Jan. 12, 2015

JANUARY 12, 2015

Inclusive Ministry: Rosemarie Smead and the Roman Catholic Women Priests movement

ISSUE 9

COLD WAR THAW p. 10 What the changing relations between Cuba and the US means to an expert who visits the island

UNIVERSITY COMMONS

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

p. 14 P. 9 New apartment IUS turns to students complex opening near and faculty for ideas campus hopes to give to improve the dining services on campus best of both worlds

TABLE OF CONTENTS Going Green 19

Textbook Lystical 6-7

9 tips for purchasing books the financially savvy way.

Dining Services 9

A survey over the dining services at IUS could bring big changes in the future including more dining options and the acceptance of credit/debit cards.

Viva La Trade Negotiations 10-11

IUS professor who frequents Cuba gives input on changing United States and Cuba relations.

Women Priests 12-15

Former IUS professor Rosemarie Smead tells us why she became a Woman Catholic Priest

University Commons 14

A new apartment complex aimed at students is opening up within walking distance from IUS this February.

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Sustainability is a rising topic of interest here at IUS.

Satire Attacked 20

Managing Editor Zak Kerr talks about the importance of satire as a political tool

Holiday Break Sports Roundup 21

A roundup of all things IUS sports that happened over the holidays.

IN EVERY ISSUE Nitty Gritty 4 Events 5 Diversions 18

SCOREBOARD

Men’s Basketball

12/6 @ Alice Lloyd College | Loss 53-63 12/12 @ St. Catharaine College | Loss 70-76 12/20 @ University of Pikeville | Loss 72-98 12/30 VS. Cardinal Stritch University | Loss 58-68 1/3 VS. Cumberland University | Loss 53-69 1/6 @ Brescia University | Loss 81-85

Women’s Basketball

12/6 @ Alice Lloyd College | Win 89-78 12/12 VS. Indiana Wesleyan | Win 70-62 12/13 @ Union College | Loss 73-76 12/18 @ IUPUI | Loss 45-95 12/20 @ St. Mary-of-the-Woods | Win 94-73 1/3 VS. Wilmington College | Win 60-56 1/6 @ Brescia University | Win 75-60

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THE NITTY GRITTY

POLICE

BLOTTER Dec. 14 at 7:17 p.m.

An officer was dispatched to assist Floyd County officers with a report of an individual breaking into a house on Grant Line Road. The subject was renting the house and broke in to retrive his keys.

Dec. 17 at 4:19 am

Officers search for a subject coming on to campus to visit a girlfriend staying in one of the lodges. Subject was reportedly intoxicated. Officers were unable to locate him.

Dec. 30 at 1:27 p.m.

An officer was dispatched to McCullough Plaza where an employee fell on the sidewalk and scraped his elbow. An OSHA injury report was completed.

Jan. 2 at 11:21 a.m.

Officer dispatched to assist Floyd County Sherrif ’s Department regarding a deer that was struck on the 6900 block of Grant Line Road. The deer was already deceased by the time officers arrived.

Jan. 5 at 10:03 p.m.

Officer observed a student at Meadow Lodge in posession of alcohol. A report was taked and the issue will be handled administrativly.

Jan. 6 at 3:18 p.m.

Officers responded to a panic alarm at the University Bookstore. Bookstore employees say they accidently set off the alarm and it was reset.

Jan. 7 at 5:29 p.m.

An officer was dispatched off campus to assist the Floyd County Sherrif ’s Department with the report of a domestic disturbance involving an intoxicated subject. The parties were seperated and any charges were handled by the sherrif ’s department.

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Courtesy Photo

U.S. News and World Report ranked two programs in IU’s Kelley School of Business No. 1 for best online education programs. iU recieved the honos for the school’s Kelley Direct online MBA program and its online Master of Science program. IU beat out more than more than 200 graduate business programs nationwide.

CAMPUS BRIEFS

NATIONAL BRIEFS

Acclaimed author to address IU campuses

Flu widespread throughout the nation

LOCAL BRIEFS

House to vote on blocking Obama immigration plans

Michelle Alexander, civil rights lawyer and author will be presenting her lecture by being streamed in the IU Southeast Hoosier Room West at 3p.m. Jan. 27. Alexander is the recent author of The New Jim Crow, an account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States.

New Albany Pillsbury Plant possibly closing

General Mills announced that the decision to close the New Albany Pillsbury Plant hangs in the balance. If the decision is made by negotiations with union officials, some 415 union employees and salary workers could be affected mid-calender year 2016. Employees will work until the final decisions are made.

4-year-old boy dies from alleged beating by father

A Southern Indiana boy who was admitted to Kosair Children’s Hospital has died from a brain injury allegedly inflicted by his father.

Officers with the Indiana State Police in Sellersburg were called to Kosair Children’s Hospital on Jan. 3 due to suspicious injuries on the child. The Child’s father, 27-year-old Christopher Bruck told police he hit the boy on his forehead so hard that his hand hurt. Bruck has been charged with aggravated battery and could face more charges now that the boy has died.

The flu strain known as Influenza A (H3N2) is the most common strain of flu this season. The number of people affected by the flu has been hovering around at epidemic levels according to the Center for Disease Control. Twenty-one children have been killed by the flu this season.

House republicans plan to vote on blocking Obama’s directives that would give temporary deportation relief and permits to work legally to millions of illegal immigrants currently living in the United States. It is unlikely that a House bill blocking funding for Obama’s move would clear the senate or be signed by the president.

National Security Agency aims to stop future cyber hacks

After North Korea’s recent hack on Sony in efforts to stop the release of a film which displayed particular viewpoints of the leader of South Korea, the National Security Agency plans to take a lead role in stopping future hacks. The NSA will take a leading role in preventing future large scale hacks should they occur. The NSA is currently helping with the investigation on the Sony attack by providing technical assistance with malware used to hack Sony.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Student involvement board meeting

Jan. 13

Wynonna and Friends

Jan.14 12:30 p.m.

UC 127

Annell Lough

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

University Center across from bookstore.

Information about the Center for Women and Families

The Tens

Actors Theatre Jan. 13-17 actorstheatre.org for tickets

Jan. 24

Steven Moeckel Stiefler Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Free Hosted by the Music Department alongside pianist Joanna Goldstein.

Jan. 16

The Harlem Globetrotters “2015 World Tour” KFC Yum! Center. Tickets still available.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Bahamas

Zanzabar Doors open at 8:00 p.m.

Presented by 91.9 WFPK and Holy Carp

Jan. 26

Plagiarism Workshop

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Presented by Leigh Ann Meyer, Director of The Writing Center.

KV 208

CMS Citation Workshop 8:00 p.m.

The Writing Center/ KV 208

Jan. 17 8:00 p.m.

The Brown Theatre

Jan. 17

Men’s Basketball

vs. Alice Lloyd, 3:00 p.m.

