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'It's been a great ride'

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Sue Willey reflects on her time at UIndy before her retirement

Graphic by Ethan Gerling

By Jayden Kennett & Emily Del Campo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & STAFF WRITER

After 45 years at the University of Indianapolis and 17 years as UIndy’s vice president of intercollegiate athletics, Sue Willey has announced her retirement.

Prior to becoming the first female VP of intercollegiate athletics, Willey was a student-athlete, a coach and an administrator at UIndy. She said her tenure has been exhilarating and exciting.

“I have a great passion for it,” Willey said. “Being able to see all the changes that have taken place on campus and in our athletic department has been [the] most rewarding and exciting to see the growth of the institution. It's just been, like most people say, it's been a great ride and it continues to be.”

When she was named VP 17 years

ago, Willey said she was surprised by the support she received. The press conference announcing her position was something she will never forget, she said.

“I knew I had great relationships on campus, but when I went into the atrium in Schwitzer and the number of people from all over campus that were there, I just was blown away,” Willey said. “The feeling was just overwhelming. It was something I will always, always remember.”

When Willey stepped into the VP position, the athletic department lacked full-time head coach positions for some sports. Now, each sport has a full-time head coach. She told The Reflector in 2003 that one of her goals was to garner a national spotlight and accomplish at least one national championship in at least one sport.

Since then, Women’s Golf has won two national championships and the university has had 11 individuals who have become national champions.

Willey is most notably respected for her emphasis on student-athletes’ success, Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance Scott Young said.

“I think that [what] I respect the most about her is just putting the emphasis on the academics and social, but still mixing

“I would hope that people would feel like I made a difference.” that with the expectations to be successful in your sport,”Young said.“Never putting an emphasis on just winning, but also putting all of our student-athletes in places to be successful as students, people and athletes.”

During the 2018-19 school year, for the first time ever, every team earned a

3.0 GPA. The university has seen a lot of changes in the time that she has been at the university, Jackie Paquette, associate athletic director and senior woman administrator for student support and community engagement said. Another goal that Willey had when entering the VP position was to revamp the facilities in the athletic department, she said.

The changes to the athletic facilities is one of the major things that Willey was able to accomplish in her tenure, Paquette said. New facilities like the ARC and a new softball field have been built, as well as many other improvements.

Willey was an athlete at UIndy in the 1970s and is the first female director of athletics that the university has had, according to the Feb. 5, 2003 issue of The Reflector. Paquette said she respects the hard work Willey has put in to advance against female biases.

“She's fought her entire career through that,” Paquette said. “It just

lends to a great amount of respect.

She literally came up through Title IX and what Title IX was intended to do was literally for her in her generation.

I think it's impressive what she's been able to do having dealt with t hat.”

Willey has a passion for providing the best experience for student-athletes.

Willey said she could not be more proud of the athletic department’s environment, where they treat every sport in the same manner, she said.

“I'm going to leave this institution and the athletic department in a better place than what I found it, knowing full well that the next person is going to take it from where I leave it on to greater heights,” Willey said. “That's what I want. I want to leave in a great place, we've got great people, great leadership… we've made great progress, but the next person is going to come in and still continue to do things however they see > See Willey on page 8

New VP of Inclusion Engineering students and Equity announced create water source

By Noah Crenshaw NEWS EDITOR

After nearly a seven-month search, the University of Indianapolis has named its next vice president for inclusion and equity. Amber Smith, the assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, inclusion and outreach, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was announced as the new vice president in an UIndy press release on Oct. 21. With Smith’s new role at UIndy, she will help with the development and implementation of UIndy ’s vision and commitment to inclusion, equity and community partnership, according to the UIndy press release.

Smith said that she is very excited to be coming to UIndy as the new vice president for inclusion and equity.

Smith said she was very impressed with what UIndy has been doing in relation to its strategy for inclusion and equity and she is excited to see what ideas she can bring to the university, in addition to collaborating with others who are interested in the strategy.

Smith officially begins her new role on Jan. 1, 2020. She said that when she

arrives at UIndy, she plans to learn a lot about the university. She said that she understands that she is coming to a university with a unique character of its own.

“I think it's really important that, when I come, that I am really open to hearing from the students, from

SMITH the faculty, [and] from the staff,” Smith said.

“When I c a m e t o v i s i t m y fi r s t t i m e, I was so excited about how engaged students were. In student life, it was very clear that they were passionate about trying to fix problems. They are very passionate about what they thought should be happening. I think that there

are a plethora of ideas and people who know the institution very well and have a stake in the institution.”

Smith was one of five candidates that the search committee for the new vice president brought to campus,according to search committee member and Associate Professor and Dean of the School of Education John Kuykendall. The pool of applicants was initially narrowed to 20 for phone interviews, Kuykendall said, and then the committee narrowed that down to the five they asked to come to UIndy for a visit, before selecting Smith as the new vice president.

“She [Smith] had a good story, in terms of her background and how she realized that she was different at being a person of color and that led her to really have a passion for working in this space,” Kuykendall said. “She picked up very early in her life that 'I'm different.

I don't look like everybody else' or 'If I do like everybody, it's only a few of us.'

That led her to have this desire to be a champion for students of color and people of color, [and] that also bring awareness around how to interface with groups if you're not of that particular background.” > See VP on page 8

By Anthony Vlahovic STAFF WRITER

Students from the University of Indianapolis’ R.B. Annis School of Engineering were able to create a mobile water source for Citizens Energy Group that can dispense clean drinking water to nearly 5,000 people in its first month usage, according to Citizens Energy Group’s website.

This version of the project was the full-scale version of the mobile water source made from a trailer, according to junior software engineering major Pruitt, who is the team leader.

“It’s basically two tanks in a trailer that you can fill up with water or you can run a continuous system through it,” Pruitt said “If you connect it to a fire hydrant, and it can run water through it, it can hold... 500 gallons….

If you put ice in the cooling system, you can get cold water out.”

The project and partnership began two years ago with the Citizens Energy Group’s Partnership for Excellence in Research and Learning Program, where they partnered with different universities for projects such as the water source, according to Associate Dean of the R.B. Annis School of Engineering

Jose R. Sanchez. Citizens was requesting a mobile water source with a few qualities.

“They wanted to create a system that would, one, allow them to show the people of the Indianapolis area the quality of the water, how it ’s an educational tool for them,” Sanchez said “They can talk about safety, quality, and then at the same token, it has a green quality to it.”

The students were then tasked with creating a small model of the water wagon, which can be found on the first floor of Martin Hall. The students needed to figure out if they could get the water to the right temperature and also get the right water flow consistency that Citizens was requesting, according to Sanchez. The students then went to Citizens to present the finished product, “We went to Citizens two years ago and they presented in front of the VP of engineering, some civil engineers, marketing people and industry people, sophomore students,” Sanchez said. “[It was] really great… and they were very impressed. So we came back and did a second version of the class project, where we bought a trailer and > See Water on page 8

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THE REFLECTOR

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Why do students love

Graphic by Noah Fields

By Macy Judd STAFF WRITER

A new expansion pack for The Sims 4, called Discover University, will come out on Nov. 15, and it has a lot that a college student can relate to. Players can choose to have their virtual character, called a Sim, live in a dorm, live off-campus, study life away, attend sporting events or go to parties.

This expansion pack lets players enroll in the classes they want to take, which also comes with grades that can be affected by how often a Sim attends class or studies.

This expansion pack explores the decisions college students make on a daily basis, presenting a fairly realistic version of the actions and consequences that college students face.

It’s no secret that being a college student is difficult. Students are expected to go to school full time, hold a part-time job, maintain a social life, study, study some more, attend classes regularly, keep up with hours upon hours of homework

and still somehow get a good night’s sleep.

With such a jam-packed schedule, it’s hard to make sure everything is done correctly. People need room to make mistakes, which is why I believe that The Sims is such a popular game among college students.

The Sims is a single-player game developed by Maxis and published by the company Electronic Arts. It is a life simulator, in which a player makes his or her own virtual character which he or she can customize, both physically and mentally.

Players can choose their Sims’ body types, different traits, names and even facial structure. They must keep up with the Sims’ hygiene, hunger and social life in order to keep their Sims happy and healthy.

In addition to maintaining the Sims’ wellness, the players also can have their Sims make decisions about daily life or careers. Sims can go to college, start a family, commit crimes or completely neglect their health. Based on the decisions a player has the Sim make, the Sim faces different consequences.

Like players’ Sims, college students also face consequences for their actions.

For example, if I were to go on a partygoing spree, I might find myself falling behind in my schoolwork, becoming exhausted or even developing an addiction to alcohol.

It's no secret that being a college student is difficult.

So, this is where a Sim can come in handy.

Players who feel compelled to make such decisions in their own lives can first have their Sims make those irresponsible decisions in their own lives instead.

A player could have his or her Sim attend party after party and then watch how that affects the Sim rather than such player performing the actions himself or herself in the real world.

The players themselves do not have to face the consequences that the Sims face, and they get that “second chance” to make better decisions, which could be why the game is so appealing to college students.

