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I PRESIDENTS INAUGURATION
THE
UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS
1400 EAST HANNA AVENUE INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227
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UIndy inaugurates first woman president
Pitt’s inauguration celebration involves community service projects, travel grants ceremony, food, music
Tony Puckett
Sports Editor
University of Indianapolis President
Beverley Pitts was officially inaugurated
in a ceremony in Christel Dehaan Fine
Arts Center, Ruth Lilly Performance Hall,
Wednesday, March 29. Pitts assumed the
responsibilities of the presidency before
the 2005-2006 school year, but the inau-
guration took place nearly eight months
into the school year.
“It’s typical that a president waits a
bit into their term to have an inaugura-
tion,’’ said Director of Alumni Relations
Monica Woods. “It also takes quite a
while to plan.”
Woods was appointed by Pitts to
chair a 13-person committee to plan the
inauguration events.
“She [Dr. Pitts] gave us loose guide-
lines, that she wanted something creative,
something unique, and a platform to tell
the university’s story,” Woods said. “Any-
time you have an event of this magnitude,
your communities are listening.”
Among the objectives that Pitts gave
the committee were to create inaugural
events focused on the students and on
community outreach.
“I wanted to keep our program tra-
ditionally nice but not overblown or
overdone, so that we could take some of
the resources that might have gone into
an inauguration and move them to bet-
ter reflect the culture of the university,”
Pitts said.
The theme of the presidential inau-
guration was “Passport to Possibilities,”
with events that included several dinners,
travel scholarship awards ceremonies, and
a day of service that allowed students to
volunteer at several sites throughout the
community.
“We started with a blank piece of
paper ... and while it did focus on her,
the “Passport to Possibilities” theme and
travel grants were what we thought to
be a pretty creative idea in focusing on
students, giving back to students.. . and
I really think we achieved it,” Woods
said.
“The morning of service seemed like
a great opportunity to demonstrate to the
community just what an outgoing institu-
tion we are,” Pitts said.
Both Pitts and Woods were impressed
with the number of students who partici-
pated in the day of volunteerism.
“I was at the registration desk tor
the service opportunity. It was eight in
the morning, and they [students I were
out there with smiles on. ready to go to
ally difficult circumstances,” she said.
“I uorked a bit with the preschoolers [at
Fletcher Place] and read them a story. I
also cheered on our food workers who
were there feeding the homele-,s.”
The final dinner of the inaugural week
\viis organized by the student bodv. India-
Photo by Crystlo Collins
(Far left) Jeff Russell, chief
information officer for infor-
mation systems, and David
Wantz, vice president for stu-
dent affairs, mingle at the re-
ception after the inauguration.
(Left) Freshman Theresa
Hammond changes the Boys
and Girls Club sign on Troy
Ave. Toni Peabody, instruc-
tor ofsocial work, right and
Leeann Harris, unit director of
the club, assists after helping
paint, clean and organize the
interior of the club.
(Right) Senior Wade Baker
plays in a jazz combo at the re-
ception after the inauguration. Plzoto hv Crystle Collins
PROVOST
Ball State’s Deborah Balogh named UIndy provost
Crystle Collins
News Editor
The University of Indianapolis has
recently named Deborah Balogh of Ball
State University as the new Provost.
Balogh is the current interim provost
and vice president for academic affairs at
BSU, where she has served since 1981.
The current university interim provost
is Mary Moore, who has been filling the
position since Everette Freeman left in
October of 2005. The search for a new
provost began shortly after Freeman’s
deDarture.
highly qualified persons and several
international applications,” said David
Wantz, vice president for student affairs.
“It was difficult to narrow it down to the
top 16, but once we did, we saw four
people who stood out.”
The four candidates chosen by the
searchcommittee as finalists wereBalogh,
Moore, Yatish Shah, provost and execu-
tive vice chancellor of the University of
Missouri-Rolla, and LindaPritchard, dean
of college of Arts and Sciences at Eastern
Michigan University.
“We took the best eight people that
looked good on paper and made telephone
interviews,” Wantz said. “Then we chose
vague or stuffy.” The top four had to
display a distinguished academic past,
and a breadth of experience along with
strong character and have chemistry
with the university community during
the visiting.
Balogh visited the university on March
2 and “wowed’ faculty and staff accord-
ing to Wantz and several members of
administration.
“What attracted me to the position is
the emphasis on combining liberal edu-
cation with preparation for professional
careers, the strong commitment of the
faculty to the mission of the institution,
the extensive involvements of the institu-
academic programs,” Balogh said.
According to BSU’s Web site, Balogh
was named interim provost and vice
president of academic affairs on June I,
2005. Before the appointment she was as-
sociate provost, which began April 2003.
She has also held the positions of dean
of graduate school, appointed in 1999.
director of graduate student development.
appointed in 1996 professor of psychol-
ogy science and coordinator of graduate
studies between 1983- 1994.
Wantz said he wanted to dispel1 rumors
that have surfaced about the relationship
that Pitts and Balogh have, because they
worked together previously at BSU.
for people to think that there wag any sort
of set idea in President Pitts’ mind about
hiring Dr. Balogh from the start, or any
other idea about Dr. Balogh using her
connection to get the position,” Wantz
said. “Dr. Balogh pulled herself up on
her own measure and is acourageous and
charming woman.”
The provost search committee all
agreed that Balogh brings a hew per-
spective from a big school to U of I and
that she will make an excellent addition
to the university community, according
to Wantz.
Balogh will officially take over as
pro\ ost for the 2006-2007 academic
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Crystle Collins
News Editor
Indianapolis Student Govern- smo
Crvstle Collins
versity of Indianapolis Department of Communication will host two guest
their annual communication awards ceremony on April 21 at noon in Good
1 Hall.
Irwin Gratz has been a broadcast journalist for more than 25 years and is the morning
er for the Main Public Broadcasting Network. He was a reporter, anchor
mmercial radio stations for 12 years. He has spent the last 13
anchor for public radio.