Activities Building

Lindsey Goodman, Flutist 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Stem Concert Hall Free

Jan. 31

“ONCE”

Presented by PNC Broadway Louisville Jan. 20 - 25 The Kentucky Center

Jan. 21

Mentoring Celebration

Hoosier West 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Acknowledging the achievements of the mentors of IUS.

Boat and RV Show

Kentucky Expo. Center Lasts through Jan. 25 $12

Feb. 3

Jan. 23

Balsam Range

7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

The Ogle Center $28 for adults/$10 for students

John Mellencamp Louisville Palace 7:30 p.m.

With special guest Carlene Carter.

Feb. 4

Ben Folds

Cold War Kids

Motion City Soundtrack

GlowRage

Mercury Ballroom 8:00 p.m.

Presented by 91.9 WFPK With Elliot Moss

Kawehi

The Kentucky Center Whitney Hall 8:00 p.m.

Paint Party Jan. 30-21 9:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.

Diamond Pub and Billiards

Mercury Ballroom 7:30 p.m.

Presented by The Noise Zanzabar Doors at 8:00 p.m. $10 21 and over

9 Ways to save on books

Photo by Aprile Rickert

By APRILE RICKERT Contributing Writer aperoll27@gmail.com

After factoring in tuition and fees, housing, transportation and books, college can get pretty expensive. Here are nine tips to consider when buying books that could save a considerable amount of money each semester—something every college student could use.

1. The bookstore

The bookstore is convenient. It is on campus and has in stock every required text that a student needs for a particular course. And at IU Southeast, within a specified time period, students may charge up to $600 in books and select supplies on their UCards, to be billed on their tuition statements. However, since they carry the most recent editions of books, campus bookstores are not always the least expensive option.

To help save money at the bookstore, students should go as early as possible to increase the chance of getting a used copy of a book. However, not all titles are available, and there are more students who

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want a used book than there are copies to go around.

Dalen Lieffring, computer science, said he finds the convenience of the bookstore a big draw, and charges all of his books to his UCard.

“It’s just really easy to log into the website and it will pull up all the books that I need,” he said. “I usually compare with Amazon’s prices, but typically it lines up.”

Lieffring said that he would like to be able to get more used books at the IU Southeast bookstore.

“I try to get used [books] because I’m a broke college student, but I don’t typically have a lot of luck with that.”

Students can also take advantage of incentives and

deals on books purchased from the bookstore. For summer 2014, IU Southeast offered book scholarships of up to $300 for any student who registered within the early registration period. There are also options to rent used, new and digital books at lower costs than buying new ones.

2. Book scholarships

There are tons of scholarships available to students—some specifically for books. And they aren’t all merit based—some scholarships are reserved for students with a particular major or hobby.

3. Online book sellers

According to the Higher Education Opportunity Act Textbook Provision of 2010, or HEOA, information about the textbooks that will be used, including ISBN, publisher, edition, author(s) and copyright date must be available to students before classes start, so they may compare prices to decide if they want to purchase their books from the campus bookstore or elsewhere.

Students can find deals on buying or renting new, used or digital textbooks from online companies such as Amazon.com, Half.com, Abebooks, Valorebooks, Chegg and others. Bigwords and Bookfinder also help students compare book prices from many different websites. It is important to remember though, when searching on these sites, to look for the exact ISBN number of the book a professor requires. (See # 4 for more information on older editions) Taylor McLeod, psychology junior, said she gets almost all of her textbooks—both new and used—from Amazon.

“They’re usually cheaper,” she said. “They have a free student trial and you get them in two days.”

Stephanie Habermel, dental hygiene sophomore, said she has saved a lot of money using half.com.

“It’s a lot cheaper,” she said. “For my anatomy book this semester, from the book store, it was almost $500 and I got it [on half.com] for like $130.”

She said she has never had a problem with ordering the wrong edition by mistake.

“I always just get what [professors] have uploaded,” she said.

4. Older editions

When book publishers come out with a new edition of a textbook, the older ones can go down significantly in price. Depending on the material, the course and the professor, a new edition may or may not be necessary. If they plan to go this route, students should first find out from their professors—before classes start—if it will be acceptable to use an older edition.

5. Share with a friend

While it is illegal to scan or copy entire books, it is perfectly fine to share with a buddy, as long as both students have a good system worked out for it.

6. The library

The IU Southeast Library may have one or two copies of many books that are used in courses on this

campus. If the campus library does not have it, the public library might have copies available.

7. Online Codes - Necessary?

In math, science or language courses, the online supplemental materials are often used to give students more practice in mastering the subject.

Other types of classes may or may not find it as useful. Just because a book is sold with a code does not mean it will be needed. Students should check first with the professor to see if the code is necessary.

If it isn’t, the book may be found online without the code at a lower cost. Also, if a student has a new book with a code, it may be worth more when reselling, either to the bookstore or online, if the code has never been used.

Robin Morgan, professor of psychology, said she does not utilize the book codes in her courses.

“It costs the students extra, which I don’t think is fair,” Morgan said. “Everything is so expensive already, plus I want students to learn and do what I’m creating for them. If I’m teaching them, and then somebody else has prepared materials, there could be a lack of coherence between what somebody else has created and what I’m teaching, which could be very confusing for students.”

Habermel said she found out from her professor on the first day of class that she had purchased extra materials she didn’t need.

“It had a package and I went to class with the book that I bought the first day and he said that I didn’t need the package,” Habermel said.

8. Professors

In many cases, professor and instructors are able to choose which materials will be used in their courses.

Another result of the Higher Education Opportunity Act Textbook Provision of 2010 is that book publishers must disclose the price of books they market to educators.

When possible, they may be able to choose the less costly options for students.

“I try to make it as cost-effective as possible for students,” Bryan Hall, professor of philosophy, said.

“And I don’t design the course necessarily around the

books that are available so if I find out that there are a bunch of readings, we’re going to put them together into a course pack. To purchase multiple anthologies or multiple standalone works would cost the students a lot of money. I typically scan in those items and put them in Oncourse if they’re coming in from enough different sources.

But if I find a good anthology which is relatively affordable for students, then I can go with that. Some of these anthologies are just getting prohibitively expensive.”

Morgan said she also finds it useful to use more than just one book as the learning material in a course.

“If I can use readings or other materials, then I do that as well,” Morgan said. “A textbook is limited in that it presents one view of the world. I’m not really concerned with my students learning a textbook—I’m really concerned with my students understanding a field.

Sometimes I don’t even use a textbook because what I want my students to learn isn’t contained within one textbook.

And why have them buy a textbook that they may read two or three chapters of? Yes, those two or three chapters are wonderful, well written and well researched, but I’m not going to ask a student to spent $200 for a textbook I use two or three chapters of. It just doesn’t make any sense to me.”

