The Franklin: April 5, 2019

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MATH DEPARTMENT RECEIVES $100,000 IN FUNDING Alumna and husband honor the department’s legacy

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A Franklin College alumna has established a new endowed fund to honor the legacy of the college’s math department.

Alumna Christi Fields and her husband Jack Borgerding started a $100,000 endowed fund for the mathematics department.

Named the Legacy Fund, the endowment is celebrating the combined century taught by math professors Dwight Heath, Richard Park and Daniel Callon.

Fields said the success of the program and the close-knit relationships between students were the reasons she and her husband decided to donate to the program.

“Jack and I both believe in giving back to institutions that helped us,” Fields said.

“This gift is just one small token of our appreciation for all the professors that helped us so many years ago.”

The endowment was a $50,000 challenge grant, meaning it was up to the college to match it with another $50,000. The math department is able to decide where the money would be used.

“The math department will determine how the funds generated by this donation should be used as they know where the needs are greatest,” Fields said. “We talked about student mentoring programs, support for the new accounting major and other ideas.”

One of the new ideas includes is an event called “Pizza and Actuarial Science.” This is a session where busy actuarial science students can enjoy pizza at lunchtime while working with professors on their studies.

This, along with trips to math conferences and a scholar-in residence, are the main areas the professors wish to put into play using the funds.

Franklin College will host it’s annual one day of giving challenge on April 18. #GivetoGriz is in its seventh year, and during the entire day, alumni and members of the community are encouraged to donate money to the Franklin Fund, which funds student tuition assistance.

This year, the college has a goal of raising $145,000 with at least 1,000 donors. This is around an $11,000 increase from 2018 when $134,245 was raised.

Last year’s funds marked the most the college raised for this event since it began in 2013, and each year the goal has been surpassed.

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Math professor Daniel Callon helps a student in class. DANIELLE NUCKOLS | PHOTO

Callon, professor of mathematics and 1977 Franklin College graduate, said he and his colleagues serve as figureheads, and that the Legacy Fund represents the math program and how the staff, students and community of alumni have worked in unison.

“The culture we’ve created in this department, that’s a unique thing,” Callon said. “There’s a spirit here where you’ve got everyone working together.”

Like Fields and Borgerding, junior accounting major Melissa Beer appreciates the atmosphere created by the professors and the relationships they build with students.

“The math department at FC has been the place where I have grown personally and academically,” Beer said.

“I have found many amazing mentors and developed relationships with peers that I wouldn’t have known otherwise,” Beer added. “I would not be headed down the path I am without those in it.”

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COLLEGE HONORS FOUR WOMEN OF DISTINCTION The college honored four women during the Women of Distinction Awards in March.

Senior Taylor McElwain, alumna Brooke Worland, Dean of Student Success and Retention Keri Ellington and community member Nieka Davis were honored with the awards.

All these women were nominated for their work in the community and on campus in the student, alumnae, faculty and community categories. After nominees were selected, the women were judged and selected by a panel.

“We are forever grateful for the group of 28 pioneering women who sought enrollment at Franklin College in 1842,” Franklin College President Thomas Minar said at the awards. “Those exceptional women cemented our college legacy as Indiana’s first co-educational institution, and the nation’s seventh.”

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NO PLANS TO ADD NEW CAMERAS ON CAMPUS Director of Security says the focus is on updating current equipment VICTORIA RATLIFF | STORY victoria.ratliff@franklincollege.edu

When freshman Madison Peterman returned to her room in Elsey Hall in December, she discovered someone had written an explicit word on her whiteboard and crumpled up her door decorations.

Peterman, who transferred out of Franklin College after the fall semester, said she wished there were cameras in the hallways so she could know who vandalized her door.

“No one could ever be 100 percent about who did this,” she said. “Because I never had any proof, just suspicion.”

There are no cameras in the college’s dorm hallways, Director of Security Steve Leonard said. He said there are no rules prohibiting the use of cameras in residence halls, however, “it seems reasonable that students should be able to assume an expectation of privacy in those areas.”

But some students, like Peterman, said they may feel safer with more security cameras inside and outside.

Another incident occurred in the fall when the radiators in the north stairwells of Elsey Hall were damaged. Because there were no cameras in the stairwells and no one could figure out who was responsible, all residents in Elsey were fined for the damages.

And for Peterman, she never found out who vandalized her door.

“At least I’d have proof that someone did this to me,” she said. “And I might have been

able to identify who it was, but since there’s no cameras there’s no way to know.”

As far as outside cameras go, a story published by The Franklin in its Feb. 14, 2018 issue detailed an issue where a student’s car was hit, but she was unable to catch the culprit due to the lack of cameras on the exterior of the Dietz Center.

Leonard said he still stands with the idea that exterior cameras are not beneficial, and there are no new additions planned, but the security office is constantly maintaining the cameras they have.

“We are continuing to try to improve this technology,” he said. “We have also added a part-time security officer position to help have more of a security presence on campus.”

