only girl in the band, so it is different for me than it would be for any of them—but I would say that if I have three different groups of close friends, they’re

one of them.”

This sense of minority due to being the only female member of the band is noticeable, but not significant, according to Plourde. She said that initially, the men in the band would be cautious of their language and jokes around her, until they realized she didn’t mind.

Plourde is also a music minor, currently taking jazz piano and classical piano classes. She said she feels that her band experience has given her insights and benefits in her academic music pursuits as well, and vice versa.

“In Pushing Daisy’s, there’s a lot of improvising and improvisational skills that play into jazz, which is basically improv,” Plourde said. “Classical, not so much, but I guess the dexterity from that helps with getting better in Pushing Daisy’s.

So it does all tie together in some shape or form.”

Pro f e s s o r o f Music Rebecca Sorley said that she feels Plourde’s “contagious” enthusiasm also makes her a good student. Plourde took a First-Year Seminar Music Together course with Sorley, and currently takes Applied Piano lessons with her.

“She loves to learn and her inquisitive nature makes her a great student. The classical music she plays in lessons is different from other styles she has done, but she understands these differences and can adapt very well,” Sorley said. “It is great that Jessi has continued developing as a musician as she is pursuing a degree in education along with a number of minors—including music.”

Plourde tries to use her skills and ambition to find other outlets to express her music. She said she hopes to find work as a musician at Howl at the Moon, a bar in downtown Indianapolis.

Additionally, Plourde said she looks for other chances to perform, whatever they may be.

“What keeps us going...

is knowing that we have to perform and show everybody what we’ve got.”

“I’m actually going on tour in December,” Plourde said. “I’m going to three nursing homes in Ohio. I like to call it a ‘tour’ because it’s hilarious. My mom works for nursing homes and she manages them and does accounting for them, so she’s going to drive me around to three different nursing homes in three days.”

Plourde said she wants Pushing Daisy’s to gather more support and a following from UIndy students, though she does not blame them for not knowing about them. The band has an active presence on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Pushing Daisy’s is also working on releasing a new album, which is currently untitled.

“We recorded it in July, but it should be coming out within the next month. I think it’s eight songs, but we’ve had four songs ready, so we passed out four-song albums at the Grateful Dead show. [The title] is undecided right now. [The other band members] have some bad ideas right now,” Plourde said, laughing. “They wanted to call it ‘Behind Closed Doors’—I think that’s too cheesy, but I guess we’re still debating that. I’ll probably just go with the flow on that.”

Whatever the future holds for Pushing Daisy’s, Plourde said that being in a band has been an overwhelmingly positive experience. She said she wants to encourage other students to look into finding musical outlets for themselves because it may open up new creative outlets and provide surprising social circles for them.

Plourde also said she is grateful for the opportunities she has been afforded by her involvement with the band, and that arguments and dissent within the band have been minimal.

“If anything, Pushing Daisy’s has been a blessing for me,” Plourde said. “It allows my family members more chances to get together and come see me perform, has given me opportunities to play at venues that I wouldn’t have gotten if it weren’t for my involvement with the band, has improved my piano-playing ability tenfold and has allowed me to create new and lasting friendships with some really great people.”

‘Flight of Obscurity’ showcases movement and forms of aviation

Photo by Andy Carr

Nathan Foley’s “Flight of Obscurity XIV” exhibit takes inspiration from aircraft in the context of conflict and war. It includes pieces made of wood, sheet metal and carbon fiber separated by mesh military camouflage

By Ethan Gerling BUSINESS MANAGER “Flight of Obscurity XIV”is an exhibit created by Nathan Foley which opened in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center on Nov. 13.The exhibit will be open through Dec. 15 on weekdays.

The primary focus of Foley’s work is on conflict between dueling aircraft , the achievement of supersonic speeds and the clouds created by the flights of aircraft.

Foley has a very particular interest in the shape of cones, and he uses this obsession

within his work.

