Sept. 21, 2015

September 21, 2015 ISSUE 3

Board games aren’t boring Read more on page 7.

Hood 2 Hood visit inspires students Read more on page 13.

Tuition freeze only at Bloomington Read more on page 17.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Lobby for my Hobby 6

Out of the Darkness 14

The Out of the Darkness walk is a pledge-based walk raising suicide awareness and prevention.

Board games, and the best part that you may take for granted.

Navigating the Amazon

Athletic Department Staff Update

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Staff reporter Kate Harrison speaks of the woes of working in a large warehouse.

Three members of the athletic staff take on new responsibilities.

Fresh Faces in Volleyball

Safety on Campus 16

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After the previous lockdowns, plans were made to beef up security on campus. A follow up on the updates to safety on campus.

Gearing for Google 10 - 11

Photography of Chancellor Wallace

Incoming freshman Hannah Joly is turning heads on the volleyball court this season.

Junior Jessica Bruner is selected

by Google to initiate Computer Sciences First, an organization aiming to integrate computer sciences into local communities.

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Chancellor Ray Wallace discusses his photography exhibition currently on display at the Barr Art Gallery.

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IN EVERY ISSUE Faces of IUS 4 Events 5 Diversions 18

SCORECARD

UPCOMING GAMES

Women’s Volleyball

Women’s Volleyball

9/8 IUS vs Cincinnati Christian

(25-9, 27-25, 25-12)

Women’s Tennis

9/10 IUS vs. IU East

(25-19, 25-13, 25-19) 9/11 IUS vs. St. Catharine

(12-25, 18-25, 21-25)

9/19 11 a.m. Carlow University (A) 9/26 10:30 a.m. IU East (H)

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9/22 11 a.m. Oakland City (A) 9/25 6 p.m. Alice Lloyd College (A) 9/29 7 p.m. Indiana University Kokomo (H)

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POLICE

BLOTTER

FACES OF IUS

September 9 at 6:09pm

An officer assisted the Floyd County Sheriffs Deparment with a suspicious subject claiming to be a law enforcement agent. They advised the property manager to ask the subject to leave, the subject complied.

September 9 at 11:40

Officers were dispatched on a report of solicitors asking for donations by University Center. The solicitors were asked to leave.

September 11 at 8:00am

Officer responded to a call that there was a snake in the University Center Lobby.

The officer was able to catch the snake and remove it from the building

September 13 at 8:26pm

An individual reported that their bike was stolen by the Activities Building. The stolen bicycle is valued at approximately $200.

September 14 at 1:35pm

A student reported someone tampering with their vehicle while parked on the Sycamore Parking Lot. The damage was approximately $100 and a vandalism report was taken.

September 14 at 4:15pm

An officer was dispatched to take a report on are that was keyed in the Magnolia Parking Lot.

September 15 at 9:13pm

An officer was dispatched to Grove Lodge on a report of a student in a verbal altercation with their mother. The situation was resolved and the mother was asked to leave.

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FELICIA HILL

DEREK DUVAAL

fine arts freshman

digital arts sophomore

Using a stick to properly measure proportions, Felicia draws a hallway in Knobview for her art class, the first of many in her fine arts degree path.

In a room heavy with the smell of burning metal from saudering irons, Derek measures out pieces of wire for a lantern he’s making for his 3D Design class.

“It really helps you with understanding how proportions work when exploring other concepts of art.”

“I wanted to explore my curiosity for 3D elements and knock out two of my general education requirements with one class.”

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The Decemberists

September 28 @ Iroquois Ampitheater

The Avett Brothers with Jason Isbell October 1 @ Rupp Arena

September 22 September 23 September 24 September 25 September 25 Culture Trip: Frazier Museum 9:45 a.m.- 2:45 p.m.

Tag along with Professor Medina and her Sociological Concepts class to their visit of the Frazier Museum in downtown Louisville.

Drop by Campus Life at UC 010 to sign up.

Career Insights Nearly Naked Mile 12:30 p.m. @ UC127

7:30 p.m. @ the Clock Tower

Students will have the opportunity to interact and discuss career opportunities with supply chain professionals from GE, Brown-Forman, Ford, Jeff Boat, and more.

Supported by the SAA, this 24th annual costume-friendly run will reward prizes to best ‘undressed.’ You have to be a member of SAA to run, but sign ups will be available day of the race.

Dracula

Louisville Brew Fest

Louisville’s favorite vampire is back! Enjoy a classic favorite and start the fall season off right. Also playing several other dates.

This 7th annual beerextravaganza will feature independent local and regional beer, wine, and bourbon, with food and a silent auction.

7 p.m. @ Actor’s Theatre; $25$125

September 26 September 26 September 27 September 29 NuLu Fest

11 a.m. @ 700 East Market Street Louisville, KY Live music, microbrews, and food and craft booths are only a few of many fabulous things happening during NuLu Fest celebreating the revitalization of Louisville’s East Market District.

Out of the Darkness Walk 11 a.m. @ McCullough Plaza In theme with the Mental Health & Wellness Series, this pledge walk will support suicide prevention.