Morgan said she also sometimes uses Course Load, digital textbooks that are built into the cost of the class as a fee. Students can access them through Canvas. Even though this option is not available for all books or in all classes, Morgan said she thinks it is very beneficial to students.

“It’s cheaper for the students and the students have it already into the course,” Morgan said. “So they don’t have to wait until their money comes in to buy a book or anything like this. It saves them money and everything is right here.”

9. Selling back books

After the class is over, some students may want to hang onto their textbooks, but some may be into getting cash to help pay next semester’s books. The bookstore, as well as buyers from eBay, Amazon and many other online markets, may buy the textbooks.

The money students can get depends on a variety of factors, such as the market, condition of the book and whether or not there is a newer edition. Students can get an idea of what an item sells for by checking to see others of similar condition that are for sale online and by visiting the bookstore.

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Food for thought:

IU Southeast hopes to expand dining options for students

By PAIGE THOMPSON General Assignments Editor @paigeinacage Students at IUS could be seeing changes to the way they get food on campus in the upcoming years.

In November, students, faculty and staff were able to take a survey distributed by the Office of Administrative Affairs via email.

“We brought in a consulting firm that has worked with university dining programs all over the country,” Julie Ingram, Manager of Conference and Dining Services said.

With Chancellor Ray Wallace and the Porter Khouw consulting firm, Dining Services was able to develop the survey along with a ten-year plan for campus dining services.

“With the new Chancellor and the growth of the student population for the future, it’s a great time to re-evaluate the Dining Program overall,” Ingram said.

Ingram also said that changes are in order in several areas of dining services to make them successful.

“The dining changes will be implemented and changed to better service the campus as a whole,” Ingram said. “We are hoping to eventually become ‘the place to be’ on campus.”

According to Ingram, the entire campus is being reviewed and recommendations are being made in multiple areas.

“We are developing the next step for dining now.

It isn’t clearly defined quite yet. Dining will be evolving, we just aren’t sure what the final product will look like yet,” Ingram said.

Some of the ideas proposed on the survey included the ability for students, faculty and staff to pay with a debit card, instead of the usual cash or UCard.

Later hours of operation, additional food choices, new meal plan options, and an expansion into the grassy area next to Crestview were also listed.

Another change that dining services is hoping to make is to bring in outside vendors such as Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A and Qdoba.

With this survey, Ingram said that they were able to get a better idea of the daily habits of the campus community, as opposed to the yearly survey sent out in the spring.

“Because we service such a wide demographic of students, faculty and staff, the results are contradictory. This most recent survey provided more insight on the residential and non-residential students habits and preferences,” Ingram said.

The goal of the survey was to get a better idea of student eating habits while they are on campus. To gain this information, the survey asked questions asking people how long they are on campus, when they are campus and how often, as well as various questions about how they obtain meals and snacks while they are here. Dining services hopes to accommodate students more.

Chancellor Ray Wallace said that with the rising rate of students on campus and residence hall

Graphic by Nic Britton

capacity, food services will have to increase.

He wants to make sure students will not have to cram into one cafeteria in the future.

“If you are on the other side of campus, there should be a place that you can [get] a sandwich and a cup of tea or a cup of coffee. What we are doing is asking students ‘what do you like? What would you like to see?’” Wallace said.

Wallace also said that they will take the feedback from the surveys as well as the campus budgets and develop a plan.

“We want to hear what people say,” Wallace said. “It’s college. It would be a great place to have a real pizza place where you can go in, get a slice and a coke and watch a little ESPN between classes.”

Though Ingram said that these changes would be a long-term process an estimated ten years total - students can expect to see changes as early as this summer and fall semester.

“The changes will be minor at first but we are always looking out for the best interest of our customers,” she said. “It is a cultural change. Just because this is how things

have always been done doesn’t mean that is the best way to do them.”

Chancellor Wallace has been at the helm of the changes coming to campus, working closely with dining services to help develop the plan for these changes.

“It is primarily a commuter campus, but I want to ensure that people who are here, whether they live here or just come for two or three classes have a place to eat quality food that is open a great deal of the time,” Wallace said.

Ingram said that one of her hopes when it comes to the changes in dining services is that it will become more sustainable and financially stable. She also said that she is personally excited to be a part of all of these changes coming to campus.

“Any changes that help us remain self-operated so we can hire our students and become financially independent will be a success,” she said.

According to Ingram, dining services hopes to become a feature of the campus and a recruiting tool for Campus Life, Athletics and Admissions instead of simply a service for the campus.

When it comes to the well-being of students and what they would like to see happen, Ingram said that they plan on including students in the process of implementing these changes.

“The students’ best interest will be taken into account every step of the way,” she said. “This is the primary reason that we are starting now. Input from the students will be vital to make any changes to the operation.”

With Chancellor Wallace at the forefront of the changes on campus, Ingram believes he will lead campus with growth and success into the future.

“Any changes we make in the dining program will only support those changes,” Ingram said.

Ingram also believes that other areas of campus, such as offices and classrooms, will also be facing changes in the future.

“The consulting firm that we are working with promote themselves as social architects,” said Ingram. “So for the students we are hoping that this will come with a student oriented facility that offers great food, comfort, technology and camaraderie.”

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Cold war thaw:

As Cuba and the US restart diplomatic relations, a former visitor to the island weighs in on the change

By ETHAN SMITH Features Editor @EthanLeeSmith During the Cuban missile crisis Cliff Staten, professor of political science and international studies at IU Southeast, was in the 2nd grade. He remembers practicing safety drills at his school, where students would place a pillow over their head and crawl under their desks to protect themselves from nuclear missiles.

Years later Castro and his controversial government were still making headlines while Staten was in college studying things like the political economy of revolutionary regimes. At the time it seemed like the United States and Cuba would never normalize their political relationship, until recently.

President Obama announced a decision to “thaw” the cold war-esque relations between the U.S. and Cuba, that have been around all of Staten’s life. So he couldn’t help but feel positive about the policy change.

“It’s the first time we’ve had diplomatic relations with Cuba since the revolution,” said Staten. “Which, at least in my opinion, is a much more constructive step.”

Staten has written two books on Cuban and even had the opportunity to travel there a few times with IU Southeast students. So this recent development in foreign policy has been big news for Staten. Not to mention the quickly growing Cuban population right here in Kentuckiana.

According to the Federal Census in 2000, Hispanics were the third largest ethnic group in the area, with about 2,325 claiming Cuban descent.

Staten said Cubans both here and on the island will no doubt have a mixed reaction to the policy shift. He believes that the majority will welcome the change but a small minority, made up mostly of Cuban dissidents will oppose it. But to Staten the move was obvious.

“The embargo has been in place since 1962,” said Staten. “Its purpose was to basically bring about a change in government in Cuba. And it failed, it completely failed.”

Photo courtesy of Cliff Staten

Cliff Staten (top row, far left) and IU Southeast students at the University of Havana in June 2012.

