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VOLUME 83, ISSUE 5<br />
Winter sports<br />
See Pages 4<br />
and 5.<br />
SAGAMORE INSTITUTE<br />
0<br />
“EDUCATION FOR SERVICE” NOVEMBER 17,2004<br />
UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS<br />
1400 EAST HANNA AVEN~JE INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227<br />
Fall movie<br />
reviews<br />
See Page 7.<br />
<strong>Indianapolis</strong> ‘think tank’ hosts foreign policy discussion<br />
Lucas Klipsch<br />
Editor-iii-Chief<br />
The Sagamore Institute for Policy<br />
Research helda publicdiscussionentitled<br />
“How Can We Achievea Sensible Foreign<br />
Policy? A Forward-Looking Conversa-<br />
tion with Four Security Scholars,” on<br />
Monday, Nov. 8.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the participating scholars was<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong> Associate Pro-<br />
fessor <strong>of</strong> Political Science and Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the International Relations Program,<br />
Dr. Bill Ayres.<br />
The Sagamore Institute is an interna-<br />
tional think tank in <strong>Indianapolis</strong>. John<br />
Clark, senior research fellow for the Hud-<br />
son Institute, and other former members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Hudson Institute, founded it. The<br />
Hudson Institute moved to Washington,<br />
D.C., less than a year ago. Instead <strong>of</strong><br />
following, Clark decided to start a new<br />
think tank, entirely separate from the<br />
Hudson Institute.<br />
“The Hudson Institute was an old,<br />
well established think tank,” Clark said.<br />
“We [the Sagamore Institute] are a new<br />
thinktank basedonold [Hudson Institute]<br />
researchers .”<br />
The discussion was held at the Hudson<br />
Institute’s old headquarters, a mansion<br />
on the east side <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong>. “We’re<br />
kind <strong>of</strong> squatting here until our divorce<br />
negotiations with Hudson are finished,”<br />
Clark said. “But we might stay here.”<br />
The discussion, according to Clark,<br />
will be the first <strong>of</strong> many at the Saga-<br />
more Institute. He hopes that similar<br />
discussions will follow, and perhaps the<br />
international relations community can<br />
start coming up with answers to some<br />
questions concerning America’s future<br />
role in the international system, and the<br />
Bush administration’s plans for the next<br />
PHI ALPHA EPSILON<br />
four years.<br />
“What my guests want to do is go be-<br />
yond just saying we’ve got problems, but<br />
actually trying to find ways we can solve<br />
those problems,” Clark said. “These four<br />
scholars are an important asset to India-<br />
napolis. We need people to provide facts<br />
and per,spectives on war and peace.”<br />
Besides Ayres, the other three scholars<br />
werePierreAtlas<strong>of</strong>Marian College, Siob-<br />
han McEvoy-Levy <strong>of</strong> Butler <strong>University</strong><br />
and Scott Pegg <strong>of</strong> IUPUI.<br />
All <strong>of</strong> these pr<strong>of</strong>essors were signatories<br />
<strong>of</strong> an open letter that was distributed to<br />
the global community <strong>of</strong> international<br />
relations scholars. The letter, dated<br />
Octobelr <strong>of</strong> 2004, originated within an<br />
organization called Security Scholars<br />
for a Sensible Foreign Policy, and al-<br />
ready contains over 850 signatures from<br />
various political science and international<br />
relations scholars across the world. The<br />
letter is addressed as “an open letter to<br />
the American people,” and calls for a<br />
“fundamental reassessment” <strong>of</strong> the Bush<br />
administration’s foreign policy <strong>of</strong>the past<br />
four years.<br />
During the discussion, the scholars<br />
talked about, among other things, the ma-<br />
jorchallenges for the Bush administration<br />
in the coming four-year term. Although<br />
several topics were discussed, security<br />
was a Focal point <strong>of</strong> the evening, as it<br />
was heavily stressed in the open letter.<br />
“The rmost immediate (security] concern<br />
is North Korea,” Ayres said. “If we solve<br />
every problem there is between Morocco<br />
and Iran, we wouldn’t be solving the most<br />
important problems.”<br />
War and peace were not the only top-<br />
ics discussed. Clark, who mediated the<br />
event, made sure that topics “<strong>of</strong>f the radar<br />
screen” were also discussed. Included in<br />
these hereenvironmental policy, poverty,<br />
disease: and international gun control.<br />
“The vast majority <strong>of</strong> people lkilled<br />
by weapons] are not killed by weapons <strong>of</strong><br />
mass destruction, they ’re’killed by AK-<br />
47s and other small arms,” Pegg said.<br />
Clark agreed. “Small arms put an<br />
enormous amount <strong>of</strong> killing capacity <strong>into</strong><br />
the hands <strong>of</strong> child soldiers.”<br />
Although the discussion was mainly<br />
about foreign policy, not domestic<br />
politics, it eventually turned <strong>into</strong> a post-<br />
election Kerry vs. Bush debate, based on<br />
audience reaction. According to Clark,<br />
the main goal <strong>of</strong> the open letter was to<br />
“give a failing grade to the Bush admin-<br />
istration and its policies on Iraq and the<br />
war on terrorism.” Despite some pro-Bush<br />
arguments from the audience, the scholars<br />
did not retort negatively and were more<br />
concerned~about how the president will<br />
conduct his administration in the future,<br />
than his mistakes in the past. “You can<br />
be very smart and still not adopt reason<br />
as your basic framework,” Ayres said.<br />
“People who know the president best<br />
will say he’s not stupid, he just operates<br />
from a world view in which statements <strong>of</strong><br />
faith, beliefs and feelings are the opera-<br />
tive motives.”<br />
Although the discussion was meant to<br />
be apublic forum, the audience was small,<br />
and the president, for whom the discus-<br />
sion was designed, was clearly unaware<br />
<strong>of</strong> its existence. “[At the discussion]<br />
we talked about the responsibility to be<br />
engaged in public conversations, to get<br />
what we know out <strong>into</strong> the media,”Ayres<br />
said. “That conversation was colored by<br />
the sneaking suspicion that that doesn’t<br />
make any difference.”<br />
Clark agreed with Ayres. “The chances<br />
are pretty slim that the Bush administra-<br />
tion is going to listen to us here tonight,”<br />
he said, prior to the discussion.<br />
Still, all four scholars speculated on<br />
how Bush will handle his second term as<br />
president. According to Ayres, presidents<br />
traditionally view their second term as an<br />
opportunity to establish a legacy.<br />
Continued on Page 3.<br />
Photo by Zach Bolinger<br />
U <strong>of</strong> I Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Political Science Dr. Bill Ayres<br />
answers a question at the Sagamore Institute on Nov. 8.<br />
Class <strong>of</strong> 2007 <strong>students</strong> <strong>inducted</strong> <strong>into</strong> <strong>Phi</strong> <strong>Alpha</strong> <strong>Epsilon</strong><br />
Plzoto hv Luke Thornberm<br />
Dr. Mary Moore, vice president for research, planning and strategic partnerships,<br />
speaks to <strong>Phi</strong> <strong>Alpha</strong> <strong>Epsilon</strong> inductees and their families and friends who attended<br />
the induction ceremony held on Nov. 7 in the chapel in Schwitzer Student Center.<br />
Sarah Clough<br />
Distribittioii iLliiizciger<br />
<strong>Phi</strong> <strong>Alpha</strong> <strong>Epsilon</strong>, the freshman<br />
honors society, held its annual induction<br />
ceremony at 1 pm. on Nov. 7.<br />
Friends and family were invited 10 the<br />
<strong>University</strong> Chapel to attend this event<br />
honoring the Class <strong>of</strong>2007 <strong>students</strong> who<br />
had excelled academically during their<br />
freshman year.<br />
Students who were recognized came<br />
from many different majors but shared<br />
one common trait, they all were able to<br />
maintain a 3.5 or above grade point aver-<br />
age in their first year in college.<br />
“It was important that the university<br />
recognized the academic achievements <strong>of</strong><br />
its <strong>students</strong>,” said Cristy Corwin, sopho-<br />
more elementary education major.<br />
Corwin was among the <strong>students</strong> in-<br />
ducted <strong>into</strong> the honors society. Ed Wall.<br />
at the event, and nearly every seat in the<br />
chapel was filled. The <strong>students</strong> came<br />
forward and were presented with their<br />
award by the pr<strong>of</strong>essor or mentor <strong>of</strong><br />
their choice.<br />
Lana Lukas, a biology major inductee,<br />
was honored by Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
Biology P. RogerSweets, who apologized<br />
for breaking the mold from the otherpro-<br />
fessors and gave an extra explanation <strong>of</strong><br />
why Lukas deserved this award.<br />
SweetsclaimedthatLukasnotonlyde-<br />
served the award for her hard work in her<br />
academic endeavors but also because she<br />
had saved his life during the department’s<br />
Spring Term trip to Belize.<br />
“I didn’t really save his life,” Lukas<br />
said. “1 held a flashlight while they were<br />
doing a night swim in the ocean. I was<br />
just a beacon. But I do appreciate being<br />
honored with thisceremony. I didn’treally<br />
know what it was at first, but now that<br />
I know more. I think it’s a great idea to<br />
have an honors society to award <strong>students</strong><br />
for their efforts, because that first year<br />
is hard.”<br />
All the <strong>students</strong> felt that this honors<br />
society would help them in the future.<br />
“Hopefully, futureemployers will look<br />
interimcoordinator,cducation masters in at our resumes and see that we were ac-<br />
curriculum&instruction, washerchosen ceptedtoaprestigious society,anditwilI<br />
inductor. better our opportunities for employment,”<br />
More than 2o were Inducted Corwin said<br />
ELECTIONS<br />
Voting problems delay results in eventual Bush win<br />
Computer glitches, broken ballot machines complicate vote count<br />
Shelly Grimes<br />
Stafs Writer<br />
After a record turnout at the polls and hours <strong>of</strong> waiting for<br />
results, George W. Bush was elected to serve as President <strong>of</strong> the<br />
United States for four more years.<br />
According to USA Today, a record setting 60 percent <strong>of</strong> those<br />
eligible to vote cast ballots this election year. Exit polls from USA<br />
Today and CNN show that President Bush received 51 percent <strong>of</strong><br />
the popular vote, as opposed to Sen. John Kerry’s 48 percent.<br />
However, this election, like the one in 2000, was not called in<br />
favor <strong>of</strong> either candidate on Election Night.<br />
The battleground state <strong>of</strong> Ohio, which holds 20 Electoral Votes,<br />
was deemed “too close to call.” Without Ohio, both candidates<br />
were short <strong>of</strong> the 270 electoral votes needed to win the Presidency.<br />
Initial results from CBS and other news media showed that Bush had<br />
a slight lead in the state.<br />
Sen. Kerry’s camp reportedly considered refusing to concede until<br />
all absentee provisional ballots were counted, but it became evident<br />
the following day that Bush had won the state. Sen. Kerry conceded<br />
later Wednesday afternoon, saying in his concession speech that he<br />
would not “give up this fight if there were a chance that we [Demo-<br />
crats] would prevail.”<br />
It was not until Friday, Nov. 5, that the last <strong>of</strong> the states-Iowa and<br />
New Mexico-were called by the Associated Press, also in favor <strong>of</strong><br />
Bush. The final count gave Bush 286 electoral votes and Kerry 252<br />
electoral votes.<br />
Computer glitches were partly to blame for the delayed results.<br />
CNN reported that in lowa two machines used to count ballots broke<br />
down. The machines were later repaired, but the votes could not be<br />
counted until Wednesday morning.<br />
An error with an electronic voting system in Ohio apparently gave<br />
Bush an extra 3,893 votes. The totals first showed Bush receiving<br />
4,258 votes and Kerry receiving 260 votes in a precinct in a Columbus<br />
suburb where only 638 voters cast ballots.<br />
Records show that Bush actually received 365 votes. CNN<br />
reported that the Secretary <strong>of</strong> State could not change the state’s<br />
election totals until the error was <strong>of</strong>ficially reported to the state.<br />
CNN also reported that in one North Carolina county more than<br />
4,500 votes were lost when <strong>of</strong>ficials tried to store more electronic<br />
data in a machine than it could hold.<br />
Also, 32 voters in six states complained to the Election Protec-<br />
tion Coalition, a group <strong>of</strong> volunteer poll monitors, that the wrong<br />
candidate appeared on their touch screen voting machine.<br />
The problem appeared mainly with Democrats in Florida. Several<br />
voters who intended to select Kerry were shown Bush’s name on<br />
the verification screen. Initial reports indicate that these cases were<br />
simply computer glitches and that the problems were corrected.<br />
In his victory speech. President Bush said that Sen. Kerry<br />
“waged a spirited campaign” but now that the campaigning was<br />
over, the country would have to unite to move ahead in the next<br />
four years.<br />
”We have one country. one Constitution and one future that<br />
binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is<br />
no limit to the greatness <strong>of</strong> America,” the president said.
