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Reverend, banjo player to be honored Reverend Rob Fuquay and Grammy-winning banjo player Béla Fleck will receive honorary degrees from UIndy at the commencement in May

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Rob Fuquay is originally from North Carolina, but moved to Indiana in 2011 to serve St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Indianapolis.

He said that St. Luke’s took the search for a senior pastor seriously, and that was a big influence on his decision to move his family to Indy.

By Maia Gibson & Zoë Berg NEWS EDITOR & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The University of Indianapolis is awarding two honorary degrees at the 2018 commencement. Each year, the university selects one to three recipients from a pool of candidates suggested by the community, according to University President Robert Manuel. A faculty committee chaired by Manuel takes the recommendations and debates them and then they are given to the Faculty Senate to approve. If approved, the decision will then be passed to the Board of Trustees. All groups must approve of the recipients before the degrees are offered.

Manuel said the whole process takes about eight months and is a huge honor because an honorary degree is a way for an institution’s faculty to signal that a person’s life work is worthy.

“Honorary degrees are ways to signal to the world and our community accomplishments and life experiences that we think are stellar and exemplary of the mission and traditions of the university,” Manuel said. “So it’s kind of the highest

honor you can give somebody who hasn’t gone through the educational programs here.”

According to Manuel, the university tries to honor individuals from different disciplines. In previous years, they have recognized alumni and exemplary people in fields such as business, arts, religion and medicine. “[We] tend to try and move them so that you can represent the entire university’s interests,” Manuel said, “And they can see examples of greatness inside of these people.”

This year’s honorary degree recipients are Senior Pastor of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church Rob Fuquay and 16-time Grammy Award winning banjo player Béla Fleck. According to Manuel, Fuquay was chosen because of UIndy’s United Methodist affiliation and his prominence in the faith. Fleck is one of the finest banjo players and was chosen because of UIndy’s music program, Manuel said.

“It’s an opportunity to celebrate arts and culture and to celebrate our mission through those two people,” he said.

Fuquay has been in ministry for over

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Béla Fleck often tours, playing banjo, with a number of different people and groups around the world including with Indian and African artists and his wife, Abigail Washburn. Fleck recently accepted a commission to create his third concerto, which will premiere in 2018.

30 years, serving six churches including his current appointment. He said he first became interested in becoming a pastor as a teenager, after getting to know the Duke University seminary students that served his church in the summer. He said he was deeply impacted by them because they were real people who were interested in sports and music and that they were a huge influence on his ministry.

“I just remember about my senior year in high school feeling this inner nudge where God was saying, ‘I want you to consider doing with your life what they do.’ And I didn’t even know what that meant,” Fuquay said. “But I went and talked to my pastor about it and he helped me understand what it was like to get a call to ministry and that while you might not be certain of it, that the only way you will ever get certain is to start walking in that direction and so that’s what I did, and it got stronger.”

Fuquay attended Pfeiffer University in North Carolina and studied religion.

After graduating, he went straight to seminary at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Georgia.

He pastored a church in England after he graduated, then returned home to serve in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

He moved to Indiana with his wife and three daughters in 2011, after St. Luke’s conducted a search for a new senior pastor and offered the position to him.

In addition to his years in ministry, Fuquay has also written three books, “The God We Can Know,” which is based on the “I am” sayings of Jesus, “Take the Flag,” which uses NASCAR and IndyCar Series flags as metaphors and “Which Way Lord,” which uses the life of the apostle Paul to consider life purposes.

Fuquay said that he was honored

“It’s an opportunity to celebrate arts and culture and to celebrate our mission...”

UIndy installs new beacon alert system INFORMATION: Provided by Alertus Beacon System website.

A THREAT ALERT HAS BEEN ISSUED. EXIT BUILDING; GO TO RALLY POINT.

ALERTUS

SPEAKER: Alert tones up to 106 decibels.

LED STROBE: Captures attention from distance. Has 8 different LED flash patterns.

MESSAGE: Easy customized messages for any emergency.

PROGRAMMABLE BUTTONS: Selectively enabled for special requirements; otherwise disabled.

Graphic by Alexis Stella

By Alexis Stella DISTRIBUTION MANAGER New safety measures have been implemented on the University of Indianapolis campus to address a lack of cellular reception in certain parts of campus. The

Alertus Beacon System will send out alerts to warn students, faculty and staff in case of severe weather, crime and any other threats on or near campus, according to the Alertus website.

The alert beacons are small, compact audible-visual alerting devices that can deliver critical emergency messages to

everyone in the vicinity, according to the Alertus website.

Campus Police Chief David Selby said that implementing the new alert system is a result of the 2016 bomb threat at UIndy. He explained that in similar situations, informing students quickly and efficiently is essential. Selby also said that because of the lack of cellular reception in certain areas on campus and the possibility of students or visitors without access to cell phones, sending Watchdog alerts was not enough. “ The beacons work off our infrastructure. It is hooked up with our Watchdog system. So when we issue out a Watchdog, it is automatically sent to Alertus, which then sends it to the beacons,” Selby said. “It is tough getting messages down at the Health Pavilion, so this [beacon system] is going to resolve the issue.”

According to the Alertus website, the alert beacons are designed for large facilities, such as college campuses and military bases, that lack in-building emergency notification systems. The beacons are not dependent on cell phone towers or the Internet, but can be connected via Ethernet or Wi-Fi. There are 16 alert beacons mounted to the walls in nine buildings around campus, including Lilly Science Hall, the Athletic Recreation Center, Schwitzer Student Center, Warren Hall, the Health Pavilion, Krannert Memorial Library, Cravens Hall, Ruth Lilly Fitness Center

and Esch Hall.

In the event of an emergency, the beacon will flash and sound to capture the attention of building occupants while displaying a custom message regarding the emergency and how students, faculty and staff should respond. Emergency notifications also can be sent to every installed beacon or only to select ones, depending on the extent of the emergency, according to the Alertus website.

According to Selby, Indianapolis Student Government and the Resident Hall Association were crucial to the process of installing the Alertus Beacon System on campus by getting funding through a grant. Selby said that student support helped expedite the process of getting the system.

“Without the students [in ISG and RHA], we wouldn’t have this system,” Selby said. “Without the students, I never would have gotten the equipment as quickly as I did.”

Selby said the campus now has desktop solutions to enhance campus security. He said that campus police also partnered with Information Technology and the marketing department to update emergency procedures documents and provide all faculty and staff with emergency desktop guides that can be found on the MyUIndy website.

Pre s i d e n t o f I S G a n d j u n i o r international relations and political science major Taylor Carpenter said

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to be offered the honorary degree. He said he wants to represent the university and the United Methodist Church well throughout the remainder of his career.

“I think shocked if a fair word to use. I was just taken aback. [It was] not something I was expecting at all,” Fuquay said. “So, I am so hugely honored by this and really looking forward to that date in May. And it’s much as the degree, an honorary degree, as it is UIndy. The fact that I’m being awarded this by UIndy, such a respected school, that’s a huge part of the honor for me.”

Fleck said he first became interested in the banjo at five years old after hearing it on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” but he did not own one until he was fifteen years old. Fleck began touring directly out of high school, as he was able to play at a professional level. When he began playing banjo he was also playing guitar, fiddle, mandolin and pedal steel, but he said he realized to be a great banjo player he need to focus solely on banjo.

“To really do something at your best you have to focus really, really hard on it for a long time and I was excited about

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Kellogg Writers Series welcomes poet Kaveh Akbar

By Alexis Stella DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Kellogg Writers Series welcomed award winning poet Kaveh Akbar on Feb. 28 in Schwitzer Student Center Trustees Dining Room. Assistant Professor of English Barney Haney thanked those who were involved in the Kellogg Writers Series and introduced Akbar incorporating references of his poetry.

“It gives me goose bumps to introduce our writer tonight,” Haney said.

“We plunge into the soot, we lose our language, our ability to pray, we are shredded, jeweled, feathered narrowed past our scared necks—our bodies, our desires are insatiable, infinite and insufferable. We meditate on bones and trace elegance of throats of goats, one thing and then the next. we are about to witness an intimate performance—in likes in which we may never see again; and so I ask for this precious gift we offer kindness and courtesy to our guest.”

Akbar is a professor from the Purdue University MFA program and is currently teaching a 16 week course called “Writing the Divine.” Akbar’s work has appeared in various publications such as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Tin House and PBS NewsHour.

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OPINION

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GOP: ‘Let them eat cake’

MARCH 7, 2018

Arming teachers will cause more harm than good

Washington proposes new SNAP replacement with no concrete strategy or understanding of the matter at hand

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR It has always disappointed me to see the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program being used as a political chess piece to gain voters for both sides of the aisle who vow to uphold or cut its benefits.

That is especially true at the moment.

According to gettingfoodstamps.org, the technical definition of food stamps is that they are coupons or benefits given to low-income recipients each month on a plastic card (called an EBT, or electronic benefits transfer card) that works like a debit card. These benefits used to be printed on paper coupons, which is why they are called “food stamps,” and they are usable at grocery stores, convenience stores, farmers’ markets, etc. SNAP is an entitlement program, which means that anyone who is eligible receives benefits.

As reported by snaptohealth.org, 45.4 million Americans received SNAP benefits as of 2016.

Recently, the program has been thrust into the news cycle again because of the Trump Administration’s budget proposed slashing of SNAP by $17 billion in 2019. As compensation, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney offered a replacement to the SNAP program.

Mulvaney explained that the idea of the new Harvest Box program would be for low-income families to “receive the food instead of receive the cash,” according to the Washington Post. He claimed that the program would be comparable to a Blue Apron-type program in which meals are shipped in boxes to the houses of participants.

The proposal is intriguing. Perhaps the new system would ensure that nutritional needs are better met, federal money is more efficiently allocated or rural families who do not live near grocery stores are better accommodated. The Harvest Box idea, however, is only defensible in theory.

For example, the issue of how those with specific dietary needs, such as diabetes or allergies, must be addressed. In areas where shipments can take weeks to arrive, recipients could be left without

their primary food source. Most important of all is the question of where this food would be cooked, packaged and shipped.

To implement this plan would be to create a government-operated company in and of itself, requiring labor, trucks and factories across the country.

By the time the system would be functional, it would be burdensome and expensive beyond any of its potential benefits. It would also cut into the private sector, where corporations such as Walmart and Kroger rely on SNAP participants shopping at their supermarkets.

The proposed program would be expensive and complicated, and seemingly sprung out of nowhere.

SNAP is a controversial program, and the main criticism against it is abuse of the system, in various forms. Like many anti-welfare opinions, the idea that SNAP is a wasteful program for lazy people is based on ignorance.The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities debunks most myths about food stamp fraud in its 2015 report.

According to the report, SNAP has responded to the end of the recession and is actually shrinking in size, not growing.

Additionally, SNAP actually encourages users to work; of family households with a working age, non-disabled adult, 62 percent work while receiving SNAP and 87 percent work in the prior or subsequent year. The low wages of their jobs are compensated, not replaced, by SNAP benefits. SNAP provides much-needed assistant to vulnerable populations, and two in five families who use SNAP live below the poverty line.

Common decency, however, does not rely on statistics. Those who sit in Congress and reside in the White House cannot understand the lives of people who use food stamps, and their heightened socioeconomic status makes them insensitive to those people’s needs. It is not a crime to be insensitive to circumstances not personally experienced, that is true, but it is unacceptable to dictate terms to people in harsh circumstances without considering their point of view. A revision of SNAP is overdue, but it is vital that the replacement or modification be a well-planned and efficient strategy —

not one abrupt suggestion that lacks any appealing methods of implementation.

According to The Washington Post, the move could affect an estimated 16.2 million U.S. households, although it would require Congressional approval to pass in the first place. Perhaps if the administration and lawmakers spoke to people who rely on SNAP, rather than pandering to a base notoriously critical of welfare, a

more productive and well-thought-out conclusion could be reached than a wholesale overthrow of the current system that would require massive resources and funding. Perhaps a more effective nutrition program for America’s poor is on the horizon, but this certainly is not it. As for now, the future of food stamps hangs in the balance — and, consequently, the families who rely on them.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins and several others show that defense is imperative to the success of any team in the league, not to mention the lesser-known players who may focus exclusively on defense.

The reason NBA defense may seem weak at times is because many players are nearly unstoppable on the offensive end.

