Oct. 19, 2015

October 19, 2015 ISSUE 5

ONE MAN, TWO FALL BASKET- Mixed Martial BALL PREVIEW Arts SPORTS Read more on page 8-9.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Keeping Up 6

Here Comes the Boom

Students athletes juggle between practice and their academics.

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Student MMA athletes tell why the sport is a knock out.

Best of Both Worlds

Bring On The Heat

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IUS student also spends time teaching a fourth grade class.

Balancing between both basketball and baseball along with classes, senior Jordan Thompson feels like he can take the heat.

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Lobby For My Hobby 20

Baking: the ins, the outs, the inspirations.

Basketball Preview Mens-10 Womens-11

Remembering the Lost

An insight on the upcoming Basketball seasons including a look at the players.

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On campus vigil held to commemorate those lost to breast cancer.

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IN EVERY ISSUE

Katie Slavey, Senior Guard

“One of my favorite quotes is ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Faces of IUS 4 Events 5 Diversions 18

UPCOMING GAMES

SCORECARD Women’s Tennis

10/10 IUS vs. Asbury University 10/14 IUS vs. Franklin College

5-4 1-8

Volleyball

10/8 IUS vs. Ohio Christian University 3-0 10/9 IUS vs. Carlow University 3-0 10/13 IUS vs. Midway University 3-0

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Staff: Enrique Bryan Kaitlin Casper Olivia Cook Kate Harrison Hannah Foreman Parker Henes Kristin Kennedy Lori Mundell Latach’ Payne Somolia Pumphrey Paul Robey Kathyrn Ross Joel Stinnett Daniel Vance Jordan Williams

Volleyball

10/20 7 p.m. Oakland University (H) 10/23 4:15 p.m. Goshen College (H) 10/24 10 a.m. Indiana Tech. (A) 10/27 6 p.m. Cumberland University (H)

Men’s Basketball

10/24 3 p.m. Harris-Stowe State College (A) 10/27 7 p.m. St. Catharine College (H)

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POLICE

BLOTTER

FACES OF IUS

October 5 at 11:48 a.m.

- photo series by Marisa Gartland -

Officer was dispatched on a student having a medical emergency in Knobview.

EMS was contacted and transported the student to Floyd Memorial Hospital.

October 5 at 12:30 p.m.

Officer was dispatched on a report of a dog locked inside of a vehicle in Evergreen East parking lot. Animal Control contacted. Student located in class and advised to go to their car regarding their dog. Student cited by Animal Control for cruelty to an animal.

Dog returned to owner.

October 6 at at 12:39 p.m.

Officers sent to check on loud students in Woodland Lodge. Students told to keep the noise down. Students complied.

October 7 at 9:39 a.m.

Officer was dispatched on a theft report.

Student stated their Vita was stolen from her vehicle in Evergreen East Parking lot. Estimated value is $200. Report taken.

October 7 at 1:00 p.m.

Officer was dispatched to assist NAPD with a foot pursuit near University Commons Apartments. NAPD apprehended the suspect. IUS Officers transported subjects to the Athletic Director’s office.

October 13 at 12:58 p.m.

Officer was dispatched on a report of a suspicious person trying to sell a Goodwill gift certificate. Subject located and advised to leave campus.

DALLAS WOOTEN ceramics senior

Dallas inspects a piece of his work after it has cooled from being fired in the kiln.

“The piece is completely decorated by the flame and ash in the kiln. It goes in plain white. The kiln gods blessed me.”

October 15 at 9:34 p.m.

Officers dispatched on a report of individuals near the Children’s Center standing in or near the creek. Subjects have reportedly been there for sometime.

Officers advise a fraternity is playing hide and seek.

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RAYMOND SMITH computer science junior

Raymond’s hanging out at the clock tower around sunset, checking his phone and stroking his beard.

“I’ve got a full routine for this thing. Beard oil, conditioning, brushing it everyday. It’s a serious commitment.”

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Literally, A Haunted House

BOO! Halloween Cruise

October 31 @ The Culbertson Mansion

October 21 Social Hour

October 21 @ The Belle of Louisville

October 21

October 22

October 23

Rare Plants

District 9

Riders in the Sky

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. @ US206

12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. @ LF235

6-8 p.m. @ UC122

The Non-Traditional Student Union is hosting a social hour in the Adult Student Center.

An opportunity to meet other students and relax between classes.

Member of the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission Joyce Bender will give a seminar on the care and tending of rare and endangered plants.

The Common Experience hosts movie night, this time showing an action-packed science-fiction, “District 9.”

Professor Angelika Hoelger of the History department will lead in discussion afterwards.

October 25

October 26

Powderpuff Football Halloween Week

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. @ Intramural Field $50/team This tournament benefiting breast cancer research invites teams of ten to come compete Sunday morning.

7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. @ Ogle Center $10 for students America’s favorite cowboys, “Riders in the Sky” – musical performing sensations for over thirty years - give tribute to Roy Rogers in this high yodeling style performance.

October 29 Game Night

October 26th - 29th @ UC127

6-11 p.m. @ the Cafeteria

All week, the Dining Hall will be hosting several different Halloween events, including a costume run and pumpkin carving contest. Times and extra details can be found on the IUS website.