-winning broadcast and print journalist, also will speak at the
wo decades of experience in reporting, anchoring and print
hton is the vice president of the board of directors, as well as the chair of
e, of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation.
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2 THE REFLECTOR APRILS 2006
Failed ports deal reflects culture of fear
Sandra Arao Ameny
Staff Writer
The failure of the Dubai ports deal
reflects intolerance and prejudice
towards Arabs. The controversial
deal would have allowed Dubai Ports
World, a company owned by the United
Arab Emirates, to operate six major
American ports.
According to CNN, DP World
bought London-based Peninsula &
Oriental Steam Navigational Company
for $6.8 million, giving DP World the
right to operate six major American
ports, including ports in areas such as
New Orleans, New York, New Jersey
and Philadelphia.
Three-quarters of cargo containers
pass through terminals that are leased
to international companies. Some of
these companies are based in Denmark,
Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and
China. So, what is all the fuss over
another international company leasing
another American port?
Politicians who opposed the Dubai
port deal have repeatedly pointed out
that the deal would have jeopardized
national security. They are quick to
point out that two of the 911 1 hijack-
ers came from the UAE and that the
hijackers attained the funding from
Dubai banks prior to the attack. They
also are eager to point out that the
UAE was one of three nations to give
recognition to the Taliban’s regime in
Afghanistan. These are not hard points
to sell at face value, but one must ana-
lyze and be educated about all the facts
before writing off DP World and the
UAE altogether.
The reality is that the UAE has been
a necessary ally in the Middle East in
the war against terrorism. According to
The New York Times, after the Sept. 11
I EDITORIAL
Attacks, the UAE cut all diplomatic
ties with the Taliban, especially when
the Bush administration was calling
for Afghanistan to give up Osama Bin
Laden. Secondly, the US. Navy uses
the port of Dubai, and the U.S. Air
Force uses the UAE airfield to launch
weapons into Iraq and Afghanistan. If
the U.S. labels all Arab countries as
threats, even an ally, it will only create
more enemies. After the invasion of
Iraq and the prison abuse cases, the
U.S. image in the Arab world plummeted.
Refusing business from a
legitimate Arab company and connecting
all Arab countries with terrorists
and enemies will only tarnish the U.S.
image in the international community.
After bipartisan opposition in
Congress and public opinion ~olls, DP
World agreed to a 45-day review and
even offered to divert its holdings to
an American company. DP World was
poised to subject itself to scrutiny and
cooperated to show politicians and the
American people that it was legitimate
and willing to comply with Congress’s
demands. Unfortunately, the deal fell
apart.
What the public tends to forget,
behind all the political rhetoric, sound
bites and patriotism, is that Dubai was
the first place to join the U.S. Container
Security Initiative, a program
that allowed U.S. Customs to go to
overseas ports and check cargo that
was bound for America.
According to Time Magazine, Stephen
Flynn of the Council on Foreign
Relations said that DP World is not “a
shadow organization of AI Qaeda.”
Even Jimmy Carter, who is known
to criticize the Bush administration,
defended the deal and told CNN that
the deal was not a particular threat to
U.S. security. Why is it permissible to
allow some international companies
inside U.S. borders, yet chase other
companies away? Are we not undermining
national security by allowing
any international company, regardless
of origin, to lease ports in the U.S.?
The reality is that the DP World deal
fell apart simply because we were deal-
ing with an Arab country. Ironically, the
war on terror, highlighted with words
like “democracy,” ‘‘liberation’’ and
“freedom,” has exposed an uglier side
of ourselves that some of us refuse to
see: intolerance. We rant and rave about
the freedoms we are going to bring to
people in Iraq, yet we do not display
tolerance and non-prejudicial attitudes.
It’s time to wake up. We do not only
fear national security breeches. We fear
a culture and a people that we do not
understand, a people we have equated
with nothing but terrorists.
In my opinion, the Dubai Ports
World deal was blocked by politicians
who made decisions on too little, and
biased information. Even worse, the
public was not adequately educated
about both sides of the issue and auto-
matically jumped on the bandwagon
to support protectionist laws without
really understanding that the UAE and
DP World are actually legitimate and
necessary players in the war on terror.
It is unfortunate when politicians can
exhibit Anti-Arab sentiment and no one
checks them for intolerance or preju-
dice. What if this were one of us facing
scrutiny in a foreign country? Wouldn’t
we want to be measured with fairness
and respect?
Even though it crumbled, the Dubai
Ports World deal gives us an opportuni-
ty to examine our political conscience.
Before we raise our banners of democ-
racy and wave our American flags, we
should ask ourselves if we are tolerant
enough to refrain from stereotyping a
group of people as terrorists. We should
challenge ourselves to recognize that
not all Arab countries or companies are
a threat and consider the possibility that
the entities may be legitimate business
partners and necessary allies in the war
on terror.
Protests at U.S. soldiers’ funerals spark legislation, enrage editor
Valerie Miller
Editor-in-Chief
Members of the small congregation
of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka,
Kan., have made headlines recently for
their anti-homosexual protests across
the country at soldiers’ funerals. Their
actions have been so offensive that a
number of states, including Indiana,
have passed, or are in the process of
passing, legislation restricting where
and when people can demonstrate at a
funeral.
Before 1 go into an all-out tirade
about why these people are lunatics, I
should tell you a little more about the
congregation, the protests and their
logic (or lack thereof). According to
both the church’s Web site
(www.godhatesfags.com - yes, this is
really the name of their Web site and
with that, I could probably end this
editorial right now, but I will continue)
and various news sources (ABC News,
CNN, USA Today, etc.), the church
was founded and is still led by 76-
year-old pastor Fred Phelps. Most of
the congregation is comprised of his
family members, which includes (to
date) 13 children, 54 grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren. Although the
church has the word “Baptist” in its
name, according to MSNBC, it is not
affiliated with a larger denomination.