He said that security can’t zoom in on camera footage after the fact to see faces from a distance, so additional cameras would not be much help. He said the college also currently does not have enough staff to have someone monitoring the cameras 24/7.

Freshman Haley Carney said she thinks it’s dangerous that there are lots of spots on campus that don’t have cameras.

“It’s a valid point that you can’t zoom in on them after the fact, but I feel like everyone would feel safer having them,” she said.

Cost is also a factor in updating security systems, Leonard said.

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To add cameras to the exterior of every building on campus would cost up to $50,000 – money he said the department does not have.

Leonard explained that there would have to be multiple cameras on the exterior of every building to fit the entire parking lots in view. And even then, the cameras are very zoomed out, and again, can’t be zoomed in to identify people in the parking lot.

Still, Leonard and the rest of the security department understand the students’ side of the argument and try to work with students who have had security issues on campus.

“I always try to keep in mind, that even if it happens to one or two students,” he said, “it’s 100 percent of the time for those one or two students.”

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FORMER GRIZZLY OPENS BOURBON BAR IN FRANKLIN New bar offers bourbon, cocktails and southern-style food LACEY WATT | STORY lacey.watt@franklincollege.edu

A bourbon and cocktail bar opened its doors last month in downtown Franklin, and it’s been drawing in local guests and out-of-town visitors ever since.

Owner and Franklin College alum Brian Alvey and co-owner Thomas Moore sat down one day and decided to open a new business. With both men having previous entrepreneurial experience, they thought opening a business was worth a shot.

That’s where The Mint comes in.

Alvey and Moore live in Franklin and are independent consultants for business arenas.

They already had offices upstairs in the building on 40 N. Water St. where The Mint currently sits.

The majority of Alvey’s client base are owners of bars and restaurants, so he already had experience in the field. Moore also has restaurant experience, as he and his wife, Elissa, own 1823 Bakehouse another new business, located at 25 E. Court St. “We talked over a cup of coffee at [Moore’s] coffee shop one day,” Alvey said.

“We decided to join forces, if you will, and do this.”

The work started in December and the opening was only three months later on March 1.

Franklin already has multiple locations that serve alcohol, including Bojak’s Bar and Grille, the Grill Bar, Jefferson Street Pub, The Willard and more. Alvey said The Mint just helps complete Franklin and also has a different design that holds its own category.

The Mint is a bourbon and cocktail bar and serves an extensive selection on the bourbon and whiskey category, alongside a full bar with draft lights, premium and domestic beer and wine. They also serve a full menu that is Kentucky southern style food and offer food options that may not be offered at other locations in Franklin.

Still, the bar is not just a typical night club, the owners said.

“It’s not really a club environment,” Alvey said. “But more of a relaxed atmosphere; more of a lounge versus a club.”

The Mint welcomes anyone 21 years or older who wants to come in and enjoy. So far, they have served a very diverse group of people when in the mood for this specific

style of dining.

Being located in close proximity to Franklin College, along with the current economic boom the city is in as new restaurants and cafes continue to pop up, Alvey said his goal is to help continue to build the city up.

“There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that Franklin is the place to open and operate a business,” Alvey said.

With the kinship he shares with the college, Alvey said he welcomes all current Grizzlies who are of age. He said they’ve already received strong support from students, staff and alumni.

“Once a Griz, always a Griz,” Alvey said.

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NEW ROOMMATE SELECTION COMING SOON Residence Life says the refined process will resemble social media ALIVIA BREWER | STORY alivia.brewer@franklincollege.edu

Not every roommate is the perfect match, but Residence Life is trying to help the process by testing out a new selection program to more accurately place students together.

This new process will include more indepth questions that will potentially help match people more successfully.

Questions that were asked previously just included simple acts, such as bed time and tidiness of the room. These questions were found to be very broad and didn’t fulfill what really needed to be asked, said Jacob Knight, director of Residence Life.

The new process is entirely optional, and students can still go through the old selection method, but the new system will not take any additional time, Knight said.

However, this selection will not begin until fall 2020 for new and returning students who

wish to randomly select roommates. The selection process will include the option of searching through student profiles to better get to know people and have conversations between potential roommates.

“The process will reflect what social media does today, which connects people and allows them to get to know each other,” Knight said.

The creation of this new process stemmed from some students having issues with their randomly selected roommates, even if they were best matched with the current method.

Freshman Avery Setser said she had conflicts with her previous roommate who smoked cigarettes.

“I answered on the questionnaire that I was okay with my roommate smoking because people that smoke don’t bother me,

but the odor of cigarette smoke was smelling up our entire room,” Setser said.

Senior Abigail Jones moved off campus because she said she had constant issues with the first roommate.

“My roommate and I didn’t get along because we were complete opposites and I never wanted to experience that again, so I decided to start living off campus every year,” Jones said.

There are still changes to be made to the new process to ensure the right questions are being asked and students know how to use this new resource.

“This gives us plenty of time to get thoughts on the questions and make sure that there’s no concerns with us asking specific information,” Knight said.