Any and all kinds of board games are welcome in this socializing event hosted by the gamer’s society. Games will be provided, but you’re welcome to bring your own.

Bardstown Bound Boofest 12 p.m. - Midnight @ Bardstown Road

This all day event taking place along Bardstown Road will include food, beer, artists and vendors, with some stores participating in trick or treating, and others offering discounts in celebration of the festival.

October 29

November 1

The Blockhead Challenge

Hallow’s Eve Bash 12 a.m. - 4 a.m. @ Over the 9

7 p.m. @ Johnny V’s Italian Restaurant; $15/person This ultimate trivia match will consist of ten categories with ten questions each and will include door prizes and costume contests.

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October 24

$5/person

Stuck working Halloween night but still want to get your spook on? This event of drinking, dancing and debauchery will include a costume contest, a cash bar, a DJ and free snacks.

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Athletes balance studies and practice

By Ty Simpson Staff Reporter tysimps@ius.edu

The majority of the world dreads Mondays, but for IUS baseball player Brian Cherington, it’s “Terrible Tuesdays.”

Cherington wakes up at six in the morning and leaves for the gym at 6:30 a.m.

After spending an hour and a half lifting, he heads home for breakfast and to study for the day’s classes.

Cherington makes his way to the baseball field at 11 a.m. to throw and work out because he can’t practice with the team during normal practice hours.

From the field, it’s straight to class from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. before running home to get a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Cherington then drives back to school for his last class of the day at 5:45 p.m.

A student athlete’s task in his or her college career is finding how to effectively balance academics, athletics and social life.

The ability to effectively manage time plays a huge role in a student athlete’s success.

“A lot of younger kids make the mistake of going out to have fun or say they are too tired from practice and put off their school work,” Cherington said.

IUS softball player Montanah Rogers, biology sophomore, agreed that good time management is the most important tool to be successful.

“Being a student athlete you have to have time dedicated to both athletics and academics,” Rogers said. “You have to keep up in school to be eligible to play.”

Rogers also discussed the choices a student athlete is faced with regarding balancing her academics, athletics and personal health.

Rogers, who also works part-time in the Activities Building, said that there are times where she has to decide whether to get the appropriate amount of sleep, or spend that time studying to help maintain her grades.

If a student athlete chooses studying over sleep then his or her performance will lack in their next competition.

If sleep is chosen over studying, the student’s grades will suffer and may risk becoming ineligible if grades drop enough.

Rogers said that Tuesdays and Thursdays each week the softball players are required to go to study tables for at least two hours.

Cherington and Rogers both said that it is difficult to find the time to eat during the day,

Photo by Blake Stewart Some players from the IUS softball team gather around a study table in the the library. Outfielder Montanah Rogers, biology sophomore, said that the softball team is required to go to study tables for at least two hours, two days a week.

especially a healthy, balanced meal. incoming freshman student athletes.

“A challenge for me personally is finding time to “You have to be dedicated to keep at a sport in eat throughout the day,” Cherington said. “Most college. You need to put all of your heart and effort days I only have two meals.” to get the most out of it,” Rogers said.

The coaches are flexible with players and their school schedule, but student athletes are instructed to avoid scheduling class during normal practice hours unless it can’t be avoided.

For baseball players at IU Southeast, normal practice hours during the week begin at 4 p.m. and run as late as 8 p.m.

Student athletes are held accountable for the classes they miss.

Cherington said that Ben Reel, head coach for the IUS baseball team, requires his players to take a sign in sheet to class every day.

The teachers must sign the sheet and mark the time that the player brings the sheet to them, to verify that the Once a person is unconscious, they should not be left alone. athlete was there and on time.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

One Man Two Sports

By Parker Henes Staff Reporter pathenes@ius.edu This year, senior Jordan Thompson will step onto the hardwood court to finish out his collegiate basketball career. He will then stand atop of the white rubber slab that is approximately 60 feet and six inches away from home plate for the first time in four years.

Thompson plays center for the IU Southeast men’s basketball team and, starting this year, he will pitch for the first time in his collegiate career for the IUS baseball team.

Playing two sports and managing the responsibilities of college seems like a huge workload for anyone, but Thompson’s been doing it his whole life.

“This isn’t new to me,” Thompson said. “I did this all the time in high school.”

Thompson graduated from Floyd Central High School in 2012.

He played football in the fall, basketball in the winter and then finished the school year with baseball.

The only season he missed of the four years playing was his junior year, when he broke his right tibia in a basketball game.

Thompson said football and basketball were his two favorite sports because of the constant action, but he has always loved looking out from atop the pitching mound.

The one thing that held him back from playing baseball in high school was the injury that sidelined him for most of the baseball season.

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On top of his fractured his right tibia, Thompson was further limited in his senior year by a nerve he pinched in his neck.

Thompson said his freshman and sophomore years on the mound were the best he ever pitched.

He said his best game was a game against St. Xavier High School.

The Highlanders ended up losing, but while Thompson was on the mound, he gave up only two hits and no earned runs.