The group first gained notoriety
by protesting at the funerals of AIDS
victims in the 1990s. Since then, they
have made it their mission to spread
their hate-filled doctrine by protesting at
the funerals of slain American soldiers,
as well as other places like the funer-
als of the West Virginia coal miners.
Their protests at soldiers’ funerals have
sparked the most controversy and led
to most of the legislation. They believe
that soldiers are evil because they die
defending a country that tolerates ho-
mosexuality. This is faulty logic at best,
and really it is just plain stupid.
Members of the group have (to date)
interrupted more than 100 soldiers’
funerals (including some in Lafayette,
Evansville and Elkhart) by standing
near the funeral or memorial service
of a fallen soldier with signs that say
despicable things like “God Hates You,”
“Thank God for 9/11 ,” “God is Your
Enemy,” “God Hates Fags” and “You’re
Going to Hell” and chanting equally
offensive phrases. Not only are the
adult church members doing this, but
they take their kids, too! One picture of
the protests shows a woman with her
nine-year-old son, both of whom are
holding similar signs and smiling. NINE
YEARS OLD!
Phelps and his followers show no
remorse for their actions and plan to
continue them. When asked by ABC
News how he would respond to a
widow who asked him to leave, he
replied, “No. Some maudlin widow.
Look, you’re partly to blame for him
being dead, woman.” Yes, this heartless,
uncaring man said these exact words.
Not only do they believe this crap, they
choose to share their message at a time
when people are grieving the loss of a
loved one. LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Fortunately, some motorcycle-riding
veterans have formed a group called the
Patriot Guard to try to protect the griev-
ing families. This group comes to funer-
als where the congregation is protesting
and blocks them from the view of the
family members with their bikes and
American flags. As the family members
and other mourners come by, the group
revs their engines to drown out the
cacophony of protestors. These patriots,
heroes in my opinion, do this out of the
kindness of their hearts in order to spare
these families further anguish. God
bless them.
When I first learned about this socalled
church, I was appalled. First of
all, they should not be called a church.
They are more like a cult. The definition
of a cult, according to
dictionary.com, is this: “a religion or
religious sect generally considered to be
extremist or false ... under the guidance
of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.”
Also, they are NOT, I repeat, NOT
Christians. They give Christians a bad
name by doing this stuff and causing
people to generalize that all Christians
are like this. Remember how they seem
to fit the definition of cult? Well, here
are a couple definitions of “Christian”
that they don’t fit into: “professing
belief in Jesus as Christ or following the
religion based on the life and teachings
of Jesus” and “showing a loving
concern for others.” This group comes
nowhere near following the life and
teachings of Jesus. If they bothered to
read more of the Bible than just what
they want to read, they would notice
that Jesus spent a lot of his time with
people who were rejected by society,
including lepers, Samaritans and tax
collectors.
They pick a few choice words from
the Bible, mostly from the Old Testa-
ment, paste them together and call it
doctrine. They do not teach the Word of
God, but rather a polluted, false form of
it and they use ridiculous logic to justify
it. They say that the only hope that
people (specifically homosexuals) have
is “to listen to the preaching of West-
boro Baptist Church.” This direct quote
from their Web site is not a message
of hope. If they were trying to witness
to people about being a Christian, they
would tell them to turn to the teachings
of the Bible for hope, not the teachings
of Westboro Baptist Church.
You don’t need to take a critical
thinking course to figure out that the
idea that God kills soldiers because
there are homosexuals in America is ab-
surd. That’s like saying I + 1 equals 594.
They use the story of Sodom and Go-
morrah to justify this. Anyone who has
even casually read the Bible will know
that God destroyed Sodom and Gomor-
rah because of the things the people of
these cities did - things like trying to
attack visitors to the city. Thw. Not
other people - the people who actually
committed the sins. God does not pun-
ish people for things they didn’t do.
Another of their teachings is that
God is a God of hate. They basically
teach that if you do not believe every-
thing they say, God hates you and you
are going to hell. Well, 1 have read the
Bible too, and I have a number of verses
to directly refute these false claims.
Here are just a few verses to keep in
mind:
“Dear friends, let us love one
another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of
God and knows God. Whoever does not
love does not know God because God is
love.” 1 John 4:7-5 (NIV).
Another verse says, “For all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of
God, and are justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that came
by Jesus Christ.” Romans 3:23-24.
All have sinned. ALL - including you, 8
Freddie.
Here are a few more verses that not
only show the love of God, but the sin
these people commit by hating others.
“Anyone who claims to be in the
light but hates his brother is still in the
darkness.” 1 John 2:9; “If anyone says
‘I love God,’ yet hates his brother, he
is a liar. For anyone who does not love
his brother, whom he bas seen, cannot
love God, whom he has not seen.” 1
John 4:20; and finally, “Anyone who
hates his brother is a murderer, and you
know that no murderer has eternal life
in Him.” 1 John 3: 15. Read that, you
crazies. I’m sure they don’t like to be
told they are lying murderers stuck in
darkness. But, hey, I’m just quoting the
Bible.
While I’m sure that I am now going
to hell for calling them out, I realize that
hating them is not the answer either;
in fact, it only makes things worse and
directly contradicts the verses I just
quoted. The Bible also says (a quote
from Jesus) “Love your enemies and ;
pray for those who persecute you.” Matthew
5:44. SO although the members of,
this congregation may be hateful and i&
norant, we should not hate them, for that
makes us no better than they are. We 1
should pray for them and feel sorry that,
their lives are so consumed with hate.
And while I hope they change their ;
beliefs and leave the grieving soldiers’
families alone, I also realize that under
the U.S. Constitution, they have the
right to free speech, just like every :
other American. However, I won’t be
’
surprised to see a new Web site called
“godhatesvaleriemiller.com.” That’s ;
OK, I’m changing my name soon ;
anyway.

