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By Kiara Conley ONLINE EDITOR

Covering the steps of the Indiana Statehouse stood students ranging from elementary school to college age, lifting signs that said “Fight for our future” and “It’s getting hot in here,” as a part of a nationwide protest regarding climate change. They were joined by other environmental activists chanting, “The people united, will never be divided,” as well as other chants at the Youth Climate Strike.

The strike took place in Downtown Indianapolis and was organized by 350 Indiana-Indianapolis. According to 350. org, the group has been working on a global movement and organizes days of action since 2008. The strike lasted about four hours on Sept. 20. The event began with an opening statement and welcomed the crowd to stand on the steps of the statehouse.

There were several speakers throughout the event, most of which came forward on their own when the microphone

was opened to the public. Some speakers shared their personal accounts on climate change, talking about the effects in the areas they live in, while others came from out of state to speak and participate in the rally. Some speakers shared what they wanted politicians to change, both on the local and national levels. The event organizers had music breaks to allow attendees to cool down and meet with each other.

Students from Carmel High School, Herron High School, Indiana University-Bloomington, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Carmel Middle School, along with many others, shared their opinions about the current state of the Earth’s climate.

Silvia Leahu-Aluas, a co-leader of 350 Indiana-Indianapolis, has been working in sustainability consulting for over 10 years, and is an engineer by trade, said she has always cared about the environment. After working in the oil industry, she transitioned into working on sustainability.

Leahu-Aluas said that through

connections with March for Science, the group was able to reach a younger audience and plan to form a larger coalition. According to marchforscience. org, the group is made up of scientists, advocates, youth, parents and others to have a more sustainable world.

“Each organization might have specific goals, but the ultimate goal of preventing us from going beyond the point of no return on climate is what pulls us together,” Leahu-Aluas said.

According to Leahu-Aluas, the event seemed harder to put on than it was.

The group did have their doubts about attendance, however.

“But as usual, when the purpose is strong and everybody’s aligned to it, things will pan out and in my view, things were better than we expected,” Leahu-Aluas said.

The purpose for the strike in Indiana was for people to understand and take action, according to Leahu-Aluas. She also said that they wanted to ask for a Green New Deal, both locally and nationally.

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candidate Josh Owens was present at the event and said that in his campaign announcement, as a state, Indiana is talking about climate change and innovation. “...I’m very excited by this younger generation really fighting for climate justice and thinking about what the future of our planet looks like, how we fight for it and how we ensure that it’s equitable and protected,” Owens said.

Another Indiana Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Woodrow Myers, also attended the event and spoke to the audience. Myers said that he came to the event because he wanted to learn more about the movement. As a political candidate, Myers said that he thinks legislation to help fight climate change is important.

“If the question is ‘Would I, could I, should I, must I fight for changes that keep this planet the pristine and wonderful place it used to be or make this planet the pristine and wonderful place it used to be?’ The answer is absolutely yes, and that’s one of the reasons I’m running for governor of the state of Indiana,” Myers

said. “...So it’s a government issue, it’s a private sector issue, it’s a global issue and I think Indiana, we’re behind in what we need to do and I think we need to push harder for us to get ahead.”

Among those attending the climate strike were University of Indianapolis Associate Professor of English Leah Milne and Assistant Professor of Biology Marc Milne. Milne said that her professional interest was the rhetoric on the signs and that the signs were interesting in how the issues are framed and how issues are talked about. Marc said he liked seeing how much social activism was taking place at the event. Milne also said that this event was a way for them to get their voice out there about climate change policies.

“We both like to promote the idea that climate change is a severe problem,” Marc said. “It’s an issue that we all need to unite and face and work together to push back against and we need policies that are going to allow climate change to be addressed and right now we don’t have that nationally or locally.”

School of Nursing reflects on its history, growth, future

By Megan Copeland STAFF WRITER

Throughout the 2019-20 academic year, the School of Nursing at the University of Indianapolis will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary. According to the Frederick D. Hill University Archives, the Nursing Department was established in 1959 under the administration of former University President Lynd Esch, who was president of the university from 1945-70.

The School of Nursing originally occupied the basement of Dailey Hall, a dormitory that was built in 1921 and demolished in 2000, on the site of what is now the Stierwalt Alumni House, according to the University Archives.

At that time, the program only offered a two-year associate’s degree.

In the beginning, there were only 16 students enrolled in the program. By 1960, the number of students had grown to 21 and by 1965, the two-year associate’s degree program was accredited by the National League of Nursing, according to the University Archives.

In 1969, 10 years after the nursing program was established, the program began offering a bachelor’s program.

In 1995, the program began to offer a Masters of Science in Nursing for the Nurse Practitioner Program.

Two years later, in 1997, the nursing program introduced a 12 month, Registered Nurse to Bachelor’s of Science of Nursing program and in 2009, the accelerated master’s program was admitting its first group of students.

Today, the School of Nursing has been accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education,

according to Aacnnursing.org.The School of Nursing is also accredited with a bachelor’s degree program, master’s program, doctorate of nursing practice program,and post-graduate APRN certificate.

Undergraduate Program Director and Assistant Professor of Nursing Karen Elsea said that while the images of nurses have changed overtime, the roots of the program are still there.

“It’s so fun to look at those older pictures from when we first started and

you think [about] how far we’ve come in healthcare, but the foundation is the same,” Elsea said.

Assistant Professor of Nursing Alexander Kemery said that while the program itself continues to grow both in technology and students, the fundamental ideal of being a nurse is still there.

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Photo Contributed by University Archivist Mark Vopelak

In this photo from 1962, two UIndy nursing students work with a 'dummy' patient. The School of Nursing will be hosting several events throughout 2019-20 for it's anniversary.

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Saving Earth Starts Here

By Jayden Kennett EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

We cannot afford to ignore climate change. It’s staring us in the face, ready to kill us off if we don’t address it and start making changes. We can sit and blame major fossil fuel companies for polluting our ecosystem, or we can stop being complacent and make daily changes for ourselves. Sustainability starts with us, here, at the University of Indianapolis.

As much as I hate the paper straws, UIndy was right to switch from plastic. But now, as a community of consumers, we need to do more.

For example, when the time comes to move out of the dorms, we have a lot of stuff to sort through and throw away such as old notebooks, ramen noodles we were too lazy to cook and sweaters we bought and never wore. We can easily save these items from the landfill and create a donation program at the end of the semester to lessen our carbon footprint. The university should encourage students, especially at the end of the semester, to donate to local organizations.

Installing bins in Schwitzer, the library and residence halls, where students can easily deposit their items and go about their day, and encouraging students to use those bins would be even better. Goodwill and The Salvation Army have pickup programs, and other

organizations probably would be willing to work something out. The University of Michigan hosts a program similar to the one I am proposing and they donated 12.5 tons of goods to local charities as a result, according to The University Record. Something like this can be easily replicated here.

As individuals, instead of buying new clothes from the mall, we should make an effort to buy second-hand clothing. It takes more than 2,100 gallons of water to make a pair of jeans, according to watercalculator.org.While water technically is a renewable resource, it can only stay renewable if managed properly, according to the Florida Department of Education in an online text about the conservation of renewable and non-renewable resources; and currently water is one of the most poorly managed resources on Earth.

There are plenty of options available to buy second-hand, so there’s really no reason not to. If you don’t like digging through hundreds of clothes at Goodwill, there are online thrift shops that will do it for you. Besides, I don’t know anyone, at least at my age, who would say no to cheap clothes and a good thrift.

Change also can come from simple things, such as composting food. Roughly one third of the food produced for human consumption every year is lost or wasted, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Agriculture is responsible for a decent portion of greenhouse gas emissions, roughly 10 percent, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

Cleveland State University’s dining catering service offers composting bins

which go out to their composting service provider, Full Cycle Organic. The catering service also uses biodegradable tableware that can be placed into the compost. Above all, this is something I would like to see UIndy implement. I am sure that other students also would rather see the budget used for the good of the environment rather than for items like branded napkins.

Recently, a change UIndy made was trading the paper boats at Streets for plastic ones. I cannot understand why the university made this switch; it runs contrary to the decision to trade plastic straws for paper straws.

Last but not least, nothing is worse than the styrofoam takeout boxes in the dining hall.The styrofoam industry ranks fifth as the largest creator of toxic wastes in the United States, according to Green Dining Alliance. Styrofoam breaks down into harmful chemicals that linger in soil and water for centuries.

Replacing the styrofoam boxes with cardboard boxes is an easy alternative or the dining services at UIndy could allow people to bring their own Tu p p e r w a r e .

This seems like a very simple solution.