“My high school baseball career was short lived, and I didn’t really play much due to injury,” Thompson said. “I am looking to trump all those high school seasons with one outstanding college season.”

One of Thompson’s biggest supporters is his mother, Toni Thompson.

She said Thompson and his brother, Jeffrey, participated in all of the sports in high school.

Jeffrey is a former three-sport athlete for the Floyd Central Highlanders and graduated from Floyd Central High School in 2010.

He is two years older than Jordan and half an inch taller, but Thompson says that he can beat his brother in any competition that they play.

Even in high school, Thompson looked up to his brother.

“Jeffrey was a big influence when we were in high school,” Thompson said.” I saw him participating in multiple sports, so I did the same thing. I tried every day to be better than my brother.”

Jeffrey Thompson is currently playing baseball with the West Michigan Whitecats, a single Ateam in the Detroit Tigers organization.

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they wanted to see which sport they liked the most.

Thompson’s father, Jeff Thompson, knew what sport he wanted to play at a young age. He was also a college athlete, and he chose football.

Jeff Thompson said he loved going to the football games but has developed a love for baseball which is now the biggest sport in his life.

The supporting cast for the Thompson brothers are constantly on the move. They travel from the Activites Building to all over the U.S. to watch their oldest play.

Toni Thompson said she and her husband are at just about every game, but it isn’t just those their support they are receiving. Thompson said that he can expect five to ten other family members to come and support him. Whenver he is able, Jeffery will be found sitting among them.

“There was no animosity between them,” Toni Thompson said. “They always supported one another. Every time Jeffrey is in town he tries to make it to one of Jordan’s game and vice versa.

Jeff and I are right behind the one watching.”

She said Jordan is fully capable of the physical aspect of playing two sports, but the thing scares her is the limited time Thompson has to juggle the three aspects of his collegiate life: basketball, baseball, and school.

Thompson said it was time to try something new. Instead of only having one practice a day and being a full-time student, Thompson now goes from basketball practice to baseball conditioning on top of his unchanged, academic workload.

Thompson, however, has no doubt in his ability to thrive in his new schedule.

“I love being challenged,” Thompson said. “All I am doing is trying to make my senior season one

to remember because once it’s over it can easily be forgotten.”

Having a brother who has already been through the college athletic experience helped Thompson understand what he will experience in his senior year.

“Even in high school, Jordan watched Jeffrey participate in all three sports. It showed Jordan that he can take on the challenge too.”

Thompson has been on the basketball team for all three seasons and is looking to bounce back after the team went 8-16 last season.

Before last season, Thompson was on the 2013 basketball team that went all the way to the NAIA Fianl Four. Thompson said has been one of his favorite memories at IUS. In his three years as a collegiate athlete, he has seen the floor quite a bit, playing in a total of 66 games as a Grenadier.

He has scored 137 points, 85 of them coming in last year’s season. He also has grabbed 213 rebounds.

The head coach of the IUS men’s basketball team, Wiley Brown, said Thompson’s athletic ability sets him apart from other players.

“Jordan gets a lot of easy dunks and blocks around the rim,” Brown said. “His athletic ability is amazing on the court and even in the weight room.”

Jordan and the Grenadier’s season begins on Oct. 24, against Harris-Stowe State University, in St. Louis.

Three days later, the Grenadiers have their first home game against St. Catharine.

Photo by Parker Henes Thompson getting ready to deliver a pitch. This is his first season pitching for the IUS baseball team. His brother, Jeffrey, is currently playing for the Detroit Tigers single A team.

Photo by Parker Henes Thompson practicing in the Activities Building. He averaged 3.5 points and 5.1 rebounds per game in the 2014-2015 season.

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Men’s Basketball

Joel Stinnett Staff Reporter joelstin@ius.edu

Photo by Paul Robey Jalen Brasher, freshman guard, guards a player in the IUS alumni game on Wednesday, Oct. 14.

The Grenadiers season begins Oct. 24 against Harris-Stowe State College.

On the morning of the 1980 NCAA National Championship game University of Louisville basketball player Wiley Brown was missing something very important to him...his thumb.

Brown, who had worn a prosthetic thumb since childhood, had lost the appendage at breakfast that morning.

Luckily for Brown, the thumb was found in a trash can before the game started, and the Cardinals went on to win the university’s first national championship.

Now, Brown, the head men’s basketball coach at IU Southeast, is coming off an 8-16 season and will try to pull the Grenadiers out of a similarly stinky situation.

IUS returns the core of a team that went 5-8 in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and failed to make the NAIA playoffs. Despite last year’s woes, Joe Jackson, sophomore forward, says this team will be different.

“I think this will be a special season,” Jackson said. “We have a great team and there is not one guy on the team that thinks he is better than

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everyone else.”

Jackson is expected to be a big part of the Grenadier offense this season after averaging 9.3 points per game as a freshman. Another returning player expected to play a larger role this year is sophomore guard Jacob Mills.

Mills had an up and down freshman campaign highlighted by a 20 point performance against rival IU Kokomo. Mills says that while this year’s team is close knit it will be tested by the competition.

“Every game is going to be tough because everybody don’t like us because how we dominated in the past,” Mills said. “I think we will perform well as a team because no matter what we have each other’s back.”