Staten said that there are many reasons the embargo on Cuba have failed.

Mainly because the U.S. were the only ones enforcing the trade sanctions. Because of this Cuba has always been able to support itself by partnering with other communist governments like the Soviet Union, Venezuela and now China.

“The current government of Raul Castro is basically trying to adopt the Chinese model of a moving towards capitalism with the communist party still in control,” said Staten. “So right now China is playing a major role in developing the economy there, and the idea of the U.S. stepping in will give us much more leverage to counter the Chinese.”

Staten said that there is no guarantee that the U.S. can influence Cuba into adopting more American values.

But he believes the bigger the role we have in Cuba’s growing private sector, the better the odds.

The embargo has been in place since 1962 [...] And it failed, it completely failed.

Cliff Staten, Professor of Political Science & International Studies at IU Southeast.

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CUBA CONTINUED

Photo courtesy of Cliff Staten

Psychology Professor Bernardo J. Carducci (left), and Cliff Staten (right) at a harbor in Cuba.

Rhonda Wrzenski, Assistant Professor of Political Science at IU Southeast, agrees that this first step in the thawing relations is important, but she said it will take a long time to see any concrete results.

“Essentially, congressional action would still be required for citizens to travel to Cuba for reasons strictly related to tourism and for the lifting of the embargo,” said Wrzenski. “But an American embassy will be established in Havana, the reasons for granting travel licenses have been broadened to include humanitarian work and public performances or competitions and

Cuba will be allowed to export certain materials while Americans can import up to $400 worth of goods from Cuba.”

Wrzenski sees potential for change on the island, with President Raul Castro announcing that he will not seek additional terms in 2018, Cuba will soon have its first leader born after the revolution. And she believes that as the island’s private sector grows, so does its potential for modernization.

“I suspect that Congress will face increasing pressure from citizens and from businesses in the United States to ease the embargo and travel restrictions even further,” said Wrzenski. “But, Cuba’s economy will not change overnight and this will be a long-term process of modernization.”

Either way Staten is planning another trip to Cuba with in the coming years. And he hopes that eventually Americans who are drawn to the culture and beauty of the island like he was will have the opportunity to travel there.

Inclusive Ministry:

Rosemarie Smead and the Roman Catholic Women Priests movement

Photo Courtesy of Rosmarie Smead

Rosemarie Smead was ordained as a Roman Catholic Women Priest in 2012.

By ZAK KERR

By APRILE RICKERT Managing Editor Contributing Writer zakerr@ius.edu aperoll27@gmail.com Professor. Counselor. Psychologist. Activist.

Feminist. Wife. Writer. Schoolmaster. Theologian.

Rosemarie Smead has led a long life—71 years— engaged in the service of others, the fight for equality and a calling to higher spirituality.

And then she became a priest.

Smead was ordained as a Catholic priest April 27, 2013, at St. Andrew’s United Church of Christ, making history as the first woman to be ordained as a priest in Louisville.

She is part of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, a movement which strives to upend the patriarchal systems in place within the Catholic Church that maintain that women are unfit to lead as priests, deacons and bishops—roles which have been long reserved for baptized males.

“A baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly,” according to Canon Law 1024.

Smead’s ordination, and those of the other nearly 200 female Catholic priests, deacons and bishops over the world, are yet unrecognized by the Vatican as legitimate, although since they are ordained by bishops with a lineage to Rome, they are valid

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ordinations. Many have received or been threatened with excommunication from the church.

“What makes us different is that the Church really doesn’t accept us as being acceptable,” Dorothy Shugrue, circle leader for the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, said. “We’re illicit. We’re valid, but we’re illicit.”

“We’ve been excommunicated. Our hope would be that the Pope would stop excommunicating us because there’s no point in it. We’re serving a different populous of people that were not being served by the traditional church. And it makes it very difficult for people who were born Catholic, they have to deal with the word ‘excommunication.’ It’s a heavy word. I was a nun for 28 years and, frankly, it doesn’t bother me at all because I’ve had enough theological study to know what really matters. And what really matters is my faith and the depth of my spirituality and how I envision God and me in the world and what my responsibilities are to care for the people of God. That’s what it’s really all about.”

Path to the priesthood

Smead was born in 1943 and grew up in Akron, Ohio in what she said was a very warm, yet strict, Catholic home. She said she knew from a very early age that she felt a calling to the church, but the options for females were limited.

“At that time, in the 50’s when I was brought up in

the Catholic schools, there was no option for women in the Catholic Church other than being a Catholic sister or a nun.

When she was small enough to fit in a lap, Smead would visit her aunt, who was mother superior in a community of nursing and teaching sisters out of Cleveland, on weekends.

“I saw her being very well respected,” Smead said.

“So I decided very early on that I was going to be not only a sister, but I was going to be a nun. The best that you could be in a monastery.”

Smead said she was certain she was going to go to a monastery when she graduated high school, and planned her life accordingly.

“I felt that Jesus was calling me to do that,” she said.

In 1961, a week after she graduated from high school, Smead left for Wheeling, W. Va. to join a Carmelite monastery. She was there for three years.

“I loved it. I felt like I was home,” Smead said. “It’s what I had been dreaming about since I was a very young child.”

Smead said, however, that the austere nature of this life eventually began to take a toll on her health.

“We went to bed at 11:00 at night got up at 4:30 in the morning,” she said. “After a few years, my body could not deal with the sleep deprivation that was part of that life.”

After leaving the monastery, which was at first devastating to Smead, she briefly studied theology at Fordham College in New York, before transferring to Marquette University in Milwaukee, a liberal Catholic school for lay people to study theology. It was here that she also began to study psychology.

At this school, Smead got involved with activism and the raised consciousness of the 1960’s. She and her friends followed Father James Groppi, a civil rights activist from Milwaukee. She marched across the Edmund-Pettus Bridge with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama. She laid down in the snow in front of buses in Milwaukee to take a stand against segregation. She got married.

“Here I was coming from the most conservative part of the Catholic Church to the most liberal part of the Catholic Church,” she said. “It was just mind blowing.”

Changes on the horizon

At this time, from 1963-1965, Pope John XXIII called an Ecumenical Council, which surprised the world.

The council, also known as Vatican II, called for a loosening of many of the strict traditions which had been associated with Catholicism, including entertaining the idea that women could lead in the Church.

The next two Popes rejected some of these ideas, however, and a 1994 letter by Pope John Paul II declared that women were not fit to serve in these roles. Nevertheless a fire had been lit in the hearts of many women across the world that now they may have a chance to follow the calling the Church had long denied them.

“It’s kind of like lighting a fire under your chair— and it’s still there,” Smead said.

The next phase

For the next several decades, Smead put much of her energy into pursuits outside of the church.