4 p.m. @ Slugger Field; $5

October 2

The Monarchs with Muggle Quidditch St. James Court Art Show Southern sirens 10 a.m. @ St. James Court 1:30 p.m. @ Turtle Run Winery

7:30 p.m. @ Frisbee Field

This free concert is part of the Turtle Run Winery Fall Concert Series. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy the free rock and roll tunes.

Join the Castle Club in a free tournament muggle version of the popular wizard game, quidditch. Bring your game face!

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This annual art show will feature over 700 artists from across North America, held in one of the most historic and aesthetically pleasing neighborhoods in Louisville.

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Changing the World One Game at a Time Luma Mufleh Tuesday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m.

Stem Concert Hall, Ogle Center

Luma Mufleh is the inspirational coach of a soccer team called the Fugees—short for refugees.

The players on this team come from 28 war- torn countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Bosnia, Somalia and Sudan. Most of them have endured unimaginable hardship: one young boy was forced by soldiers to shoot his own best friend, another watched his father shot to death, and all have been robbed of their childhood.

Mufleh will talk about how she became involved with the Fugees, the plight of the children she helps, and what they teach her in turn. As an advocate for innovative education, Mufleh also offers telling insight into the challenges and necessary demands of the education system. The story of the team is chronicled in the book Outcasts United, which is the selected text for this year’s Common Experience program. This event is free and open to the public.

Coming together to discuss issues that matter

For more information about the event, contact professors Cliff Staten (cstaten@ius.edu) or Veronica Medina (vemedina@ius.edu)

Check out the Common Experience website and social media for more information about future events. facebook.com/ iuscommonexperience

@common_ius #IUSCE

www.ius.edu/ common-experience/

By Joseph Kauffman Features Editor joekauff@ius.edu I hate the term board games.

First off, it too easily lends itself to the joke “bored games.” It’s a joke made worse by its apt description of far too many of the family games that dominate most people’s perceptions of the genre.

I’m looking at you, “Monopoly.” It may have been funny when my friend took my money at Baltic Avenue the first time, but eight hours later I’d give up all my pink and yellow currency just to put my silver thimble back in the box.

My main quibble with the term is its inability to encapsulate the vast array of games and experiences of the genre.

Far too much of my life has been spent believing games like “Clue” or “Risk” were representative of what board games had to offer.

It’s not that they aren’t. It’s just that they’re not everything the genre can be.

When I think of board games, I think of the collective mistrust you feel in the last few turns of a game of “Dead of Winter,” suspiciously eying your friends knowing one of them is more than likely about to reveal himself as a traitor.

I think of the moments in “Arkham Horror” when one of your friends makes an impossible roll, and you all celebrate collectively defeating that masochistic game.

I think of the ridiculous accents the table will adopt as they attempt to bribe and silver tongue their way through inspection in a game of “Sherif of Nottingham.”

LET ME LOBBY FOR MY HOBBY Board Games The thing that makes board games great is the one thing every one of those experiences had in common: your friends.

It’s what separates a bored game like “Sorry” from a board game like “The Resistance.” One is a fine enough way to spend an hour if you’re stuck inside due to rain. The other is a vessel through which you celebrate you and your friends’ opinions and general mistrust of one another in a fun, safe environment.

When the last person you’d expect, the quiet and awkward one, reveals himself to be a Machiavellian mastermind with a poker face made of stone, that moment will stay with you. It’ll paint a new shade of color into the metaphorical picture that is your friendship. It’ll become a “remember that time when” that you’ll bring up again and again.

This was what I latched onto the first time someone introduced me to games outside of those you’d find in the kid section at Wal-Mart. It was better than watching a movie because my friends and I got to talk to one another while we played.

It was better than a video game because we got to look at each other and add facial expressions to the jokes we were telling.

The more games I played, the more I have gravitated toward ones that amplified this trait to eleven and away from ones that do it so poorly they miss the point entirely.

It’s the reason I can’t stand a game like “Cards Against Humanity.” It entertains by providing a safe space to collectively laugh at the misfortunes, prejudices, and atrocities of others while allowing players to deny personal ownership of the statements made by the cards they play. The

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worst part is players don’t produce the enjoyment of that game.

A better game would be one that uses the same mechanics but empowers its players to create something themeselves.

An example would be “Funemployed,” a game where everyone uses the random traits they are dealt to apply for a randomly drawn job. By adding an avenue for your friends to use the cards as Lego blocks to express their own creativity, it encourages you to enjoy the things your friends say and do rather than the cards the game’s designers created. That’s what a great board game does.

It’s not that I love “Space Alert.” It’s that I love how that game builds an almost telepathic level of cooperation between those of you attempting to survive near impossible odds in real time.

It’s not that I love “Codenames.” It’s that I love that moment when one of your friends perfectly reads the many meanings of your single word clue. I alternately love when your friend misinterprets the clue entirely leading to the argument about “how anyone would possibly think attention was about unicorns” that inevitably occurs afterward.

Playing board games with my friends has left me with amazing memories of them and taught me things about them I may never have otherwise known. When I lift the lid of a board game, I’m not opening a box full of cards, dice and plastic figurines. I’m opening a powerful memory generator that keeps on giving long after the lid is closed, and the box is back on the shelf.