The Grenadiers open the season at Harris-Stowe State College in St. Louis on Oct. 24. The team’s first home game is on Oct. 27 against St. Catharine College.

Jackson and Mills agree that the Grenadiers toughest challenges may come during a four game stretch from mid Nov.

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Women’s Basketball to early Dec. that includes NAIA Division I schools Georgetown College and University of the Cumberlands.

“They get a lot of DI transfers,” Mills said. “So they always have a tough team every year.”

The Grenadiers follow up their game against Cumberlands with a trip to Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis where they will face Grace College.

That game is on Dec. 11 and will precede the Indiana Pacers vs. Miami Heat game the same night.

Homecoming and senior night will be combined into one game this season against Carlow University on Feb. 20.

Despite the tough schedule, Jackson says the team is ready to wipe the stench off last year’s losing record.

“Every year we play a tougher schedule than the teams in our conference so we can be ready by tournament time,” Jackson said. “There’s a few things we need to work on but I think this will be a great season for us.”

Photo by Blake Stewart Riley Kaiser, sophomore forward, goes up for a layup during the IUS women’s basketball practice. Kaiser played 9.2 minutes per game off the bench her freshman year and average 3.4 points per game. her freshman for the Grenadiers.

Somalia Pumphrey Staff Reporter sdpumphr@ius.edu

Photo by Paul Robey Kerry Smith, freshman guard, looks to pass the ball in the alumni game.

After the loss of a couple senior leaders from last season’s team and with the addition of a couple transfer students, the IUS women’s basketball team is preparing for the upcoming season.

Entering his 27th season with the Grenadiers, head coach Robin Farris will look to improve off a 19-12 season last year, which ended abruptly with a loss in the KIAC Quarterfinals against IU East.

Tori Kingsley, senior center, discussed about some of the teams that the Grenadiers are scheduled to play against this season.

“Point Park always brings good competition as well as Asbury and IU East,” Kingsley said.

Farris said that with the addition of Rio Grande from Ohio to the KIAC, along with the teams Kingsley discussed, that these teams all have the

ability to be good competition for the Grenadiers. University.

Last season, the Grenadiers lost both games “Point guard is going to be such an important against Asbury and IU East. The Grenadiers position,” Farris said. “I have hopes and I can see finished the year with an overall record of 19-12. a lot of potential. She has shown a lot of promise.”

Riley Kaiser, sophomore forward, said that an When talking about sophomore, Rylie Kaiser, opponent that could cause some trouble for the Farris says that the team needs someone to step Grenadiers next season is IU East. up and score for us, “Kaiser has really shot the ball “I think our number one wrival right now is well for us.”

IU East because last season it was a tough game The team’s chemistry on the court is a key playing them in the regular season and then in asset that the Grenadiers possess according to the tournament,” Kaiser said.

Kingsley.

Coach Farris explains that with the loss of “I feel like sometimes we can read each other’s some of their key players, the team will have to minds,” Kingsley said. “Our best asset is how close make some adjustments like adjusting to the new we are and how we play together as a team.” guards and improve their shooting as a team.

Kaylee Bennett, junior forward, agreed with The IUS Women’s basketball devotes about Kingsley’s notion of teamwork. two hours per day to practice.

“I think if we all work together we will be Coach Farris said that he sees a lot of potential successful as a team,” Bennett said. for them to be a competitive team this year.

Farris said that with any sport there’s no way of “We have to stay healthy and not have key accurately predicting wins and losses. injuries to key players, get along with one However, he did say that one of the main goals another, be cohesive, play as a team, and if they that he has for the team is, “for them to reach their do those things I think that they will have a full potential, and to be as good as we can be.” successful season,” Farris said.

Farris said to have a successful season, the team has to work hard in practice every day to make themselves better.

“You play like you practice,” Farris said.

Farris identified Mary Dye, senior forward, as being one of the players who has improved a lot.

“She’s looking good in practice,” Farris said. “This year she seems to be making better decisions.”

Another player that Farris spoke highly of is Annie Thomas, sophomore point guard.

Photo by Blake Stewart Thomas is a transfer Three IUS women’s basketball players do a fast break drill during practice . The Grenadiers were from Henderson State 19-12 last season under coach Robin Farris.

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By Jordan Williams Staff Reporter Jormwill@ius.edu Exhausted grunts and desperate heaves; fixed stares and disregarded tears; fresh blood and even fresher bruises – these are the sights and sounds of the booming culture of mixed martial arts.

These are the specifics that make the sport more than just a hobby for IU Southeast students Coby McKinley and Ricky Weisbach. It makes it a way of life.

For McKinley, the wonder of MMA hinges on one word: dominance.

“Fighting, ultimately, is the root of all sports,” McKinley said. “When a football team dominates another team, what does that really mean? One team ran a ball across a field more than another team.

When one fighter ‘dominates’ another fighter, somebody got beat up. Like, actually dominated. Pretty much any other sport is an allegory for a fight. ” McKinley, who is double majoring in English and journalism, was first introduced to the sport by his father.

“I watched the UFC with him, and that got me interested in training. I then started training under a family friend.

