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Students help with clean energy plan Former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard calls on UIndy and IUPUI students to participate in internship program to implement Advanced Energy Plan in Indiana

By Erik Cliburn EDITORIAL ASSISTANT As the issues of air pollution and climate change have become prevalent topics of discussion in the political and social spheres, so, too, has the issue of clean, renewable energy.

While some see these issues as national or global problems, they hit closer to home than may be recognized.

A recent article in USA Today claimed that Evansville, Ind., is one of the worst cities in the country in terms of air pollution because of a large coal-fired power plant nearby. Former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard used this article and other examples to encourage college students from the University of Indianapolis and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis to join his internship program, the Indiana Advanced Energy Plan.

Ballard called upon students of all majors to join the Indiana Advanced Energy Plan to bring a more realistic and varied voice to the way students view clean energy. The internship program consists of 10 UIndy students and two IUPUI students, with fields of study varying from environmental science to art.

“We have students from an unbelievable number of disciplines,” Ballard said.

“Not just science students, we have an art student in there; we have business students.They’re bringing kind of a different angle, too, which is great, and which is real life. That way I think the [internship] students will get a lot out of it and maybe see themselves as somebody who can be an agent of change into the future.”

Ballard said the Advanced Energy Plan is his attempt to portray the opinions of the younger generation to Indiana state legislators, in hopes that they will begin gradually to implement a clean energy plan that encompasses all of Indiana.

“The intention is to put a policy or a plan together and then make sure some way that the legislature knows how these students are feeling,” Ballard said. “We had the utilities committee chair talk to them [the internship students] a couple [of ] days ago. The legislature, people making these policies and the regulatory commission need to know how the current generation growing up feels about this. I think that is extremely important.”

According to Ballard, the state of Indiana has an opportunity to bring itself into the future by embracing the possibilities and opportunities brought by clean energy.

“The country is moving in that direction [toward using clean energy], and certainly the younger generation wants to move in that direction,” Ballard said.

“I think the adjective itself ‘clean’ says something.”

As an analogy, Ballard compared modern cars to those of the 1970s to point out how far the development of clean energy has come and where it can go in the future.

“If you’re riding a bike behind a car that was driven in the 1970s and smell that, then you ride behind a car that was built in the 2010s, which car do you think is cleaner? It’s not even a close call,” Ballard said. “For those who say, ‘We shouldn’t do this because it’s too expensive.…’ Well, we did do it. We did a lot of it already, and it got better. We all lived, and we all survived. Now there’s another level to get better, and we need to go to that level without causing undue stress.There’s always some disruption, but [we need to do this] with causing as little disruption as possible.”

According to myenergygateway.org, solar and wind power, biomass, geothermal energy and hydroelectric power are some examples of clean energy. However, Ballard said that clean energy has many more layers to it than just dealing with sources of power. He claimed that energy

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efficiency and infrastructure are key when it comes to truly “clean energy.”

“It [clean energy] is more than just the fuels,” Ballard said. “We can do a lot of good in this country if we can get better at interactivity, building better envelopes, transmission efficiency and more resilience with distributed energy.

There are just so many ways of looking at this [other] than just the fuel. That’s really what we are trying to get across to the legislature and the public.”

Although clean energy may improve the state in many ways, Ballard said it undoubtedly brings along the side-effect of lost jobs for those working in conventional energy industries. He said that the probability of lost jobs is not something that

he takes lightly in regard to the Advanced Energy Plan.

“There are always vested interests.

There are people trying to hang on, and I get that,” Ballard said. “People’s livelihoods are at stake here. There’s just a lot to this. If there are people who are going to be disrupted, then we have to make sure we take care of them along the way, and I emphasize that to the students.

Those industries, and the people who work there, are going to be affected, and we need to do the best we can by them—retraining, whatever it might be. We can’t just leave them out to dry and say, ‘I’m sorry you’re on the short end of the stick.’”

UIndy art education major and Indiana Advanced Energy Plan intern Liv

Reuter said that most of those in the younger generations are in favor of clean energy, and that expanding clean energy in Indiana is just a matter of convincing legislators and older generations to see the benefits.

“I think people of our age are all for clean energy,” Reuter said. “For the most part, college students are saying, ‘Yeah, that’s great. We should do things that are good for the planet.’ But the generation and [a] couple before us are not so quick to think that way. I think one of our biggest points of opposition is the generation gap. For a lot of people, it’s not even so much that they are against clean energy, it’s just that they are not informed about it.”

Convention co-hosted

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By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

Photos contributed by Katie Ronzio

UIndy and Ball State students pose for group photos during the PRSSA National Convention Oct. 21-25.

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The University of Indianapolis and Ball State University came together to host the Public Relations Student Society of America National Convention Oct. 21-25 at the Marriott in downtown Indianapolis. A participant from Ball State said this event gave students across the nation the opportunity to network in the public relations field as well as gain job opportunities and learn skills to help them further their careers and education.

Each year, the conference takes place in a different city, and students in the state can place a bid to host the event.This year, Ball State University contacted UIndy to partner up and place their 52-page bid together. Once they were appointed as hosts, the two schools planned the event over the course of a year and a half. Students had to find speakers, sponsors and locations and plan the events that would occur throughout the conference.

UIndy graduate communication student Natalie Wichern was the logistics director of the event. She is also president of the university’s PRSSA chapter.

Wichern did not start in the applied public relations program until she was a junior but said that the late start actually helped her.

“I was a little late in terms of entry compared to most students,” Wichern said. “I felt that it helped me actually

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because I had brought more leadership and knowledge and networking to the table. Most students that enter their freshman or sophomore year get engaged right away, so I was kind of a late bloomer in that sense.”

As the logistics director, Wichern had to handle many different tasks such as coordinating speakers and sponsors and planning programs and events. She also assisted in managing volunteers who helped her with a variety of tasks throughout the conference. One of the largest events Wichern assisted in planning was the opening night social.

“On the first night, we had an opening night social. So we had to plan the food, the decorations and the theme, which was the Indy 500,” Wichern said. “Which was a lot of fun because we had a lot of race car stuff. We reached out to the IMS [Indianapolis Motor Speedway] to try to get some of their extra materials, and that worked out well. Overall, it was great for the students to engage with professionals and get a deeper understanding of the public relations area and different areas within that.”

Wichern also had help from her UIndy partner Reagan VanCleave who served as the program director. VanCleave did much of the planning of the themes and food choices for the events. She directed and planned most of the opening night social, the farewell breakfast and the awards ceremony dinner.

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Katie Ronzio also worked directly with the conference after gaining experience from her time on BSU’s public relations firm, Cardinal Communication. For this event, Ronzio served as the communication coordinator, working to help everyone engage in the conference and providing information to those involved.

Approximately 1,000 students attended the conference and participated in its many events. One of those was the career tours, running throughout the days of the convention, during which students visited different agencies in Indianapolis.

Professionals also offered resume critiques and a career development exhibition, where agencies brought in human resource professionals to talk to students about prospective job opportunities.

Ronzio said she felt that the conference boosted her professional relationships and gave her more connections and job opportunities going forward.

“The PRSSA convention was taking place [at] the same time the PRSA National Conference was, so the professional society was there at the same time,”Ronzio said. “We got a chance to interact with them at different mixers. You could talk to the professionals that were critiquing after the session, so I followed up with several professionals that I met and hope to continue those professional relationships.”

Both Wichern and Ronzio agreed that the event boosted their professional knowledge and their networking for future employment opportunities.

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What’s wrong with the F-word?

Feminism is a word and ambition often misunderstood by women and something they are afraid to be identified with because of its social consequences

By Chelsea Faulk OPINION EDITOR

What do Beyoncé, Emma Watson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lena Dunham, Ellen Page and Gloria Steinem all have in common? They all consider themselves feminists.

A feminist is someone who supports the ideals of feminism,“the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. The theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.”

According to a YouGov poll done in February 2016, only 26 percent of Americans say they are feminists, while 53 percent say they are not. To determine these figures, both men and women were surveyed, and their responses were averaged and created into percentages.

When the non-feminists were asked why they were not, they were given four statements and prompted to choose the one that comes closest to their opinion.

For t y percent chose the statement that said feminists were too extreme. Eighteen percent said feminists are anti-men. The most shocking statistic to me, 11 percent said they were not feminists because “they believe men and women are not equal.”

Fifteen percent of women and seven percent of men were behind this average.

That means more women agree with that statement than men do.

I understand the male mentality of thinking men are superior to women simply because that’s just how society has been. But how can a woman, who in this century is still struggling to defy the odds and prove she can do everything just as well as a man, say that she is not an equivalent of him?

Maybe it’s the way my mother raised me, or maybe it’s just because I get so irritated thinking about this all, but I’ll be damned if I ever utter the phrase that I am less or more than equal to that of a man. We may look different and have different reproductive organs, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t capable of doing the same thing.

I’m only 21, haven't even entered the workforce and am already tired of trying to fight the stereotype that I belong in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, with a baby on my hip, cooking dinner for my husband. However, I’m not going to give up, not until society sees me as an equal.

Even then, I’ll still proudly wear my Tshirt that says, “This is what a feminist looks like.”

There are also the women who think that feminism isn’t necessary anymore.

That it was only relevant when our grandmothers and great-grandmothers were fighting for the rights we have today. Back then, it was a big deal for women to freely express anything because their opinions were never valued.

So if they were strong enough to do that back then, shouldn’t we keep fighting for our granddaughters and great-granddaughters?

Personally, I don’t want the little girls yet to come in my family to have to deal with the thoughts and fears I have when I think about what could happen in the up coming years of my life. I don’t want them to worry about being treated as less of a person because they’re female.

I don’t want them to get angry when they’ve done the same job, for the same amount of time, but for less money than a male co-worker. I want them to be able to discuss openly their ideas and beliefs without fear of what will be said about

Why is feminism such an uncomfortable, unpopular, “bad” word? Why are women scared to call themselves feminists?

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them because of that.

Feminism isn’t a new trend or something that’s just magically appeared. No one woke up one morning and said, “I’m going to make this a thing.”

Feminism has been part of American history for over 100 years. It has helped American women earn the right to vote, to pursue a career in the workforce and even to run for president.

For some reason I have yet to comprehend, there’s almost always an immediate awkward vibe in the air once a women audibly declares herself a feminist around others. The negative connotations and stereotypes that come along with the word are also something that I just don’t understand.

Why is feminism such an uncomfortable, unpopular, “bad” word? Why are women scared to call themselves feminists? Why is it that they agree with all the beliefs of feminism, but are so unwilling to label themselves feminists?

I think a lot of the reason lies in the

fear of social consequences and implications that being called a feminist brings.

Being a feminist doesn't have anything to do with believing that a woman is superior to a man— it’s about equal opportunity. And it isn’t just about equal pay, either. It’s about men and women being granted the same rights and opportunities.

Somehow we still have people shying away from using the term "feminist" because it's way easier to say you're not a feminist and still support gender equality, rather than use a word that stirs up so much controversy.

Fellas, before you go rolling your eyes or start saying, “This doesn’t pertain to me,” remember that you don’t have to be a female to be a feminist.

Just look at Seth Meyers, Prince Harry, Donald McPherson, Benedict Cumberbatch and so many more.

Since women will always be compared to men, you should care about your role in the feminist movement, not to mention that maybe one day you may have a

wife or daughter who struggles with the backlash of being a feminist.

Emma Watson said in a speech made at a HeForShe campaign event, “If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.”

Feminism is about embracing women for who they are and what they can do, not the battle of the sexes. Distancing yourself from the term because you either don’t like it or don't want that label, only gives in to those who seek to keep women down and to anti-feminism.

Watson also said, “And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important, but the idea and the ambition behind it.”

To the ladies who aren't ashamed to call themselves a feminist, keep chugging along.You are the voices we need to make a difference. And for all you closet feminists out there, don’t feel like you have to hide.

Embrace your feminism.

Pit bulls: A harmless breed

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Christine Spain and her dog, Lilly, were walking across some train tracks back in May 2012 when Spain tripped and fell unconscious onto the tracks. The conductor tried to stop the train as he witnessed Lilly attempting to pull her owner out of the way. When the train passed over them, Lilly lay on top of her owner, taking the hit for her.

Even after emergency services got there, Lilly continued to keep watch over her owner, although Lilly was extremely injured and had to have her leg amputated.

That heroic dog was a pit bull. This is just one of the many stories all over the Internet about pit bulls rescuing their owners, strangers and even other animals.

However, these stories are hardly ever broadcasted on news stations.

The media paint a specific picture in the public’s mind about pit bulls. The media want everyone to think of the dogs as vicious, aggressive and dangerous, when in fact, they are just the opposite.

