The Franklin: Sept. 27, 2019

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What is one thing you will never do again?

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Morgan Bryant Reporter “Attempt golf.”

Jalen Davis Photographer “Lose my wallet.”

Quinn Fitzgerald Photo editor “Concert pit.”

Emily Hales Design editor “Retail. Black Friday.”

Executive editor Erica Irish erica.irish@franklincollege.edu Executive editor Emily Ketterer emily.ketterer@franklincollege.edu Opinion editor Carolina Puga Mendoza carolina.pugamendoza@franklincollege.edu News editor Victoria Ratliff victoria.ratliff@franklincollege.edu

Kyra Howard Reporter “Yoga.”

Abrahm Hurt Copy chief “Tequila.”

Erica Irish Executive editor “Backyard snowboarding.”

Emily Ketterer Executive editor “Go street racing.”

Sports editor Hope Shrum hope.shrum@franklincollege.edu Copy chief Abrahm Hurt abrahm.hurt@franklincollege.edu Photo editor Quinn Fitzgerald elizabeth.fitzgerald@franklincollege.edu

Ariana Lovitt Columnist “Work at Arby’s.”

Haley Pritchett Reporter “Go the wrong way on an interstate ramp.”

Carolina Puga Mendoza Opinion editor “Handle a gecko.”

Victoria Ratliff News editor “Forget sunscreen.”

Web editor Lacey Watt lacey.watt@franklincollege.edu Design editor Emily Hales emily.hales@franklincollege.edu Publisher John Krull jkrull@franklincollege.edu

Zach Roberts Reporter “Forget to knock.”

Alexa Shrake Columnist “Cut my hair.”

Hope Shrum Sports editor “Baseball with a basketball.”

Lacey Watt Web editor “A mosh pit.”

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BECOMING A STUDENT-READY CAMPUS New dean of students wants to highlight inclusivity, benefits of new curriculum ERICA IRISH | STORY erica.irish@franklincollege.edu

Franklin College’s new leader of student affairs said he hopes to show students how classroom learning connects to real, meaningful experiences — a goal that reflects a year already marked by significant shifts in campus administration and the curriculum.

Andrew Jones, 42, will begin his role as dean of students and vice president of campus life on Sept. 30.

He will take the place of former Dean of Students Ellis Hall, who retired without warning last spring after 18 years.

In his role as Franklin College’s dean of students, Jones will oversee many of the departments that directly affect student life. This ranges from housing and student involvement to the college’s counseling and health centers and the security office.

Jones has worked in higher education for the last two decades.

He will leave his position as associate provost and dean of student success at Illinois College — a four-year, liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois, that served an estimated 980 students in 2018.

He began his career at Butler University in Indianapolis after completing his undergraduate and master’s degrees there.

Jones said his vision centers around creating an inclusive environment on campus. He said he wants to create clear opportunities for students to live out their academic experiences in public service and internships.

Jones also said he is committed to elevating the voices of students who have traditionally lacked support.

“There’s a big push right now about becoming a student-ready campus,” Jones said.

“It involves thinking through how do we as the institution redesign our own approaches to meet students where they are, instead of lamenting that students are different today from when I was a student.”

Dana Cummings, vice president for development and alumni engagement and the head of the committee that searched for and hired Jones over the summer, said she is optimistic his leadership will help the college’s top administrators achieve stability and solidarity amid a year of rapid change.

This will be especially important, she said, as the college searches for a new president to replace Thomas Minar, who wil leave at the end of the 2019-20 year.

While she was not one of the two students who advised the committee in hiring Jones, Student Congress President Jackie List said she and other members of the congress have high expectations for him.

List said students want a dean who will engage with them — and in multiple ways.

“What will work best for our campus is not only someone who will attend events hosted by campus organizations, but also someone who comes around during the regular student day,” List said. “It’s about

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FACULTY TO PRESENT MUSIC RECITAL DURING HOMECOMING

Faculty of the Franklin College Music Department will have a onehour recital on Friday, Oct. 11at 7 p.m. in the Clarence E. & Inez R. Custer Theatre in old Main.

The wide-range of musical talents is part of the college’s Homecoming and Alumni Weekend festivities.

The recital is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Branigin Lot at the corner of Branigin Blvd. and Monroe St.

New Dean of Students and Vice President of Campus Life, Andrew Jones.

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interacting with more than the students involved in organizations.”

To start this process, List said Student Congress hopes to host a campus chat to introduce Jones. Students are welcome to visit with him in his office on the second floor of the student center.

2019-2020 CONVOCATION LECTURE SERIES ANNOUNCED The first lecture will be presented by former Stanford University dean, Julia Lythcott-Haims. She will talk about helicopter parenting and its effects.

The second in the series will be presented by Franklin College alumna Lisa Coffman on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 in Richardson Chapel. She will speak about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s pursuit of civil rights.