“My obsession with the cone started with my research of supersonic flight and the formation of conical vapor clouds,” Foley said. “Each sculpture has this form incorporated into its composition, but the materials vary between each cone.”

Foley also mimics the aesthetic of aircraft by crafting his pieces by hand from wood, sheet metal, carbon fiber and other materials. The process is the true focus of the art, which is why observers can see every individual rivet that holds the metal in place, and why Foley handmanipulates each component that makes

up every piece.

“It is not only about the materials within the work, it is also about the process that is involved to make the work,” Foley said. “I have learned pneumatic riveting techniques that have been used in aviation since the 1920’s.”

Each of Foley’s pieces is named after a specific aircraft that at one point flew in service of a nation’s defense. Foley names the pieces after their construction, as he feels naming them too early may interfere with the changes he wishes to make.

Foley’s art tends to highlight the danger of flying and fighting for your country. “...These compositions are individual moments that portray multiple moments of some kind of conflict between foes,” Foley said. “They dance through space like birds engaged in a dog fight. The forms heighten the reference to danger because of their sharp and angular lines.”

Some students, such as freshman studio art major Amanda Thompson, picked up on Foley’s intent.

“I certainly found it interesting. It wasn’t at all what I expected,” Thompson said.“It was certainly sharp, it was angular, and it honestly seemed dangerous. I’m not typically a fan of art exhibits, despite being an art student, but this one stood out to me, and I really liked the lighting and the setting.”

The exhibit was divided by walls of military camouflage mesh netting.

Within the room, there was low lighting, and some pieces had red lights installed within or around them.

According to freshman visual communication major Tatyana Gray, the exhibit was quick to capture her attention.

“I would say that the exhibit was very intriguing,” Gray said. “It pulled you in, with every step you took, easily moving on to the next piece.”

Foley said he invests a large amount of time and effort into each piece. The shortest piece at the exhibit took Foley just over two weeks to complete, while the longest piece took over six months, and the search for inspiration, planning, research and gathering of supplies has taken several years to complete, at points.

The first time Foley began to interact with anything involving aviation was when he was two years old, and his family

has an extensive history with air vehicles.

“My family has been involved in aviation for three generations,” Foley said. “I grew up around aircraft and was always curious about different aspects of flight and aircraft.”

“Flight of Obscurity XIV” is the third gallery to be exhibited in CDFAC for the 2017-2018 school year. The next exhibition, “Illustration: Women Making a Mark,” will highlight women from around the globe who were drawn to illustration through their unique experiences. The exhibit will open on Jan. 22.

Photo by Andy Carr

“Flight of Obscurity XIV” opened in CDFAC on Nov. 13. The exhibit will be open through Dec. 15 on weekdays.

It is the third gallery of the year. The next will be “Illustration: Women Making a Mark,” opening Jan. 22,

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REVIEWS

Entertainment reviews, by Greyhounds for Greyhounds!

THE REFLECTOR RATING SYSTEM

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

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

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

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

Entertaining on a basic level.

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

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

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

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

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he one word that comes to mind regarding the newest DC superhero film,“Justice League” is “cheesy.” The film is filled with inauthentic one-liners that tend to cheapen the plot of the story. Following the (SPOILER ALERT) death of Superman in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” Batman and Wonder Woman, (Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot) band together a team of potential heroes in order to save the world from what could be described as a knock-off Pandora’s box.

Directed by Zack Snyder, “Justice League” has effectively doomed Warner Bros.’ DC franchise after introducing new, underdeveloped characters such as Aquaman ( Jason Momoa), the Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher).

The movie tried, and failed, to stray from the traditional solo superhero movie by introducing a ‘team’ of individuals that stereotypically come together to fight a single villain and, despite the odds, always win. Written by Chris Terrio, popularly known for “Argo,” and Joss Whedon, famous for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and even Marvel’s “The Avengers,” the film simply displays a franchise that is still trying to compete with the Marvel universe and failing miserably. Five movies in, the DC franchise is still testing the waters with new characters, and it’s not working.