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Immersive residence experience allows students to learn beyond the classroom setting STORY & PHOTO | QUINN FITZGERALD

iving-learning communities is not a new concept for Franklin College, but the latest addition has a different approach.

Beginning fall of the 2019-20 school year, there will be a new living-learning community for students. Through LEA 330, a course on leadership in a multicultural context, students are able to study leadership in a place that integrates residence life and a class.

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LEA 330 course instructor Hannah Adams Ingram said students engage well and learn a lot when they are living together with an expressed purpose. She said it makes the dorm experience intentional instead of just being convenient.

“Being attached to a class increases these outcomes,” Adams Ingram said.

Living-learning communities are spe-

cialized living environments that connect students both inside and outside the classroom experiences. They are all unique, but they all center around a distinctive theme or academic interest area.

Purdue University has 13 different living-learning communities and Indiana University has two.

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the same discipline within each community, IU students can come from different majors.

According to the National Resource Center, Oxford College was the first modern college to adopt a living-learning community in 1270. In 1636, Harvard College was the second.

“This was part of the explaining to academic affairs even, just kind of doing the history lesson,” said Jacob Knight, director of residence life. “It’s sort of an educational model that has existed for centuries.”

Currently there are two living-learning communities that already exist at Franklin College: Modern Languages House and Build Our Leaders through Diversity.

The B.O.L.D. community’s purpose is to promote an understanding and respect for multiculturalism and diversity as well as to provide intellectual, social and cultural programs focused on multicultural enrichment.

In the fall, the B.O.L.D. community will move from the Maple House to a section in the Johnson-Dietz residence hall.

“Moving to the sections will change the prominence of the community on campus because it will be central,” said Veronica Roberts, area coordinator and B.O.L.D. advisor.

Currently, the Maple House, located on the far-east edge of campus, only allows six students to live in it. The proposed section in Johnson-Dietz holds up to 11 students.

“Also, by moving it to a residence hall, next year we’ll be able to have first-year freshmen in the B.O.L.D. community which will be the biggest change,” Roberts said.

Roberts said next year, any spaces not filled by returning students are open to firstyear and incoming students interested in being a part of the B.O.L.D. community.

The Modern Language living-learning community – aimed to help students develop their language skills, engage in critical thinking and build cultural awareness – will be the only one to remain in a campus home starting in the fall.

There are currently three homes owned by the college: the NELP House, which is the Modern Language House, the Maple House and the Forsythe House, which currently houses graduate students.

Because the intent of the campus homes was not to use or maintain them as homes, but more like property, Ellis Hall, vice president of student affairs and dean of students, said he does not think they will last forever.

“The current campus homes, I don’t

think any of them are long-term going to be sustained as a single-dwelling home like that,” Hall said. “Long-term, I think they’ll eventually all go away.”

In the 2014-15 school year, the college introduced three different themed housing communities – the Modern Language, Women Studies and the B.O.L.D. House.

The Women Studies home eventually became a house for Panhellenic women in the college’s three sororities. Currently, this house is open to graduate students.

Students in LEA 330 will live on the second floor of the Dietz Center. Those who are not commuters are expected to live on the floor. They will also have their own study lounge and meet for class in the Dietz seminar room.

Other residence halls were considered for the community, but because of the small size of the class, the desire to have a study lounge in the same building and the accommodation for both females and males on the same floor, the Dietz Center became the best option.

“In some ways [Dietz Center] checked all the boxes,” Knight said.

LEA 330 will also count for the required diversity exploratory course. Adams Ingram said the course was the best choice for integrating multiple components.

“As we were exploring possible courses that we could try this with, that one was enticing just because the content is already – in a sense – living and leading together across differences,” Adams Ingram said.

Because LEA 330 is a traditional course that takes place only in the fall, the spring semester would then be similar to the other existing living-learning communities.

Students would continue living in Dietz together after the course ends.

Currently there are only four people enrolled in the course, but Adams Ingram said decisions about the future of the course or how enrollment will affect it have not been made yet.

Ultimately, Adams Ingram said the newest community allows students to make and study their own case study instead of learning about a variety of unrelated hypothetical case studies in a normal class setting.

“My big hope is that this living-learning community provides an organized opportunity for students to explore how what they are already learning in the classroom they are already doing in real life,” Ingram said.

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LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITIES ON CAMPUS LEA 330 B.O.L.D.

MODERN LANGUAGE

H I S T O RY O F L I V I N G LEARNING COMMUNITIES 1. 6TH CENTURY B.C.E: CLASSICAL GREECE 2. 425: IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE 3. 1270: OXFORD COLLEGE 4. 1636: HARVARD COLLEGE 5. 1927: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN’S “EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE”

Source: National Resource Center, University of South Carolina

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Friends turn playful photography into a passion that pays STORY | ERICA IRISH

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or many students, college is a time for discovery, risk-taking and reinvention.

Even though sophomore friends Madi Ripberger and Danny Goggans come from different worlds – Ripberger growing up in rural Tipton, Indiana, and Goggans experiencing life just north of Indianapolis at Cathedral High School – together, they found a new path for understanding themselves and the Franklin College community.