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IN PURSUIT FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR ‘LAUNCHES’ College implements new first-year student experience this semester SYDNEY JOHNSON | STORY sydney.johnson@franklincollege.edu

The newest update to Franklin College’s curriculum is in full swing and aiming to help new students transition to life on campus.

Although the new curriculum, which is called The Pursuit, is being implemented this year, the preparation process has been going on for four years.

“All last year, faculty, staff and administrators were set up into what we call working groups to help bring to life the new curriculum,” Keri Alioto Ellington, dean of student success and retention, said. “All last school year we had several meetings and conversations with other universities and students about what the new pieces of Launch would look like.”

New goals for the first-year seminar include building meaningful relationships and developing core skills for academic and personal success.

Other goals include gaining confidence in students’ ability to navigate college resources, communicating across differences and deepening a commitment to community.

The first-year seminar class, which replaces the traditional LA 100, meets three days a week for class.

Freshman Marian Case said the first-year seminar class teaches valuable lessons but could use a little revision.

“I wish they would teach a few more real-life skills like how to file taxes or create a resume,” Case said.

Freshman Becca McKinley, on the other hand, said the class is “beneficial and helpful with adjustment to college.”

From an ongoing survey, Alioto Ellington said 80% of new students have made genuine connections that have the potential

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Attend Franklin College Theatre Department’s first show of the year in Theatre Margot. Attendence is free for Franklin College Students, $12 for general admission, and $8 for students and seniors.

Freshman Jarrett Gibson has a one-on-one with his Launch Mentor, senior Jenna Spini. QUINN FITZGERALD | PHOTO

to become meaningful relationships. She also said 77% feel like a proud, valued member of the Franklin College community.

Another new feature of the Launch program includes Launch mentors.

Launch mentors lead the one-day-a-week lab with their mentees.

During this time, mentors take time to talk to students about interpersonal, college and work ethic skills.

“The duties include creating lessons, making sure people are there, answering questions and working alongside the new student advocate, communicating with my group of freshmen, and being there to connect them to resources and to be a listening ear if they have problems,” Launch Mentor Samantha Loyd said.

Launch also includes changes to the col-

lege’s traditional welcome week.

This year, move-in took place the Thursday morning before classes began, and parents joined their students that afternoon in various workshops to familiarize themselves with Franklin College.

FOCUS Day, where new students go out in the community and provide service to surrounding organizations, was also not a part of welcome week.

“We decided to take a year hiatus so that we could really think intentionally about how that fits in with the goals of Launch and perhaps do a better job creating some more altruistic opportunities for service with our community,” Alioto Ellington said.

10/2 GIRLS NIGHT OUT

10/5 MOVIE AT THE AIRPORT

Spend a night out in Greenwood to help fundraise for Girls Inc. of Johnson County, a fundraiser aimed to help at-risk girls.The theme is Purses with a Purpose.

Visit http://www.girlsincjc.org/ for more details.

The Greenwood Fire Department is hosting a night at the Indy South Greenwood Airport to watch a movie in the airport’s main hangar.

You’ll even be able to explore the fire engine and ladder truck.

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RFD FRANKLIN IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS

New restaurant focuses on fine dining, historical heritage of post office EMILY KETTERER | STORY emily.ketterer@franklincollege.edu

Take a trip back to the 1930s with Franklin’s newest restaurant, RFD. RFD Franklin opened its doors in May after a year and half of renovations to bring new life to the city’s historic post office building on 55 W. Madison St. The restaurant sits in Franklin’s original post office built in 1937. The building also served as the city’s office building until a 2008 flood caused damage to the structure.

The post office then sat empty for nearly a decade until Franklin College trustee John Talley and his wife Lesa McDaniel Talley purchased the building in 2017 with the intent to bring the structure back to its 1930s glory, as a fine-dining restaurant.

“It would be easy to come in and wipe it clean of its interesting past, but then, you’ll never get those back,” McDaniel Talley said.

Restoring a building to its 1937 aesthetic did not come without its challenges, McDaniel Talley said. With seven-inch thick concrete walls, outdated light wiring and long hunts for custom 1930s-style furniture, RFD took two years to complete.

Now, guests can enter the building underneath the original perching eagle sitting on top of the front door and be transported to Franklin’s 1937 post office. The original tiles covering the floor and walls in the main hall, decade-style mailboxes in the mail sorting room and even pulleys hanging from the ceiling inside the dining room emulate how the sorting room looked 80 years ago.

Guests can also dine in the old mail vault, which McDaniel Talley said is a popular spot inside the restaurant.

“We worked very diligently to try to maintain that feeling of experiencing the period when they built the building,” McDaniel Talley said.