Travel grants awarded at Presidential Inauguration
Ruth Shirley
Sta8 Writer
Ten students were chosen to reflect President
Beverley Pitts’ presidential inauguration theme,
“Passport to Possibilities,” as ambassadors of the
university in four different countries.
Each student was selected through an application
process in the travel grant program, “Passport
to the World,” to receive $4,000 in an open-ended
grant, so they can explore the country chosen in
their application essay. The winners were announced
during the Investiture Ceremony on March
29 and participated in a luncheon with Pitts and
the Athens campus Chancellor and Vice-president,
Visilis Votopoulos.
Pitts and the committee wanted to celebrate in
a unique way, while showcasing “what is good at
the University of Indianapolis: our students,” said
Inauguration Committee Chair Monica Woods.
They wanted to honor the statement in the
university mission that says the university is committed
to fostering “international relationships and
programs that promote intercultural understanding,
awareness, and appreciation,” as well as “campus
culture that embraces and celebrates human diversity.”
More than 80 students applied for the travel
, grants. The ten winners are required to use the grant
between May 2006 and August 2007 and to write
, an essay within a month of their return describing
their travel experiences. The planning of the trips
and completion are being advised through Mimi
Chase, Director of the International Division, and
’ the Office of International Relations.
,
Representatives from the host universities
will greet the students, but that is the only pre-
determined aspect of their trips. The recipients are
encouraged to take side-trips and visit surrounding
s countries, according to Woods. Some students have
s specific goals to achieve, and others will spend
1 their
gralits “as a tourist but also as a learner of
life, if you will,” Woods said.
Three students chose Stellenbosch University
in South Africa as their destination: sophomore
Hilary Foltz, senior Todd Harrington, and senior
Mboone Umbima. Graduate student Molly Schiel
chose the South America campus in Belieze.
Foltz, an elementary education major from
. Dyer, Ind., also is going with a clear goal in mind.
She will be volunteering at the Christel House-a
school for impoverished children funded by Chris-
; tel DeHaan.
“I just believed that I should do it,” Foltz said.
‘‘I think it will really help me as 1 teach later on.”
, Her trip is tentatively scheduled for the summer
“ of 2007.
‘
School ofAdult Learning student Harrington of
. Anderson, Ind., who will graduate this year with
~ a degree in liberal studies, is looking forward to
. going to Africa. While in South Africa, he plans to
go on a safari, possibly visit aneighboring country
and visit the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg,
which documents the history of the blacWwhite
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Ten students from the University of Indianapolis were awarded $4,000 travel grants on March 29 at President
Beverley Pitts’ Inaguration. The grants will allow the students to travel to South Africa, Belieze, China, Taiwain
or the university’s sister campus in Athens, Greece.
segregationist Apartheid government which fell
in the early 1990’s. Harrington plans to travel this
August.
Schiel, a graduate student and B.U.1.L.D tu-
tor studying human biology, plans on working
closely with the host university in the anatomy
and anthropology department. She will work with
the faculty there as a teaching and laboratory as-
sistant, as well as do independent research for her
thesis.
According to Schiel, the school does casework
for South America and she will be assisting in the
cases, gaining more experience in that field. She
also plans to visit the Transvaal Museum, which
houses many important skeletal collections. Schiel
will travel in February 2007.
Umbima, from Nairobi, Kenya, chose South
Africa out of curiosity and planning for the fu-
ture.
“It’s the New York of Africa. It’s very mod-
ern,” Umbima said. She also considers it a place
to relocate after completing a master’s degree.
Umbima plans to travel this August.
Another destination for four students is Greece,
through the UTndy sister campus in Athens. The
students traveling to Greece are freshman Ross
Atteberry, sophomore Ryan Davis, freshman
Phyllinga Jackson and junior Kelli Norton.
Atteberry, a history major from Westfield,
Ind., chose Greece primarily for its historical
importance. While in Greece, he plans to see the
ancient sites, such as the Acropolis, study the
Greek military and explore the Mediterranean Sea.
In addition to Greece, he hopes to spend time in
another European country in cities such as Paris
or Rome. Attebeny is considering using the grant
towards the Odyssey in Athens Study-Abroad
program. He plans to travel this summer.
For international relations major Davis, from
Indianapolis, this grant is his first opportunity to
travel outside the United States and explore Europc,
where he hopes to complete graduate school and
possibly work. He plans to travel early this sum-
mer.
Jackson, a Spanish and elementary education
major, chose Greece so she could explore the
various facets of the country, and to also experi-
ence a new and different place. She said “[when
you travel], you get an education of others.” It’s
so different but the same.” Jackson is undecitled
about her travel time.
Norton, a School forAdult Learning! student. i3
studying organizational leadership and will tenta-
tively graduate in May 2007. She said Greece has
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always held her fascination-Greek mythology,
food and architecture. Also. because she plans to
have ajoh in the service industry, she wants to ex-
perience a s much cultural diversity as possible.
“It‘s an opportunity for me to see how people
out side of the United States live, how they study,
what interests them, where they go when they let
their hair tiown,” Norton said. Norton has not yet
planned a travel date.
Junior Andrea Buchler, a Spanish teaching
major from Fort Wayne, Ind., is traveling to Belize.
Shc chose Belize to improve her Spanish by being
immersed in it and toexperiencetheculture, which
is a diverse mixture including Creole, (iarifunan,
and Mayan. She plans to travel in May and stay at
the host college. Galen University, in a program
with other international students.
Hilary Conklin, a senior psychology major from
Rushville. I d . will travel to Taiwan, Republic
of China. While in Taiwan, Conklin plans to stay
with her friend. Teichan and her family. Accord-
ing to Conhlin, Teichan attended Ulndy for a year
as an intern;itioii:il student, and the two became
friends.
”She hac. aln,ays been thankful to my family
[for] teaching her [about] American culture,”
Conkli ti wid.
K>an llallett is running for ISG Vice
I’reAIent for the 2006-2007 school year.