After her father passed away, she used her inheritance to start the Perry Hill Child and Family Development Center, for children with severe learning and behavioral problems. During this time, she said, she finished her doctoral work in Counseling Psychology at Auburn University. Then in 1975, Public Law 94-142, Education for all Handicapped Children, was passed. This cut off funding to the school, she said, because it required that public schools provide special classes for students with these needs.

After this, she took a position at Central Alabama Treatment Services. Here she was Director of Treatment Services, overseeing a 10-county wide juvenile delinquent treatment program. Three years later, funding was cut off for this program, and she made the move to IU Southeast, where she developed a master’s program in counseling and taught for the next 26 years.

She wrote books. She taught in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was president of the state Counseling Association, and of the National Association for Specialists in Group Work. She received the George W. Pinnell system-wide Distinguished Service Award and the President’s Award—the IU system-wide Distinguished Teaching Award.

The movement

In 2002, on a boat in the Danube River between

Austria and Germany, the first seven women, for the first time in centuries, were ordained as priests by two Bishops who were consecrated in apostolic succession within the Roman Catholic Church, according to arcwp.org. A year later, three of them were ordained as Bishops so that they may ordain other priests, and the movement is gaining momentum.

Today, there are nearly 200 women who serve as Catholic priests, deacons and bishops across the world, even without the blessing of the Vatican.

Smead said it has increased 30 percent a year since 2002.

“God is genderless and genderful,” Smead said.

“If the God who created the Heavens created both genders, why can’t both genders image God?” Smead said when she first learned several years ago that women were becoming Catholic priests, she was shocked.

“Women priests? I’d never heard of that,” she said.

“I thought of myself as a pretty forward thinking liberal catholic woman.”

She said learning of this overtook her.

“I got in my van [and] I started crying,” she said. “I was shaking all over. It was one of those times in your life when your soul knows something before your body and your mind do.”

She said she went home and looked up women priests and “The Danube Seven,” awake for hours realizing what she would have to do.

“I went to bed and I felt like it was Jesus knocking on my door again from way back,” she said. “I spent all my life writing and working and trying to help

Photo by Zak Kerr

Mary Sue Barrnet host liturgy at the First Unitarian Church in Louisville.

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Photo by Zak Kerr

The members of the Christ Sophia Inclusive Catholic Community pray together during one of their monthly liturgies. people.”

“My whole life has been about totally believing in equality of everyone. This is my grounding. Noticing from way, way back then that women were not treated equally. I’ve been an activist feminist worker since I figured that out,” Smead said. From the 1960’s on I realized that things are not right and if I don’t stick my neck out, who’s going to?”

While Smead was preparing to enter the priesthood, she presided over “house churches” in the area. After her ordination, her church, Christ Sophia, became a public church which was housed at St. Andrew’s United Church of Christ.

Shugrue said that “Sophia” is the feminine side of God, according to scripture.

“Christ Sophia is really an expression of the concept that Jesus was Jesus the human man and that Christ Sophia, Jesus the Christ, has always been part of life in the universe, which is expanding,” Shugrue said.

She said members of the Catholic community can benefit from the different perspectives men and women bring to their leadership, and this is why the inclusion of women is so important.

“You ask a man and a woman to look at something, a reading, and interpret it, they’re going to interpret it differently,” Shugrue said. “We interpret it differently because we have different gifts. That different perspective is a very important perspective and just as women learn much from men, men really learn to get in touch with their gentler, sensitive side from women. Jesus was a gentle and sensitive man as well as a strong and powerful man.”

Smead has since moved to Bedford, Kentucky,

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where she continues to minister in house churches and in a mental health facility. Christ Sophia is now at First Unitarian Church on 4th St. in Louisville.

Mary Sue Barnett, who was ordained in Dec. 2013, just seven months after Smead, now presides over this intimate congregation of around 20. They meet the last Sunday of every month.

She said she worked alongside Smead as Christ Sophia was first becoming a public church.

“She’s a very dynamic person,” Barnett said. “It feels like I’ve known her forever. In a very small amount of time you become sort of quickly forged in friendship with these women, and so many at once too. It’s a really unique experience.”

Barnett said she was immediately struck by Smead’s high level of energy and her joy at finding her place in the priesthood.

“It’s like it’s something she never ever expected and the fact that her life evolved into that was such a feeling of fulfillment that brought her so much joy,” Barnett said. “It was just wonderful to watch.”

She said a lot of the life experience Smead has had contributes greatly to her role as a spiritual leader.

“Being able to understand what it’s like to live through the intimate struggles within marriages and within households and families and all kinds of interpersonal relationships—she has lived it, she has studied it, she has counseled people and that is a huge gift to bring to one’s priesthood,” Barnett said.

“In the all-male celibate priesthood there is such a chasm between a lot of these life experiences.”

Like Smead, Barnett had long felt the pull to higher spirituality before becoming a priest.

She said that nearly 20 years ago, while she was

involved in a parish she loved, she realized that it had its limits to her as a woman and she decided she had to leave.

“In terms of sort of standing in my own authentic self, I had to pull away,” Barnett said. “That was very wrenching. My awareness of having to do that came very suddenly and it felt like a sudden fracture of a bone. Almost as it would feel if you fell physically and you heard your bone crack.”

Barnett said many years later, when she found the Women’s Priest Movement and was doing prep work for her ordination, the pieces of her life that had felt up in the air since leaving the church fell into place.

“Almost as suddenly as that fracture was many years ago, I suddenly felt that I was on the inside again,” she said. “I was not, sort of, in exile anymore.”

“That’s why I’m here because I feel like I am in the center of something that I have waited a long time for and that I actually never thought would come while I was still alive,” she said. “So it is happening. It’s very powerful, it’s very authentic—the women truly are moved by a prophetic spirit.”

Mari Hammer, a former colleague of Barnett’s, has been attending services at Christ Sophia since Barnett was ordained.

She said one of the main reason’s she keeps attending is that she doesn’t leave angry—something that made her stop attending more traditional services years ago.

“I taught at one of the academies here in Louisville and one of the things I taught was church history,” she said. “And the more I read and the more I thought about things, I just got so angry—not with spirituality and not with the fact that there’s a God

or any of that—but the church hierarchical structure.

The really kind of insidious, negative treatment of women that I found to be very much of an affront. I just got to a point where I could not deal with that anymore.”

Hammer said that for years after she stopped attending regularly, she would still go occasionally, trying different places, but still found the negativity to be present.

Hammer said she used to joke to her friends that she would attend church again if Barnett was ever ordained as a priest—something that didn’t cross her mind as a possibility. When she found out that Barnett had her own parish, she said she knew she had to stick to her word.

“That was the impetus to get me to come the first time,” Hammer said.

She said she keeps coming back, however, because she enjoys it and feels a spirituality moving in those services. She said it feels very wholesome.

“I like the readings that they use,” she said. “Often there is scripture from the inclusive language bible

so there’s not a male domination and ‘women go sit in the back and behave yourselves’ kind of attitude. And they also use some women theologians sometimes for some of the early readings. I appreciate what they have to say.