In any action movie, viewers can count on a plethora of special effects, but in “Justice League,” they were entirely mediocre. The CGI was unrealistic and took away from the seriousness of what Terrio and Whedon were trying to convey in the story.

I would like to see a superhero movie in the future with fewer sappy origin stories and be introduced to more creative characters that are driven to help citizens without being traumatized by bats, or struck by lightning or swims with the fishes.

I had hoped to see a more developed plot and an emphasis on minor characters such as Superman’s love interest, Lois Lane. Overall, the movie is a shaky stepping stone for future DC movies.

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didn’t have high expectations for Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album,“Reputation” after hearing her not-so-great single “Look What You Made Me Do.” To say that my low expectations were met would be a flat-out lie. Taylor Swift seems to be taking on a new style that doesn’t quite seem to fit her, and quite frankly, her lyrics belong in a pre-teens bedroom. Even her song titles come off as childish, especially “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.”

If that is what she was going for, then she did a great job.

Her songs are not promising and seem to be the Dollar General version of pop music. For example, the intro to “… Ready for It?” sounds like a cheap, knock-off version of “The Hills” by The Weeknd.

“Dress” is the most sexually explicit song that Swift has ever made, with the lyrics, “I only bought this dress so you could take it off.” However, the lyrics “my baby is fit like a daydream” made me want to delete the song. If Taylor wanted to reinvent herself into a bad girl who doesn’t take anything from anyone, she should’ve spent more time developing herself lyrically.

Nine songs into the album and you’ll find “Getaway Car,” the only bearable song on the album. This song sounds like it came straight from Swift’s previous album, “1989.” It has more of a chill vibe in the beginning, but by the end you’ll see why it belongs on this album. It turns into a pretentious pity-party from Swift, with lyrics like “We were jet-set, Bonnie and Clyde. Until I switched to the other side.” I feel as if Swift spends the entire album trying to piece herself together into something that she is not.

One quick listen to this album and I began to get the vibe that the entire point of the album was to throw shade at those who have done Swift wrong. I will admire her for her tenacity, but she executed it poorly from almost every angle.

As mentioned before, Swift’s lyrics are low-quality, which ultimately ruins the entire album. The album might grow on me, but for now it’s a solid no.

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urgerFuel is a gourmet burger restaurant that uses fresh, natural ingredients. BurgerFuel began in New Zealand and their first location in the U.S. opened in Broad Ripple. The fact that it is from New Zealand was exciting to me because my family is from there, so I couldn’t wait to try it. I was not disappointed. The staff was friendly and greeted me and my boyfriend as we walked in. Since we had never eaten there, they explained the menu and a little bit about the restaurant. We sat down and pored over their menu, which offered enough variety that we had a tough time deciding.

They offer beef, chicken and veggie burgers, all of which looked fantastic.

I decided on the Third Pounder with Cheese, which had cheese, pickles, Dijon mustard, tomato relish and aioli, and from the first bite I was in love. I hate pickles but I decided to keep them on the burger, and, honestly, I’m glad I did. I definitely wouldn’t remove any topping from a BurgerFuel burger, no mater how odd.

The pickles added to the already delicious burger. My boyfriend got the Bastard, which had cheese, bacon, avocado, beetroot, papaya, tomato relish, aioli and lettuce. Papaya and beetroot sound a little odd to be on a burger, but it was great.

He said the Bastard was amazing and “all of the weird stuff actually worked well together.” The burgers were juicy and everything tasted fresh. It was honestly one of the best burgers I’ve had in a long time. We also got sweet potato fries and Motobites, made of pumpkin, carrot, chickpea and ginger. Both were fantastic.

The atmosphere of the restaurant was industrial yet clean. There was plenty of outdoor seating, but the inside felt a little small since it’s too cold to sit outside.

Honestly, that was the only thing I didn’t like about the experience.