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It all started when a mutual connection, sophomore Lainie Grubbs, brought home a school-issued camera for a required course in her public relations major.

Grubbs shared the camera with Ripberger and Goggans, who had little to no formal training in photography. They started to play with its features and test their abilities with other students.

But what began as lighthearted snapshots of close friends and family soon grew into

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a full-fledged, paying photography business. With help from Grubbs and Goggans’ girlfriend Sydney Utterback, Ripberger and Goggans launched an Instagram page to showcase their work under the clever handle “@damgoodphotos.” “Dam” fuses the first initials of Danny and Madi.

Goggans and Ripberger knew they had to expand their equipment arsenal. Each visited the Indianapolis store Roberts Camera and purchased hand-me-down cameras and >>

>> lenses for around $300 combined.

“It was in the summer thankfully, so we were making money,” Ripberger said..

Goggans took the knowledge he gained from a photography class in high school and paired that with help from his father, Greg, who has spent his career working as a photographer and videographer for WTHR Channel 13 in Indianapolis.

“I’ve kind of been around cameras for my whole life,” Goggans said. “But it was never anything super serious until now.”

Goggans would accompany his father on shoots in high school at local high-profile athletic events. But he said he didn’t see the value of the work itself until he launched his own business.

“I was more focused on all the celebrities and athletes he was always around,” Goggans said, noting a time when his father met iconic Indiana Pacers shooting guard Reggie Miller. “It was more like I was star struck every time I went to work with him.”

The elder Goggans, however, was able to connect his son and Ripberger to a professional newspaper photographer in Tampa, Florida, who gave the pair additional guidance on how to best plan for visual projects

in a business model.

The duo then got to work during summer 2018, charging low prices for gigs with family members and friends of friends. Goggans and Ripberger started with his younger brother, Malcolm, and went on several outings in and around the Indianapolis area.

I’ve kind of been around cameras for probably my whole life, but it was never anything super serious until now.”

SOPHOMORE DANNY GOGGANS One shoot led them to the Garfield Park Conservatory and Sunken Gardens on the south side of Indianapolis – until they were kicked out by a groundskeeper for photographing without a permit. And when she was back in Tipton over the summer, Ripberger was confronted by a woman for taking photos underneath a bridge.

“It gave me a heart attack,” Ripberger said, again with her optimistic laugh.

Yet it’s the risks, Goggans and Ripberger said, that make their work worthwhile.

At one point, Goggans even ended up scaling a waterfall in the Holcomb Gardens near Butler University during a shoot with his younger brother where he almost slipped.

But the experience, he said, has made him think quick on his feet to capture his distinct style – bright, vivid colors and, with human subjects, intense emotion.

“Whenever I take pictures, I try to make sure all the colors are out,” Goggans said.

“And when I take pictures of sports, it’s cool to see all the emotion in the athlete’s faces, because to me it’s a culmination of the love and all the time you put in, the frustrations and victories.”

While the friends-turned-entrepreneurs admit they’re nowhere near perfect at their craft, they said the main benefit comes from connecting their communities. The pay is simply a bonus to them.

“It’s not either of our priorities,” Ripberger said. “But it’s something we enjoy doing.

We’ll probably stick with it for awhile.”

Sophomores Danny Goggan and Madi Ripberger do a photoshoot in downtown Franklin. CLAIRE CASTILLO | PHOTO

OPINION

EDITORIAL | WHITE SUPREMACY MUST BE STOPPED

New Zealand mosque shootings prompt action at home, dialogue abroad Abdukadir Elmi, 70 Abdul Fattah Qasem, 60 Ahmed Abdel Ghani, 68 Ali Elmadani, 66 Amjad Hamid, 57 Ansi Alibava, 24 Ashraf Ali, 58 Ashraf Al-Masri Ashraf Morsi, 54 Asif Vora, 56 Atta Elayyan, 33 Daoud Nabi, 71 Farhaj Ahsan, 30 Ghulam Husain, 66 Hafiz Musa Vali Patel, 59 Hamza Mustafa, 16 Haroon Mehmood, 40 Hosne Ahmed, 44 Hussain al-Umari, 35 Hussein Moustafa, 70 Junaid Kara (Ismail), 36 Kamel Mohamad (Darweesh), 39 Karam Bibi, 63 Khaled Mustafa, 44 Linda Armstrong, 65 Maheboob Khokar, 65 Matiullah Safi, 55 Mohammed Imran Khan, 47 Omar Faruk, 36 Mohsen Mohammed Al Harbi, 63 Mojammel Hoq, 30 Mounir Suleiman, 68 Mucad Ibrahim, 3 Lilik Abdul Hamid, 58 Abdus Samad, 66 Musa Nur Awale, 77 Naeem Rashid, 50 Osama Abnan Abu Kweik, 37 Ozair Kadir, 25 Ramiz Vora, 28 Sayyad Milne, 14 Sohail Shahid, 40 Syed Areeb Ahmed, 27 Syed Jahandad Ali, 34 Talha Rashid, 21 Tariq Omar, 24 Zakaria Bhuiya, 33 Zeeshan Raza, 38 Muhammad Haziq bin Mohd Tarmizi, 17 Mohamad Moosi Mohamedhosen, 54 SOURCE: BBC NEWS, ‘THE PEOPLE KILLED AS THEY PRAYED’

Violent acts motivated by white supremacy are abhorrent and should not be tolerated, no matter where they take place.