If we still are not sure how to make UIndy more sustainable on a campus-wide scale, others already have made positive changes to affect the environment.The University of Connecticut holds a competition called EcoMadness, during which for one month, the residence halls compete to see

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which hall can conserve the most water and energy. This is an exciting initiative that UIndy should emulate. Some University of Connecticut dorms participated in this competition in 2018 and reduced their one-week energy usage by around 20 percent, according to UoC’s website on EcoMadness. Even if it were just for one month, reducing water and energy consumption could have a big impact, not only on UIndy’s utilities bills, but also on the environment.

Indianpolis Power and Lighting Company has an option for consumers to enroll into its Green Power program.

I opted into this program a few months ago so that my apartment runs on 100 percent renewable energy. Opting into this program is easier than trying to submit an assignment on ACE. All someone has to do is go to the IPL website, find the Green Power tab and select a participation level.

Consumers can choose to opt into 100, 50 or 25 percent renewable energy. I thought opting into this program would cost a ton of money, but my electric bill is only 10 to 15 cents more than it normally is. Even us broke college students can spare 10 cents extra a month.

Practicing sustainability starts at the individual level. Demand a change; make a change. There is really no excuse, other than being lazy, not to practice sustainability on and off campus. If everyone takes small steps, such as donating a sweater, big changes can be made.

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Now streaming: higher prices New unneccesary entertainment platforms leads to budgeting evaluations

By Ethan Gerling ART DIRECTOR

With Disney releasing its own streaming service on Nov. 12, college students who can barely keep up with the cost of living are going to have to make a choice: whether to keep paying for Netflix or give it up to watch all of those sweet Marvel movies. Hulu also has to be figured into this equation somewhere.

However, the dilemma extends even further. Many fans of the Star Trek franchise were thrilled to find out about a continuation of the Star Trek: The Next GenerationTV series that ended in 1994.

But the fans were not so thrilled when they realized this continuation, Picard, was exclusively available on the CBS All Access streaming service.This means that to watch the show they’ve been waiting 25 years for, they will either have to spend $5.99 a month or make the more strategic decision just to binge watch it during their free trial period.

The idea of having an audience looped into long-term payment plans should be attractive to most corporations. While the initial payment may not seem like much at the beginning, it continues to accumulate and more people will subscribe, so the profit is exponential.

Hence why so many companies appear to be starting their own streaming service these days. According to consumerreports.org, besides Disney, Apple also soon will launch its own TV streaming service.

AT&T’s WarnerMedia is working on its own service, AT&T also is planning to rollout a streaming version of its satellite TV service. NBC Universal has plans in the works; and a team up of Discovery and BBC is soon to come to streaming platforms near you.

This oncoming wave of streaming services is going to cause some issues

because a large portion of streaming I see it, it is possible that this great loss service users can’t afford to pay monthly in money is the reasoning behind the for another one. According to a report service’s ultimate failure. The purpose of by the Center for Technology, Media this anecdote is that streaming services and Telecommunications, published by aren’t the same as cable tv: they have the Deloitte Insights in 2018, more than 60 ability to collapse much quicker than regpercent of Gen Z has subscribed to, or ular television. So, while the market will lives in a household that has subscribed most certainly become crowded in the to, some sort of streaming service. coming years, it’s worth noting that not With Gen Z compromising anyone all of these services will survive, leaving between the ages of four to 24, according the market to be slightly less crowded. to Kasasa, a very large portion of that That being said, cable TV still conaudience is pursuing some form of higher tinues to fade and be replaced by an education. Acever-expandcording to the ing streaming United States market — Census BuMarketWatch This oncoming wave of reau, in 2017, estimates the approximately streaming services is going s t r e a m i n g 66 percent of market will be to cause some issues... college stuworth $124.57 dents were billion by 2025 Gen Z (spe— college stucifically within the ages of 15 to 24, those dents should regardless expect a growth below the age of 15 were not included in the number of choices they can make within the census). Considering how in regard to streaming content. Yes, much money the average college student some choices will inevitably drop off as makes (which most will confirm is not a services fail, so consumers do not have to lot) and that many of them likely are using be as intimidated by the extensive list of some form of streaming service, few may future services, but more and more will be willing to put any more money aside still pop up and content will split further after having their potentially pre-existing and further. subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu, Spotify Unfortunately, that makes the choice or many other programs and services. much more difficult, because that means Likely there will be some sort of purge it will soon become time to pick favorites. of these streaming services, and not all With the arrival of Disney Plus, I believe of them will survive. Companies have it's a fair assumption that shows and attempted to produce their own streammovies made by Disney won't be popping ing services in the past and have failed. up on any other services and will only In 2013, Yahoo Screen was launched, be hosted on Disney's own service. Same and in 2016 Yahoo Screen was shut down, as with the creation of CBS All Access, according to techcrunch.com. In a Variwhere all shows produced by CBS were ety article, Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman plucked from Netflix and Hulu to return stated in the service’s attempted revival to their new home. The consequences of of the cult sitcom “Community,” and all of this being the college audiences are production of two other original series, being forced to make the choice between the company spent $42 million. The way one service or the other.

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By Tate Jones

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Love is in the air at UIndy, and some alumni, current students and professors have celebrated their weddings here.

Weddings seem rampant on campus and, honestly, I want it to stop.

A wedding is a single moment in your life to capture the past, present and future of your lifetime with your significant other. Having a wedding at a place where you once attended college, or even worked, does not give those moments and memories the time or tone they deserve. It would be so much harder for me to say “I do” while my former astronomy professor who once gave me a C+ on my term paper, walks by UIndy Hall.

Having a wedding on campus almost turns it into a public event. Weddings should be a private ceremony with friends and family.

The event of your lifetime will be on display to all those students trying to bum a swipe from someone in Schwitzer because they really want a vanilla latte at 7 p.m. Weddings on a college campus, especially during the school year, are a lot less private than private events should be.

A person’s wedding day should be a time to display intimacy to their fiancé, friends and family, not students running late for class or spilling their grapes and sobbing about it. Even if UIndy is where you discovered your love for someone, the campus does not seem like an ideal place to celebrate that feeling. Of course people have made lifelong memories at UIndy. But, as a student myself, I would find it difficult to remember the night we crammed together for finals as the most beautiful six hours past midnight.

I love a good romance story as much as the next person, but current students, faculty and staff do not want to hear your vows when they walk by UIndy Hall. Opening up about a certain part of your life to your friends and family, who may know nothing about your life at school, may sound quaint, but personally all it really does is bring back exam nightmares.

School is a stepping stone into your next stage of life, albeit an important one. Your whole life is on trial. There’s a reason why they ask if anyone objects in a wedding. Love can be expressed in many ways, and I can’t see the attraction in coming back to your former campus.

Some may have reasons to marry at UIndy, and I can understand why they have them, despite all of my grievances.

The university offers cheaper costs compared to some other places around the city, and there usually are not enough locations that fit your idea of the perfect spot. However, it’s hard to make a case that UIndy is the “perfect place.” Alumni trail blazed a lot of the things that I can appreciate on campus, particularly their support of the university that I attend. It’s important to understand the generations of students before you. Alumni, current students and faculty have done enough for this university that they can celebrate their life with their fiancé somewhere much more private and intimate.

But no one’s here to stop you from living your fairy tale wedding fantasy.

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Maker space developed for School of Education Area is designed to teach students how to create their own maker spaces in their future careers

Photo by Tony Reeves

Educators across the state of Indiana visited the University of Indianapolis on Sept. 16 for an open house at the maker space. Meghan Bednarek and Jessica Blechoft were gazing at the materials that have been created there.

By Hallie Gallinat STAFF WRITER

Boxes of materials sit on shelves and 3D printers lay on tables, ready to be used to create whatever students can imagine. What was once a computer lab in the basement of Esch Hall has been transformed into an area of hands-on learning for the University of Indianapolis’ School of Education–a maker space.

SOE's maker space was designed by an Indianapolis company, 1st Maker Space, and was developed to be unique to SOE by specifically designing it to teach students how to facilitate the maker space, 1st Maker Space Education Director Mary Rinehart said. A maker space is an area where students can create items ranging from 3D-printed objects to robots made from toothbrush bristles. Maker spaces task students with more open-ended questions, whereas STEM labs task students with precise instructions and a fixed problem to solve, according to Rinehart. “[SOE students] may have the

Photo by Tony Reeves

The School of Education's maker space in Esch Hall has many different opportunities for students. This creation includes robots with small catapults on their backs that can shoot small basketballs into a miniature hoop.

opportunity to direct and manage or use needed for a lesson. a maker space in the school they end up According to Rinehart, the maker in one day,” Rinehart said. “And so, it was space has been in development for around important for a lot of the professors at five years. Somers said that the idea was the University of Indianapolis to design picked up last summer and the next step a space, and have a space where they can was gathering funding and supplies from give students exposure to making and 1st Maker Space. maker spaces as part of their university Although the space is complete, 1st experience.”