I’m excited to go back to BurgerFuel and try some of their other offerings. I look forward to going back and sitting outside when it is warmer. I would definitely recommend BurgerFuel, especially fans of delicious burgers and burger alternatives.

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opgolf is new to the Indianapolis area. Topgolf is one of the many new attractions in the area, with a new IKEA and Portillo’s recently opening nearby. Topgolf has similar characteristics to bowling. Instead of lanes, they have bays that host up to six people.

On your first visit, you do have to pay $5 to get your membership card, but it is reusable, if you want to go back. Even in the winter, you can play because the bays are climate-controlled.

Instead of paying per person, you pay per bay and for how many hours you want to golf. Pricing starts at $25 in the beginning of the day, but during the evening, it can go up to $45 per hour.

At each bay, there are clubs ready for you and all you have to do is simply put in your membership card and select what game you want to play.

They have nine different games, including Topgolf, TopPressure, TopShot, TopDrive, TopScore, TopContender, TopChip,TopScramble and TopPressure Advanced. Topgolf is the most popular among parties, but it can be fun to try all the other options. Their golf balls have microchips inside them, so that when you hit your ball the farthest and/or the most accurate, you earn the most points.

Topgolf does have a restaurant and bar with prices that range from $6 to $21 for people to eat and drink while they are playing. They also have a fire pit where you can lounge and eat and drink food from the restaurant. This would be fun for people to try, especially if they love to golf. It can get pricey so I would suggest going earlier in the day when prices are cheaper.

The only negative thing I have to say about Topgolf is that you can not make a reservation for a bay. It is “first come, first served” only. They do have a membership called Early Drive for three months and for six months where there are priority passes to the bays. That is an additional $300-$500. Topgolf has private event options for people who want to throw a party or even meetings with others.

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GAMING CORNER Video game publisher Electronic Arts has been making headlines recently for its controversial inclusion of an in-game transaction system, known as “loot crates,” as a part of the player progression in its newly released title, “Star Wars: Battlefront II” for Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC. This system is commonly employed by free-to-play mobile games, but many consumers have complained about the use of the system in a full-price console release. But what are loot crates, and what part do they play in a gaming experience?

What is a loot crate?

How do you get a loot crate?

A loot crate, or “loot box,” is a virtual item in a video game that can be earned or purchased during gameplay. Loot crates typically contain a random assortment of unlockable items that can be used in the game.

Loot crates are given as rewards for completing in-game tasks or purchased through in-game currency. The virtual currency is typically earned through accomplishments in the game, but in some cases, it can be bought with real money. This kind of additional purchase made with real money, beyond the original price of the game, is called a “microtransaction.”

What comes in a crate?

It depends. Often, these They may also include E S I are cosmetic items for like concept SURPR E! artcollectibles, changing the look or or virtual wallpapers.

SID Sometimes, however, style of characters, menus, N I weapons, etc. These things games choose to include do not affect the functionality of the game, but rather just provide aesthetic variety.

functional items, such as weapons, power-ups or character abilities.

Loot crates and microtransactions, as defined by gamehubs.com: gamehubs.com/article.php?id=loot-boxes:-why-gamers-are-against-it-and-why-developers-are-in-love-with-it

Consumer criticisms of “Star Wars: Battlefront II,’ and EA’s response: reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/?context=3

So what’s the big deal?

Some in the gaming community believe that this microtransaction system has been abused, particularly in the form of loot crates. This is the problem EA ran into with “Star Wars: Battlefront II.” Some consumers felt that EA designed its game to strongly encourage microtransactions, by purchasing in-game currency with real money in order to spend on loot crates, rather than earning the in-game currency through gameplay.

This is a scenario that consumers refer to as “pay-to-win,” suggesting that players who choose to do so can buy their way to better abilities and upgrades, acquiring them much more quickly than those who choose not to

spend money on microtransactions and giving them an advantage in the multiplayer modes.

Additionally, EA met resistance from consumers when it put certain major characters, like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, behind very difficult in-game currency prices, a tactic that consumers alleged was an attempt to encourage the purchasing of in-game currency with real money to expedite the unlocking of the characters.