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When will the terror end?

On March 15, a white supremacist in the idyllic town of Christchurch, New Zealand, gathered together assault rifles and a racist manifesto before slaughtering 50 men, women and children in two mosques, or houses of worship for the followers of Islam. Fifty more were injured in the attack, according to live coverage by CNN World.

This is not an isolated incident. It is one of many in a string of hate-fueled attacks inspired by white nationalists and supremacists, or individuals who believe that white people are the superior race and have the right to dominate minority groups.

Readers can look further than the last four years to note the heinous acts of violence aimed at non-white communities and religious minorities. Locations on maps now reek of the pain and suffering of people persecuted and killed without reason: 11 Jewish worshippers killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last year; in 2015, nine black congregants killed in worship at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Perhaps most shocking are findings released in January 2018 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a national civil rights

organization. The ADL found that white supremacists were behind 20 out of 34 extremist murders in 2017 – a total more than double the previous year’s data.

And the trend continued in 2018, according to the ADL’s corresponding 2019 report on murder and extremism in the United States. According to ADL, 78 percent of extremist-related murderswere committed by advocates of white supremacy.

The Franklin abhors white supremacy in all its forms. So-called jokes and memes about Nazism and the Holocaust, close-minded perceptions about race, race relations and mocking diversity initiatives on campus are just some of the observations our staff has made during our time on campus.

The history of Franklin College – and the larger Franklin community – goes to show how these thoughts can proliferate and evolve into harmful actions at a local level.

If you think it “doesn’t happen here,” you’re wrong.

Just two years ago, The Franklin reported that fliers distributed by the KKK, a preeminent racist and white supremacist organization in America, were found scattered across campus parking lots.

“Phrases like ‘love your own race,’ ‘stop homosexuality and race mixing’ and ‘God’s laws don’t forget’ were printed on the fliers inside heart clipart,” according to The Franklin article. The person responsible for distributing the fliers was never identified.

This remains a problem at neighboring colleges and universities, too.

DePauw University, a private, four-year school located in Greencastle, Indiana, has reported a bout of vandalism incidents tinged with racist, white supremacist and anti-LGBT messages. The most recent incident occurred in 2018.

But the Indiana community persists in its resistance to these evils. Then and now, Franklin faculty, staff and community leaders alike have rallied students at all levels against white supremacy.

For example, Tiffany Phillips – owner of Wild Geese Bookshop at 107 S. Water Street in downtown Franklin – wanted to make a difference after the latest tragedy in Christchurch. Phillips encouraged the community to write handwritten notes of affirmation to be delivered to our Muslim neighbors.

On Franklin College’s Family Weekend, mere days after the attacks some 8,500 miles away, Hannah Adams Ingram, the campus’ director of religious life, welcomed visiting families in need of a safe space to reflect on the incident and heal in Richardson Chapel.

Our staff urges the Franklin College community to seek out these avenues for healing to overcome the pain of this moment and to potentially start their own outreach efforts.

But we must also remember the need for our campus to defend minority students and neighbors, to affirm their place in community and to hold a zero-tolerance policy for hatred, discrimination, white supremacy and white nationalism.

Salam. Peace can and must prevail.

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REALITY CHECK | DYING PLANET NEEDS SAVING

Students, governments must recognize and act to save an environment in crisis The world is coming to an end, but people don’t seem to care.

Weather is constantly fluctuatCAROLINA ing between hot PUGA MENDOZA and cold, animals are going extinct and the environment is ceasing to exist while people look for someone else to be held accountable. Even though we are the ones to blame, we fail to take responsibility.

According to Spencer R. Weart, former director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, in his book “The Discovery of Global Warning,” people first charted changes in the atmosphere in the 1800s. The earth has called out to us for generations, but people refuse to take action.

The United States is used to letting these issues continue since our government, as the leaders of a capitalist superpower, fail to see them as critical to our economy.

But ignoring problems only allows them to multiply, creating a larger challenge.

The list of consequences grows and grows, including everything from health issues, air

pollution, extinction, limited food safety and, of course, the death of our planet.

The consequences might sound harsh, but according to Franklin College biology professor Alice Heikens, people already knew this would happen.

“Our earth is getting warmer, but we predicted this,” Heikens said. “I can pull out notes from [a class] I taught in environmental studies when I first came here 30 years ago. How many times do we hear about forest fires? We predicted this; we said these things were going to happen and they are coming true today.”