Maker Space will continue to stock the The computer lab in Esch Hall’s maker space with new materials and teach basement faculty how to was chosen use the space as the place over the course for the maker of the next year. “...we think that maker space because The space will spaces will resurrect, or students were be overseen by only using it for SOE Graduate instill, more creativity...” printing and Programs the lab was Administrative conveniently Assistant located across the hall from an education Rhonda Helterbrand, who will also classroom, John Somers, associate help with the technology, organization professor of teacher education, special and management. education program coordinator and The new maker space offers students school leadership management program machines, tools and materials to use, such coordinator and SOE graduate programs as 3D printers, laser cutters, drills and director said. cardboard. Other items include robotic Now, professors can take students toys that students can use for coding and across the hall if the maker space is copper tape for building circuits that

students can add LED lights to.

Before students can begin to utilize the space, SOE faculty will be taught how to use the space first, Somers said.

“I don’t know if it’ll be once a month, that’s probably too ambitious,” Somers said. “But we want to reach out to a local school and let’s just say once a month that they would bring a group of kids in after school.Then our students, who have also been prepared to use the different tools and to do some of the projects, they would basically be in charge of running those projects for the K through five kids.”

The technology that education students will learn and use in the maker space may not be relevant for them in the future, Rinehart said. However, she hopes that the tools will help students build the confidence to work with any 3D printer or any other high-tech tool that comes their way.

This space teaches students 21st century skills such as collaboration, learning from mistakes, creativity and critical thinking Somers said.

“Creativity is the big thing,” Somers said. “A lot of critics of American education say kids are losing the capacity

to be creative and we think that maker spaces will resurrect, or instill, more creativity in our undergraduates and our students.”

At the moment, only education students can use the maker space, however, in the future, the space may be open to more students. According to Somers, discussions between the School of Engineering, the School of Art and Design and SOE are taking place to talk about sharing their maker spaces for other students to use.

One thing that 1st Maker Space President Kim Brand hopes education students get from the space is confidence in the projects they will create in the maker space.

“We live in a world where a lot of kids in particular, and even adults, start these challenges lacking confidence,” Brand said. “They answer the question ‘Can you do this?’ by saying ‘No’...And we think that is a critical problem and we think that we can make a difference [by] getting more youth to answer that question ‘Yes,’ by letting them have the little victories that you have in a maker space.”

Social work program accredited

By Noah Crenshaw NEWS EDITOR

The University of Indianapolis’ Masters of Social Work program has received its first accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education. The graduate program is a part of the Phylis Lan Lin Department of Social Work.

This accreditation marked the end of a process that began in 2016, Assistant Professor of Social Work and MSW Program Director Wanda Watts said.

The MSW program is designed to prepare students to become social workers.

The university also has a Bachelor’s of Social Work program, which is designed to prepare students for more generalized practice and does not include counseling, Watts said. In order to be a counselor, students have to at least have a master’s degree.

According to Watts, in Indiana, those who have social worker in their title or have social work-related responsibilities have to be licensed to practice on both the bachelor’s and master’s levels, which is what UIndy’s programs do.

“It's a licensed profession,” Watts said. “So, we are preparing students to be able to work with some of the most vulnerable populations and advocate on their behalf ”....“Usually we meet our clients at places where they are the most vulnerable, where they might be having trouble trying to access systems or they're having mental health kinds of issues, so we provide counseling to them as well.”

The MSW program had to go through several procedural steps as part of the CSWE accreditation process, Watts said.

First, the department had to petition CSWE to tell them that UIndy wanted to start a program. Then, they had to make sure UIndy was in a position that would be able to handle the program and finally be able to support both the program and the students applying to it.

“They [CSWE] look at what the university, how the university itself is accredited [and] by what entities,” Watts said. “As well [as], being able to have those entities in the community that would even be able to support students.

Being able to come out, for instance, for a field practicum and practice in the

field that would lend field supervisors to oversee the activity of those students in the field as well. So there are several different areas that the accrediting body looks at or, we had to report on to prove that we were ready to be able to support a master's level program.”

While the program was accredited at the start of this academic year, the accreditation is retroactive to 2016, according to Watts. UIndy was in contact with CSWE before the program began. The students who were in the program before it was accredited will be able to say they were apart of an accredited program.

“In order for students to even be eligible for licensing upon graduation, they have to have matriculated through a Council on Social Work Education accredited program,” Watts said. “We are very much now recognized by our accrediting body and we've joined others as well that are accredited now, which helps our students to have the assurance that they are now very much able to go to the licensing board.”

Watts said that the department is very proud of the fact that the graduate program was accredited by CSWE. “It is really like a seal of approval to the way that we are educating our students and also that we are getting good feedback from the service providers in the community about the caliber of students that we're producing,” Watts said. “That is a very good thing for us.”

Dean of the College of Applied Behavioral Sciences Torrey Wilson said accreditation is one of the main things a university would want as a foundation for their programs. Wilson said the BSW program was already accredited by CSWE, so the additional accreditation of the MSW program reaffirms the quality of the programs.

“If there's a program and there's either certification or accreditation, accreditation typically being a higher level of discipline [and] approval of how and what you're doing in terms of training and preparing folks,” Wilson said. “Students know certain accreditations, others they don't….They want to know if programs are accredited, so it [the accreditation] basically is that additional stamp of approval that we are achieving the quality that is defined by those respective fields.”

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Man arrested for driving SUV in Chicago mall

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US, Iran face discord

Tensions rise between nations following attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facility

By David Wainer

BLOOMBERG NEWS NEW YORK — Donald Trump wanted to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani badly enough to break with his national security adviser, entertaining a French initiative that would undercut U.S. oil sanctions on Tehran and defy the wishes of a stalwart ally, Israel.

But in the span of 10 days, talk of a historic meeting between the two presidents during the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week has withered.

Saturday's strike on one of the world's largest oil installations hit Saudi Arabia's energy industry, sending a jolt through the global economy and delivering an embarrassing blow to a country that's at the center of Trump's Mideast strategy.

While Iran was quick to deny involvement, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia blamed the Islamic Republic, without saying whether the attacks were launched from Iranian territory. Trump said, on Sept.

18. that he wanted tougher sanctions on Iran while signaling wariness about getting the U.S. enmeshed in another Middle East conflict.

"It's very easy to attack," Trump told reporters during a trip to Los Angeles.

"How did going in Iraq work out?" he added of a conflict that he's long criticized. Yet later in the day he talked tough, saying, "Just one phone call, we could go in — that might happen."

Landing in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 1 8 on a hastily arranged two-day visit, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo signaled his immediate focus was on working with allies, saying the goal of his trip was to "build out a coalition to develop a plan to deter" Iran.

Even after the attacks on Saudi Arabia, Trump, who relishes one-onone meetings with adversaries such as North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, has predicted Iranian leaders will sit down with him when the time is right. "I don't think they're ready yet," he told reporters Tuesday, Sept 17. "But they'll be ready."

At least for now, though, "it's much harder for the U.S. to be seen meeting with Iran in the aftermath of this action," Richard Haass, a veteran U.S. diplomat and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said in an interview. "The U.S. is now weighing its response to the attack, and the question is how do you hit back in a way that doesn't push diplomacy further away."

If Iran was in fact behind the latest attacks, they signal that the country remains capable of inflicting pain on its regional rivals and the global economy even after U.S. sanctions cut off much of the oil revenue that sustains its economy.

Some officials in Tehran believe regime change is America's ultimate goal and are demanding that sanctions are eased before any talks with Trump.

"Dialogue between Iran and the U.S. at the U.N. is impossible unless the U.S. policies change by that time," said Diako Hosseini, director of the World Studies Programme at the Tehran-based Centre for Strategic Studies, which advises Rouhani.That echoes the position of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said Monday that without "repentance" Trump can forget about talks.

In another sign that a summit between Trump and Rouhani is unlikely, Pompeo has been delaying issuing travel visas to Rouhani and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to attend the U.N. gathering, even though that's a pro forma requirement of the U.S. agreement

for hosting the global body.

"I would say this: If you're connected to a foreign terrorist organization, I don't know, it seems to me it would be a reasonable thing to think about whether they ought to be prevented to attend a meeting which is about peace," Pompeo said.

Nothing did as much to fuel the possibility of a Trump-Rouhani meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. as Bolton's dismissal last week. The former national security adviser had a long history of advocating preemptive strikes on Iran and scored an early victory when he joined the Trump administration last year, persuading the president to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal brokered by President Barack Obama.

With Bolton gone, a meeting with Iran's leaders would have been another precedent-shattering achievement for a president who has touted his ability to forge personal relationships with authoritarian leaders from Kim to Russian President Vladimir Putin. A meeting during the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders also would have been relatively easy to organize because Trump and Rouhani were expected to be in New York, staying just a few blocks apart.

With Trump having a penchant for dismissing the advice of his top aides, the bigger hurdle to such talks always seemed to be the Iranians and the political calculus they would face: A meeting that didn't result in eased sanctions would be seen as a humiliating "photo op" that would undermine the regime.