Pit bulls are no more dangerous than any other breed of dog.

The American Temperament Test Society recently conducted a study with 122 dog breeds, to test whether the breed could pass a temperament test. Pit bulls gained a high passing rate of 83.9 percent, while golden retrievers got 83.2 percent and beagles got 78.2 percent.

According to the ATTS, pit bulls always test highly as one of the top five most stable breeds of dogs in the United States. From personal experience, pit bulls are very patient with children, even when poked and prodded by them.

ATTS said that these temperament tests involve watching how a dog handles

unexpected situations, even with strangers. If the dog were to show signs of unprovoked panic or hostility, it would fail the test. The high passing rate of pit bulls proves they are not aggressive or dangerous toward people.

Any dog can become aggressive if treated badly, and I believe that owners need to take more responsibility for their dogs’ actions. All dogs are products of their environment, not their genetics.This means that if you raise your dog right and treat it kindly, it likely will never attack you.

I own a pit bull mix and he turned out just fine, even after an abusive past. He was dumped out of a car when he was just a puppy and even has a scar on his head to prove it. An organization called Bully Nation picked him up, took him in, and we bought him not long after that. The first day that we brought him home, he was actually scared of our cats.That doesn’t sound like a blood-thirsty killer to me.

An article written by Paul Tullis, published in TIME Magazine, called “The Softer Side of Pit Bulls. A reviled breed gets a makeover” discusses that pit bulls are one of the least-wanted and mosteuthanized breed of dog in the United States. I experienced this firsthand when I volunteered at an animal shelter. Just walking down aisle after aisle of dogs without homes can break your heart. If you take the time to read each one of their nameplates, you easily can tell the majority of those dogs are pit bulls or pit mixes.

Tullis said that at one time an immense number of pit bulls actually were working and service dogs; one served in the battle of Gettysburg, and another was the first U.S. Army dog to be promoted to sergeant.

Pit bulls weren’t always the misunderstood breed that they are today. At one point, bloodhounds and even German shepherds were considered aggressive

and unfit for a family. Bloodhounds were thought to be dangerous in the 1800s, because they were used to catch slaves.

After World War II, German shepherds also were considered unsafe because they were linked to the Nazis.

Those who say that pit bulls attack without warning fail to understand the reasons that dogs attack. The media always report stories of pit bulls turning on their owners without so much as a second thought. One Kentucky headline from 2012 reads, “Two injured after pit bull attacks owner while driving down the road.” They portray these attacks as unprovoked and malicious. Pit bulls—or any dog for that matter—do not turn on their owners for absolutely no reason.

There are always causes. When a dog is aggressive, it could be because of improper handling, poor socialization or training, an owner misreading a dog’s behavior or disease. According to the website The Real Pit Bull, a dog will show warning signs when angry; and when those signs are misinterpreted or ignored, the dog will use its teeth as a last resort. A pit bull with proper training, good socialization and owner responsibility, is highly unlikely to attack another dog or a person.

If people were to accept that pit bulls are no more dangerous than any other breed of dog, then they would understand that the media wrongly manipulate our view of many things by sensationalizing news stories. They also would understand that pit bulls are just like any other dog, capable of loving unconditionally or being aggressive if treated wrongly. Pit bulls are even capable of being heroes, as Lilly was when she sacrificed her own safety and lost a leg for her owner. Lilly is a great representative of the breed, and I hope after reading this, people will see pit bulls in a whole new light.

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CAC incorporates expressive arts in nursing facilities

By Jessica Mehrlich STAFF WRITER

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Left: Freshman biology major Alex Way paints her pumpkin blue for the cost of $3 on Friday, Oct. 28. Right: Freshman studio art major Rachel West adds toppings during Pancake Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 27.

UIndy DM hosts Riley Week Through a series of events during a week in October, the UIndy Dance Marathon raises money for the children of Riley Hospital

By Madison Crosley & Hanna McClard STAFF WRITERS The University of Indianapolis’ UIndy Dance Marathon hosted its first Riley Week in support of the Riley Children’s Foundation and Indiana’s only nationally-ranked children’s hospital Oct. 23-29. The week included a Miracle Walk, hospital tour, Giveback Night at Chick-fil-A, L/P event and fundraiser, Pancake Dinner, pumpkin carving and painting and canning at the UIndy football game.

The Miracle Walk was a six-day event, Oct. 24-29, and gave the UIndy community an opportunity to get a glimpse of different Riley childrens’ stories through posters hung around Smith Mall. On Oct. 24, tours of Riley Hospital for Children were given to students, staff and

faculty. Giveback Night was hosted by UIndy DM on Oct. 26 at Chick-fil-A, which contributed part of its proceeds to Riley Hospital.That same day, an L/P event in UIndy Hall introduced UIndy DM to students by giving information about it and showing the audience how to get involved with the cause.

UIndy DM hosted a Pancake Dinner on Oct. 27, charging $3 for pancakes to raise money for the Riley Foundation.

Pumpkin carving and painting occurred on Smith Mall on Oct. 28 for $3 a pumpkin, in celebration of Halloween.

Finally, on Oct. 29, committee members sold cookies, hot chocolate, and accepted donations in Key Stadium at the UIndy football game, with all proceeds going to Riley.

Besides Riley Week, UIndy DM holds other fundraising events throughout the year.

UIndy DM will host its ninth annual six-hour-long marathon from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Feb. 11 in the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center.The marathon will include themed activities, a line dance, stories from Riley children and their families and more.

According to the Riley Dance Marathon website,“Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate in the dance marathon to dance for those who cannot.”

Since the start of the dance marathon on campus, UIndy DM has raised a total of $67,355.20. Senior pre-art therapy major and Dance Marathon President Allie Bishop said that this past year, the UIndy DM beat its goal of $20,000, and hopes to set an even bigger record this year for the children at Riley Hospital.

“Our actual goal is to raise $29,000, but I have challenged our executive boards and committee that if we raise at least $40,000, I am shaving my head,” Bishop said.

Just on Saturday, Oct. 29, UIndy DM raised more than $1,000 during the football game and from online donations.

“As we just add up the amount of money we raised throughout the week, and as we just remember why we’re doing everything, no matter how stressful it has been throughout the week, it is always reflecting on why I’m doing [it] and what I’m doing,” Bishop said.

Riley Week, as well as many other events at UIndy, helped raise funds to support the children at Riley Hospital. Sophomore biology major and Riley Marketing Executive Bethany Pollock is pleased with how far the UIndy DM has come since the beginning of program.

“I think that the most rewarding part is seeing how much more [of the] campus is recognizing us,” Pollock said.

Within the week, UIndy DM was able to raise an estimated $3,000.

Former mayor, filmmaker discuss impact of fossil fuels

By Abby Land STAFF WRITER The University of Indianapolis welcomed former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and filmmaker Roger Sorkin to campus Thursday, Nov. 3, for a discussion of Sorkin’s documentary “The Burden: Fossil Fuel, the Military and National Security.”

A screening of the film was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Executive Director of the Hoosier Environmental Council Jesse Kharbanda. Ballard and Sorkin answered questions from the audience about the importance of alternative energy in Washington and the military.

Sorkin’s film said that it is, above all, a message of indignation about the number of troops deployed to protect American oil interests in the Middle East. According to the film, the United States’ reliance on petroleum to maintain a domestic lifestyle puts at risk the Army convoys charged with the duty of providing energy to tanks, automobiles and aircrafts.

The film states that 50 percent of all convoys have fuel-related mission, and an average of one casualty per convoy results from these dangerous missions. Additionally, the film shows footage of the Russian military claiming once-frozen Arctic territory as a base for operation, painting a portrait of the oil trade as not only an urgent social and economic issue, but also one of national security.

Ballard, a Marine veteran of the Gulf War, appears in the documentary multiple times, arguing on behalf of the lives lost protecting the oil trade and the long-term national security risks of continued reliance on oil. The moderator said Ballard made progress during his term in the field of energy efficiency in Indianapolis. He made clear his feelings about the injustice of jeopardizing American lives for an industry that the nation need not depend

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Former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard (left) and filmmaker Roger Sorkin (right) answer questions after the viewing of “The Burden” on Thursday, Nov. 3. upon any longer.

“Make no mistake,”Ballard said, who views alternative energy as a method of keeping military lives out of danger, “we are over there so that you can put gas in your car, and so our allies can do the same.... We [Americans] can change our behavior without changing our way of life.”

The film said the former mayor has been an outspoken proponent of energy efficiency and served as an integral figure in the establishment of charging stations throughout Indianapolis, encouraging the use of electric cars. During his ser-

vice in the United States Marine Corp, Ballard became well-acquainted with the dependency of military operations on access to fuel. His devotion to the cause of alternative energy led him to collaborate with Sorkin, a filmmaker equally interested in the possibilities of “green fuel” as a method of protecting American troops and generating domestic growth environmentally and economically.

Sorkin, a graduate of Stanford University’s documentary film and video program, cited voting as a way for students to offer their support to the cause of alternative energy.

“In very general terms, just being engaged,” said the president of Sorkin Productions LLC. “It all comes back to this issue of civic involvement. I would encourage every university student to get involved.”

After the program, guests had the opportunity to share coffee and snacks while digesting the importance of the issue at hand. “The Burden” is the most recent of many University Series events offered at UIndy. The next event, a Showers Lecture

by Kevin Radaker called “A Visit from C.S. Lewis” will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 29 in Schwitzer Student Center.

The Center for Aging and Community has recently received a contract from the Indiana State Department of Health. The CAC has been a part of the university for nearly 15 years, according to Senior Project Director Ellen Burton. It was created partially in order to get more connected with the areas surrounding campus and to specifically aid the aging community.

“We are not a typical academic research center,” Burton said. “We don’t focus solely on faculty who have research questions and a research agenda and are pursuing external grants to support that. We, of course, are happy to work with faculty who are doing that around older adults and community, but what we primarily do is we work with partners in the community.”

The CAC staff work to answer questions people have about supporting aging adults.

“We bring the expertise of the university and all of the wonderful faculty that we have here and the strength of project management from the center and help them address those questions and tackle those problems,” Burton said.

One organization CAC works with frequently is the ISDH. “There is a division of [the] ISDH, the state health department, that is in charge of insuring quality of care in nursing homes....” Burton said. “We have several contracts with them to do several different kinds of projects. One is creating a series of trainings around common challenges that nursing facilities face, such as wound care, infection prevention, how to care for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Then this one [contract], which is how to integrate the expressive arts into the day-to-day of the nursing home.”

After the competitive bidding process was complete, the ISHD chose to give this contract to the University of Indianapolis.Through six four-day workshops across the state, CAC will instruct nursing facility workers in the areas of drama, writing and memoir, music, visual art and dancing and movement.The content areas will be led by experts in the field. The list includes Associate Adjunct Faculty of Art & Design Sarah Tirey and Director of Educational Outreach and Professor of Music Rebecca Sorley.

“It [planning] started this past April.

And what we have been working on are three components of this project,” Burton said. “We are developing a four-day training [program] for individuals who are staff in nursing facilities, and that can be really anybody who works in a nursing facility, to come for four days and really learn about the expressive arts and what they are and why you would even bother to include it, and then how to include it.”

Burton said that although there has not been a large amount of research done in the area, the research that has been done is fairly groundbreaking. She said that the addition of expressive arts in nursing facilities can decrease rates of depression and falls among residents.

Residents’ falls bring them numerous health issues and can be pricey, on average costing facilities around $35,000. In addition to warding off these negative effects, Burton said that expressive arts help decrease challenging behaviors such as yelling nonsense and wandering the halls at night, which is commonly found in people with dementia or Alzheimer’s.

These types of activities help improve memory and give residents social opportunities.

Sorley is in charge of creating the music program for the workshops.

“I felt a little uncomfortable because I am not a music therapist, but we are talking about what people other than music therapists would do,” Sorley said.

“I tried to gear my training to what I thought a person without musical training could do.”

Sorley said that she will be instructing the participants on two activities that she has designed to be adaptable to all ability levels. One of these activities is singing pre-existing songs and replacing their words. The other activity involves playing with rhythm instruments.

“If they can’t really grasp anything there are wrist shakers, so they can use those,” Sorley said. “We are also going to use scarves, which are not rhythm [instruments], but they [participants] can move them to the rhythm… Playing a kazoo is fun and pretty much anyone can do it … I have made adaptations according to what the abilities are of the people we are working with.”

According to Sorley, she recently helped her parents transition to assisted living, so she is becoming more familiar

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THE REFLECTOR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Men’s soccer runner-up in GLVC tournament

By Josie Clark STAFF WRITER The University of Indianapolis men’s soccer team ended their season with a close loss in the final game of the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament against Rockhursts University.