Some may disagree and say that the Sims’ lives are always going to be accurate representations of the consequences people could really face, which is true. Obviously the players’ and a Sims’lives are not the exact same.

But because players can customize the Sim to be almost exactly like themselves, physically and mentally, the players can get a pretty good idea of what could happen.

Besides the Discover University expansion pack, The Sims have several other packs that range anywhere from paranormal to medieval. There’s a pack that lets players make their Sims vampires or ghosts; one that lets players make their Sims knights or wizards. There’s even a pack that lets players’ Sims care for many different pets.

Obviously, there are limitations on what people can do in reality. People are

not vampires or wizards, so expansion packs like these are just for entertainment.

People don’t always get second chances in the real world. It’s difficult to know exactly what to do, especially for a college students, who are at a time in their lives when the decisions they make could have permanent outcomes, positive or negative.

Making room for mistakes is important, but unfortunately people don’t always get that.

The Sims allows players to live through their decisions using characters who are not real and get a general idea of what might happen as a result of those decisions.

Everyone who plays The Sims does so for different reasons. Some may indulge in activities that they can’t indulge themselves. Some may want to live lives that they cannot live in reality.

Ultimately, the entire reason people choose to play is about actions versus consequences. Getting others to make decisions and watching those decisions play out allows people that second chance they rarely get in real life.

Self-help through self-deprecation

By Ethan Gerling ART DIRECTOR

Improvement at high prices Photo by Madison Gomez

By Ally Nickerson STAFF WRITER

Gentrification is a complicated word for a relatively simple process. When businesses and homes in an area are improved, and the cost of living goes up, residents can be pushed out of their current homes and into more affordable areas. For example, College Crossing At National, the apartment complex near the University of Indianapolis is now under new management. The new company made many renovations and added amenities and raised the rent significantly.

If lower-income individuals had to move out of College Crossing because they could no longer afford to live there, that is gentrification.

UIndy Assistant Professor of Sociology Colleen Wynn has spent her career studying housing issues and residential segregation and is knowledgeable about Indianapolis specifically. According to Wynn, gentrification is often discussed in racial terms (i.e., black residents being replaced by white residents), but in Indianapolis gentrification takes place by class instead of race. She said that gentrification is typically middle- or high-income residents pushing out lowincome residents of all races.

That is a core issue with gentrification: the displacement of lower-income individuals. Gentrification can split up communities of people who previously lived, worked and raised families together, forcing them into other neighborhoods that may be less familiar to them or even less safe. Gentrification can decimate a family’s social support network by pushing them out of the home they knew and loved.

In areas such as Fountain Square, the displacement of an entire group of people can create a major loss of relationships, community and culture.

Gentrification is not all bad, it can significantly raise the quality of life

in an area. Wynn said that as higherincome residents move in, the tax base increases and things such as roads, public parks and business areas all improve.

All those improvements sound great to me. Everyone wants to live somewhere nice and safe, where they have accessible resources and a lot of interesting things to do right at their doorstep, but those things come at a higher price.

Fountain Square is a good example of both the benefits and the consequences of gentrification. On one hand, as middle-class families and professionals have moved into the neighborhood, Fountain Square has transformed into a bustling neighborhood with lots of successful new businesses.

According to SAVI, the nation's largest and most comprehensive community information system developed by IUPUI, employment and education rates in the area have increased as the demographics have shifted, while vacancy rates have declined.

On the other hand, the average property costs have increased and these changes are detrimental to some individuals. Wynn said that by the time a neighborhood, such as Fountain Square has significantly improved, the residents who were there long before the renovations often are no longer there to reap the benefits.

That brings us to the core conundrum around gentrification: how to improve neighborhoods and raise the quality of living without displacing long-term, lowincome residents in the area. It’s difficult, but not impossible. According to Wynn Fountain Square’s developers displaced parts of its community, but other city planners, developers and realtors can learn from the mistakes made there. As other Indianapolis neighborhoods such as Garfield Park and Bates-Hendricks have started to pursue revitalization projects, they have drawn on the experiences of Fountain Square as an example of what not to do to local communities and are

instead focused on maintaining their own cultures and communities while avoiding major displacement, Wynn said.

Wynn said that the key to preventing class-based displacement is through community involvement in renewal projects at the ground level, such as neighborhood association meetings and community needs assessments to understand the existing community and neighborhood.

If you live in or around the UIndy area, search for your neighborhood association online to find out when and where these meetings take place.The first step in supporting local communities is to show up.

Without understanding the needs and desires of current neighborhood occupants, creating improvements that are necessary and accessible to them becomes impossible. Organizations such as South Indy Quality of Life have worked hard to assess these needs and create proactive community development plans that will engage all community members, not just wealthier gentrifiers.

The organization’s teams work on issues such as safe and affordable transportation, access to affordable housing and community engagement to provide access for citizens of all socioeconomic classes. The organization’s 25-page community workplan details its goals and related action steps at soindy. org.

Improving Indianapolis neighborhoods without hurting low-income Hoosiers is both possible and necessary, but doing so will take hard work and careful planning. Those seeking to improve Indy neighborhoods must understand the needs of the existing residents and plan to preserve their community, before ever picking up a hammer or paintbrush.These changes must not come at the cost of low-income residents. It is important to improve the quality of life in Indianapolis communities, but not at the price of displacement.

People are suffering with mental health issues, publicly calling themselves out and even shaming themselves, all for the sake of a little laugh.This is our current reality: “I hate myself,” says thousands of college students across the nation to the adoration and celebration of those around them.

This is raising questions about whether we should accept when others ridicule themselves for the sake of humor and the responses of others. Many others ask whether we should allow people, especially those who are young, in high school and college, to make light of incredibly serious topics. The answer to these questions is yes, we should.

When people make fun of themselves, even in a manner that seems so drastic, what they are actually doing is attempting to move forward and improve upon themselves. In hearing others make statements seemingly in detriment to themselves, it should be seen as positive rather than negative. Of course, it is only beneficial to offer any help to someone who feels the need to insult themselves for humor, in no way is that discouraging.

To best explain, consider this hypothetical example: Everyone around the office is stressed from their workload, and they’ve all run out of patience.

Finally, there comes a breakthrough when you believe that you’ve found some important information. So you take it to the boss, and then you both discover the information is very out of date. You look at each other, and now things are awkward.

The simplest solution to release the tension is to tell a joke about how you utterly failed. In doing so, you are taking responsibility for the mistake that you made and also relaxing everybody in the room.

Helpguide.org discusses the concept of using humor as a tool to manage conflict, and there are a number of reasons as to why a self-deprecating joke helps out in these kinds of scenarios. You are demonstrating that you are aware of the other person’s perspective, you are being more open with him or her, and you are sharing a laugh with him or her, which is always beneficial to any relationship.

Maybe digging into yourself won't get you redemption this time, but it can still make you feel better. It may seem odd to say that making fun of yourself is good for you, and that’s a fair perspective. Up until a study by the University of Granada in 2018, most research said otherwise.

This study, conducted by researchers at the Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, concluded that "In particular, we have observed that a greater tendency to employ self-defeating humor is indicative of high scores in psychological well-being dimensions such as happiness and, to a lesser extent, sociability," according to sciencedaily.com.

In response to the awkward situation, when you sit down with your coworkers, you smile and insult yourself. You may make a few of them laugh. Others may look away, but you’re showing that you’re fully aware of your situation. You accept it and now you’re moving on by laughing at yourself.

When someone tells a self-deprecating joke, the person is denoting a certain level of emotional awareness.Theneurotypical. com cites, “Daniel Goleman’s five components of emotional intelligence,” lists self-awareness as one of the most important factors in determining one’s emotional intelligence, defining it by saying “self-awareness depends on one's ability to monitor one's own emotional state and to correctly identify and name one's emotions.”Self-deprecating humor is one of the signals of someone who is self-aware, and thus someone who has a higher emotional intelligence.

Ver ywellmind.com states that depressive episodes are most prevalent among adults between the ages 18 to 25, the typical ages of college students. As a college student, it’s common for other students around you to frequently make these self-deprecating jokes when they get stressed or things get awkward. I deal with issues of mental health myself, and I, on occasion, make these same kinds of jokes. It’s understandable for an outside observer to have some sort of initial discomfort when they hear someone talk about themselves in this sort of way, but I ask that this attitude shifts to one that is more progressive.

When you happen to hear students openly say these “self-deprecating” comments, yes, please ask if they’re OK or whether they need anything. But also be aware that this is how many tend to cope. Sure, it is quite blunt and extreme, but these statements of self-deprecation may serve another purpose. We may be attempting to ease the tension in the room, showing awareness of the mistakes we’ve made, or sharing a laugh with those around us who also may be suffering.

We may be opening up about what we’re dealing with and how we feel and becoming aware of just how major our own struggles are. Through these jabs at ourselves, we may be fearlessly making an attempt at progress.