He was a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Kempo karate,” McKinley said.

Weisbach, a recent IUS student who majored in Geo Science and Hydrology, has shared McKinley’s passion for the sport since being introduced to it a few years ago.

“My friends and I were passing by the gym one day and saw that an MMA

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program was being offered, so we decided to go check it out,” Weisbach said. “[My friends] eventually quit, but I didn’t.”

For Weisbach, the initial interest in training for mixed martial arts came about from a desire to prove to himself that he could not only compete as a fighter but succeed as a fighter.

“I really wanted to prove to myself that I could do it,” Weisbach said. “I won my first fight, so I decided to fight again and again after that fight.”

Weisbach said he is aware of the sudden popularity MMA has cultivated. He said it hasn’t impacted the integrity of the sport, even though some fighters are joining for fame and glory rather than passion.

“You can just tell when someone is competing as a cage fighter just so they can get the name and title that goes with it,” Weisbach said.

“But you can also tell when someone is fighting because they enjoy it and care about the sport.

These are the fighters that warm up like they are supposed to, train like they are supposed to, and compete like they are supposed to. They present themselves in positive ways before and after the fight.”

The skills of MMA are similar to the expertise

MMA is like human chess, and it takes a smart, dedicated athlete to be successful.

Coby McKinley Student MMA Fighter

Students demonstrate skills in mixed martial arts involved in other sports such as dedication, finesse and execution, but there are also some distinct differences that cause MMA to stand out from team-centric pastimes of the sports circuit.

“Being a fighter is very hard, but it is very personally rewarding,” McKinley said. “The training involves becoming proficient in the skills of four Olympic sports.”

Excelling in the complicated nature of MMA strategies and techniques is by no means an easy thing to accomplish.

This is especially true when the necessary dedication to the sport is absent in aspiring fighters. However, McKinley spoke to how much you can do when that dedication is present.

“I was never athletic as a kid, and my frame is not one of a typical athlete,” McKinley said. “This is why working hard, staying consistent, and a slight obsession with the sport are so important.”

Before entering the cage, competitors are given the task of familiarizing themselves with the variety of fighting methods and styles involved in the sport.

For fighters looking to excel in the intricacies of MMA, they need to understand the means of offense and defense for styles like judo, wrestling, boxing, and taekwondo.

“It is a major time commitment with very little monetary game for most of the time that you put into becoming a solid fighter,” McKinley said.

“People just looking to get famous or make money do not stay long. MMA is a sport based in a passion for the art of fighting.”

Some describe MMA as simply violence for the sake of entertainment, but McKinley refutes with this characterization.

“It is not a bunch of juiced up meatheads who just show up to an arena to beat each other up,” McKinley said. “MMA is like human chess, and it takes a smart, dedicated athlete to be successful.”

Weisbach agrees with McKinley and is equally unequivocal in his disagreement with this view of the sport.

“A lot of people see fighting as people just doing it so they can hurt one another, but that isn’t usually true,” Weisbach said.

“Obviously there are athletes like that in any sport, but in MMA nearly everybody is professional about fighting and act like athletes should.”

Jason Dempster, who currently instructs classes at Workout Industries on Charlestown Rd., began his training with Brazilian jiu-jitsu in

mind.“I first got into it to help be able to defend myself if some situation were ever to arise,” Dempster said.

After some success in his pursuit of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Dempster refocused his passion on the sport and found a way to use what he had learned over the past decade to help instruct others in the fighting style.

Dempster has made an effort to ensure his classes cater to the basics and essentials of jiujitsu.“It’s hard being on the inside and trying to figure out what outsiders might see when looking in,” Dempster said.

“I think that some people might be intimidated to start would be very surprised in realizing how friendly of an atmosphere it actually is and how much the fighters are interested in helping new people out.”

While the world of MMA has the outward appearance of being almost exclusively a sport of the individual, Dempster believes progressing with others is a key aspect in flourishing into a proficient MMA fighter.

“There actually is a large team component in training for mixed martial arts,” Dempster said.

“You are working and training with other people and are ultimately helping make them better while bettering yourself.

When everything is going well, your opponent is trying to make you become a better fighter, and you are trying to make them become a better fighter.”

In recent months, McKinley was forced to take some time away from competing and training due to an injury in 2014.

“I suffered an injury that put me out of training for a whole year,” McKinley said.

“In a sport as fast developing and new as mixed martial arts, it is very hard to come back from that long off. My main aspiration right now is to get my body and movements back to what they were pre-injury before I start thinking about competition again.”

Weisbach’s ambitions to become a fighter may have begun from a willingness to prove something to himself, but they have blossomed into a keen interest in the sport.

“If I could keep doing it I would like to compete professionally because it is a good

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way to make a living, and I believe that I’m good enough to do it,” Weisbach said.

For Dempster, teaching Brazilian jiu-jitsu has proved to be as satisfying as the sport his interest spawned from over twelve years ago.

Dempster said he is aware of how some people might be timid about taking classes in the sport due to a sensationalized idea that MMA is only about the violence.

He said the best way to get involved in something as technique driven as mixed martial arts and to understand what actually goes into it is to simply start doing it.