Mindful of the potential pitfalls, Iranians have long favored quiet talks or discussions through intermediaries instead. Iranian leaders have in recent weeks pressed European nations that are still in the 2015 nuclear deal to help

broker a breakthrough that would allow it to get its crude back on the market.

"If Iran came to the table tomorrow, without caveats, it would lose face," said Ariane Tabatabai, adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

European sponsors of the nuclear deal had grown optimistic that Trump might reverse course and help salvage the accord, albeit with tougher restrictions on Iran. French President Emmanuel Macron floated a $15 billion financial package that would ease the pressure of U.S. sanctions and Trump at one point suggested he might go for the idea.

Instead, the attacks in Saudi Arabia have sparked a discussion of how the U.S. and its allies should retaliate, casting a pall over the fitful efforts at diplomacy.

European officials are now choosing their words carefully – trying to keep their efforts to salvage the accord separate from any coordinated response to the strike on Saudi Arabia. U.K. Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pierce said her country was still assessing where the attacks came from, but acknowledged that the bombing complicates diplomatic efforts.

"I'm not expecting them to be walking down the same corridor at the same time" as Trump. Still, she added, "Meetings can happen at a very short notice in the margins of UNGA." Trump left the thinnest of cracks open this week to talks, appearing to contradict his secretary of state by saying Rouhani should be allowed to come to U.N. "I would let them come," he said.

"I've always felt the United Nations is very important." __ © 2019,Bloomberg News. Distributed

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Hurricane moves to tropics

By Joe Mario Pedersen & David Harris ORLANDO SENTINEL

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Jerry lost more wind speed Friday afternoon with sustained winds decreasing to 80 mph with higher gusts, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was downgraded to a Category 1 storm on Friday morning.

Jerry is moving west-northwest at 18 mph, located about 140 miles north of Barbuda and is expected to dump heavy rains over the Leeward Islands as it passes them Friday night.

"Data from both NOAA and Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that Jerry is weakening quickly, and radar images from NOAA show no sign of the eyewall reported on the last mission," the NHC said. "At longer range, a mid-latitude trough interaction should turn the hurricane northward and northeastward, but the models are really struggling on how quickly this occurs."

The storm is expected to pass well north of Puerto Rico by Saturday, but then is projected to take a sharp turn to the north and threaten Bermuda by early next week. It will not threaten Florida.

A tropical storm watch remains in effect for St. Maarten, St. Martin and St. Bathelemy.

Jerry's hurricane-force winds can be felt 15 miles from the center of the storm,

and its tropical-storm-force winds can be detected 90 miles from the center.

Meteorologists predict 1 to 3 inches of rainfall with isolated maximums of 4 to 6 inches from Barbuda northwest across St. Maarten, Anguilla and Anegada, the NHC said.

Forecasters expect Jerry to come into contact with a northwestern wind shear this weekend but it remains unclear what Jerry's intensity will be after the interaction.

"In a few days, the aforementioned trough interaction is anticipated, but it is next to impossible to know at this lead time whether the trough will weaken or strengthen the cyclone, so no forecast change is made," the NHC said.

It's five-day track takes it right over Bermuda, which dealt with the effects of Hurricane Humberto this week.

The NHC is also tracking several disturbances in the tropics.

It has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical depression in the next five days.

A disturbance in the mid-Atlantic region has a 40% chance of developing into a depression in the next five days, and a 30% chance of doing so in the next 48 hours.

The last disturbance the NHC is watching is in the Caribbean Sea but upper level winds are keeping its odds of development low at 10% in the next week. __ © 2019,Orlando Sentinel. Distributed

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CHICAGO — Police say one man was in custody after a vehicle drove into a Schaumburg mall and was seen on social media smashing displays in the mall Friday afternoon.

A black SUV smashed the doors of the mall near the Sears and Rainforest Cafe area of the mall just before 2:45 p.m., according to Schaumburg officials.

The situation caused "minor injuries," said Allison Albrecht, a Schaumburg spokeswoman.

"There were no major injuries," Albrecht said, but did not elaborate or say how many victims there were.

She did not know what path the SUV took or why it stopped, but said the lone driver, a male, was taken into police custody.

Albrecht said officials were still completing an evacuation as of 3:55 p.m. and have asked the public to avoid the area, if possible.

Some video and photos from the scene appeared to show authorities escorting someone wearing a long-sleeve red shirt from Woodfield Mall, with the person's hands behind their back.

Schaumburg police and fire officials were at the scene, as were FBI officials and officials from the Cook County sheriff 's office, who were assisting local officials.

"The FBI is aware of the situation at Woodfield Mall and is assisting at the request of local law enforcement," according to a statement from the Chicago office of the FBI. "There is no known threat to public safety at this time."

In the video shared on Twitter, someone shouts "This is not happening right now," as the SUV drives through the mall near a Forever 21 store, smashing a display in the middle of the mall as people run after the SUV. The SUV then appears to smash into a store.

"Oh my God," the person says.

Overhead video of the scene showed an entrance to the mall smashed, glass on the ground, leaving a hole large enough for a car to have traveled through.

In another video showing smashed windows at a mall entrance, one person says "Oh my goodness," and another says the driver "went all the way through ... through the mall."

Jackie Sanko of Schaumburg was waiting in line at Garrett's Popcorn when she heard screaming, followed by a crash and the sound of metal screeching.

She was shocked to see a black SUV zig-zagging inside the mall.

"I've got to get out of here as fast as I can," she said she thought, running between the poles of the popcorn stand to duck inside a nearby store.

She took cover in La Senza, where employees rushed her and customers to a stockroom in the back, offering everyone bottled water. She estimated that they were on lockdown inside Woodfield for about an hour and 40 minutes, but she felt more secure once she was in the back area of the store.

"You hear of things like this happening," she said in the mall parking lot, heading to her car, "but you never think they'll happen to you."

Bob Thomas, a Chicago Tribune executive, said he was walking through the Macy's store on his way to the Apple store to get his phone fixed, and as he headed toward the main mall, the fire alarm went off.

"The loudspeaker kept saying there's been an incident in the building. They said, 'Please leave as soon as possible,'" Thomas said. "There was no security staff telling people to do anything."

He thought it was a false alarm and kept walking. But then he said he heard someone say they were evacuating the mall.

"It was kind of chaotic," Thomas said.

"A guy in the Apple store said, 'They're reporting a car driving through the first floor.'"

He headed back to Macy's.

"I got to the center of the mall, I saw this car. It's a black SUV crashed against a pillar in front of Clark's shoe store.The front tire was flat.Two firemen were walking around it," he said.Thomas took a photograph, and "all of a sudden the tact team came in with assault rifles and yelling, 'Get out, get out, get out of the mall!'"

On his way out, Thomas said he saw police walking a man through the smashed doors of the Sears store. He appeared to be in his 20s, stocky, dressed in a red shirt and was in handcuffs, he said.

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SPORTS

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Family Legacy: Like mother like daughter

Photo by Emily Del Campo

By Taylor Strnad

BUSINESS MANAGER Redshirt Freshman hitter Emma Jones made her volleyball debut on Sept.

6 in Cedarville, Ohio against Anderson University wearing number 12, the same number her mother, Aimee Jones, wore when she played for the University of Indianapolis in 1994. Jones is not the only child of a former Greyhound to step on the court in UIndy history according to Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Sue Willey.

“It speaks volumes not only to our sports, but to the university that parents think enough of UIndy that they’d want their son or daughter to come [here.]”

Willey said, Aimee’s former volleyball coach.

Aimee started the legacy with her accomplishments in both basketball and volleyball. In 2002, Aimee, along with her teammates from the 1992-1993 basketball team, were inducted into the UIndy hall of fame. That season, they had a 13 game winning streak and a 24-4 record which resulted in them being the first in the program’s history to win a women’s basketball GLVC title.

As for volleyball, during the 1993 season, Aimee was the leader in aces with 36, and digs with 109.The following season in 1994 she was named all GLVC, the only volleyball player that year to be on the list. Willey said she remembers coaching Aimee and what a tremendous person and athlete that she was.

According to Jones, when she was younger, the main sport that she liked to play was basketball, so that is what she wanted to play in college. That dream was cut short when she tore her ACL in seventh grade playing basketball. Since then she has gone on to have four other knee surgeries.

“After that first surgery, the pressure on your body is a lot more, like running back and forth. So then I got more into volleyball,” Jones said. “Slowly and slowly, I started to love volleyball more and more.”

Early on in Jones’ career as a Greyhound, she tore her meniscus and had to be redshirted during her freshman year. However, her passion for volleyball remained strong. She recovered from the surgery and was able play for her sophomore season.

“She [ Jones] is an intense competitor,” Willey said. “I remember her mom was this way. She gets so excited when you get a good block or you get a kill or whatever and just the smile, it’s exciting for me.”