Even the name of the restaurant pays homage to the old postal service. “RFD” stands for “Rural Free Delivery,” which is the delivery service the United States Postal Service offered to families who live outside of town on farms, like many of the families in Franklin did in the 1930s.

McDaniel Talley said people as far as Germany, or those who worked or frequently visited the historic post office, pay visits to tell their stories.

“We have people come in and say, ‘Oh I remember coming in here with my grandmother and getting the mail,” McDaniel Talley said.

RFD’S dining room sits in the original mail sorting room and features 1930s-style mailboxes. BRIDGET LINDSTROM | PHOTO

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It would be easy to come in and wipe it clean of its interesting past, but then, you’ll never get those back.

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One visitor was the son of a former postmaster, and came from out of state to visit the restaurant in person.

“He had only been able to go in the postmaster’s office before, so I gave him the private tour, and it was touching to see how that affected him to be in the places his father had been,” McDaniel Talley said.

Not only does RFD sit in a historic landmark, they’re also the first steak and seafood restaurant to open in Franklin.

“We were surprised by how many people in the community said, ‘It’s difficult to find a good steak around here,’ so we said okay, we’ll have some steaks,” McDaniel Talley said.

McDaniel Talley and her husband wanted to open a restaurant that wouldn’t be in direct competition with longtime businesses like The Willard and Greek’s Pizzeria already in Franklin. RFD specializes in finer dining options and four-course meals with steak, seafood, pasta and desserts.

McDaniel Talley said their goal isn’t to take down competing restaurants.

“For example, we don’t offer pizza. If you want pizza, you can go to one of the restau-

rants here that decided that’s their specialty,” she said.

She added that maintaining Franklin’s heritage is important to the community. With historic structures like the Historic Artcraft Theatre, The Willard and Main and Madison inside the old Johnson County Hospital, McDaniel Talley said the restaurant gets numerous comments from people who say the town is beautiful.

“Preserving the old buildings is very important because it helps us have a grounding in the past to help move us forward,” McDaniel Talley said.

OWNER LESA MCDANIEL TALLEY SPEAKS ABOUT THE OPENING OF RFD. BRIDGET LINDSTROM | PHOTO

FOR THOUGHT New dining service wants fresh start after Sodexo HALEY PRITCHETT AND KYRA HOWARD | STORY EMILY HALES | DESIGN

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arkhurst entered Franklin College with promises of a fresh new beginning, replacing Sodexo, the dining service that managed student meals for seven years.

Parkhurst was chosen among five companies that bid for Franklin College’s business when Sodexo’s contract expired. College officials said they wanted a company that would provide fresh, better quality food to the campus without raising costs.

But four weeks into Parkhurst’s first semester on campus, some students are questioning if the service’s performance is in line with the college’s goals. Some students have reported undercooked meat, and others are disappointed that the college’s Thursday evening “Late Night” snack is no longer free to all students.

These changes came amid a less than perfect start for Parkhurst on campus.

Franklin College Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Joseph Hornett said it took college officials and Parkhurst longer than expected to finalize a contract, delaying their transition, which included new plans for major renovations to the dining hall and ensuring Parkhurst staff could start on campus before the fall semester.

Hornett, however, said students should not be concerned about increases in meal plan costs amid the transition.

“That was one of the things we told [Parkhurst],” Hornett said. “There’s not going to be a future increase, not in the current year.”

But Parkhurst managers are already grappling with a string of dinnerware thefts and have spent more than $2,000 on plastic cups in one month, according to an email sent

to students by Parkhurst General Manager Richard Shimizu. This could trigger a cost increase, Shimizu wrote in the email.

“Please let the campus know we are trying to keep our operating costs low to keep their meal plans stable,” Shimizu said. “But at this rate of loss these costs will be passed on to them.”

Before this email announcement, students also learned the “Late Night” snack served Thursday evenings would no longer be free — instead, all students must now swipe their meal card or pay $8.

Junior Baylee Giesting and her friends said this change frustrated them, leading the group to create and circulate a petition to “Make Late Night Free Again.” 175 people have signed it, and the organizers want at least 200 student signatures.

“Why were we paying $8 for a full meal at night?” Giesting said. “We have limited meal plans, so we want a snack.”

Giesting said she and her friends were especially struck by the change to “Late Night” because they worry the new cost will diminish the community atmosphere the event created in previous years. On popular nights, she said, a line of students would wrap around the whole room, and students would socialize and laugh together in booths.

“It’s loud, it’s like a lunch rush where everyone is in there,” Giesting said. “It’s late at night, so everyone’s kind of crazy, and you don’t have to worry about anything.”

Hornett explained that “Late Night” should have never been free, however, noting it “subsidized” meals for students who were not paying for meal plans.

This became an expensive tradition for

Sodexo to uphold, he said.

“Sodexo shouldn’t have been doing it, they just basically waived it,” Hornett said.