“When people think of mixed martial arts they think of really tough guys,” said Dempster.

“It’s actually about being super disciplined.

Good fighters are willing to put in a lot of work and a lot of thought.”

Courtesy of Ricky Weisbach

Following her calling Senior preps for career while student teaching

By Kristen Kennedy Social Media Coordinator krikenne@umail.iu.edu On Tuesday, July 28, 24 fourth-grade students watched Shelby Royalty, education senior, as she led an icebreaker activity she found on Pinterest.

Some IU Southeast students were on summer break that day, while others may have been preparing to finish summer classes. Meanwhile, Royalty spent the day student teaching in Susan Mosley’s fourth-grade classroom at Corydon Intermediate School. July 28 was the first day of school for students in the South Harrison Community School Corporation, the corporation to which Corydon Intermediate School belongs.

“I was really nervous to meet the kids and just learn about all of her procedures, but it ended up

Photo by Kristen Kennedy Shelby Royalty, education senior, developed an interest in teaching during the 2012-13 academic year, when she started working as a tour guide at the Corydon Capitol State Historic Site.

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going really well,” Royalty said. “I feel like even on that first day, I really bonded with her, and I started bonding with the kids. It was a really enjoyable experience, even though I was nervous.”

The student-teaching experience is required for students in the IU Southeast School of Education, according to the school’s website.

The School of Education consists of four blocks.

Students learn about teaching methods, various aspects of classroom life and the psychology behind teaching during the first three blocks. They also complete practicum experiences where they help teachers work with students and teach lessons.

In block four, students in the School of Education use their collective knowledge while spending a semester student teaching in an assigned classroom and school.

Royalty said she taught her students lessons about erosion and weathering, and she has helped the students complete related experiments and activities.

“I had the students blow on it in different ways.

Through a straw, not through a straw, with small rocks in with the paper and without the rocks, so that they could see how different things, such as the amount of wind and plants or rocks, can affect the rate of erosion,” Royalty said.

Mosley said her students have completed additional experiments with Royalty’s help.

“The students did an experiment in which they dipped a cookie in water to show how water weathers rock,” Mosley said.

Royalty said she enjoyed working with students in small groups during the experiments.

“I enjoy teaching the whole class, but I really enjoy those small groups where I can do more individualized things,” she said. “I feel like I can better watch them to make sure that they’re getting what I’m saying.”

Mosley said Royalty excels at individualizing instruction for students. “ [Royalty] breaks things down for students to help them understand what they are learning,” Mosley said. “She is very good at working one on one with students to help them master skills.”

Completing science experiments with her

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students, Royalty said she has been teaching math and guided reading. She also said she enjoys seeing concepts click in students’ heads.

“I like working with the students and knowing that I am helping them learn,” Royalty said.

In addition to helping students learn, Royalty said she completes other tasks regularly, such as staff meetings, as part of her student teaching duties.

Mosley said Royalty helps her grade assessments and assignments, and she also helps plan lessons.

She also said Royalty will teach all subjects starting Monday, Oct. 19, when the students return from fall break.

Royalty said these tasks, as well as others, are showing her that teaching is time consuming.

“It’s not just a 9 to 5 job where you work and then you go home,” she said. “It’s constant. So I’m learning more about what actually goes into teaching this semester.”

While student teaching, Royalty said she has learned and used classroom management strategies.

“I’m learning that I definitely think that it’s very important to set up procedures in the classroom so that [students] know what’s happening,” she said.

Royalty said she is still nervous about working with students’ parents because she believes she is inexperienced in that aspect. However, she said student teaching has made her more confident in her teaching abilities.

“In my previous practicum experiences, I used to get so nervous about teaching a lesson, but now I don’t even think twice about it,” Royalty said.

“So both at school and just in general, it’s made me a lot more confident in my ability to do things, because now I know that I can do it, so it’s not as hard as it used to be.”

Before student teaching at Corydon Intermediate School, Royalty said she talked to Terri Beard, lecturer of education and head of block four. Royalty gave her three school corporations she was interested in teaching in. Beard talked to the elementary school principals in those corporations, and Royalty was then assigned to Corydon Intermediate.

in the classroom

Photo courtesy of Shelby Royalty (Standing) Shelby Royalty, education senior, teaches students a lesson about weathering in Susan Mosley’s fourth-grade classroom at Corydon Intermediate School. “We were making a W with our hands and then breaking it apart to show that weathering is the breaking of rocks,” Royalty said.

Royalty said the School of Education has given her hands-on experience working in different schools, and she has learned how teachers in those schools manage their classrooms.

“In block one, I was at Byck Elementary in Portland,” Royalty said. “In block two, the school I was at was Fairmont Elementary [in New Albany].

Then in block three, I was at Riverside Elementary in Jeffersonville. I really liked that school.”

Deborah Mink, associate professor of education, said she supervised Royalty during the spring 2015 semester, when Royalty was at Riverside Elementary School. “[Royalty] was with a teacher who is very meticulous and demanded a lot from our students,” Mink said. “ She taught her block three unit on the book ‘The Day the Crayon Quit.’ Her first graders absolutely loved it and I shared it with everyone in her cohort. ” Royalty said she completed several education courses with her cohort, which consisted of her

classmates. She said Mink is one of her favorite education professors because she taught her and her classmates that teaching math can be exciting.