RELIGION EDITORIAL<br />
It’s time to question Religious Right, political morality issues<br />
Lucas Klipsch<br />
Ediror-iri-Chief<br />
What’s happened to the American<br />
system <strong>of</strong> democracy‘? HOW is it that on<br />
Tuesday, Nov. 2. President George W.<br />
Bush was re-elected by both the popular<br />
and electoral votes? 1-11 tell you.<br />
The Republican Party has monopolized<br />
moral issues with which voters, both<br />
liberal and conservative, feel compelled<br />
to align themselves.<br />
President Bush was reelected fairly.<br />
I’m not a conspiracy theorist who<br />
thinks that the Republican Party rigs<br />
every election and has “stolen” democracy<br />
out <strong>of</strong> the hands <strong>of</strong> the American<br />
people. I just think that the G.0.P has<br />
many United States voters gassed. so<br />
to speak. They’ve pulled the wool over<br />
our eyes, America. They’ve convinced<br />
us that not only is Bush the best political<br />
presidential option, but that he is<br />
the best. no, the only morul option.<br />
There are three types <strong>of</strong> Republicans.<br />
There are what I like to call the<br />
“real Republicans.” These Republicans<br />
believe in actual, Republican principles<br />
<strong>of</strong> free trade, a laissez-faire economy<br />
and personal prosperity through hard<br />
work and sacrifice. These people are<br />
conservative and do not believe that a<br />
strong federal government is beneficial<br />
to’America as a whole. Although seemingly<br />
self-serving, these “real Republicans”<br />
actually believe what they say<br />
and risk appearing heartless in order<br />
to stand up for their apparent me-first<br />
ideology.<br />
There are the “nai’ve Republicans.”<br />
These Republicans have been con-<br />
vinced, through chicanery and manipu-<br />
lation, that they, and their less fortunate<br />
American peers, will somehow benefit<br />
from typically conservative economic<br />
itch Daniels, the gova-<br />
ject <strong>of</strong> Indiana, has said<br />
that Hoosiers can expect a<br />
lot <strong>of</strong> reform to get our state<br />
going again. Daniels Seems<br />
to a man who speaks the<br />
language <strong>of</strong> money. He is a<br />
very rich man after working<br />
for very rich companies. His<br />
web site, mymanmitch.com,<br />
lists some <strong>of</strong> his reform plans<br />
for the state. He has prom-<br />
ised to save our state from<br />
its financial Droblems. One<br />
area <strong>of</strong> refotk is in Indiana’s<br />
correctional facilities. I know<br />
a way that Mitch Daniels can<br />
drastically reform the cor-<br />
rections program in Indiana,<br />
make our state safer, create<br />
jobs, promote social justice<br />
and save taxpayers millions.<br />
The simplest way for all <strong>of</strong><br />
these things to happen would<br />
be for Indiana to suspend the<br />
death penalty.<br />
Each death penalty case<br />
costs our state millions.<br />
According to a USA Toduy<br />
article, “The Case Against the<br />
Death Penalty” by Eric M.<br />
Freedman (1 9971, the death<br />
penalty is far more expensive<br />
than housing prisoners in jail<br />
for life. In many cases, the<br />
death penalty is two times<br />
more expensive than life<br />
in prison. This is because<br />
most people facing the death<br />
penalty are indigent and can’t<br />
afford their own attorneys.<br />
The state must provide them<br />
with an attorney and, accord-<br />
ing to law, each death penalty<br />
sentence is automatically ap-<br />
pealed. Crimes that warrant<br />
the death penalty involve<br />
more complicated investiga-<br />
tions and longer trial times.<br />
Limiting these factors would<br />
limit a prisoner’s constitu-<br />
tional rights. Therefore, the<br />
agendas. such as limiting or removing<br />
New Ileal policies like Welfare, Social<br />
Security and federally funded health-<br />
,.....,.<br />
Lair;.<br />
determines what makes a good presi-<br />
dent just astounds me.<br />
l‘raditionally Democrats have been<br />
Lastly, there is the Religious Right,<br />
or as I refer to them, the Religious<br />
Wrong. These are exceptionally conservative<br />
Rep~lblicans who vote solely<br />
according to their religious beliefs<br />
Members <strong>of</strong> the Religious Right are<br />
typically fundamentalist, or some variation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Christian, and assert that only<br />
through the sanctity <strong>of</strong>their church,<br />
and the <strong>of</strong> their beliefs, will<br />
salvation, both political<br />
and “everlasting.”<br />
be attained.<br />
These are the<br />
people wiio have ruined<br />
our conception<br />
<strong>of</strong> denioclwy. They<br />
are deceitful. misrepresentative,<br />
and<br />
cannot be trusted<br />
They’ve naturally,<br />
and quite predictably.<br />
dominated the<br />
Republican party<br />
pro-choice, but somehow the religious<br />
kight has weaseled its way <strong>into</strong> p&lic<br />
opinion. convincing many <strong>of</strong> my<br />
Democrat peers to join the anti-abortlon<br />
bandwagon. Maybe It was Kerry’s<br />
mistake in admitting that he was, in<br />
fact, pro-choice. It sure didn’t help him<br />
u in the Catholic vote (Bush won that<br />
vote, accordiag to CNN.com, despite<br />
the fact that Kerry i.\ a Catholic). Maybe<br />
Americans just don’t like the idea <strong>of</strong><br />
killing unborn babies. Come to think<br />
<strong>of</strong> it, when worded<br />
that way. I don’t like it<br />
either. But maybe, just<br />
maybe, this new regime<br />
<strong>of</strong> power-hungry<br />
religious zealots, such<br />
as evangelists Jerry<br />
Falwell and Pat Robertson,<br />
have muscled<br />
their way to the tops<br />
<strong>of</strong> voter priority lists<br />
by using hellfire-andbrimstone-style<br />
scare<br />
in the past, especially during the 2004<br />
election. and are now trying to infiltrate<br />
our minds with their hatred and <strong>into</strong>lerance.<br />
They’ve suc~ssfully skewed our<br />
perception <strong>of</strong> ethics and have attelnpted<br />
to hard sell their version <strong>of</strong> moral values<br />
as the only way to conduct life in<br />
America.<br />
The day after th;election, I was<br />
listening to a call-in show on National<br />
Public Radio. A man called in and<br />
said, essent~a~ly, that he was a liberal<br />
Democrat but did not vote for John<br />
Kerry because Kerry was pro-choice,<br />
and he, the caller, was morally opposed<br />
to abortion. So, I thought, you’re willirig<br />
to change your vote just because<br />
your partj’s candidate doesn’t agree<br />
with you on one point? The idea that<br />
abortion should even be an issue that<br />
tactics and massive<br />
guilt trips.<br />
Abortion is not the only issue that<br />
ha\ been inappropriately laced <strong>into</strong> our<br />
decislon-making process<br />
by the religious right. For some reason,<br />
gay rights is an issue that, apparently,<br />
most Americans feel strongly about.<br />
Eleven states passed bans on same-sex<br />
Inarriages On 2.<br />
a dozen states changed their constitutions<br />
in order to deny same-sex couples<br />
govern men tal recognition <strong>of</strong> marriage.<br />
Why? What were these voters afraid<br />
<strong>of</strong>? Did they think that if gay couples<br />
were married, their children could<br />
“safely” walk down the street without<br />
two men Or two<br />
ing ha~ds? If so, they were wrong.<br />
Gay people will continue to be gay,<br />
could go to fund more jobs for<br />
police <strong>of</strong>ficers, which would<br />
make lndiana safi:r. The death<br />
penalty has been proven in no<br />
way to make a state safer. 111<br />
fact, Michigan, with no death<br />
penalty and Indiana, with an<br />
active death penalty have very<br />
similar crime statistics (USA<br />
Today). According to Rich-<br />
ard Dieter, head oif the Death<br />
Penalty hformation Center,<br />
the average salary <strong>of</strong> a new<br />
police <strong>of</strong>ficer is about $42,000<br />
including benefits. The average<br />
$2 million spent on a death pen-<br />
alty trial could pa,y for 48 new<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficers OR the streets. It also<br />
could buy bulletpro<strong>of</strong> vests and<br />
improve many crime preven-<br />
tion programs. The new <strong>of</strong>ficers<br />
would effectively make Indiana<br />
a safer place. The money saved<br />
also could go to provide more<br />
jobs in correctional facilities<br />
around the state.<br />
Ending the death penalty in<br />
lndiana would help to pro-<br />
mote social justice in our state.<br />
According to the American<br />
Civil Liberties Union, African<br />
Americans make up 12% <strong>of</strong> the<br />
population <strong>of</strong> the United States<br />
yet they comprise 3.5% <strong>of</strong> all<br />
people on death row. According<br />
to the Clark County Prosecut-<br />
ing Attorney’s Web site (www.<br />
clarkprosecutor.org), right now<br />
THE<br />
REFLECTOR<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong><br />
1400 East Hanna Avenue<br />
<strong>Indianapolis</strong>, IN 46227<br />
reflector@uindy.edu<br />
ianapolis. It is dedicated to<br />
rsity community in a fair and accura<br />
alty<br />
ney, they receive substandard<br />
aide. The death penalty<br />
inherently unequal and<br />
<strong>of</strong> a human being in an act<br />
<strong>of</strong> revenge wrong, it could<br />
mean an irreversible death to<br />
an innocent person. A 1982<br />
Stanford Law Review fou<br />
that 3.50 death row convict<br />
in the United St<br />
actually inno<br />
update <strong>of</strong> the<br />
that in the ye<br />
two studies, four innocent<br />
The new governor, who is<br />
a businessman to the core,<br />
should be able to nd<br />
these demands, e<br />
when we’re talking about<br />
millions <strong>of</strong> dollars.<br />
If you would like to send<br />
Mitch Daniels a letter about<br />
ending the death penalty in<br />
Indiana, you can write to Of-<br />
fice <strong>of</strong> the Governor, State-<br />
house Room 206,200 W.<br />
Washington St., <strong>Indianapolis</strong>,<br />
IN 46204.<br />
Letters to the e<br />
ideas and other c<br />
The Reflector-, Krann;~ M<br />
EDITORIAL CARTOON<br />
CORRECTIONS<br />
regardless <strong>of</strong> whether or not it is legal<br />
for them to be married. ‘l’hen why were<br />
these voters 40 against gay /riurrici,yo’!<br />
Why weren’t they againyt homosexuaity<br />
in general? They were against gay<br />
marriage because the hateful and bigoted<br />
religious right has con\ inced them<br />
that banning gay marriage is consistent<br />
with God’s teachings. So God wants tis<br />
cult for gay people<br />
to receive spousal employee health<br />
benefits and tar breaks’.’ .According to<br />
the right, homosexualit4 is immoral.<br />
and un-Christian. so wc should punish<br />
homosexuals by disallo\i ing the<br />
aforementioned benefits that come<br />
with marriage. I don’t rccall that verse<br />
in Genesis. Besides which. it doesn’t<br />
sound very Christ-like to me.<br />
This brings me to my next point.<br />
The Religious Right. and the Republican<br />
Party agendas the) s~ipport, are<br />
inconsistent with Jesus‘ leachings and<br />
the Bible in general. In Galatians 3:26-<br />
28, Paul says “...for in Christ Jesus<br />
you are all children <strong>of</strong> God through<br />
faith. As many <strong>of</strong> you a4 u’ere baptized<br />
<strong>into</strong> Christ have clothed yourselves<br />
with Christ. ‘I’here is no longer Jew<br />
or Greek, there is no longer male and<br />
female; for all <strong>of</strong> you arc one in Christ”<br />
(New Revised Standard Version). This<br />
leads me to believe that God sees [he<br />
worth <strong>of</strong> all people from every ethnicity,<br />
race and class. Jesus had compassion<br />
for the persecuted, according to<br />
Mathew 9:36. which reatls, “When he<br />
saw the crowds he had compassion for<br />
them because they were harassed and<br />
helpless, like sheep without a shepherd”<br />
(NRSV). Yes the Hible makes<br />
a point to single out honiosexuals as<br />
sinners, but isn’t it the obligation <strong>of</strong><br />
responsible Christians to “hate the sin.<br />
not the sinner’?” I’m not suggesting that<br />
I think that homosex~iality equates to<br />
sin, but some Christians do. Then why<br />
is this hateful anti-gay niarriage agenda<br />
so popular? It seems to me like these<br />
Christians are focusing their energy in<br />
the wrong areas.<br />
While we’re on the topic. as I understand<br />
it, Christians believe that it is<br />
not a human obligation to judge, but a<br />
holy one. In other words, it is God’s job<br />
to tell us who’s sinning and who’s not,<br />
and to punish sinners accordingly.<br />
The Bible repeatedly condemns self-<br />
righteousness. In Romans 14:4 Paul<br />
said, “Who are you to judge someone<br />
else’s servant? To his own master he<br />
stands or falls” (New International<br />
Version). In James 3: 12 James said,<br />
“There is only one law-giver and one<br />
.judge. the one who is able to save<br />
and destroy,” referring to God, “but<br />
you-who are you to judge your<br />
neighbor?” (NIV). That said, I think it’s<br />
pretty apparent that. if given the choice,<br />
Jesus would prefer us to be compas-<br />
sionate and loving to our fellow man,<br />
regardless <strong>of</strong> their sexual orientation,<br />
rather than hateful and vengeful toward<br />
homosexuals as the counter-Christian<br />
Religious Right has been. I mean, you<br />
only have so much time here on Earth.<br />
Why spend it hating and judging, when<br />
your own religion compells you to love<br />
and refrain from judging others?<br />
Don‘t be nai’ve, America. You’ve<br />