In other words, there is no put-down. And I found a lot of negativity in an organized church hierarchy and I just don’t feel that here. That’s the biggie.”

Barnett said that she knows taking on the role as a priest, deacon or bishop is a very meaningful decision for Catholic women.

“Ordination for women in the Catholic Church comes from very deep place,” Barnett said. “It’s a sacred thing. It’s not a PR sound bite, it’s not superfluous—it is very deep.”

The Roman Catholic Women’s Priest Movement is an all-inclusive one, meaning that none are turned away or refused blessing, and the priest is not thought of as the sole pathway between the people and God. “We have no kings, we have no rulers,” Smead said.

“We don’t use any of those patriarchal terms.”

Smead said the group functions democratically.

“There is no hierarchy—one person, one vote,” she said. “That is, the newest ordained deacon has one vote on issues the same as our bishop Bridget Mary Meehan. She is our spiritual, pastoral leader, and does not exercise authority over our choice of ministry. We function as a Circle, and democratically vote on any and all issues.”

Since she is not called “Father,” some wonder what Smead’s title is title as a priest—Sister, Mother?

“I was Rosie yesterday, I’m Rosie today and I’m going to be Rosie tomorrow,” she said.

Smead said she feels that she is in the right place.

“A priest, to us, means a woman or man whose life is dedicated to the service of our Loving God and all the People of God,” Smead said. “We are sacramental and spiritual leaders to our community, who call us forth to serve in this way. We are a new priestly ministry in a community of equals. We are real folks who have had many life experiences, and connect with each other in ways the hierarchy can only dream of. We are immensely blessed and happy.”

Photos courtesy of Rosemary Smead

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University Commons Set to Open February 2015 University Commons aims to also help accommodate nontraditional students. While the building is created with student housing in mind, the apartments are not limited to those furthering their education.

“University Commons is open to any and every qualified applicant. We welcome a diversified community.”

Harrig said.

By MARISA GARTLAND Staff mtgartla@ius.edu University Commons is a new apartment complex opening up on Grant Line road that hopes to give students the best of both worlds - convenience of being close to campus alongside the freedom of living outside of a dorm.

“Living off campus really allows you to gain a sense of responsibility in the real world.” Shannan Harrig, regional property manager of HayesGibson international said. “University Commons is close enough to campus to allow students to stay connected but far enough to allow for more independence.”

Though initially planned to open in January 2015, the opening date for the first building – which holds 36 units – is set for February 1st, 2015.

Weather conditions have caused some unexpected setbacks.

“Drastic changes in temperatures and excess rain caused construction to move a little slower,” Rachel Eichler, regional assistant for Hayes-Gibson International said.

Photo courtesy of Hayes-Gibson Int.

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Deposits on the units are $890, but the first 20 applicants will receive half off of their deposit upon signing.

The building is a five minute walk from Indiana University Southeast, as well as a handful of restaurants, gas stations, and right next to the interstate.

Photo courtesy of Hayes-Gibson Int.

“You can’t pour concrete when it’s raining, and in order to paint the exterior, it has to be within a certain few degrees for a series of days after you paint.”

While operations could have been rushed to meet deadlines, HayesGibson international preferred to delay in an effort to produce a solid, wellbuilt community.

“There are days we could have pushed forward, but we wanted to make sure that we were doing everything 100 percent the right way.”

Eichler continued.

Units in the complex will consist of a two bedroom, two bathroom floor plan, giving each tenant their own bathroom and bedroom. Lodging at Indiana University Southeast typically consists of four students sharing a two bedroom, two bathroom floorplan.

“Living off campus also tends to be more cost efficient,” Eichler said.

A two bed, two bath unit on campus at IUS goes for a little over $3,000 a semester, or $600 a month – per student. Units at University Commons are set to go for $890 a month, which includes water, trash, and sewage, leaving the tenants only with the electric bill to pay on top of rent. Splitting the expenses between two tenants, students would pay less than they would to live on campus while also having more space.

A model unit is currently available for interested tenants to view.

“Those interested can check out our model unit on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-5:30.

We can also set up tours outside of these hours by appointment.”

Harrig said.

Photo courtesy of Hayes-Gibson Int.

Photo courtesy of Hayes-Gibson Int.

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The Art of Adaptation:

A focus on the IUS fine arts program

Chelsea Markuson, fine arts junior, said the atmosphere in her fine arts classes is different from the norm.

“There is a creative atmosphere that is shared,” Markuson said. “Students play music of their choice on Pandora, which is conducive for creativity. It helps with getting in the zone.”

Markuson said that creativity and collaboration are crucial to the program, and that her art classes are “always a journey.”

“It can be a solo endeavor, but I believe the young artist should be surrounded by like-minded students,” Markuson said.

Photo by Haley Warwick

Brian Jones, fine arts professor said this piece is from a larger collection which he called “Fossils.”

Jones said this piece was inspired by war.

By NIC BRITTON

By ERIN MANN

By HALEY WARWICK News Editor hwarwick@ius.edu

As the school weeks go by and the seasons change, so does Knobview Hall. New creations by fine arts students and faculty alike are put on display, ranging from paintings to 3D-printed pieces.

The Ronald L. Barr Gallery rotates its selections, highlighting art of all disparate kinds.

The artists of campus attend opening events for their works, showing off their creations for family, friends and strangers alike.

The fine arts program never remains static, continuously providing new works for students to observe and enjoy - but not all of its changes are apparent on the surface.

The fall 2014-spring 2015 academic year has seen numerous new additions and adjustments to the fine arts program, with more on the way. New courses have been added to the class schedules.

New events have been held, and recurring ones have been altered. The fine arts program even has a blog, which is available for contribution by all of its students.

These changes have been perceived and handled differently by students, faculty and alumni alike.

It’s kind of surreal for a young artist to have work in the public’s view

Chelsea Markuson Fine Arts, Junior

Markuson said she believes the fine arts program is becoming more contemporary. She believes the involvement of Chancellor Ray Wallace may play a part in this, describing him as “quite the artist.”

“I see them definitely adapting a more contemporary approach, one that is not as constricting,” Markuson said. “There is a push toward focusing on contemporary aspects of our location.”

One of the new additions Markuson said has been added this semester is a blog for the fine arts program, located here. The blog began operating on October 7, and students and faculty alike are able to contribute. Markuson was published in the 2013 edition of the IUS Review, and her piece “Cyborg Module 2” is currently on display in the library. She said it is inspired by repetitive rhythms within industrial types of music.

“I can visualize the sounds, and then my mind puts out how to line draw them,” Markuson said.

She said it will be on display until February 6, and that having it on display has been exciting.

“It’s kind of surreal for a young artist to have work in the public’s view,” Markuson said.

Markuson said she is currently taking ceramics, and that seeing her art become 3D has been a new experience.