Climate change is not only affecting the weather, but also the environment, the economy and wildlife. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a global network for nature conservation, 2018 was recorded as the fourth year in a row with warmer weather. This rise in heat resulted in 14 natural disasters, costing the U.S. government about $1 billion, according to the WWF. Global Change, a national research program concentrating on climate change, broke down how the phenomenon affects regions individually. The Midwest is seeing increased flooding; the West is experiencing more heatwaves and drought; the Southeast

is facing more hurricanes. Other changes include rising temperatures, wildfires and extreme precipitation.

Still, every action matters. Even the smallest change in our daily lives can improve our hopes of saving what’s left.

Heikens suggests that students walk more instead of using cars, or turn the lights off when they aren’t needed. She said when buying a car, investigate the car’s mileage because that’s one of the major contributors to a person’s carbon footprint.

Heikens said students can even be environmentally conscious when buying a home.

Students should look into the energy it uses and its insulation, for example.

“We know how to solve it,” Heikens said.

“We’ve known how to solve it for decades.

We simply don’t want to make the changes that are required because we would have to change the way we live.”

Young people across Indiana already started sharing their concerns through protests and a massive student-led strike in March. They are calling out their government for failure to act on an issue that’ll ultimately rob us of a future.

It all starts with a voice. When will you find yours?

SENIOR FAREWELL | TAKE A CHANCE, MAKE THE LEAP Columnist Chaz Hill reviews time as film critic, urges students to take risks Before my time with The Franklin, I had absolutely zero journalism experience.

As a social studies secondary CHAZ HILL education major, I had never even taken a journalism course.

I joined The Franklin on nothing but a leap of faith with my passion for film and entertainment as my only guide.

If I had one piece of parting advice, it would definitely be: Every once in a while, take the leap.

A leap not taken is an opportunity lost.

Pursue what you are passionate about.

Chase it down and seize your moments, no matter how big or small they are.

If you don’t chase your dreams, who will?

As Marty McFly says in my favorite movie ever, “Back to the Future,” “If you put your

mind to it, you can accomplish anything.”

Entertainment news and opinion writing, in another life, was a career I may have chosen to pursue. It has always been among my passions.

However, before I joined the staff, I never knew if I could do it.

To prove it to myself, I took the leap and pursued an opportunity as a columnist.

I wrote about subject matter that I loved in my column, “Two Cents on Movies,” and I enjoyed every single second of it.

From pieces on Steven Spielberg to “Star Wars” and superhero movies, there was never a shortage of exciting topics that I had the privelege of covering.

In my time on staff, I was able to explore how entertainment impacted the students and staff of Franklin College, all while hearing some great perspectives along the way.

I would like to thank Shelby Mullis, Matt Thomas, Andrew Longstreth, Taylor Brown, Erica Irish and Bryan Wells for being some

of my friends that welcomed me onto The Franklin staff with open arms.

Thank you all for your encouragement and hospitality. You welcomed a non-journalist into your place of work and helped me be successful. I will forever appreciate that.

Looking back, I am incredibly proud of the pieces I penned for this newspaper.

While they may not have always been the most “important” pieces of journalism, they still have a purpose.

It is my hope that I brought happiness and levity to at least one reader during my time on The Franklin.

That is the end goal of entertainment writing, right?

Never discount the goal of bringing happiness to others.

In the words of the great showman P.T. Barnum, “The noblest art is that of making others happy.”

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TO DO | HOOSIER CANDY CUPBOARD SPREADS JOY Candy shop and railroad museum serves as city’s unofficial visitor’s center Railroads, candy, trains and ice cream.

At first glance, it may not seem as if these four items have anyARIANA LOVITT thing in common.

But in the city of Franklin, one local business – Hoosier Cupboard Candy, Snacks and Ice Cream – specializes in all four.

Walking into the store’s rustic and old-fashioned interior, outfitted with dark wood floors, worn benches and vintage stools, is an immediate comfort. Shelves and display cases surround the area, each full of tempting treats, sodas and ice cream flavors.

Owner Kim Smith serves with a kind of enthusiasm that shines through every part of the store.

She describes herself as the “visitor’s center” of Franklin due to her extensive knowledge of the city. With her influence, it’s almost impossible to feel anything but childlike glee inside Hoosier Cupboard.

Smith was previously employed part-time

at the store at a separate location, but ownership fell into her hands after the original owner passed away. The manager at the time, who took the owner’s place, had plans to purchase the business herself but decided against it at the last minute.

Smith initially envisioned owning a cafe in the area but now owns and operates Hoosier Cupboard full time with her husband, Craig and two children.

However, the transitional period for Hoosier Cupboard was not an easy one. The building on East Jefferson Street that now houses the business, sat empty for three years before the Smiths purchased it through a silent auction hosted by the Johnson County Community Foundation.

“We were the highest bid, so that’s how we got it,” Smith said. “Then it was nine months later to restore it before we could even open.”

Hoosier Cupboard continues to grow and evolve in its new home, which opened to the public in April 2016. Parts of the store’s decor and inventory have been added gradually, thanks to the family’s perseverance.