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Logistics lab established

Lab is the result of a partnership between the UIndy School of Business and Vincennes University

Contributed photo by University Photographer D. Todd Moore

Contributed photo by University Photographer D. Todd Moore

Faculty, staff and students from the University of Indianapolis and staff from the Vincennes University Logistics Training and Education Center attended the official ribbon cutting of the new Logistics Learning Lab on Oct. 23.

Students participate in Craig Seidelson's supply management logistics class at the University of Indianapolis' Logistics Learning Lab located at the Vincennes University Logistics Training and Education Center in Plainfield.

By Macy Judd STAFF WRITER

The University of Indianapolis opened a Logistics Learning Lab on Oct. 23, that was created as the result of a partnership between the School of Business, SOB’s Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management and the Vincennes University Logistics Training and Education Center. The partnership is meant to provide real-life, educational experiences and training with VU LTEC’s advanced level technology and equipment for those who are involved in the logistics field, according to a press release from UIndy.

The lab puts students in a real-life situation so they are more prepared for what they will be doing after they graduate. Students will participate in simulations and drills that have been put together by the VU LTEC staff and Craig Seidelson, UIndy SOB assistant professor of operations and supply

chain management, according to the press release.

“What I found was in the field of logistics, when we would send the students out to work in the field, there was a huge gap between going from the classroom to going into the field,” Seidelson said. “They really didn’t have that middle-ground. The idea was that if we could create a lab... we could put them in a real environment, handling simulated situations. The simulated situations compliment what they’re going to see when they’re in the field.”

The lab is located in a 30,000 square feet warehouse in Plainfield, IN. The warehouse is inside VU LTEC, and the proximity of it is one of the many reasons why Seidelson agreed on the partnership with VU LTEC. “They’re [Vincennes University] close, they have a facility, they’re dealing with actual customers, they have a willingness to let the students come in and work on these situations,” Seidelson

said. “To me, that was the fit.”

In some cases, the lab requires corequisite courses in order to be enrolled in it. According to Seidelson, being involved in the lab is required for those who take the Supply Chain Management 485 class and the Master of

“More and more of the logistics is being done by robots and automation...”

Business Administration 660 class. For students who cannot drive themselves to the lab, they can carpool with other students, according to Seidelson.

Taking the lab is the same concept as having textbooks or homework in class.

Those required textbooks or homework is just in an actual environment, he said.

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The lab is meant to challenge students who haven’t been exposed to the industryspecific skills that they require in order to master the field of logistics. According to Seidelson, it is important to put the students in unfamiliar situations and have them solve the problems as a team.

“The idea with the lab is to get you in an environment you should be familiar with, but you’re not, and let’s give you a problem that you don’t necessarily have all the tools to solve,” Seidelson said.“I know you’re going to learn out of experience, not by being successful.”

The resources at the lab range anywhere from robotics to construction. According to Seidelson, a simulation involving robots has been in the works for about two years.

“More and more of the logistics is being done by robots and automation,” Seidelson said. “Some of the things students do that I think is fun is they get to use some of the latest technology.”

Senior accounting major Zoe Sheeks

finished her management work in the lab this semester. Sheeks is taking the fast-track MBA courses, so she was involved in the lab for her Master of Business Administration 660 class. The lab gives students a better understanding of how supply-chain management works through the activities they do as a group, Sheeks said.

“Basically we do simulations,” Sheeks said. “We get to run through actual warehouse scenarios and see what’s wrong with them and how to do it, that way we’re able to apply what we’re learning in supply-chain management and apply it to the real world and figure out how it actually works.”

The lab opened at the beginning of the first semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. Students who have been enrolled in the lab have just recently finished the first round of lab work.

“We need to give the students the talent and the skills they need in order to be successful,” Seidelson said. “The lab is a way to ease them into that.”

By Madison Gomez

created based off Australia’s flu and it is injected so the antibodies can be created to help fight off the virus. However, these antibodies cannot always prevent the flu because there are different strains of the virus that can be spread, Case-Tardiff said.

People cannot get sick from the flu shots, Case-Tardiff said. Most likely it is a different strain that got them sick or they were exposed to the flu prior to receiving the vaccine, she said. Case-Tardiff said getting a flu shot is a good idea regardless because it can lessen the strength of the flu if someone contracts it.

“The flu virus itself is an extremely tricky virus,”Case-Tardiff said.“So that's why it's tricky to make the flu vaccine because the virus is the great mimicker and it can change itself so quickly that we as humans can't produce antibodies and grab all that information as quickly as the virus itself can change.”

Stress, which college students often have, releases more cortisol in the body, which in turn can hurt one’s immune system, Case-Tardiff said. Students, she said, especially around stressful times such as finals, should get plenty of rest, drink fluids and eat healthy. If students do not, the times where one stays up late will decrease performance in all aspects. The body tends to divert energy and resources towards stress, Sanderson said, which can make a person’s immune system weaker towards fighting off illness.

When symptoms arise such as a high fever, or if one is around someone who is sick already, and they starts to feel ill, they should go see a clinic as soon as possible, Sanderson said. A doctor visit at this time of year is needed because one never knows what type of virus they could have contracted.

Sanderson said students especially should prioritize their health, especially around stressful times like finals. Students should utilize the clinic that UIndy has in its Health Pavilion, he said, and if they cannot make it to an appointment there, there are plenty of Community Health Network MedChecks, Kroger clinics and multiple urgent care centers that can get students the medicine he or she needs, even after a night class.

Flu prevention during winter OPINION EDITOR

December 3, 2019 Caring for others—that’s what Greyhounds do best. After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, kick off the charitable season on #GivingTuesday with the University of Indianapolis. This year we will celebrate the ways UIndy students in Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, and Art Therapy are caring for our communities and promoting wellness from head to toe.

Support your favorite UIndy program with a gift of $25 or more, and you can receive a pair of UIndy themed socks! Your help can make our 2019 #GivingTuesday another record-breaking success.

UINDY.EDU/GIVING

As Indiana enters its winter flu season, residents should be aware of measures that can help prevent catching the flu. Jennifer Case-Tardiff, a nurse epidemiologist at the Marion County Public Health Department, said that students, faculty and staff should try to take care of their body. They should also try to sleep, get a flu shot and avoid people who are sick, she said.

“College students are a little bit at a high risk for the flu because of the close living quarters, and they share restrooms often-times,” Case-Tardiff said. “Obviously the more contacts you have in a day, the more opportunities that you have to come across somebody that is infected.”

The flu is spread through respiratory contact, meaning when someone coughs into his or her hand and then touches a doorknob, the next person who touches the infected doorknob will most likely get sick due to how often people touch their faces, Case-Tardiff said. She said the best way people can prevent the flu is not touching one’s face, but also washing one’s hands as often as possible. If someone looks sick, she said people should stay at least an arm’s length away from them.

The virus spreads quickly in winter because of the close proximity of people, Ryan Sanderson, a family medicine physician at Community Health said and it is not necessarily the cold weather bringing the virus. Sanderson said this time of year is not peak time, but he has seen cases of flu all the way into March.

“It's that it's cold so people end up spending a lot more time inside in close quarters,” Sanderson said. “That's... why we ended up getting increased rates of the flu as well as increased rates of a typical viral illnesses this time of year.”

According to Case-Tardiff, because Australia’s winter is our summer, scientists tend to examine their flu to get an idea of what America’s flu season may be like. She said for those who get a flu shot, a dead version of the virus is

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

IT works on tech updates for campus Technology checkout kiosks for faculty, adjuncts undergoing testing in several campus buildings

By Tony Reeves

then return it when they're done. The way our laptops are managed, whenever EDITORIAL ASSISTANT you log in… it builds your profile and sometimes that can take a little bit of time. With this set up, they use the same The University of Indianapolis laptop every time. So once they log into it launched its new app in August. and it builds their profile, then it takes a Two months after the launch, UIndy lot less time the next time and plus, then Information and Technology reported they're used to that laptop.” that about 90 percent of undergraduate The kiosks were made with an students had downloaded the app. IT Indianapolis-based vendor, IVM Inc. also introduced their new tech checkout and they provided the machines for kiosks that faculty and staff can use. free during the pilot period, according According to Senior Director of IT to Cooper. The vendor has a vested Help Desk Gail Cooper, the new tech interest in higher education, Cooper said, checkout kiosks are essentially vending and built the machines for UIndy from machines that have laptops and Blu-ray scratch. IMV allowed UIndy’s marketing players. team to decorate the machines. IT has “It's a pilot program. It's intended been working with IVM to work out to replace what we used to deliver to bugs and other issues. instructors in the classroom,” Cooper “I feel like it's been pretty successful,” said. “They'll give us the dates and times Cooper said. “We worked with the of their classes and then we will assign a clients that have reserved laptops and laptop bin to them. They go up to the bin Blu-ray players to ensure that they were within 30 minutes of their class and use comfortable using the machine itself. their university ID to retrieve the laptop If they needed out of the bin assistance, and then they [or] an I D return it in the “Our goal is to try to get replacement, same fashion. then we worked Right now, the technology in spaces with them to pilot program do that. So I is geared where it's being used.” feel like the toward that reception has population.” been prett y Since the positive so far.” kiosks are currently in their pilot phase, UIndy IT has also been updating its which ends at the conclusion of this security and its training for professors by semester, they are currently being tested teaching them how to avoid phishing. before being fully released, according to Phishing is an attempt to obtain sensitive Cooper. As of right now, the kiosks are information such as passwords and credit only being accessed by faculty whose card details via email by disguising as a classrooms have desktop computers trustworthy entity according to UIndy IT. and adjuncts who are in need of a Professors have to complete a new online laptop. Cooper said that each professor training module as an increase in security is assigned their own bin and laptop, so according to Matthew Wilson, senior that they are able to retrieve the same director of network, security systems. laptop every time they need it, where as “This year, for the first time, all with the previous system the laptop might employees are required to complete an have been a different model each time. information security training module,” “Our goal is to try to get technology Wilson said. “It talks about things in spaces where it's being used,” Cooper like phishing and understanding what said. “Our goal with this is to put the sensitive information is, handling that technology in the building and make it sensitive information securely, those convenient for instructors to be able to kinds of things. Password security, pick that up, and pick up the laptop for making sure that you don't share example, and use it for their class and