UIndy took the lead early when freshman midfielder Ben Rohder scored 12 minutes into the first quarter. 10 minutes later, senior forward Jake Meyer made another attempt at the goal with a header, but the shot just missed the goal. In the final minutes of the first half, Rockhurst rushed up the field to make their first goal of the game, evening the score.

In the second half, neither team allowed a goal, leaving the score 1-1 going into overtime.

The Hounds ended the game with a loss due to 4-3 penalty kicks in favor of Rockhurst.

Previously, UIndy defeated the 20th nationally ranked University of Southern Indiana in the semifinals on Friday night at Indianapolis’Carol Stadium.The Hounds did not allow a single score by the Screaming Eagles and racked up two points for the shutout.

Neither team scored in the first half, despite UIndy’s multiple attempts at the goal. The first point came from redshirt senior midfielder Casey Zimmerman who scored in the 71st minute. A foul

by USI put the ball outside the 18-yard box, and Zimmerman scored off of a free kick from junior midfielder Brad Shaw.

The second score came from freshman

forward James Jenkins 13 minutes later, after taking a pass from senior midfielder Evan Smith. UIndy held USI to one shot attempt in the second half and totaled a 14-6 lead on the shot clock to end the game.

In preparation for the semifinals, the team took a trip downtown to the Indianapolis Carol Stadium the night before game day for a practice on the field where they would play.

This would be the first time there has been a neutral site chosen during the GLVC tournament, according to Head Men’s Soccer Coach John Higgins. In the past, the game would have been held at Rockhurst University in Missouri. Playing downtown was much closer for both UIndy and the University of Southern Indiana.

For the first time, the GLVC network posted films of each team playing, which the Hounds used to their benefit. During film sessions, the team had the ability to watch the games each of their competitors have previously participated in and study the way each team had played. According to junior midfielder Josh Ling, it provides an advantage to competitors as well, since they can see the most recent film of UIndy which gives insight in the way the Hounds set up their plays.

Prior to the game, Higgins commented that the Screaming Eagles would be a good match for the Hounds.

“You’ve got to respect the fact that they [Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles] have won 13 games,” Higgins said. “So we’re hoping that we’re more experienced for the occasion. If it comes down to a pure soccer match, our talent versus their

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For the team’s final match up of the regular season, the Greyhounds took on Saint Joseph’s College on Oct. 26. UIndy topped the Pumas 3-2 to finish 6-5-4. talent, I think we could beat them.”

Previously, the Hounds began their run in the GLVC tournament with a 1-0 win last Sunday against Missouri S&T University.

Both the Greyhounds and the Miners defended during the first half, holding the score 0-0.

Coming into the second half, sophomore midfielder Brett Langley scored his first goal as a Greyhound in the 70th minute off of an assist from

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Sophomore Demetrakis Haholiades competes in freestyle against McKendree University, Lewis University and Bellarmine University on Nov. 5 at the Ruth Lilly Center.

Swimming and diving take part in four-way meet

By Laken Detweiler PHOTO EDITOR

With athletes representing 12 countries this year, the University of Indianapolis men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have changed their training to have a more successful season.

The teams took on Bellarmine University, Lewis University and McKendree University in a four-way meet on Nov. 4-5.

Prior to the four-way matchup, Head Swimming and Diving Coach Jason Hite pointed out that swimming is different from other sports. In swimming, he said, every team goes to the conference championship. It is just a matter of whether or not an individual or team will place at conference. Because of this, the athletes swim tired for a large selection of their meets and then rest for the more significant meets: House of Champions, Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships and Nationals.

“It is basically our last chance to see where we are before House of Champs,” Hite said. “So what I see is going to determine a lot of how we’re going to train the last two weeks [and] how we’re going to rest the last two weeks for House of Champs. I want to make sure we’re a little fresher, but not too fresh, and that we’re really cleaning up the little mistakes. I want to see how we perform. How we perform is really going to tell me a lot….

As far as winning and losing, I don’t really care. It’s nice to win meets, especially when we’re at home … but that’s not the first focus that we have. It’s getting out and racing and competing and making sure we’re cleaning up the little things, so we are ready to go for House of Champs.”

Junior Malvina Shoukri expected the teams to drop times this weekend, and hopefully make B and A cut times for

Nationals.

Friday night, the teams won all but two out of the 20 events, sweeping all three of their opponents.

Junior Malvina Shoukri totaled four wins for the Greyhounds, contributing to both the 400 relay and the 200 IM, along with individual wins in the 50 and 100 free sprint races. Freshman Danielle Woods also picked up wins from the women’s team in the 200 back stroke and 1000 freestyle.

For the men, sophomore Vitor Botana totaled 3 wins in the 200 and 1000 freestyle, as well participating in the in the winning 400 freestyle relay win. Sophomore George Oancea also brought home two wins for the Greyhounds in the 200 IM as well as the 200 breaststroke.

Moving into Saturday, the teams celebrated their seniors Bucky Coonradt, Sarah Hamilton, Megan Giambastini, Romano Hoffman, Torie Pena. Shelby Sexton, Agnieszka Malecka, Bartosz Zarzecki and Marijn Zundert. Five seniors contributed to the 18 out of 20 wins on the day.

Malecka took home a win in the 100 and 400 IM, while Zarzecki won the 100 breaststroke, the 400 medley relay with Coonradt, as well as contributing to the 200 free relay.

The Hounds won all four relays—the 400 medley for both men and women and the 200 free for both as well.

After the first five matches of the season, the women are 1-4, but Shoukri still believes the team is doing well.

“We’re doing so much better than last year, even though we haven’t won as much,” Shoukri said. “The teams that we’re against are so much harder than last year, and they’re better-ranked than us. So being close to them is really, really good.

On the men’s side, the team has won five of it’s first six face-offs.

“Well I think this year we have a really good start,” said Botana. “We won a couple of meets, and we won a really hard meet [against Lindenwood, and] we didn’t expect that. So it’s good for us, [and] we feel confident about our start.”

On the diving side, both the men and women are stronger this year because of the addition of new athletes, according to Hite.

Currently, Hite’s main concern is House of Champions, which will take place at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Nov. 18-20.

“Ultimately, our goal [right now] is House of Champs,” Hite said. “That’s where we rest, and we suit up….We’ll wear some faster suits. And we rest, whereas all of the other meets we swim tired. We pound away and grind away, and we have workouts on the days of all of our other meets, whereas this other one we rest a little bit more. We come down in yardage, we come up in speed, and we mentally are a little more on point for this meet.”

This season, Hite has specific goals for the men’s and women’s teams. On the men’s side, he hopes for them to finish in the top 10.Two years ago, they were 32nd, and last season 15th. As for the women, Hite hopes to send a group of women to Nationals and finish in the top 20-25.

Shoukri pointed the team’s success to the strength and conditioning the athletes have done this season, and Hite agrees.

“Coach Chris [Massaro] rocks,” he said. “He’s got a more dynamic routine and program that our kids are doing, so we’re physically stronger. Chris has been incredible, and I can’t thank him enough for what he’s doing for our group. It’s made a big difference for us.”

The Hounds will travel downtown to IUPUI to compete in the House of Champions Nov. 18-20. This will be the teams’ last meet until January 2017.

Rohder. The goal slid through the hands of the Miner’s goalkeeper, propelling the Hounds to the lead with a 1-0 score. This lone goal went unanswered by Missouri, giving the hounds the win.

“There’s a reason they’re second in the league, and they’re ranked 16th nationally,” Ling said. “It was a really tough game, and we stuck to our jobs defensively.

Everyone played really well. It was a tough game, but we came out with a win.”

Higgins said the team took strides in

practice to prepare for the games against Missouri and Rockhurst.

“The main focus was us creating opportunities for ourselves,” Higgins said.

“That’s been our biggest challenge this season. They [the Missouri S&T Miners] are a very disciplined team and a very good defensive team, so a lot of our buildup was to try to break them down and create scoring opportunities for ourselves.”

The Hounds ended their season with a winning 10-5-5 record.

By Zoë Berg FEATURE EDITOR

athlete that has regional meet experience.

That would be our number one runner Briana Leonard. Beyond that, for our number two through six runners in this meet for the ladies side in particular it’s just really just gaining experience. It’s what the championship season is about is the mind shift, the strategy, the pace, the whole atmosphere is really about.”

Junior Matthew Egan said that he would like to improve his time of 33:10 from last year’s regional meet, as well as doing well as a team.

“As a team, I want to do better than we did last year,” Egan said. “I believe the magic number [is] 15. 15th is what we were last year.”

Prior to the Regional meet, the Greyhounds raced at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship at the Missouri S&T Golf Course in Rolla, Mo. The women placed 6th out of 14 teams in a 6K race and the men placed 7th out of 13 teams in an 8K race.

Leonard lead the Greyhound women, placing 13th (22:16) and beating her best time from last season by 16 seconds.

Wenzel also got a personal record with a time of 22:58, 25 seconds faster than her previous time.

Leading the men was Scheerer who came in 26th with a time of 25:55, the first time he has broken the 26 minute mark. Other top scorers for the men were Egan who came in 51st and senior Brandon Smith in 57th.

Robinson said Conference went well for both teams and shows that their hard work has paid off.

“Conference played well into our hand where our top five ladies in particular, if not personal bests, season best when it mattered the most,” Robinson said. “So it shows our training has been working and we’re running our best when it matters the most.”

Ending his first year as head coach, Robinson plans to continue growing the team as well as his coaching.

Robinson said, “It’s a kind of first year for me in the head coaching role.

“For a young team in general it’s an opportunity to really set a standard for us to build moving forward for us to really allow ourselves to set that benchmark for where we want to build from for the future.”

Egan also said this season has developed all of the runners and prepared them even more for next year.

“And even beyond running I’ve seen great strides in development with leadership among the juniors… We’ve all grown together and shown that we’re ready to be leaders next year.”

Cross country teams compete in regionals The University of Indianapolis cross country team participated in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional meet on Nov. 5 in Evansville, Ind. This was both teams’ last meet until the 2017 season, and one they have been preparing for all year, according to Head Cross Country Coach Brad Robinson.

“I think a lot of it is just… being in a habit or a system of we’re not veering away,” he said. “It is a big meet. We are talking about it. We’re not shying away from what we’re trying to accomplish overall, being very realistic.”

The women’s team finished in 19th place out of 32 competitors. Junior Briana Leonard was the top finisher for the Hounds in 77th place, with sophomore Mickayla Wenzel behind her in 91st place.

Also contributing to the women’s team was freshman Allyson McLaughlin with a time of 23:21, sophomore Sarah Burch with 23:33 and freshman Taylor Bohlman with 23:45.

Freshman Alec Scheerer led the men’s side, placing individually at 90th. Overall, the Hounds placed 23 out of 31 teams to end the season.

Sophomore Taylor Kleyn also contributed with a time of 33:38 along with junior Matthew Egan with 33:43 and junior Andy Carr with 33:59.

This year, three men who ran in the regional meet last year returned, and only one of the women.

Wenzel said the team stuck with their original routine in practice, but backed off as Regionals approached to better prepare the runners.

“Throughout the beginning of the season we have higher mileage than we do towards the end. It’s called tapering,” Wenzel said.“Like the last 10 days before your last meet you run less miles. You give your legs a rest and then your cardio is still fine. Usually people improve on the last meet.”

Robinson said that this year’s regional meet would be more about gaining experience, since the team is so young this season.

“For our young team it’s really just more about gaining experience from the meet itself,” he said. “Placement wise trying to finish as a team in the top half, so the top 15, would really be the goal on both sides. A great day for us would be if we could sneak into the top 10 overall, either side, men or women. It’d be huge.

The ladies as well, we’re only racing one

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5 NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Volleyball wins senior night game

By Madison Hays ONLINE EDITOR

The University of Indianapolis’ volleyball team lost to Rockhurst University on Saturday, after pulling out a win over William Jewell College the night before on senior night.

The 24th nationally-ranked Hawks defeated the Hounds in three sets. In the first, only three Hounds scored, while Rockhurst totaled a .353 hitting percentage with one error, ending the match 25-11.

In the second match, the Hounds kept the match even until both teams were tied at 20. Junior outside hitter Kacee Salyers led the set with six kills, before the Hawks scored the last five points of the match.

UIndy pulled together 15 kills in the final set against the Hawks. After a short rally by UIndy in the final minutes of the game, Rockhurst pulled together the final points, defeating the hounds 25-22 and taking the victory.