allowed them to use rhetoric and hate-<br />
speech to inspire you to vote a certain<br />
way. Don’t let it happen again. They<br />
are not practicing what I believe to be<br />
compassionate Christianity, and I am<br />
personally <strong>of</strong>fended by anyone who<br />
considers the Bush administration a<br />
Christian administration. They are not.<br />
and don’t let them fool you <strong>into</strong> think-<br />
ing they are. Regardless <strong>of</strong> what you<br />
believe, it’s not your place to impress<br />
those beliefs upon others, and neither<br />
is it the place <strong>of</strong> the Religious Right<br />
to impress their beliefs, however cruel<br />
and inconsistent, upon the rest <strong>of</strong> the<br />
country.<br />
Artwmork hv Jot Hernande:<br />
Staff photographer Luke Thornberry’s name was not included in<br />
the masthead.<br />
Abby Adragna, not Ben Reed, wrote the story entitled “Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
invited to Jordan seminar.”<br />
Amber Liponoga’s name was inisspelled in the masthead.<br />
Edi tor-in-Chief.. ................................ .Lucas Klipsch<br />
Managing Editor. ................................. Valerie Miller<br />
News Editor .....................................<br />
Sports Editor. ...................................<br />
Photo E,ditor .....................................<br />
, Room 21 3, or Opinion Editor ...................................<br />
Feature Editor ....................................<br />
Entertainment Editor. ........................<br />
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........................ K<br />
ger. ......................... Sarah Clough<br />
............................ Jeanne Criswell<br />
.....................................................<br />
Becky Nakasone Ben Reed<br />
Shelly Grimes Rania Tollefson<br />
Amber Liponoga Donna Stollings<br />
Brittani Whitmore Francine Ruder
SAGAMORE INSTITUTE<br />
‘Think tank’<br />
Continued from Page 1<br />
Sometimes, he says, it turns out posi-<br />
tively. However, he has some concerns<br />
about Bush’s second term.<br />
“My concern is that ... the Bush ad-<br />
ministration is going to try to perpetuate<br />
their dominance in the system,” he said.<br />
“The goal may become the maintenance<br />
<strong>of</strong> control.”<br />
He added that because <strong>of</strong> this admin-<br />
istration’s behavior toward power, there<br />
will likely be some tension within the<br />
Republican Party.<br />
“There is going to be some bloodlet-<br />
ting. It’s not a party thing, it’s not an<br />
ideology thing either,” he said.<br />
“[George] Orwell’s whole point<br />
was.. .the greatest mistake that they [the<br />
totalitarian regime in 19841 made is once<br />
they got power, they tried to do something<br />
with it.”<br />
According to both Clark and Ayres,<br />
there will be more events like this<br />
hosted by the Sagamore Institute. They<br />
are public, and open for all interested in<br />
attending.<br />
WORLD NEWS<br />
“You guys [U <strong>of</strong> I <strong>students</strong>] are at a<br />
disadvantage. A lot <strong>of</strong> [the events] on<br />
campus seem to be ‘let’s bring in another<br />
hypnotist or illusionist’,’’ Ayres said.<br />
“The number <strong>of</strong> public intellectual<br />
discussions <strong>of</strong>fered to <strong>students</strong> [by the<br />
university] is not large.”<br />
Still, <strong>students</strong> are welcome to attend<br />
any public meeting at the Sagamore In-<br />
stitute. An events calendar can be found<br />
at the Sagamore Institute home page,<br />
sipr.org.<br />
Also, Clark has a Web site, indybuzz.<br />
blogspot.com, which lists events ranging<br />
from foreign policy, to poetry to reli-<br />
gion.<br />
The next Sagamore Institute scheduled<br />
event is on Dec. 8, and will feature a<br />
talk by associate fellow Barbara J. El-<br />
liot, who will discuss her new book. ;But<br />
other events may be added and will be<br />
announced when they are planned.<br />
More information is available on<br />
the Sagamore Institute, via email at<br />
info@sipr.org, or via telephone at 3 17-<br />
549-4 156.<br />
1. NEW GENDER COURSES<br />
lNew courses to address gender<br />
Jessica Elston<br />
Opinioii Editor<br />
Ever heard <strong>of</strong>-a science course with<br />
out laboratory work? How about a math<br />
course withoiitdoingasinglemath prob-<br />
lem? Well, now one exists: Gender and<br />
Ethntcity in Math and Science.<br />
Sandra Davis, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
biology, and Krystina Leganza, associate<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> mathcmatics & computer<br />
science, will be <strong>of</strong>fering the new course<br />
next semester. Students can receivecredit<br />
for taking the course in both math and/or<br />
science. The course is also waiting on<br />
approval to fulfill the social inquiry<br />
requirement.<br />
Leganza previously taught acourse at<br />
Ball State <strong>University</strong> about gender issues<br />
inmatheniatics, but she wanted theclass<br />
to expand. “Last spring, I saw an ad for<br />
a curriculum workshop at the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Wisconsin focused on women’s issues.<br />
and I thought, ‘This would be the time<br />
to design my women in math course and<br />
<strong>of</strong>fer it here’,” Leganza said.<br />
Davis overheard Leganza talking<br />
about the workshop when they were in<br />
the mailroom. “I hadactually gone to the<br />
same workshop before.” Davis said.<br />
The two began talkMg and decided<br />
to combine their knowledge and teach<br />
a joint class for both subjects. “1 had<br />
always wanted to get more <strong>into</strong> math,”<br />
Davis said.<br />
The course was designed partly from<br />
the previous course Leganza had taught<br />
at BSU and from other courses Davjs and<br />
Leganza had read about. Leganza had a<br />
mentor when she taught at Saint Mary<br />
<strong>of</strong>-the-Woods who included historical<br />
biographies in her course. “She would<br />
tell the kids what to read and then they<br />
would come in and have a discussion,”<br />
Leganza said. “As a mathematician, I’m<br />
not used to doing a discussion course<br />
and 1 thought, ‘It’s boring if everybody<br />
reads the same thing. What are we going<br />
to talk about?”’<br />
At BSU, Leganza decided to change<br />
the discussion pattern <strong>of</strong> her mentor by<br />
not using the biographies in the textbook.<br />
She plans to do the same for the course<br />
here. “I would tell the kids ‘next week<br />
these are the three people we’re going<br />
to talk about. You come up with your<br />
own sources’,”Leganza said. “That way<br />
everyone might read a different author<br />
and would have a different slant on the<br />
person’s life.”<br />
The course will not be biographies<br />
about women and minorities alone.<br />
Leganza said the course will range from<br />
Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, dies in Paris Critical Care Unit<br />
/<br />
Michael Matza<br />
Kriigh Ridder Newspapers<br />
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Black<br />
smoke from burning tires draped Ramallah’s<br />
skies in a curtain <strong>of</strong> crepe Thursday,<br />
and black flags sprouted atop power lines<br />
at the entrances to refugee camps as the<br />
city that had been Yasser Arafat’s last<br />
home prepared to bury its leader and<br />
welcome his successors.<br />
Palestinian police, patrolling on foot,<br />
wore black armbands in mourning, and<br />
Palestinian leaders seemed particularly<br />
awkward about ushering in a new era<br />
without the man who’d held all the reins<br />
<strong>of</strong> power with an iron fist.<br />
At the investiture <strong>of</strong> the Palestinian<br />
Authority’s new interim president, Rauhi<br />
Fattouh, <strong>of</strong>ficials didn’t know what to do<br />
ritually cleansed, perfumed and wrapped<br />
inawhiteshroud - wasflown from Paris<br />
to Cairo on Thursday. A quick funeral<br />
service. attended by scores <strong>of</strong> foreign<br />
dignitaries, was to be held at a tightly<br />
guarded military base near the Egyptian<br />
capital on Friday before Arafat’s body was<br />
to be flown to Ramallah for burial.<br />
The brevity <strong>of</strong> the Cairo ceremony<br />
- no longer than 30 minutes, <strong>of</strong>ficials<br />
said -was intended to ensure that Arafat<br />
was buried before sundown.<br />
Arafat will be laid to rest on his right<br />
side, with his face pointing toward the<br />
Muslim holy city <strong>of</strong> Mecca, beneath a<br />
stand <strong>of</strong> pine trees inside the battered<br />
compound that’s been destrciyed by the<br />
Israeli airmy. Palestinian crews have been<br />
working around the clock to push away a<br />
mountain <strong>of</strong> crushed cars that had littered<br />
the area for three years, since they were<br />
run oveir by Israeli tanks.<br />
,<br />
and. in a departure from Muslim tradition,<br />
he’ll be buried in a concrete box<br />
so his body could one day be moved to<br />
Jerusalem.<br />
It was evident that Palestinians were<br />
grappling with a world without Arafat.<br />
At Fattouh‘s swearing-in inside the 88seat<br />
Palestinian legislature, Legislative<br />
Council Speaker Hassan Khreishe cited<br />
the wrong subsection as he read from the<br />
Palestinian basic law putting Fattouh in<br />
power.<br />
Legal Committee Chairman Ziad Abu<br />
Zyad piped up to correct him. Zyad later<br />
said that he wanted the first use <strong>of</strong> the law<br />
to be letter-perfect.<br />
Under Palestinian law. elections for a<br />
permanent president must be held within<br />
60 days. Fattouh will share power with<br />
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia<br />
and Palestine Liberation Organization<br />
leader Mahmoud Abbas.<br />
with a large portrait <strong>of</strong>Arafat, which had Arafit had wanted to be buried in “‘rhis is a difficLllt period, a transition<br />
Photo hy Burhtrrci Davidson, Knight Ridder Tribune<br />
tobemovedfromachair. One lawmaker Jerusalem on the disputed holy site that period, and I hope the system will not Several mOUrnerS took to the Streets Of Ramallah,<br />
moved it behind the podium. Then he<br />
propped it against the speaker’s rostrum.<br />
Finallv. a tall lawmaker lifted the portrait<br />
oncehelldthe biblicalJewishtemplesand<br />
now holds AI Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third<br />
holiest :shrine after Mecca and Medina.<br />
break down,” lawmaker Hanan Ashrawi West Bank, on Thursday, Nova 11, after hearing<br />
said <strong>of</strong> the Palestinian Authority’s tentative<br />
steps tow;ird - greater democracy. news Of Palestinian leader YaSSer Arafat’s death.<br />
overhead, putting it on a ledge against the<br />
chamber’s front wall.<br />
Arafat’s body - in Islamic tradition,<br />
Israel refused.<br />
Instead, his giave ~ 1 1be 1 Iii1ecI wlth<br />
earth taken from the AI Aqsa compound<br />
(c) 2004. knight KidderiIribune In-<br />
tormatiori Services<br />
CHARTIY DONATIONS<br />
Campus-wide charity donations are meant for more than the holidays<br />
Lucas Klipsch<br />
Editor-in - Chief<br />
“Education for Service,” the Univer-<br />
sity <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong> motto, takes on a<br />
whole new meaning during the holiday<br />
season. Several campus organizations<br />
have begun various charities, including<br />
coat drives, canned food drives and even<br />
a drive for eyeglass donations.<br />
The Ecumenical and Interfaith Pro-<br />
grams department had a worship service<br />
last Wednesday, Nov. 10, called “Count<br />
Your Blessings.”<br />
The service invited people to donate<br />
various items for the Julian Center and<br />
the Holy Family Shelter. The <strong>University</strong><br />
Community Eucharist service will be<br />
tonight at 9, and attendants are urged to<br />
continue the donations.<br />
“We’ll be collecting things through<br />
Thanksgiving break,” said <strong>University</strong><br />
Chaplain Rev. Dr. Lang Brownlee. “We<br />
hope people come to the service because<br />
it will not only be about counting our<br />
blessings, but also what we can do to<br />
help others.”<br />
Besides the charitable donations orga-<br />
nized by the Ecumenical and Interfaith<br />
programs, there are also several coat and<br />
food drives going on around campus.<br />
Several groups also are gathering towels<br />
and other toiletries for the Horizon House,<br />
a homeless shelter.<br />
Circle K, an organization dedicated<br />
to volunteer service, will be working at<br />
LutherWood. Luther Wood is a temporary<br />
foster care facility for children. On Dec.<br />
4, Circle K will be volunteering there,<br />
helping to wrap presents for the children,<br />
purchased by Luther Wood.<br />
Next semester, Circle K will be partici-<br />
pating in several other charities. “[Next<br />
semester] we’re going to do a Cinderella<br />
project,” said sophomore Susan Decker,<br />
Circle K president. “We’ll collect prom<br />
dresses for girls who can’t afford them. 1<br />
did it (with Key Club] in high school, and<br />
I had almost 400 dresses donated.”<br />
Last Saturday Circle K went to St. Vin-<br />
cent DePaul to help sort donated food.<br />
Although not necessarily charity,<br />
every January the Ecumenical and Inter-<br />
faith Programs <strong>of</strong>fers a service learning<br />
opportunity called Appalachia Service<br />
Project (ASP). This year’s class counts<br />
for two credit hours, and will be Janu-<br />
ary 9- 15. The class entails a trip to rural<br />
Appalachia, and will involve home im-<br />
provement projects. Students interested<br />
in signing up can contact Brownlee at<br />
3 17-788-3382.<br />
The holiday season, from October to<br />