EA’s attempt to respond to this criticism in the form of a comment on reddit.com was received with outrage, becoming the most downvoted comment in Reddit history, more than doubling the second-most downvoted.

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The new apartments, located on National Avenue, are set to open in Jan. of 2019. They will be similar to Greyhound Village and have space for about 300 residents. instead focus on more virtual models to allow students to see what living there will be like. Employees will be from the Residence Halls Association and similar to Greyhound Village Assistants.

The demand for more space for upperclassmen to live on campus was one of the factors considered in deciding that the new building would be an apartment complex rather than a new residence hall, according to Manuel.

“We've had a large increase in the number of juniors and seniors that want to live on campus and want to be engaged in the life of campus,” Manuel said.

“We’ve had larger numbers in our retention rates, so the numbers of students that return year-to-year are going up, and they want to be on campus. We've been able to have healthy populations of new students come in each year. So there's a demand for the kind of education that we've been creating, which is intensive, connected and requires you to be in community with people, and that's the demand.”

Besides the demand for more space for upperclassmen, the new apartments are also intended to help students understand the process of living on their own by helping them understand leases and allowing them an opportunity for more independent living.

“We’re trying to help the maturation of the students,” Manuel said. “As you come through high school to live in a residence hall setting like Cory Bretz, Warren or any of those buildings, they are more [of a] community to help people socialize and help people integrate with the community that’s here. Before you move out after graduation, you need to have more freedom to explore what

that's like. There are these stages that occur on campus that allow our students to become independent, at first and have some support and then move into more independent living situations, to become more independent so that once you graduate and move out you're not figuring out, what a lease looks like or what all that personal responsibility is.”

The new apartments also will allow the campus to expand, according to Manuel.

The addition of Greyhound Village expanded the west side of campus, and the Health Pavilion stretched the east side.

Because the University Heights neighborhood is the founding neighborhood, the university agreed to not expand the campus to the south, so the next step was to expand to the north, Manuel said.

According to Vitangeli, the new addition will increase students’ desire to live on campus by turning the campus’ footprint into more of a neighborhood and allowing students to feel at home.

“The university is always looking to expand its footprint. So, one of the areas of property that we owned that was possible to [use to] expand campus housing was back on National [Avenue],” Vitangeli said. “When you look at the campus footprint, there is not a lot of open space on which we can build, and so this one extended the campus. We've already gone back on National [Avenue] to add the athletics practice field, and we built Greyhound Village kind of perpendicular to National [Avenue], so it seemed like a likely place to expand student housing because it really makes, now, kind of a neighborhood feel. When you look at the back of those residence halls, you have the baseball field, the

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softball field, the lacrosse field and now Greyhound Village on the back end, and it makes kind of a little campus neighborhood back there.”

The new addition will allow the university to fulfill its mission and maintain its tradition of helping the students to perform better academically, according to Manuel.

“If you think of traditional freshmen, they come in in August and move out in May. And then June, July and August, there is nobody in there [the dorms],” Manuel said. “So they're not living with us for all of the 10 months, which means that they're not here to eat at a restaurant, buy things at grocery store or use public transportation. The density of the place, in terms of the number of people that live here, waxes and wanes. We have these living arrangements that are 12 months now, and then people start living here during the summer, and they need to buy food, eat at the restaurants and take public transportation. So one thing is that it increases the density in the area, which is more attractive to a developer who might want to put in a restaurant or a store.... One of our main pieces of the Vision 2030 work that we've been doing is to raise the quality level of life for everybody in the area. And having places to go to that aren't just fast food is helpful for a community that wants to have a high quality of life.”

According to Manuel, as of now, the new building does not have a name and the university would like help from the campus community in naming it. Students, faculty and staff can tweet names they believe represent the university, its history and its tradition.

each cohort to be able to have a cultural immersion experience, such as studying abroad.