A downstairs area, for example, leads

Hoosier Cupboard Candy, Snacks and Ice Cream opened in its current location in April 2016. PEYTAN MILLS | PHOTO

guests into a quaint yet growing museum of train and railroad memorabilia, containing everything from patches and signs to boxcars and a model train in the center of the room.

Smith’s son, Cameron, owns most of the memorabilia and his mother shares in both his excitement and knowledge of trains.

“Having the opportunity to buy the candy store and grow it was just great,” she said.

“I don’t know how to describe that, because it wasn’t something that was planned – it just fell into our laps.”

BEYOND THE BEAT | BRIDGING TV AND MUSIC

“13 Reasons Why” actor explores balance between acting and singing careers If you have a subscription to Netflix, you are probably familiar with the show “13 Reasons Why.” Regardless if you KARA SIMON have actually watched the show, it’s likely you’ve at least heard about the controversies surrounding its plotline.

Critics and at-home viewers alike expressed concern with the show. Some people say it romanticized suicide and others say it raised awareness about trauma.

Sunday marked two years since the release of the first season of the series. In the two years since the release, leading actor Dylan Minnette has shifted his career to focus on a new realm of the entertainment industry: music.

Minnette, an Indiana native, is now one of three members of the alternative group Wallows, with his bandmates

guitarist Braeden Lemasters and drummer Cole Preston.

Their latest single, “Sidelines,” accumulated over a million listens in only a week, which is quite the accomplishment for a band that has yet to release a debut album.

On March 12, the band visited a tiny record store in Columbus, Ohio, for their first stop on a tour of album playbacks for their new album, “Nothing Happens.”

Fortunately, I was able to get a spot on the list of people allowed into the event.

While crowded and full of squealing teenage girls, it was surely an opportunity I could not pass up to learn more about the intersections between music and television.

Both Lemasters and Minnette left their hometowns at a young age to pursue acting in Los Angeles, California. When I asked about the transition from the Midwest to the West Coast – a seemingly different universe – the boys laughed.

Soon after, Minnette and Lemasters’ mothers met on the internet shortly moving.

After meeting, they helped the boys realize their shared interest in music. Soon, they found themselves working to balance blossoming acting careers with their underlying desire to pursue music.

Since forming the band, the members’ relationships have been tested. Initially, twothirds of the band focused on acting, pushing their musical endeavors aside.

“We have to spend more time together than ever, with recording and soon touring,” Minnette said.

Minnette and the boys have major plans for 2019. The band has their first headlining world tour kicking off April 13.

Beyond music, the third and, potentially, final season of “13 Reasons Why” is set to be released before the end of the year. Minnette is still expected to be involved in the show, but he doesn’t have a role lined up after the series ends.

It will be interesting to see the focus of Minnette as his career progresses. Can artists pursue acting and music and still succeed?

SPORTS

FINDING THE PERFECT BALANCE Athletes, coach discuss how to make academic, athletic careers work HOPE SHRUM | STORY hope.shrum@franklincollege.edu

It’s all about the trifecta – finding the perfect balance in a student-athlete’s social, academic and athletic lives, said Andrew Hendricks, head swimming and diving coach.

“We have those three parts, and when any one part goes out of balance, it affects the other two,” Hendricks said. “Anytime it goes out of balance, that’s a stress.”

While many college students feel strained with the amount of work they have to do on a daily basis, two Franklin College athletes said adding sports to the equation does not make them feel any more stressed than they are during the off-season.

Junior Josh Stewart, a member of the men’s tennis team, finds that his sport helps him deal with his stress rather than add to it.

“I do balance school, tennis and a job at the same time, which can sometimes be overwhelming,” Stewart said. “The time spent on the tennis courts I view as a ‘break’ from the stress of school.”

Sophomore Jacqueline Richard, a swimmer on the women’s swim team, shares a similar view as Stewart.

“If school is stressing me out, then going to practice can help relieve some of that stress,” Richard added. “The physical exercise, I think, is a stress-reliever more than a stress-inducer.”

Hendricks said most of his swimmers tend to perform better academically during their swim season than in the off-season. He attributes this to the strict schedule the swimmers follow, which creates less time to procrastinate, and the support network the athletes have in their teammates and coaching staff.

As an NCAA Division III school, student-athletes are supposed to be students before athletes, and Richard and Stewart admit that their coaches and professors all prioritize academics over athletics.

Swimmers often hear Hendricks talking about putting grades first, before the sport.

“We talk about swimming being a privilege, not the reason they are here,” Hendricks said.

Richard said if they miss a class, Hendricks will email them asking why they were not there. If the swimmer’s grades are not where the coach feels they should be, they will have weekly meetings with Hendricks to work things out.

“[My professors and coaches] understand that I have a busy schedule, but consistently remind me to stay focused on my schoolwork in order to prepare for the future,” Stewart said.

Christopher Saffici, Ed. D, and Robert Pellegrino, DBA, published a study called “Intercollegiate Athletics vs. Academics: The Student-Athlete or the Athlete-Student” on The Sport Journal.