Photos by Tony Reeves

The technology checkout kiosks, which are similar to vending machines, are currently located in Esch, Good, and Lilly Halls. To access the technology inside, faculty are required to scan their IDs up to 30 minutes before class, and return the equipment 30 minutes after.

passwords, don't reuse passwords.”

The training module is only required to be taken by adjuncts and full-time faculty, Wilson said. If students want more information on phishing, they can access UIndy’s website.

“There is a website up on our tech guides that talks about phishing,”Wilson said. “If you go to techguides.uindy.edu and just search for phishing, there's a couple articles there.”

According to Wilson, universities are often targets of hackers and phishing, so protecting and updating security is important, especially since universities are considered easier targets than others.

“We see it [phishing] probably thousands of times per day,” Wilson said. “Most of them probably end up in your spam folder. Some of them end up in your inbox. A lot of those might be obvious phishing attacks. One of the most recent attacks that we've seen a lot of is an email that appears to come from the head of the department... and they target all of the employees in that department.”

According to Wilson, the attackers then try to establish some amount of trust. After that, the attacker tries to say that they are stuck in a meeting and need the professor to buy them some

sort of gift card.

“As soon as someone starts talking about gift cards, that should be a red flag to anybody,”Wilson said.“Gift cards are the easiest way to transfer money illegally kind of under the radar. So that's definitely a money transfer method of choice for hackers.”

According to the UIndy IT Tech Guides website, if someone receives an email that they believe to be a phishing attack they should not open any links or respond to that email, and they should send the email to the IT Help Desk or go to the IT office in Schwitzer Student Center Room 212.

By Lisa J. Huriash

the most-used applications were Netflix, Hulu and Xfinity TV. They found that the movie “I Am Mother,” with actress Hilary Swank, played at her workstation for almost two hours while the 911 caller was reporting the shooting.

On June 9, the day of the shooting, Vidaud’s computer also showed use of “numerous site clicks for websites related to shopping, news stories, streaming TV, movies, vacation planning, and fewer that could be considered work related,” according to an internal affairs investigation.

Vidaud told an investigator that movies play in the background but that doesn’t mean she was watching a flick for two hours. She said the supervisor’s console has five monitors.

Vidaud, whose discipline is pending, is expected to receive a two-day suspension without pay, police said. The investigation’s findings were inconclusive on what Vidaud was doing at the specific time of the incident. But she’ll be facing discipline for failing to supervise, police said.

Herrera told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Nov. 6 that the shooting was upsetting: “Nobody showed up — I had to drive myself to the agency.”

An agency spokeswoman said Vidaud would not be allowed to publicly comment on the case.

The original 911 call-taker was fired, and the second person who handled the call, a dispatcher, “was disciplined and has since been terminated,” police said, “in combination with other discipline” from other incidents.

Kirkland said the suspect in the shooting, Kyriakos Manolas, 33, of Coconut Creek, has been charged with premeditated attempted murder.

Police said his motive for the shooting is unclear.

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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (TCA) — Guadalupe Herrera called for help when a bullet landed in her lap while she was driving through a gas station. The bullet missed her head, but shattered her back windshield and punctured the steering wheel.

Several 911 recordings of Herrera’s long wait for Coral Springs police were released on Nov. 6, revealing her frustration with dispatchers as they failed to send immediate help after she reported the shooting.

“They’re still not here and I just got shot at in the car,” said Herrera, 28, of Coral Springs, during her second call, 16 minutes later. “I don’t know what to do. … What if they shoot again? I’ve seen three police officers drive by and do nothing.”

Dispatchers had categorized the case as a suspicious incident instead of a shooting, not giving it the priority it needed, police said. As a result, more than a half-hour went by between when Herrera first called 911 and when it was dispatched to officers. A 911 supervisor also was playing a Netflix movie at work at the time, the department found.

“When we have someone, we’ll send them out,” the 911 operator told her during her second call. “Do you feel safe where you are?”

No, Herrera tells her, “I’m still in shock.” She was headed to a Chick-fil-A and turned around when they were closed on a Sunday, passing through a Mobil gas station.

In her third call to Coral Springs 911, she tells them she was leaving the gas station to drive herself to the police station. “I don’t feel safe here at all.”

Police released the 911 calls from the June incident while discipline is still pending for Julie Vidaud, the shift supervisor, who missed other staff ’s errors.

Investigators pulled data f rom Vidaud’s computer over 30 days to find

SPORTS

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THE REFLECTOR

Double trouble

First in NCAA Underated Divsion II Regionals to ranked

By Tony Reeves

By Madison Gomez

By Hallie Gallinat

By Jacob Walton

The University of Indianapolis’ men’s tennis team has made UIndy history with junior doubles partners Dario Huber and Renato Lima winning the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Cup Doubles Draw, making them the first male greyhounds to do so, according to UIndy Athletics. The duo then went to California to participate in the ITA Fall National Championships Nov. 6-10.

“It’s been a privilege to be the first one in the history of the university,” Lima said. “We want to take these programs to the best level possible. We want to keep the level up, so the next recruits are even better. It’s amazing to have these results, especially for UIndy and for the other players as well, so they can see us doing well and they can come to UIndy and increase [the levels] even more.”

According to Lima, the doubles pair was not ranked at the beginning of the season.

Until recently, the two were not doubles partners and they had only played together once in their careers. Huber was partnered with Matej Kostadinov, who graduated last season, before switching and playing with Lima.

“We played the very first match of our collegiate career and we actually won that match, but after that we didn’t play at all together,” Lima said. “So I was very surprised how well we did together these last few tournaments and we hope to keep playing together.”

To keep their momentum going and to try and replicate their success in the national championship, Lima said that they have not changed the way they practice.

Their head coach, Malik Tabet, has given them a specific training regimen to follow and Lima said they are doing their best to follow it. In the ITA Fall National Championships they will be competing with both D1 and D2 athletes.

“Of course we have a different perspective now because we are going to be playing with the Division I, which is technically higher level players,” Lima said. “But we haven’t struggled ourselves and we [are] going to try and do [our] best possible on the court.”

Huber said that it felt amazing to win the ITA Cup Doubles Draw. He said that it became an even better win because of all of the times when their matches were close and he was not sure that they would win.

“It’s just amazing. Sometimes I think we still can’t believe that we are here,” Huber said. “Three times it could have went the other way. We were down in the Division II National Finals, we were down in the Super Bowl final, and the grand regionals semi-final.

They were close moments. It was incredible and it could have went bad-luck for us and we probably wouldn’t be here today. So I think that’s amazing.”

Huber said that one of the reasons they have made it to the national championship is because of their ability to adjust during matches, listen to their coach and implement those adjustments in later matches, although Tabet will not be with them in Californa.

He also credits the duo’s chemistry playing together.

“We are a bit both ambitious,— we also have fun of course,— we play ambitious,” Huber said. “It’s not like ‘We have to, we have to,’ it’s more ambitious. We both want to win but we have fun together and that’s a good combination.”

Coming off a national championship in the 2017-18 season and a national championship appearance in the 201819 season, the University of Indianapolis Women’s Golf team has wrapped up the first half of their 2019-20 season ranked first in the nation in Division II. Assistant Coach Kacey Dalpes said the team has had success this season due to team bonding, individual success and practice strategies.

“A lot of practice goes into hitting on the range, so that they’re comfortable with their swings and once we get out there, they’ve done all the work,” Dalpes said.

Playing in five tournaments this season, the team has won every D2 tournament that they have been in. They have also competed at two D1 tournaments where they placed ninth and 13th. During the UIndy Invitational, both senior Pilar Echeverria and freshman Hunter Nugent tied for second place according to UIndy Athletics. At the William Beal Fall Classic, senior Cailyn Henderson placed first. Echeverria and Henderson tied for first at the Music City Invitational, According to UIndy Athletics, the duo tied in breaking the 36-hole school record by three strokes. “[We] focus a lot on hitting greens,” Dalpes said. “Statistics have found that the more greens you hit leads to a better score in general. This semester [we] have been focusing on short game a lot, try to keep it simple for the girls so they can have fun and have an easy goal to accomplish.”