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APRIL 5,2006 SPORTS THE REFLECTOR PAGE 4
~~
E MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING
UIndy hosts national swim meet
Marios Panagi (right)
congratulates Jeremy
Lindauer (left) after their
relay race.
Sten Roosvald dives in to
begin his leg of the medley
relay.
Alison Smith sits exhausted
after finishing third in the
200-meter freestyle.
Men’s and women’s Head Coach Gary Kinkead presents 2005 GLIAC Swimmer of the
Year Alison Smith with third place in the 200-meter freestyle.
Men take 11th place finish in NCAA
Willie Little
Stuf Writer
The University of Indianapolis
men’s swim team end the season with a
6-1 record, with a strong third finish at
conference and a healthy representation
at the national competition.
This year, Ulndy hosted the 2006
Division I1 Swimming and Diving
Championship. Sophomore Hanno
Ahonen, freshman Greg Jarvis, junior
Jeremy Lindauer, sophomore Kieran
O’Neill, freshmen Marios Panagi and
junior Sten Roosvald all qualified as
2006 All-Americans.
Junior Sten Roosvald qualified for
the nationals for the 100- and 200-
meter butterfly as well as the 200- and
400-meter medley relay.
“I felt honored to be able to swim
with all my teammates and compete at
the national level,” he said. “Even if
I didn’t win, it felt like I was a cham-
pion.
During the first day of the com-
petition, the men’s 200 medley re-
lay Panagi, Lindauer, Roosvald and
O’Neill clocked 1 :33.33. The time was
.54 faster than their preliminary time,
earning a 12th place finish. On the
second day of competition, the UIndy
men’s 200 free relay team tied for fifth
place with Drury University whet)
Panagi, O’Neill, Jarvis and Lindauer
dropped .6 seconds off their prelimi-
nary time, swimming 1:23.36. Later, in
the 400 medley relay, the men placed
10th with, Panagi, Lindauer, Roosvald
and O’Neill cutting 1.26 seconds off
their preliminary time to clock 3:24.81.
During the third day of competition,
the men’s hard work and effort and
were rewarded when four swimmers
qualified for the finals. Ahonen, Panagi,
Lindauer and Roosvald swam well in
the finals. qualifying in the 500 free,
100 back, 100 breast and 200 fly, re-
spectively.
Roosvald said he felt that during
nationals he learned the importance of
a team.
“I have learned that teamwork can
push me through any barrier,” Roosvald
said. “The overall feeling was [that]
we really missed all of our teammates
because some of them weren‘t able to
compete. Rut the ones that were there
showed us a lot of love and support as
we raced. Being from the Great Lakes
conference and knowing some of the
swimmers, we cheered for our team-
mates as well as the swimmers from the
conference .”
With the national championship
being held in Indianapolis this year the
team felt a lot of pride in representing
the Ulndy well.
“It felt really good swimming in
one the world’s fastest pools, and hav-
ing your own teammates and friends
see you compete to the best of your
ability,” Ahonen said. “I feel like I’ve
really accomplished a lot this season,
I’m looking forward to next season and
my team being in nationals.”
Junior Sten Roosvald
competes in the 200-meter
butterfly, placing ninth at
58.33.
Valerie Crosby races during
the final stretch of the 100-
meter butterfly.
P/ioro\ hi K ~ fU i ~ i ~ Junior Holly Spohr receives
one of her three awards on
the day.
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Photo bv Etnil, Scott
Abby Worley, a three-year-
old Hoosier, gets her face
painted during the Coke
Fest. Coke Fest goers were
also treated with free Coke
floats and samples of Coke
products. There were also
balloon animal stations and
several other activities to
entertain those who needed
a break from the live music.
Photo bj Emily Scott
The Coca-Cola fire-eater
wows the audience
between concert sets. He
warned the kids in the
crowd beforehand, “don’t
trvfhis at home- go to a
friend’s house.”
R-0-C-K in the I-NuD-Y
John Mellencamp rocks in his roots
The Wreckers1 Collective Soiil photo, hi Cr, d e Collins
Main: Seymour, Ind. native John Mellencamp performed in front of 80,000 people
during the Coke Fest at Monument Circle on April 2,2006. The crowd stretched south
on Meridian Street toward Maryland Street and flushed to the left and right of the
monument. Mellencamp played his hits and even played through a short period of rain
before severe weather hit the metropolitan area. The all-day event was in relation with
the Final Four.
Top right: Michelle Branch, left, has put her solo career aside to be in the band, The
Wreckers, with her friend Jessica Harp, right. The Wreckers played a set of mellow
country tunes that included their new single, “Leave the Pieces” and a cover of Deana
Carter’s, “Strawberry Wine.” Carrie Underwood also performed after The Wreckers.
Bottom right: Collective Soul lead singer Ed Roland jumped to the front of the
barricades to get closer to the crowd. Collective Soul played an energetic set that
included their hits, “December,” “Better Now,” “The World I Know” and “Shine.”
Photo bb Katv Yeiser
Celebrity Nick Lachey and
Marco, from 93.1’s Morning
Mess, converse with the
crowd during a set change.
Lachey emceed Coke Fest
as well as The Big Dance
event on Monument Circle
the day before. He passed
out T-shirts, gave his
predictions for the UCLN
Florida game and left.
Photo by Emily Scott
Coca-Cola performers
juggle over the head of a
Coke Fest attendee. The
Coke performers were with
Family Time Entertainment.
Basketball fans enjoyed the
entertainment during the in-
between-day of the men’s
national semi-finals and
final game.

GATOR BAIT -1
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Florida whips UCLA, wins first national basketball championship ,
Adrian Wojnarowski
Knight-Riclder Tribune
INDIANAPOLIS -There was
Joakim Noah flying down the middle
of the floor, pony tail bobbing, defense
clearing, and the ball rising higher and
higher, above the rim, above college
basketball and slamming the ball on
the UCLA dynasty. There was Noah’s
bony, windmill arms swinging down,
blocking Bruins shots and starting the
fast break with his dribble. There was
Noah doing it all.