Head volleyball coach Jason Reed said that he feels the team has promise for the rest of the season, and the players just need a confidence boost to get them back on track.

“We still have a good couple of weeks here rolling into the conference tournament. It’s not broken. What we’re doing here is working. We just need to get back to where everyone’s contributing, everyone’s doing their job at a high level.”

On Friday, the women broke their three game losing streak with a win against the William Jewell Cardinals.

Before the game, senior outside hitter Becca Lira and senior middle blocker Shelby Ruffner were honored during a senior night celebration.

The Hounds shut out William Jewell in the first set of the game, holding the Cardinals to a negative hitting percentage and ending with a score of 25-16.

The next three matches went back and forth between UIndy and William Jewell, which sent them into the fifth match.

To finish out the game, the Hounds pulled together a 5-1 run, moving the

score to 11-10 and later getting the win in an error on Cardinals.

Previously in the week, the Hounds traveled to Wheeling, W.Va. to battle the 5th ranked Wheeling Jesuit Cardinals, but fell to them in three quick matches.

The team came into the game after losing in three close matches to Quincy a few days earlier, a school they won against earlier last year.

In the first set against the Cardinals, the Hounds kept the score close. Lira and Ruffner worked together to rack up a combined 16 kills. Lira totalled a three kill streak at the end of the match to bring the score to 23-22 in favor of Wheeling Jesuit. The Cardinals pulled out the last two points to take the match.

UIndy lost the next two matches as well, with scores of 25-16 and 25-14.

Lira finished the game with 14 kills, just ahead of Ruffner with 11 kills.

Reed said he believes that the teams’ fall is due to a lack of confidence.

“Well, I think in those two matches, for whatever reason, we lost some confidence,” Reed said. “In that run we kind of had everybody doing their job really well at a high level and consistency wise everyone was really contributing well.’”

“We’re going to have to have a really determined mindset,” said Ruffner.

“We’re going to have to have a positive mindset. Volleyball is a game of errors. So if we make errors, we can’t get down on ourselves, because the other team’s going to make errors, the other team’s going to score their points, [and] we’re going to score ours. We just have to play our game of volleyball. We can’t play down to another level. We just have to stay consistent as a team.”

Looking forward, Ruffner believes the players need a strong mindset and cooperation for the team to get back on it’s feet.

Reed said he has no doubt that these women are capable of competing on a high level and thinks it is just a matter of them believing it themselves.

“I think we need to remind the girls that we are still a very talented, good volleyball team. Just because you take a loss here

Women’s soccer season ends at St. Joe’s College

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

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In set one of a 3-2 win over William Jewell College, senior Becca Lira and sophomore Katie Voelz set up for a block.

and there doesn’t mean that you’re bad.

And just because you win doesn’t mean you’re good, either. But at the end of the day, [and] we’ve got the talent, we’ve got the ability, so it’s just a matter of executing it. And we’ve beaten far better teams than what we lost to this weekend, not to take anything away from those programs, they do a good job, but these girls could do it, so I’m going to do my best to try to build up their confidence and try to remind them that they can do it, and it’s not a physical thing.

“The cool part about it is that we’ve got the horses to win the race. It’s just getting them to believe it. And that’s tough, as a coach, to tell somebody that they’re great, but if you don’t believe it, then you’re not great because your perception is your reality,” Reed said.

“I think the competition brings it out,

and so that’s something I like to do in practice, is just compete. It’s one of the greatest things about sports is you get to go head-to-head with somebody and find out who’s the best at the end of the day. And from what I’ve seen from this group, they thrive off of that, they do well with that.

“When I ask them to compete, when I tell them what needs to be done, they can get it done. And so that’s what we’ll do today and this week, and remind them that there’s still a lot to play for. I still have a lot of confidence in them and it’s a bummer,[because] you want your record to be better and all that stuff, but you want to be playing the best volleyball at the end, and here we are.”

Next, the Greyhounds will travel to Romeoville, Ill., to battle the Lewis University Flyers on Nov. 11.

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Redshirt sophomore running back Andrew Walker scored two touchdown in the match up against William Jewell College on Oct. 29. The game against the Cardinals was streamed live on ESPN3 and the ESPN app.

Football on three game-winning streak

By Melvin Mendez EDITORIAL ASSISTANT The University of Indianapolis evened their season record to 5-5 with a win over Missouri S&T on Saturday. The Hounds shut down the Miners with a 16-6 win, not allowing a single touchdown.

In the first quarter, junior running back Tuwan Payton broke a school record for most kickoff return yards in a season with a 52-yard kickoff return.

The Hounds scored the only touchdown of the game in the second quarter, when redshirt freshman Bryce Stancombe passed to wide receiver Malik Higgins. Redshirt junior kicker Brad Schickel also contributed three field goals to seal the Hounds’ victory.

Senior linebacker Rob Dury totaled nine tackles on the day, while redshirt junior running back Andrew Walker led the team with 21 carries and 76 rushing yards.

Overall, UIndy allowed only two field goals from the Miners, despite their multiple attempts.

Prior to the game, Head Football Coach Bob Bartolomeo spoke about what the Hounds needed to prepare for, coming into the game against the Miners.

“They are a pressure team on defense.

In other words, they blitz a lot, they play a lot of man coverage in your face,” he said. “We[have] got to be able to block their fronts and their movements. In

terms of our offensive line and the back combination and then our receivers have to be able to get off man coverage and that’s on offense. Defensively, they play two quarterbacks, and they throw the ball as well as [they] can run it. They [have] got a lot of offense, a lot of different formations and plays, so we’ve got our hands full on the defensive end.”

Previously, the team gained a win at home against the William Jewell College Cardinals on Oct. 29 in their first national broadcast in two years through ESPN3 and the ESPN app.

The first points of the night came after UIndy’s first three plays of the game, after Higgins caught a 30-yard touchdown pass from Stancombe. The Greyhounds then finished the first quarter with a lead of 7-3 after an extra point from Schickel and a field goal from William Jewell.

The Cardinals started off the second quarter and were able to take the lead with 5:42 left on the clock following a second field goal and a touchdown making the score at 12-7. A few minutes later, UIndy was able to regain the lead after a 14-yard pass from Stancombe to redshirt junior wide receiver Garrett Willis and another kick from Schickel ending the first half 14-12.

The Greyhounds then continued the second half holding William Jewell at 12 and adding 20 points ending the game with a win for the Hounds 34-12.

Stancombe said the team coming together helped come up with the win.

“We played as a team,” he said. “Our offense played the strength of our defense which has been playing really well. Coach always preaches, don’t turn the ball over when we’re on offense and play our defense and that’s what we did.”

All the players were able to play their part and help the team come out with the win, according to Bartolomeo.

“We played a good second half offensively, [and I’m] real happy with the defense,” he said. “I thought we played pretty well throughout the game, and I thought offensively we really dominated the game in the second half. We have to learn to put four quarters together as a football team. In terms of last week, the kicking game was pretty solid, we missed a cheap shot field goal that we can’t but other than that the kicking game was very solid. They had a great returner number two, and we handled him. From that standpoint we had a good day from special teams. Defensively, I thought we played pretty well, and offensively, we got it cranked up in the second half.”

According to Stancombe, the second win allows the winning streak to continue.

“It gives something to keep fighting for and gives a lot of guys some confidence going forward, which is always good,” he said. “Hopefully, we can keep this win streak going.”

As the season comes to an end, the team still has more to give, according to Bartolomeo.

“I think we’re getting better. I think

there is a lot of fight in this team,” he said.

“I don’t think there’s been a game where we didn’t fight and didn’t come to play.

And so from that standpoint, I think they could have cashed it in real early in the season, and they didn’t. That’s a sign and a testament to our seniors who are leading this team. And from that standpoint we’re real happy with that. Obviously we’re not real happy with the record, but in terms of the determination, the fight and the team, I think that’s been there and hopefully that continues these next 2 weeks.”

This Saturday, the Hounds will move into their final game of the regular season against St. Joseph’s college, where they will have the opportunity to have a winning record on the year. Bartolomeo says he is excited for this game, and hopes to the team can out a win for the fans and the seniors.

“We appreciate the support the students have given us,”he said. “We’re going to need it now the last game when we play St. Joe’s. That’ll be huge. It’s always fun to play in front of our student body.

And the support that they’ve given us, we appreciate it, because we’ve had some of the biggest crowds all year. From that standpoint we’re real happy with that.

Again, we’re looking forward to finishing out the year and sending these seniors out with a winning record, and that’s the major emphasis these last two weeks.”

Next, the Hounds host Saint Joseph’s College on Nov. 12. The game will take place at 3 p.m. at Key Stadium.

The University of Indianapolis women’s soccer team ended it’s season with a loss to St. Joseph’s College on Oct. 26 in an attempt to make the GLVC tournament.

The previous Sunday, the team beat Lewis University, which gave it the opportunity to make the tournament with another win during the week. The team steamed through the first quarter with a goal by sophomore midfield/forward Stephanie Burdsall in the 22nd minute.

Senior midfield/forward Elizabeth Behrends scored another goal in the 34th minute, which was her first since the season opener, to solidify the win.

The loss to St. Joe on Wednesday ended the Greyhounds’ chance to make the GLVC tournament and sent them home for the season.

During the first half of the game against the Pumas, neither team scored, despite UIndy’s 17 attempts at the goal.

Overall, 10 Hounds had a shot at the goal throughout the game, but the team not get on the board.

After half time, the Pumas came back to score the first goal of the game in the 61st minute, when the ball made its way through senior goalkeeper Emma Crenshaw’s legs. Later, in the 80th minute, the Pumas scored their last goal, sending the Greyhounds to a 2-0 defeat to end their season.

“It was just an ugly game,” said Head Women’s Soccer Coach Holly Cox. “It was a big game for us in that we needed the result, and unfortunately, we didn’t show up to play like we typically play, and it hurt us at the end of the day. I can’t question our effort and work, it was just execution on the day. We just didn’t defend as well as we typically defend, as a group, and we just didn’t attack as well. It was very individual instead of collectively as a team, like we usually, do and that’s when we’re more successful. Obviously the result is super, super disappointing, but we can’t take anything away from St. Joe. They out played us on that day and obviously took the result.”

Senior forward/midfield Elizabeth Behrends said it was a disappointing way to end her final year of collegiate soccer, but she plans to keep involved in the program.

“St. Joe’s definitely came out to play that day more than us, and their heads were really in it,” Behrends said. “I think mentally we were just not there that day.

It’s an unfortunate way to go out as a senior… I’m definitely going to be sticking around here until December 2017 [her graduation date], so I’m going to hopefully be at every single game that’s home…I plan to stay around and watch the games and cheer them on. It’s my heart and soul.”

Cox said the team overall had a good year and made great improvement from last year.

“I feel it went pretty well,” she said about the season. “It was up and down, and a bit of a rollercoaster. But I felt like when we performed, we played some fantastic soccer. And when we didn’t, it was very ugly at times. But overall, we were better than last year, which is always what we want to do. We want to show a progression, and we want to get better.

Obviously, [we are] super disappointed we’re not making the tournament, but I’m super proud of the ladies, to put themselves in a position to potentially make the tournament.”

Both Cox and Behrends said that the end of the season is a hard time, when everyone struggles to figure out how to fill their free time. Behrends is currently working on finishing her education and pursuing a career, while Cox is planning for next season.

“I am finishing out my senior year,” Behrends said. “I’m not graduating until December 2017. So right now, I’m looking for internships or work in the Chicago area, and I’m just going to maintain my, hopefully, As on my grade sheet and just get through the rest of school. I’m excited to be done.”

Cox said that right now the players will take a break before training restarts, but she has a plan for them when they return.

“Straight off the season, we give them a little bit of time off to mentally recover from season, and physically recover. So we are actually in our down time right now, we don’t have any training. We have the ladies focus on their academics. It’s such a grueling conference schedule and so much travel. But then after this week, off we’re going to get the ladies right back into the weight room. We’re going to start developing the technique and strength in order to carry over into spring.”

Cox said the team will soon begin training for spring season.

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140.6 miles to be an Ironman THE REFLECTOR

After months of training, senior Michael Lynch completed an Ironman Triathlon in less than 14 hours

By Zoë Berg FEATURE EDITOR

Swimming 2.4 miles. Biking 112 miles.

Running 26.2 miles.This is what it takes to call yourself an Ironman, something that senior athletic training major Michael Lynch can say he is.

On Oct. 9 in Louisville, Ky. the race began at 7:30 a.m., according to the schedule on ironman.com, 13 hours and 58 minutes later, Lynch ran across the finish line, officially becoming an Ironman.

Lynch first became interested in competing in triathlons in 2007, when his father completed an Ironman Triathlon.