It’s not that I love board games.

It’s that I love my friends.

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Opinion: The woes of warehouse work

By Kate Harrison Staff Reporter kaetharr@ius.edu The New York Times recently published an article about the harsh working conditions that Amazon employees face. The article generated a lot of debate and support from employees.

This summer I worked at amazon for three insufferable weeks. While that may have not been enough time to fully grasp the experience of working there; I learned a lot and it’s surely an experience I’ll never forget.

This summer I decided to quit my job as a janitor in search of something more substantial.

I was about to graduate college and a bigger paycheck with benefits was necessary, or so my mom’s nagging would have me believe.

My father had been working at Amazon for a year and told me they were hiring. I went to Integrity Staffing and was hired on the spot. Two weeks later I began working for Amazon.

On my first day I walked through the rotary style iron gates with a smile on my face. I was optimistic and ready to begin. I circled up with my new hire group of seven to listen to my ambassador give us his training speech.

He took us on a tour of the 1.2 million square

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foot facility. There were endless aisles of cardboard boxes filled with items from floor to ceiling. All that surrounded us was a menagerie of yellow totes, cardboard bins and concrete. At that moment the mood of my group and myself shifted. We had begun to realize exactly what we had gotten ourselves into.

He showed us how to pick next. On a scanning gun a screen popped up and showed us the aisle, bin number and product description of the item we were looking for. Depending on which bin the item was in you would either have to squat down to retrieve it or use your stepladder. If you were lucky it was somewhere in the middle.

Once you found your bin, you would scan it to make sure you were in the right location and then search the bin for your item; all while being timed.

When you scanned your item the screen would show your next item; which was sometimes in an entirely different part of the building or different floor.

After he showed us how to pick it was break time, which was the main issue I had while working at Amazon. Breaks, for the pick department, were measured by my last pick out and my first pick coming back, which means the time it took to walk to and from the break room was counted in my break time.

They said it would only take me two and a half minutes each trip but in my experience it took five, which only gave me five minutes to sit down, have a glass of water and then I was back at it again.

When I came back from break on my first day, two of the people in my new hire group had quit. At that time I thought to myself, “This job isn’t that hard, they’re being childish.” But as the days went on, I started to think that they had made the right decision.

On my third day they transferred me from the fourth floor to the first on opposite sides of the west module. I had such a hard time finding my next pick.

When I finally found my next pick 40 minutes had passed and I’m pretty sure I lost years of my life from the stress I had just endured. About an hour later my supervisor came and found me. She told me that I was being written up because I took too much time finding my next pick.

I explained that it was my third day and she gave me a warning and explained that if I wasn’t a new hire I would have been written up. It was then that I began to worry about my time.

I was supposed to be picking 75 items per hour and depending on which floor I was on my best was 55. My dad explained to me that only the bottom

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15 percent of pickers were written up for having less picks but it still concerned me.

While keeping up the pace was a concern nothing rivaled the physical pain I was experiencing.

At the end of each night on average I had done the equivalent of hundreds of stair steppers and squats and thirteen miles of walking. To say that my feet hurt would be an understatement.

It didn’t help that I was working night shift.

When I got home at six in the morning the walk from my car to my bed was almost impossible.

During my second week my leg seized up and I tripped and fell on my gravel road; instead of getting up I laid there for another ten minutes contemplating the benefits of sleeping outdoors; which would have won out if it hadn’t have been for the bugs.

Every morning I would come home and beg my mom for a foot massage. Much to her dismay because, as previously stated, it was six in the morning. It’s safe to say I can never turn down a favor for her ever again.

While I will be the first to admit I am not in the best shape, countless people I worked with while at Amazon were fit and still found the rigorous schedule difficult.

The physical aspect of the job wasn’t the only part that was draining. In my second week I began to notice my mood shift. All I wanted to do was sleep. I hadn’t socialized with my friends since starting the job.

The environment I was working in was so dreary.

I was surrounded by cardboard and concrete all day with very little human interaction. I could feel myself becoming depressed.

By the end of my second week my new hire group was down to two, which was when I realized I wasn’t going to make it.

By the end of my third week I was done. I got in my car and began to drive to Jeffersonville. As I drove I turned on Taylor Swift; it was then that I knew this job wasn’t for me. If Taylor couldn’t improve my mood something was seriously wrong.

I couldn’t validate staying somewhere that was making me so miserable.

With school quickly approaching l knew I had to make a decision: work or school. While I had the luxury of being able to quit Amazon to focus on school many students cannot afford to do this.

Working this job helped me appreciate those who are able to work full time and go to school. I think everyone should work a job like Amazon in their lives; for some it leads to great opportunity.

For those like me, it leads to perspective and gratitude for the life I have.

Not your normal freshman athlete Somolia Pumphrey Staff Reporter sdpumphr@ius.edu Freshman Hannah Joly is from Floyd Central High School and is no stranger to the demands of being a student athlete.

“She has the type of mentality where she would run through a brick wall,” Eric Brian, volleyball head coach, said.