He blew kisses to the cheerlead-
ers. And when the 73-57 beat-down of
UCLA was done, when Florida was the
national champion, Noah stood on a
press table and did the Gator chop with
his school’s fans.
Noah, out of New York City and
Europe, out of the funkiest of sporting
genes belonging to his old man, Yan-
nick, did it all Monday night. Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton watched
UCLA center Ryan Hollins sits in
defeat in the Bruin’s locker room.
I
in the RCA Dome seats, but Noah had
been right on the eve of the title game.
History doesn’t win championships. If
UCLA is the past of this sport, Noah is
unmistakably the future.
Noah made a lot of money in this
tournament, a guaranteed top NBA pick
developing out of a freshman bench
player at Florida. Gators coach Billy
Donovan will wave goodbye, wish
him well, and thank him for delivering
him that Final Four championship. He
had 16 points, nine rebounds and six
blocks. It was one of the most beautifully
played basketball games you’ll
ever want to see.
Florida turned this 73-57 beat-down
of UCLA into a dunk-fest, throwing
down one after another, after another,
until the Bruins were ducking for cover.
This was one of the great performances
in NCAA title history, one of the most
dominant in tournament history.
Donovan still looks like the Long
Island kid who worked Wall Street
with that stiff haircut,
starched white dress shirt
and perpetual grimace,
but it would be the son
of the goofy tennis star, a
New York City kid with
10 years of childhood in
France that would turn his
so-serious coach into a
jubilant kid.
This was the kind of
avalanche of excess that
you would expect to see
out of a football school,
a Spurrier-esque romp to
the national championship
that would befit’the old
image of the University
of Florida Gators. Only,
this was Billy the Kid’s
basketball team, the re-
lentless running and shot-
blocking and rebounding
machinery that had run
roughshod over the month
of March, all the way to
April.
Along the way,
Noah, out of a senior year
at Lawrenceville Prep,
turned into the tourna-
ment’s best Dlaver. a
star-free team of Florjda
Gators. They were a joy to
watch, picking apart that
Photo by Louis DeLucnlKRT
Florida center Joakim Noah boasts to the Florida crowd
after winning the national championship in Indianapolis.
Noah was voted the Most Outstanding Player and set the
national championship record for most shots blocked.
UCLA defense that had held Memphis
and George Mason to 45 points each in
the regional final and~national semis.
After one football national champion-
ship for Florida under Steve Spurrier,
now there’s a basketball title too.
They ripped UCLA and its great
defense limb by limb, getting up 20
points, with a barrage of blocked shots
and power rebounds and slams that left
the RCA Dome aghast.. The Gators
would come to the season without the
star power of past years, but this would
be a March when they turned into them
before a nation’s eyes.
Yes, the Gators were wonderful.
And now, Donovan takes his place
among the best coaches in his profes-
sion. This was the night that he truly
broke out of the Rick Pitino stable,
that he truly separated himself from
his mentor. For some, Donovan will
always be Billy the Kid, the pudgy
point guard out of Saint Anges in
Rockville Center on Long Island that
Rick Pitino transformed into a most
improbable Final Four point guard in
1987. He’ll always be Billy the Kid, the
6-foot nothing kid that Pitino would tell
every day on that run, “You’re the best
point guard in the country,” and every
day Donovan would dig deeper, push
harder and begin to believe that his
coach truly believed that little white lie
“Rick told him so many times,” Jeff
Van Gundy, a graduate assistant for
Providence that season told me once,
“that Billy started to believe it.”
Pitino will always be his mentor,
but he’s been smarter in his own career
in so many ways than his old col-
lege coach and boss at Kentucky. He
could’ve left Florida for pure basketball
schools, but didn’t do it. He stayed,
He could’ve had Indiana, but didn’t
chase it. Florida has everything- a great
recruiting base, terrific facilities and
deep pockets to pay the coach- and he’s
never gone running for the brighter
lights of a basketball school, Pitino
wouldn’t have been able to stay 10
years at Florida, just like Bear Bryant
couldn’t stay that long at Kentucky
with its monstrous basketball program.
“In the states of Indiana and Ken-
tucky, the fanfare and enthusiasm is
for basketball,” Donovan said. “In the
southeast, it’s for football. I understand
that. Billy Donovan is not changing
that culture.”
The Gators had been the hottest
major team in this NCAA tournament,
beating a No. 1 seed, Villanova, badly,
in the regional final and then taking
out George Mason too. If Tubby Smith
leaves Kentucky for the Charlotte
Bobcats, as many believe will happen,
it will be fascinating to see whether
Donovan can be lured back to his old
Kentucky home. The thing is, he’s
carved out his own identity in Florida. ‘“
That’s his basketball program, his
national championship program.
Maybe Donovan doesn’t need to
follow in Pitino’s footsteps anymore.
Maybe this Noah kid, with the Bob
Marley posters in his dorm room, the
pony tail, his unique gifts, taught his
coach a lesson about clearing your
own path, about finding your own in
the sport. Noah will probably leave
now, but maybe Billy Donovan doesn’t
have to leave. As he found out Monday
night, he can have it all at Florida.
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Donovan second youngest to win title
Mike Bianchi was the exclamation point.”
Knight-Ridder Triburir Before the game, Florida forward
Joakim Noah said, “History doesn’t
INDIANAPOLIS- UCLA’S help you win basketball games.” Man,
)layers looked into the crowd and was he right. History didn’t stop Noah
,aw Bill Walton.
from setting the championship game
They looked into the crowd and
,aw Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
record for blocked shots (5, eventually
6) by the time the first half was
They looked into the crowd and
,aw Reggie Miller.
even over. The Bruins should have
started calling their offense “Noah’s .