When he was in high school, he was unable to compete because he was too busy.

“Once I got here, in college, I picked up the sport and have grown to love it,” he said. “I guess once you’re hooked on triathlons, it becomes like a challenge, like, ‘I wonder if I can do it?’ And it was just a burning question, until I couldn’t take it anymore. So I was like, ‘Now is as good a time as any.’”

After racing in triathlons for three years, Lynch said he wanted to get a chance to challenge himself and race in an Ironman before he got too busy with work.

Because he was still in college, Lynch was able to spend the whole summer training, and that is what he did.

“I worked part time in [the] mornings, and then in the evenings and afternoons I would go train. I guess I started training back in February—so in February, all the way up to that Oct. 9 race day.”

In the nine months of training that led up to the race, Lynch spent a lot of his time training at a gym, PXP Endurance, on the north side of Indianapolis. There, Lynch worked with a coach to learn to apply the proper techniques for swimming, biking and running. He said he also focused on power, speed and endurance, three things that helped him during the race.

Lynch said he also received a lot of support from his friends and even got the opportunity to train with them.They were there for the entire training process and the unofficial training leading up to it. One of these friends was senior supply chain management and information systems double major Nick Shelley.

“We swam, biked and ran a lot,” Shelley said. “We put a lot of time into it.”

Shelley said he and Lynch had been roommates since their freshman year and enjoyed training together.

Lynch said he appreciated Shelley’s support, especially on harder training days.

“Nick would even wake up at 5 in the morning, and we would go for a swim workout,” he said. “It was nice to have someone there because it did, it got really

Photo contributed by Michael Lynch

After nine months of training, Michael Lynch became an Ironman after completing the Ironman Triathlon. boring. And there would be times when you would be doing so many workouts that you’re just wondering why you’re doing it, and it’s nice to have someone there.”

“You’re kind of loopy when you wake up at 5 and 6 a.m. to work out,” Shelley said. “So just being goofy with your best friend and the time to go work out, get to work and go eat breakfast together or whatever afterwards [is memorable]. So I guess all that time that we got to spend together afterwards and with each other between our workouts [was one of the best parts].”

Shelley struggled to keep up with Lynch at times and said his workout routine was very intense.

“He’s a strong athlete,” Shelley said.

“So the first time I went swimming with him, I swam down and back, and I was dying. And he was like, ‘What are you doing, man? We’ve got another hour, at least.’”

Lynch consistently worked out six days a week for about 20 hours a week.

But that is not all he had to do. He is also

a resident assistant in Roberts, on the executive board of the National Society for Leadership and Success, completing a senior internship and working about 20 hours a week with the women’s soccer team, in addition to taking 16 credit hours. Lynch said he could not have made it without his planner.

“Writing things down, like due dates, [was important],” Lynch said. “Kind of planning out my day, like from this time to this time I’m going to be in class and then I have some free time. So do I work on homework or do I exercise? And depending on how close the due date was getting, I would pick getting my homework done, and I’d miss a couple of workouts.”

This happened throughout September and into the beginning of October, leading up to the race. Lynch’s original goal was to finish the Ironman in under 13 hours.

Although he was 58 minutes above that, he said he was OK with it.

“With the fact that September went the way it did, with school and all the things I had going on, I knew I was going

was asked to train for the barista position and help set it up. There was a lot to learn at first because of the variety of drinks The Perk offers. Jordan said her favorite drink to make, the caramel macchiato, was one of the trickiest to master.

“When I first learned to make it, I thought, ‘That’s a lot of steps,’ and then once we started making it, it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s easy,’” Jordan said.

Jordan now acts as a leader and helps train incoming employees. One of these employees is physical therapy graduate student and barista Anita Lalwani, who currently works with Jordan at The Perk III. Lalwani appreciates Jordan as a boss and a person.

“She’s the life-line [of The Perk],” Lalwani said. “Lisa is just an amazing person to be with. She is very witty, and I love witty people. She is very understanding, cooperative and empathetic.Those are the qualities you like to see in a boss.”

Jordan’s and Lalwani’s similar interests and love of coffee make Lalwani excited to go to work in the morning.

“I like waking up in the morning and being like, ‘Okay, I have to go to The Perk, and I’ll be seeing Lisa,” Lalwani said.

After working in The Perks for nearly 10 years, Jordan has mastered customer service and handling long lines on her own. She never lets the stress of long lines or mistakes get in the way of her work and giving the students what they desire.

“You know, I don’t even think about it [long lines],” Jordan said. “Because if you do, you can lose your train of thought.”

As for customer service, Jordan explained that she treats her customers the way she wants to be treated when she walks into a restaurant, coffee shop

or other establishment. That is why she takes the time to perfect orders and greet students with a smile, she explained.

“I know when I go to a coffee shop, or when I go to a restaurant or anywhere where I’m the consumer, I want it [the product] made the way I want it,” Jordan said. “That’s my money. I work for that money, and I want to get what I want.”

Jordan applies that same attitude toward her work. She tells her customers that if there is a mistake with their order [so they should] bring it back.

“If it’s not made right—I’m human, it’s very possible it can have mistakes—bring it back, and I’ll remake it,” Jordan said.

Jordan knows the kind of service she likes to get from the places where she goes, and she brings that same service to her customers at The Perk. She does not want any of her customers to feel unwelcome, she said.

“I just know what I like,” Jordan said.

“I like to go into a place, and I like to see a face that’s going to help me or be inviting. I don’t like walking in somewhere and [thinking], ‘I shouldn’t have come here.’ I’ve been to those places, and I didn’t like it.”

Jordan warms hearts and brightens days with every coffee she makes and every day that she comes into work with her big, contagious smile.

Jordan explained that when she began working at UIndy, former Director of Food Services and founder of Polk Food Services Inc. Ted Polk, who was her mentor and manager at the time, passed on his work ethic to her.

“He was the one who shaped me,” Jordan said. “He taught me how to treat people and always said, ‘One of the re-

to go slower than that [13 hours],” Lynch said. “And I was OK with that because, again, with everything that I had going on, just finishing an Ironman ... who else can say that? Or at least, what other college students can say that?”

Lynch said his family was very supportive throughout the process and even set up a GoFundMe to help cover some of the expenses. So when the day of the race came, it was nice to be in Louisville, near where he was from and where his family was. Even with all of the training Lynch did, Shelley said he was nervous for Lynch when the big day came.

“I probably wasn’t as nervous as he was,” Shelley said,“but I knew everything he put into it and all of the time he’d invested. I wanted him to do well and be successful, with all the time he put in.”

Lynch started the race off strong with the swim.

“I killed it.”

He applied some strategy to it. The swim took place in part of the Ohio River, and part of it was against the current and part of it was with the current. Lynch said he had to think about where there was a good current to help him go faster and not get as tired, and he also had to think about the rest of the people who were swimming, and try not to run into them.

While the swimming portion went well for Lynch, the bike ride was another story.

“It’s such a long ride,” he said, “like 112 miles. It’s like driving from here to Louisville. It took about six and a half hours to do that for me. That’s a long time to be sitting on a bike. So I mean, I definitely could have gone faster, but I mean, I still had to run a marathon after that, so I had to hold back a little bit and save some energy.”

During the bike ride, Lynch also was able to replenish some of that energy. He said the back of his shirt had a pocket where he kept peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and trail mix. With a 14-hour race, he said, it was important for him to eat and replenish all of the calories he was burning. He ate most of his food while on the bike, because he was sitting down and it was easier than while running, and he also was less likely to get sick. There was food available during the marathon run portion of the race as well.

“Every mile, they had an aid station for the run,” he said. “So they’d be handing out fruit, energy bars and things like that.

So I would kind of use what they had, but I had more trail mix.”

Lynch said that although the race challenged him physically, it also challenged him mentally. Part of this was strategizing about how to eat or the best way to race at a particular point, but another part was just staying in the race.

“So it’s like you see someone pass you, and you want go after them and pass them,” Lynch said. “But it’s a long day.

It’s a long race. And fatigue, if you’re not careful, the fatigue will take you out of the race.”

The fatigue almost did get to him in the second half of the run.

“By that point, you’re so fatigued that your legs just didn’t even want to move.”

That is exactly what made the end of the race, and after, so difficult.

“After finishing I laid down,” Lynch said,“and it was a horrible mistake, because getting back up and trying to make it to the car was a struggle. I’d say within an hour of finishing, I was knocked out. I was in bed. I was gone. And then waking up the next morning, everything was sore. I have never experienced soreness like that in my life.”

Lynch stayed at home, near Louisville, for the night after the race and slept for 13 hours, waking up for breakfast and then going back to bed. He said he was so tired that he skipped his morning classes that Monday, but the tiredness stayed with him.

“I’d say it took a week for the soreness to go away. But I’d say [it was] almost closer to two weeks before my legs actually felt normal again, because just walking around campus, I was just tired all the time. My legs felt tired all the time.”

Lynch said he is about back to normal now. He said he gave himself three weeks off from working out and is getting ready to start again, now that he has caught up on sleep, and homework and gotten his legs to feel normal again.

As for Shelley, he’s very proud of Lynch’s achievement and said he was an inspiration.

“I never thought it was something I could do,” Shelley said. “And he [Lynch] always was encouraging of me to try whatever I wanted to try.… Just his whole journey to get to this point has been pretty inspirational for me, and you know, he’s selfless enough to take the time out of his day and his training to help me. And I actually did my first triathlon this year.”

Lynch said that although an Ironman or a triathlon in general takes a lot of work it is worth it.

“I loved it,” Lynch said. “People probably think I’m crazy for saying that.

So I guess the pain and the mental aspect of the race is almost as bad as physically doing it, because you have so much time to think about it…. But the feeling that I got coming around that last turn and going down the finish and actually finishing, that sense of accomplishment and achievement—like, ‘I actually did it, I just finished an Ironman,’ or ‘I am an Ironman,’ was totally worth it.”

More than a cup of coffee: Lisa Jordan brings smiles to The Perk’s customers

By Maia Gibson & Alexis Stella EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Nothing beats a warm, freshly brewed coffee from The Perk before a morning class or settling down to study for a few hours. What really makes that cup of coffee great, though, is the person behind the counter making it, especially when it is barista Lisa Jordan.

Jordan has been working at the University of Indianapolis since 1997 and currently works at The Perk III in the Krannert Memorial Library. Although Jordan is best known for her coffeemaking skills, she has not always been stirring up white chocolate mochas and vanilla bean frappuccinos. Almost 19 years ago, Jordan came to UIndy looking for employment in order to stay close to home for her husband and her two boys.

“My husband and I would switch shifts. He worked days, and I worked nights,” Jordan said. “I wanted to find a job close by and thought, ‘Hey, there is a university down the road.’ At the time, no jobs were available, but there was a lady named Susie who was retiring. [When] she retired, I got her job. And I’ve been working here ever since.”

Over the years, UIndy has made many changes in regards to its dining services.

“When I first started here, there were no Perks or coffee shops,” Jordan said.

“There was the dining hall that was basically in the same spot and a little 50s diner in the basement [of Schwitzer].... That is where I started off working at.”

About 10 years after Jordan began working at UIndy, The Perk opened. She

Photo by Morgan Ellis

Lisa Jordan welcomes customers with a smile. Jordan has been working at UIndy for almost 10 years. quirements to work in The Perk [is] there has to be a smile.”

Jordan said she tries to go above and beyond, to implement Polk’s standards by greeting customers with a smile, learning their names and wishing them a good day when she hands them their drink. Being able to see them smile because of her is the best part of her job, she said.

“The most rewarding part is people who come back and say, ‘ I loved that drink’or ‘You did it just the way I wanted,’” Jordan said.“I think there’s so many things we can’t do for people to make them happy

[or] to make them have a good day. I get to come to work and get paid to do it. I just like to see people smile.”

There is so much more that goes into that simple cup of coffee in the morning. Jordan lightens her customers’ days by coming into work day-after-day with her sweet smile and words of encouragement. Her desire to bring joy to others sets her apart.

“I love what I do,” Jordan said. “[Because] if I can make a drink, and it makes them [a customer] feel good then I’ve done good.”

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A CELEBRATION OF LIFE

By Mercadees Hempel MANAGING EDITOR Sugar skulls, marigolds, incense and candles: These are the staples of the Dia de los Muertos or “Day of the Dead” celebrations. Dia de los Muertos takes place on Nov. 1 and 2, which are also All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, and originated in Mexico.