Joly has been playing volleyball since she was in seventh grade but volleyball hasn’t always been her sport of choice. In high school she also cheered and danced but when the time came, she decided to play volleyball.

“I felt more like a volleyball player,” Joly said about her decision.

During her senior year of high school she was able to take classes at IUS while still playing volleyball for Floyd Central.

Coming into college with credits and already knowing the campus gave her a head start compared to most other freshmen.

Joly gives a vast amount of credit to her IUS volleyball teammates for being more like a family than a volleyball team. Already having established relationships with other students on campus gave her everything she needed to start off the semester the right way.

Joly is more than a student athlete.

Although maintaining a high GPA is top priority for her, Joly is also a leader and the experiences she has endured prove it.

The summer before the start Photo by Paul Robey of her junior year Freshman Hannah Joly preparing for the next play in a game of high school her against IU East on Thursday, Sept. 10. Joly had a game and team self-perseverance high ten kills in the game. was put to the test when she signed website. up to participate in Joly said the experience taught her a lot about the 28 day Wilderness Outward Bound perseverance and believing in herself. She said she could not leave the course once she began. She challenge.

The representatives admitted that at times she felt discouraged, but of Outward Bound she pushed herself.

“I didn’t think I could do what I did. It taught describe the experience as courses for teens to me how to rely on myself,” Joly said.

This experience transformed her and gave Joly develop leadership skills and have opportunities the work ethic that she has today. Being a student athlete is just a portion of who she is. Her hard for success.

“Whether you’re work shows on and off the court. rafting in Utah, paddling canoes in Minnesota, or climbing mountains in Colorado, the challenge, reflection, teamwork and service components in every course create an experience with lasting impact,” according to Hannah Joly the Outward Bound Freshman Volleyball Player

I didn’t think I could do what I did. It taught me how to rely on myself

Google Ambassador Presents Women and Technology

By Jordan Williams Staff Reporter Jormwill@ius.edu There is no denying the reality that technology is a rampant tool, something that reinvents itself from one week to the next, with the understanding that users will adapt to said changes.

The downside to this truth is that as the everevolving tech industry continues to build upon any prior that it had, there is the likelihood that a good percentage of consumers will get left behind amidst the constant technological advances, the tragedy being that a decent amount of these users being forgotten are children.

However, the entire industry does not adopt the collective philosophy of improvement without consideration for the consumer, which is why companies like Google are designing programs like Computer Sciences First, or CS First.

The goal of CS First is to help integrate computer sciences into local communities so students can learn about necessary technological information early into their education, something that was made to make their lives easier and to help designate a future career in technology oriented fields.

For the program, Google selects a person that they can have run their local initiative for CS First, and for this district the company chose junior Jessica Bruner.

In addition to being an informatics major, Bruner also wears a few other titles, some of which include president of Women and Technology and the Google Student Ambassador. As the Google Student Ambassador, she works as a liaison

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between the company and IU Southeast, meaning that she helps spread information about Google to the community and brings light to any of the opportunities that are being offered, CS First being the most recent of junctures.

What we hope to accomplish is to introduce programming to kids while they’re young.

further expand their knowledge of technology.

The partnership between Women and Technology and Google has a sincere purpose as the focus is to introduce programming and programming focused objectives to students while they are young.

The benefits of the program will be to hopefully break down any potential social barriers early into an education so they are less likely to exist later in life, something that Bruner herself experienced growing up.

Bruner graduated from East Washington High School and during her time spent there she doesn’t recall there ever being any computer science classes outside of courses centered on typing professionally, which she noted isn’t

Jessica Bruner Informatics junior

“I was nominated to be a Google Student Ambassador, something that had to be done internally, by Guy Cobb. He is an IUS alumn who graduated with a degree in computer sciences and now works as an engineer for Google,” Bruner said.

“Guy recommended me and I accepted. There were only 126 out of 2,000 applicants who ended getting a position.”

Being the president of Women and Technology, a student run organization that focuses not just on women having a more relevant presence in the technological field, but any minority or underrepresented person.

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better could be made within the community.

“What I am trying to do is pull in volunteers,” Bruner said.

“I have talked to other organizations outside of IUS and what they are doing is logging onto the CS First website, state that they are open and looking for a club for volunteers, and what those volunteers would do is come into this enrichment program. From there they would teach Photo by Jordan Williams children how to code Jessica Bruner presents Women and Technology’s involvement with Google’s CS First. using Scratch, which is an introduction to programming concepts.” about learning the really valuable things on The Scratch software that Google’s CS First computers. program uses is designed to be used by all “The computers classes that were taught at students, not just children, as a simple means of my high school never focused on the importance introductory programming and computer coding. of creating things with computers,” she said.

“Instead, they paid attention to things that were just about consumption and skills that students could learn on their own.”

The first seminar for Women and Technology and their partnership with Google’s CS First program was held this past Saturday with the goal of first bringing communal awareness to Jessica Bruner the district.