The first of the D1 tournaments was the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational, hosted by the University of Kentucky. The team finished ninth out of 13 teams with Echeverria taking the win in the 75 player field. Echeverria said that since she has played all around the world, the D1 tournaments are not as daunting.

“It’s just the mindset you go into it and try to keep yourself calm... just do your thing, don’t change anything, it’s just another tournament at the end,” Echeverria said.

Their second D1 tournament, The Battle of the Beach hosted by Texas Christian University, took place at San José del Cabo, Mexico and wrapped up their season.

According to UIndy Athletics, the team finished 14 out of 16 teams and was the only D2 school at the event. Echeverria said that the coaches do a great job preparing the team for tournaments.

“I think coach emphasizes a lot [to] do our thing,” Echeverria said. “Don’t compare yourself to the other players and if we play our game, we’ll be fine. Because we play Division 1 tournaments and sometimes, I remember my freshman year, I was kind of scared but then you see that if you play your game at [the] end it’s going to be fine. You can’t compete against them.”

Echeverria was selected as the D2 Women’s Golf Coaches Association player of the year in 2018 and she is ranked second in the nation.

“Pilar [Echeverria] is a very good leader, both on the course and off the course,”Dalpes said. “She always does the right things and she really pushes the girls, and they look up to her.”

The success comes from the dynamic that they have, Echeverria said, they are all close and supportive of each other on and off the field.

At the GLVC championships, both of the University of Indianapolis’ Cross Country teams placed third overall.The men’s team had an average time of 23:07.53 which resulted in their fastest finish since 2000, according to Men’s and Women’s Head Cross Country Coach Brad Robinson. He said he is proud of both of the programs for their finishes at the championships.

According to Robinson, it rained on and off for the majority of the team’s time during the race. For the women’s team, the rain didn’t hit during the race, but the men faced some difficulty with the weather, Robinson said.

“By the time the men got on the course, it became a little bit more challenging.The rain was still coming down,”Robinson said.“Even an hour later when they started and certain areas were pooling up with puddles and small ponds.... So repeating those same loops as they go through became a bit challenging in the footing, but worked out well.”

Sophomore Chris Switzer finished third overall for the men. He said that he is shocked about coming in third because he was not projected to do so.

“I was wanting to hit third, but I was more ranked like fifth or sixth walking into it,” Switzer said. “It was something that kind of shows that no matter what your rankings are, you definitely can walk in there and you never know who’s going to have a bad day. ” Switzer said he believes that the team’s success was because they worked together better than before. He said that because of the new freshmen on the team, this has been a year of development but the freshmen helped the team become even more of a family.

“We need to be more stronger together.

It’s not just a seven person race. We all piggyback off of each other,” Switzer said.

“I’ve always said that my team is my rock.

No matter who you are, if they’re cheering, if they’re running out there with us, if they’re there in spirit…. I think that’s why when we got third, it wasn’t us being shocked. It was more of us feeling happy that we all can do this together.”

For the women, junior Lauren Bailey finished second. She said that it was a great feeling to be able to compete with her teammates during their last meet all together since at the team will be cut down to seven for the regional. She said that despite the conditions, the team gave it their all.

“It was just a lot of just overwhelming joy… just knowing that we definitely gave it everything we had for each other, despite all the conditions, everybody performed to the best of their ability,” Bailey said.

On Nov. 9th, the teams headed to Evansville to run in the NCAA D2 Midwest Regional. Bailey said prepared in the same way that she prepared for the GLVC, which is by listening to her body and keeping a positive attitude. “[To prepare] physically, I just make sure throughout the week just doing the little things; stretching, taking some extra time to get in the ice bath or getting enough sleep,” Bailey said.“Little things like that, just paying attention to the little details and listening to my body as much as possible. Mentally, I guess just going into with that positive attitude of like, ‘Yes, I’m nervous, but today’s going to be a really fun day. It’s going to be really exciting and it’s doing something you love.’”

Prior to the 2019 season, the University of Indianapolis Women’s Soccer team was predicted to finish 10th in the GLVC, according to UIndy Athletics. Now, after six straight wins to end the regular season, the team is ranked second in the GLVC and 25th in all of Division II. Head Coach Holly Cox said that she wasn’t surprised by their low ranking in the preseason poll.

“I typically understand the preseason poll ranking. Last year we finished ninth in season.

I’m not expecting us to be picked first or second [in the GLVC],” Cox said. “But the nice thing is, you know the ability of the team coming back, you know the ability of team in preparation through preseason. And the nice thing about this season is that they’ve shown their ability in games.”

This is the first year that the team has made it into the national rankings with Cox as head coach for her first head coaching job.

She took over as head coach in 2015.

Cox said that the team has worked extremely hard and deserves to be where they are. Senior midfielder and back Alyse Dutcher said that it feels like there is a target on the team’s back now.

“It’s incredible,” Dutcher said. “It’s honestly something we’ve worked for so long and it just kind of puts us at, almost like a target on our back because we finally have gotten ranked and we’re finally getting the exposure that we worked for all season.”

Last season, the team finished the year 9-7-2 and just missed the playoffs. Now heading into the playoffs the team is 13-31. Cox said the biggest change has been the chemistry of the team. “[The biggest change has been] team chemistry and team culture, it’s always been moving in the right direction, but this year all the pieces kind of fell together, [the] culture within the team [and] the players,” Cox said.

“I have a really awesome coaching staff as well who have really come in and made an impact right away.”

Senior midfielder Amanda Meyer said that the team has felt more like a family this season and that everyone works well together.

Meyer, who is one of the team captains along with Dutcher and junior back Dana Youssef, said that the team is unlike any she has played on because of the culture.

Cox said the leadership from the captains and the seniors has really helped the culture of the team.

“They have really stepped up this season, as captains and really led this team. It’s been very impressive,” Cox said. “...it’s nice that we hold our ladies accountable, but it’s nice when they hold each other accountable when they are sending the same message.”

Cox said that this group of seniors has a special place in her heart due to them being her first recruiting class as a Greyhound.

Dutcher said that this year, everyone on the team is really connected and bonds well.

“I think a lot to do has with just the culture of the team and how different, definitely the leadership and different coaching staff,” Dutcher said. “And I just think that everyone just is more of a family this year and we’re really connected and we just kind of bond and connect better than last year.”

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Her Campus launches at UIndy in our group and they like it.”

As the campus correspondent, Whipple

By Taylor Strnad said she is constantly in contact with Her Campus headquarters to discuss Business Manager what is going on in the UIndy chapter.Her Campus headquarters provides the Indianapolis chapter with a platform to publish articles Her Campus Indy can officially call nationally through their online magazine themselves a University of Indianapolis platform.

Registered Student Organization, after “I think mainly we are all about being in the process of trying to become empowering women and making people an RSO since April. When sophomore feel welcome in the environment we marketing major and Her Campus Indy portray,” Whipple said. “Girls come to President Maddie Whipple chose where the meetings and we talk about what she was going to school, she said she we need to talk about and then we stay wanted to start a chapter at UIndy, and and hangout.” that is what she did.

Whipple said that not all articles deal Her Campus is a national online with the empowerment of women, but magazine platform that allows people members can write about whatever they to write for their website. As the wish. She said that Her Campus Indy campus correspondent for Her Campus has written and published topics about headquarters in Boston, Whipple said climate change, the top 10 things to get that she wanted to become an RSO and from an Amazon wish list and how to start a chapter at UIndy to allow women get over an ex. and men to have a creative writing outlet.

According to Whipple, Her Campus “I wanted to start it to give people a gives the UIndy chapter free range in place to express themselves in whatever terms of the events they hold and the way they want,” Whipple said. “I know articles they write. The chapter can do it’s mainly for women, but we have men what it wants, however, one item that

they must abide by is posting on their social media accounts at least three times per week.

Her Campus offers internships, which

of the club. She stays in contact with her advisor and receives feedback from her on her edits.

Dye said she believes that Her

“I’m really hoping that I can make an impact on this campus.”

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sophomore sports management major and Senior Editor for Her Campus Indy Savahana Dye has taken part in.

Her internship consists of editing all articles that are submitted by members

Campus can have an impact at UIndy.

She said that she hopes that Her Campus Indy can make women stronger and make individuals well-rounded people.

“I think Her Campus [Indy] is going

to have a huge impact on campus because a lot of students don’t read the news and one of our topics we write about is the news,” Dye said. “By having the girls [chapter members] write about what is going on in the news it will expand their horizons and it will make them more comfortable… talking about those hard topics that are happening...”

Everything for Her Campus Indy was coming out of Whipple’s budget.

Whipple said that she organized and paid for a “queso and questions,” a question and answer event for students to learn about the Indianapolis chapter and Her Campus as an organization.