Professor of Spanish Ricardo Iman is from Mexico City, and he loves celebrating the holiday. According to Iman, Dia de los Muertos celebrations look different in different areas, but the point is to remember loved ones who have passed away and pay tribute to them. Iman said that in Mexico City, the celebrations take influence from Aztec culture and Catholicism, and the Aztec idea of souls going to different paradises depending on how one dies is a strong belief. For example, if a soldier dies, he or she will go to one paradise, while a woman who dies in childbirth will go to another, Iman said.

However, during Dia de los Muertos, the spirits of those who have passed away and gone to the different are believed to paradises return to the physical world of the living to visit loved ones. The first day of Dia de los Muertos is dedicated to remembering children who have passed away, while the second day is for adults.

“We put toys [and] candy for the children,” Iman said. “The next day … we put what they [the adults who passed away] used to like. If they used to drink some kind of tequila, we get the one they liked, whatever they liked.We put pictures, candles and incense just to call them in, like, ‘We’re here! Don’t get lost!’”

According to Iman, besides incense, candles and photos, marigolds also are used for Dia de los Muertos. He said that the marigolds’color and smell is so intense that it is used to help guide spirits to the physical world.The flower is known as the flower of the dead, according to Iman.

Iman said that, before Nov. 1 and 2, celebrators pray for nine days for their loved ones who have passed. Altars are made with food offerings, flowers, incense, candles and photos. Offerings include food prepared for the spirits, and when the spirits come, they eat the “spirit of the food.” The living people then eat the physical food as part of the celebration.

Candies, sugar skulls, sweetbreads and other items or offerings are made to the spirits, all of which are enjoyed by the living people, too.

Iman said that this is what a celebration looks like in Mexico City, but it may not in other parts of Mexico. For example, he said in Campeche, the tradition is to go to the cemetery, open the graves of the deceased and clean their bones. Celebrates then put the bones back once they are cleaned and rebury them. The point of this, Iman said, is to show that the living people still think and take care of the deceased and hopefully, in return, the spirits will take care of them, too.

Iman said that the belief that those who have passed are still with those who are alive helps those who celebrate the holiday cope and gain closure. Dia de los Muertos also reminds them that those who have died are not truly gone. According to Iman, because of the attitude

surrounding Dia de los Muertos, he has noticed a difference between people who celebrate it and people who do not.

“I see a difference. I see less hope, less closure. With people who may be seeing misconceptions, I don’t see happiness in general,” he said.

Iman said that misconceptions about Dia de los Muertos usually come from people who do not understand the tradition and think that the subject is “creepy” or morbid. But Iman thinks that there is something scarier than spirits coming to the physical world.

“We believe there’s an afterlife,” Iman said. “I think it’s creepier not to believe that.”

While Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday, there are ways to celebrate it in the United States. This past year, at the Eiteljorg Museum, there was a free Dia de los Muertos Community Celebration.

According to the Eiteljorg Museum’s official website, attendees could watch performances, make art and shop at the marketplace. Attendees also could attend a Catrina parade, Catrina being a female skeleton who wears a large brimmed hat.

Nopal Cultural hosted the event.

According to its official Facebook page, Nopal Cultural is “a multicultural arts organization that seeks to enhance Latino-American arts in Indianapolis” and was founded in 2012.

Altars were made and displayed at the Eiteljorg Museum. One altar was in remembrance of African Americans who were killed in police shootings and was made by UIndy graduate students Kalie Holdren and Ayla Wilder. Holdren was asked by one of Nopal Cultural’s founders, Eduardo Luna, if she would be interested in creating an altar. Holdren then reached out to Wilder about creating an altar. Wilder’s god family is Hispanic and from New Mexico. Growing up, she would celebrate Dia de los Muertos with them, so she was familiar with the holiday.

Holdren and Wilder decided to create an altar inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, but they wanted to go beyond the headlines.

“When Kalie and I talked about it, we felt like when you talk about different African Americans’ lives that are a part of the movement, who are the frontrunners of the movement, you get a lot about what happened that day, and that’s all you know about that person. You don’t really know about what their interests were, how their lives actually were, and so we wanted to shine them in a different light…. We decided that it would be a great outlet for people to get to know who those individuals were and not just the date they died.”

Holdren, who had celebrated Dia de los Muertos at the University of Notre Dame’s annual celebrations, decided that an altar in remembrance of African Americans who had died in police shootings would be a great way to reflect on the events.

“Day of the Dead is a time to celebrate the lives of those who are closest to us. I figured that creating an altar for those that we have lost in the Black Lives Matter movement would be a great way to reflect on everything that is happening and give a platform to those who have lost relatives as well,” Holdren said. “Ayla and I came

up with the imagery that we wanted to use, as well as the people that we wanted to include in it.”

Wilder said that the altar included a scrapbook, with each page dedicated to the life of a person who had died. The pages included things like spoken word, poetry, their birthdays and other facts about their lives that Holdren and Wilder were able to find. Wilder said that they could not include everybody, but they did try to pick people that others might be familiar with and that others might not have been familiar with.

The back of the altar was dedicated to Emmett Till, who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. He was 14 years old.

Guests who stopped by the altar were able to leave notes to those who had passed and stick them to the altar.

“I didn’t want it to be a very sad thing, but I hope they [guests] understand that we want these individuals to be remembered by who they are as people,” Wilder said. “Their stories definitely need to be remembered because we don’t want history to repeat itself, but I want them to understand who those people were.

They’re not just a news article.They were people who had lives and families who did daily chores like we do. And so I don’t want them to just be looked at like a bookmark in life, but like they were human beings.”

Wilder felt that creating the altar was a way of expressing her feelings to those that had passed. “[It] was just a way that I could personally express myself, saying how sorry I am, how really I do appreciate them even though their stories are tragic. … I do appreciate who they are and what they have done for our community, because although they passed, they haven’t been forgotten,”Wilder said.“And their stories and their lives have allowed a lot of people to see injustices that are present.”

Holdren also said that the altar had an effect on her personally as well.

“The part that impacted me the most was [the] interactive piece we added to our altar,” she said. “We left a stack of sticky notes for people to write on. Readings of the notes and seeing people’s messages really helped me realize that our decision to make our altar include Black Lives Matter was important. It helped create dialogue and help[ed] people relate it to their own lives and the people they have lost.”

Iman said that despite the name, the “Day of the Dead” is not just about death and the sadness that comes when someone beloved has passed. He said it is about remembering the love that goes beyond death, between friends and family, and that it is about celebrating and having fun in life, too. “[My favorite thing about Dia de los Muertos is] the celebration of life. And love never ends,” Iman said. “So you don’t see sadness. You see hope…. They are there, and they are still taking care of you.”

Wilder said that Dia de los Muertos is a holiday for being thankful for those who have passed away and for the time that they were in a person’s life.

“It’s to celebrate their lives, their accomplishments, and to be happy for them,” she said, “[and] to be happy that their life experience was a part of yours.”

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Photo 1: Marigolds, candles and photos are part of most Dia de los Muertos’ altars.

Photo by Mariah Coleman.

Photo 2: In remembrance of African Americans killed by police shootings, two UIndy students created an altar. Photo contributed by Ayla Wilder.

Photo 3: Sugar skulls are made of a mixture of sugar, meringue powder and water, and are usually decorated using colored royal icing. Photo by Mariah Coleman.

Photo 4: It is common to decorate graveyards during Dia de los Muertos.

Photo 5: The Department of Global Languages & Cross Cultural Studies decorated their office for Dia de los Muertos. Photo by Mariah Coleman.

How to Make Sugar Skulls What You Will Need

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Mix together the sugar and meringue powder.

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Add the water and mix with your hands until all of the sugar is moist.

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Tightly pack the mixture into the molds and use the back of a knife to scrape off the excess mixture.

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Dry the skulls for 12 hours.

Royal Icing 2 cups of powdered sugar ¼ cup of meringue powder ⅓ cup of water Food coloring

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Make the royal icing by mixing together all of the ingredients until the icing is stiff and thick.

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Apply the icing to the inside side of each skull piece and stick them together.

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Let the icing dry for two hours.

This recipe will make 5 large skulls, 20 medium skulls or 100 mini skulls.

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Add food coloring to the icing for more variety.

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Decorate the skulls with icing, candy, sprinkles, sequins, glitter, beads, flowers, feathers and anything else you want.

Sugar skull molds Sugar Skulls 10 cups of white sugar ¼ cup of meringue powder 3 tablespoons of water

Infromation from: http://www.art-is-fun.com/how-to-make-sugar-skulls/ and http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/sugar_skulls/instructions.html

Graphic by Zoë Berg

ENTERTAINMENT

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

THE REFLECTOR

Musicians get comedic through song

By Angelica Mercado STAFF WRITER The University of Indianapolis music students came together for an “Evening of Song” featuring musical theatre pieces in the forms of solos, duets and trios on Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

Like most performances in the hall, this performance was free and open to the public. The music students, both majors and non-majors, were accompanied by Director of PreCollege Music Program and accompanist Haruka Ostojić.

Assistant Professor of music Mitzi Westra directed “Evening of Song.”

“This concert will be easy. Nothing will tweak your ears. This is all accessible, fun and upbeat music,” Westra said. “The songs are tunes that people will remember and will be familiar with.”

According to Westra, when she asked the students what the theme of the event should be, they agreed that humorous songs would be the way to go. Freshman music education major and mezzosoprano Rachel Harden performed in “Evening of Song” for her second time since the 2016 spring semester. Harden said that seeing everyone have fun without the pressure of being graded and feeling at ease were what made the performance most enjoyable.

Harden performed “Route to the Sky,” the fourth piece in Jake Heggie’s “Paper Wings” set with two contrasting characters of a daughter and a mother.

“This song [‘Route to the Sky’] is the most fun piece I get to do this semester.

I have a lot of foreign language pieces where the audience may not get the humor,” Harden said.

Harden said she wanted her audience to understand the nature of her character through the emphasis that she put forth in each physical and vocal change.

“Evening of Song” included performances featuring different age groups and areas of study, including music

majors and non-music majors.

“We really want to involve the freshmen who really want to perform. I usually try to make it English or something that they would have been working on in lessons, so they could participate,” Westra said.

Westra said that this was some students’ first time to perform at Ruth Lilly, so she wanted to make them feel comfortable and confident enough in themselves to do well.

The concert included performances by roommates sophomore music education major and tenor Brenden Everett and senior general music major and bassbaritone Ron Dukes, who performed a comedic piece titled “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from the Broadway musical “Kiss Me, Kate!” composed by Cole Porter. Their performance was described by senior music education major and mezzo-soprano Natalie Covert as “great and abnormal friendship on stage.”

Junior general music major Ivy Bott performed pieces from two Broadway musicals including “Diva’s Lament,”from “Spamalot,” composed by Eric Idle, and “Always True to You (In My Fashion),” from “Kiss Me, Kate!” composed by Cole Porter. Freshman jazz studies major and tenor Gabriel Castro performed “I Need to Know,” from the Broadway musical “Jekyll and Hyde” composed by Frank Wildhorn, and “I Really, Really Love You,” by composing team Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel performed by communication major and soprano Morgan Ellis.

“Evening of Song” concluded with a performance of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” composed by Don Raye and Hugh Prince and made popular by The Andrews Sisters, performed by female trio Harden, Covert and freshman music education major and mezzo-soprano Anna Miller.

“I always want them [audience] to experience a genuine musical performance,” Covert said.

UIndy’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble Crimson Express will perform its first semester concert on Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

Photo by Angelica Mercado

Soprano sophomore vocal performance major Tessa Gibbons performs “Vanilla Ice Cream” as Amalia from the Broadway musical “She Loves Me.”

Tenth invitational hosts hundreds

By Morgan Ellis ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Photo contributed by Todd Moore

Senior pre-med major Tim Allen playing the role as Leaf Coneybear sits to prepare for his participation in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Theatre production opens in Ransburg

By Clarissa Cairns STAFF WRITER

The “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” was performed on the stage of Ransburg Auditorium at the University of Indianapolis on Oct. 21 and 22 at 8 p.m., Oct. 23 at 2 p.m., and Oct. 27, 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. Students from all majors came together to produce this show, and adults portrayed children.

Junior theatre major and Assistant Stage Director Stephen Cox started his career in the performing arts in eighth grade. Cox said that upon arriving at the university, he realized acting was no longer for him and directing was his calling.

This play had six main characters and to make it more realistic, extra characters from the audience were added to participate. Cox worked with the Front of House crew to find volunteers to act as contestants to participate in the spelling bee.

Cox explained that the play was written for a huge auditorium making it difficult to follow through with every aspect of that. The unknowing members of the audience were used to make the play more entertaining.