Despite the early challenges, college officials want to remind students they chose Parkhurst with them in mind.

“We didn’t want somebody that’s just going to provide food, that this is something that is for our students,” Hornett said.

“Our hope would be that this would end up becoming an attraction and a retention, that the food would be something the students actually liked.”

To encourage a deeper conversation about what students need and want, Shimizu encourages students to submit feedback via comment cards in the dining hall or email.

“Positive or negative, what we want to do is to learn what makes Franklin College special and how we can meet the needs of the students, because that’s why we’re here,” Shimizu said.

He also said that Parkhurst is still working on training staff, so students should expect more exciting food options in the future.

“Are we going to offer a chicken tender day? Yes, we will. We are going to bread them ourselves,” Shimizu said. “It’s just going take some time for us to get that.”

In the coming months, Hornett said Parkhurst and the college will embark on the first renovations they had planned for the dining hall, starting with updates to the Griz Cafe. The serving area will be updated by next fall, Hornett said.

“This first year is like the commissioning of a new ship, and especially during the first semester, it’s going to be like a shakedown cruise,” Hornett said.

FOR THE LOVE OF Professors find creative opportunities outside their day jobs HALEY CARNEY | STORY

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hen Franklin College professors Jason Jimerson and Mike Shirley experienced unexpected turns in their lives, they found opportunity in a new passion: music.

Jimerson, a sociology professor at Franklin, initially had a strong passion for basketball, but ruptured his patella in the Spurlock Center playing pickup games. Jimerson continued to come back and play, but he eventually had to give it up permanently.

In need of finding a new hobby, he joined his daughter in guitar lessons and said he was automatically hooked.

“Instead of showing up to play pickup basketball, I discovered that they have basically

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pickup music sessions called ‘jam sessions,’” he said. “You just show up and you play what you want with other guys.”

Jimerson was one of 200 people to be accepted into summer guitar sessions at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Once he got there, he auditioned to determine where he would be placed before moving into his dorm.

His days consisted of two separate classes following a two-hour ensemble practice where he would meet with other guitar players, drummers and a professor. of their choice to show their improvements throughout the camp.

Of the 200 there, Jimerson considered his experience to be different because he was in the minority age group, with less than 10 people over the age of 35. Ages ranged from about 15 to 50, but the average was 20 years old.

“It was like I was going to summer camp, like little kids do,” he said. “I kept getting mistaken for Berklee faculty. But the experience was worth it.”

Just like Jimerson, Mike Shirley is a history professor at Franklin College who also has a passion for playing instruments.

Shirley has played the mandolin for over 40 years, but he took a brief break when he developed carpal tunnel syndrome and had to get surgery. He slowly came back

to playing, but said he still does not play as much as he used to.

He also learned guitar in law school as a way to avoid doing homework.

Shirley’s attraction to playing started while he was listening to “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band” by The Beatles.

“Have you ever really just listened to guitar music?” he said. “I did. And I thought, ‘I don’t know what that is, but I think I’d like to learn how to do that.’ I still remember the first guitar riff I ever paid attention to.”

Shirley has done choirs, worked on CDs, and is currently starting to record his own CD, although he said he does not play out

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much. Occasionally, students have showed up to watch his performances at Richard’s Brick Oven Pizza in Franklin.

“Seeing teachers out in the wild tends to freak people out,” he said. “My students would probably be surprised to know a lot about me and their other professors as well.”

Shirley said musical runs in his family genes. While his mother couldn’t carry a tune. his dad was a pianist and singer.

Both of Shirley’s children enjoy different musical endeavors as well. His 13-year-old daughter is a percussionist in her middle school band, and his 19-year-old son is a “talented singer.”

OPINION

EDITORIAL | LUNG DISEASES LINKED TO VAPING CALLS FOR PUBLIC ATTENTION Health organizations begin to analyze harms associated with vaping Understanding the substances involved in e-cigarettes is critical to decide its severity.

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An issue that took years to get attention stands in the national spotlight.

As of this month, CNN reports there have been about 450 possible cases related to e-cigarettes across 33 states. Six people have died from mysterious lung diseases that could be linked to vaping.

In response, President Donald Trump and his administration announced they would move to impose a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, commonly known by students as vapes or Juuls. The decision came, Trump said, after six unexpected deaths were reported among teens and young adults who regularly used the products.

But is this move too extreme? Could a sudden extraction of e-cigarettes from local markets hurt students? Although the latest string of deaths warrants additional study of vaping products, The Franklin staff would like to see the Trump administration and other authorities carefully consider the consequences of completely removing them from shelves.

This isn’t the first time e-cigarettes have been a mainstream debate topic. A couple of years ago, people were worried about

e-cigarettes exploding in their hands, pants or bags.