January, seems to be the most popular<br />
time for charities. But it doesn’t have to<br />
be th,at way, according to Brownlee. “I<br />
wish we had that spirit <strong>of</strong> giving all year<br />
round <strong>of</strong> course,” he said. “But during<br />
the Christmas and Thanksgiving seasons<br />
we do have that spirit, and I’m grateful<br />
for that.”<br />
Participating in charitable events<br />
means different things todifferent people.<br />
“I like the theme that [when we give)<br />
we d’on’t just sit back on our laurels and<br />
thank God, but with what God has given<br />
us, we have an opportunity to share and<br />
give to others,” Brownlee said.<br />
“I think the best part <strong>of</strong> coming to-<br />
gether for any charitable organization is<br />
that you’re helping someone.” Decker<br />
said. “You’re making a difference, be it a<br />
smille, apresentorwhatever, you’re help-<br />
ing that person in their time <strong>of</strong> need.”<br />
Students interested can donate to any<br />
given charity on campus. The eyeglass<br />
donations, by the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> India-<br />
napolis Lion’s Club, are being collected<br />
at the Hub at Schwitzer Student Center.<br />
Circle K, and many other campus orga-<br />
nizations are conducting charity events<br />
and welcome volunteers.<br />
Several Campus<br />
organizations are<br />
helping to collect<br />
coats, food and other<br />
various items for the<br />
Julian Center, the Holy<br />
Family Shelter and<br />
Luther Wood foster<br />
care services. These<br />
donations will be<br />
taken throughout the<br />
holiday season to the<br />
desi g nated s he1 t er s<br />
and charities and is a<br />
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November 17,2004 SPORTS<br />
PAGE 4 THE REFLECTOR<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
Polizzi’s football team wins last four out <strong>of</strong> five games after shaky start<br />
Becky Nakasone<br />
Stuf Writer<br />
The Greyhounds finished their sea-<br />
son with a victory over Ashland, 24-21,<br />
Saturday Nov. 6, at Key Stadium.<br />
“It was really a quality win,” said<br />
head coach Joe Polizzi. “The goal for<br />
the day was to come out strong and<br />
physical. and play good Greyhound<br />
football.”<br />
The game started with the ‘Hounds<br />
behind the Ashland Eagles early in<br />
the second quarter, 7-0. After Ashland<br />
scored, senior quarterback Matt Kohn<br />
found four different receivers during a<br />
5 1 -yard drive that led to a 22-yard field<br />
goal by junior Nick Parker.<br />
Freshman cornerback Kenneth<br />
Akridge made an interception during<br />
the Eagles’ next drive and returned it<br />
I3 yards to Ashland’s 29-yard line.<br />
After Akridge’s interception, Kohn<br />
connected with freshman wide receiver<br />
Justin Russell, who brought it in the en-<br />
dzone to give the ‘Hounds a 10-7 lead.<br />
A touchdown by the Eagles brought<br />
the score to 14-10 late in the first half.<br />
The ‘Hounds responded with a 57-yard<br />
drive for a touchdown that was led by<br />
senior tailback Donnie McCoy’s five<br />
carries. Kohn finished the drive with<br />
a 7-yard touchdown pass to freshman<br />
wide receiver Kevin Stanford with only<br />
35 seconds left in the first half.<br />
After the intermission, the ‘Hounds<br />
brought the lead to 24-14 with an<br />
89-yard drive in six plays. During the<br />
drive, Kohin found Russell again for a<br />
38-yard gain that gave Kohn the opportunity<br />
to hit Stanford for a 38-yard<br />
touchdown pass with 354 to go in the<br />
quarter.<br />
Ashland found their endzone and<br />
closed the gap 24-21 with 456 left in<br />
the game. After the Eagles’ defense<br />
forced the ‘Hounds to punt late in the<br />
game, Ashiland was tagged with a penalty<br />
for roughing the punter, which allowed<br />
the ‘Hounds to keep possession<br />
<strong>of</strong> the ball and bring the team victory.<br />
“This football game was as good as<br />
we’ve ever had around here. We just<br />
played very, very well,” Polizzi said.<br />
“And this overall outstanding performance<br />
really put the icing on the cake<br />
for the tail1 end <strong>of</strong> a good year.”<br />
Russelll also felt the ‘Hounds played<br />
well, especially on <strong>of</strong>fense.<br />
“I felt that our <strong>of</strong>fense came out with<br />
a lot <strong>of</strong> inl.esity and fire. This was one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the best performances our <strong>of</strong>fense<br />
had all season,” he said. “I think we<br />
came a long way.” Russell also noted<br />
that one <strong>of</strong> the reasons for their wins<br />
was the leadership <strong>of</strong> the veterans.<br />
Although the ‘Hounds finished <strong>of</strong>f<br />
the seasoil well, the team had a rough<br />
start, only winning two <strong>of</strong> the first<br />
seven games. Two <strong>of</strong> the seven games<br />
were lost in overtime.<br />
SPORTS EDITORIAL<br />
“We were disappointed in the start,”<br />
Polizzi said. “Being able to come back<br />
and win four <strong>of</strong> the last five and play<br />
the kind <strong>of</strong> football that we did, that’s<br />
exciting.”<br />
Polizzi felt that the leadership <strong>of</strong><br />
the older players was a reason for the<br />
‘Hounds strong finish.<br />
“They [the seniors] not only played<br />
well, but were strong leaders on and <strong>of</strong>f<br />
the field,” Polizzi said.<br />
Russell also realized the importance<br />
<strong>of</strong> senior leadership.<br />
“They [seniors] gave us some very<br />
valuable advice to take <strong>into</strong> the up and<br />
coming seasons,” Russell said.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the senior players Polizzi<br />
was referring to was Kohn, who be-<br />
came U <strong>of</strong> 1’s all-time passing leader<br />
in total <strong>of</strong>fensive yards (8,921), total<br />
passing yards (83 14), completions<br />
(652) and touchdowns (55) throughout<br />
the course <strong>of</strong> the season.<br />
Kohn also left his mark in the Great<br />
Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Confer-<br />
ence by finishing his career in third<br />
place for passing yards (7,689) and<br />
total <strong>of</strong>fensive yards (7,785) during<br />
play against GLIAC opponents.<br />
“Having Matt at quarterback was a<br />
big plus for me this season. He taught<br />
me how to rea$ defenses and where to<br />
run my routes,” Russell said. “Matt was<br />
a great leader and a great person. He<br />
was always there to pick me up when<br />
I would drop a pass or if he saw that<br />
something was wrong.”<br />
Photo hv Ranru TollefAon<br />
The ‘Hounds <strong>of</strong>fensive team reacts as the ball is snapped<br />
during their close victory over Ashland <strong>University</strong>, 24-<br />
21. The game came down to the wire and was won on an<br />
Ashland penalty with little time left in the contest. The<br />
win marked the fourth win out <strong>of</strong> their last five games and<br />
improved their overall record to 4-7.<br />
Is Artest’s heart in it? Fans deserve answers<br />
Pacers forward raises eyebrows with recent record label controversy<br />
Lucas Klipsch<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
“I think I’m one <strong>of</strong> the few guys<br />
who gets better every year. I’m on<br />
my way to becoming an MVP and a<br />
champion” -Ron Artest in an inter-<br />
view with ESPN.com’s Marc Stein last<br />
Thursday.<br />
“Yeah right” -Lucas Klipsch, in a<br />
sports editorial, about how much <strong>of</strong> a<br />
load <strong>of</strong> crap that statement was.<br />
Artest will never be an NBA league<br />
MVP. He’s not cut from MVP stock.<br />
Last week’s three-day circus proves it.<br />
On Tuesday, Artest was benched for<br />
unspecified reasons. On Wednesday, it<br />
VOLLEYBALL<br />
came out that Artest had asked Coach<br />
Rick Carlisle for some time <strong>of</strong>f because<br />
he was tired, his body hurt and he<br />
wanted to spend time with his family.<br />
Not a good enough reason to bench one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the team’s best players? Try this on<br />
for size: Ron was apparently tired not<br />
only because <strong>of</strong> the rigors <strong>of</strong> the NBA,<br />
but because he had been spending a<br />
substantial amount <strong>of</strong> time promoting<br />
his record label’s upcoming album.<br />
TruWarier (the label) is a phonetic<br />
nightmare, but is apparently Artest’s<br />
pride and joy, as he demonstrated in an<br />
ESPN interview last Thursday, when<br />
he flashed promotional material in front<br />
<strong>of</strong> the unsuspecting camera operator<br />
and claimed defensively, “I’m a grown<br />
man. 1 can do what I want.”<br />
Here is an open letter to Ron Artest,<br />
<strong>Indianapolis</strong> SturlKRT<br />
Pacers<br />
forward<br />
Ron Artest<br />
has a lot to<br />
prove after<br />
reportedly<br />
requesting<br />
time <strong>of</strong>f<br />
because<br />
he was<br />
tired from<br />
promoting<br />
anR&B<br />
album. Artest<br />
is the NBAs<br />
reigning<br />
Defensive<br />
Player <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Year.<br />
Volleyball moves on to GLVC<br />
tournament’s final rounds<br />
Crystle Collins<br />
New’s Editor<br />
The <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong> volleyball<br />
team is making strides toward<br />
one ultimate goal, to win conference.<br />
Coach Jody Rogers-Butera said exactly<br />
that as ‘her team prepared for the Great<br />
Lakes Valley Conference tournament at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Southern Indiana.<br />
“If the team relaxes and just has fun,<br />
I think we can win,” Butera said.<br />
The ‘Hounds went <strong>into</strong> semifinals<br />
after a 3- 1 match over Lewis <strong>University</strong>.<br />
The team is currently seated fourth<br />
in the GLVC and has a record <strong>of</strong> 23-<br />
12. The tournament, which began on<br />
Thursday, Nov. 1 I , hosts all 1 1 GLVC<br />
volleyball programs as they fight for<br />
the number one spot.<br />
“An1 individual goal 1 have is to<br />
break my personal career records in<br />
digs,” isaid junior Kristin Lay.<br />
“The team goal for conference is to<br />
Lay is in her third year with the<br />
Greyhounds volleyball team. She has<br />
lettered twice and is a left front line<br />
player.<br />
Shaun McAllister, Deanna McClure<br />
and Whitney Boling were U <strong>of</strong> 1’s three<br />
choices for all-conference. McAllister<br />
was named to the All-GLVC first team<br />
for the fourth time. McAlister is the<br />
Greyhound season leader in kills and is<br />
second in the GLVC for kills per game.<br />
Boling earned the All-GLVC honor as<br />
second-team outside hitter for the second<br />
consecutive year, and McClure was<br />
named to the All-GLVC second team.<br />
“The soul <strong>of</strong> my team [upperclassmen]<br />
has played together for three<br />
years. The coaching part is over, now<br />
the players just have to play without<br />
fear,” Butera said.<br />
Unfortunately, the ‘Hounds lost in<br />
the semi-finals <strong>of</strong> the GLVC tournament<br />
to top seed Southern Indiana<br />
30-20, 32-30, 30-21 on Nov. 12.<br />
The ‘Hounds finished their 2004<br />
season with a 23-13 overall record and<br />
win the wholetournament.” Lay said. a 12-4 record in conference.<br />
from Pacers basketball fans every-<br />
where:<br />
Yes, Ron, you are a grown man.<br />
But no, according to the collective<br />
bargaining agreement signed by agents<br />
representing both NBA OM ners and the<br />
player’s union. you cannot “do what<br />
you want.” That is. when what you<br />
want, entails sitting out for arbitrary<br />
reasons and indefinite time periods.<br />
This isn’t the playground. it’s not<br />
St. John’s <strong>University</strong> (where Artest<br />
attended prior to being drafted to the<br />
NBA). And it most certainly is not you^<br />
company, Ron. This is the KBA. You<br />
aren’t in charge. You have bosses. Several<br />
<strong>of</strong> them. And they make the rules.<br />
The rule is, to get paid, you must<br />
play. But it doesn’t stop there. Yoti can<br />
sit and lose money, all you want (and<br />
Artest has proven that he doesn’t care<br />
about losing money).<br />
You are legally bound by the terms<br />
<strong>of</strong> your agreement to continually play<br />
for this team for the duration <strong>of</strong> said<br />
agreement. And though yoti don’t<br />
understand the word integrity (I‘m not<br />
being sarcastic. He really didn’t know.<br />
what Carlisle meant when the coach<br />
told him that he was “compromising<br />
the integrity <strong>of</strong> the team”), you must<br />
understand agreements. Promises.<br />
maybe?<br />
If not an agreement between you<br />
and your teammates, surely you ~vould<br />
respect an agreement with the fans.<br />
I<br />
you throughout your tenure as the<br />
NBA’s most misunderstood player.<br />
We’re the ones who looked past your<br />
television monitor smashing, your<br />
flagrant fouls, your constant ejections,<br />
your fines. your suspensions, your tardiness<br />
to practices, your missed flights,<br />
your selfish and clumsy playing in the<br />
3004 Eastern Conference Finals, your<br />
self-destructive proclamations that you<br />
are the best player on the team. We’ve<br />
seen past these things to see the real<br />
VOLI: the misunderstood, under-appreciked,<br />
hard worker who helped lead the<br />
Pacers to a franchise record 6 I wins<br />
last season.<br />
But this is over the line. You’ve let<br />
LIS down. and now we can’t trust you.<br />
We can trust your talent, but what good<br />
is talent when we have to question your<br />