Informatics junior Faculty and students were present as Bruner gave a presentation highlighting the importance that initiative and involvement The program doesn’t rely on students learning would be when it came to CS First, suggesting the syntax or language immediately, instead it that with some effort a distinct change for the teaches students the necessary constructs that

will likely utilize further into a computer science centric career.

“It relies on the philosophy behind programming, instead of the actual semantics,” Bruner said. “What we hope to accomplish is to introduce programming to kids while they’re young so we can get a head start on breaking down any potential social barriers.”

Bruner is determined to help spread the word about her organization, Women and Technology, seeing as it was just formed in the past year.

She is aware of the previous cooperative, Women and Computing, and is optimistic that Women and Technology will have more of an impact and become a concrete part of campus.

“In Women and Technology, we want to encompass everybody ranging from graphic design majors to business majors to marketing majors,” Bruner said. “Most people automatically think by the name we only want women, but that is a myth.”

Most people automatically think by the name we only want women, but that is a myth.

Photo by Jordan Williams Crissa Candler discusses Google CS First with members of Women and Technology.

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Photo by Jordan Williams Jessica Bruner and fellow students partcipate in icebreaking games.

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The wounded in urban warfare:

By Tassy Payne Staff Reporter latpayne@ius.edu In Metro Louisville, there are an average of 200 individuals a year who are victims to gunfire.

“America has around 300 million guns in circulation,” community activist Christopher 2x said.

All We Got Hood 2 Hood Tour came to IU Southeast Wednesday, September 9 as the first guest panel speakers for IUS Common Experience.

The group consisted of four gunfire victims from Louisville. All boys are currently in school.

Some of the citizens have blamed the police and the government for the gunfire incidents.

But Norman Parker, co-producer of Hood 2 Hood, thought differently.

“Once police and politicians go home, who you got left?” Parker asked.“We all we have.”

Montrell Gaines, 17 and Diontae Reed,14 were shot March 2, 2015. Gaines’ head was grazed by the bullet, and Reed (13 at the time) was shot in the back. “When I got hit, at first, I thought someone just threw a rock at my back,” Reed said. “But then I felt it burn and my stomach went numb, and I couldn’t walk anymore.”

Gaines said he didn’t know at first that he got hit with the bullet. He said that he took his bandana off and he saw the blood and the hole in his bandana.

“Blood came out of my mouth, and I fell face flat,” Gaines said. “People came running over to me telling me to keep my eyes open. I closed them.”

When Gaines opened his eyes again, he was in the truck. He looked over and saw Reed had been shot. To his surprise, he didn’t even know Reed had been shot. Gaines couldn’t talk to him. He said that Reed looked sad. “It was crazy,” Gaines said.

Jeffrey Roberts, 15, was shot in April, a month after Gaines and Reed were shot. Roberts said that he cried and he didn’t know what to do; he hadn’t been shot yet.

“I was on my block with a couple of friends; a car came and started shooting,” Roberts said. He said that he ran and fell. He couldn’t get back up. Roberts shattered his whole shin but he was determined to walk again.

“I play sports,” he said. “That’s all I know.”

Ki’Anthony Tyus, now 10, was shot in the leg June 8. Tyus was playing on the basketball court with his cousins. They were trying to figure out if they wanted to play another round of basketball.

He was getting on his bike with his cousins; he said he had heard gunshots.

“My tire turned and I fell off my bike,” he said. “I couldn’t get up and walk.”

Tyus was taken to the children’s hospital in Louisville. 2x said that Tyus still has the bullet lodged in his leg for the rest of his life. But that didn’t stop Tyus. 2x said that Tyus smiled at the surgeons and points to the x-ray photograph of his leg.

“I’ma play basketball with this leg,” he said.

2x and Parker brought these boys together to share the victim’s stories with the community. According to 2x, the goal was to get others in the community to look at these boys’ pain and get themselves to see the need for valuing their life.

“They are rap artists without music,” 2x said. “Hope, education, living in dire poverty is their angle.”

Reed said that when he got shot he told the reporters that he wanted to stop the violence. He made that decision from his hospital bed.

“Mom had a plan for me, and I didn’t want to let her down,” he said.

Nursing senior Hannah Dailey said that this discussion made her think a bit more about how to impact her community. She said that she also thought about how she could help with this issue once she graduates and becomes a nurse.

“As a nursing major, the first thing 2x mentioned was that this was a public health issue,” she said.

Laura Schook, criminology and psychology junior, said that she found out about Hood 2 Hood coming to IUS and had to come. After hearing the victims speak, she said that it gave her a sense of a world that she didn’t live in.

“The fact that they grew up in extreme poverty connected with me,” she said.

Schook said she has dedicated her life to social reform.

Michael Kopp, digital arts and interactive media senior, said that community involvement in story telling is the key for community change.

Hood 2 Hood plans to continue to their spirit building mission to help others see their self-worth before they decide to put their hands on a gun and pull the trigger.

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Young men share their hopes in preventing future gunfire incidents in Metro Louisville.

Photo by Tassy Payne An average of 50 to 80 people have died from gunfire wounds. Some of the citizens have blamed the police and the government for the gunfire incidents.