Although many will argue that college basketball players put more defensive pressure on their opponents, they also don’t have to deal with trying to guard the best offensive players in the world for 48 minutes a game throughout an 82-game season.

According to ncaa.org, there is just above a one percent chance that an NCAA basketball player will make it into the NBA. There are only 60 draft picks each year in the NBA, so only the absolute best of the best 18,684 NCAA basketball players will ever have a chance to move up to the NBA. That doesn’t even include players from international leagues being drafted into the NBA either.

NBA players get paid millions of dollars a year because they are the best basketball players in the world. Even a guy who sits on the bench and plays five

minutes a game beat more than 18,000 other people to be in that position. Each player in the NBA was one of, if not the best player on their teams in both high school and college.

This is why NBA basketball is so much more entertaining than college basketball.

The players in the NBA are playing at the highest level possible in their sport. Most N BA p l aye r s who have won both Olympic gold medals and NBA championships say that getting a ring was more important to them, because despite other players around the world providing some competition now and then, the NBA remains the most competitive and demanding realm of basketball. There is something about seeing the best players in the world compete against one another that dwarfs the value of college kids playing against each other, however talented they may be.

Some who prefer college basketball like to point out the seemingly growing disparity in the Golden State Warriors

and Cleveland Cavaliers compared to the other teams in the league as a reason why the NBA is less entertaining and less competitive than college. While I admit that I’ve grown tired of seeing these two stacked teams duke it out in the finals for the past three years, I would argue that several teams around the league have become more competitive to adjust Teams such as the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference have pulled in some big-name players this year to compete against the reigning Wa r r i o r s , a n d o u t E a s t t h e Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics are playing much better than the Cavs in just about every way possible.

The great thing about the NBA that isn’t really possible in college basketball is the personal player and team narratives.

Last year I loved rooting for Russell Westbrook as he had a historical MVP season, averaging a triple-double throughout the entire year, just after his All-Star teammate Kevin Durant left to join the already-dominant Warriors.

Because college players can only spend four years playing on a team, there are constantly new, fresh faces on every team. Sure, there can be some interesting personal narratives of players in college, but none reach the scale of seeing a player evolve over 10 or 15-year career in the NBA. While rivalries definitely exist in the world of college basketball, they usually can be attributed more to the school’s history than the individual players.

Many of the players in a college rivalry may have never played each other, whereas NBA opponents meet each other several times a year and the rivalries are usually due to past, heated playoff series.

Some people dedicate their lives to sports, but at the end of the day, sports exist as a form of entertainment, not to discount the countless hours that people put into their sport. As someone who loves watching the game of basketball I respect the players, coaches and people involved in every level of the sport, but I can’t help but favor the NBA over the widely-loved college basketball because of the pure entertainment factor.

Graphic by Johana Rosendo

NBA basketball is better than NCAA

By Erik Cliburn MANAGING EDITOR As March Madness approaches each year, the excitement surrounding the game of basketball always seems to reach new heights, with seemingly more and more people making brackets and betting on who will take each game in the National College Athletic Association Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament.

With the excitement comes the fans who will inevitably make the claim that watching college basketball is so much better than watching National Basketball Association games. Sure, there are some great college games that can be really fun to watch, but overall NBA games are much more entertaining.

Many who claim college basketball’s superiority use defense as an example to support their argument. They will often say that no one in the NBA plays defense and that college players exhibit more fundamentals in their playing and show more effort on the defensive end of the floor, however, that does not represent the NBA as a whole. Many NBA All-Stars, such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant,

The NBA remains the most competitive and demanding realm of basketball.

Let me show you how it’s done.

Graphic by Erik Cliburn

By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR

Many reasonable and rational notions have been proposed, by both the public and by politicians, to reduce gun violence.

After 17 people were tragically murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida legislator’s proposed a bill to raise the age of purchasing a firearm to 21 and to mandate a three day waiting period to purchase guns. These changes seem like a rational start to trying to end gun violence.

However, the outrage of the Parkland students has also sparked even more irrational anti-gun violence proposals that seem nothing but delusional and illogical. Both President Donald Trump and certain Florida legislators’ proposal of arming teachers being one of them.

Hypothetically, the idea may sound like a fair one, but realistically, arming teachers will do nothing but create more problems than it would solve.

In an event of crisis, panic and terror can cause inaccuracy while firing a gun, even among highly-trained personnel.

According to Time magazine, New York police officers undergo some of the most rigorous firearms training than any other police department in the country. Yet their average hit rate of intended targets during a gunfight is only 18 percent. Expecting teachers to be any different is foolish.

The thought of a panicked, lessertrained teacher firing a gun during an active shooting is terrifying. It seems almost inevitable that a student or police officer will get caught in a teacher’s line of fire.

This only puts a lot of pressure on teachers to take out an attacker, when they already have enough pressure on their shoulders.

Teachers are not security personnel.Their job is to teach children, not act as police.

Teachers are people too, and among them are some who have the potential to commit a serious crime, just as any other person is capable of doing.

In fact, at Dalton High School in Georgia, not long after the Florida school shooting, police arrested a teacher who was accused of firing shots inside a barricaded classroom, according to the police.

If police officers who have gone through rigorous training have shot people when they felt threatened, teachers would be no different.

Another potential problem arises when thinking about where a teacher should keep their guns while in the classroom.

Teachers could keep their guns holstered to their side, but there's the potential that a student could lash out in a fit of rage and overpower the teacher to take their gun.

Hypothetically speaking, if a student has made up their mind to commit mass murder, there is little chance of changing it. And for such a student, it would be easier to overpower a teacher than go out and buy a gun, especially if stricter gun laws were to be put in place.

Teachers could also keep a gun locked away in their desk, but they may have to make the choice between unlocking their gun from their desk or locking the classroom door. That decision could take precious time and in an event of a mass shooting, every second counts.

It is unclear whether or not putting more armed personnel in schools will deter someone from committing a mass shooting, but my guess is that it would not. If someone has the intent to go into a school to commit such a crime, they expect to either end up in jail or end up dead.

I doubt the person would care whether personnel are armed or not.

The Center for Investigative Reporting found data that suggested having armed guards during a bank robbery instigates more violence and causes more injuries than when armed guards were not on the premise during a robbery. Though the two are different situations, of course, both have the same intent and may have a much similar outcome.

Furthermore, there are other, more rational solutions to protecting children in schools than arming teachers with guns, such as, making it harder to access dangerous firearms or taking mental health issues and threats more seriously. However, the gunman in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting had been flagged and reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but nothing was done.

Other measures such as not allowing students to carry backpacks or placing metal detectors in schools have been talked about, but creating a prison-like environment where children should be comfortable could affect their learning.

As a student, I would not want to learn in such an environment. And I certainly would not want some of my professors to bear arms in the classroom.

Most ideas do have the potential to make schools safer, and perhaps there are rational ways to do so, but arming teacher is not one of them.

NEWS

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THE REFLECTOR

Alumna named to IBJ list

MARCH 7, 2018

RSO shows sustainability Molly Whitehead was named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty under 40 due to her work in Boone County movie, hosts panel

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

At age 35, University of Indianapolis alumna Molly Whitehead has helped attract more than $193 million in capital investments to Boone County in only three years as the Executive Director of the Boone County Economic Development Corp. Due to her high achievements, Whitehead was named to the 2018 edition of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40.

As the executive director for the corporation, Whitehead works directly with businesses to build in the county, develop job opportunities and create a better quality of life for residents. Since being with the company, Whitehead has brought in a number of new businesses and implemented multiple different initiatives, such as coining #BetterInBoone to draw more people to the area.

Whitehead said that growing up in Boone County and having family and friends in the area has given her a personal investment in the area. Whitehead said that the development of new business in the area not only improves quality of life, but creates job opportunities to provide for people’s basic needs.

“Helping them [residents] find a job and helping them provide for their family, provide for their basic needs and hopefully the things they want as well,” Whitehead said. “Basically, it just comes down to having passion for this community and wanting it to succeed and grow and that's really what it's all about.

Boone County, we are one of the fastest growing communities in the state of Indiana so it's a really good opportunity to work during this fast pace time. And there’s a lot of opportunities ahead and we want to make sure that those are the right opportunities for our community.”

Whitehead began as a double major in political science and history at UIndy.

She said that during her time at the university, she had no idea that she would end up becoming an economic developer and did not realize the opportunities that there are in the field.

“Like most people, [I] had no idea that economic development was a career path.

It was something that I was exposed to once I started my professional career,”

Whitehead said. “Being from Boone County, I obviously jumped at the opportunity when this particular position became available.”

Whitehead started her career through an internship with the Indiana Senate Majority Caucus then became a legislative assistant. After that, she became a strategic initiatives coordinator for Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman, then moved to the Indiana Office of Energy Development to be its grants and finance director before setting on Boone County’s Economic Development Corp.

Whitehead said that job opportunity stuck out to her because of her dedication to her hometown.

“I had actually interviewed with this organization about a year prior to landing this job. We agreed at the time that it probably wasn’t the best fit based on what my field of interests were and what the organization needed at the time,” Whitehead said. “So when the executive director position opened up they thought of me and encouraged me to apply.”

W hitehead said that when looking into economic development as a career path, she was most interested in helping entire communities reach the quality of life and opportunity that they want and deserve.

“Working for the state government in different capacities opened my eyes to the challenges that communities around our city face every day,” Whitehead said.

“Tax revenue is limited and budgets are tight. What got me interested in economic development to begin with was the opportunity to help change that.

The businesses that choose to locate in a community, they pay taxes, they create jobs that pay taxes. Those people need new restaurants and they shop in local stores and that's the source of revenue that allows us to pay for infrastructure and [provides] money to build roads and provide safe drinking water. I wanted to find a job opportunity that would make a positive impact for communities, which is how I started doing economic development at the state level to begin with.”

Director of Marketing and Communications for the Boone County Economic Development Corporation Kim Heffner has worked with the corporation for the past year and said that Whitehead’s dedication to the com-

By Cassie Reverman PHOTO EDITOR

“I wanted to find a job opportunity that would make a positive impact...”

Photo contributed by Molly Whitehead

After holding various positions in the state government, alumna Molly Whitehead became the Executive Director of the Boone County Economic Development Corp. She said her love for the county drives her work. munity has made her a great candidate “I think the most dramatic change for the job. we’ve seen is in Whitestown. It has “I think in the short time that I have changed the most in the last several been able to work with her, I have ap- years. We’ll talk about remembering back preciated her leadership skills and how when it was all just farmland and there she is able to build a consensus among was nothing there,” Heffner said. “I think multiple parties and the ability to execute it-and throughout the county-has grown and find the most benefits for the com- really well with the larger projects and munity,” Heffner said businesses opening in that community Whitehead said that her biggest push and having different amenities and what right now is for the corporation’s quality not. Like in Lebanon with the trails, we of life initiatives, which include building see an increased quality of life as well.” new and more ethnic restaurants, nature Whitehead said that despite the trails and other community involvement progress that she and the corporation activities. have made in the community, she is still Heffner said that these initiatives are dedicated to raising revenue and the very important to the community and quality of life in Boone County and has she has seen the community grow rapidly many projects that she will continue to during her time with the corporation. promote.

Poet performs pieces about mental health

By Shayla Cabalan STAFF WRITER

Photo by Jayden Kennett

Neil Hilborn performs “How do you sleep with an IV in?” He said the poem was inspired by his breakup with his, now fiancé, then ex, after she became ill and was hospitalized the day that she intended to move out.

According to one viral poet, mental health and humor can easily coincide.

College National Poetry Slam Champion Neil Hilborn came to the University of Indianapolis on Feb. 27 to perform a series of his original poems. Hilborn reached fame when a Button Poetry video of his poem “OCD” went viral in 2013, gaining over 13 million views.

Hilborn’s set at the event featured ten other poems with titles like “Me, But Happy” and “Joey.” The poems that Hilborn presented at the event focused on the same thing: how mental health and personal life intertwine and how to represent that through humor.

“I think the biggest thing that I hope people get from my set is that yes, mental health is something that you have to treat seriously,” Hilborn said. “But it’s not necessarily something you have to take seriously.”

Throughout the evening, Hilborn said his poems were divided up between so-called happy poems and sad poems.

In reality, however, the distinction is not quite so clear-cut, according to Hilborn.

Each poem had a mix of both happiness and sadness regardless of the label. He said being able to tackle his mental illness through humor serves as a coping mechanism for him.