While walking in the footsteps of her mom may seem like quite the challenge, Emma said she isn’t worried about being compared by coaches or family. According to Jones, the awards that her mom received make her strive to hit her own goals and work harder on the court.

“I don’t really feel a lot of pressure. I feel like she [her mom] has always been super supportive and [I’m] just doing my best and trying living up to the person she was and not so much the volleyball player she was” Jones said.

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Greyhound captains, expectations, roles Athletes, coaches discuss what it takes to be a captain in UIndy Athletics once those seniors graduate, the junior captains are able to be promoted into the FEATURE EDITOR role more efficiently.

“We always have four captains, two For many University of Indianapolis juniors and two seniors,” Higgins said. athletic teams, some players stand out “So, we’re never really running into a from the rest of the athletes as leaders year where we’ve got a lack of leadership, are given the opportunity to take on the which is a big issue with quite a lot of role of being a team captain. college teams.”

According to Head Men’s Soccer Higgins said that Rohder, as well as his Coach John Higgins, UIndy prides co-captain senior forward Javier Steinitself on their leadership where coaches wascher, give his team a good balance work harder than everybody else and the of highly skilled athletes and leadership captains follow that example. personality.

“There are a lot of expectations that we “I think in Benny [Rohder] and have for them. It is almost a microscope Javi [Steinwascher] you have two very on those guys,” Higgins said. “They have different captains. He [Rohder] really to have the right behavior, attitude, body cares about his teammates, will put an language and they have to be working arm around the guy and will have an indiharder and be seen working harder than vidual conversation with one of the guys,” the guys underneath them.”

Higgins said. “Javi [Steinwascher] is Higgins said much more that choosing the authoritartwo senior capian… just “They have to have the tains for his team because of was an easy choice. how his right behavior, attitude, It was obvious personality based on their body language...” i s m ay b e leadership skills, a little bit the amount of retougher. It spect the players doesn’t algive them and their level of skill within ways work out like that, but it’s really nice their craft. that we’ve gotten that kind of balance.”

According to senior men’s soccer According to Higgins, the goal going captain and midfielder Ben Rohder, some into every season is to produce the best of the qualities that need to be seen in a experience for the seniors and captains. captain are being a leader on and off the Higgins said that the captains have the field and taking care of their academics floor with the rest of the team to say what in the classroom. they want out of the season.

“I definitely love the in-game situa“The whole goal initially is to lead tions. I love playing the sport and have up to the expectations mostly all of the been playing it all my life,” Rohder said. expectations, of the captains,” Higgins “So that’s the place where I can really said. “If we can do that, have that sort be the most confident and take charge of mentality initially, then we’re on the the best, but being a captain you’ve got right track.” to do that on and off the field.”

Higgins said that the captains have Rohder said that it has been a long the floor once their roles are set and four year process to get to the point there won’t be interference from the that he is in his soccer career. From the coaching staff. beginning of his freshman year, all of Senior defensive end and captain of the former captains pushed him to get the football team Jacob Schmatz was to the level he is at now. voted into the role of team captain by a According to Higgins, they named team wide vote, according to Schmatz. two official junior captains, Kyle KamSchmatz said that he was voting alongminga and Ryan Callan, to give them side his teammates for people who he time to be prepared and mentored by thought were capable of holding the the current senior captains. T captain position. he junior captains, Higgins said, that “It’s how you lead in the off season,

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Men’s soccer captains senior Midfielder Ben Rohder and senior forward Javier Steinwascher. The current captains helps prepare the junior captains for their roles next year.

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The four senior football captains for 2019-20 are linebacker Alex Parsons, defensive linemen Jacob Schmatz, wide reciever Maurice Robinson and offensive linemen Clay Hadley.

throughout workouts, at spring ball and then obviously, the beginning of camp too,” Schmatz said. “It comes down to your teammates and who they think of as a team captain, and I’m very thankful to have been given the opportunity.”

Schmatz said he tries to keep a connection with his teammates regardless of class standing. It’s more than just on the field, but a personal connection with everyone.

A team captain does not have to be

the most talented player on the field, according to Schmatz, but that it should be someone who works hard day in and day out, that is consistent with their attendance and talking on the field when a match is or is not going well.

“If I could pass something on to the guys below me, it’d be to try and be vocal,” Schmatz said. “Don’t be nervous about saying something or stepping up and holding guys accountable, that’s really good characteristic of a leader.”

Football brings in transfer QB

By Cassandra Lombardo MANAGING EDITOR

Since former starting quarterback Jake Puricha graduated in May, Southwest Baptist University transfer senior TJ Edwards has taken over the University of Indianpolis football teams quarterback position.

Edwards transferred from SBU,which is a fellow GLVC institution to UIndy.

He is going into his senior year and final year of collegiate football eligibility here at the university.

Edwards started his freshman year as quarterback at SBU earning the 2015 GLVC Freshman of the Year Award and 2016 All-GLVC First Team. Edwards was also named GLVC Offensive Player of the Year in 2016 after setting a single-season school record with 44 total touchdowns as well as leading SBU to a 10-2 season the same year.

Edwards said that before deciding to transfer to UIndy, he did some research on the university and the team.

“With SBU being in the same conference, I played [against] UIndy for three years,” Edwards said. “So, I did a little research after the 2018 season and found out that Jake [Puricha] was graduating. I kind of knew they were looking for someone to step in and take care of his role.”

Head Football Coach Chris Keevers said that with senior transfers, every situation is different.

“During the summer, we’re always looking to get better. So, this was an opportunity, that when he contacted us, we wanted to improve that position,”Keevers said. “It’ll be a case by case [basis] and we like to sign kids on signing day, but if we have the funds available and we can help our team, then we’re going to do it.”

After being at UIndy for only a few weeks now, Edwards has already broken the GLVC’s career record for touchdown passes in the game against Ashland University and more recently has broken the record for most passing yards and most total yards in the game against Mckendree University.

Even with his personal wins, Edwards said individual awards are not his main focus. While Edwards appreciates receiving his own awards, he’s here to help

the team win.

According to Edwards, he has been enjoying the season and is having the time of his life. He said he is getting great coaching and loving the experience. The coaches have made him feel at home through his transition, he said.

Keevers said that so far this season, Edwards has fit right in with the team and has proven what a hard worker he is.

“When he [Edwards] came in, we talked right off the bat,” Keevers said. “I said, ‘Hey, I know this is our expectation [from you]’ and he has been great with the team, the kids like him and they’ve blended in well together... he’s really fit in. It’s a credit to him, he’s really just been a good person and a good leader and he’s worked his tail off. Here at the University of Indianapolis, we respect work.

Guys that work are guys who are praised and liked, and he’s done that.”

As for the rest of the season, the team will take it one game at a time, said Keevers. They are happy with how they’re playing so far and want to keep their goals intact.

Along with their goals, according to Edwards, the coaches are doing a great job with making the game plan.

“We just wanna take each week 1-0 and just looking to come out with a victory,” Edwards said. “...Just looking to go out and play our game, do whatever the coaches tell us to do and follow the game plan.”

So far this season, Edwards has had 627 passing yards, resulting in seven touchdowns. Along with that, he has had 116 rushing yards, scoring two touchdowns for the hounds himself.

The Hounds are currently 3-0, beating Ashland University, Hillsdale College and McKendree University. So far the football team has outscored opponents 135-51 this season.The team’s next game will be this Homecoming weekend, Sept.

27, against SBU.

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Student sets eyes on public office UIndy student Paul Annee to challenge Kate Bell for Indianapolis City County-Council District 23

By Tate Jones

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT “Paul Annee for City Council” is straight to the point and tells the voters the intentions of the person running.

That’s exactly what junior political science major Paul Annee, the youngest person running for City County-Council, said he wanted to tell voters that he’s serious about it.

As a 21-year old Republican, Annee’s rise as a candidate might not be hard to spot for the occasional news viewer. His first attempt at political candidacy was for Marion County Recorder. Annee lost that election to incumbent Democrat Kate Sweeeny Bell. According to State Representative and Chairwoman of the Central Committee, the Marion County Recorder Cindy Kirchhoffer is a position that has been a democratic stronghold through multiple elections.

Annee said that what motivated him to run for that position then, and City County-Council now, was a mixture of drive and opportunity.

“I always had a deep interest in politics and civic leadership,” Annee said.

“The opportunity was presented to me last year to run for Marion County Recorder. That was the best way I could help my party and my community. As slating came around for the Republican Party in February this year, people were calling me around the community and the southside in particular. They said, ‘Would you please give it a thought?’”

Kirchhoffer said that the Republican party has began to take notice on Annee’s political rise. She said that she was impressed by his communication skills, something she would not expect from someone his age.

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“He [Annee] has an unusual maturity level,” Kirchhoffer said. “Along with his eagerness, passion and investment, he’s articulate. It’s not something you usually see when someone is just starting or going into college.”