It was the first major controversy involving the products — advertised as a way to quit tobacco addiction since it contains less nicotine than a traditional cigarette — since they gained popularity in the U.S. in 2007 after being invented in the 1930s, according to Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives (CASAA).

Junior Seth Fleming, for example, used vaping products to treat his addiction of chewing tobacco. It wasn’t easy to quit, but for him it was the least harmful substitute.

“Nicotine is known for helping your brain for a short time, but at the same time it didn’t really outweigh the potential costs. I didn’t think it was worth finding out if I was going to suffer from those,” Fleming said. “[The withdrawal systems] sucked. I felt nauseous and anxious.”

But even vaping has its limitations, Fleming said. He recently quit because he didn’t believe there were enough regulations on vaping products.

“There are benefits to nicotine…but at the same time there’s no evidence whether it’s safe or whether it’s dangerous,” Fleming said.

Much like the tobacco industry, e-cigarette companies have started to target children by manufacturing flavored pods in flavors like mango, cream and strawberry. As a result, the number of high school students who vape raised from 1.5 percent in 2011 to

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11.3 percent in 2017, according to a survey

by National Youth Tobacco. The number of middle school students who vape also increased, from just .6 percent to 3.3%.

Children should not be able to so easily access products that contain nicotine. And yet, a campaign of misinformation — more than 60 percent of kids, according to a survey by Truth Initiative, think e-cigarettes are just flavoring. They also said flavored pods such as cotton canty are ensnaring children in a cycle of addiction.

There remains concern for the adults who lawfully purchase and use e-cigarettes, too. E-cigarettes vary by product and company when it comes to nicotine levels and chemicals. In general, not enough research has been done to determine the many compounds within a vaping product. According to the National Library of medicine, some products, for example, contain the chemical propylene glycol, which can cause upper respiratory issues.

“Some of the brands that are in the news have been reported to deliver five to seven times the amount of nicotine,” said Adam Heavrin, a professor of exercise science at Franklin College.

Franklin College already bans tobacco products, including any type of vaping product. According to Jacob Knight, director of residence life, students can face a range of consequences for using the products on campus grounds, depending on if it’s their first offense or a pattern of misbehavior. The policy only states, however, that students shall not use the products on campus — it is acceptable for students to own and carry the products.

There’s no question, then, that students may use vaping products on campus for recreation or out of personal need, as regulating the practice poses a challenge to campus officials.

But as researchers continue to examine e-cigarettes, it is up to both students and the wider public — not the president or local authorities — to determine what is safe and desirable to inhale.

Such a decision should ultimately be informed by science and peer reviewed research, not by personal preferences and ideology.

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UP ON THE HILL | HURRICANE DORIAN MAKES DEBUT Trump administration refuses to aid those in need On Aug. 24, heavy dark clouds began to form across the sky in the southeastern part of the United States.

ALEXA SHRAKE After several reports revealing just how large the hurricane was going to be citizens quickly realized that they were in trouble. Hurricane Dorian destroyed the homes and lives many of families causing the rate of homelessness to rise in many areas.

The people of the Bahamas are wandering lost as they are left with nothing. In desperate hopes of asylum, they have tried to travel to the U.S., but their fruitful efforts have been diminished by President Donald Trump and his administration. Many boarded a ferry to make their way closer to the border were kicked off for not having travel visas.

In 2010, citizens of Haiti were given protective status after an earthquake cracked open their lives. The people of the Bahamas want the same protective status that would give them the opportunity to work and live in the U.S. The Trump administration has

refused aid to those affected in the Bahamas on accounts of they do not want more immigrants in the U.S. Indiana can feel a few effects of Hurricane Dorian, such as heavy rain and large wind speed. Hurricane Dorian dissipated on September 10th and calmed down significantly within its last few days.

“There is so much overwhelming scientific evidence that global warming and climate change is happening,” said Alice Heikens, professor of biology at Franklin College.

As hurricane Dorian made its way towards the U.S., Trump went live showing a map of the path hurricane Dorian was headed and in permanent marker it was drawn in to show that Alabama was going to be affected too. The Trump administration originally said that Alabama was in the path of hurricane Dorian, but the map shown raises the question of what is true.

U.S. citizens have been concerned about how much is the media informing them about serious weather. Now, the Trump administration is pushing to have the weather service to clarify the forecast of hurricane Dorian and be clearer in the future. A report about Indiana’s climate change made by Purdue University has recorded the effects

the climate has on Indiana as the years go on in their ‘Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment.’ Indiana is heating up, for example, these past few weeks with warm summer-like days are effects of climate change that are happening throughout Indiana. It will only keep on getting hotter if nothing is done. Natural disasters, like hurricane Dorian, are expected to continue as climate change worsens.

“I think the situation is going to get worse before it gets better and I think that it is important that we act now,” said Heikens.