Royalty said. “she really showed me that everything can be exciting and lead to kids being more engaged, than just sitting there trying to memorize math facts.”

Mink said she teaches her students to help their students see that they can learn math, excel on standardized tests and have fun at the same time.

“I always infuse children’s literature into math,” Mink said. “We read ‘The Rainbow Fish’ and make a fish out of graham crackers. We read ‘The Grouchy Ladybug’ and make a ladybug clock.

We read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and make a three-dimensional apple with a little hungry caterpillar that sits inside.

Mink said she believes Royalty has grown into an effective teacher who cares about her students.

“Shelby [Royalty] loves her students and the students know that,” Mink said. “She is firm, and

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fair. She is extremely creative as well and knows the importance of teaching the Indiana standards.”

Royalty said she didn’t want to be a teacher until her second year of college, the 2012-13 academic year. She was a tour guide at the Corydon Capitol State Historic Site -- where she still works -- and Squire Boone Caverns in Mauckport, Ind. “I was working with kids a lot, and that was the first time that I ever really considered it [teaching],” Royalty said.

Royalty said she believes she is now pursuing her passion, and she also said teaching requires dedication.

“I think teaching is a calling,” she said. “It’s not just something for everyone. You have to really be willing to put your heart and soul into it.”Royalty said she believes she is now pursuing her passion, and she also said teaching requires dedication.

“I think teaching is a calling,” she said. “It’s not just something for everyone. You have to really be willing to put your heart and soul into it.”

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English Club comes back from the brink

By Kate Harrison Staff Reporter kaetharr@ius.edu This semester the English Club at IU Southeast was dangerously close to fading away completely until Jeremy Wells, assistant professor of English, reached out to a student. That student was Selena McCracken.

“Dr. Wells had informed me that the organization was going to be completely dissolved this semester unless five people came together and resurrected it. So it was left for dead,” McCracken said.

McCracken, an English senior, runs the club with the help of her fellow officers: Taryn Hall, English senior, and Grace Hargreaves, English senior. Hall and Hargreaves are the club’s two vice presidents.

Rebuilding the club hasn’t been an easy task for McCracken, but she’s up for the challenge.

“I’m dedicated to consistency and ideas about events are always timely. They’re typically related to what’s going on,” McCracken said. She is also dedicated to building relationships with other organizations at IU Southeast.

“We’re going to be connected with other clubs as much as possible and disciplines. We want to be connected to the larger community,” McCracken said. “We want to promote writing in our area,

so it strengthens English studies on campus, the community and our creativity and motivation for the future.”

Improving the club has been a battle, particularly when it comes to gaining new members. “Because of a lack of interest, the English Club had basically just faded out of existence, so it’s really had to be not only resurrected but also restructured,” Hall said.

The club has improved their organization by being dedicated to routine and promotion. “We have a dedicated meeting time and place, and we’re active on both Grenadier Central and the English Club’s Facebook page, so we’re really working to both get the word out about the club and also to try and keep people in the loop and involved,” Hall said.

Hargreaves said she is grateful for Hall’s help.“I think having two vice presidents has helped by taking the pressure off Selena [McCracken],” Hargreaves said.

Hargraves also spoke about the different initiatives she is pushing for as co-vice president.

“Currently, I’ve been trying to get club members to participate in The Writing Contest and The Review, along

with larger undertakings such as National novel writing month this coming November,” Hargraves said.

Wells said he is proud of the English Club officers’ efforts.

“It’s a delight to work with students who wish to be so involved,” Wells said.

He stressed the importance of having the English Club at IU Southeast.

“The club gives its members chances to pursue these opportunities, to realize how many wonderful things one can do while pursuing an English major as well as after obtaining one’s degree,” he said.

Students do not have to be an English major to join the club. Anyone who is interested can join. McCracken said she hopes to create an environment where all students will feel welcome.

“We do not judge. We encourage your expressing and sharing, whatever it may be that you want to express and share, and we try to support our member’s professional development,” McCracken said. The English Club meets every Wednesday from 12-1 in room 302 of the IUS Library.

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By Kaetln Harrison Staff Reporter kaetharr@ius.edu Baking has always come naturally to me.

I think it was a result of all those years I spent sitting on an old bar stool peaking over my grandma’s shoulder as she cooked anything from green beans to pineapple upside down cake.

Her specialty however, was pie.

My grandparents’ house constantly smelled of southern cooking; green beans fried in bacon fat, biscuits and gravy and chicken fried steak.

Without even walking into the kitchen I could tell instantaneously if grandma was making a pie just from the look on my grandpa’s face; pure glee, especially if it was apple.

When it came to making apple pie my grandparents and I were a team. Grandpa would peel the apples, I would cut them and grandma would make the dough.

Her pie dough was what made her pies extraordinary; light and flakey and just savory enough to balance the sweet succulent fruit or nut mixture that it would be baked into.

As a kid I would incessantly ask to help with the pie dough, because what kid doesn’t love a goopy, playdough-like mess? But grandma’s answer was always the same, “maybe when you’re older.” To which I would hang my head dejectedly and go to the counter and make paste out of flour and water, much to her aggravation.