The inspiration to invest himself into a career that, he said, can seem much more aggressive and unruly in the current national political atmosphere, has been closely related to his own life. Annee said that his family was full of people who have committed to public service.

“I was first inspired to get into public service because of the things my family were doing,” Annee said. “My grandfa-

ther was the Chief of Police. I learned to love the community through helping him and other members work. This was especially true in the law enforcement environment.”

His grandfather, Paul A. Annee, was awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash for his many years of service, Indiana’s highest civilian honor, by Gov. Eric J. Holcomb in 2017. Annee presented the award to his grandfather. Now, Annee’s main campaign goal is to help those in law enforcement, like his grandfather, and the people they serve.

According to Annee, one of his campaign’s focuses is public safety. He said that to push an agenda, even in

public safety, young voters need to be energized and mobilized to affect real change. He believes that his age might be the key to mobilizing young voters.

“Young people have been looking for people their age represented in government,” Annee said. “Elected officials need to serve all of the people they represent, and young people care. What I’ve seen is that young people already care about public safety. It’s about being someone that is issue-oriented.”

That proposition does not fall solely on Annee’s ears. Kirchhoffer said that the youth are an important group for the success of the Republican Party in Indiana. According to her, Annee’s

presence in the political scene and community have helped propel him forward.

“The run for recorder was not an easy election,” Kirchhofer said. “It was a losing proposition against that kind of opposition, but it built him some name ID, or credibility. It’s the fact he went in knowing he’d fail.”

To Kirchhoffer, that election and his ability to continue forward and pursue another office was just what was needed for Annee. She also said that his skills will help him in a district that pulls in his favors much more than his run for Recorder.

Between juggling life as a full-time college student and running for office, he said that he has found little time to spend relaxing. Most of Annee’s day, according to him, is a juggle between his personal life, school and professional lives.

“There’s a lot of ‘creative’ scheduling happening,” Annee said. “What I mean by that is that I’m always having to prioritize how I spend my time. School and the campaign are very important, but it can get hectic sometimes. It’s not impossible though.”

Annee said that he has to come to terms with the fact that he’s had to make personal sacrifices to find the time to pursue public office, especially as a full-time student.

Anne said that University of Indianapolis students could do the same thing that he’s doing. Even through the canvassing, campaign organizing and studying for classes, he said that his state of mind continued to push him forward toward his goals.

“I feel what I’m doing is helpful is because I go out and do hard work,” Anne said.

Study links domestic homicides to guns

By Ally Nickerson STAFF WRITER

A recent study published in July in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine co-authored by University of Indianapolis Professor of Psychology Aaron Kivisto found a link between firearm ownership and the risk of domestic homicide. Other co-authors included Lauren McGee, Bradley Ray and UIndy graduate Peter Phalen. Kivisto previously conducted research on both domestic violence and gun violence, but in this most recent study, the two subjects merge.

Krivisto said that he received a call from the New York Times shortly after its publication. The New York Times interview was conducted in a parking lot overlooking one of the few establishments in the rural West Virgina town: a large gun store. Other publications that have recently cited his work include Newsweek, The Independent and more.

According to Kivisto, the authors analyzed detailed Federal Bureau of Investigation homicide data from 1990 to 2016, which included the relationships between perpetrators and victims and the gender of the victims. Then compared it with gun ownership statistics to determine the relationship between the two.

Their analysis showed that a ten percent increase in gun ownership was linked to a 13 percent increase in the number of domestic homicides, which includes murders of an intimate partner or family member. According to Kivisto, the study did not find significant increase in other forms of homicide, such as homicide committed by a stranger or acquaintance.

“One of the fascinating things about gun violence is that it’s not evenly distributed,” Phalen said. “...We see very different patterns by social class and category.... It isn’t affecting all groups in one way. We wanted to look at how this epidemic of gun violence might be affecting people differently as a function of their relationship to their perpetrator.”

Kivisto said that this new study addresses a gap in the existing literature on the subject of gun violence.

“What research hadn’t done, to this point, in any real detail,” Kivisto said.

“Was ask the question ‘Yes, where there are more guns, the risk of mortality increases, but is that distributed in the population fairly equally, or is it localized in a specific victim population?’”

According to Kivisto, it was more difficult to quantify gun ownership in each state.There is no system to accurately track all gun ownership, which makes it difficult to determine the amount of guns

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people own. Instead, researchers used a metric that Kivisto calls “sad but true” in order to determine gun ownership rates; they took the total number of suicides in each state divided by the number of suicides committed with firearms to get an accurate estimate of the percentage of households in each state with a firearm.

They also used an algorithm that factored in the number of hunting licenses purchased in each state by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to make the percentages even more accurate.The researchers were

then able to determine the relationship between gun ownership and domestic homicide.

The study found that domestic homicide by firearm affected one group significantly more than any other. According to Phalen, while women are overall much less likely to die from gun violence than men, women who die from gun violence are more likely to die at the hands of an intimate partner.

“In cases where there’s documented domestic violence and a firearm in the

home,” Kivisto said. “The odds of the woman eventually being killed are five times greater than cases in which there’s no domestic firearm.”

Gun owners must be aware of the increased risk associated with owning firearms, according to Krivisto “One implication of this research is that there are also risks associated with a gun in your home, for the people that you care about,” Kivisto said. “When they’re too close, too available, and things get heated, there is a danger.”

Discount store opens

By Reid Bello

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Photo by Justyn Clark

Campus Closet, located near campus, is open Tuesday through Friday from 2 p.m until 6 p.m. On Saturdays, they are open from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Sundays, they are closed.

Campus Closet, a thrift store located at 4033 Weaver Avenue, opened on Aug. 24. The store is geared specifically toward college students by having clothes currently trending, business attire, UIndy apparel and more.

Campus Closet, owned by Jenny Bryans and her husband, Associate Director of Business, Entrepreneur, Sports Management & Marketing Professional Edge Center - University Advancement Kirk Bryans. Bryans said that she wants to give students the opportunity to sell handmade items and creations because this benefits students that sell their products and gets more foot traffic through the door.

Senior business administration major Dah Metrie Shaw sells his candles at the store. He makes all of the candles himself and has 14 different seasonal scents. According to Shaw, he experiments to see what scents pair well together to make new concoctions for the upcoming seasons.

“I have a candle business, it’s called Wahs,” Shaw said. “Basically, Wahs is a design firm, but the first phase of the whole business is providing a high

quality, beautifully designed, low priced product. So candles was the first thing that just popped in my head when I first started the business, two years ago,” Shaw said. “I provide Campus Closet with my eight and 16 ounce candles.

It’s all soy, all vegan and all handmade.”

Along with the candles, Shaw makes wax melts for college students to enjoy while they are living in the dorms. According to Shaw, he donates 20 percent of his proceeds to the Indianapolis Humane Society. His customers have the option to round up their purchase to the nearest dollar for online purchases, the rounded change goes to the humane society.

Kirk Bryans was aware that Shaw ran a business and because of this, he saw a perfect opportunity to help a student sell their product. Campus Closet doesn’t take any percentage of the proceeds from Shaw’s candles. Right now, Shaw is the only student selling his products, but Bryans said she hopes to have more students selling their items in the store. She said that her and her husband wanted to be able to provide a cheaper clothing option for college students since they are affiliated with the university.

“We’re doing this for the students

and we want to give them an opportunity to have a place or a venue to sell their things. And for us, it’s a win-win because then we get more students in shopping,” Bryans said. “Really it’s a bonus to have the opportunity to sell their things. We want them to be able to get 100 percent of the profit. Really our focus was selling the clothes, so whatever they do is a bonus [for us].

And that’s why we would rather have them get the full amount.”

Bryans said that if a student comes in looking for something specific that is not in stock, she will keep an eye out for what the student is looking for.

According to Bryans, her four daughters also help her look for items for the store. They help her pick out items that would interest college students because she wants to be able to cater as best as possible to the students of the university and their desire for affordable clothing.

“I love hearing from the students what they’re looking for, what their needs are,” Bryans said. “I’ve had a couple of students looking for specific things... so I want to kind of fill those needs for people. If they’re looking for something specific, then I know what to look for.”

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Healing through music Music therapy recognized for two years of education

By Madison Gomez OPINION EDITOR

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therapy program here at UIndy that had gone on to get equivalency [degrees] in music therapy from other institutions, so a couple different ways [UIndy] was looking at it, they could recapture students that had already graduated with a related music degree, and they could also provide services for the community here, where there’s a shortage of music therapists available.”

Music therapy is typically used for developmental issues, Alheizmer's disease, rehabilitation and many things in between. Senior music therapy major Connor Furgason said that he was taught

In the fall of 2016, Janice Schreibman, director and assistant professor of the music therapy program, worked on the proposal of a new major for the University of Indianapolis’ music curriculum: music therapy. There is a shortage of music therapists in Indiana, Schreibman said, and when she became involved in the creation of the major, in January 2017, the first course was made available for students.