The Florida Gators could only Arc” because of the decided change itl
ook within themselves to find trajectory their shots took whenever
yeatness. And they did just that UF’s quick-leaping 6-foot-1 1 sophovlonday
night- burying the ghosts more approached.
If UCLA past, demoralizing the
This incredible team has done
)layers of UCLA present and hoist- it all. They slaughtered Cinderng
a national championship banner ella Saturday. They slayed Godzilla
hat symbolizes the emergence of Monday. They weren’t overconfident
7lorida’s future.
when they played lightly regarded
The Florida Gators are national George Mason. They weren’t intimi-
:hampiom. Did you hear what I dated when they played tradition-rich
,aid? The Florida Gators are na- UCLA.
ional basketball champions!
This is a Gator team even UCLA
Ten years after he arrived and patriarch John Wooden would love.
nherited a downtrodden program, Wooden said a long time ago, “The
3illy Donovan has hi\ first national main ingredient of stardom is the rest
:hampionship at a younger age of the team.” Florida center A1 Horhan
any active coach other than ford said a short time ago: “We don’t
3ob Knight. A decade of domi- care who gets credit or who gets the
lance comes to fruition. A decade points. What’s it matter if ’we’re all
if Donovan comes to fulfillment. wearing championship rings?”
Build a statue for him. Name You should have seen Horford and
he court after him. The Donovan Noah run out on the court after the
lome. The Billy Bowl. Whatever. victory, envelop their euphoric coach
4nd give him a raise that makes and hoist him into the air.
iim the highest paid coach on cam- UCLA has its John Wooden and
JUS. Yes, he should make more than now Florida has itself one, too
Urban Meyer because, by gosh, His name his Billy Donovan- a
he’s done more. In fact, when is legend at age 40.
some sports writer from New York (c) 2006, The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.).
or Boston going to ask Meyer how Distributed by Knight RldderRribune
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basketball school?
And make no mistake about
it, Florida is a basketball school.
Starting with the 1999-2000 season
when Donovan first took the Gators
to the Final Four, the Gators’ winning
percentage in the last seven
years is .754. Florida football, during
that same time span, is ,633.
What is a basketball school
except a place where you sell out
your gym, lure the best recruits and
have a chance to go to the NCAA
Tournament every year? The Gators,
the first school to appear in
two national championship games
this decade, have all that. And now
they have a national title, too.
“Is Florida a basketball school?’
Donovan mentor Rick Pitino said
amid a jubilant postgame celebra-
tion. “Look around you. This is
the stuff of fairy tales. Of course
Florida’s a basketball school.”
Added Florida Athletic Director Photo by Mark C6rnelisonlKRT
Jeremy Foley, wiping tears from his
eyes: “Billy Donovan put Florida Head Coach Donovan
basketball on the map and tonight cuts down the net.
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APRIL 5,2006 FEATURE THE REFLECTOR PAGE 8
HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORT
UIndy student spends Spring Break rebuilding in New Orleans
Shelly Grimes
Opinion Editor
hile many students’ ideas of
W Spring Break include MTVesque
parties
on beautiful
beaches, I-
University of
Indianapolis
sophomore
Laura Steed
spent her
Spring Break
doing something
a little
different.
Steed, a
youth ministry
major, took the
university’s
motto of “Education
for Service”
to heart
and decided
to spend her
break helping
New Orleans
residents
clean up from
Hurricane
Katrina and its
Steed applied for and received a
Greyhound Adventures Travel Grant,
a grant that gives money to students
interested in traveling for vocational
and service initiatives.
Steed and about 80 other AIM
volunteers, which included a group of
college students from Canada, worked
a fourth home’s drywall, which had
been put up by other AIM volunteers.
“We took everything out of the
first house we worked on. It looked
like stuff had been picked up and just
thrown into different rooms of the
house,” Steed said.
Steed said that one of the most
surprising things she
risen. The lines on the
wall showed where
water had settled, and
these lines were “at
doorknob level.” She
said that this indi-
cated that the water
had originally been
much higher, but had
receded to this level
and stayed there for
long periods of time.
Although Steed
characterized the work
as “exhausting,” she
also found it very
rewarding because she
got to meet all of the
homeowners, family
members and contrac-
tors of the homes she
worked on.
“We found out that
an 86-year-old woman
aftermath. Photo courtesy Laura Steed owned one of the
“I just homes we were work-
wanted to do This Dicture of a house on top of a car is just One of the many ing on,” Steed said.
something scenes of devastation Steed witnessed in New Orleans. ‘‘We met the daughter
positive over
break,” Steed
said.
Steed’s journey to New Orleans
began with a simple Internet search.
She found a ministry called Adventures
in Missions (AIM) that was doing relief
work in the area and decided that she
wanted to help out.
AFFRILACHIAN POETS
on several different projects throughout
the week.
Because Steed went by herself, she
was able to float between different
groups of volunteers and go where she
was needed most. Steed helped gut
three different houses. She also painted
of the woman and
asked what had happened.
The 86-year-old woman hadn’t
wanted to leave because she and her
husband had built the home and lived
in it all their lives. Her grandson had to
make her leave [before the hurricane].”
Steed said that it also was rewarding
to hear others say that the group was
making a difference.
“When we were working on one of
the houses, another woman came up to
us and asked us to help her finish gut-
ting her home,” Steed said. “We helped
her, and afterwards she said, ‘Oh my
goodness. It would have taken five
days to do what your group did in two
hours.’ Hearing that we helped made it
worthwhile.”
Steed stayed with other AIM work-
ers in an 1860s style duplex in the
city’s Garden District. She and other
members of the group worked in a
part of the city known as Holly C J ro ve ,
located in the city’s Eighth Ward. She
also had the opportunity to visit the
city’s Ninth Ward, one of the city‘s
hardest-hit districts.
“Almost everything in Holly Grove
seemed to be salvageable,” Steed said.
“From what I understand, the Eighth
Ward had damage from the hurricane
itself. In the Ninth Ward. cverything
seemed to be demolished.