“Something about making jokes about it [my mental illness] makes it seem less big and scary in my head,” Hilborn said.

“It becomes something that I can tackle as opposed to something that just scares me all the time.”

Freshman psychology and criminal justice major Sabrina Camargo said she found the mix of humor and sadness effective. She said she was amused by how Hilborn continuously interrupted his poems with funny anecdotes, yet still managed to make an impactful statement.

“He took a serious topic and turned it

into something that I feel people our age can truly relate to,” Camargo said.

Hilborn has two main writing processes. He said the first involves waking up early in the morning, going to a coffee shop, and not leaving until he has four or five poems written, even if they are bad poems. The second involves a lot of reading.

“If I’m not inspired, I just pull out poetry books that I’m into and I read and I analyze really deeply until I find something in there that inspires me, whether it’s an image or some turn of phrase,” Hilborn said. “Most of the stuff I create is based on the art I consume.”

According to Hilborn, writing can be very therapeutic. Because of this, he said he believes that anyone should at least try to write something in their lives, whether it be prose, poetry or some other medium, even if it means no one sees it.

“The art form of writing has the lowest barrier of entry,” Hilborn said.

“All you need is a pen and a piece of paper, and you can steal those things. Everybody who is going through anything should try to write something to help them reason through it in their heads.”

Hilborn closed off the evening with his poem “The Future,” which dealt with serious topics such as suicidal ideation. He spoke about how, at one point in his life, he genuinely did not see himself living past the age of 23.

While never actively seeking out a way to commit suicide, he was convinced that by 23, he would be dead, whether by his hand or a freak accident. The poem “The Future” was written when he woke up and realized that he might live beyond 23.

“I know tomorrow is going to come because I’ve seen it,” Hilborn said in the poem. “I saw the future, I did, and in it I was alive.”

Hilborn is currently on tour. His new book “The Future” will be released in April.

Sustainability Club, a new Registered Student Organization at the University of Indianapolis, made their campus debut on Feb. 20. Sophomore environmental science and environmental sustainability major and vice president of Sustainability Club Sarah Ruehl helped start the RSO. Ruehl said the goal of the RSO is to bring UIndy on board with environmental sustainability. According Ruehl, it is hard to define what sustainability is, but can be described as being less wasteful and not being destructive to the environment.

To introduce the club and raise awareness about sustainability, the RSO held a pre-showing of National Geographic’s documentary “From the Ashes” in the Health Pavilion’s Annis Theatre. According fromtheashesfilm.com, the documentary gives an inside look at life on the ‘war on coal’ forefront.

Ruehl said she heard about the documentary through an email she received from National Geographic that said they were willing to give the documentary to college campuses who would show it and hold a discussion afterwards.

Ruehl said that another reason the club decided to show the documentary was because it displayed a diverse group of people with different political viewpoints on how coal is affecting our environment negatively. According to Ruehl, she also hopes that the audience saw both sides of the argument and that there is a way to meet in the middle.

“It’s hard for the communities that rely on coal to let it go, but [relying on coal is] something that needs changed,” Ruehl said. “Forcing these communities isn’t the right way to end coal. But we can support them in transitioning to cleaner energy.”

Junior philosophy and applied psychology major Connor Waddell attended the event to learn more about the ‘war on coal.’ Waddell said the documentary clarified what the ‘war on coal’ is and the problems involved. “[The problem] could be much worse if we don’t try to fix it,” Waddell said. “I found it surprising that nothing has really been done to stop the coal industry.”

Junior environmental science major Stephanie Burdsall also attended the showing and said it was eye opening to see people still fighting for coal and against renewable energy.

“I understand that people don’t want to lose their jobs and keep the economy running on coal,” Bursdall said. “But I think that renewable energy is definitely the way to go and the documentary really showed that.”

The RSO also held a panel discussion led by Assistant Professor of Physics and Earth Space Science Leah Courtland and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Levi Mielke. The two helped to answer and clarify some questions and inform students on how to get involved locally, according to junior environmental science major Max Gerhardt.

“In the documentary we saw this one town in Texas that went completely renewable,” Gerhardt said. “That was inspiring. At the national level, you can’t really do much but vote, which is impactful.”

Burdsall also said that the panel and the movie made her realize that conserving energy is one way that both the school and students can practice sustainability.

“I think it’s really wasted on campus especially,” Bursdall said. “I think the Health Pavilion did a great job, obviously it’s a new building, but I think all or almost all the lights are automatic. But for the rest of the university there are lights on constantly even when no one is using the building. Hopefully the RSO can have more say in these issues and can help with that.”

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Alumnus sign to play professional baseball

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During his three years at UIndy, Adam Cornwell made 39 appearances and pitched a total of 95.5 innings. He also struck out over 65 batters and started the 2016 GLVC championship game, which resulted in a win.

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Adam Cornwell played in the California Winter League during the winter of 2018. He pitched for the Alberta Grizzly. After three of nine outings, Cornwell was signed to play with the Traverse City Beach Bums in Michigan.

A dream of many young athletes is to play professional and University of Indianapolis alumus Adam Cornwell just signed to achieve that dream. Cornwell recently signed to pitch for the Traverse City Beach Bums as part of the Frontier League.

Cornwell began playing baseball at four years old and continued to play while growing up. At Bloomington North High School he spent three years on the varsity team, until 2014 when he came to play at UIndy.

Cornwell said the first time he pitched was when he was 13 years old. He did not, however, consider himself to be a pitcher, but when he came to UIndy, that quickly changed.

“I could throw the ball pretty hard, but I just wasn’t a pitcher,” Cornwell said. “So my freshman year was really a learning curve for me, at UIndy, to really learn how to pitch. I think the coaches there at UIndy, [former Pitching] Coach [ Jordan] Tiegs, [Assistant Baseball] Coach [Al] Ready… I think they worked really well with me teaching me how to pitch and learn that aspect of baseball.”

During his freshman year at UIndy, Cornwell pitched a total of 14.2 inning, but became a starter his sophomore year, pitching 47.2 innings and striking out 40 batters. Ready said Cornwell can control the speed of his pitches really well and has a good fastball and curveball, and is also very dedicated and a hard worker.

“He [Cornwell] was just a selfless teammate as well,”Ready said. “He would do whatever it took to help the team. He is just a great character person. He developed, and his stuff, his pitching, got better over the years and he kind of worked his way up to a midweek conference starter.”

The summer after his sophomore year Cornwell went to Poway, Calif. to play baseball where he said he worked with pitching coach Dom Johnson who had also coached many professional players including Joe Musgrove and Chris Devenski, both pitchers on the World Series winning Houston Astros, who Cornwell has also worked with. According to Cornwell, that summer Johnson helped him mold into a pitcher he did not know he could become and also told him he was good enough to play professionally.

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Cornwell said during his junior year at UIndy he was having a good season until his appendix burst. Ready said this happened during a game that Cornwell started and he did not say anything to the coaches until the fourth or fifth inning.

According to Ready, this shows Cornwell’s dedication and toughness. Cornwell was able to recover in time to start for the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship game, which the Hounds won. During his junior year he pitched 34.1 innings.

After his junior year in 2016, Cornwell decided to pursue graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh and continue to play baseball. He said he thought it would be a good way to prepare himself to play professionally, but he did not get to play very much. Cornwell pitched 6.2 innings as a Panther and started once.

“I got down because I didn’t throw as much and I didn’t know if playing baseball at the next level was going to be for me,” Cornwell said. “So I gave my coach, Dom, a call and said, ‘Look, tell me how it is. I can take it, I’m a man. If I’m not good enough tell me.’ ‘No, you’re good enough,’ he goes, ‘Come out here, starting January you’re going to sign up to play the California Winter League.’”

Cornwell played in the California Winter League in 2018. It is a professional development instructional league and the official winter league of the Frontier League. Cornwell said he is playing with and against players United States and from around the world including Canada, Japan and Taiwan. Cornwell signed with Traverse City after three of nine outings in California. According to Cornwell, he got the call to sign on Feb. 2 which was his great grandmother’s birthday.

“It just seemed kind of surreal because she passed away last year. She was 97,” Cornwell said. “I had a big moment with her my last game I pitched my high school season. [It] was her first game she had ever seen me play. There was a big story about it in the paper…. Then I got the call on that day, it was just a surreal moment for me because it would have been her 98th birthday.”

Cornwell finished out the winter season in California and will be going to Michigan in the spring to play for Traverse City. Ready, who played in the Frontier League himself, said he thinks Cornwell will be very successful.

“Every kid dreams of playing in the major leagues and that is just the nature of

baseball,” Ready said. “And if that is your dream, then you have to go through the process and climb the ladder, so to speak, and high school or college baseball and then professional baseball [which] doesn’t start at the major league level. It starts off at the minor league level. And you have to prove yourself at each level and this is just an opportunity for him to do so.”

Cornwell said he did not notice a need for a different skill set as he moved up.

There is no difference between hitting at the Division I and Division II level, according to Cornwell, and he also did not see a difference while in California either.

He said the thing he did notice was that the needed to be in the right mindset for wherever he was playing.

“I don’t think it is so much pitching any different. I think it’s more you need to be more confident in yourself and confidence is really what is going to drive you to succeed,” Cornwell said. “Be the best you can be because if you are not confident then good luck out there, you’re not going to do very well.”

Senior first base Dylan Jones said he and Cornwell came to UIndy at the same time and also played summer baseball together. To Jones, it was clear Cornwell had the dream of playing baseball and that he worked hard to achieve it.

“I think it’s really cool [Cornwell signing to play professionally] because we’ve had a few kids in the past years that deserve maybe to be signed somewhere, that didn’t happen,” Jones said. “But I think he really went out there and got it for himself and made a name for himself and finally got there. It’s pretty cool to see someone do that.”

Cornwell said he plans to continue to be involved in baseball for as long as possible. He is currently getting his master’s degree from Ball State University in athletic coaching education, so that he can one day be a college baseball coach.

Cornwell said he is looking forward to playing for Traverse City. Their 2018 campaign begins on May 11.

“I’m going to go up to Traverse City at the end of April. I’ve got to do my thing and prove to them that I am good enough to be up there,” Cornwell said.

“I want to play baseball until someone tells me I suck and I can’t play anymore. I don’t want that to come for a few years….

I’m just ready to get up there and see where baseball can take me.”

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couple post matches he came out on top of at regionals... Heath had the long road at regionals, he lost the first match, then was able to win a couple in a row, then actually lost.”

Crume became the fourth Hound in UIndy history to qualify for nationals four times in his career. He has put together what would be considered one of the best careers the wrestling program has seen, according to Warthan.

“This is Nick’s [Crume] fourth time at nationals,” Warthan said. “He is a four-time national qualifier, three-time regional champ, four-time regional finalist, so this is what he’s been waiting for all year.”

Crume said that as he heads to nationals, he expects to perform well but has not gotten ahead of himself quite yet. He said that he is focused on trying to take one day at a time. “ I h a v e n’t really thought about it much,” Crume said. “I just take things day by day and I don’t really glisten on the past or live in the glory days.”

According to Crume, regionals went well for him despite being nervous and questioning if he would qualify for nationals for another year. He said he is happy to have the weight taken off his shoulders, knowing he will be attending nationals.

Crume said he is pleased with the two weeks of rest that the national men will receive. He believes it will be good for the mind and body as nationals causes a lot of stress to the men.

“The break in between is nice to get a little bit of time to rest,” Crume said. “A two-day tournament like [regionals] that really wares your body. It’s nice we had that week and half to relax and to get our minds refocused and then get ready for that last weekend [nationals], so we are healthy again and recharged ready to go.”

Lange,Faulkenburg,Connerand Crume have days left to prepare for the NCAA Division II Nationals Tournament, as they leave on March 9.

Wrestling qualifies four for nationals After earning fifth in the NCAA Super Region II Tournament, the University of Indianapolis wrestling team will send redshirt sophomore Brody Conner, redshirt senior Nick Crume, redshirt junior Heath Lange and redshirt junior Dylan Faulkenberg to the NCAA Division II National Tournament.

Dropping from last year’s first place finish at regionals, Head Wrestling Coach Jason Warthan said that some men felt disappointed with the fifth place outcome.

According to Warthan, there were many athletes out due to injuries this season, which may have caused them to drop four places from last years regional meet to this year.