Hood 2 Hood said their target audience would be people in their neighborhood, behind juvenile walls, and behind prison walls. Parker said the community has to work harder internally and ask, “What can we do to make change ourselves?”

“Us having positive mentors in neighborhoods will create a ripple effect and does have the capacity to change lives,” Schook said.

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Walk educates suicide prevention

By Tassy Payne Staff Reporter latpayne@iupui.edu

Help prevent future suicides not just by fundraising but by walking.

Saturday, September 26, IU Southeast will be hosting the second Out of the Darkness community walk at McCollough Plaza to end the Suicide Prevention week at IUS. The purpose of the walk is to support, honor, and fundraise for victims of suicide and to spread awareness to the community to prevent future suicides.

Suicide is the second leading death for traditional college aged students and the rate is rising nationally.

According to IUS Personal Counselor Michael Day, there were 41,149 confirmed suicides in the United States in 2013. Day said that the Federal Government reported estimates of 23 veterans dying everyday.

Admissions counselor Chris Morris is a army veteran, which is what caused him to become involved with the Out of Darkness walk.

“I have a concern for the high rate of subsides among veterans. The American Foundation for

It’s just us, right?

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Places to look for help:

Church Mental Health Providers Emergency Room Police Station Call National Hotlines

Suicide Prevention offers a way to assist in the prevention of suicides. It’s my way of participating on a larger scale to help people in need,” Morris Said.

He said his main goal is to make people more aware about suicide.

“If we can raise awareness so that more people can recognize the signs of a pending suicide we may be able to help in prevention,” Morris said.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a not-for-profit organization, said this Out of the Darkness community walk was done to help save lives.

The funds raised go towards understanding and preventing suicide t h r o u g h research, education, advocacy, and outreach to those with mental disorders and or impacted by suicide.

Day said that students who aren’t suicidal can help those who are by talking about it. He said that in the United States, people have been afraid to talk about suicide.

The AFSP said that until there is an open dialogue, people must lead the conversation together.

Day said that this year for the community walk, 44 people registered. He said that those interested in coming to participate may come and register

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the day of the walk. Registration begins at 10:00 am; the walk will begin at 11am and end at 1pm.

Dr. Angela Salas, director of IU Southeast’s honors program said she is doing the suicide walk along with the IUS honors program team.

“Every death by suicide is a loss and a tragedy, not only for the person and his or her family and friends, but also for the people they will never meet and help, the jobs they’ll never do, and the ways they will never again be able to enrich the world with their presence, their experience, and their gifts. We may not always realize it, but we’re impoverished every day by the absences of those we’ve lost,” Salas said.

S h e recognizes her lack of training with suicide prevention as well as the positive impact she can make t h r o u g h small actions.

“I am not trained or wise enough to save people from the despair, Angela Salas or pain, or Director of Honors Program hopelessness that might lead someone to decide to end their life; however, I do hope that my daily behaviors toward others, my small contributions to organizations such as this and acts such as taking part in this walk, I might offer material and moral help, however humble that help might be,” Salas said.

She has contributed money personally and through a challenge to members, staff, and faculty of the honors program.

“If we have 15 people on our team, I’ll add 10 dollars per IUSHP walker to my contribution,” she said.

In addition to walking, Morris also raised funds.

“I personally raised $805 for last year’s fund raiser. This year I hope to beat my record and raise at least $1000. No donation is too small. If you can only afford $1, it can help in the prevention of a suicide. If you for some reason can’t participate in the walk, please be present to show your support and learn more about ways that you can help to prevent suicide.

Every death by suicide is a loss and a tragedy, not only for the person and his or her family but also for the people they will never meet and help, the jobs they’ll never do

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Taking on more roles for the university

Parker Hennes Staff Reporter pathenes@ius.edu The IU Southeast’s Athletic Department announced some changes within the department on Sept. 9. Some are within the university and some are strictly in the athletic department.

Joe Glover, Denny Williams and Amanda Dailey-Weaver were asked to take on more responsibilities.

Glover adds another title to his name. He was announced as the new Interim Director of Marketing and Communication. He said he would be working in certain different areas, from the billboard marketing system to being in charge of the website.

Glover also works on the public relations side of the university. He brings his competitive nature to the table, and he said he wants to bring the greatest parts of this university to light.

“What this means is I will be focusing on how to get students to enroll at this university and help

get the word to the people,” Glover said.

This is nothing new to Glover. In the past three years he has become a member of the National Administrative Council and was named the president of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) Executive Committee.

“I take on a lot on a daily basis,” Glover said.

“But I couldn’t do it without the hard working people in this department.”

Amanda Dailey-Weaver will maintain her duties in the athletic office as the department’s administrative assistant senior, but she will also take on additional duties as an executive assistant for Glover while he works with both divisions.

“The university is in good hands,” Glover said.

“The thing I am more concerned about is how I’m going to use both of my desks.”

Glover said he will be running between desks.

Being the new director of marketing and communication means that he won’t be in the Activities Building, which is the location of the first desk.

The second desk is where he plans on doing the work of both university positions. This will cause an absence in the department, but Glover isn’t worried.

“The people that I work with are great, and I have trust in all of them,” Glover said.