“I see my sketch come into 3D form through clay. As an artist who mainly focuses on 2D art, this has opened my mind while also being challenging,” Marukson said.

Wende Cudmore, fine arts alumni, graduated in 2013 after starting school in 2004.

She said the campus has grown considerably since she first began attending.

“It was my first experience on a college campus,” Cudmore said. “Younger students treated me as [an] equal.”

She said returning to school was “on her bucket list” for years prior, and she eventually had to make the leap.

“It took some pushing, but when I was in, I was unstoppable,” Cudmore said.

Cudmore said she would recommend Brian Jones as a professor, but notes that he is retiring next year.

“He finally saw my studio after all these years,” Cudmore said.

Cudmore said she attended a lecture a few years ago, in which life after graduation was discussed. She said that most students did not follow their passions, and she wanted to buck the trend.

Photo by Haley Warwick

Wende Cudmore uses processes to press organic materials such as leaves and vegetables to give printmaking paper a design

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It can be a solo endevor, but I believe the young artist should be surrounded by like minded students.

Chelsea Markuson Fine Arts, Junior

“It really surprised me and inspired me to make my basement into a studio,” Cudmore said. “That left an impression on me.”

Cudmore said students about to graduate should continue to be proactive and work towards their passions.

“Make things work in spite of rejections,” Cudmore said. “Something will come up. Creativity and problem-solving can allow students to get into jobs others can’t.”

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Chanda Glendinning, visiting assistant professor in ceramics, is currently teaching the program’s ceramics classes. She said this is her first semester teaching at IU Southeast.

“I moved to New Albany on August 1,” Glendinning said. “I really like it. I’ve always liked this region.”

Glendinning said many other members of the faculty are also from different areas of the country.

“They are from other areas, so the students are my natives,” Glendinning said. “I am originally from western New York.”

Glendinning said she will be teaching two sections of 3D Design in the spring, as well as a ceramics course for non-majors. She said the major and non-major iterations of the course have no differences and that it is “only for enrollment purposes.”

She said one reason for the lack of differences is that the ceramics course for majors may fill up, and excess major students are then placed in the non-major course. She said it is also important to take the education of non-major students just as seriously and hold them to the same standards.

“You never know if any of the non-major students will be crossover students, so it’s important for them to have the same foundation,” Glendinning said.

Debra Clem, professor of fine arts, said her projects are different each semester and depend on student ability. She said the still life paintings of fruits and vegetables are “most successful” and help build students’ confidence.

“Still life paintings depend on students’ personalities and abilities,” Clem said.

Glendinning said she believes all students should take at least one fine arts course.

“It’s good to take anything that makes you think critically,” Glendinning said. “That applies to all areas of your life.”

It’s good to take anything that makes you think critically.

That applies to all areas of your life.

Photo by Haley Warwick Wende Cudmore, fine arts alumnus, designed all the prints on this hanging piece at IU Southeast. The piece contains 1000 pieces of individual squares of print paper.

Markuson said she considers IU Southeast’s fine arts program to be one of the best in the region.

“Getting an art education has a great impact,” Markuson said. “It is important to be able to articulate about yourself and the world.”

Glendinning said the department’s faculty roster is “small but very strong.” She praised Barbara Kutis, assistant professor of fine arts, in particular.

“She approaches her classes in a much more contemporary fashion,” Glendinning said. “She’s been burning it up lately.”

She said she is glad to be at IU Southeast and that the department works well together.

Looking to the future, she said Tiffany Carbonneau, assistant professor of fine arts, will be teaching a pair of classes in the spring 2015 semester that are focused on digital arts and interactive media.

Chanda Glendinning, visiting assistant professor in ceramics

Photo by Haley Warwick Cudmore holds a hat she made from vegetables in her studio

Glendinning said she warns students that the fine arts classes are “not a vacation,” but feels the experience is worth it.

“Any fine arts class will challenge you, but there’s something really great about being hands-on and making something,” Glendinning said.

Photo by Nic Britton Dallas Wooten, fine arts senior, works on a ceramics project in Knobview Hall.

IU Southeast Works on Going Green Pangburn said she has been working on a recycling project and also working with Barry on an environmental ethics class.

“I’ve actually been going around to most of the Sustainability; many have heard the word, FYS (First Year Seminar) classes talking about but don’t know exactly what it means. Lauren sustainability,” Pangburn said. “I’ve been working Pangburn, campus sustainability advisor and on small projects within the council, trying to get international studies senior, said sustainability is the organization started.” She said that she is also becoming a topic of interest at IU Southeast - but looking into some larger action issues including what exactly is it? energy use and transportation. Pangburn said that The dictionary definition of sustainability is “the she thinks interest in sustainability is about to quality of not being harmful to the environment or become more popular. depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting Both Pangburn and Barry spoke about a long-term ecological balance.” James Barry, newminor that is now available in sustainability. professor of philosophy, said the term is very broad. Barry also said that there are faculty members, “The way that we are approaching sustainability himself included, that are currently working on a here is very broad-based,” Barry said. “We’re sustainability major. He said that he hopes for the concerned with economic sustainability, major to become available in the fall of 2016 and sustainability of physical resources, but we’re also said a sustainability certificate should be available looking at it in terms of communities and ethical in either spring or fall semester of 2015. and political questions as well.”

“We are working on new academic programming Barry said that there is still a lot of work to be around sustainability and there will even be a done at IU Southeast in the way of sustainability, study-abroad trip completely focused on sustainable and Pangburn is helping with that. She works living in the summer of next year,” Pangburn said. within the Student Government Association She said the progress toward sustainability isn’t alongside students, faculty and staff to help make going away anytime soon. In fact, both Barry and IU Southeast a more environmentally conscious Pangburn said they expect that it will become even campus. more popular overtime.

“I’ve always kind of been environmentally minded.

Barry said they will mostly encourage students to A lot of my interests are about the environment,” use sustainabilty as a second major.

Pangburn said.

By Allison Nail Staff alnail@ius.edu

“It will also help students work on critical thinking and get internships,” Barry said.

Employers are looking for this now. The bottom line is that it saves people money.

-Lauren Pangburn, campus sustainability advisor

“It will also help students work on critical thinking and get internships,” Barry said.

Pangburn also said that new options for sustainability would be helpful for students.

“Employers are looking for this now. The bottom line is that it saves people money,” Pangburn said.

For more information on sustainability programs and classes, visit the IU Southeast website or contact the school of Natural Sciences by phone at 812-941-2284 or by email at natsci.ius.edu.

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We Should Probably Stop Trying to be Funny Opinions... F rom the constant controversy that surrounds the work of South Park to Steven Colbert being called racist for his use of satire to the news organizations that refused to air the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that made them targets in the first place.

You can see a trend, not of censoring, but of being overly sensitive.

Recently, two contributors to the art of satire and mockery have been attacked by those they were mocking.