In their conclusion, Saffici and Pellegrino said, “In order for the student to be well-rounded, programs must focus on the concepts of self-sufficiency, independence and personal goal setting.”

As a liberal arts college, Franklin tries to make its students well-rounded in all subjects to prepare them for the future. However, being on a sports team at Franklin College teaches student-athletes to be capable in even more ways.

For example, Stewart has learned how to balance several activities on top of school.

Apart from being on the tennis team and his work study job at the Boys & Girls Club in Franklin, he is a member of the Omnicron

Delta Kappa and Psi Chi honor societies.

He also was an assistant varsity tennis coach at Franklin Community High School.

“My schedule is very hectic and overwhelming at times trying to complete everything, but [...] I do believe I have found a nice balance,” Stewart said.

Richard said she has discovered that planning and writing things down helps her manage balance. By mastering this skill, she said she will be prepared for things that come her way in the future.

“When it comes to a time if I get really stressed, I’ll just make a to-do list and get things done in the order of what’s most important,” Richard said.

Hendricks said he prepares his athletes for the future by helping them learn how to set goals. They not only set goals in the pool, but they also set goals academically as a team to keep them all accountable.

While some people may think athletics put too much stress on college students, some students find themselves embracing the good things that come from being a student-athlete, like reaching the trifecta.

Junior Josh Stewart balances his academic life and tennis. Stewart holds a current singles record of 5-3 from the fall and spring seasons.

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rolling in Grizzlies make a fashion statement at intramural games CAROLINA PUGA MENDOZA | STORY QUINN FITZGERALD | PHOTO SHELBY MULLIS | DESIGN

The only thing that’s more important than winning is looking good.

That was the motto for this year’s intramural basketball teams, and it caught the attention of one social media star.

A Twitter account created by sophomore marketing major Gavin Collier started as a fun activity between friends, but it became something more when their inspiration followed them back.

Collier’s account, @FCLeaguefits, was modeled after @leaguefits, an account created to give NBA players the chance to “express themselves in front of the camera on the way to the arena” according to Ian Pierno, a writer for the sports news website SLAM. With an interest in clothing trends, Collier saw Franklin College League Fits as a way to get people to do something fun before intramural basketball games.

“I figured it would be something cool to do to get people more active or engaged on campus and try to get them together a little bit,” Collier said.

The account was set up at the beginning of the spring semester, and it already has 75 followers – one of them being the official League Fits page, which has over 30,000 followers.

Collier was not expecting the official account to follow his newly made Grizzly feed.

“I started to tag them in all of our pictures after I post them,” Collier said. “I’m going to

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keep trying to involve them to see if they can retweet something or like it and boost our follower account.”

Pierno, the creator of League Fits, said he gives “major props” to the Franklin College students who created the @FCLeaguefits account.

“The thing that makes basketball my favorite sport isn’t just the game, but the culture around it,” Pierno said. “Today that includes fashion, kicks, etc. Doesn’t matter if you’re an NBA All-Star catching a supermax or a freshman on the way to intramural ball – anyone can be a tunnel superstar.”

Collier plays intramural basketball at Franklin with his friends, and they work together to plan outfits for each game. They get together before games to shoot a couple of pictures or videos as they walk to the stadium and Collier posts them afterwards.

“If it can possibly grow it’ll be cool, but I just wanted to have something fun to do while I’m not playing a sport, and it gives other people a chance to be creative with what they wear,” Collier said.

Senior Jackson Barnes, a multimedia production major, said he talked with his Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers about this being their last semester in the sport and in college. Barnes is one of the account’s main photographers, sending his pictures to Collier to post.

“Since this is really our last year to do [basketball] before we go out to the real

world, we thought it would be fun if we walked in dressed up for every game and walk in like professionals do, like NBA players or NFL players,” Barnes said.

Like Collier, Barnes was surprised but excited to find out @leaguefits had followed their account.

“It would be a little embarrassing ‘cause we were wearing some pretty stupid stuff that’s being broadcasted out across the entire internet that might not be the best thing, but that was neat finding out [about League Fits following us],” Barnes said.

Currently, they are looking for more students to send pictures of their outfits. Collier said he looks forward to other teams sharing their walks to the court or field.

“Be creative – it’s fun; it’s something we can all do,” Collier said. “It’s something here in Franklin to make the days more fun. Try to get involved with it.”

Barnes mentioned that this page was made into something bigger, and although the intramural season is over and the page might not get as much content, students should remember to enjoy the memories.

Barnes said that college is meant to be a place to make memories.

“I hope more people participate because that’s what this was about – being stupid and making memories for our last year here,” Barnes said. “We had fun with it. We had a lot of people looking at us like we were crazy, but it was fun.”

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LAST LOOK

DARYL MARKER, JOHNSON COUNTY RESIDENT Marker, 76, of Trafalgar, Indiana, comes to the Napolitan Student Center three or four times a week to eat dinner and play a round of pool. “I can get a balanced meal,” Marker said. “They have a good selection. The food is almost like homemade to me.”

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