“That’s part of the reason why it’s so funny, but I think the playwright really wanted to include [that] audience volunteer to create a realistic environ-

ment for the show,” Cox said. “If there were no real people on stage and just the characters, it would seem very cartoony and unrealistic.”

According to Cox, volunteers were chosen prior to the play and briefed on what to do on stage. They are aware of what to do, but still minimally confused. This makes more comedy for the audience. Volunteers’ names were called on their path to the microphone, hilarious remarks were made about their future plans and hobbies, such as, “The following contestant was kicked out of her Girl Scout Troop for letting the boys eat her cookies.”

Senior pre-med major Tim Allen played the role of Leaf Coneybear, one of the six spelling bee contestants.

Allen shared his opinion on how it feels to experience the audience’s reaction.

From the audience member’s perspective, the show was only seen up-stage.

Down-stage and behind the backdrop, ears were listening to know the audience’s reactions.

“Listening to the audience and getting their input on something we have been working on is exhilarating,” Allen said.

He also said the enthusiasm of the actors definitely showed through during the entire production.

Allen described Leaf Coneybear as the comic relief of the production and said the role seemed to take a lot of energy. Allen

said he wanted the role of Coneybear from the start.

“The hardest role to be is the goofball.

Typically, when you play a goofball, you go super-character, and it makes it seem like it’s fake or you’re putting on a show when you’re really trying to find how real that character can be,” he said.

Allen said that his favorite part of the “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” was the characters. He said the best way to remain in character is to try to remember your interactions with adults as a kid. Just to make sure they can be as in-character as possible, the actors use the time before to do energizers and also relax by listening to music.

Allen said that the challenge of the on-stage volunteers is that the volunteers are unpredictable and may not remember exactly what to do.

“It has been the most challenging thing that I’ve done in these four years.

You never know what they’re going to do,” he said.

He said that while it may be difficult, it most certainly added to the play, and that with the limited characters, there really was not much to the play, but the audience interaction brought it to a new level.

An upcoming staged reading of the play adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” as part of the Communiversity Lecture Series will take place on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in Ransburg Theater.

Moving forward with its tenth year of coaching and recruitment, the tenth annual High School Choral Invitational Festival hosted by the University of Indianapolis music department lasted through the morning into the afternoon on Oct. 29 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. The festival gives high school choirs the opportunity to perform non-competitively for an audience of other choirs, parents and friends in the renowned acoustical environment of the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall in CDFAC, according to Professor of Music Paul Krasnovsky.

Krasnovsky developed the idea from a friend of his ten years prior of hosting the invitational at UIndy. “ I ’ve g o t a g o o d f r i e n d o f mine named Kent Hatteberg, a super brilliant conductor at the University of Louisville,” Krasnovsky said.

“Whenever anyone likes to make you think that they are creative—to the point where they come up with these fresh, new ideas—we all stand on the shoulders of our colleagues. Kent Hatteberg had me down to the University of Louisville to judge a choral invitational that he had. I went down there for this and thought, ‘Wow! This is great! I’m going to do that at my school.’”

High school choirs invited to sing at the festival included the South Decatur High School Cougar Company, Guerin Catholic High School Cecilia, Avon High School Festival Chorus, Martinsville High School Festival Chorus, Perry Meridian High School Then & Now Choir, Covenant Christian High School Chamber Chorus and Greenwood High School Rhapsody. Clinicians asked to work with each choir included Director of Indianapolis Youth Chorale Mary Rinck Evers, Assistant Professor of Music and Naus Family Faculty Scholar at Miami University Jeremy D. Jones and UIndy Assistant Professor of Music at Mitzi Westra.

According to Krasnovsky, the tenth annual invitational brought in the most successful numbers in attendance of 320 students in addition to parents and teachers.

A schedule was provided to those performing with choirs in the morning,

lunch at noon, campus tours, more choirs in the early afternoon and a performance from the Vocal Chamber Choir of UIndy, Schola.

“There’s a specific format that we follow, and that is eight choirs. I planned it that way because I think making people show up to things at seven in the morning is horrible!

We’re singers, and singers don't like to sing that early in the morning. They really don’t,” Krasnovsky said. “The size of our concert hall is a major factor, we seat 500 people. . . . You don't want to have more than eight choirs there or else it would become totally unmanageable so the number of eight works very well for us.”

While each choir received 10 minutes of stage time to perform a set of songs, the clinicians invited to workshop their assigned choirs took notes to be able to coach each choir to the best of their ability using the 10 to 15 minutes they were allotted.

“All three of us had a different approach. It’s triage. It’s ‘what do you hear that most needs fixing?’ If there is a flabby sound or a disinterested sound, I would probably work on focus and getting them to be awake by maybe doing something physical,” Westra said. “When I worked with Perry Meridian,a pretty well put-together group, I started getting a little more in-depth with [vocal] colors and things like that, because they knew their stuff.”

Of the eight choirs that performed, Westra workshopped with two of them including the Avon H i g h S c h o o l Fe s t i v a l C h o r u s , made up of 34 mixed voices, and the Perry Meridian High SchoolThen & Now Choir, made up of 35 mixed voices. Avon High School’s choir had two pieces of music in its 10 minute set: “Gloria (from Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and “Noel,”by Todd Smith, arranged by Brad Holmes.

Perry Meridian High School’s choir had three pieces of music in its 10 minute set: “All Too Soon,” a traditional Celtic tune arranged by Stephen Hatfield; “Somewhere,” by Leonard Bernstein, arranged

by William Stickles; and “Go Where I Send Thee,” arranged by Andre Thomas.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra will perform on Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

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TAO OF BILL MURRAY THE APPLE WORKS 4 THE 5 BOOK ADVENTURE

>>“Doctor Strange” is the 14th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and finally, things are starting to get weird.

This marks the franchise’s first major foray into the realm of mysticism, opening doors to unpredictable and unimaginable concepts and visuals. The kaleidoscopic buildings seen in the trailers and posters are only the tip of the iceberg compared to some of the psychedelic sequences throughout the film. To only credit the trippy visuals would be a disservice to all the things director Scott Derrickson and his team did right. Not since “Iron Man” has there been a stronger origin film for any superhero. Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange, an arrogant and brilliant neurosurgeon, grows and struggles while becoming a better man. Backing him up is a strong cast, including Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rachel McAdams, who turn in unusually emotional and intimate performances for Marvel.

Arguably the tallest hurdle “Doctor Strange” had to leap was escaping the Marvel formula. For several years, Marvel Studios has been criticized for following similar themes, comedy and resolutions.

While “Strange”doesn’t exactly break free of the mold, it does bend conventions enough that, when combined with the unique visuals, mystical backdrop and captivating performances, it’s hard to notice or, frankly, care.There’s an intimacy to Derrickson’s filmmaking that makes typical Marvel scenes and dialogue feel more personal and heartfelt.

>>Lady Gaga’s newest album, “Joanne,” depicts her and her music in a much more mature and serious way than her past albums did. After launching her career as one of the most controversial and electric pop stars of the day, she has drastically toned down her image and sound, from meat dresses and pop, to light pink floppy hats and a folk country sound.The cover art depicts Gaga as much more innocent with light make-up, the baby pink hat, natural-looking blonde hair and a bland sky-blue background. It seems she is trying to change her image with this picture. It is so different from her past covers with bright lipstick, big sunglasses and drastic haircuts. Her sound also has matured from her past hits such as “Telephone,” “Just Dance” and “Poker Face.” Like this simplified music, she addresses some controversial and personal issues through her lyricism. For example, Gaga named the album “Joanne,” after her aunt, a sexual assault victim who died at the age of 19. In “Angel Down,” Gaga addresses the Black Lives Matter Movement and sings, “Angels down, why do people just stand around?” After listening to the album, I take Lady Gaga more seriously than before and find her a more professional artist than the party girl pop star. Her sound, image and lyrics show she is ready to make music that provokes thought in listeners, instead of her typical club music ideas and performance. I am excited to see what else Lady Gaga has in store for us in her upcoming works.

>>Stepping into Union Jack Pub in Broad Ripple is like being teleported to an pub in Manchester, England.

The wood interior is nearly covered with pictures and British paraphernalia, like flags and scarves with your favorite football or rugby team on them. Although the pub does have a bar section, it also has a family-friendly atmosphere complete with a kid’s menu. After being told to sit wherever we liked, my boyfriend and I chose a booth in the corner of the restaurant and were soon greeted by a waitress. The menu included the usual starters, soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, wraps and dessert, along with the pub’s famous pizza, which has “set the bar of excellence for more than 34 years,” according to the Union Jack Pub website.

One section of the menu listed pub favorites such as fish and chips, chicken fingers and fries, grilled Atlantic salmon, personal pub pizza, fish tacos and the battalion tenderloin sandwich. I decided to go with the tenderloin sandwich and definitely was not disappointed. It was served on either a Kaiser or pretzel bun and the choice of a side. I had never tried a tenderloin sandwich before, but my boyfriend had tried many and said it was one of the best he’d ever had. Although I don’t have much to compare the sandwich to—let me tell you—this one’s going to be hard to beat. Along with the great atmosphere and food, the prices weren’t too bad either. The costs for individual meals ranged from $8.99 to $13.99.

>>For fans of Bill Murray, “The Tao of Bill Murray” is a delightful book illuminating all aspects of the man who is so beloved by much of the public. For neutral readers, getting past the middle may be a struggle. While charming, the book is immensely repetitive.

The two basic topics covered are an overview of Murray’s long and illustrious film career and listed occurrences of Murray’s decidedly endearing behaviors.

In the beginning, the listed events are enjoyable and enthusiastic whilst eliciting a slight smile and bit of bewilderment at Murray’s relaxed lifestyle. Around Page 100, though, the book begins to feel more like a bulletpoint list of humorous incidents than an actual narrative. Whether a reader opens to Chapter 2 or Chapter 22, telling the difference is nearly impossible because there is no real direction or change of tone. Additionally, the audiobook is narrated by the author, whose voice is not well-suited to audiobook reading and oftentimes takes on an almost worshipful tone while describing Murray.

Although the book is by no means unenjoyable, it is more a list of reasons to love Bill Murray than an examination of the man and his rather unique lifestyle. Readers looking for charming stories of Bill Murray will be pleased.

Anyone interested in what exactly the legend of Bill Murray is based upon should not hesitate to look into this book, but it holds no reward for neutral readers.

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Assistant Director of Lantz Center created as new position at UIndy

By Erik Cliburn EDITORIAL ASSISTANT The Lantz Center at the University of Indianapolis recently received a grant from the Lilly Endowment that allowed for the expansion of the Student Leadership Academy and creation of the assistant director position in the Lantz Center. According to Rev. Corey Howard, who has taken the new position, he hopes to further develop the Student Leadership Academy weekend in November along with creating a new two-week long program for the SLA in the summer.

According to Director of the Lantz Center Rev. Jeremiah Gibbs, Howard will not only play a role in the SLA program, but also in regular faith-life on campus.

“That will be 70 percent of his work [for the SLA],” Gibbs said. “He also has a portion of his job which will allow him to be in ministry with our students, whether that’s preaching in chapel, counseling students or all kinds of different roles that pop up in campus ministry.”

Howard has worked with students ranging from middle school to collegeaged, but has never had an official position at a university until now.

“I’ve done some campus ministry,” he said. “It was in Terre Haute. There

was a group of churches that kind of pooled their resources together to do an ecumenical campus ministry for the main three universities in Terre Haute.

There’s ISU [Indiana State University], Rose-Hulman [Institute of Technology] and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods [College].

So this is technically my first appointment through a university, but I have been around college students for around 10 years or more.”

Gibbs said Howard’s experience in working with the Lantz Center in previous years and his knowledge of the SLA program gave him an edge when applying for the position.

“He [Howard] was part of the committee that was helping lead those programs [the SLA] seven years ago, so he’s been involved with that for some time now,” Gibbs said. “Also, he has a background in grant administration with a local community foundation, so he gets the heavy administrative work that is often involved with the grant programs.”

Along with helping students find their calling within the Christian faith, Gibbs wants his and Howard’s work with the SLA to serve as an opportunity to recruit new students of faith to UIndy.

“Part of our hope is that we would be able to help some students discover their calling to some of those fields [ministry and missionary work],” Gibbs said. “Another hope that we certainly have is that

“We all live on this Earth together. I think we’re all better when we know and understand each other better.”

ONLINE THIS WEEK at reflector.uindy.edu

Cross-genre author reads at UIndy Megan Milks is an author known for writing many cross-genre works, ranging from poetry to short stories and even create-your-own story books.

Milks read some of their work for the Kellogg Writer series at the University of Indianapolis on Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Trustees Dining Room in the Schwitzer Student Center.