Currently, the program has not been around long enough to allow any “The biggest thrill has been graduates since it is a four and a half year program, creating the with four years in the program from scratch.” courses, and a required six month internship of 900 hours. the purpose of music therapy is to use There is also an equivalency program it to reach non musical goals, such as within the department which allows medicinal use. Currently, music therapy students who already received their is offered in hospice facilities, Medicaid bachelor’s degree in music to take music waivers, in private practices, and among therapy courses and receive credit for other facilities, Fergason said. them. At UIndy, the program was imThe program’s two year anniversary of plemented because of the interest shown certification from the American Music from current students and alumnus in the Therapy Association was recognized on music department. If the students want, Sept. 11, 2019. The department only they can go through the music therapy had one professor when the major was major, but with the extended hours it created because Schreibman had only requires, the equivalency shows that they eight prospective students. Currently, have similar skills to those in the major. they have 30 degree seeking students so “Music therapy is recognized as an they had to add another professor. up and coming field, so it made sense To expand the program further, Furto have a music therapy program. And gason was approached by the professors many students who are graduating with of the music therapy department and was a general music degree have pointed asked to create the Students of Music [at an] interest to music therapy as a Therapy Program, a group that gets tocareer choice,” Schreibman said. “Now, gether solely to practice music therapy. also, other graduates prior to the music

Other universities with a music therapy major had the group already, and the professors at UIndy saw it as a beneficial opportunity for a small university and a new major to grow. Furgason became the founder and president of the group.

From there, Furgason worked to guide the department to make it bigger, as well as expand the group’s knowledge.The group has traveled to music therapy conferences in Michigan, Ohio and this year, they will be traveling to Minnesota.

“I think that really helps because we can all bring in a guest speaker or if there’s something we all don’t understand as a whole, we can figure it out together and play guitar together and get better at our own skills just off the clock of being in class,” Furgason said.

Music therapy majors are required to know how to play the piano and guitar as well as pass in the voice category, said Furgason. Piano and voice are required for all music majors to learn, but the guitar is especially important for music therapy majors, according to Furgason.

“It’s super portable, that one [instrument] you can take anywhere,” Furgason said. “It’s always on our backs, and you can play a melody or just cords, and it can either be super peaceful or really invigorating so it’s just really universal."

Schriebman said if students have questions or are curious about the program, they should take the Intro to Music Therapy Course. There are printed handouts available in the music office or students can email her directly to discuss possible careers in the field of music therapy.

“The biggest thrill has been creating the program from scratch and talking to other universities and seeing how they do things, discovering what works best for our community,” Schreibman said.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Comedian Pete Lee takes on family weekend

Photo by Macy Judd

Comedian Pete Lee came to UIndy to perform a live comedy show, where he not only poked fun at audience members, but also at himself to keep the audience laughing.

By Macy Judd STAFF WRITER

The lights dimmed and two spotlights shined on a stage set in UIndy Hall where laughter immediately filled the room as standup comedian Pete Lee began his show for the first night of family weekend on Sept. 13.

He spent his time on stage not only teasing himself, but also teasing the audience.

From coffee addiction, names of different cities, or dresses with pockets, there was almost nothing Lee did not make a joke out of. However, Lee said that his journey has not always been easy.

“I was really good at making my friends in the cafeteria laugh. My friend would always tell me to start doing standup comedy, but I was creatively afraid,” Lee said. “I noticed he would write things down in a notebook when we would hang out and at the end of the year, he gave me the notebook and said, ‘These are all of your jokes,’ and I looked through it and said, ‘Oh my god I’m funny’, and that’s how it all started.”

His biggest struggles were financial

issues, according to Lee. He said that averaging out a years worth of wages would come close to minimum wage, but he found the inspiration to keep doing stand-up. Being a people-pleaser makes it all the more rewarding, he said.

“I identified with what a lot of college students go through, working hard and not really seeing any financial rewards,” Lee said.“Even when I was broke though, the comedy was still fun. Even on the nights I didn’t do well, I still learned something.”

Freshman exercise science major Sarah Hewitt said she thought the show was hilarious and the comedy was almost nonchalant.

He had a presence that was sweet and kind, while also being funny beyond belief, Hewitt said.

Lee’s show ended with him handing out t-shirts that said “Snugglestorm,” the title of the podcast he does with his girlfriend. He talked about his new Comedy Central sitcom.

“There’s nothing better than making a whole room full of people laugh,” Lee said. “It’s just an overwhelmingly good feeling to have my career be going really well to where I can make millions of people laugh.”

New chair plans for future of department

By Jacob Walton SPORTS EDITOR

“Theater is in my blood,” Audrey Cunningham, the new chair of the University of Indianapolis Department of Theatre said. Cunningham previously served as the coach of the UIndy Forensics Speech and Debate Team from 1993 to 2017 as well as a faculty member in the communication department from 1986-2019.

Cunningham took over the role previously held by Penny Sornberger, the former chair of the department.

Cunningham said the position opened up, and she was offered the spot because of her experience in theater, in which she has a bachelor's degree.

“I have a love of the theater and I wanted to see it grow and thrive and I

had some ideas, and that's why I came down [to the theatre department],” Cunningham said. “And I like everyone down here.”

The transition, which happened over the summer, was rough at first because of changes to the curriculum, but help from others in the theatre department made the transition easier, she said.

“At first, it was a big challenge,” Cunningham said. “I was integrated over the summer, and the person who had been chair before, Penny Sornberger, was a huge help and she was here a lot over the summer as well. That helps. Then Jodi Bush, our administrative assistant, is amazing, so I get a lot of help and support.”

Although she has spent a short time in the department, Cunningham said she has a lot of plans to help the department during her one year. She

said one of her most important goals is to get students to work together more.

“In one year, it's hard to get a lot

CUNNINGHAM accomplished, but [that's] one of the things we're working and, we've already gotten students to see the future here and know that it's viable and it's positive,”

Cunningham said. “We've made a few structural changes in organization.We've instituted a whole department work call two days a week, where everyone comes together and works building scenery, working on the props and costumes, and that builds more teamwork and it also helps the varsity [advanced] students help the novice students.”

Cunningham said she is thinking long-term and has long-term projects in mind to help the theatre department.

One thing she plans to continue is the department’s participation in competitions such as the American College Theater Festival, where students can compete against other students from different schools in various activities such as acting and design.

Cunningham said she also wants to help theater students get more involved in the community. She hopes this will

help the UIndy students and faculty know more about what is going on in the theatre department and how they can get into shows for free. This year, to reach more of the community, theater students are marching in the Homecoming Parade.

Cunningham has kept her connections to the communication department despite the move. She said she is still teaching Classroom Communication and has tried to keep in contact with her former colleagues.

Cunningham said that she’s happy to have found something that can challenge her in her last year at the university.

“Down here [the theatre department], I've been welcomed with open arms and it's been a wonderful change and a challenge,” Cunningham said. “So instead of just floating out my last year to retirement, I'm actually challenged.

It's probably a good thing.”

Graphic by Kiara Conley

By Shylah Gibson PHOTO EDITOR

A play containing many surprises and free pizza allowed for a weekend fulfilled by laughs and excitement as the University of Indianapolis theatre department hosted their second-annual showing of the play, “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.”

The show began as a tradition last fall after the theatre department presented it at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival. Last year, UIndy was recognized for selling the most tickets at their venue according to junior theatre major Clayton Rardon.

This festival has a large impact on the theatre department overall, because of the opportunities that actors and designers have, Rardon said. This event allows for the department to create a bigger name for themselves, despite being a small group, Rardon said.

“Being able to perform in that venue really opens up other people’s eyes to see that we even have a theatre program because our theatre program is really small,” Rardon said.

The play has much to love, according to junior theater major Sunni Tekle. It allows for more audience interaction than the usual play and is looked at as very sporadic and lighthearted.

“The show isn’t your average or your typical,” Tekle said. “It’s hard to hate, at least for someone like me…just having that ability to interact with the audience because typically you don’t have that ability whenever you’re an actor on the stage.”

Unlike other plays, this show consisted of a variety short plays gathered into one while the actors attempted to complete all of the plays in 48 minutes or less.The play includes different themes from funny to crude, and semi-serious, according to Rardon.

In the audience was sophomore exercise science major, Michael Clay, who said the show contained a different variety of plays making the show almost entirely different from last year.

“I think this year was definitely better,”Clay said.“Whenever I got here, I thought it would be the same play as last year and every single one was different, so that was really cool too.”

Along with the plays within the show being different, the ideas displayed in the show differed from last year as well.

This year, some plays took on less of a comedic approach and more of a serious, politically driven approach, said senior theatre major Emily Hart.