effort, your drive to keep winning and<br />
your sanity‘?<br />
Ron. I know you say you‘re going<br />
to play for the rest <strong>of</strong> the season, rap<br />
label or not. But after this recent turn <strong>of</strong><br />
ebents, how can we, the fans, expect to<br />
trust you to not flake out in the future?<br />
Why should we trust you? .<br />
You haven’t given us much reason<br />
to trust you after the comments you<br />
made to ESPN.com.<br />
You said, “1 want to take the whole<br />
year <strong>of</strong>f. I want to take the year <strong>of</strong>f,<br />
but that’s not going to happen because<br />
we’re [the Pacers] going to win the<br />
championship this year,” and “[time<br />
<strong>of</strong>f] would have been great for me because<br />
I’ve been doing so much lately.”<br />
Is it a question <strong>of</strong> love for the game,<br />
Ron‘? Or is it that you just love a different<br />
game now? Maybe you love the rap<br />
game.<br />
That’s the wrong game.<br />
1 don’t want the Pacers to deal Ron<br />
Artest. But do they have a choice?<br />
1 want Ron Artest to be a Pacer, but<br />
I want a lot <strong>of</strong> things. I want Ron Artest<br />
to be MVP-caliber. 1 want the Pacers to<br />
win a championship.<br />
The real question is: what does Ron<br />
We’re the ones who’ve supported want:‘<br />
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THE REFLECTOR PAGE 5 SPURl% NOVEMBER 17,2004<br />
WINTERSPORTSPREVIEW<br />
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL<br />
Defense, exper ience key to ‘Hounds’ success<br />
Craig Haupert<br />
Entertuinnzent Editor<br />
Coach Teri Moren’s women’s basketball<br />
team wants to regain the title<br />
<strong>of</strong> the best defensive team in the Great<br />
Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) this<br />
season.<br />
“Our goal is holding our opponents<br />
to 56 points or under,” Moren said.<br />
“That is a lot when you consider that<br />
we are part <strong>of</strong> a conference that is <strong>of</strong>fensive<br />
minded. This makes us a little<br />
different, because we really try to get at<br />
it defensively.”<br />
Team members have been practicing<br />
for about a month and have just started<br />
their preseason games.<br />
The ‘Hounds are coming <strong>of</strong>f two<br />
straight 20-win seasons, and last year<br />
the ‘Hounds were ranked No. I in<br />
the country in three-point field goal<br />
percentage. Senior Erin Moran led all<br />
divisions in three-point field goal percentage<br />
last year, shooting more than<br />
50 percent.<br />
The ‘Hounds are returning four<br />
seniors: guard Erin Moran, guard<br />
Amanda Davidson, guard Sara Riedeman<br />
and guard Amy Wisser. Coach<br />
Moren is counting on their leadership<br />
to carry the team deep <strong>into</strong> the NCAA<br />
tournament at the end <strong>of</strong> the season.<br />
“They have the experience, and they<br />
have won a lot <strong>of</strong> games, so they will<br />
MEN’S BASKETBALL<br />
play a large part in how we do,” Moren<br />
said.<br />
The returning players will get some<br />
help with tlhree new players this season:<br />
two transfer <strong>students</strong>, Leisha Walker<br />
(IPFW) and Mandy Geryak (Xavier),<br />
and one freshman, Deanna Thomson<br />
(Center Grove). “Thomson will bring a<br />
lot inside. !She is a very athletic, mobile<br />
post player,” Moren said.<br />
Two new assistant coaches have<br />
joined the team as well. Former U <strong>of</strong> I<br />
player Saralh Shackle and Amy Cherubini,<br />
former <strong>Indianapolis</strong> Pike High<br />
School head coach and St. Louis and<br />
Michigan assistant coach will be working<br />
on making some changes to the<br />
team’s defense.<br />
“Defensively this year we want to<br />
apply more pressure, extend the defensive,<br />
throw some full court presses<br />
at people, just mix it up a little bit,”<br />
Cherubini said. “This is a little more <strong>of</strong><br />
an aggressive approach this year.. . we<br />
want to get out in the passing lanes and<br />
force more turnovers.”<br />
The team is ranked second in preseason<br />
standings, behind Bellarmine in<br />
the GLVC and ranked 1 1 th nationally.<br />
“We don’t pay as much attention to<br />
the ~011s as, DeoDle think.” Moren said.<br />
1 I<br />
“Th;ee years ago, we were picked fifth<br />
in the conference, and we ended up going<br />
29 and three.”<br />
The ‘Hounds oDen the regular<br />
season at Ciannon ‘in the GLk/GLVC<br />
challenge on Nov. 19.<br />
Photo by Amber Liponoga<br />
Head coach Teri Moren<br />
gives instructions to<br />
freshman Deanna Thomson<br />
while senior Amv Wisser<br />
(left) looks on.<br />
Exhibition wins he1 .p new players fit <strong>into</strong> Sturgeon’s system<br />
Photo bj Zuch Bolingrr<br />
Senior David Logan runs<br />
a drill in a recent practice.<br />
Logan is the top returning<br />
scorer for the ‘Hounds.<br />
H -~ WOMEN’S SWIMMING<br />
Katy Yeiser<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Coach Todd Sturgeon’s men’s bas-<br />
ketball team is heading <strong>into</strong> the 2004-<br />
2005 seascin with two solid exhibition<br />
wins under their belt. The ‘Hounds<br />
easily defeated Niagara College <strong>of</strong><br />
Welland, Ontario and Mohawk College<br />
<strong>of</strong> Hamilton, Ontario 104-52 and 85-55<br />
respectively on Oct. 17 and 18.<br />
Sturgeon said the two Canadien<br />
teams were not as tough opponents<br />
as the teams the ‘Hounds will face<br />
in the Great Lakes Valley Confer-<br />
ence and Region, but he was pleased<br />
with the ‘Hounds defense and level <strong>of</strong><br />
intensity they played with. He noted<br />
that one <strong>of</strong> the reasons the ‘Hounds<br />
played so hard was due to the work<br />
ethic <strong>of</strong> veteran players that spilled<br />
over to the new players. Sturgeon will<br />
look to his veteran players <strong>of</strong> seniors<br />
Mickey McGill, David Logan, Cory<br />
Bennett and Lawrence Barnes not only<br />
to provide a consistent level <strong>of</strong> hard<br />
work but to also lead the team until the<br />
younger players get comfortable with<br />
the ‘Hounds system.<br />
“We have a lot <strong>of</strong> new guys so it<br />
takes a while for them to get the hang<br />
<strong>of</strong> the program. We are just trying to<br />
get better everyday,” Logan said.<br />
Logan returns as the ‘Hounds<br />
leading scorer and could become the<br />
conference’s all-time leading scorer<br />
after the season if he averages around<br />
25 points per game.<br />
“I don’t think that will be very tough<br />
for me,” Logan said. “I worked a lot on<br />
my game in the <strong>of</strong>f-season. I just have<br />
to be a smarter player on the court to<br />
get those extra and easy points.”<br />
The ‘Hounds conference has tra-<br />
ditionally been the best in Division I1<br />
basketball, according to Sturgeon, and<br />
U <strong>of</strong> I was selected to finish fifth in the<br />
pre-season GLVC poll. However, Stur-<br />
geon feels having the top place in the<br />
GLVC is not a team goal, but making<br />
sure the ‘Hounds finish in a spot that<br />
sends them to the NCAA tournament is.<br />
“As far as picking out a spot in the<br />
conference, we haven’t talked about<br />
that,” Sturgeon said. “What we have<br />
talked about is being the first team in U<br />
<strong>of</strong> I history to go to three consecutive<br />
NCAA tournaments. That, I think, is<br />
our primary goal.”<br />
I LING<br />
h Fellure’s wrestling<br />
eeks improvements<br />
e previous season<br />
“Obviously we want to place higher<br />
than we did last year in the National<br />
Championships,” he said. “I think a<br />
realistic goal would be at least top 15<br />
this year with more than one All-Amer.<br />
ican.”<br />
Many freshman wrestlers are ex-<br />
pected to aid in the realization <strong>of</strong> these<br />
as he sets his sights on t<br />
hard, and they are looking forward to<br />
last year as long as everybody stays ii good season. *‘It’s hard to say who’s<br />
I healthy,” junior Zach Goldsberry said. going to be in the starting line-up.’’<br />
only two home meets will<br />
Women’s swimming looks to capture GLIAC crown and qualify for nationals<br />
A ‘Hound swimmer practices her breast stroke in a recent<br />
practice. The women’s team swam to victory against<br />
Ashland in their first meet <strong>of</strong> the season on Oct. 23, and<br />
finished third at the intercollegiate meet at Purdue.<br />
Abby Adragna<br />
Staff Writer<br />
The women’s swimming team is<br />
ready to splash right <strong>into</strong> the new<br />
season with high hopes <strong>of</strong> winning<br />
the 2005 Great Lakes Intercollegiate<br />
Athletic Conference, as well as earning<br />
a top five finish at Nationals.<br />
Sophomore and 2004 “Freshman <strong>of</strong><br />
the Year” Alison Smith thinks that the<br />
team’s current speed shows potential.<br />
“I think we’re swimming pretty fast for<br />
this early in the season,” she said.<br />
According to Coach Gary Kinkead,<br />
those expected to play a key role in the<br />
team’s success include veterans senior<br />
Kristen Kendzierski, senior Kenzi<br />
Miller, junior Kristen Lund, sophomore<br />
Alison Smith and sophomore Holly<br />
Spohr.<br />
Kinkead also expects freshmen Ellie<br />
Miller, Valerie Crosby, Amand Herd,<br />
and Laura Folsom to step up this year.<br />
Kendzierski agrees that the freshmen<br />
will be an important asset to the<br />
team. “I think a lot <strong>of</strong> the freshmen are<br />
going to be a big part <strong>of</strong> it [the team’s<br />
success] because we have a lot <strong>of</strong> them.<br />
So it kind <strong>of</strong> adds to our depth,” she<br />
said.<br />
According to both Kendzierski and<br />
Kinkead, the ‘Hounds’ main goals for<br />
the season include winning the 2005<br />
GLIAC Championship and making it to<br />
Nationals in Orlando, Florida.<br />
Both Kendzierski and Smith hope<br />
to compete at Nationals in 2005. “My<br />
personal goal is to make it back to<br />
Nationals for my senior year,” Kendzierski<br />
said.<br />
“[I want] to make top eight at Na-<br />
tionalr,” Smith said.<br />
Kinkead has some personal goals as<br />
well. He hopes that the members <strong>of</strong> his<br />
team continue to be recognized for their<br />
outstanding performance. “We’ve had a<br />
real good run [over the past few years]<br />
<strong>of</strong> ‘Swimmer <strong>of</strong> the Year’ and also the<br />
‘Freshman <strong>of</strong> the Year,”’ he said. “So<br />
hopefully we can continue that trend <strong>of</strong><br />
having those particular awards given to<br />
one <strong>of</strong> our swimmers.”<br />
The ‘Hounds currently have a win-<br />
ning 7-4 record after defeating Ashland<br />
113-36 in the season opener on Oct.<br />
23. tinishing third <strong>of</strong> seven teams in<br />
the Indiana Intercollegiate Meet at<br />
Purdue on Oct. 30 and placing third <strong>of</strong><br />
tive teams at the Truman State Bulldog<br />
Invitational on Nov. 6.<br />
The team’s season continues when<br />
they compete with Wayne State at<br />
home on Nov. 13.<br />
MEN’S SWIMMING<br />
All- American’s ope to lead ‘Hounds <strong>into</strong> unprecedented waters<br />
Ben Reed<br />
Stuff Writer<br />
“I think that our team can be the best<br />
ever men’s swim team at U <strong>of</strong> I,” said<br />
Freshman Hanno Ahonen.<br />
The team returns three 2004 All-<br />
Americans: junior Cole Tedhams,<br />
junior Drew Hastings and senior Deniz<br />
Monkul.<br />
According to Ahonen, the under-<br />
classmen also have been showing well<br />
in training.<br />
“With the high caliber <strong>of</strong> swimmers<br />
we have, I believe we have a good<br />
chance <strong>of</strong> winning a GLIAC trophy,”<br />
Tedhams said.<br />
The swim team has already begun<br />
the season1 with a 6-5 record after the<br />
first three meets, defeating GLIAC<br />
rivals Ashland and Lewis. They also<br />
defeated Division I opponents Butler<br />
and Valporasio.<br />
Junior co-captain and Division I1<br />
national champion, Cole Tedhams will<br />
lead the ‘Hounds this season. He won<br />
the 50-yard freestyle event in the first<br />
three meets. Tedhams also dominated<br />
the 100 freestyle event, winning twice<br />
and finishing 2nd at the Indiana Inter-<br />
collegiates Meet at Purdue.<br />
Tedharns plans to defend his na-<br />
tional championship in the 50 freestyle<br />
and hopes; to set the Division I1 national<br />
record <strong>of</strong> 19:93.<br />
Junior co-captain Drew Hastings<br />
also triumphed in the first three meets.<br />
Twice he won the 200 backstroke and<br />
400 individual medley.<br />
“I hom to achieve All-American<br />
vidual medley, 400 individual medley<br />
and 200 backstroke,” Hastings said.<br />
The team has had many contributors<br />
this season. Senior Brian Calandra<br />
placed in the 100 backstroke and 200<br />
backstroke. Deniz Monkul placed in<br />
the 200 breast and the 200 individual<br />
medley.<br />
Junior Jeremy Lindauer placed in<br />
the 200 backstroke, in the 100 breaststroke,<br />
200 individual medley and 200<br />
freestyle.<br />
Sophomore James Landis placed<br />
in the 100 butterfly. Freshman Hanno<br />
Ahonen placed 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle<br />
and 200 breaststroke.<br />
Freshman Kieran O’Neill placed<br />
in the 200 freestyle and 200 individual<br />
medley. Freshman Drqw Johnson<br />
placed in the 500 freestyle.<br />
“We all train very hard. Hopefully<br />
it will help - us - get many wins,” Ahonen<br />
‘Hounds swimmers wait at the block during a recent<br />
practice. The men’s swimming team boast three All-<br />
Americans in junior Cole Tedhams, junior Drew Hastings<br />
and senior Deniz Monkul.