Her Campus Indy is preparing to have their first fundraiser after officially becoming an RSO. According to Whipple, they are planning a scrunchie fundraiser to raise money so that they are able to host events.

The scrunchies will be sold for $6 a piece or three for $15 and each member’s goal is to sell at least five.

Whipple hopes that Her Campus Indy will empower and allow women to be part of a group where they can bond and get done what they need to but after, hang out and talk about anything.

“I’m really hoping that I can make an impact on this campus,” Whipple said.

Students earn How to become an RSO Shaheen Grants

By Taylor Strnad

BUSINESS MANAGER

politics in European countries work, along with furthering his understanding STAFF WRITER of U.S. politics was very valuable knowledge to gain. According to Comer, The generosity of Yvonne Shaheen has he would not have been able to get this again helped students gain opportunities experience without the grant. that would not have been possible “The grant was the only thing that without the help of the Shaheen grant. allowed me to make this happen. I would The Shaheen Grant has four different not have been able to afford it otherwise avenues students can apply for in hopes so it allowed me to have a pretty life of receiving grant money to accomplish, changing experience,” Comer said. explore or research something they Assistant Professor of Art and are passionate about, according to the Design Katherine Fries and a few of Shaheen College of Arts and Science. her students, including graduate student According to Assistant Dean for of studio art Kalia Daily were awarded Academic Affairs, Faculty and Staff, the Service/Learning Community Brad Neal, the four different Engagement Grant. They grants include the Student used it to volunteer and learn Career Readiness and valuable information from Leadership Development the Hamilton Woodtype Grant, the Service/Learning Museum in Two Rivers, Community Engagement Wis., Daily said. She said Grant, the Undergraduate the grant helped pay for Scholarly, Creative Activity their lodging and helped Grant and the Study the museum organize Abroad/Study Away Grant. and clean some of their The awards require an inquiry collection, while application process and is also being able to print on not awarded to everyone their equipment and learn who applies. some new techniques along TIBBS “It’s a competitive award, the way. it’s just not first come first serve,” Neal Fries had taken students to this said. “You have to give your rationale museum for their annual conference in and explanation on why you deserve the past where they were approached this funding.” about volunteering. At the time, there Graduate student of Anthropology was not enough funding to pay for the Nicholas Tibbs was able to do just that trip, so the grant was the primary reason because he was awarded the grant this they were able to have the experience. year in support of his research on his Fries said the most exciting thing about thesis, as well as an archeological dig in this experience, for her, was watching her search for an early 19th century farmstead students be able to learn from their work in Delphi, Ind. He said that at the museum. being awarded this grant “My favorite part was meant a lot to him for a getting to take the students few reasons. and see them interact at “This was my first grant [the] Hamilton [Woodtype that I ever applied for…. It Museum] with the Hamilton showed [that] I’m capable staff, to get to learn all these of getting an academic grant new techniques and get like this,” Tibbs said. “That excited about it and applying I do have support with the the things they have done in Shaheen School and then class,” Fries said. also that they are interested Daily said receiving the in my project.” grant and getting to go on Tibbs said the most this trip was a long time in DAILY rewarding part of the whole the making and it was just a process was being able to see the students matter of whether the funds would ever he hired have their first field experience be present or not. and watching them get excited to find “It meant quite a lot, we were talking different things while out during the dig. about going on this trip beforehand just S enior political science and trying to get funds together,” Daily said. international relations double major “But with the grant to not have to worry Bryan Comer was also awarded the about that aspect of it to just be able to Shaheen Study Abroad/Study Away focus on the community aspect of it and Grant so he could travel to Scotland focus on helping the museum who has to study Brexit and the formation of helped us so much. Being able to give national identity. He said getting the back to them was a really good experience first-hand experience of seeing how and it did mean a lot.”

By Anthony Vlahovic

Any student-led group has the potential to become a Registered Student Organization at the University of Indianapolis. UIndy allows any group to apply to be an RSO, and go through the process.

Assistant Dean of Students Steven Freck, works directly with every existing and potential RSO. In order to become an RSO, the leaders of the potential organization schedule a meeting with Freck to discuss the application process before moving forward with any formal paperwork, according to the New Registered Student Organization Overview handout. Freck said that becoming an RSO does provide the organization with various benefits.

“The largest and most obvious benefit is funding, so RSOs that are meeting their requirements get $250 each semester, [or] $500 annually into their RSO account,” Freck said. “They also have access to the Student Leadership Council, which is a council of staff and students who allocate and disperse money for different events.”

The SLC consists of representatives from Indianapolis Student Government,

Campus Program Board, Residence Hall Association and other representatives from RSOs that are selected by the Office of Student Affairs, according to Freck.

There is a series of items that a potential RSO must complete in order to become officially registered with the university. Each organization must have a current, full time UIndy faculty or staff member that will serve as the advisor, they must also have a minimum of five UIndy students who are interested in joining and complete all necessary paperwork, according to the New Registered Student Organization Overview handout. “[Step] one is fill out the RSO application, [step] two is to write a constitution for the group,” Freck said “We have every group write a constitution simply so that there is a guiding document that says ‘This is what our group is about, this is how we operate and this is what we stand for.’”

The final step for the organization to officially become an RSO is to give a 10 minute presentation to the SLC, according to Freck. From there, the SLC will discuss how the proposed organization will enhance campus life, and how it will impact other RSOs at UIndy, according to Freck.The SLC then votes on whether or not the organization

will become registered with the university.

The university implemented a three tier RSO ranking system this year, Freck said. It was added to the university this year as part of the student life review and the ongoing UIndy Vision 2030 plan that the university currently has in place, Freck said.

“Our tiered system is an effort to meet more of the specialized needs of certain groups and make sure they are still getting the support they need,”Freck said. “A tier one RSO is what 90 percent of RSOs are going to be.”

Freck said the process to become an RSO used to be lengthy. The university has worked to trim the paperwork and process down for students. He said they have already approved over 10 new RSOs this year.

“This process [current process] has been in place for two years now, when I first started working with RSOs there was a 19 page application process, which included everything from writing the constitution to planning a campuswide event that they would implement within the first year,” Freck said. “We have taken a critical look in the past, and that is something we are always looking at. If students have feedback, we definitely encourage them to share it.”

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ENTERTAINMENT

7 NOVEMBER 13, 2019

THE REFLECTOR

New capstone for theatre majors

By Jacob Walton SPORTS EDITOR

The University of Indianapolis Theatre Department created a new form of senior capstone projects called The UIndy Underground series, according to Assistant Professor of Theatre and Director of Theatre Education James Leagre. The projects seek to provide seniors an outlet to display what they have learned and use it in a professional environment, according to Leagre.

“The idea of the pieces that they’re doing represent either areas that they’re interested in, areas that they really want to explore or areas that kind of fulfill [the idea of ] ‘Here’s everything that I have gained [and] what I’ve learned here,’” Leagre said.

This year the series consists of three plays all directed by seniors in the department. They are titled “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” directed by senior theatre major Destiny Heugel, “Vagina Monologues” directed by senior theatre major Zoe Cunningham and “Shot in the Dark” directed by senior theatre major Charles Jones.

Heugel said that when the department started the new capstone and they called it the “student experience series.”

According to Heugel, this is the first year that the productions were publicized.

Last year they were available to the public but not advertised to the extent that UIndy Underground is.

The student directors started developing the plays their junior year in a class called junior seminar, according to Leagre. He said in the class, professors help students plan ahead on what they want to do in their senior capstone projects. The directors start production on the plays during their senior year, according to Leagre. Professors tailor project requirements and restrictions to the director’s theatre concentration, Leagre said.

“[For example] Theatre education majors are required [for] their capstone to direct a play, to mimic the most similar thing that they’re going to deal with walking into a school as a high school theater teacher.The only resources that they can use are the incoming freshmen,” Leagre said. “They can’t use upperclassmen for design. They can’t because that mimics the closest to what they’re going to experience into a high school.”

The process can be eye opening for many of the directors because it provides a different level of understanding of what it takes to be a professional in theatre, Leagre said. The directors are involved with every step of the production, according to Heugel.

“First, you have to find a script that you like and then you have to propose it to the faculty as why you think you should do it,” Huegel said. “And then you have to get the rights to it, and then you have to cast it, and then you hold rehearsals and then while you’re holding rehearsals, you’re building the set and designing the set and designing the lights and queuing all of that in. So it’s everything all at once, but I’ve learned a lot and it’s been terrifying and there are so many things I didn’t know how to do before, that I know how to do now. But I’m proud of all of it, but it’s been very hectic.”

While the capstones acts as a culmination of all the work the directors have put in as a student at the university, it also works as a way for the seniors to understand how everything works together in a professional environment, Leagre said.

“The biggest benefit is literally the accomplishment of the whole, of the production,” Leagre said. “So having an understanding of how everything goes together, not just the pieces but everything that’s around it, while at the same time being able to utilize the skill sets that they’ve learned with directing and the show itself.”