This will leave some responsibilities in the athletic department be unclaimed. Denny Williams, assistant athletic director, said that he has it covered.

Williams has been with the university for five years. He said that this university’s athletic department is something that they can be proud of.

“In the years I have been here you can notice changes,” Williams said. “One major change is how the university adopted athletics.”

Williams has been appointed acting deputy athletic director, so he will assume a greater level of administrative responsibility in the athletic department.

Williams handles all elements of athletic facility management, supervision of personnel, game management, operations, facility scheduling, and supervision.

He also assists in the overall management of the athletic program. Additional responsibilities include coordinating all team travel planning and scheduling.

“The only negative side of this is the meetings that I will have to attend in place of Joe,” Williams

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I take on a lot on a daily basis... But I couldn’t do it without the hard working people in this department Joe Glover, Interim Director

said.

Williams will look to Glover any chance he can for advice; it might just have to be a phone call instead of walking right across the hall. Williams said that he will run the department how Glover expects it to be run.

“Joe taught me how to be confident in the line of work,” Williams said. “I really have been learning from the best.”

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Campus lockdown leads to new door locks IU Southeast makes changes to step up security

By Joel Stinnett Staff Reporter joelstin@ius.edu A little more than a year ago, on a rainy September afternoon, a report of an armed individual on campus sent IU Southeast into lockdown mode.

On September 11, 2014, a student reported to campus police that someone had what appeared to be part of a gun sticking out of his camouflage backpack. Officials sent out an IU Notify warning, the campus was shut down and law enforcement from over a dozen agencies swarmed IU Southeast in search of the gunman.

The reported weapon turned out to be an umbrella, but the events of that day have led to a number of changes in how IU Southeast is approaching the subject of safety on campus.

“We need to be prepared,” IUS Chancellor Ray Wallace said. “We hope to God nothing ever happens, but we need to be prepared.”

One of the biggest complaints from students and faculty after last year’s lockdown was that

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Photo by Jims Porter New thumb locks will be added to classroom doors in the coming weeks

many doors around campus, including classroom doors, had no way of being locked from the inside.

The fear being that an active shooter would have access to classrooms full of students.

Wallace says that all classroom doors will be fitted with locks within the next few weeks.

“We had faculty and staff and students say this would help,” Wallace said. “That’s not full proof by any means, but if it adds a modicum of security for people, then that’s good.

IUS has also increased readiness training for faculty and staff. The training not only covers what to do in the instance of an active shooter but also covers situations such as fires and natural disasters. Some staff have been trained as floor wardens and are tasked with leading people on their floor to safety in the event of an emergency.

At a recent training course for student employees, IUS Police Chief Charles Edelen said that law enforcement is also preparing for circumstances similar to last year’s lockdown.

“Next summer we are planning on having a full-scale exercise,” Edelen said. “There will be

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multiple agencies on campus to train in case of an active shooter.”

Another way IU Southeast addressed the preparedness of the campus was by adding Alertus to the IU Notify system. Alertus allows officials to send a pop-up message to all desktops across the IUS network warning of a pending danger.

Officials also equipped fire alarms across campus with prerecorded messages.

Chief Edelen said that one of the concerns raised after the last lockdown was that some professors do not allow cellphones into their classrooms, cutting students off from the IU Notify system.

“The prerecorded messages will alert students inside the classroom even if they don’t have their phone,” Edelen said at the training course.

Chancellor Wallace says that IU Southeast is a safe place to learn and work, but that if an event similar to last September occurs the campus is ready.

“We are prepared,” Wallace said. “And I am pleased with what we’ve done.”

Tuition freeze only at Bloomington

By Hannah Foreman Staff Reporter haforema@ius.edu

The Indiana University Bloomington campus experienced a freeze this past summer but not in the weather. As of June 3rd, IU Bloomington tuition rates will be frozen and will not be increased for the next two years for undergraduate students who live in Indiana.

Out-of-state residents attending IU Bloomington will experience a 1.5 percent increase in tuition each year while IUPUI and all regional IU campuses will see a 1.65 percent increase each year.

IU President Michael McRobbie presented the Board of Trustees with these recommendations as an expansion of the efforts to control tuition costs over the past two years for more than 18,000 students. The increase the other schools will see is consistent with the Indiana Commission of Higher Education guidelines on tuition.

IU has also planned to start working with the ICHE to set banded tuition rates for IUPUI and all regional campuses for the 2016-17 school year.

This means that instead of students paying per credit hour, they will pay a set price for a “band” of course hours, in an attempt to encourage students to take more classes each semester and promote graduation in four years.

Mary Frances McCourt, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IU, says that it is important to understand the absolute dollar difference with resident tuition between IU Bloomington and IU Southeast.

Academic year tuition at IU for in-state residents is $10,387.56 while resident tuition at IUS is $6,949.20, which is a 49% higher starting point for Bloomington students.

When setting tuition, the varied sources of revenue for each school and expenses to run them must be looked at separately. Every campus is its own unit and their respective revenue supports their respective expenses.

For example, IU has a complex structure with not only a large academic structure, but an extensive research base, athletics organization, and housing and parking business base as well.