As I got older she would let me do a little more and then more; until one day I found myself fully capable of making pies on my own, though they were never as good as hers. It wasn’t until

LET ME LOBBY FOR MY HOBBY: BAKING she passed away that I became a full-fledged pie maker.

I shied away from it at first. I didn’t want to do it without her, I didn’t even know if I could. But then came Thanksgiving.

As I opened the bag of flour a wave of nostalgia hit me and it was all encompassing. I missed her.

Kaetln Harrison Staff Reporter

Thanksgiving was grandma’s holiday. She gave Better Crocker a run for her money.

Turkey, dressing and cranberry sauce was just the beginning. There would be broccoli casserole, zucchini casserole, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, giblet gravy, corn pudding, candied beets, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls and Kona Coffee.

Then came the desserts; persimmon pudding, brownies, blondies, chocolate eclair and pies, pies, pies. Pumpkin, of course, and cashew, peanut butter, pecan, cherry, and always apple.

It was going to be our first Thanksgiving without her and I wanted her to be there in some way so I was determined to recreate her signature dish.

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I went next door to my grandpa’s house and sifted through the yellowed index cards with decade old recipes scribbled in nearly unreadable cursive.

I found the pie section and got to work. As I opened the bag of flour and sifted some directly onto the table; a wave of nostalgia hit me and it was all encompassing.

I missed her. I wanted her back.

I cursed the cancer that took her, but I also remembered the good times.

The times we played war for hours, the times I broke beans with her while she watched “Days of Our Lives,” the times she helped me with my homework, the times she tried to make me brush my untamable, unruly, curly hair and the “Our Fathers” we said together before bedtime as we fell asleep to Larry King.

But most of all I remembered how much she loved me. She didn’t profess her love with words, however, but with everyday acts of kindness and of course, pies.

I made nine pies that night. I don’t really remember anything but going through the motions, adding the ingredients, beating the dough, rolling it out, creating the filling and putting it in the oven. But before I knew it, it was midnight and I had been baking for 12 hours.

That Thanksgiving I gained the highest praise I could have ever hoped for. My grandpa bit into my pie and said, “just like grandma’s,” and I haven’t stopped baking since.

While the nostalgia doesn’t hit me quite as hard as that first Thanksgiving. I feel like she’s with me every time I bake. I feel like I’ve continued a legacy.

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Illuminating Photo by Dustin Kiefer Adelis Giovin, psychology junior, shares her candle with Peyton Liggins , psychology senior, to light her candle during the lighting process.

awareness Photo by Dustin Kiefer Francesca Komora, sociology junior, holding a candle while they say a prayer at the beginning.

By Hannah Foreman Staff Reporter haforema@ius.edu Martina Andrews lit her candle and passed the light around until all the candles were lit. Everyone bowed their heads as Andrews said a silent prayer.

Zeta Phi Beta held a candlelight vigil for breast cancer awareness.

Each of the women held a candle and shared their experiences with breast cancer.

Martina Andrews, sociology and criminal justice junior, said she never realized how important it was to get checked until she lost someone very close to her over the summer.

“It was tough. You never really think it will happen to you or someone you love until it does,” Andrews said. “I wanted to have this event to help bring light to breast cancer this month so other women can know just how important it is to make sure you don’t have it.”

The women agreed that they were glad this event was arranged because it brought them all together. They said now they wouldn’t feel alone when dealing with the loss of someone close due to breast cancer.

“This was important to me because breast cancer has affected me personally and Photo by Dustin Kiefer it still does, so it was nice to be Brittany Shepard, undeclared junior, Alnisha Franklin, accounting sophomore, able to come together and share Tassy Payne, journalism sophomore, and Veronica Victor, psychology freshman, some happiness instead of only bring all their candles together to represent unity before blowing them out. focusing on how many people have Andrews also stresses how easy it is to do been harmed from it,” said Adelis a self breast exam.

Giovin, psychology junior.

“People always think it’s weird to do that kind According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, breast cancer is the most commonly of thing to yourself but it’s so important. You could diagnosed cancer in women and the second leading find something and be able to get treated earlier if it is cancer rather than a doctor finding it later and cause of death.

The Indiana Breast and Cervical Cancer it being harder to get rid of,” Andrews said.

Peyton Liggins, psychology senior, said that Program, BCCP, is a statewide public health program that is dedicated to saving lives and having everyone come together and be supportive reducing the tragic effects of breast and cervical of each other was great.

“We have this kind of social stigma on keeping cancer for women in Indiana.

The BCCP provides women with diagnostic our personal lives very private, especially when services and high-quality screening to detect we’re sick,” Liggins said. “It was good to see a these cancers at their earliest and most treatable group of women get together and discuss their stages. They focus on low-income, uninsured, stories with this disease and how it has affected and underserved women and provide free clinical them and just shed light on and bring a positive breast exams, mammograms, and Pap tests to outlook to the disease and how it has affected them women from the ages of 40 to 64 who meet the and just shed light on and bring a positive outlook to everything.” program requirements.

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