Photo by Brett Pinna

Actors Kyle Jeanor and Katie Carter play the two main characters Danny and Roberta in the play “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea” that was performed in the Studio Theatre of Esch Hall on Oct. 31. Danny cries in Roberta’s lap because he realizes he doesn’t have anyone.

Photo by Tony Reeves

Senior communication major Roci Contreras plays many characters in her performance in “The Vagina Monologues,” She played a lawyer who turns into a sex worker. The play consisted of adult themes and showed Nov. 8 and 9 in the Studio Theatre, the basement

Remembering Maestro

Raymond Leppard

By Madison Gomez

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Titus Kaphar presents at UIndy Artist shares artwork in lecture ‘Making Space for Black History’

By Shylah Gibson PHOTO EDITOR

From receiving bad grades as a child and relocating across the U.S. with a new family, artist Titus Kaphar overcame many other obstacles and continues to create his work that has been presented around the world. On Thursday, Nov. 7, the University of Indianapolis held lecture ‘Making Space for Black History’ featuring Kaphar in which he shared not only the thoughts behind his work, but his life leading up to now.

Kaphar shared stories ranging from birth to now and how specific obstacles allowed him to push through to become the artist he is today. Going to college was not his plan, Kaphar said, but after taking an Art History course, it was a whole new beginning. Kaphar followed junior-college with another college and eventually attended graduate school at Yale University after being rejected twice. Kaphar’s art consists of work from history reconfigured to display the African American role in that time period, rather than allowing that history to be forgotten. According to Kaphar, he noticed that African American people in paintings show the priiledge of other races in the painting, which gave him a base for his work.

“A lot of it is hard, a lot of it is [a] struggle, it’s [a] cathartic struggle, but it’s [a] struggle,” Kaphar said. “I make a lot of stuff that doesn’t work, I’ve destroyed a lot of paintings and you’ll never get a chance to see them.

One of my professors told me once, ‘If everything you do succeeds, you are not trying hard enough,’ and I believe that I took that to heart. I try to just keep

pushing myself, do things I haven’t done before. That’s why I work with paintings, I work with sculptures, I work with films I do these things because I’m wanting to tell these stories because it makes sense for the content itself, that’s the biggest struggle daily.”

Kaphar has displayed his work in a variety of places, he said. Kaphar showed his work at Princeton University and had a piece in Time Magazine titled, “Yet Another Fight for Remembrance.”

With the piece from Time Magazine, Kaphar portrayed protestors streaked in white paint to show the idea of the protestors figuratively being erased from our country’s history. Kaphar said his piece at Princeton depicts this idea that our country struggles with having “two conversations at the same time.” This piece was apart of Kaphar’s series, “Monumental Inversions,” and according to an article about the monument from artsy.net, “The family [in the piece] is meant to represent not only the people that [Samuel] Finley [fifth president of Princeton University] enslaved during his tenure, but also the many other chattel slaves held by professors and the families of students since the university’s founding.”

While each of these pieces depict more serious issues, Kaphar has created many pieces that are personal to him and his family history as well. Kaphar displayed a piece of his work titled, “My Loss,” from the Jerome Project. Kaphar depicts a mugshot of his father behind ashes to imply the approximation of how much of his father’s life was wasted in prison due to epidemics in our country, such as drugs. Kaphar said he has created his own foundation in order to fight epidemics like these and to prevent this from happening

to more children from these failing communities.

The foundation called NXTHVN, Next Haven without the vowels Kaphar said, is a center for students around New Haven, Connecticut to have jobs or internships with aspiring artists.

“It’s been really successful [NXTHVN]. The children, the high school students, the young men and women that participate in our program are how we get the rest of the people because our high school students are the ones who are walking their parents through our exhibition saying, ‘Mom, I work for this artist, let me tell you about what he’s doing,’” Kaphar said. “We choose artists whose work speaks to the issues that we’re concerned about…. So this is our second year, the first year we had 166 applications for seven spots, we had 260 [applications] this year.”

According to Kaphar, having creativity will allow for poor or failing communities to endure something better than what they’ve had before.

Kaphar said without art, he wouldn’t have made it through school because nothing else has inspired him the way art has, and he hopes to do the same for these children who may not have goals set yet. Kaphar said that having a creative outlet in communities is essential.

“No community needs creativity and art more than poor communities, whether they’re here or there, we ask people every single day to reach for the American liberty, something they’ve never seen,” Kaphar said. “How can you do that without creativity? How can you do that without imagination? We need to imagine a future for ourselves and in many cases, nobody around us is living. ”

America in 1976, and did not become a U.S. citizen until 2003, according to OPINION EDITOR The NY Times.

At first Leppard was opposed to Maestro Raymond Leppard, the idea of living in Indianapolis, so he former artist-in-residence for the refused a job offer as Music Director at Music Department at the University the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, of Indianapolis died on Oct. 22.

Ratliff said. Leppard later ended up While he was known for a variety of taking the job. accomplishments around the world, “By making Indianapolis his Leppard impacted the community, permanent home, Maestro Leppard faculty and students at UIndy at the was able to serve as a champion of events he participated in, Professor of classical music in this city, conducting Music, Director for Artistic Initiatives concerts, teaching, and inspiring others Richard Ratliff said. to cherish the music he loved,” CEO Leppard spent 25 seasons as artistof Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in-residence, according to UIndy James Johnson said. “He put an Intercom. indelible stamp on this city and this While he orchestra. We was not often will think of seen to the him fondly public, Ratliff “Maestro Leppard was able every time said that he we hear or to serve as a champion of perform one connected with Leppard and classical music in this city.” of his favorite got to know his works. Our charming and thoughts are personable side with Maestro that he did not show to strangers.

Leppard’s family and close friends as “Raymond Leppard was a kind they grieve the passing of this generous and generous artist who used his artist and wonderful man.” remarkable talent to bring world-class Leppard earned five Grammy musical experiences to students, faculty Awards and numerous European music and staff, as well as to communities awards, making him a well-known throughout the Indianapolis region,” name in the music industry, Ratliff said.

University President Robert Manuel The first encounter the two had, said to Intercom. “Through his not conversation, was in the early legacy, the University of Indianapolis 1980s at the ISO and Ratliff said he celebrates the shared values of artistic still remembers the piece Leppard exploration, professional growth and a conducted and how he conducted it. dedication to creating unique learning Ratliff said to the music department environments that prepare students for at UIndy and anyone who loves a lifetime of success.” music, Leppard’s performances were After helping restore operatic something special. The public knew baroque style music to concert halls he was a respected figure, Ratliff said. after World War II, Leppard began Leppard received an honorary degree his career in the music field, according from UIndy in 1991 and an honorary to The New York Times’ obituary for alumni award in 2014, according to Leppard. Leppard managed to bring Intercom. the bare bones of the simplistic operatic “We saw him basically once a year, pieces from the 16th century to life by so it’s not like he was a presence all year adding multiple orchestral elements to round, but in the last dozen years, it’s each restored piece, according to The been a tradition to have him do the NY Times. opening concert of our Faculty [Artist] He then went on to conduct with Series,” Ratliff said. “So we would have the English Chamber Orchestra a small orchestra and he would come starting in the early 1960s, who he and conduct that one concert, and the produced numerous records with, and hall would always be very full, and in summation of his career, Leppard oftentimes, the concert would end produced over 200 records, according with the choir joining the orchestra in to The NY Times. something like the Schubert G Major But because of politics in Britain Mass or the Hadyn Saint Nicholas among other reasons, he came to Mass or the Mozart Vespers.”

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Preventing sexually transmitted infections Most common STIs at colleges include HPV, Chlamydia, HSV-2 Genital Herpes

By Emily Del Campo STAFF WRITER

What is an STI? An STI is a sexually transmitted infection, also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease. The top three most common STIs on college campuses are Human Papillomavirus , Chlamydia a n d H S V- 2 G e n i t a l H e r p e s , according to physicianoneurgentcare. com.

University of Indianapolis Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the Public Health Program Heidi Hancher-Rauch said most college students don’t know that many STIs are curable and all are treatable and/or managable. It is also not widely known that most people with STIs experience no noticeable symptoms.

Students should get tested on an annual basis if they are sexually active, according to Rauch. The best way to prevent an STI is by using a condom 100 percent of the time, even when a person trusts their sexual partner, she said.

“Say [that] a person has been in a monogamous relationship, and they have been using condoms and other types of contraceptives and they feel for whatever reason, you are not really at risk for a sexually transmitted infection, I still recommend that students should get tested at least once a year if they’re sexually active,”Rauch said.“That doesn’t just mean penal-vaginal sex, it means really any form of sex, the students should be tested.”

STIs are very prevalent among college students, in fact, they have been on the rise the last couple of years, according to Rauch. Young adults, which are people between the ages of 15 to 24, only

make up a quarter of the sexually active population, but account for half of the new diagnoses every year.

“That shows that they are more prone to contract a sexually transmitted infection because the risk of contracting an STI is linked to some of the other risk behaviors that is sometimes seen in college students,” Rauch said. “If people are drinking, they’re more likely to contract an STI when they participate in those kinds of behaviors.”