By: Zak Kerr Managing Editor zakerr@ius.edu

The people of France took to the streets with shirts and signs saying, “Je suis Charlie,” I am Charlie, to show their support for Charlie Hebdo.

Courtesy Photo

This 2011 cover of Charlie Hebdo shows a Muslim kissing one of Charlie’s artists. This was their cover after their offices were destroyed from a fire bomb attack by Muslim extremists in 2011.

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On January 7, the French publication Charlie Hebdo, similar to America’s satirical news organization The Onion, was attacked by what is believed to be Islamic extremists because of their mocking depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Three men came to the Charlie Hebdo offices with Kalashnikov assault rifles and opened fire on the unarmed writers, editors and security at Charlie Hebdo.

Sony Pictures faced what the US government called the largest cyberattack in the nation’s history in December. The hacking group “Guardians of Peace” stole terabytes of information because of Sony’s film The Interview.

The group then released thousands of documents, emails and social security numbers from Sony Pictures employees. They did this because The Interview’s central plot was the assassination of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Following both of these attacks, there has been massive support behind both Sony Pictures and Charlie Hebdo. The Interview became Sony’s highest grossing online film of all time and the people of France took to the streets with signs and shirts saying “Je suis Charlie,” I am Charlie, to show their support for Charlie Hebdo.

This is a far cry from the hypocrisy I have seen surrounding satire throughout the past year.

Satire is, by definition, never sensitive and it never should be. Satire is made to point out the ignorance of a group or person. Being vulgar, excessive, offensive and mean is all fair in satire because it works towards exposing truth.

Being sensitive to the opinions and beliefs of others, in and of itself, is not a bad habit to have. I would never want to push forward the idea that we, as humans, should be less sensitive to the wants and needs of others.

But, when it comes to satire, there should be no reservations. Any person that wishes to express their beliefs through satire should, in no way, be inhibited because of fear of persecution.

I do not feel that we have censored satire, I feel that satire has become muted and looked down upon. Those with ideas and opinions counter to the masses have been quieted because we’re afraid of upsetting any number of large, faceless groups.

Earlier this year, Stephen Colbert satirized the nonprofit started by Dan Snyder, “Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation,” by ‘creating’ his own, similarly racist foundation known as “Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.”

After the shows twitter account tweeted the bit out of context, there was an uproar and the hashtag #CancelColbert started trending on twitter.

Although Colbert was able to turn the situation around to his favor, it showed how being overly sensitive can be detrimental to a cause. Instead of the racism in the very real and ignorantly named “Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation” being at the center of the issue, the issue became #CancelColbert. Essentially removing any Native American context from the conversation.

Both the Associated Press and CBC News, a division of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, did not run Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting Muhammad after the attack in France because, according to a report from Bloomberg, they felt the images would be offensive to their Muslim constituents.

While they are correct, the cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are made to be offensive, they are also showing that they are missing the point of cartoons themselves. These cartoons exist because there is a group of people willing to kill people who use those images, and by deeming the images as too obscene for consumption you are problematizing satire and discouraging its use as a method of free speech.

With their refusal to offend they have perpetuated the idea that being offended makes you right. Not only that, but by barring these images from their viewership they are not giving the full picture of what caused these events to happen.

Satire, when used effectively, can contribute to discussions on social issues and change.

By ushering satire away from the spotlight in the name of sensitivity, we are actively putting one person’s comfort over another’s rights.

Faces of IUS: Moriah Harrod

Haley Hisle &

By PAIGE THOMPSON General Assignments Editor thompaig@ius.edu

It’s more personable here and the professors really care about their students doing the best they can,” she said. In her spare time, Hisle runs her own photography business, where she photographs families, high school seniors and couples. ““I love, love, love photography,” she said.

“Being behind the lens is the most fun experience I’ve ever had. I love getting to know the clients that I’m working with. It makes their pictures unique.”

Hisle also likes to spend her spare time attending church, where she is a very active Photo by Paige Thompson member.

“I love going to church and listening to God’s word being spoken along with other believers,” she said.

If someone were meeting Haley Hisle, speech Besides running her own photography communications junior, for the first time they might business and regularly attending church, Hisle describe her as “bubbly,” or “enthusiastic,” and also works as a barista at Village House Coffee “positive.” All of which are true.

Hisle, who seems to have a smile on her face all in Georgetown, Indiana. She also enjoys other the time, is currently in her third year at IUS, said activities such as bonfires, and spending time with her friends and family. that her favorite thing about IU Southeast is the And though she may not seem like it through caring professors that she encounters. her sweet demeanor, Hisle admits to having “I love going to a university where there aren’t a “really bad road rage.” hundred plus students in each class.

Photo by Secoy Richey

By Secoy Richey Staff vsrichey@ius.edu Moriah Harrod, psychology senior, said she wants to study psychology cross-culturally. She said she believes America has a lot to learn from other countries and their simplicities.

She traveled to Spain this summer to live with a family she had never met. They gave her a roof over her head, three meals a day, and spending money on the weekends in exchange for babysitting their two boys during the week. While culturally immersed there, Harrod said, she learned a new language, Catalan; a mix of Spanish and French.

Her dream is to work for the Peace Corps, but ultimately, she said, she will not be happy until she has done something no one has done before.

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A MOMENT TO

Ray Wallace is officially installed as REMEMBER: the seventh chancellor of IU Southeast

By JOEL STINNETT Editor-in-chief @muckrakerjoel

As the Fall 2014 semester drew to a close, a new chapter in the history of IU southeast officially began.

On Dec. 5, Ray Wallace was officially recognized as the seventh chancellor of IU Southeast at an installation ceremony inside the Stem Concert Hall.

Wallace, who has been acting chancellor since July 1 of last year, said that after 30 years in education, he couldn’t help but get become emotional during the ceremony.

“This is a crowning achievement for me, and to have friends, family and colleagues from all over the state and beyond to see this was a big deal to me,” Wallace said.

In addition to family members, many IUS faculty, staff and students were in attendance.

IU President Michael McRobbie spoke at the ceremony, as well as IUS alum Ed Clere and SGA President Stephon Moore, who presented Wallace with an IU tie as a gift from the student body.

Photo by Josh Rowe

Amanda E. Tewell sings “The Star Spangled Banner” to begin the ceremony.

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Indiana University President Michael McRobbie welcomes the crowd to the installation of Ray Wallace.

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The installation was held inside the Stem Concert Hall.

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Chancellor Wallace acknowledges his wife, Susan Wallace, after he is given an IU tie by SGA President Stephon Moore. Moore said Susan Wallace gave him the idea for the gift.

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Chancellor Wallace receives applause after being officially recognized as the seventh chancellor of IU Southeast. The ceremony is derived from centuries-old academic customs recognizing the change in leadership. Similar to a knighting ceremony, President McRobbie placed a crimson sash around the neck of the new chancellor.