UIndy is trying to raise $10,000 to support the Paul Washington-Lacey Emerging Leader Program. According to Hays-Mussoni, the gifts are not just coming from alumni but also other friends and family of Washington-Lacey.

About 15 percent of donations have come from friends, about 40 percent from alumni and about 45 percent from faculty and staff, according the to fundraising website on givecampus.com. While Hays-Mussoni has worked on a lot of fundraising for the program, she also has acted as a liaison to Washington-Lacey’s family.

“She [Washington-Lacey’s widow, Bonita] has been very touched by this, and her daughter has been involved [in the process]. . . .” Hays-Mussoni said. “I think what has been really inspiring for me and really meaningful for me is to see how touched she [Bonita] is and her family is, and some of their friends as well, by seeing this group of alumni and students who really cared about Paul and [how] their lives were changed by him.

I think it’s fun for her to realize and see that in the flesh.”

Barnes and Sims are glad to have a program that will continue the work of their mentor. Sims said he is always looking to give back to UIndy and would enjoy being a mentor in the program to keep Washington-Lacey’s legacy alive.

“He really was a true gem to this university, and I think often he was very underappreciated and went under the radar,” Barnes said. “A lot of people, I think, didn’t realize the depth of work that he really did and how he interacted and affected generations of students.”

Kocher said that being able to keep Washington-Lacey’s legacy alive at UIndy and building him into the institutional fabric of the university is great.

He said the Paul Washington-Lacey Emerging Leader Program is a way to ensure that students will have the same kind of mentoring and inspiration that the alumni had.

“I’ve never seen a more appropriate way to honor and memorialize someone as to take what their personal life mission was and to turn it into an institutional program,” Hays-Mussoni said. “I think that while it won’t be Paul’s personal touch, the way that UIndy operates is that the people that will be helping these students and working with these students and providing these resources will have the personal touch.”

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books are research focused, Albrecht said, but students have been requesting more literature based titles that they can check out to read as brain breaks.

The library has copies of “The Game of Thrones” and the “Harry Potter” series, John Green’s new book “Turtles All the Way Down” and even graphic novels like the “March” trilogy about Congressman John Lewis.

This summer, they put together a popular culture collection that featured some of these works as well as new titles they had purchased, according to Fields.

“We pulled some things we already had,” Fields said. “Some of us brought things in from home that we were wanting to find a different home for, and we turned it into a whole popular reading collection.”

A few of the titles purchased with the grant money made it into that collection, Albrecht said. All of the books were shelved where they belong in the Dewey Decimal system.

Albrecht said that she will be making a LibGuide, or a research guide, that lists all the titles purchased with the grant money and brief synopses of them for students to look through on the library’s MyUIndy page.

Albrecht also encourages students to browse the shelves in the basement of the library.

“Serendipity is a big thing, we think in libraries,” Albrecht said. “That’s why I think it’s still important to have books and not everything online. Because you’re not just going to happen to walk by something that catches your eye online, whereas if you’re downstairs looking for another book you might see something that you hadn’t even ever heard of. We just hope that people learn and get exposed to things they hadn’t thought of.”

If students have any requests for specific titles or more books in a genre or area of study, Albrecht said that they can pass those along to her.

The library purchases books regularly and is looking into applying for more grants in the future.

“If there’s other areas that we should pursue, it would be nice for them [students] to let us know what those are, and maybe that’s a future grant,” Albrecht said. “There’s so much we can do and want to do, but we have to have the money for it.”

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Fuller publishes book on former Indiana governor Professor of History James Fuller spoke and read from his most recent book “Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction” at the Morton House in Centerville, Ind. on Nov. 19. Fuller’s book is the first biography to be written about the former governor in over 100 years. It will be available on Amazon on Dec. 20.

Manuel moderates panel discussion on poverty Christian Theological Seminary hosted Poverty: A Community Responds panel discussion as part of their Faith & Action Project on Nov. 8. UIndy President Robert Manuel moderated the panel, which featured authors Matthew Desmond and Valeria Maholmes and Deborah Bial, who founded the Posse Foundation.