In efforts to prevent further climate change, the United Nations made the Paris Agreement that was signed by the U.S. in 2016. The goal is to deal with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation from spreading. It is an agreement to keep countries in check and keep global temperatures low to prevent global warming from continuing.

Yet, Trump’s new America First Act has ripped the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, worsening the effects of climate change in America and searing off our allies from trusting us.

If anyone wants to volunteer to help those affected by this natural disaster, check the Red Cross website at redcross.org.

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT | CRISIS IN YEMEN Indiana organizations help refugees, but government complicates matters As the conflict in Yemen enters its fifth year, we must ask ourselves: When is this going to end?

The U.S. Council on Foreign Relations ISAAC GLEITZ reports the country has lost 14,000 to combat and 50,000 to famine. These drastic consequences are the result of an uprising that replaced the former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, with current president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi in November 2011, according to BBC. This first upheaval triggered years of new horrors, infighting and instability. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 80% of Yemenis require humanitarian aid. Around 360,000 children under the age of five are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. UNICEF also finds Yemen to have the largest cholera outbreak on record with 1.3 million diagnoses and 2,700

dead. Yet, hospitals and schools are closed, so communities can’t treat the sick.

Exodus Refugee, an Indianapolis resettlement organization, is a local refugee agency working to address the millions displaced by this crisis. They and partner agencies have helped thousands to date. In 2016, Exodus reported agencies nationwide welcomed a reported 84,994 Yemeni refugees to the United States.

But intervention by government — including by President Donald Trump and his administration — has led to a decline in the number of Yemenis served by Exodus.

Compared to the 84,994 served in 2016, refugee agencies like Exodus only welcomed 22,491 Yemeni refugees in 2018. And now, according to The New York Times, Trump’s administration is considering lowering that number down to 10,000 people. They have even proposed barring the refugees outright.

And yet many organizations continue their meaningful work. In Indianapolis, Beth Carney of Catholic Charities, a religious

organization that serves refugees, said her organization resettles about 30% of U.S. refugee entrants. The group helps refugees navigate libraries, grocery stores and employment. Refugees can receive support for at least five years.

The Immigrant Welcome Center in Indianapolis performs a similar function, according to Amy Shackelford. The center helps refugees navigate the complicated bureaucratic system of the U.S. It’s possible, then, for the U.S. to show empathy for the refugees who wish to come here and find stability. In order to do so, leaders should work to remove fear from policy, said Cheryl Crane, professor of sociology at Franklin College.

“A lot of it’s based on fear,” she said. “If we’re scared of each other, we’re less likely to help each other. It would be really disappointing to see our role as a global humanitarian partner really start to take a hit.”

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TUNE IN | STREAMING WITH EYES WIDE OPEN

Many platforms innovate the way we listen to and understand music The philosopher Plato once said, “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”

PIPER GAUL Music gives, but what gives us music?

Originally, sources included religious gatherings, operas and concerts. However, they are not the everyday way of jamming out to the latest release of one’s favorite artist.

Streaming platforms have become a new form of CDs. They held so much potential in the beginning and they have only grown since then. Streaming is an industry that immediately begged to be capitalized by the music industry. When people realized that they could make money by establishing a platform for streaming music, apps like Pandora or Spotify, more began popping up everywhere.

According to Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, music itself creates emotions that allow a neurotransmitter called dopamine to be produced in the brain. It helps control the centers of reward and pleasure. By allowing access to a wide variety of music, streaming platforms are influencing our

emotions. Listeners are now able to listen to music based on their mood, not just based on what they own in their CD racks.

Even without a strong correlation between genre and streaming platform, the app itself will try to influence your music.

Spotify is known for algorithms that try to

recommend music that is similar to what consumers have been listening to. Apple Music is not very different in that way, according to Apple Music user and Franklin College freshman Taylee Nibbs.

“It’s different every single day,” Nibbs said. “On Monday it’ll be like ‘these are based on songs you search’ and on a differ-

ent day it’ll be ‘these are based on songs you listen to’ and stuff like that.”

Nibbs also mentions that she enjoys the recommendations and has found quite a few new artists. She uses the recommendation system whenever she gets tired of listening to the same music. Some people, such as freshman Shannon Spears, have methods that include several streaming platforms.

“I go to Pandora for new music,” Spears said. “Then I go to Spotify to download the music…I get a lot of my indie music on Pandora.”

Shears isn’t keen on Spotify’s radios and algorithm, which means it does not have any effect on her music taste. She lets Pandora take that wheel. Nibbs, however, accepts recommendations from Apple Music directly and allows it to have a little control over her playlists.

As we give our opinions to one platform or another, they calculate how to keep us coming back. Whether this is based on emotion or based on previous listening, data is always being collected for your benefit. The apps we use to listen to music are sometimes just as effective as a friend or family member telling you to listen to a song.