NOVEMBER 17.2004 THE REFLECTOR PACE 6<br />
H STUDENT-OWNED BUSINESS<br />
Graduate student owns and operates nightclub<br />
Craig Haupert<br />
Eiitertainment Editor<br />
Jared Sigler is not a typical graduate<br />
student. At age 27, this <strong>Indianapolis</strong><br />
native owns and runs a nightclub<br />
called Fusion, while attending graduate<br />
school at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong><br />
for his MBA. He will tell you that the<br />
combination is not for the motivationally<br />
challenged.<br />
“When my brother Jason and I<br />
started this club back in 2001, I was a<br />
nervous wreck,” Sigler said. “I had so<br />
much stress that I would literally start<br />
cramping up, and 1 had trouble sleeping.”<br />
The stress accumulated as Sigler<br />
quickly learned that owning a nightclub<br />
is not easy. It takes time to establish a<br />
client base. The club lost a substantial<br />
amount <strong>of</strong> money during its infancy.<br />
“When we first opened we spent<br />
about $13,000 at Radio Now 93. I . We<br />
tried to do like an eight-week ad campaign,<br />
and I bet we only saw about a<br />
fourth <strong>of</strong> that money come back to us,”<br />
Sigler said.<br />
Sigler had a tough time finding an<br />
audience for Fusion.<br />
“We are not<br />
on Meridian street and we are not in<br />
Broadripple,” Sigler said. “So we had<br />
to basically find a niche.”<br />
It took about a year, but Sigler and<br />
Fusion found that niche and it turned<br />
out to be the Gothic and hip-hop<br />
crowds.<br />
The gothic crowd was a demograph-<br />
ic that was not well served by night-<br />
clubs in the <strong>Indianapolis</strong> area. Sigler<br />
found in them a small, but loyal crowd<br />
that helps keep his club making money.<br />
The hip-hop crowd has been consistent<br />
as well. “On Sunday night, which<br />
is our busiest night, we do a hip-hop<br />
night,” Sigler said. “We get 350 to<br />
400 people: on Sunday night and it is<br />
about 95 percent African American. It<br />
is a totally different demographic than<br />
Friday niglht.”<br />
Before Jared became involved in the<br />
nightclub business, he was a student at<br />
IUPUI. where he earned his bachelor’s<br />
degree in psychology in 2001. Sigler<br />
originally had planned to be a school<br />
counselor. After graduating from IU-<br />
PUI he expressed an interest in starting<br />
a nightclub to his father, Joe Sigler.<br />
His father had owned a nightclub in<br />
Florida before he moved to <strong>Indianapolis</strong>.<br />
He played an important role in<br />
helping Sigler get Fusion started. With<br />
his father’s help, Sigler and his brother<br />
Jason purchased Ozzies, a bar on Market<br />
Street in <strong>Indianapolis</strong>.<br />
Sigler ,grew up in Perry Township.<br />
When he was three years old his<br />
parents divorced. Sigler and his brother<br />
ended up staying with their mother<br />
and their father moved away. Sigler<br />
still saw his dad in the summertime<br />
and when their family took vacations<br />
together. Sigler said his parents are still<br />
very close.<br />
“He [our father] has given us a lot<br />
<strong>of</strong> advice and guidance. His involvement<br />
now is helping write the employee<br />
checks and he helps with the taxes at<br />
the end <strong>of</strong> the month,” Sigler said.<br />
In the fall <strong>of</strong> 2004, Sigler decided to<br />
go back to school to earn his master’s<br />
degree in the School <strong>of</strong> Business at<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong>. He has<br />
found his first semester at U <strong>of</strong> I to be a<br />
challenging experience.<br />
“1 actually enjoyed the psychology<br />
courses more than I enjoy my business<br />
courses now,” Sigler said. “They are<br />
very hard, but there are a couple rea-<br />
sons for that. I am not very interested.<br />
I also feel like I am at a bit <strong>of</strong> a dis-<br />
advantage because I did not have any<br />
undergrad business courses. So going<br />
<strong>into</strong> it [the business program] has been<br />
intimidating and it has been difficult to<br />
grasp the material.”<br />
Sigler plans to use the knowledge<br />
gained in his U <strong>of</strong> I business courses<br />
to help him succeed with Club Fu-<br />
sion. He also is interested in sales and<br />
marketing.<br />
“I have been working with this<br />
guy, he is a regional sales manager for<br />
a company called William Grant and<br />
Sons. They own Armadale Vodka and<br />
other liquors. 1 give him ideas all the<br />
time to help him with his products. I<br />
love taking a product, something that is<br />
not well known, and trying to make it a<br />
hot product. Maybe I can get <strong>into</strong> that<br />
business someday,” Sigler said.<br />
Recently, Sigler has had to as-<br />
sume more responsibilities at the club<br />
because his brother decided to step<br />
aside and just help out with repairs and<br />
maintenance. This left Sigler in charge<br />
<strong>of</strong> everything.<br />
Although owning Fusion takes up a<br />
significant amount <strong>of</strong> his time, Sigler is<br />
excited about where the club is going in<br />
the future.<br />
“Right down the street, we have<br />
Market Square Arena, and the city is<br />
getting ready to build a whole new<br />
neighborhood,” Sigler said. “Two<br />
20-something story high condos, retail,<br />
like high end.. . It will move right <strong>into</strong><br />
here.”<br />
Sigler is hoping that this develop-<br />
ment will bring in more business.<br />
He is planning to change the whole<br />
atmosphere <strong>of</strong> his club to cater to the<br />
new prospects. Sigler wants Fusion to<br />
transform <strong>into</strong> an upscale Cheers-like<br />
neighborhood bar.<br />
“People tell me to be patient with it,<br />
that I am sitting on a gold mine,’’ Sigler<br />
said.<br />
Jared Sigler (right), a<br />
graduate student in the<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Business, owns<br />
and operates Fusion. Fu-<br />
sion is a nightclub that ca-<br />
ters to different groups on<br />
different nights. The dance<br />
floor <strong>of</strong>fers a unique setting<br />
(below).<br />
Phoro b y Lirhc ThorribrrrL<br />
Photo h,v Zuch Bolinger<br />
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT IPROFILE<br />
Student from Rwanda active on campus<br />
Brittani Whitmore<br />
Stu8 Writer<br />
Maintaining a full schedule <strong>of</strong><br />
classes, studying two majors and being<br />
involved in more than five different<br />
co-curricular programs on campus<br />
are just some <strong>of</strong> the items on Chantal<br />
U w izera’s schedule.<br />
Uwizera. currently a junior at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong>, is a native<br />
<strong>of</strong> Rwanda, Africa. Uwizera arrived in<br />
the United States in 2000 along with<br />
her sisters. She attended Riley High<br />
School in South Bend, Indiana, before<br />
coming to <strong>Indianapolis</strong>.<br />
“It was different because I came<br />
when I was 16 or 17, and that’s the<br />
time when you make all your friends.<br />
So I left [Africa] kind <strong>of</strong> sad but it was<br />
good. It was a really good change,”<br />
Uwizera said.<br />
Uwizera moved to the United States<br />
for safety reasons. Her mother was<br />
Tutsi and her father was a Hutu. They<br />
were unlikely to marry because the two<br />
tribes wlxe in a conflict, so they were<br />
discriminated against. The conflict cost<br />
Uwizerai several members <strong>of</strong> her family.<br />
She is here under political asylum.<br />
Before coming to the U.S., Uwizera<br />
attended a private Catholic school and<br />
a French school. When comparing the<br />
GREYHOUND ADVENTURE,S FUNDING<br />
Greyhound Adventures<br />
~~ ~<br />
Becky Nakasone<br />
Stuff Writer<br />
Thousands <strong>of</strong> dollars recently<br />
became available for <strong>students</strong> to use<br />
for <strong>of</strong>f-campus learning experiences.<br />
Greyhound Adventures was created so<br />
that undergraduate <strong>students</strong> can have<br />
a chance to be involved in an area<br />
<strong>of</strong> interest <strong>of</strong>f campus. This funding<br />
program can help with the needed extra<br />
money.<br />
it also provides funding for intern-<br />
ships and vocational callings through<br />
projects, and for service-learning travel<br />
experiences. If a student wants to take<br />
an internship that will only pay half<br />
<strong>of</strong> what they could make at another<br />
job, but will greatly assist the student<br />
with his or her major, the funding can<br />
help make up the difference from the<br />
internship. Or if a group <strong>of</strong> <strong>students</strong><br />
would like to go to another country to<br />
help build homes, and they do not have<br />
enough money for the travel expenses<br />
Photo by Zuch Bolinger<br />
and materials, then the funds can help.<br />
‘‘We want to make it possible for a<br />
variety <strong>of</strong> <strong>students</strong> to take initiatives to<br />
serve, to explore, to discover possibili-<br />
ties that they are interested in doing,”<br />
said Michael Cartwright, dean and<br />
associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Ecumenical and<br />
Interfaith Programs.<br />
This funding came from The Cross-<br />
ings Project. The Religion Division <strong>of</strong><br />
the Lilly Endowment, Inc., funded the<br />
Crossings Project through the Programs<br />
for Theological Exploration <strong>of</strong> Vocation<br />
Initiative. The Lilly Endowment Inc.<br />
gives to campuses across the nation<br />
who are exploring in the area <strong>of</strong> voca-<br />
tion, or careers.<br />
‘‘The whole point <strong>of</strong> [The Crossings<br />
Project] was to find ways to have the<br />
campuses intersect with each other and<br />
give people opportunities,” said Sister<br />
Jennifer Homer, co-chaplain and as-<br />
sistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> spiritual formation.<br />
“We’re really blessed to live in Indiana<br />
because [Lilly] is in Indiana.”<br />
The funds have been broken up <strong>into</strong><br />
three different types <strong>of</strong> funds, and each<br />
has si set amount <strong>of</strong> money that can be<br />
used for that area. An International<br />
schools in Rwanda to the ones she has<br />
attended in the United States, she notices<br />
some major differences. “[The private<br />
school] was really strict. We wore<br />
uniforms, no makeup, nothing like that.<br />
Like here in class, you bring your food,<br />
or you can sit the way you want to, and<br />
there you can’t just talk without raising<br />
your hand.. . it’s really proper the way<br />
it is,” Uwizera said.<br />
After arrivng in the United States,<br />
Uwizera noticed that the U.S. is<br />
perceived incorrectly in Africa. “[l no-<br />
ticed] how friendly people are. Because<br />
when we are there [in Africa] all we see<br />
on TV is totally different, like the po-<br />
litical side. But when you get here, you<br />
see that people are actually nice, and<br />
Chantal Uwizera, a<br />
junior, helps a student<br />
in the library. Uwizera<br />
works in the Krannert<br />
Memorial Library and<br />
as a resident assis-<br />
tant in Warren Hall.<br />
She is majoring in<br />
political science and<br />
international relations.<br />
Uwizera is an inter-<br />
national student from<br />
Rwanda who came to<br />
the United States in<br />
2000.<br />
they try to get to know you. Also. how<br />
diverse it is. Different people dress so<br />
differently. In Rwanda. we dress inore<br />
European, although it is changing right<br />
now because hip-hop is niorc popiilar<br />
over there,” Uwizera said.<br />
Although she has lived in the L’nited<br />
States since her departure from Africa,<br />
Uwizera does miss Rwanda.<br />
“I miss everything. No matter where<br />
you go in your life there is no place like<br />
home. I miss just going out and having<br />
fun. Here you have to force yourself to<br />
have fun. There it just comes natural.<br />
I don’t know, maybe it’s because <strong>of</strong><br />
the music. And the food, oh gosh, the<br />
food!” Uwizera said.<br />
While attending school in South<br />
Bend she became involked with the<br />
Notre Dame Talent Search. This orga-nization<br />
sent out her pr<strong>of</strong>ile, and the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong> was one <strong>of</strong><br />
the colleges that contacted her.<br />
“This school was sending me<br />
information. Every time I had a question,<br />
they were so quick at responding.<br />
When 1 came to visits like Campus<br />
Camp-ln, the people were really nice. 1<br />
wanted to get to a big city but not that<br />
far, and <strong>Indianapolis</strong> was the one. ..I<br />
fell in love with this school,” Uwizera<br />
said.<br />
Uwizera has a double major in political<br />
science and international relations.<br />
“I love it. especially right now with the<br />
election. I love my pr<strong>of</strong>essors and how<br />
they interact with us,“ Uwizera said.<br />
In October, she was crowned Home-<br />
coming Queen, after a vote by the<br />
<strong>students</strong>. “It was good, and a surprise.<br />
It was a really good thing. I don’t know<br />
how to say it. We don’t have anything<br />
lihe that at home,” Uwizera said.<br />
Aside from her studies, Uwizera<br />
spends time getting involved in many<br />
co-curricular activities. She is the<br />
diversity and current events chair for<br />
Campus Program Board and a mentor<br />
in the College Mentors for Kids<br />
program.<br />
“I have a little girl that 1 love,”<br />
Uwizera said about the child that<br />
she mentors. She is involved in the<br />