UPCOMING Sharing My Story Students who went on a spring term service trip to Ghana, West Africa will share their experiences in the Schwitzer Student Center Trustee’s Dining Room on Monday, Nov. 27 at 12 p.m. Coffee and cookies will be provided.

Etchings Launch Party Etchings will be celebrating the launch of issue 30.1 on Monday, Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. in the Krannert Memorial Library Blue Law Room. Writers will perform their pieces and artists will discuss their work.

Service Expo & Active Allies Forum Students and faculty will have the opportunity to share their involvement with service learning projects and hear from community leaders on Dec. 6 at 11 a.m. in the Schwitzer Atrium.

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Politicians or personalities?

From Donald Trump talking to his reflection on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” to Hillary Clinton dabbing on “Ellen,” politicians in the modern world have been acting more and more like a regular celebrities, and they also have started to be treated as such. The issue with this is that their positions on serious issues involving the country, or its people, are not being taken seriously.

Jazz Series brings indie artist Brandon Meeks to campus The Jazz Music Series being held by the University of Indianapolis features a mix of jazz artists along with student performances through the year. As part of the Jazz Series, Brandon Meeks performed at the Christel DeHaan fine arts center in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall on Nov. 8.

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Ostender, Bob and Derrick Morris, Hoosier Beer, Tapping into indiana Brewing History (Charleston, SC: The History Pess, 2011).

West, Evan. "Spirited Debate." Indianapolis Monthly, Feb. 2006, pp, 82-92.

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By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR The Indiana Alcohol Code Revision Commission, an interim committee of the General Assembly, has been meeting regularly since Aug. 22 and will meet throughout the next two years to discuss, review and draft bills concerning Indiana’s alcohol laws. During the Nov. 14 meeting, the main points the commission addressed were Sunday alcohol sales and the sale of cold beer in convenience stores, grocery stores and drug stores.

Indiana is currently the only state that does not allow the sale of beer and wine at grocery stores, package liquor stores, convenience stores or drug stores on Sundays. It also is one of 12 states that does not allow liquor sales on Sundays.

Beer, wine and liquor, however, can still be sold and purchased at local breweries, vineyards and distilleries on Sunday, according to prohibitionrepeal.com.

Director of the Indiana Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking Lisa Hutcheson argued that an addition in the hours and days for the sale of alcohol would increase youth access, but

recommended that if Sunday sales did advance in the legislative process, that hours for Sunday sales should be limited to between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Dan Towery, the owner of S&C Ignition Interlock, a company that installs ignition interlock devices for those convicted of operating while intoxicated offenses in Tippecanoe and surrounding counties, provided a personal testimony about his daughter’s death due to an intoxicated driver. Towery said that the driver, who typically drank at home, went to a bar to drink because it was a Sunday.

He then left the bar intoxicated, which is when he caused the accident that killed Towery’s daughter and her boyfriend.

Towery said that Sunday alcohol sales were not bad, but that overindulgence and poor decision-making were the real issue.

“Allowing alcohol package Sunday sales is not a problem itself,” Towery said. “For example, friends may decide to get together to watch a ball game, but say there is no cold beer. Do they not get

“...it is overindulgence that is the issue, not where it [alcohol] is consumed.”

Shooting at northern California elementary

By Paige St. John LOS ANGELES TIMES RA N C H O T EH A M A , C a l i f.

(TNS)—Brian Rodgers was putting out the "Espresso" banner in front of his small coffee shop when he heard the staccato of 10 shots from across the road in this small community.

Then he heard the screaming and shouts from Rancho Tehama Elementary School just down the road.

"You could hear the teachers tell the kids, 'Get down! Get down!'"

It was just before 8 am. Students would have been on the playground as classes did not start until 8:15 am. Rodgers knows because until recently his own children went to school there.