STUDENTS SHOULD PRIORITIZE MENTAL HEALTH How students can seek emotional support on Franklin College’s campus

It’s a Tuesday night. Libraries are filled with students studying or friends hanging out in the basements of residence halls. It seems HALEY PRITCHETT that everyone is having a good time — everyone besides one girl who is having a panic attack in her dorm room.

By the time she receives help and is able to calm down, it’s midnight. She couldn’t complete her homework and now she is left with a tired, anxious brain and a pile of schoolwork left to complete.

Should she have to go to class the next day? I don’t think so, and neither does the American Disabilities Act of 1990.

A student having issues with anxiety has the opportunity to fill out paperwork with Dean of Academic Success Katie Wehner

in HamiltonOne. Accommodations will be made for the student if they have an anxiety disorder or any other type of disability.

“The American Disabilities Act says you have to accommodate this student,” said John Shafer, director of the college’s counseling center. “Maybe this student needs extended time on a test, maybe this student needs to take this test in a quiet room. Once they are registered with Katie, and she’s written it up, it’s law.”

Mental and emotional disabilities can become serious roadblocks for students.

Freshman Andrea Rahman, who is diagnosed with depression and anxiety, has experienced how hard it can be.

“Whenever I got into a depression period, it was really hard to focus. People who are depressed often have a hard time focusing in on things,” Rahman said. “I could not sit down and write my papers, I couldn’t. I tried, I’d sit there for seven hours straight after I got home from school, and I could not write it.”

There is no shame in getting help, and most professors want what is best for students, even if that is prioritizing their mental health first before their class.

“Most of the professors I work with at Franklin College are very open-minded and want to help students who have emotional and intellectual disabilities,” Shafer said.

If a student has mental or emotional disabilities, or they just need someone to talk to, they should also consider visiting the counseling center in room 222 in the Napolitan Student Center. Counselors are available Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. In counseling, students are always in control, allowing them to talk about whatever they want.

“If you do feel like you would benefit from a counselor just come in and talk to one of us…We don’t ask them to talk about or share any information that they don’t want to share, or they feel discomforted about,” Shafer said.

SPORTS

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vania Fall Invitational Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, where they were up against some tough teams, according to Curt Holcroft, head men’s golf coach.

They returned to practice for the next competition, the Dr. Richard Park Invitational, which took place Sept. 7 and 8.

“They started to focus more on practice, and they’re starting to see the benefits,” Holcroft said.

These benefits include the team’s third place finish out of eight, a significant leap from 14th in the last invitational.

Three of the players responsible for this placement were junior Brock Tennyson, who finished in a tie for 4th individuFreshman Canyen Palmer watches after hitting a ally, sophomore Alan Showalter, golf ball. QUINN FITZGERALD | PHOTO who finished in a tie for seventh, and senior Jackson Williams, who Some teams may give up on a season after a placed ninth. tough first loss, but that’s not the case for the Showalter said that everyone was men’s golf team. After placing 14th out of more confident because they got more 16 teams in their first invitational, all they practice time, and it helped that it was did was look forward to the next ones. their own course.

The Grizzlies competed in the TransylWhen asked if he expected the rest of

this season to go more like the first invitational or the Dr. Richard Park invitational, Holcroft said, “Their confidence is building thanks to their placement this last weekend.”

He also said that the first invitational is very tough because they compete against many of the top teams, and he expects their placement to be at the top in the coming invitationals.

“We should place around the top three if everyone plays how they’re supposed to,” Tennyson said. “We shouldn’t fall out of the top five.”

Looking ahead, Holcroft has set his goals very high for the team. “The ultimate goal is to win conference. This year is the most opportunistic for anyone in the conference.

We are hoping to take the spot,” Holcroft said.

The team’s future competitions include the Mt. St. Joseph Invitational on Sept.

21 and 22, the Grizzlies also added a few new competitions this year, including the Hanover College and Center College Invitationals.

Showalter said that he would like for the team as a whole to score under 300, and personally, he would like to shoot under par in one of the next three invitationals.

CROSS COUNTRY TRANSITIONS TO NEW YEAR Many freshman runners adjust to college athletic life at Franklin College HALEY CARNEY | STORY haley.carney@franklincollege.edu

The women’s cross-country team has had a large number of incoming freshmen join for their current season.

Outnumbering the upperclassmen seven to four, these girls have proven to change the dynamic of the team by their newfound success.

On Sept. 7, the Grizzlies attended the Hanover Invitational for their first meet of the season. Five of the seven open varsity spots were taken up by freshmen, two of whom placed in the top 15 overall. The team ended the meet with a strong finish with 74 points, placing them in third.

Freshman Angelina Gregory placed ninth at the invitational, the highest placement by a Franklin woman at the meet. Adjusting

from high school to college level athletics can be hard for anyone, but she said it has been enjoyable to relate to the rest of the girls and get to know them.