Bloomington revenue sources are diversified with tuition and fees, grants and contracts, auxiliary business, and gifts.

IU Southeast on the other hand is more concentrated on tuition and fees which is much lower for an IU Southeast resident than a student in Bloomington.

Since the fall of 2006, IU Southeast has seen an average tuition increase of approximately $6 from 2006 to 2009, with a jump of almost $30 from the fall 2009 semester to the fall 2010 semester, and an increase of approximately $4 from 2010 to 2015 for in-state residents.

For out-of-state students, the change is much more dramatic.

The rates have increased almost $200 from the fall of 2006 until now.

Ashley McKay,

director of student accounting services, says that in monetary terms this increase translates to an in-state or reciprocity undergraduate student paying $4 more per credit hour this semester than in Fall 2014.

For a full time student taking 12 credit hours, this equates to $48 more per semester, but the total dollar amount difference paid will depend on the number of credit hours a student is enrolled in for the term.

For some, this increase may be a burden on their ability to pay for school. Financial Aid limits are set by the federal and state governments and are not tied to tuition increases at an individual university so there won’t necessarily be an increase in the amount of financial aid available to students simply because of the rise of tuition costs.

However, IU Southeast does offer a variety of scholarships and encourages all students to put in an application for all the ones for which they are eligible for.

Carson Roos, business management sophomore, said she thinks the increase is unjustified.

“It doesn’t really seem fair that students who are going to a smaller school because they can’t afford to go to IU Bloomington are getting an increase on how much they have to pay, while the students at IU Bloomington who can afford to be there aren’t having to deal with an increase in costs,” Roos said.

Aaron Brooks, undecided sophomore, is less concerned about the tuition hike.

“To be honest, it doesn’t really mean that much to me. Increases happen so I’m not exactly surprised. This is America, education isn’t cheap,” Brooks said.

According to Chancellor Ray Wallace, many students transfer from two year schools, like JCTC which is less expensive, to IUS. “IU Southeast is the best deal in town for a public four year degree,” Wallace said.

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Through the lens of Chancellor Wallace Left photo: “I visited many of these countries in order to recruit students and I had a day off. I was in Saigon, Ho Chi Minh, and I was able to hitch a ride to the Mekong Delta, about an hour and a half south.

Then I got on a series of boats because I wanted to go as far into that jungle as I could. I first boat I was on was big and could hold about 20 people.” Wallace said.

As the river got smaller, so did the boats. Until he was a boat big enough for only him and the driver.

“She passed us (the woman in the photo), and I just loved that arch and the light around the boat.”

“This is Saigon, Ho Chi Minh. I am walking around in traffic, but she is parked to the side on her moped.

I have taken my life in my hands just to get across the street.

Everybody knows I am taking photographs but she doesn’t know. I see her face in the mirror and I turn around and take the shot.

And then she sees me, so she smiles at that moment.”

Photo by Ray Wallace

By Joel Stinnett Staff Reporter joelstin@ius.edu For decades Tianamen Square has served as the lens through which the world viewed Chinese history. It is where Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic in 1989, and the site where thousands of pro-democracy protesters were gunned down by government soldiers 40 years later.

In 2008, Ray Wallace was standing in the middle of that square trying to capture some of its history with a digital camera, when he broke a Cardinal rule.

“I had a senior moment I guess,” Wallace said.

Without thinking, Wallace, now the chancellor at IU Southeast, began to take photos of Chinese soldiers on duty, causing the police to chase him out of the square.

“I get across from Tianamen Square and I’m

Photo by Ray Wallace

walking through a park,” Wallace said. “I see a guy and some of his buddies laughing at me because they had seen the cops chasing me.”

One man in the group, however, never even opened his eyes. That’s when Wallace picked up his camera and went back to work.

“I just looked at his face, and it told stories,” Wallace said. “It’s a voice that a photograph has for its viewers.”

The resulting image is just one of dozens of Wallace’s photographs that will be on display in the Ronald Barr Gallery Oct. 1-28 as part of the Louisville Photo Biennial.

The name of the exhibit is “Documenting Direction: Global Spaces and Faces” and focuses on photos Wallace has taken between 2006 and 2012 while traveling through Vietnam, Japan, China, Northern Ireland, Scotland, India and South Africa to name a few.

“A lot of people don’t realize that I am a photographer as well as a chancellor,” Wallace said. “But

my escapist passion is photography, it has been since I was a kid.”

His father gave him his first camera at age 11 after Wallace was inspired by watching photojournalists that were documenting the violence that plagued Northern Ireland at the time.

Since then the chancellor has shown his work in dozens of galleries and sold many of his prints.

“I enjoy showing my work,” Wallace said. “I like that part of the conversation where people come and look at a photo and say, “Tell me about that photograph.”

As for his upcoming show in The Barr Gallery, Wallace hopes his work inspires visitors to realize that no matter whether you live in southern Indiana or South Africa, we have more things in common than we do differences.

“I want to see if people can make connections between a homeless guy in Japan and themselves,” Wallace said. “I think that in terms of global-ness it’s important to realize just how small we are.”