He said there were some additional athletes that expected to qualify for nationals alongside Crume, Lange, Faulenburg and Conner. Wartahan said he believes that the men who did not make it to nationals, might have fallen a little short of their goals.

Lange, Crume and Faulkenburg will all be returning to nationals, while Conner will be making his first trip to the tournament.

Warthan said that it was tough to be completely satisfied with the outcome, but was excited to see four of the men head to Cedar Rapid, Iowa on March 9.

“It was kind of up and down,” Warthan said. “We have four national qualifiers.Those guys have been the heavy hitters all year, those guys wrestled well.”

As Warthan prepares the team for nationals, he said that he is soley focused on the men traveling to nationals. He said that he believes the men will finish the tournament high on the rankings.

“Dylan’s a three-time national qualifier now. He has fallen a little bit short the last couple of years,” Warthan said.

“He has wrestled really well and had a

“We have four national qualifiers. Those guys have been the heavy hitters all year.”

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Redshirt junior Austin Hogan earned gold medals in weight throw and shot put during the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament on Feb. 24-25, and also earned the GLVC Men’s Field Athlete of the Year. He will make his second trip to the national tournament on March 9.

Freshman vault Kylie Falcone assisted the women’s track and field team in placing third in the GLVC tournament. Falcone earned first in the pole vault at 3.56 meters. Fellow field athlete redshirt junior thrower Katie Monk also earned first in shot put and weight throw.

Men’s track and field place first in GLVC, women place third

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR

For the first time in five years, the University of Indianapolis men’s track and field team placed first at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, accompanied by the women’s team who placed third on Feb. 25.

Head Track and Field Distance Coach Brad Robinson said that both teams improved immensely from their trip to the GLVC meet last season.

“A lot of marks were improved,” Robinson said. “For example, for the ladies event, though they finished third overall, they improved the scoring from last indoor meet by 47 more points than what we did last year. We scored 70 last year and we scored 117 this year, which was more than we were projected to score, so that was really big… The men also out scored what they were projected at.”

On the women’s side, freshman pole

vault Kylie Falcone earned first in the pole vault, followed by fellow freshman distance Lauren Bailey who earned third in the mile. Senior jumps Lindsey Foster and senior hurdles Majaica Brooks both took second in their respective events.

Redshirt junior thrower Katie Monk rounded out the day by breaking her own school record in the weight throw, as well as breaking the GLVC record in weight throw and shot put.

Redshirt junior throw Austin Hogan led the throwing competitions, taking home first in shot put and weight throw, as well as setting a new school record in weight throw at 19.68 meters. Senior hurdles Treyvon Matthews followed suit, breaking another school record in the 60 meter hurdle, completing it in 7.95 seconds. Junior sprints Brian Sales also

took first in the 400 meter, and notched his third GLVC title.

The men’s side won three of four major awards; Hogan earned the Men’s Field Athlete of the Year, freshman jumper Brady Walden earned Freshman of the Year and Director of Track and Field C o ach S cott Fangman won Coach of the Year. Robinson said that Hogan an d Wa l d e n both performed well while contributing to the team’s first place victory.

“For incoming athletes at the collegiate conference, you never really know what they’re going to do for the first conference championship,” Robinson said. “Brady handled the pressure very well, being at home probably didn’t hurt things for him, being acclimated to the environment. Him being a big contributor, scoring in long

“...to bring it back [first place] was a bit of an expectation, but a great feeling overall for the guys.”

jump where he got fourth, 6th in the 60 [meter] and second in the 4x4. Everything he did made him a key contributor, and that’s what really put him on the board and separates him from the competition for the award. For Austin, improving himself on the national list for the weight throw and he was being consistent overall and was pretty dominate overall.”

Matthews said that he felt at home during the meet, which propelled him to perform at a higher level and therefore move up in the national rankings.

“I thought it was a great feeling. I was really worried for the team since we had a few hiccups here and there, but I was really happy that we came through with the win,” Matthews said. “I would say I had a few personal accomplishments. I was hoping to get a seven, which I did.

Breaking the school record was a plus. I actually didn’t know I did that until later.

I had also moved up on the nationals list from 16th to 10th.”

According to Robinson, the team’s

performance was due to increased recruiting and overall depth of athletes in each event. He said the team is also healthier this season, having less key athletes out with injury. Though they did not qualify for nationals as a team, there are multiple athletes who have already individually qualified or moved up on the national rankings. The team hosted the conference tournament for multiple years, but was been beaten out by Lewis University.

“It’s been a little rough in previous years hosting the meet and not walking away with the title. That has left as our taste in our mouths so to bring it back was a bit of an expectation, but a great feeling overall for the guys,” Robinson said.” The ladies are working to get there. It will happen, and we’re working to make that happen sooner rather than later as well.”

Next, the qualifying athletes will travel to Pittsburg, Kan. on March 9 for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Men’s basketball ends conference run with loss to Bellarmine Hounds fall to Bellarmine University in the semifinals of the GLVC tournament, after earning a win in the quarterfinals to Maryville University

By Sophie Watson & BreAnna Nunn SPORTS EDITOR & STAFF WRITER Despite earning a win over Maryville University in the quarterfinals of the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, the University of Indianapolis men’s basketball team fell short in the semifinals to Bellarmine University.

In the semifinal loss to Bellarmine on March 3, the Knights led by seven before the Hounds got a 3-pointer in the board from senior guard Eric Davidson.

The Knights extended their lead up to 18 over the Hounds, until junior guard Jabree Bond-Flournoy scored five straight points, followed by a 3-pointer from redshirt senior guard/forward Alex Etherington. Their points shorted the lead to just six, ending the half with a score of 41-35.

Despite closing the gap in the first quarter, the Knights again took a big jump ahead, leading by up to 20 points at the end of the half. UIndy fell to Bellarmine 83-65.

The Hounds faced the Knights three times over the course of the season, and won the first at the beginning of the season. Head Men’s Basketball Coach Stan Gouard said that Bellarmine has a good team, and is a tough competitor every time.

“They [Bellarmine] do a good job moving around with the basketball,” Gouard said.

Redshirt senior guard Ajay Lawton said that despite Bellarmine being a good team, the men had some errors and downfalls which allowed Bellarmine to win.

“It took a lot for us to get out of our comfort zone and talk more,”Lawton said.

“I didn’t play a lot today, but for me I feel like being the vocal guy on the bench was important. I was more of a vocal leader on the sideline today.”

In the first game of the tournament on March 2, the Hounds scored first with a layup from Junior Guard CJ Hardaway.

The team led the Saints for almost the entire first half, leading into the halftime break with a score of 32-28. In the second, the Hounds extended their lead, and sent Maryville home from the tournament, 66-56.

Junior forward Jesse Kempson led the team with 18 points, 14 being in the second half. Hardaway fell right behind him with 11 points and 9 rebounds, while Lawton scored 10.

Gouard said that he has changed up the line up in the past few weeks, and put some fresh faces in the line up.

“We put [senior guard] Jabree [BondFlournoy] on the line up and he’s a guy that hasn’t played that much this year,”Gouard said.“We needed some energy throughout the game and I thought the guys we put in were not ready to go mentally.”

Despite being sent home in the GLVC tournament, the Hounds will still be eligible to participate in the NCAA DII Midwest Regional Tournament on March 9-13. According to Gouard, the team still has some key points to focus on before heading to regionals.

“We have some things that we can do better, and I have to go back and look at the game’s film and nitpick,” Gouard said. “We have to improve on our 50-50 balls mean. We’ve got to improve on the energy we bring to the floor.”

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Senior guard Jabree Bond-Flournoy scored nine points in the last home game of the season against the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, adding to the 82-73 victory.

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Welch travels to a variety of nations to spread awareness about sex trafficking. The majority of her work is done in Thailand (pictured) and other East Asian countries, where she collaborates with various organizations, hospitals and law enforcement to address the issue.

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The nature of Welch’s work sometimes takes her beyond Asia, where she most often works. Welch also educates crowds in Europe (pictured in Romania) about how to prevent the growth of the sex trafficking industry and combat the factors that enable its existence.

Alumna combats sex trafficking UIndy graduate founds Relentless, an organization devoted to rehabilitation of international victims of sex trafficking, exploitation and abuse

By Sophie Watson SPORTS EDITOR Combining skills and education in health, entrepreneurship and global studies, University of Indianapolis alumna Katherine Welch founded Relentless, a global consulting agency based in Thailand that facilitates counter human trafficking organizations. Welch said that she helps these organizations educate their personnel about trafficking, exploitation and trauma.

Welch completed her undergraduate biology degree at UIndy in 1993 and then attended medical school at Indiana University. Associate Professor of Chemistry Joe Burnell said that he recommended medical school to Welch because of her work ethic.

“One day in class I said, ‘You’re really good; you should think about going to medical school,” Burnell said. “....

That sort of happened to her a couple of times, where someone would make a suggestion. Something that has always made her unique is that she’s always been open to considering those suggestions…

If someone puts an opportunity in front of her, she’s at least going to investigate it. So she felt like me saying that was an opportunity to consider something.”

Welch said that because the IU School of Medicine encourages its students to travel abroad, she was able to take a short-term trip to Asia. During this trip, Welch said she saw many problems that she had never experienced before. After

completing her residency at the University of Alabama, she had the opportunity to return to Asia, to work at the Kwai River Hospital on the border of Thailand and Myanmar. She said that while working at the hospital, she encountered more victims of sex trafficking and exploitation.

Welch worked internationally for approximately 10 years before devoting herself full-time to developing her organization. She said that when deciding on her future career, she thought she was ready to leave the United States and make a difference in other parts of the world, and she has never looked back.

Burnell said that despite the other opportunities that Welch was offered, she was devoted to independently developing her own way of assisting trafficked and exploited people.

“She was offered some really prestigious residency fellowships, the kind of thing that most residency students cut each other’s throats for,” Burnell said.

“And she said, ‘No, I want to go back to Thailand.”

According to Welch, Relentless’ goal is to build the capacity of organizations fighting against sex trafficking to produce more effective interventions for their beneficiaries.

“A good chunk of what I do is actually capacity building,” Welch said, “Which means I’m helping these facilities develop their health care component. Lately, I do a lot of workshops on trauma and traumainformed care, and a lot of mental health.

So that’s probably half of what I talk about now, and helping the organizational staff

understand what trauma is and what is trauma-informed care.”

According to Welch, trauma not only affects the mind, but also the body, so many people who have been traumatized have physical symptoms. She said that there are many misconceptions about trauma patients having just mental post-traumatic stress, but the traumatic memory is actually also stored in the body.

“When law enforcement or the lawyers are doing the investigation, and [traumatized people] just can’t seem to get this story out, they [law enforcement] feel the need to understand their trauma,” Welch said. “But actually they have to understand [that] it’s not about getting them to tell their story, because the way that traumatic memory is stored, it may not have any language attached to it.They [traumatized people] are not being difficult people, they just can’t actually tell you. So helping explain, in a very basic way [is important], what’s going on in the brain and the body to people who’ve never heard this before.”

According to Welch, most of the beneficiaries of the organizations she helps are exploited, abused and trafficked people around Thailand.

“The thing is, you can’t really make a clear cut by saying, ‘Oh, it’s only trafficking,’ because probably what I see the most is just exploitation. I also deal with a lot of people, men and even young people, who are in this sex trade,” Welch said.

“So they’re not technically trafficked, but they’re most definitely exploited. To get to the point where they’re in that situa-

tion, they’ve probably suffered abuse of some kind.”

Welch said that although prostitution is illegal in Thailand, the culture allows for an easy transition into the industry. While some prostitutes are trafficked, according to Welch, she sees more exploitation in the country than truly trafficked people.

“Prostitution is not legal here, but there are these entire neighborhoods that are just devoted to prostitution,” Welch said.

“It’s pretty much protected because the entertainment industry brings in so much money. That’s why I say they’re exploited, because within that neighborhood, you’ll find truly trafficked people.”

According to Welch, despite the fact that government often turns a blind eye to prostitution and its ramifications in society, those who are prosecuted are usually those who are being trafficked or exploited for the work. “ This world and this countr y [Thailand]—there are just innumerable contradictions. The actually trafficked people, they [authorities] will actually arrest for visa and immigration violations.

So the people that are actually most desperate for help they will actually just arrest and prosecute for something else [other than prostitution].They tend to arrest the people selling the sex, but they’re never arresting the people buying.”