‘Know Your Candidates’ helps students gain insight on their vote The Department of History and Political Science held an event called, “Know Your Candidates,” on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. The event was intended to inform University of Indianapolis students about who and what would be on the ballot come Nov. 8.

Good customers get good service I am sure that you have read every article or Facebook post from adults who describe this generation’s sense of entitlement. According to dictionary. com, “entitled” means “to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something.” I do not like to believe the stereotype that some people have on this generation, as I am sure that you do not as well.

Res-life, open late College is a place to come and learn more about one’s self and thrive in academia from minuscule mistakes and overshot dreams. College is about venturing out to find a place in the real world in compliance with deadlines and expectations. College is a new foundation for a new beginning with new habits.

some of these students who come and get involved with these programs [in the SLA] would come and be students here. We hope that this serves as kind of a recruiting arm, and it will serve as an arm into a specific population of Christian students.”

According to Howard, his position will allow for more focus and dedication to the SLA programs, along with helping recruit students for UIndy.

“Part of the benefit of this position is somebody is going to be singularly dedicated to expanding the program [the SLA],” he said, “whereas in the past, it’s all been done by volunteer work, with the exception of Jeremiah [Gibbs]. But he has a million other things going on. But I’ll be able to do some recruiting even. So next, I can go out to youth groups and churches to promote the program, almost like an admissions person would do.”

The topic of interfaith is important to Howard, who believes that UIndy does an excellent job of providing a welcoming environment to students of any, or no, faith.

“Especially in the world today, interfaith work is essential to understanding humanity,” Howard said.

“People come from a variety of faiths, and non-religious people as well. We all live on this Earth together. I think we’re all better when we know and understand each other better. One of the things I think is great about UIndy is that there are opportunities and there are groups for different students of different faiths. There are even smaller communities within the overarching religious community, where people can feel like they have a home.”

Goodwill, UIndy to partner soon

Professor attempts to decrease poverty by recruiting grad students

By Morgan Ellis ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Through these public programs offered

by GEI, Angelov plans to open a research and resource center. “[The research and resource center] The University of Indianapolis will is solely focused on special education partner with Goodwill Industries of Cen- and supporting schools and delivering tral Indiana beginning in 2017. This new high-quality special education services partnership will “facilitate community- for people,” Angelov said.

CEO of Goodwill Kent Kramer and based educational initiatives that can have a positive and direct impact on local UIndy President Robert Manuel, accordK-12 students and teachers,” according ing to Angelov, are both advocates for the partnership. to UIndy News. Affili“I think their vision really ated Associate Professor at helped it come alive and laid UIndy and Senior Director the groundwork, by being of Goodwill Education really supportive of the work, Initiatives Azure Angelov even now in its infancy, by will lead the partnership and being able to bring that also oversee the work of the to life,” Angelov said. “It’s research fellow(s). scary at times. I think, ‘Oh “Goodwill has an amazmy gosh, this could be really ing presence in the comamazing. I just hope I do it munity, and they’re on the justice.’” ground doing really exquisite The fellowship will be work,” Angelov said. “At ANGELOV UIndy, we have a really great infrastruc- responsible for supporting communityture for supporting research, and to be based research efforts aimed at decreasing able to leverage the research support at poverty at GEI. Research efforts include UIndy as a way to be able to support the discovering different methods of breaking work that’s going on at Goodwill, it’s all the cycle of poverty in communities in been a really nice match.... Depending on Indianapolis as well as central and southwhere the partnership may go, I think it ern Indiana. Alongside those research has a ton of potential for lots of reasons. efforts are nurse family practitioners who will have hands-on opportunities to aide It’s exciting to see it get going.”

According to Angelov, Goodwill Edu- single mothers in their path to success cation Initiatives is the “educational arm as moms and women in the workforce.

To provide research and information, a of the Indianapolis Goodwill Industry” and home of the Excel Centers. This fellow will be hired for the next semester initiative will cover central and southern of the 2016-2017 academic year at UIndy.

“We’re recruiting for a research felIndiana as well as the jurisdiction in Indianapolis. GEI is home to the Excel Centers, lowship [position] that would start next Indianapolis Metropolitan High School semester,” Angelov said. “Whoever the in downtown Indianapolis and Indiana fellow will be will need to be a UIndy graduate student who’s enrolled in a Network of Independent Schools.

The Excel Centers offer adult high program, and they will work on-site at school students “the opportunity and Goodwill.... Their research and work support to earn a high school diploma really needs to focus on how they see and post-secondary education while research of their vehicle for breaking the developing career paths that offer cycle of poverty.”

Angelov is looking forward to this greater employment and career growth opportunities,” according to The Excel partnership and finds great potential in Centers website. Indianapolis Met- its future.

“I love it. Every day I pinch myself ropolitan High School is a charter school offering public high school and think, ‘How did I find myself here?’” education to students in grades 9-12. Angelov said. “I think it’s all amazing.

INISchools wants to “offer its partner or I’m at Cambridge in Harvard [right network schools a host of high-quality now] working in their business school’s services that enable school administrators executive education program as part of to improve cost efficiency and student my preparation for running this program, achievement,” according to the INIS- and that’s just mind-blowing to me. I get goosebumps just talking about it.” chools website.

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CAC from page 3 with their practices.

“I think this is really exciting because a lot of times at the nursing facilities … they have an atmosphere kind of like a hospital,” Sorley said. “I think that the more experience they [participants] have with the creative arts, it will really help their quality of life.”

Burton believes that expressive arts really do help boost the quality of life for residents and career fulfillment for workers.

“On top of that, it’s fun,” Burton said.

“It’s just fun stuff to do! It’s not just fun for the residents, it is fun for the staff. Part of this course is thinking about, yes, integrate it because it is good for your residents and, yes, this is a place of business, but this is their [residents’] home. This is where they live. When we go home, we want to sing and dance and be silly.”

Part of the training is to help those who will be implementing the activities in the facilities to get over the idea that they are not creative.

“It doesn’t matter what the outcome is, because you are not trying to paint a painting that will be in the Louvre. You are trying to sit down and do something that you find pleasant,” Burton said.

According to Burton, the workshops will be hands-on. She warned participants that they must be able to move around and get dirty. At the end of the third day of training, participants will have learned two formal activities as well as how to incorporate the expressive arts into everyday activities.

After implementing for 10 days what they have learned, they will gather once again to

report on how the activities went and to work through any needed adaptations.

Burton said that the leaders are going to help the participants trouble shoot on the last day to help keep them from getting discouraged. She also said that she wants to make sure there is a line drawn between their activities and any type of art therapy.

“We are very respectful of the scope of practice,” Burton said. “We are going to be very clear that we are not teaching anyone how to do expressive art therapy.

We are teaching them how to see the benefit in engaging in the expressive arts at all, and how it can have a therapeutic benefit.... Obviously a master’s degree and a four-day program [are] not the same.”

The first program will be held in Indianapolis on Nov. 14. Later programs will be held in Fort Wayne, Merrillville, Columbus, Evansville and Indianapolis again in March.

In addition to these workshops, CAC will host two “train the trainer” workshops next year, to help participants in the first round learn how to pass on what they have learned to their coworkers. Burton said that any students interested in CAC and its programs should contact her.

“There are always opportunities to connect students with this,”she said.“We don’t always have money to pay them, so it would be volunteer. If students want to get involved, we are happy to find a way that works for everybody.”

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Fisker plans to challenge Tesla with top-of-the-line electric car

By Charles Fleming LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES (TNS)—Henrik Fisker is returning to the electric vehicle market with a high-cost, high-mileage, battery-powered supercar.

The acclaimed designer said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he will team with a major manufacturer to produce a mainstream, affordable electric car too—possibly by selling the manufacturer his new battery technology, and possibly by using one of the manufacturer’s existing car platforms.

The EMotion, whose name Fisker said “reflects the emotional connection with the consumer,” will be produced at the Michigan plant that is currently building the Fisker-designed Force 1, a $268,000 gasoline-powered car that the Los Angeles-trained auto builder is selling through his VLF Automotive. (The first of a limited run of 50 Force 1s is just now being delivered to its first customer, in Texas, Fisker said.)

The new vehicle, which could be shown as early as mid-2017 and begin production not long after, will be “sporty and spacious,” Fisker said.

The vehicle will include a large curved front windscreen pushed forward, diving into a low bonnet. The rear features an integrated spoiler and “aggressive functional diffusor to aid aerodynamics,” which will help the car achieve a 161 mph top speed and a 400-mile electric range, he said.

It will also recharge faster than any electric car currently on the market—and have longer battery life, he said.

That will be possible, Fisker claimed, because he and a group of engineers have hit on radical new battery technology that reduces weight and size while increasing power density. The EMotion will use a new battery technology using graphene, with battery packs produced by Fisker Nanotech, a joint venture between Fisker Inc. and Nanotech Energy Inc. At the same time, he said, they have reconfigured the layout of the electric

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Police sergeant killed, another injured in shootout with robbery suspect A New York Police Department sergeant died after a shootout with a home-invasion suspect in the Bronx on Friday, Nov. 5, and a second sergeant was injured but is in stable condition, officials said. Police shot and killed the gunman, identified as Manuel Rosales, 35, after initially trying to arrest him in his vehicle, officials said. Rosales was pronounced dead at the scene. The slain sergeant was identified as Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo, a 19-year veteran, who was proclaimed dead after being taken to Jacobi Hospital.

—Los Angeles Times

Last jobs report before election shows wage growth

Henrik Fisker’s latest creation, the EMotion,is intended to take on Tesla and other high-end electric cars. (Fisker) power train and found a new way to integrate the battery into the vehicle.

More power per size allows for more usable space in the car, which Fisker said would offer more leg room than many of the best European luxury cars.

The EMotion will be equipped with hardware that will allow fully autonomous driving when approved and released by a soon-to-be-announced partnered supplier, he said.

Fisker said the car will be a “lowvolume” production—“a few thousand a year”—but would be followed by a second, more affordable vehicle that could be manufactured in the “hundred thousand a year” range.

This approach is different from Fisker’s previous production plan, which fizzled after problems with the Fisker Karma hybrid led in time to a bankruptcy and sale of assets.

A Chinese company ended up owning the Karma name, which has resulted in a new Karma Automotive, currently building electric Revero sedans in a plant in

California’s Moreno Valley.

Fisker said he took several lessons away from the previous iteration.

“The two learnings I’ve taken from starting Fisker are that you have to be in charge of your own battery and testing and all that,” the designer said. “And the other is with manufacturing. It’s very tough to do high-volume manufacturing, for a startup company. The Fisker Karma was a low-volume vehicle with expensive tooling.This time we want to deploy most of our capital on the high-volume vehicle.”

Fisker declined to say whose capital he’ll be spending.

The new vehicle will feature dihedral “butterfly” front and rear doors—somewhat akin to the doors on a McLaren, and a cousin to the troublesome “falcon wing” doors on the Tesla Model X. Fisker said his engineers have been working “in stealth mode” for a long time on the doors, and that they should not present the same difficulties the “falcon wing” doors did for Tesla and its co-founder, Elon Musk.

Indeed, Fisker had words of admiration for his luxury EV competitor.

“You can go the safe way, or you can innovate and do something new,” he said.

“Elon decided to do that, and I think that’s great. Someone has to take the first risk.”

Fisker was more tight-lipped about the specifics of his new battery technology, except to praise its potential. Saying more, he said, would tip off his rivals.

“There are a lot of new startups here in California, so we have to keep it confidential,” Fisker said.

But they exist, right?

“We have a secret battery plant, somewhere in California, that is already producing the new cells,” Fisker said.“No one knows where it is. Very few people on my team are allowed to visit it.” ___ (c)2016 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www. latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

WASHINGTON—The last monthly jobs report before Tuesday, Nov. 8’s presidential election offered some encouraging news for workers: Job growth remains steady and pay is rising at a faster rate. Employers in October added 161,000 jobs, a little less than analysts’ average forecast but still a solid pace consistent with a healthy labor market. That’s more than enough to absorb new entrants to the workforce and keep the jobless rate from rising.

—Tribune Washington Bureau

Saudi student’s death at Wisconsin university prompts FBI investigation MENOMONIE, Wis.—The FBI has joined the investigation into the death of a University of Wisconsin-Stout student from Saudi Arabia who was attacked in the city’s entertainment district as bars closed and Halloween revelers headed home early Sunday, Oct. 30. Police have not made an arrest, and have not been able to confirm if Hussain Saeed Alnahdi’s death outside Toppers Pizza was a hate crime, Menomonie Police Chief Eric Atkinson said in a prepared statement Friday afternoon.

—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ©2016 McClatchy Tribune News Service

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