“I enjoy it because there are a lot of freshmen, so it’s like we all relate,” Gregory said. “We all have to regroup after coming from high school and we can help each other do that.”

Brandon Dworak, head cross country coach, believes the girls have adjusted to the college life well and are starting to get a handle on the training involved in cross country.

“Whenever you have a young team, particularly that many freshmen, you have a little more of a steeper learning curve. Going into college, you kind of go from the top to the

bottom,” he said. “But now that we’re more than a month in, it’s almost like night and day for these girls.”

Dworak also said that the upperclassmen have done a great job “showing the ropes” to their younger teammates.

Senior Jayla Callens has been running cross country since her senior year of high school. She believes that hardest transition from high school to college is “going from low mileage to high mileage,” or continuing to shed time off during practice and meets.

“The transitioning portion is going to have little divots here and there for everyone,” she said. “I don’t think it’s been easy for them, but they’ve done it well.”

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BRIDGET LINDSTROM | DESIGN

ewly appointed women’s soccer coach Kim DeCesare knows a thing or two about the game.

DeCesare is from Massapequa, Long Island, New York. She began playing soccer at a young age, along with swimming. She was encouraged by her family, whom her former college teammate Kait Kerr described as “very loud and very Italian.”

She was recruited by Duke University in her junior year of high school but tore her anterior cruciate ligament during her senior year. Her first season at Duke was a redshirt, resulting in four and a half year stay at the school.

During her time at Duke, she was extremely dedicated, Kerr said. Once, when Kerr and another teammate were punished for being tardy getting to the team bus, they were forced to run sprints at 5 a.m. the following day. DeCesare, despite not being in any trouble, came to run early in the morning with them.

“She was never the most skilled,” Kerr said. “She just always wanted to get better.”

Her dedication took her places. She was drafted by the Boston Breakers, a National Women’s Soccer League team, in 2014, and the following July, she went overseas to play for Eskilstuna United

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DFF in Sweden.

Afterwards, she trained with the Chelsea Football Club for a few weeks in London, England. She was then picked up by Sky Blue FC in New Jersey, where she spent most of her professional career.

After three seasons with Sky Blue, DeCesare decided to go overseas again with a team called PSV Eindhoven, located in Amsterdam of the Netherlands.

She was the first American to play for PSV Eindhoven, and for the first time, she didn’t know anyone associated with the team before joining. While moving to a new place to do what she loved sounded perfect, DeCesare said there were difficulties.

DeCesare explained that she let soccer consume her life, and she regretted that at the time.

“I learned from my experience in Sweden, and just in general, that you have to have a life outside of soccer, especially when you’re playing. Otherwise it just consumes you,” DeCesare said.

“When you only have soccer you have all this spare time and you’re like ‘What am I going to do with this? Yes, I’m in a beautiful place, but I can only look at the sights for so long before I get bored,’” DeCesare said.

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She was there for six games, which was about 10 months. Her professional path changed drastically when she sustained a broken leg during a game against AFC Ajax Vrouwen.

“During that time, I made the decision that I would get back from that injury, but that would be my last year playing.

I wasn’t healthy enough and I wasn’t good enough to come back to the U.S. and have a sure team,” says DeCesare.

“So, I was like, ‘You know what? Maybe for my body and my mind’s sake, [I’ll] go into coaching.’”

While she was injured, Elon University hired her as an assistant women’s soccer coach. She returned to North Carolina and held the position all of last year.

For DeCesare, the job was a bit of a dream.

“I’ve always wanted to coach,” she said. “Ever since I stepped foot on a college campus, I was like ‘Okay, I want to be on a college campus forever, and I love soccer. I love learning about it, and I want to coach.’”

Upon hearing about the position at Franklin, she contacted

Kerry Prather, director of athletics and came to Indiana for the interview. Despite being very well-traveled, she had not been in the Midwest until then. She was offered the job and accepted it.

“She rose to the top of a pool of qualified candidates,” said Lance Marshall, assistant director of athletics, who was involved in the selection committee.

DeCesare is excited to get settled and get to work with the girls, 16 of who are newcomers.

“This is probably the first time my whole closet is in the place that I’m living, because otherwise I was just packing bags,” said DeCesare.

“I’m happy to not get on a plane for the next couple of months.”

Her main goal for the season is to see progress and take everything in strides. “I don’t really believe in outcome goals ,” DeCesare said.

As for her own soccer career, DeCesare said it is on pause. “I only stopped playing a year and a half ago, so I can’t play for fun quite yet. It’s either zero or 100% and if I go 100%, I’m afraid I’ll get injured, and I don’t want to get injured.”

LAST LOOK CHELSIE WHORTON, SOPHOMORE

“I participated in Zumba because I wanted to get a workout in that was also fun. I liked the positive vibe everyone had,” Wharton said.

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