Many Thai men and women involved in the prostitution industry do so for their basic survival, and some sell sex by choice, according to Welch. She said that some people may question why anyone would willingly participate in prostitution, but

after having honest conversation with men and women in the sex industry, she is better able to understand the situations that forced them to participate in this work.

“For example, you might have a youngest daughter of a family, and the dad gets sick and needs surgery,” Welch said. “She has to raise money, and they aren’t going to ask too many questions about how she’s getting money to pay for Dad’s surgery.

Most often it’s the culture and the societal violence that allows children to go through that to provide for their family. They make a choice, but it’s a choice between two really bad choices.”

Welch said that she is working on networking in Thailand and spreading awareness to influential members of society.

“I’m starting to get more contact with the Thai government,” Welch said. “Being present and being invited to speak in certain places opens up more opportunities, and you meet more people. People in those circles are starting to find out who I am, and I’m starting to be able to introduce what I’m doing. That’s precisely the area of developing a much more trauma-informed care of victims because the government here has taken a very traditionally cold psychiatric approach to people with mental health problems.

What they think is victim-centered care is definitely not there.”

Going forward, Welch said she is focused on bringing knowledge about mental health care to Thailand and other underdeveloped parts of the world in order to help those who are suffering.

of modern society. The University of Indianapolis made it a priority to create tomorrow’s engineers when it opened the R.B. Annis School of Engineering last year, and the school has continued developing since.

The R.B. Annis School of Engineering opened in March 2017 because of a $5 million donation by the R.B. Annis

Foundation. The current engineering program contains four specific areas of study from which students can choose: software engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial & systems engineering and computer science.

Like other liberal arts colleges, UIndy requires that students complete a variety of courses on multiple subjects.Consequently, students get the opportunity to learn skills in other fields that are relevant to many other professions in addition to their own.

Associate Dean of the R.B. Annis School of Engineering and Associate Professor of Physics & Earth-Space Science José Sánchez believes this kind of education will create engineers that graduate from UIndy, not only with the skills necessary to excel their profession, but a well-rounded knowledge of the workforce in general.

“UIndy is a great fit [for engineering] because it has a strong liberal arts core,” Sánchez said. “When you look out engineers out there, they are technically competent but they are missing the other component [writing and speaking abilities] that employers have been looking for since the late 90s. Our program is very unique in that we are leveraging the liberal arts core with project-based curriculum and our design spine, which will enhance that liberal arts knowledge.”

According to Sánchez, the relationship between professors and students is very important to properly train and mentors students. The School of Engineering promotes and navigates that environment using a project-based curriculum.

Sánchez recognizes the fresh talent that new undergraduates come into UIndy with and encourages professors to help develop that talent into something that translates to the workforce.

“Most students have their general education core, the core within your discipline which is project based and the design spine,” Sánchez said. “The design spine is nothing more than projects with

external stakeholders. It [the projects] can be people outside the school of engineering or outside the university. So when students are sophomores, they are working with clients outside the university, I hope they know they can rely on their professors.”

Freshman software engineering major Joel Carpenter has experienced the commitment of his professors firsthand within the school, and said that the attitude goes beyond classwork and projects.

“The professors make it personal.

When they see you outside of class, they make it a point to talk to you,” Carpenter said.“If they notice something is going on in your life, they make sure you’re okay.

One day I was lost in my own thoughts and Dr. Sanchez pulled me to the side to talk to me.”

Car penter said that in addition to the relationship between professor and student, the many projects characteristic of the engineering school are a valuable part of the curriculum.

For example, according to Carpenter, he wrote the code that recorded the distance covered by a fuel-powered rocket and is currently working on the code for an autonomous salting machine that will run salt on the sidewalks to melt ice.

Aside from c lassroom work, Carpenter said that a lot of the expertise and knowledge offered to engineering students is being backed up by legitimate companies in the Indianapolis area. He said that this will help UIndy graduates better accommodate the needs of the engineering industry.

“It’s good because [of ] the way Sánchez does it,” Carpenter said.

“He goes and finds companies in central Indiana and teaches the course the way the companies want it, not the way he

thinks it should be taught.”

Assistant Professor of Engineering David Olawale said that all institutions require a level of diversity to properly find those possible industry leaders and innovators. According to Olawale, the different cultures present on campus are vital to finding and developing the engineering school to its highest potential.

“Our school is very diverse,” Olawale said. “Firstly, we have our faculty come from different parts of the world. I am from Nigeria. We have faculty from America, Puerto Rico and Bangladesh. I think that’s very helpful. [It] means that any student from every part of the world would be very comfortable here. We can give them confidence and help [instruct them] without them feeling left out.”

Olawale said that the range of students that make up the engineering school also translates to the educational curriculum.

Carpenter agreed, saying that the School of Engineering’s international population helps other students think of new ideas and gain a broader view of the world.

“With the students and faculty, there are a lot of different countries and cultures represented in the school of engineering,” Carpenter said.“I have learned a lot about the cultures of the world. It [will] really help me understand how I can use that to further my career and knowledge.”

Sánchez said he has aspirations to expand the school in the future and encourage an even more diverse student body and education. According to Sánchez, it’s important that the engineering school aim for more cultural inclusion in order to find leaders that push the industry forward, and the School of Engineering is prepared to create those leaders.

R.B. Annis School of Engineering continues to grow

By Tate Jones STAFF WRITER

Whether building machines that help the disabled walk or manufacturing devices that allow communication from across the sea, engineers are responsible for overseeing many developments

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Students in the engineering school are often expected to create projects. For example, this ”water wagon” created for Citizens Energy Group is used to transport clean water where it may not be reliably available.

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Students collaborated with the UIndy School of Occupational Therapy to design and assemble prototypes for custom othosis braces. This was an example of the design spine of the engineering design curriculum.

“Our program is very unique in that we are leveraging the liberal arts core...”

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Former Hound makes difference in Ghana

By Jayden Kennett OPINION EDITOR

A passion for helping others and traveling led University of Indianapolis Master of Public Health alumna Payton Revolt to search for international internships, which ultimately landed her more than 5,000 miles away from Indianapolis. The decision to accept the internship in Ghana during the summer of 2017 was an easy one for Revolt, who said she has never been afraid to step out of her comfort zone.

It was important to Revolt that she travel to a developing country in order to address problems common for nations with large impoverished populations.

Revolt said that her work in Ghana was a perfect way to combine her passion for travel and helping others.

In Ghana, Revolt had the opportunity to implement a program that provided free same-day testing and treatment for malaria to school age children. If children tested positive for malaria, Revolt provided a seven day antibiotic tablet to the children as a treatment.

Despite being preventable, malaria is the most prevalent disease on the African continent and is commonly transmitted through mosquito bites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, which adds up to about 3,000 children a day, according to UNICEF. “I believe this is what God has called me to do in any way that I possibly can. I wanted to make an impact in these individual’s lives all while knowing that they were actually making the biggest impact in mine,” Revolt said. “The children were so welcoming and inviting and I knew that heading to Ghana was the right thing

for me to do.”

To avoid contracting the disease herself while working in Ghana, Revolt took an antimalarial tablet. She also took other precautions to protect herself, such as sleeping under a mosquito net to prevent contracting the illness.

Revolt said she was passionate about the project because the medication that was so helpful to her was something the majority of citizens she encountered in Ghana do not have access to, which was something she wanted to change.

Along with testing for malaria, Revolt also tested school teachers for Hepatitis B and educated both teachers and students on personal hygiene, safe sex and transmission of diseases. To help assist with her international travels, Revolt operated a fundraising page online through which family and friends could donate to help her pay for expenses.

Revolt said the most difficult aspect of her trip was accepting her own limits.

During her second week in Ghana, for example, she learned from the headmaster that one of the children who had tested positive for malaria had passed away. She said that this was one of the most difficult experiences for her while abroad because it made her face the reality that no matter how hard she tried, she could not help all the children in Ghana. Even more affecting, Revolt said, was the nonchalant attitude of those she spoke to about the child’s death.

“Reality just slapped me in the face at that point,” Revolt said. “This is a very big

problem but yet there it’s just ‘Oh yep, he passed away from malaria.’ It’s not a big deal to them.”

Although she studied widespread diseases during her time at UIndy, Revolt said the hands-on experience expanded her interest in public health in a way that academics alone could not, especially in countries where preventable illnesses are an epidemic because of sparse resources.

Associate Professor of Kinesiology Heidi Rauch said that with a public health focus, there are many opportunities available for students to apply their skills overseas, particularly in areas where poverty is widespread. Rauch encourages students to take such opportunities to travel. “ Whether people want to stay in the states or travel internationally, public health is a field you can do so much with,” she said. “It's a good way for people to explore different passions that they might have and figure out what they want to do long-term.”

In the future Revolt plans to pursue more experiences and opportunities like those she had in Ghana in different places, such as the Philippines and Cambodia.

She said that she hopes to go back this summer, and possibly make a career out of traveling and helping others abroad.

“I just think everyone should experience this,” Revolt said. “It’s way different in person. I was very happy that I went.

I think I’ve found my passion...Maybe global education is something that I should be doing.”

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Revolt traveled to Dodawa, Ghana in summer 2017 and practiced there for six weeks. The UIndy graduate said that the children were welcoming to her and left a larger mark on her life than she could on theirs.

“I believe that this is what God has called me to do, [to help] in any way that I possibly can..”

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Revolt worked primarily with grade schoolers, teaching them basics of hygiene and disease prevention. She said that traveling to a developing nation inspired her to use her degree to help in whatever ways she can.

Graduate school deadlines approach

As undergraduates prepare for life post-graduation, Graduate & Adult Learning advisors offer tips on preparing for, applying to graduate school

By Abby Land FEATURE EDITOR

Following the completion of an undergraduate degree, recent graduates have a variety of possibilities ahead of them. They may choose to travel, work, relax or pursue a higher degree. For those planning to attend graduate school at the University of Indianapolis or elsewhere, there are various factors to consider and applications to complete.

Associate Vice President for Graduate & Adult Learning Enrollment Bethany Baugh helps undergraduate students through the graduate school application process. Baugh said that the earlier students start planning for graduate school, the better. That way, she explained, students can tailor opportunities and coursework during their undergraduate studies to the graduate program they hope to pursue.

“It’s never too early. Sophomore year is a good time to make sure that they are taking advantage of every opportunity during their undergrad to prepare for the graduate studies,” Baugh said. “It could be internships in your undergrad that are going to make your application to grad school that much stronger. It could be certain coursework, prerequisites that you might need to have for a graduate program. [You] want to make sure you’ve got those planned.”

Graduate school applications are often more competitive than undergraduate applications and require multiple components. According to Baugh, a standard graduate program application often includes a resume, transcript, Graduate Record Examination or equivalent test score, personal essay and two or three recommendations. Baugh recommended that while applying, students consider what qualities they will contribute to the program they apply for and emphasize those qualities as much as possible.

Baugh said that when students are trying to make their graduate school applications competitive, they should consider what is unique about them and what they will bring to the program if accepted. She recommended that students take advantage of internships and coursework that sets them apart from other applicants.

Not all graduate programs require applicants complete the GRE or equivalent test, but most do. For that reason, Associate Director Graduate and Adult Learning Enrollment Stephen Lewis said that students should prepare as well as possible for the exam, both financially and academically. Some applications, according to Baugh, cannot be processed

without test scores, and she and Lewis both advised checking the application deadline for the program in question to decide what time is most appropriate for taking the GRE or equivalent test.

“The GRE, because it is rather expensive, I would say prepare for it. It’s not something like in high school when you took the SAT and ACT and you were like ‘I can take that a couple times,’” Lewis said. “Look at what the deadline is for the program that you’re applying to and then try to make sure that you’re in line with that. Don’t run it too close to the deadline, but make sure that you’re prepared to take the test.”

As for beginning the application process, graduate school applications are available online at the website of the university housing the program. According to Lewis, students should tailor their ap-

plication materials to the program they are applying for, which is different than most standard undergraduate applications.

“There are probably different pieces when it comes to applying for a graduate program because [in] undergrad they’re looking at more of your high school background, unless you’ve had some college to transfer in, Lewis said. “Whereas graduate, we’re looking at your college.

Some programs require a resume or a CV [Curriculum Vitae] of what you’ve done throughout your time and how it fits into their program. So it’s just more tailored to what the faculty is looking at.”