The play ran from Thursday, Sept. 12 to Saturday, Sept. 14 and each night was unique. The audience tends to guide the

play in its own direction, which Hart said makes for a better time overall.

“This is a really fun play to do because I think it’s a bit off the beaten path than shows that we typically do here at UIndy,” Hart said. “It’s a fun piece to do because it’s different everyday… There’s a lot of

unexpected things that happen, so it’s really fun for the actors and seeing them enjoy that process.”

The show was looked at as exciting for audience members, but it was also fun for the cast Rardon said. The cast tended to go off script and have more flexibility.

“This is one play that I really couldn’t find anything that I disliked about it,” Rardon said. “I really enjoyed the concept of it and everything about it, it’s just so lighthearted and funny.

Even the rehearsal for it was very lighthearted and laidback."

Photo by Tony Reeves

At the end of a play where things go terribly wrong for the cast, junior theatre major Clayton Rardon and senior theatre major Destiny Huegel do spit takes at one another. Rardon was also spit on by junior theatre major Sunni Tekle where she claims he poisoned her.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Illnesses possibly linked to vaping 530 cases have been reported in 38 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, including seven deaths

By Justus O'Neil FEATURE EDITOR

in the last two years,” Box said.

University of Indianapolis Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the Public Health Program Heidi Hancher-Rauch said the public health field is currently behind in understanding what the health impact is, and now there are young adults on college campuses who have taken up e-cigarette products.

“I think we're starting to see what that impact is on the lungs, and it's not good,” Rauch said. “We're seeing these young, otherwise healthy kids show up in hospitals with [a] serious lung disease, and it doesn't respond to typical antibiotics.

I mean, these people are people who felt like they were healthy a week ago and are now on a respirator. So it's terrifying.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Sept. 12 that they are investigating the recent multi-state outbreak of lung illnesses in connection with e-cigarette product use. According to the CDC, there have been 530 lung illness cases reported in 38 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands and there have been seven reported deaths from six different states where e-cigarette use is being considered a potential factor, as of The Reflector press time. One of those deaths was in Indiana, according to the CDC. President Trump issued a statement on Sept. 11 saying that he, along with the Food and Drug “...these people are Administration, intend to finalize a guidance document that would start people who felt like they enforcing that all flavors, other than tobacco flavor, e-cigarette products were healthy a week ago...” would be removed from the market.

According to Indiana State Health Commissioner Kris Box, one According to Rauch, the recommenreported Indiana adult has died from a dation for people who are trying to quit mysterious lung illness that was linked tobacco is to use FDA approved products to vaping. and practices such as nicotine patches, “Just one death is a horrible loss, not counseling, nicotine gum and other stress only to this family but to the state,” Box management techniques. Rauch said that said.“We don’t want there to be any more vaping and e-cigarette products are not deaths or any more injuries and illnesses yet a safe alternative. if we can help it.”

In a statement, the Indiana State Box said that public health officials Department of Health outlined a plan to and organizations are calling this an introduce various mediums for Indiana epidemic because of how quickly and schools to use to help educate students widespread the surge in lung disease and parents about the dangers of e-cigacross the country has been. arette products. The plan includes an “Thirty-five thousand more students educational toolkit and a text line for in the state of Indiana took up vaping youth who want to quit. ISDH also is

running a public awareness campaign for the entire state to push e-cigarette cessation.

“We have really done an amazing job–not just in Indiana, but across the United States–[with] getting youth cigarette smoking down to where we have seven to eight percent of kids in high school that were smoking,” Box said. “It can be so critical that we’re reaching this age group in their education.”

Box said that part of the public awareness campaign is geared toward reaching young people on social media. According to Box, ISDH’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Commission hopes to come to high school and college campuses to speak with and train students and staff about how to educate more young people about e-cigarette use.

According to Rauch, there is more interest in the health effects of e-cigarette products now that these cases are making national headlines.

“They [healthcare providers] didn't know what questions to ask,” Rauch said. “So now, as the message is getting out there to health care providers...they're starting to ask these questions. So then we're better able to collect that data and determine if it is vaping related or not.”

It is still unknown exactly what it is that is making people so sick, according to Rauch, so there's really no safe way to vape right now, based on the data that public health experts have so far.

Most e-cigarette products contain approximately 29 chemicals, including nicotine, Box said, and three of those chemicals are also present in car exhaust.

“When you start to look at that, and you start to give people those facts and they're like, ‘I don't know if I don’t want

Graphic by Noah Fields

to take that into my lungs,’” Box said.

“But once you've already started, many people feel they can’t stop…[and that is] because of the nicotine.”

Box said that through partnering with the Indiana Department of Education, ISDH is able to start connecting more effectively with young people and make them aware of what resources are available for anyone who already has been using these products.

According to Rauch, UIndy is equipped with counselors who are available to talk to students who have questions or want to quit using addictive substances such as nicotine.

“The same place that people go for a sore throat is where you can go to talk to somebody,” Rauch said. “[You can] talk about stress management, whatever it is that can help you get over that dependence on that substance.”

Alumna leads drug-free program in Beech Grove

By Madison Gomez OPINION EDITOR

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The coalition participates in community events where they offer kids the chance to do inspirational rock painting. Photos of the rocks are then posted on their Facebook page.

Nursing from page 1 everything about how the body works and how to impact it and fix it and do all the sciency stuff, but it’s also caring.

You can’t train caring on machines,” Kemery said.

Prior to applying to the program, students must complete general education programs and also all prerequisite courses for their pre-clinical courses, according to the nursing curriculum guide.

Students must also have at least a 2.82 GPA in order to be considered for admission into the clinical portion of the nursing program. For the first

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“I stated publicly about four years ago that the city of Beech Grove has an issue with heroin,” Beech Grove, Ind. Mayor Dennis Buckley said. “That really wasn’t a popular statement to some, but it was an honest answer and I wasn’t going to sugarcoat anything. I was just going to tell the truth. And I think the first solution to our problem is to admit we’ve got one.”

The Beech Grove Comprehensive Drug-Free Coalition was created two years later, in 2017, in response to the mayor’s statement. The faith-based roundtable, that includes members of the Beech Grove community, reached out to fellow community member and University of Indianapolis alumna Diana Hendricks, who took on the proposal of a drug-free coalition and has since expanded it.

“There’s just not a lot of prevention organizations out there for substance issues,” Hendricks said. “We have treatment, we have recovery, but there’s not a lot of funding for prevention so basically all of us on the coalition are doing this for free.”

To combat this drug problem, the coalition has had programs in place throughout many parts of the community. Hendricks said that they offer courses for drug prevention from years.

“We’ve got some interesting global initiatives we’ve started on,” Hall said.

“We’ve had some mission work that has happened in the School of Nursing in recent years in Ecuador, one of our faculty takes the students down to Ecuador and they do some kind of medical mission works there.

This past year, Hall said they have branched out and joined another trip that was going to Ghana with the intent of doing some medical mission work into Ghana. According to Hall, she can see that particulary growing as well.

fourth through ninth grade in Beech Grove Schools, which is a major partner of the coalition. Through training, the teachers have implemented courses that teach life skills, anti-bullying measures, and ways to stay away from substance abuse. They also offer a quarterly educational program for adults on removing risk factors, such as leaving alcoholic drinks out on the table for children, and implementing protective factors instead.

At community events, the coalition hands out information about their coalition, refrigerator magnets that have hotline numbers for mental health services and a biodegradable medicine pouch called a Deterra Drug Deactivation System. The pouch is used safely dispose of unused medicine, according to deterrasystem.com. They invite those who are in recovery to go to the back of the tent and, if they are comfortable, sign their first name and the year they started recovery on a banner. This lets those struggling know that they are fully supported by the coalition.

“The United States, they don’t want to understand prevention,” Hendricks said. “All they know is there’s treatment and recovery. And so getting people to understand and talk about prevention, you have to have something that entices them.”

In order to bring parents into the booth and be informed, the coalition

advertises that they let kids paint rocks, which the group calls call “inspiration” rock painting.

While the parents talk with the coalition members and the children paint rocks, various members of the coalition take pictures to put on the group’s Facebook page: Beech Grove Drug Free. From there, parents can find more information about events and the coalition, Hendricks said. She said that the parents think it is exciting to see their kids and their creations on a website.

“So that brings the parents in so we can then get the parents the information,” Hendricks said. “And I would say 60 percent of the parents say ‘Oh my goodness, I do have medications in my medicine cabinet, I did not realize that could be a risk factor.’”

Hendricks said that by educating parents on risk factors, the coalition is providing them with ways to prevent substance abuse.

Without partners,the coalition would only stand as an educational force that allows free, discrete communication that speaks about prevention. However, with partners such as Drug-Free Marion County and local hospitals, the coalition can direct people towards recovery and treatment. According to Hendricks, the coalition brings a representative from a medical facility every time they do a community event, and almost every time, someone requests for help for a friend or themselves.

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