What are the options for someone who has been diagnosed with an STI? When it is a bacterial infection, the patient will receive an antibiotic. They need to make sure they follow the full course of antibiotics even if they feel better, according to Rauch. If it’s a viral STI, it can be treated with antivirals.

According to Rauch, students should not assume that because it’s herpes or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that they shouldn't bother with treatment because they have very good treatments now, even for those viral STIs. Treatment has come a long way in the last five to 10 years and it’s very important to follow up with the health care provider and follow whatever treatment plan they recommend, according to Rauch.

“We [public health professionals] use the term ‘sexually transmitted infection’ often, but we’re talking about any type of virus, bacteria, that can be passed from individual to individual via sexual contact,” Rauch said. “And some are obviously more serious than others, so your bacteria: chlamydia, gonorrhea,

syphilis, those can be treated with antibiotics, but then your viral ones can still be treated and absolutely should be treated.”

UIndy recently advertised free STI testing on campus. Rauch said she was glad the school finally began offering the service because of the safety and convenience reasons. Even though many students don’t think twice about contradicting an STI, they will never know they have one unless they get tested, according to Rauch.

“The fact that we have that [free STI testing] available here on campus now is awesome, and students should do it.They don’t know [if they have an STI],” Rauch said. “So many students think, ‘I’m not at risk’ and ‘I’ll be able to tell if somebody has an STI or and STD.’ You can’t.”

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The University of Indianapolis student handbook states “the university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, ethnic or national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression irrespective of whether the status is legally protected.”

This specific policy was beneficial during Homecoming weekend in 2018, when members of UIndy Pride were walking through Tailgate Town outside of Key Stadium when they heard a derogatory slur that was directed towards them, according to senior anthropology major and UIndy Pride co-chair Jordan Borden. The slur offended and triggered some of the members, he said. Pride immediately went to the administration about this issue and Borden said that the next day, University President Robert Manuel, Vice President for Student and Campus Affairs and Dean of Students Kory Vitangeli, Executive Vice President and Provost Stephen Kolison and former Vice President and Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer Sean Huddleston had

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sent out a campus-wide email about identity as it is just about the care of all inclusivity. students.”

Although members of Pride Yorkowitz said that in the Office experienced the issue with slurs last of Student Affairs, they try to work year, Borden said that there has never individually with students and to been a time where he has felt unwelcome understand their hopes and needs and on campus. their hopes with their living environment. “[A] part of why I love being on this He said that the university, along with the campus is that it’s very welcoming,”Borden student, can look at what options they said. “I’ve never felt that unwelcome have and decide what is best . anywhere or that “I think my presence t h e re a re was not allowed students somewhere. It’s who may “...we really work nice.” identify in with students as they When it comes a particular to housing and way and they present needs...” living on campus, feel most students may comfortable want certain living with housing accommodations. According people who they identify with, as opposed to Associate Dean of Students Jonathan to maybe some government registration Yorkowitz, UIndy is open to the needs of that says they’re a different identity,” all students, not just specifically LGBT+. Yorkowitz said. “It’s never our hope that “For example, if a student is feeling they would be in places that would be really bad about a roommate situation uncomfortable for them and also, at the and they live in Cory Bretz, then we same time, not put them into situations want to get them into a space that they that are not conducive.” are comfortable where they can be According to Yorkowitz, the worth successful,” Yorkowitz said. “So, I don’t of every individual is important. He said know if it’s as much about somebody's that if a student does not feel comfortable

where they live, then they will probably not be very successful inside of, or outside of, the classroom.

“I think we really work with students as they present needs and we don’t ever want to assume that anybody needs anything,”Yorkowitz said. “But if they’re raising their hand saying ‘Hey, can we talk,’ then come on in and let's talk, let's figure out what your needs are and what you’re hoping for and how we can accommodate it.”

According to sophomore social work major and UIndy Pride treasurer Tylyn Johnson, Pride is a safe space for LGBT+ students to talk and have fellowship. Pride hosts educational events and meetings focused on aspects of the LGBT+ community.

When it comes to Pride, according to Johnson,he said he wants the organization to grow and have more students of color, students with disabilities and students of different socio-economic statuses. “[Have more] students with disabilities or students of different socio-economic status,”Johnson said. “For me, personally, and I know the other board members would agree, we want to make more students feel included and feel safe to go there.”

established the first African American Female Initiative and helped with the development of the Hispanic Initiative, according to the press release. She also was named a 2019 ACT College and Career Readiness Champion in the postsecondary professional category earlier this year.

Smith said that her previous experiences at UA Little Rock have put her in a position where she can be creative and find unconventional solutions to problems. She said these problems and solutions are often based on budget constraints, but that there always are things that one is going to have to navigate through.

“I believe that it is important to

Equity with a newer and more innovative approach. He said that Smith will be a good colleague and someone students will want to learn from.

“I think that she's going to really put an emphasis on some areas that are needed on our campus, in terms of working with the faculty around inclusion and equity,” Kuykendall said.

“Of a strong [candidate] pool, she c ame out as the person that we selected, and... we made the right choice.

It was a good pool of candidates that we had in the committee, [and] if I say so myself, it [the committee] did a great job of working together and identifying somebody that would be good for UIndy.”

VP from page 1 Smith said that coincidentally, she and Kuykendall previously had worked together at UA Little Rock, and Kuykendall’s being on the search committee had made the situation a little weird. She said they both had published articles together and worked together at the Dr. Charles W. Donaldson Scholars Academy, a scholars program for African American students in the city of Little Rock. She said that despite the weirdness, she feels honored to work with him again, along with other professionals at UIndy.

While at UA Little Rock, Smith was the director of the Dr. Charles W. Donaldson Scholars Academy,

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Water from page 1 we retrofitted to the needs of citizens.”

According to Pruitt, he was in charge of organizing, meeting with Citizens, and designing most of the internal plumbing and the cooling system for the water source. There were only four members of the team tasked with creating this system, one of them being junior mechanical engineering major Jonathan Key, who was in charge of cutting out the filling stations and retrofitting them into the trailer. He also helped with installing the cooling systems. He said he learned how to work as a team in difficult circumstances, having to reach out to others to gain knowledge and resources and relaying back to the client why they couldn’t do something that they wanted.

As a sophomore at the time, it was a very large project to handle, Key said, but in the end he found it to be incredibly rewarding.

The water source can be used at larger scale events like sporting events and different community events around Indianapolis to reduce the amount of single use plastic water bottles being used, according to Key. The R.B. Annis SOE’s DesignSpine curriculum program led to a partnership with Citizens Energy Group to create the #H20toGo mobile water source.

The program begins when engineering students come in as freshmen and continues until they graduate, according to Sanchez. The curriculum teaches students a wide variety of diff erent things, according to Sanchez. “ The DesignSpine is nothing more than a sequence of courses where we get students from different disciplines working together to solve challenges,” Sanchez said. “Our goal is for us to have external stakeholders as part of the process.”

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recognize that even though you might have limitations, that's not an excuse for lack of productivity,” Smith said.

“We still have to make an impact. We still have to impact change regardless of the obstacles that we face, and so roles that I've had up until this point have challenged me to do that. So I think that that will benefit me because I do feel like, from what I was receiving when I came there [UIndy], the message that I got was that people will be open to ideas and finding strategies and solutions in ways that we can respond and actually be forward-thinking, as it relates to equity and inclusion.”

Kuykendall said that he thinks Smith will provide the Office of Inclusion and

fit… I just couldn't be more proud of our staff, so I would hope that people would feel like I made a difference.

I cared about them more than just wins and losses and that I've set ourselves up for success in the future.”

Beyond her accomplishments, Paquette said she values Willey’s determination and enthusiasm for the athletics department. She said she’ll remember Willey for being a trailblazing woman who paved the way.

Paquette said above all, she will miss Willey’s enthusiasm for UIndy Athletics.

“This is her life, this is what she loves. She bleeds crimson and gray,” Paquette said. “That enthusiasm I think is, is something that is very unique to her. Obviously all of us are enthusiastic, but it's something that she's [been] living for 40 years. There isn't anybody else here who can touch that. To have that longevity and for that longevity to translate into the career she's had, it's something you don't see anymore.

And it's something that I think we’ll all miss.”

After she retires, Willey said she plans to move to Florida and continue to mentor young professionals who aspire to be athletic directors. She also plans to read, write, and take the time to learn how to fly fish. She hopes to get her volleyball officiating license to assist with the growing shortage of high school and collegiate officials, she said. And without a doubt, she said, she will provide support for whoever takes her place next.

“Seventeen years ago when I was named the Director of Athletics [now VP of intercollegiate athletics], I had a vision for what our department could become. My goal was to provide whatever was necessary for our student athletes to have a great athletic experience and to provide coaches the tools they needed to be successful,” Willey said. “It was to elevate our university athletics program to a level that would be recognized as a premiere Division II institution. I believe I, we have accomplished that both athletically and academically. It's time for the next VP for intercollegiate athletics to take UIndy Athletics to even greater heights.”

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