He called his wife, Tiffany, who dialed 911, and as they waited for sheriff's deputies to arrive they heard more shooting —slow, single-fire shots by the school as if someone were taking time to pick targets, a shot and the yelp of a dog, and to the south, a man at the municipal airport screaming for help, and more shooting there.

Then a silver car sped past —a window shot out, and following that, the sound of gunfire at a nearby ranch near the community dump.

Then the car appeared again, coming down that side road and into a sheriffs car. A brief chase, "and then it was a gun battle. It was crazy," Rodgers said.

A friend of his treated two people at the dump, a husband and wife. The man, shot in the legs, was carried away to a hospital. His wife died. Rodgers knew them too, and his children know the students shot at the school.

Authorities said the gunman killed four people and injured at least 10 in a string of shootings across the rural area of Northern California, including at the schools. Sheriff 's deputies later killed the gunman, police said.

Tiffany Rodgers struggled to balance the horror of the morning with her conviction of what locals call "the ranch."

together or do they go to a bar? In either case, it is overindulgence that is the issue, not where it is consumed.”

Currently, Preliminary Draft No. 3411 recommends that Sunday sales should be permitted between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Although, PD No. 3411 is still open to change. The committee also discussed the possibility of making Sunday alcohol sale hours identical to other days of the week.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Public Action Management and former Executive Director of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission Pamela Erickson gave a testimony before the commission during its Nov. 14 meeting. Her presentation focused mainly on using l e g i s l a t i on t o reduce underage drinking.

According to Erickson, requiring mandatory identification checks for all alcohol purchases, regardless of perceived age, could go a long way in cutting down on underage drinking.

“Retail clerks and servers are our first line of defense [against underage drink-

"It wasn't the guns. It's not the mental stuff. It just happens," she said.

Her children were due home soon on the school bus from Redding and would find the rural town occupied by FBI agents and law officers in bulletproof vests, and satellite TV trucks. What would she say to them? It depends on what they ask, she said.

"So I'll be real, like I am any other time."

Brian Rodgers said the shooter had a long-running feud with the couple who were killed first. He allegedly stole a truck, then the silver vehicle, before driving the three- to five-mile distance to the school.

Tiffany Rodgers, 33, said the community of 1,200 is close knit, coming together to hold a Christmas parade— decorations not required. She and her husband have lived there seven years, raising four children on a farmstead and running one of the few businesses in the community, a small coffee and sandwich shop behind a thrift store.

Cellphone service is largely nonexistent, they said.

Residents rely on a Facebook group page to share news, make requests to borrow ingredients when cooking, and post what they hear on the police scanner.

While her husband was outside their coffee shop monitoring the path of gunfire beyond the trees across the road, she went to that Facebook page and saw the active-shooter warnings.

"I just want to make sure this town doesn't get a bad name. Such a beautiful, remote community and this happens everywhere," she said. "And I'm really hoping they don't go for the gun violence portion of this, either, because it's not a gun. I own guns. I take my kids shooting.

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ing],” Erickson said. “We depend on them to carefully check ID and refuse sales to minors. . .and intoxicated persons.

Most states have some kind of mandatory carding law based on presumed age, but sometimes that leaves too much guess work about age. Increasing the age for mandatory carding or carding everyone is a safer way to go.”

Lay member of the commission and owner of Automotive Color in Fort Wayne, Ind. Keith Byers said that mandatory carding for all alcohol purchases is unnecessary.

“I am 100 percent against carding at all times,” Byers said. “The current law is more than satisfactory and allows for common sense. This has been tried before and found by the public to be ridiculous.”

Byers referred to a 2010 Indiana law that required mandatory identification for all alcohol purchases unless someone “reasonably appeared” to be older than 40.

The law was repealed the following year after a large public outcry.

The commission’s next meeting will be held at 11 a.m. on Dec. 1 at the Indiana Statehouse in the Senate Chamber. A livestream of the commission’s meeting is also available through iga.in.gov by selecting the committees tab.

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