Although many students feel pursuing a master’s degree or Ph.D. is not worth the cost of attending school beyond undergraduate, Baugh said that she urges students to look beyond the initial costs and view graduate school as an investment.

Graduate programs require standardized exams such as the GRE for admission.

Law, medical and business schools usually require different exams.

These tend to be critical to the application and must include a blend of your personal and professional experience relevant to your chosen program, and an indication of how you hope to benefit from the program of study.

“I think it’s important that we’re always learning and growing and grad school does that for you in a lot of different ways,” Baugh said. “So it’s not only about, ‘Do I have to have it?’ because you need to be licensed or you need to have a doctoral degree in order to even get the job that you want. It’s also about ‘How do I want to contribute?’”

Baugh said that students should not underestimate the advice faculty can give to students looking to apply for a graduate program specific to a given field. She also recommended that students utilize the Internet to find the type of job they want, see who occupies it currently, and research what jobs that occupant held or degrees that occupant earned before reaching their current level of employment.

Lewis echoed this sentiment, saying students who are unsure about whether

investing in a graduate degree is necessary in their field should look into what degree is required by the career they want to pursue, taking into account geographic variations. For example, Lewis said, a student hoping to become a counselor may not have licensure outside of Indiana unless they pursue a higher degree.

“My advice would be [to] look at the career that you’re looking for. A lot of times, people just think ‘Oh, if I have a bunch of degrees, I’ll be fine.’ But the big thing now… is to look at the career that you’re wanting to get into,” Lewis said.

“How much education do I actually need to achieve that degree, or achieve that position where I want to be?”

Advising centers in the Health Pavilion and Esch Hall are available to students considering graduate school or looking for more information on how to apply.

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Dinner theater features Shakespeare's work The UIndy Department of Theatre showcases "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" as a 90-minute dinner theater performance

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Destiny Heugel (left) and Carly Wagers (right) had to console Noel Robleto (center) after Robleto, while in character, stopped the trio's performance of "Hamlet" to lament his woes and discuss his love for the characters in the daytime television show "General Hospital."

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Heugel spent much of the evening wearing different wigs to portray Shakespeare's female characters. Heugel's performance involved "vomiting," before death. In this scene, Heugel played Cleopatra and Robleto played Antony for Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra.'

By Cassandra Lombardo EDITORIAL ASSISTANT The works of William Shakespeare were brought to life on stage by the University of Indianapolis Department of Theatre’s most recent dinner theater production, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.”

The performances took place in Schwitzer Student Center’s Dining Hall and was performed Feb. 22-25 and March 1-3 with the dinner being served at 6:45 p.m. and the performance starting at 8 p.m. “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” is about three theatre students, Destiny, Noel and Carly, named and portrayed as the real cast members, trying to learn and perform the plays of Shakespeare.

Sophomore theatre major Carly Wagers said this was her favorite part.

“The fact that we are so comfortable making fun of our actual selves, and the biggest part was trying to act like we were bad actors,” Wagers said. “We had to perform Shakespeare badly, and its putting yourself out there, being vulnerable and acting badly, hoping people understand that it’s all part of the comedy.”

The actors perform all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays, and often during the show, would run around the stage and even ended up laying on it. It also featured interaction with the audience, sophomore theatre major Destiny Heugel would often run out into the crowd. The the audience was also encouraged to chant phrases during certain scenes.

“The energy in the audience is what helps keep our energy up,” Heugel said.

“When they aren’t as pumped up, then it’s a little more difficult.”

Rehearsals for the play started in midJanuary. Guest Director Bill Kincaid casted the three actors and directed the show, his first at UIndy.

“I’ve known a lot of the faculty members [at UIndy] for quite a few years through my work with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival...” Kincaid said. “I knew some of the theatre students, but this is my first time working with them. Everybody has been very enjoyable to work with.”

Kincaid has directed shows ranging from a one person cast to a cast as large as 40 people.The real challenge with a cast of three was that there was a heavy number of lines that they needed to say which made the memorization process really challenging, according to Kincaid.

Although she had never worked with such a small cast before, Heugel said that she had a good experience working with the two other cast members because she was able to get personal time with her director and cast mates and she had more time to work on personal relationships that contributed to the show. Wagers said she enjoyed being part of a small cast because it helped with the chemistry on the stage.

“We can read each other like nothing else,” Wagers said. “If something goes wrong in the show, I can just look at them. We just have these connections where we don’t even have to talk, we just make certain eye contact and we know what we need to do,” Wagers said. “A lot of our performance is [improvisation]. We make up a lot of stuff as we go along, so we have to be able to read the crowd. If the crowd isn’t responding well enough, we can connect with each other and realize what we have to do in order to make it better.”

“We make up a lot of stuff as we go along, so we have to be able to read the crowd."

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The comedies were performed as one show, and were narrated by Robleto narrated. Wagers and Heugel used puppets and alternated them to represent the characters, including doing voices and dialogue.

Sophomore theatre education major Zoe Cunningham is the sound designer for the show and found some of the music that was played before and after the show and during intermission.

“At the beginning of the night when they open the doors, music starts playing and goes until the show starts...”

Cunningham said. “We have it at a level where you won’t really hear it because that’s dinner theatre and that’s what people like.”

Another important part of the production was the lighting which was put on by sophomore design and technology major Renee Armstrong.Throughout the show, the cast called for the house lights to be raised and for a spotlight.

“Basically, I have to create a plot with the lights and where I want them positioned,” Armstrong said. “I create different areas on stage and decide how many lights I want, the look I want them to have and their position.”

According to Kincaid, the actors took a lot of creative responsibility for some parts of the performance, which is the way he likes to direct. Kincaid said that it is not him telling people what to do, but it is working towards creating something together. It was a combination of everyone’s ideas working together, including not only Kincaid and the cast, but the designers behind the scenes.

During the performance, the cast had a breakdance scene, which was not part of the script, according to Kincaid. It was something the cast made up themselves and added to the play.

“One thing about the show is that there is very little plot,” Kincaid said.

“It’s more a series of jokes than a plot driven show. In a normal theater driven production, or a sitcom, some kind of problem is presented and [you] watch it be solved, but you don’t really see that happen here. It’s more like just a common theme of Shakespeare [and] a celebration of being silly...”

The Icarus Ensemble performs with new members

By Noah Crenshaw ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

The Icarus Ensemble returned to the University of Indianapolis for the second year in a row for a performance as part of the Jazz Concert Series. The ensemble performed on Feb. 21 in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center’s Ruth Lilly Performance Hall.

The jazz ensemble is made up of five instrumentalists: Gary Walters on piano, Mark Ortwein on electric bassoon, soprano sax and bass clarinet, Dean Franke on violin, Chris Pile on percussion and Steve Dauchan on bass.

The ensemble plays a wide range of jazz, according to UIndy’s events website, such as classically-inspired jazz, pop-inspired jazz and original compositions from members of the ensemble.

The set list they per formed included “Air,” composed by Walters; “Lunar Love,” composed by Ortwein; an arrangement of The Beatle’s “She’s Leaving Home,” arranged by Walters and an encore piece called “Circle Dance” by Peter Heavan. The group also started off the performance by playing an untitled piece before Walters introduced the group.

Freshman music technology and recording major Spencer Douglas said that he thought the performance was

wonderful ensemble's instrumentation was very unique.

"All [of ] their instruments were played their own ways," Douglas said.

"The different types of sounds just worked."

One of the specific instruments that Douglas said he enjoyed was Ortwein's electric bassoon. The electric bassoon used electric pedals that when pressed, changed the type of sound the bassoon was producing. “[The] electric bassoon is something that I was not expecting by any means,” Douglas said.

According to Douglas, who is a guitarist, the pedals are useful for when a musician would want to change from musical idea to another. Douglas said that for this performance the use of pedals was unusual to him.

“To [use pedals] with a bassoon is completely unorthodox but it worked so beautifully,” Douglas said.

The ensemble, which is based in Indianapolis has also performed pieces The Jazz Kitchen in at Indianapolis’ and they have made over twenty-three appearances at the venue, according to The Jazz Kitchen’s website.

For Dauchan and Pile, this was their first time performing as part of the ensemble in public. The ensemble usually performs with percussionist Jon Crabiel and bass player Peter Hansen, according to Walters.

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Gary Walters (far left), Steve Dauchan (left), Mark Ortwein (center), Chris Pile (right) and Dean Franke (far right) make up The Icarus Ensemble. The ensemble has performed at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, Butler University and The Jazz Kitchen, which is located in Indianapolis.

Walters said that Crabiel and Hansen were not able to be at the performance due to scheduling issues because both Crabiel and Hansen are educators and are also are performers with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. " Pe t e r ' s [ H a n s e n ] c o m m i t ments at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Jon's [Crabiel] work

at Butler [Universit y] made it d i f fi c u l t f o r t h e m t o p e r f o r m tonight," Walters said. "We had to quickly find someone to fill in for them and luckily, I knew Steve [Dauchan] and Chris [Pile], so I called them up and asked if they were willing to help out and they were."

Walters said that Hansen and

Crabiel are both educators and are both involved with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra when they are not performing as part of the ensemble.

The UIndy Symphonic W ind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra will be performing on March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center.

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THE REFLECTOR RATING SYSTEM VANCE JOY "NATION OF TWO" ALBUM

ANNIHILATION MOVIE

AMAZING An unforgettable experience in its category. The highest of recommendations.

Extremely satisfying and entertaining, with few (if any) issues worth noting.

VERY GOOD Incredibly well-done, engaging, and stands above the crowd. Perhaps a few minor grievances, but nothing that substantially takes away from the overall experience.

DECENT May have some worthwhile positives; makes for a good experience, but perhaps brought down by frustrating issues.

Entertaining on a basic level.

MEDIOCRE Maybe moderately entertaining to the right crowd, but too riddled with elements that don’t work or aren’t original/ interesting enough for most audiences.

BAD Poorly executed on almost every level. Any positive notes are a chore to find amid the abundance of mistakes and frustrations.

Not worth anyone’s time, except someone with a special interest in the subject matter.

WORTHLESS Nothing positive worth noting in the slightest. Difficult to endure, annoying and generally mundane. No reason to experience this, unless to witness how awful it is.

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he film “Annihilation”is a true tribute to a sci-fi journey entangled with mind-numbing dreamlands that blind you with artistry. What is the cost of such a great visual performance? A plot that leaves so many to question what they watched as they leave the theater.

Many of the events that occur in “Annihilation” seem to simply use the unnatural phenomenon known as the Shimmer to break any form of logic.

It relies so much on this fantastical element that bends all forms of science to do what it pleases. The film does this by having people in different scientific fields explain to the audience how the fantasy elements relate to the real world.

Oddly enough,“Annihilation”explains why everything is so mysterious. An example being a scene in the film where plants have grown into the shape of humans. Lena describes it as a refraction of the human gene pool into the plant life. The use of scientific jargon and facial expressions tells us that what’s being shown is not normal.

The effects of the Shimmer are constantly changing the DNA of the characters and creatures in the film. To understand this, the film tells the audience why by giving them the tension between the cast of characters.

They also do this by creating tension between humanity and the crossbred species that inhabit “the Shimmer”in the film.

Altogether, “Annihilation” is a film that will probably never be understood on a first viewing. Even after watching the movie, I had trouble figuring out why there were floating colors every ten minutes. However, the movie is still an amazing visual experience. The story is there but it’s not something that can be grasped easily. The film is a great ride, but the plot is not from the best imagination. As a result of this, the film becomes hard to comprehend and enjoy.

I would only recommend this movie to those who truly love the idea behind this movie.

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ance Joy’s music never fails to put me in good mood.The Australian singer/ songwriter takes his romantic love songs and turns them into poetry that molds into pop music.

The album cover of “Nation of Two” consists of two people lying down next to each other, which symbolizes the name of the album. In my opinion, the cover is very subtle, but sends a message of unity. It shows two people, united as one. I discovered Vance Joy a few months ago, so when I heard he was coming out with a new album, I was beyond excited to listen to it.

The great thing about this album was that each and every song from this album was fantastic, from start to finish.

“Call If You Need Me” is the first song on the album and starts off with slow acoustics then gets faster as the lyrics come into play.

The next song that I really enjoyed was “Saturday Sun,” which immediately put me in a good mood because it was so upbeat.

My favorite song from the whole album had to be “Lay It All On Me.” The song starts off with guitar acoustics, drums and later, a tambourine. I really appreciated the lyrics and the overall vibe of the song that made me want to listen to it multiple times.