(;reyhound Ambassadors, International<br />
Student Association, the Janus Club<br />
and is a resident assistant for the fifth<br />
tloor <strong>of</strong> Warren Hall.<br />
“She is very cool, and nice. Nobody<br />
has a problem with her and she is easy<br />
to get along with. Overall she is a good<br />
person,” said Semhar Meresie, fifth<br />
floor resident <strong>of</strong> Warren Hall.<br />
Uwizera also works at the Krannert<br />
Memorial Library on campus. “She is<br />
reall) helpful. and a lot <strong>of</strong> the patrons<br />
know her, which is good to have that<br />
cunnection. Also, she is always in<br />
it good mood. Students seem to be<br />
frustrated sometimes when they are<br />
searching for things, so her good atti-<br />
tude helps,” said Adela Chipe, a library<br />
co-worker.<br />
After college, Uwizera would like<br />
to go to law school, possibly to study<br />
international law or human rights law.<br />
“I want to save the world! ... 1 know that<br />
there are so many things that happen in<br />
my country. I’ve been questioning my<br />
country about human rights violations,<br />
and nobody cared about it. So whatever<br />
I do with my life, 1 just want people to<br />
learn more about it [Rwanda] in order<br />
to help,” Uwizera said.<br />
n<br />
tunding helps meet <strong>students</strong>’ needs<br />
Service-Learning Travel Study Opportunities<br />
area has a total <strong>of</strong> $5,000. A<br />
Christian Vocation Opportunity has a<br />
total <strong>of</strong> $5,000. Co-Curricular Programs<br />
ServiceiExploration Funds have<br />
a total <strong>of</strong> $1 2,500.<br />
In each area a maximum amount <strong>of</strong><br />
money can be applied for for individual<br />
grants: International Service-Learning<br />
Travel Study maximum is $1,000,<br />
Christian Vocations maximum is<br />
$1,250, and Co-Curricular Programs<br />
maximum is $1,250.<br />
According to Cartwright, the funds<br />
are supposed to help with some <strong>of</strong><br />
the “financial obstacles” that <strong>students</strong><br />
who do want to take the initiative may<br />
encounter.<br />
The money can be used for such<br />
things as books and materials, travel<br />
expenses and tuition and fees. The<br />
money is not going to cover all the expenses;<br />
<strong>students</strong> will need to make up<br />
for the rest <strong>of</strong> the money needed.<br />
The money,also can be used toward<br />
a certain kind<strong>of</strong> international service<br />
learning that may earn college credit.<br />
This kind <strong>of</strong> program must go through<br />
the Financial Aid Office.<br />
“There is a sort <strong>of</strong> obliption, once<br />
you get a certain level <strong>of</strong> education,<br />
and get to a certain level <strong>of</strong> life. and<br />
then there is a little bit <strong>of</strong> obligation to<br />
help others,” said Mimi Chase, director<br />
<strong>of</strong> the lnternational Di\ I is ’. ton. ’<br />
The program already has peaked<br />
interest in some <strong>students</strong> according to<br />
Dan Stoker, director <strong>of</strong> co-curricular<br />
programs, but they are still working on<br />
putting it all together.<br />
“We’ve already had two or three<br />
requests that have already come in. and<br />
right now, since it is a new grant opportunity<br />
as well as processes, we have not<br />
figured it out yet,” Stoker said.<br />
Collaboration with other undergraduate<br />
<strong>students</strong>, graduate <strong>students</strong>. and<br />
faculty is encouraged. Only undergraduate<br />
<strong>students</strong> are eligible for the<br />
money. After <strong>students</strong> decide that they<br />
would like to pursue this in some way<br />
they need to set up a meeting with the<br />
appropriate person.<br />
“Anybody who is interested is supposed<br />
to set up a meeting with either<br />
myself, Sister Jennifer, or Mirni Chase.<br />
We’re supposed to help understarld and<br />
exdain what the urocess is going to be<br />
and how their interest may fit in with<br />
the goals <strong>of</strong> the project, and give them<br />
the application materials,” Stoker said.<br />
A separate committee will be in<br />
charge <strong>of</strong> granting the funds. None <strong>of</strong><br />
the advisors <strong>of</strong> this program will be on<br />
the committee. Students should know<br />
within about three weeks after submit-<br />
ting their application whether or not<br />
they will receive any money.<br />
After <strong>students</strong> have returned from<br />
their adventures, they are required to<br />
present what they have done.<br />
“We’ve always had Study-Abroad<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fee Hours,” Chase said. “We coiild<br />
do something like Service-Abroad<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fee Hours. The brand new thing<br />
we‘re going to do next year is called a<br />
study-abroad fair. So we might call it a<br />
service abroad fair.” Chase is thinking<br />
about having the <strong>students</strong> who have<br />
been part <strong>of</strong> this funding program be<br />
on hand to talk to <strong>students</strong> who may be<br />
interested.<br />
These funds will only be available<br />
for the next two years, until 2006,<br />
because The Crossings Project, the<br />
program that makes this possible, is in<br />
its final two years.
CONCERT REVIEW<br />
Rock band shows up late, sends editor home early<br />
Treologic has yet to find its own sound<br />
Katy Yeiser<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Usually bands that have the right<br />
mix <strong>of</strong> dift‘erent sounds, genres and<br />
hflucnces make successful acts, such<br />
a:: No Doubt and The Black Eyed Peas.<br />
T le group Treologic, which played at<br />
tl- e Ransburg Auditorium on Nov. 5, is<br />
trying for a different sound like the previously<br />
mentioned bands but has a long<br />
\n ’iy to go before perfecting its sound,<br />
Treologic group members include<br />
a lead rapper, an electric guitar player<br />
who does vocals, a keyboard player<br />
wJ;o contributes back up vocals, a<br />
drummer who also sings back up<br />
vo;als, a DJ and a tenorbaritone saxaphone<br />
player.<br />
To start the band was 30 minutcs<br />
late to the show and were still<br />
doing soundcheck when the audience<br />
was seated. However, I don’t think it<br />
was that big <strong>of</strong> a deal because only<br />
around 50 people attended the concert.<br />
The band showing up late, the lack <strong>of</strong><br />
support and the silence <strong>of</strong> 50 people<br />
sporadicly seated among a 500 plus<br />
capacity auditorium did not set a great<br />
tone for the show.<br />
Treologic started the show with four<br />
<strong>of</strong> its members (the guitar and keys<br />
players, DJ and drummer) playing a<br />
tune that at first sounded like elevator<br />
music or something WICR would play.<br />
The guitar player had a definite jazzy<br />
sound and was joined by the keyboard<br />
playersjazz and hip hop sound pro-<br />
duced by playing the bass lines and the<br />
melody on his double decker keyboard.<br />
The sound was very relaxing and cool<br />
at first, but got old after a while.<br />
The stage presence and manners <strong>of</strong><br />
the band did not help their appeal at<br />
all. After airound a minute <strong>of</strong> playing<br />
the first tune, the DJ left the stage to<br />
go walk about the auditorium for an<br />
extended sound check, which threw me<br />
<strong>of</strong>f a bit. After a little more playing the<br />
lead vocalist walked out without any<br />
introduction and attempted to start the<br />
rap verses to the song, but he first had<br />
to do the soundcheck on his mic.<br />
Instead <strong>of</strong> hearing the opening verses<br />
and finding out what the vocal side<br />
<strong>of</strong> Treologic was all about, the audience<br />
was treated with “check, check, check,<br />
hello, hello, higher, higher, no sorry a<br />
little bit less vocals, yo, yo, yo, can you<br />
hear me” fix about a minute.<br />
The leaid rapper then went on to start<br />
his verses but the volume <strong>of</strong> his vocals<br />
went from s<strong>of</strong>t to medium to high over<br />
and over again during the first song. It<br />
was hard to understand what he was<br />
saying and it seemed at times that he<br />
just started to freestyle over the music.<br />
I was thrown <strong>of</strong>f once again during<br />
the opening song when the sax player<br />
came out around seven or eight minutes<br />
<strong>into</strong> the song and started to nonchalantly<br />
set up his sax stands and mics while<br />
his band was trying to perform.<br />
The opening two tunes, which<br />
flowed toglether, lasted almost 25 minutes<br />
and sounded pretty much the same.<br />
The players seemed to be well trained<br />
musicians and played their instruments<br />
well, but I had no sense that they had<br />
yet found their sound.<br />
There was little to no interaction<br />
between the members on stage and<br />
there was little to no uniqueness to<br />
their sound. With such good muscians<br />
I thought at least they could have came<br />
up with a cool or different sound, but<br />
all they could come up with was a<br />
Photo hv Luke Thornberry<br />
The lead singer, guitar player, and keyboardist play in front <strong>of</strong> a small crowd at the<br />
Ransburg Auditorium. Treologic’s sound is a mix <strong>of</strong> hip hop and jazz.<br />
bland jazzy light rock feel. The only<br />
exciting part about the first 25 minutes<br />
was this random middle aged guy in<br />
the audience who got up in front <strong>of</strong><br />
the stage and started to dance wildly.<br />
I think he may have been a honiclcss<br />
person or really drunk.<br />
The third song, however, did<br />
have a unique sound. The keyboard<br />
player started out with the music to<br />
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” and<br />
the drummer’s beat gave the classic<br />
piece a hip-hop beat. The sax player<br />
also joined the keys player with the<br />
lines to Beethoven’s classic. Although<br />
it was still hard to understand the lead<br />
rapper’s vocals, the third song was by<br />
far better than the first two.<br />
The fourth song returned to the<br />
badness <strong>of</strong> the first two songs but the<br />
interaction <strong>of</strong> sounds between the keys<br />
and DJ was impressive. 1 could barely<br />
hear the guitar player and was not<br />
impressed with the lyrics to this song’s<br />
chorus which were “ooh, ah ah, ooh, ah<br />
ah.”<br />
Then the band came back \vith their<br />
best songs <strong>of</strong> the night. Their best song<br />
was about cadillacs and “gangster<br />
leans” that was played with just the<br />
electric guitar player, the keys player<br />
and the drummer. The vocals displayed<br />
by the electric guitar player was stun-<br />
ning and made me wonder u hy hc<br />
hadn’t been singing all along, instead<br />
<strong>of</strong> the rapper. He had a nice range in<br />
pitch and had a smooth clear voice. I<br />
cnjoyedjust the three members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
band playing together during this song<br />
than I did the rest <strong>of</strong>them all together,<br />
and thought it might even be better to<br />
let the guitar player sing the bulk <strong>of</strong>the<br />
band’s lyrics. The sound made from<br />
the three was very organized, clean and<br />
catchy. However, that Libe \+as shot<br />
dovvn when the rest <strong>of</strong>the band came<br />
back on stage andjoined thcm for the<br />
remainder <strong>of</strong> the song.<br />
I left after the band started to play<br />
some covers which the lead rapper<br />
Movie Reviews<br />
‘The Incredibles’ fails to meet expectations<br />
Valerie Miller<br />
Munu,yinR Editor<br />
The latest computer animated movie<br />
to hit theaters is Disney and Pixar’s<br />
“The Incredibles.” I was a bit disap-<br />
pointed by this much-hyped movie.<br />
Maybe it’s because I was ready for a<br />
laugh-out-loud, rolling-in-the-aisles<br />
comedy, but all I really got was a<br />
mildly humorous, kid-oriented flick.<br />
The movie focuses on superheroes<br />
forced <strong>into</strong> hiding because <strong>of</strong> a lawsuit-<br />
happy society. Mr. Incredible (voiced<br />
by Craig T. Nelson) and Elastigirl<br />
(voiced by Holly Hunter), the two main<br />
heroes. marry and have three children.<br />
They are subsequently forced <strong>into</strong> a<br />
sort <strong>of</strong> witness protection program<br />
for superheroes and must lead normal<br />
lives with normal jobs like everyone<br />
else, rather than the dramatic superhero<br />
lives to which they are accustomed.<br />
The story follows Mr. Incredible’s<br />
struggles to adjust to this “normal” life<br />
in hiding when all he really wants to do<br />
is save the world with his superhuman<br />
strength.<br />
A disgruntled former fan draws Mr.<br />
Incredible out from hiding and plots to<br />
destroy hiim. After being trapped, Mr.<br />
Incredible relies on his family <strong>of</strong> super-<br />
heroes and superhero friend Frozone<br />
(voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) to help<br />
him save the day.<br />
While Ihe movie wasn’t bad, it<br />
didn’t meet my expectations, and the<br />
plot was slow-moving early on, which<br />
left me looking at my watch, rather<br />
than anticipating what came next.<br />
Most <strong>of</strong> the scenes just weren’t<br />
that funny. In fact, one <strong>of</strong> the funni-<br />
est scenes was one in which Frozone<br />
is looking for his suit. This scene has<br />
been played a million times in the<br />
previews for the movie. Another scene<br />
that I found hilarious was one in which<br />
the Incredibles are driving down the<br />
highway trying to find the right exit.<br />
Really the only reason I thought this<br />
was so funny was because I had been<br />
in that situation numerous times a few<br />
days before I saw the movie. Other<br />
than that, most <strong>of</strong> the humor only got<br />
minor chuckles from me, not roaring<br />
laughter.<br />
Don’t get me wrong, the movie<br />
was by no means bad, just not as good<br />
as I had hoped. Obviously, many<br />
people disagree with me, including<br />
my boyfriend, who thought the movie<br />
was absolutely hilarious. Maybe his<br />
opinion is in the majority, because the<br />
movie garnered more than $70 million<br />
in its opening weekend, but maybe<br />
they saw something I didn’t. To me, it<br />
just seemed like another Disney movie<br />
geared towards kids, without the Shrek-<br />
like adult humor I was hoping for.<br />
I will give Pixar credit for the<br />
animation, which was <strong>of</strong> course high<br />
quality, typical <strong>of</strong> what I have come to<br />
expect from them. But for me, ani-<br />
mation takes a back seat to plot and<br />
humor, so it didn’t save the movie. I ac-<br />
tually enjoyed the short little animated<br />
story that came before the movie more<br />
than I really liked the movie.<br />
“The Incredibles” is a mediocre<br />
comedy that didn’t really appeal to<br />
me. It wasn’t nearly as funny as I<br />
anticipated, although there were some<br />
funny scenes. This movie will almost<br />
definitely be a kid favorite. Adults may<br />
not enjoy it as much. But feel free to<br />
disagree, obviously millions <strong>of</strong> people<br />
did.<br />
‘Ray’ chronicles life <strong>of</strong> superstar<br />
Sarah Clough<br />
Distrihiition Mmager<br />
The life <strong>of</strong> Ray Charles unfolded<br />
onto movie screens Oct. 29.<br />
Fourteen years <strong>of</strong> planning and<br />
preparing paid <strong>of</strong>f, making “Ray” <strong>into</strong><br />
what many believe is the best movie <strong>of</strong><br />
this year.<br />
“Ray” shines out among the current<br />
onslaught <strong>of</strong> horror films, romantic<br />
comedies and cartoons, providing one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the most emotional plots by reveal-<br />
ing the story <strong>of</strong> Ray Charles Robin-<br />
son’s ascent to fame, despite being<br />
blind, and his plummet caused by drug<br />
abuse and infidelity.<br />
Jamie Foxx takes on the lead role <strong>of</strong><br />
Ray and nails it.<br />
Prior to the production <strong>of</strong> the film<br />
and the recent death <strong>of</strong> Ray Charles,<br />
Foxx took the time to study him, his<br />
movements, how he played the piano<br />
and how he spoke.<br />
It is obvious to the audience that he<br />
did his homework.<br />
As 1 watched the screen, memories<br />
<strong>of</strong> photographs and footage I had<br />
previously seen <strong>of</strong> Ray Charles came<br />
flooding <strong>into</strong> my mind.<br />
They easily mixed together with the<br />
action on the screen.<br />
The producers <strong>of</strong> the film used<br />
flashbacks as another way to add depth<br />
to the plot and reveal the strong impact<br />
Ray’s mother had on his life. The<br />
scenes colntinued to jump back to his<br />
childhood and to the two major events<br />
that affected his life: the death <strong>of</strong> his<br />
younger brother and him losing his<br />
sight when he was seven years old.<br />
The audience sees the lessons that<br />
Ray’s mother had taught him and what<br />
he held on to throughout his life. Even<br />
after her death, her words “Don’t ever<br />
let anyone turn you <strong>into</strong> a cripple” echo<br />
through his mind.<br />
The two and a half hour movie feels<br />
a little long in some parts, but after<br />
realizing that it had been packed with<br />
over 30 years <strong>of</strong> events you know that<br />
it probably could have been longer.<br />
Also the length <strong>of</strong> the movie allowed<br />
the producers to cram an awesome<br />
soundtrack <strong>into</strong> every scene <strong>of</strong> the<br />
movie.<br />
This helps to show the constant<br />
presence <strong>of</strong> music in Ray’s life.<br />
The movie progresses to show how<br />
his life develops and evolves from<br />
playing in small bands to becoming a<br />
star and all the mistakes that come with<br />
it.<br />
His life is the perfect portrayal <strong>of</strong><br />
the downfall <strong>of</strong> a iock and roll star.<br />
He began getting mixed up with<br />
drugs, starting with marijuana and<br />
gradually building up to heroin. He<br />
began neglecting his family and friends<br />
in order to pursue his dreams and other<br />
women.<br />
While he was pursuing drugs and<br />
fast women Ray tried to hide it from<br />
his family.<br />
As his career succeeded, it became<br />
harder to hide these things from the<br />
ones that he loved, and after being<br />
caught twice for possession Ray entered<br />
a rehabilitation clinic to clean up<br />
his life.<br />
Not only does the plot <strong>of</strong> this movie<br />
captivate you by showing the trials <strong>of</strong><br />
his life, it inspires you by showing how<br />
Ray was able to overcome his handicap<br />
to become one <strong>of</strong> the greatest musical<br />
legends <strong>of</strong> his time.<br />
He forced a musical transformation<br />
within his generation as he strove to<br />
break out from the mold that had been<br />
set by previous artists who had inspired<br />
him.<br />
By finding his own sound he also<br />
developed the music <strong>of</strong> our nation as he<br />
combined country western with gospel.<br />
with jazz and with blues to create soul.<br />
Ray is well worth the two and a half<br />
hours spent at the movie theater and<br />
even afterwards you’ll walk away humming<br />
“Georgia’s on My Mind.’‘<br />
called “a journey through old school<br />
hip-hop.’‘ The highlight <strong>of</strong> the compila-<br />
tion was the cover <strong>of</strong> “Let Me Clear<br />
My Throat.” I thoroughly enjoyed this<br />
part <strong>of</strong>the show and decided to leave<br />
on a high note because I was certain the<br />
band would eventually go back to their<br />
boring jazz sound.<br />
I left the show with mixed feelings<br />
about their performance. The pros <strong>of</strong><br />
the show were the few unique songs I<br />
licard, the muscianship <strong>of</strong> the band and<br />
the bocals <strong>of</strong> the guitar player. The cons<br />
oSthe show mere the boring repetitive<br />
long songs, the lack <strong>of</strong> stage presence,<br />
the band not identifying themselves<br />
or their songs and the disorganization<br />
01’ some <strong>of</strong> the songs. Sometimes, the<br />
songs would seem more fit for a mixed<br />
C‘I) for someone to play at a new age<br />
cafc that people Lvould freestyle over.<br />
If the band can stick to the formula<br />
that produced the unique songs played<br />
during the set then they might be well<br />
on their nay to successful careers.<br />
Jude Law<br />
scores<br />
with ‘ Alfie ’<br />
remake<br />
Lauren Howey<br />
Feature Editor<br />
I love Jude Law, and I couldn’t wait<br />
to see his new movie. “Alfie.” What<br />
I expected when I went to see it was<br />
a romantic comedy. What 1 got was<br />
something much different. “Alfie” is<br />
ii dark and depressing movie about a<br />
promiscuous man who tills his life with<br />
hot women, sex and no emotional ties.<br />
“Alfie” is a remake <strong>of</strong> a 1966 film<br />
starring Micheal Caine. The new<br />
film adds a modern setting and some<br />
feminism.. . but not much. This movie<br />
makes it certain that Law is one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
sexiest men in Hollywood. His cha-<br />
risma permeates the film. He charms<br />
the audience directly, by narrating his<br />
on II story.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> Alfie’s first comments to<br />
the audience sums up his attitude. He<br />
says, ”1 rarely spend the night in my<br />
owti bed.” Alfie spends his time with<br />
barious lad) friends played by Marisa<br />
Tomei, Susan Sarandon and Nia Long.<br />
.4lfie makes efforts to justify his<br />
behavior. hut it is clear to the audi-<br />
ence that it is self-destructive. After<br />
he sleeps with his friend’s (played by<br />
Oniar Epps) ex-girlfriend, he says to<br />
the audience, “I find that lately even<br />
lying to myself comes easily.”<br />
‘The movie was hard to watch<br />
because there are some emotionally<br />
disturbing moments. The movie had<br />
this effect because <strong>of</strong> Alfie’s lack <strong>of</strong><br />
regard for others- including his best<br />
friend. I found the movie upsetting, but<br />
1 ,aw’s character was charming. Alfie is<br />
;in irresistible but destructive force.<br />
“Alfie” is definitely worth seeing if<br />
you’re a man or a woman. Men will<br />
tind enough eye candy in the female<br />
characters. The plot is one that can ap-<br />
peal to all types <strong>of</strong> people.
Photo by Zuch Bolinger<br />
The Wheeler Arts Center, pictured above, is holding a month-long open house featuring<br />
art work from some <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Indianapolis</strong> <strong>students</strong>. The open house supports the<br />
community and gives local artists an opportunity to showcase their works <strong>of</strong> art.<br />
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WHEELER ARTS COMMUNITY<br />
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U <strong>of</strong> I <strong>students</strong><br />
Jessica Elston<br />
Opiniori Editor<br />
The Wheeler Arts Community<br />
(WAC) held an open house 011 Oct.<br />
6 to kick <strong>of</strong>f a month-long display <strong>of</strong><br />
activities in the building. <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Indianapolis</strong> art <strong>students</strong> were among<br />
the 14 artists who opened their studios<br />
for tours, as well as seven guest artists<br />
who displayed their work.<br />
“Since U <strong>of</strong> I leases space here we<br />
get to participate in these shows,” said<br />
Marilyn McElwain, arts academy coor-<br />
dinator. U <strong>of</strong> 1 has a community theatre,<br />
studio space for artists, a small gallery.<br />
a classroom and four <strong>of</strong>fices all located<br />
within WAC.<br />
McElwain believes part <strong>of</strong> the rea-<br />
son the university participates in WAC<br />
is to support the community. “For the<br />
university, we want to be a part <strong>of</strong> this<br />
because we support the residents that<br />
live here and what they’re trying to<br />
do,” she said.<br />
McElwain said most <strong>of</strong> the U <strong>of</strong> I<br />
artists on display tonight were cho-<br />
sen by their pr<strong>of</strong>essors. “Most <strong>of</strong> the<br />
photography and printmaking teachers<br />
recommended certain <strong>students</strong>’ work.<br />
Then we have several <strong>students</strong> who do<br />
a lot <strong>of</strong> painting in the space.” she said.<br />
Senior Nick Ray is one <strong>of</strong> the stu-<br />
dents who uses the art studio leased by<br />
U <strong>of</strong> I. “They grant [the space] to all<br />
upperclassman. I’ve been working here<br />
I<br />
since I was a junior. I spend most <strong>of</strong> mq<br />
free time here,” he said.<br />
Senior Natalia Kostus also LIS~S the<br />
studio space. She believes the purpose<br />
<strong>of</strong> the open house is to “get people<br />
interested in art. 1 see art as a way <strong>of</strong><br />
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communicating your feelings or your<br />
thoughts. Having a show is a great way<br />
to bring the public in and show them<br />
your work.”<br />
Ray said the intention <strong>of</strong> others<br />
viewirig his work is to connect with<br />
people. “Hopefully my artwork is expressive<br />
enough that the viewer <strong>of</strong> my<br />
work CRII feel what I felt when I was<br />
creating it,” he said. “That’s the basis<br />
<strong>of</strong> all art. that connection you have with<br />
people .”<br />
Kostns’s work consisted <strong>of</strong> many<br />
oil paintings. “1 really like oil painting.<br />
That‘s how I started,” she said. “1<br />
started when I was really little, 1 went<br />
to an artistic kindergarten in Poland.”<br />
Kostus said it is very difficult to<br />
part with her art work. “I’ve never<br />
really sold my pieces. I’m not comfortable<br />
with the idea,” she said. “It’s<br />
almost like I would be selling myself.<br />
I‘ve hpent so much time on it, They’re<br />
my ideas and my personal thoughts.<br />
They’re almost like my children.”<br />
Ray agreed. “I have work that I sell<br />
and then I have work that I do for myself.<br />
I don’t have much time to produce<br />
work that I intend to sell,” he said.<br />
Some <strong>of</strong> the other artists at the open<br />
house were selling art, but that was not<br />
the purpose <strong>of</strong> the night. “The purpose<br />
is for the artist residents to open up<br />
their studio space to show what they’re<br />
doing.” McElwain said.<br />
Along with art and photography<br />
there was also a showing <strong>of</strong> the video<br />
“Neighborhood at the Crossroads,”<br />
which was a collaboration <strong>of</strong> U <strong>of</strong> 1<br />
Community Programs, WFYI, and<br />
Southeast Umbrella Organization.<br />
The play “A Prayer for the Dead”<br />
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performed in the U <strong>of</strong> 1 community<br />
theater space.<br />
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