Each song from the album tells a different romantic story. Joy writes all of his songs from the heart, in which any listener can relate to.

This album is perfect to listen to while doing homework, getting ready, or going on a drive. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the Alternative music genre.

Listening to this album relaxed me, which makes it something I want to listen to all the time. Overall, this has been one of my all time favorite albums. After listening to “Nation of Two,” Vance has turned into one of my new favorite artists and I will definitely be listening to him in the future.

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et me start by saying that I love Thai food. I probably eat Thai food too much, so when I got the chance to review a new Thai restaurant, I was very excited.

While I enjoyed the overall experience and food at Siam Square, it wasn’t as good as other places I have been in the area.

The atmosphere in Siam Square was nice,but didn’t have the same family owned and operated feel that I usually get when I go to Thai restaurants.While photos on the walls were fun and cheerful, they looked like stock photos and that bothered me.

I went with a few friends and we decided to split two appetizers, the curry puffs and steamed dumplings. The curry puffs were really good. It reminded me of a savory British pie with a bit more flavor.

My only complaint was that we only got three puffs for $6.50, which I think is too expensive. While the steamed dumpling got huge praise from one of my friends, they weren’t for me. I thought the taste was good but the texture was weird, although I think that’s more of a complaint for dumplings in general than Siam Square.

I went for my favorite Thai dish, green curry, for my entrée. The color of the curry was just right; it actually looked green, but didn’t look like something from a Dr. Suess book. That may seem like an odd thing to comment on, but it’s really off putting when your curry is not the right color. The ratio of chicken to vegetables was great, although the spice left a lot to be desired.

I ordered my curry hot and green curry is already meant to be a spicy curry, but what I got was a low-level medium. My other friends also said their food was not nearly as spicy as they thought it would be, which is extremely disappointing.

Compared to other Thai restaurants I’ve been to, I felt like I got less food for more money. Although, altogether it was pretty good, it didn’t hold up to the other Thai experiences I’ve had. It's not like I would not recommend Siam Square, I would, but there are other Thai restaurants in the area that are better and more affordable, and I would recommend those first.

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ltered Carbon is based on a threebook series by Richard K. Morgan called the “Takeshi Kovacs Series.” The first book is titled “Altered Carbon” and was followed by “Broken Angels” and “Woken Furies.” The show takes place in Bay City, formerly known as San Francisco, in the 25th century. People can now leave their birth body and upgrade into a different body. They refer to bodies as sleeves and are constantly trying to achieve immortality.

I like the way technology is portrayed in this futuristic era, from cars flying to buildings that are floating in the air to virtual reality feeling like actual reality. I like all the science behind the sleeves and being able to become whatever you wanted. They still tried to incorporate religion into this new age of technology.

There are a few episodes where people protest that the soul should be free and not able to be put into another body that was not theirs. In a world where a woman can be a man, a child can be put into the body of an adult or vice versa, I understand how it might be ruled inhumanly, which is a major theme that is present throughout the season.

The writing of the show made me fall in love with characters like Kovacs and his companions, but the show does goes dark very often. Rape, drugs, betrayal and murder are common. It is one of those clichés where the rich are on top because they have the money to be, but sometimes they do get what they deserve.

Some scenes may be too graphic for some as this show in particular is very explicit due to the amount of murder and violence. The show is also very sexual and very open about human sexuality and biology. I think this is because, on the show, the human body is thought of nothing more than a sleeve they openly show no shyness to exposing the human body. Despite this, I would recommend this show for those who like the sci-fi/mystery genre.

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Members of The Reflector staff make their case for why their favorite Best Picture nominee deserved to win.

Dunkirk JAYDEN KENNETT — OPINION EDITOR Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” deserved Best Picture because of the way it portrays the haunting story of survival and persistence.

Even if someone is not a history buff, “Dunkirk” is easy to understand and follow, but at the same time it doesn’t take away from the reality of the events that happened. It captures the complexity and emotions of the war, but keeps the boundary at a PG-13 rating and the way the multiple timeline narrative comes together at the end is what keeps the audience interested throughout the movie.

Get Out ABBY LAND — FEATURE EDITOR It may lack the dazzling spectacles of "Dunkirk" or the emotional complexity of "Call Me

By Your Name," but the sharp social commentary and satirical edge of "Get Out" deserves recognition. The actors make you believe in a plot that could seem far-fetched, and in the end the audience sits unable to look away. The most compelling case for "Get Out" is that Jordan Peele’s film defies categorization.

"Get Out" is unlike any other movie, and that is exactly why it deserved to win the Best Picture Award.

Shape of Water ETHAN GERLING — BUSINESS MANAGER “The Shape of Water” proves to be one of Guillermo del Toro’s best films in years, providing a truly unique take on finding love in strange places. The combination of incredible cinematography and score, along with the directing and acting, create one of the best films of 2017. The story in itself is enough to hold my interest, but del Toro’s directing makes it completely captivating. All of that is topped off by the phenomenal acting of Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins and Michael Shannon in this truly weird tale makes this film worthy of Best Picture.

The Post ERIK CLIBURN — MANAGING EDITOR Steven Spielberg’s “The Post” is an incredible, true story about The Washington Post and its decision to publish what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers.

At a time when both the media and journalists are under constant scrutiny from politicians crying, “fake news,” this film serves as a reminder that the job of the media is to act as a check for those in power. As someone who tries to practice that idea, I can’t help but say “The Post” deserved to win Best Picture because of both its social and political relevance.

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Two students will present at HERA Conference in Chicago

By Angie Mercado ONLINE EDITOR For the first time, two students from the University of Indianapolis will be presenting in Chicago at the Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) Conference in March. Freshman exploratory major Rachael Walter and senior sports management major David Kurz will be presenting on the connection between multilingualism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Their project is part of the university’s interdisciplinary studies program, which bridges different disciplines to give students a broader perspective on a field of study, according to the UIndy website.

The conference will be held in Chicago from March 7-10. Both Walter and Kurz have been meeting to work on putting together and practicing their presentation, according to Kurz.

They meet once a week, usually on Thursdays, to talk about their ideas for the presentation. The two have split up the topic into two parts so that each of them has the same workload.

“I’m focusing on multilingualism and Rachael is focusing more on ADHD and then for the conclusion we come together with our findings,” Kurz said. “We also somehow have to connect it with the humanities since it’s a conference about the humanities.”

Wa l t e r said that being a part of the team of students from UIndy that p re s e n t s f o r the first time at the conference makes it an intimidating but unique experience. Kurz said he believes that having students present at a conference brings a fresh perspective because younger people have a different mindset and different ideas. He said it is important for educators there to see students because the topics brought up could possibly be something that they would never had heard of before.

“I think with conferences like that you get so many different ideas and [there are] other presentations that you can bring back to the university and take advantage of that information,” Kurz said. “It’s also a great network opportunity to see how

other schools prepare for conferences.”

The subject of ADHD and multilingualism was brought about in a class

by Professor, Assistant Dean of Global Languages and Cross Cultural Studies and Dean of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program Gerburg Garmann. The opportunity to present at the conference was given to the students which led them to come together to research in preparation for the conference.

“Multilingualism has a lot of cognitive benefits. If you can speak more than one language you use different parts of your brain,” Kurz said. “With that being said, your focus and your attention are better because you can focus on different subjects in better ways. We just connected that with ADHD because it’s a disorder where you can sit still and you can’t really focus on one subject. We thought if there could be more multilingual people who learn from childhood how to pay attention to different subjects, we can probably decrease the amount of people with ADHD.” The connection between multilingualism and ADHD was created through research of the way that a person’s brain works when they know multiple languages.

“I can speak German, French and English so the multilingual topic is generally pretty interesting for me. I was also shocked that there’s such an over description of ADHD in general,” Kurz said.

Ku r z s a i d that Garmann gave her students assignments that involved research on the benefits o f mu l t i l i n gualism. From here, the students connected the dots and created a proposal explaining that with the increase of monolingual people there is also an increase in people with ADHD. “I think it’s really interesting. Multilingualism is really important for our country, so the mix of ADHD and multilingualism is a very interesting concept,” Walter said. “Also if we can think of how to help people with ADHD through being bilingual or multilingual that would be really cool. We don’t know, but it could be a reward for people with ADHD. The reward centers in their brain need more excitement to keep them focused, so multilingualism might help them stay more focused.”

“I think it’s really interesting.

Multilingualism is really important for our country...”

Photo by Kiuno Cann

Award winning poet Kaveh Akbar read from his collections of poetry during a Kellogg Writers Series Event on Feb. 28. He read “Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” “Do you speak Persian” and “Portrait of an Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus.” His poetry has been printed in publications such as The New Yorker and Tin House.

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Photo by Kiuno Cann

In addition to writing poetry and teaching at Purdue University, Kaveh Akbar is also the founding editor of Divedapper, where he posts in-depth interviews with other poets, including Adrian Matejika and Don Share.

Kaveh Akbar spoke with audience members and signed copies of his books after reading his poems.

Akbar is also the founding editor of the Divedapper website that features indepth interviews of other poets. Akbar is the author of “Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” published by Alice James Books in 2017 and is also the author of chapbook “Portraits of an Alcoholic.”

Akbar is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

“For me, it [ poetry] really does begin with sound,” Akbar said. “If you get the music right it doesn't matter what you're saying. The imagery will feel powerful.

[It will] Hit you with gusto, with force.

Regardless of what you're talking about.

It will sounds mighty.”

Akbar began his performance with his newer work, yet to be published.

“Vine,” was the first poem of the night following additional poems out of both his chapbook and full collection including, “Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” “Do you speak Persian” and “Portrait of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus.”

their own wonder in their writing as well.

“We do that with trees [and] with stones and we also see it [wonder] in grief. We also do that with romantic love.

We continuously say it is vital that we have the capacity to love each other or it is wild that people die and we don't know what happens,” Akbar said. “So exploring and discovering wonder is the core of my entire interest in art in general.”

Both Childers and Sartoris said that it was an incredible honor to be able to experience the Kellogg Writers Series here at UIndy. They said that having the opportunity to meet other authors and experience their work is important.

“Not many people get to experience that,” Sartoris said. “Having the Kellogg Writers Series on campus is incredibly important and I just really want to see more. I just want to thank Akbar for taking the time to come here and speak with us...”

The next reading in the Kellogg Writers Series will be on Apr. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and feature poet David Tomas Martinez.

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According to sophomore professional writing major Riley Childers, hearing Akbar’s performance was very different than her experience of reading it. She said that listening to Akbar read his work was very inspirational.

“At times, his voice would be aggressive and powerful at points where I read it soft and gentle and vise versa,” Childers said. “So being able to experience him reading[his poetry], I got to experience the full effect of his work.”

Sophomore professional writing major Shauna Sartoris said that listening to Akbar read his poetry helped create a connection to his poetry and that his vocal inflections gave her a clear sense of his work.

“As writers, we have to realize that our work may not be received in the way we initially thought,” Sartoris said.

“Hearing him read his own work was truly insightful.”

Akbar explained that as a poet, it is his job to help people discover their own sense of wonder in their life and to metaphorically build architecture around

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that implementing the beacon system, especially in places with poor cellular service, was important because of the number of community events hosted on campus.

“ISG has always been looking to improve security on campus and with the bomb threat [in the fall 2016]... a lot of students started thinking, ‘What can we do?’ and ‘How can we better improve?’”

Carpenter said. “We have been looking at different ways, especially with the Health Pavilion because you don’t get good cell service in there. Not many students got the Watchdog [regarding the bomb threat], and that was obviously an issue.”

Co-President of the Residence Hall Association senior biology and Spanish major Kennedy Nies explained that implementing the beacon system on campus was essential for maintaining students’ safety.

“After the [bomb] threat on campus last year, there are a lot of issues with the Health Pavilion not being able to get reception, [and the] basements of Warren and Cravens,” Nies said. “So it is important to think about how we can prevent them [students] from not getting the information. Say if someone was isolated in the basement studying or isolated somewhere [on campus, by implement-

ing the system], they will still be able to get the information to stay safe.”

Both Carpenter and Nies said that implementing the beacon system was an opportunity to maintain the missions of ISG and RHA and keep campus safe.

“Our mission through the RHA is to listen to what the students want and what they want to see implemented and how it can better their experience on campus,” Nies said. “When situations like the bomb threat occur, we [RHA] can be more prepared [with the beacon system], and the students are able to know that they are going to get information they need.”

the banjo in that way and I was willing to do that kind of work,” Fleck said. “As I went along, I mean I have to say I was a pretty shallow person because that’s all I did, sit in the room playing banjo. But as time went on, I started to apply that understanding of what made something good to everything in my life and tried to grow as a person more and more.”

Fleck did not attend college, although he said he would have enjoyed going for music studies but there were no programs for the banjo when he graduated high school. Although he did not formally continue his education, Fleck continued his education in other ways.

Fleck said he began by studying jazz with musicians who did not play the banjo and has since learned how to play bluegrass, folk, Irish, Celtic and classical music.

“I also got very interested in the history of the banjo before it came to the Americas, and I went to Africa and made a documentary sort of looking into those roots of the banjo and performing quite a bit for several years with African musicians,” Fleck said. “I also play in a group with a great Indian musician who is possible one of the most well-loved and greatest Indian musicians alive today, a guy named Zakir Hussain. [He is] one of the great professionists tabla players and I’ve been studying with him as I play with him. I’m always learning.”

Fleck said he was thrilled when he learned he had been considered for an honorary degree and that his mother would also be very happy because she always wanted him to go to college and develop other skills.

“It’s a very sweet honor and it validates some of the work I’ve been doing on my own,” Fleck said. “...I’ve been kind of mapping the banjo out as if it was a foreign country or a new language or something, finding my own way around it and developing my own set of language

for the instrument. So it’s kind of like being recognized for what you do, which does feel good.”

Fuquay and Fleck will be attending commencement on May 5 to be awarded their degrees. Fleck is going to perform the banjo during the ceremony and Fuquay is going to deliver the commencement address. Fuquay said that he has begun to think about what he wants to convey through his speech.

“I’ve really tried to get more in touch with the thinking of college students, in particular college graduates, or people recently graduated and in the first five years of career or whatever after graduation. What is that outlook on the world like? … People graduating from college, what’s their approach to that world?”

Fuquay said. “And you know, I’ve been very impressed by the Parkland students, the Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and it reminds me of students during Vietnam, which is, ‘We can’t wait anymore for the generations above us to get some things figured out. We’ve got to do this now.’ And I see that and I hear that in their voices. So all of that is kind of stirring within me. I don’t want my message to be just a super serious thing but yet I think it has to have a serious angle to it.”

Fleck is not sure what he plans to play yet, but did have some words of advice for students. Fleck said everyone must find their own path and they cannot use others’ as a blueprint for their life because life is different for everyone.

“I think I would just say that sometimes the road less travelled has some perks. There are things that you can find by deviating from the mainstream,” Fleck said. “And I’ve done that my whole life.

I’ve always looked for side areas and if I saw other people doing something, I would avoid that area and I would look for an area where there really wasn’t anybody doing it.”

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Flooding affects Midwest After heavy rainfall, snowmelt, rivers in Northern Ind. and the Midwest overflowed forcing the evacuation of homes

Photo by Zoë Berg

The St. Joseph River flows between Lundquist and Island Park in Elkhart, Ind. The parks and surrounding neighborhoods sustained severe flooding, which caused the parks to close and the neighborhoods to be evacuated.

By Zoë Berg & Maia Gibson EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & NEWS EDITOR As Vanessa Goree and Eric Davis sat down for lunch in the basement of Central Christian Church, in Elkhart, Ind., where they had been living for the last four days, Goree prayed for their food and thanked God for everything they had. Goree and Davis, like many residents of Northern Indiana, had to evacuate their home when it was threatened by flood waters. They evacuated on Feb. 21, according to Goree, and moved in to an American Red Cross Shelter.

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for Elkhart on Feb. 19, which turned into a flood warning on Feb. 20. The same day they began to get reports of flooding in Northern Indiana. By Feb. 24, Governor Eric Holcomb declared a disaster emergency for 11 counties in Northern Indiana.

Over the next week, 15 more counties, in both Northern and Southern Indiana, also were added to the list. A disaster emergency means that the State Department of Homeland Security can get involved in relief efforts and expand emergency services in the area, according to a press release from the governor’s office. This also is a step required for the state to request federal assistance.

Local city mayors declared a state of emergency prior to the governor’s declaration, with Elkhart Mayor Tim Neese and Goshen Mayor Jeremy Stutsman declaring a state of emergency on Feb. 21.

“I was in awe. I didn’t know what was really going on,” Goree said. “It was freaking me out because I never thought I’d see something like that in real life. You see things like that on TV, like New Orleans or Puerto Rico. I just never thought it’d happen to us, but it did.”

The flooding happened when the St. Joseph and Elkhart rivers overflowed after heavy rainfall and snowmelt, ac-

cording to the NWS. On Feb. 22, the St. Joseph River crested at 28.11 feet in Elkhart, which the NWS considered to be major flooding. The river also flooded the areas around South Bend, Ind., and Niles, Mich. The NWS projected that the St. Joseph River will be at about 24 feet by March 9, which is still considered minor flooding.

On Feb. 22, the Elkhart River crested at 9.77 feet, which is considered moderate flooding. The NWS projected the river will be at about 5 feet by March 9, which is within its normal level.

As the water level continued to rise, emergency responders began evacuating affected neighborhoods. Davis said he watched as the water flooded Goree and his street and began to think about evacuating when it reach the front steps of their home.

“She [Goree] didn’t want to go,” Davis said. “I told her, ‘Come on, let’s go, now.’And I pulled her out of the house.

‘Let’s go,’ I just told her. ‘Let’s go.’” “‘I’m not going nowhere,’” that’s exactly what’s in my mind,” Goree said. “‘I’m not going nowhere.’ He made me so nervous. He [was] outside on the sidewalk just screaming ‘We’ve got to go; we’ve got to go. We’ve got to get out of here.’”

Homes and neighborhoods were not the only places affected. Local businesses and roadways also were closed due to flooding. Butler University junior Ted Field is from the Elkhart/Goshen area and went home on the weekend of Feb. 22 for the first time since Christmas. He said he was shocked to see how much flooding had occurred and was upset to see his local Kroger affected.

“I was just like, ‘Who has flood insurance around here?’ I just never would

think about it happening. Because, as a kid, on the Weather Channel sometimes they’d be like, ‘Oh, potential for flooding.’

And then we’d get like a puddle in our driveway.... So I never thought it was anything to worry about,” Field said. “I was concerned just because it will disrupt a lot of people’s way of life and a lot of streets were closed. Goshen doesn’t do well with street closures anyway, so having nature be involved with, that it’s not ideal.”

Despite the overflowing rivers flooding the Michiana area, not every city was impacted. Mary Nagy currently lives in Osceola, Ind., which was not affected, but was a shelter manager for a Red Cross shelter in Elkhart. Nagy, who has lived in the area for most of her life, said that she has never seen flooding this severe.

“Elkhart is a really bad area,” Nagy said. “A lot of the streets are shut down.

Usually it takes me about 20 minutes to get here. Now it takes me an hour, because no matter how I get here or want to get here, the street is closed. You’d just be amazed at the water and flooding and everything. Goshen was affected; some areas in South Bend were.”

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared a state of emergency for the city of South Bend on Feb. 21. The flooding of the St. Joseph River caused road closings and even affected students at Indiana University South Bend. The university evacuated the River Crossing campus apartments as the water level continued to rise and cancelled classes for Feb. 22 in the wake of the flooding.

Local school corporations also were affected by the flooding. Elkhart Community Schools were closed from Feb. 21-Feb. 23. Goshen Community Schools were closed Feb. 21 and 22 but

“You’d just be amazed at the water and flooding and everything.”

opened again after a two-hour delay on Feb. 23. South Bend Community School Corporation remained open.

During their time off, several students helped fill sandbags to give to community members still struggling with flooding, according to Nagy. Elkhart Community Schools also donated personal hygiene items to shelters and partnered with the city and the Red Cross for a clothing drive. According to Nagy, support from the community and the students has been a blessing to those affected by the flooding. At the peak of the flooding, the Red Cross had eight shelters open in the area. Goree said that she is thankful for the shelter, the volunteers and having a place to stay.

“We’ve got a roof over our head…”

Goree said. “They’ve provided us with a bed, a cot, blankets, prayers and anything that we need, everything that we need.

So we’re good.”

As of March 4, the Red Cross still had two shelters open in Northern Indiana.

As much of the flooding went down throughout the Midwest, the Ohio River continues to flood parts of Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky, and the Kankakee River is still severely flooded, affecting Northern Indiana and Illinois.

The Red Cross still has shelters open in the affected areas.

While many people like Goree and Davis were affected by the flooding, people connected to the affected areas, like Nagy and Field, also felt the impact.

Although he spends most of his time in Indianapolis, Field said that it was difficult to see the area he grew up in submerged in the overflow.

“It was just interesting,” Field said.

“I’m happy to be out of this area, personally, but you know, you still feel connected with it, and you still hate to see things that you used to run around in as a kid, or places that you’ve been or places that you’ve worked, just submerged. It still kind of puts things in perspective.”

Photo by Zoë Berg

Photo by Zoë Berg

Photo by Zoë Berg

Homes along Pacific Street in Elkhart were evacuated due to severe flooding in the street and some homes.

Residents of flooded neighborhoods had to stay with relatives or in shelters and hotels. This neighborhood is a few blocks from the Red Cross shelter at Central Christian Church, which at its peak hosted about 50 people.

The Elkhart River caused flooding in Goshen, Ind. Affected areas include Rogers Park and Chicago Ave.

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Former lawmaker starts group to support GOP splits

By Simone Pathé CQ-ROLL CALL WASHINGTON (TNS) — Former Illinois Rep. Robert J. Dold knows what it’s like to break from his party.

That wasn’t enough to save him in 2016. He lost to Democrat Brad Schneider, while Hillary Clinton carried his 10th District by nearly 30 points.

B u t n o w, a l o n g w i t h f o r m e r Pe n n s y l v a n i a R e p. M i c h a e l G .

Fitzpatrick, Dold has started a new nonprofit organization that will provide more air cover for centrist members in 2018.

American Solutions Action Project, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit social welfare organization, was formed over the past few months to educate Americans about “a pro-growth, center-right” agenda in Congress and the members carrying it out. The group will highlight the work of Republicans who have broken from the GOP when it’s in the best interest of their districts.

The group already has digital spots touting the work of two vulnerable GOP women sitting in Clinton districts.

A 15-second ad urges viewers to thank California Rep. Mimi Walters for being a leader “who will protect women from sexual harassment.”

A similar 30-second ad praises Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock as a “leader who will hold those accountable, no matter which political party they are from.” The on-screen text at the end of the ad tells viewers: “Share with your mother, share with your daughter, share with your friends, share with your loved ones.”

“Ask Barbara to stay in the fight for women,” the narrator concludes.

American Solutions Action Project is spending about $100,000 combined on the two digital spots. Ascent media produced the ads. American Solutions is open to expanding to TV ads and direct mail depending on the financial resources it raises.

Dold stressed that as a nonprofit organization, the group isn’t engaged in campaign advertising. “This is an opportunity on the education side, not political side,” Dold said.

But the electoral tie-in is clear.

Democrats need to pick up 24 seats to gain the House majority. At least 23 Republicans (and two more with the redrawn Pennsylvania map) sit in districts Clinton won in 2016. American Solutions put it succinctly on its Facebook page: “Supporting Republican Incumbents in Clinton Districts. Preserving the House Majority.”

Its Facebook description continues: “Winning the toughest swing districts requires these incumbents to break with the GOP on policy and approach, demonstrating independence, and leading by listening to the concerns of their core voters.”

American Solutions isn’t limiting itself to thanking those 23 Republicans.

“The centrist folks have traditionally been targets and have stood up against the party before,” Dold said. “I, for one, think that this is something more people want to see.”

The former congressman described the group’s issue set as “center-right,” mentioning the environment as one area where some Republicans are standing up to the typical party position because it’s in the best interest of their districts.

“There’s not a limit on the issues that we can talk about,” Dold said. The former co-chairman of the moderate Tuesday Group was known for bucking his party’s positions on, among other things, gun control measures.

Dold said American Solutions Action Project is something he wishes had been there when he was in Congress. ___ (c)2018 CQ-Roll Call, Inc., All Rights Reserved Visit CQ Roll Call at www.rollcall. com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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