We were told that the damage
in the Ninth Ward was caused
by the levees breaking, not just
the hurricane.”
Steed said that traveling
through the Ninth Ward and
seeing the destruction firsthand
was a very emotional experience.
“When we were in the Ninth
Ward driving through it, we
saw a woman just standing in
the middle of the road bawling,”
Steed said. “[Being in the
Ninth Ward] was like doing
a short-term mission trip to a
Third World country. It made
me want to stay and help out
more. We were onlv there for a
she did face one challenge: the airline
lost her luggage.
“I couldn’t even go and buy clothes
because everything in the city is still
pretty much closed,” Steed said. “Even
the places that have opened hack up
don’t have the employees to stay open
all day.”
Steed said that AIM offered her an
internship to work with youth volunteers
this summer. She said that she
hopes to do more to help the New
Orleans relief effort.
“Here, and in the rest of the world,
we seem to have moved on. But Hurri-
cane tiatrina is still 85 to 90 percent of
the news in New Orleans. These people
are still rebuilding, and they are seeing
how slow the process of rebuilding is,
if it is even possible,” Steed said. “I’ve
seen [the devastation] on the news, but
I can’t express in words the emotion of
seeing it in person.”
week, but it will take years to Laura Steed wears protective
rebuild everything.”
While Steed said the experi- gear while gutting a house with
ence was overall a positive one, extensive hurricane damage.
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PAGE 9 THE REFLECTOR ENTERTAINMENT APRIL 5,2006
UINDY TV 5
New campus TV station
Sandra Arao Ameny
Stuf Writer
UIndy TV 5, a student-run television
station produced by the Communica-
tion Department, will soon be available
in campus residence halls.
According to the programming
schedule, UIndy TV 5 consists of
Greyhound News Weekly, coverage
of news that affects students, a movie
segment, a compilation of classic and
recent movies, Campus Events, a list
of academic and social events taking
place on campus, 5 Minute Update, a
news update twice a day, Backatcha!,
a student-produced trivia game show,
Greyhound Sports Monthly, coverage
of UIndy and local sports and Study
Break, a miscellaneous program con-
taining topics such as cooking, fashion
and workout tips.
“Planning and preparation for the
station has taken place for the past
CAMPUS EVENT
three years,” said Scott Uecker, com-
munication instructor and general
manager of WICR radio. Uecker said
that the Communication Board, which
consists of the Communication Depart-
ment faculty, Daniel Briere, dean of
the college of arts and Sciences; David
Wantz, vice president of student af-
fairs; Deborah Ware Balogh, provost;
Michael Braughton, vice president for
business and finance; and Mary Moore,
vice president for research, planning, &
strategic partnerships; have helped to
make UIndy TV 5 a reality by helping
draft a proposal and finding necessary
funding to support the station.
Uecker said that programming will
be not be 24 hours a day. “We are not
able to put out 168 hours in the begin-
ning,” he said. “Instead, during times
when there is no programming, there
will be a bulletin board, if you will,
with campus events.”
Uecker pointed out that the staff for
the station will consist of student man-
agement and television students, but
there is no requirement for a student to
be a communication major to be part of
the UIndy TV 5 team.
“Students will receive academic
credit,” Uecker said, “This will ensure
set to broadcast soon on channel 5
quality programming as opposed to priate, because it will reflect on the
other schools that have television as a students themselves.”
club, not a class.’’
Wantz said that he felt Ulndy \vi14
He added that the campus has a treading behind other schools in the
radio station and a newspaper for state, since many schools have tele\ i -
students to gain practical experience sion stations. “I was at DePauw Unibut
has been lacking for television versity over IO years a ~ and o they ha\ e
students.
a TV station,” Wantz said. “ I thought.
“The purpose of Ulndy TV 5 is why don’t we?”
According to Russ illalone!. conmunication
instructor and chiet engineer
of WICR, all residence halls. witl!
the exception of Campus Apartment\.
will receive the station.
“If we fed it to Campus Apartment\.
dual-fold, to create a greater sense of
community and provide another voice
for the campus,” Uecker said. “The
marketplace of ideas theory states that
the more voices there are present, the
better the community is served. UIndy
TV 5 is another voice for the campus.”
Wantz said that the source of
funding for the television station is the
Cable Access Fee that students pay to
the cable company.
Wantz pointed out that he and other
members of the Communication Policy
Board are advocates of free speech and
stressed that Ulndy TV 5 would operate
without any censorship.
“This is a university. We provide
conversations from all viewpoints and
backgrounds,” Wantz said. “I don’t
think any censoring will be going on
because I don’t believe our students
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but we will do what we can to get tci
Campus Apartments, bccause !he p ~ i l
is to have the station in all places oil
campus.”
The 30-member team of televi-
sion staff consisting of beginning ;tiid
advanced television students has !>eeii
preparing for the launch of the statioii.
Tiffany Hanson, promotions ii i rector.
said that the Communication I)eixir-
ment surveyed students 1;i
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L\ auld like to involve students v&h
what ii going on on campus,” she said.
Chase Eaton, production director,
poiiitetl out that some students are not
;I\\ :ire ot what television students do,
sinc,c they may not appear visible on
canipis. .‘Students will get to see what
\\e :ire doing. It will open up general
kiioi\ lect~c
that we have a television
d~:p;i~itnel1t.” Eaton said. “I hope they
we tht \ve work hard. It’s not reward-
ctl iii our grade but in our experience.”
SUWI Decker, operations manager,
uitl that she hope students are cnthusi-
a’itgc ;ih{)ut the launch of the station. “1
Ihqw the student body gets as excited as
\\ C> :IW.” Decker said. “The work load
I\ dit’ticuit, but we mentor and help
cx.h othcv.. It is a neat experience to
\\ i!~ch each other grow.”
(‘2ii.i I ludson. news director, said
11i;ri t.\eil though she will be 1ea.ving
I I iicl!. \lie is happy that the TV station
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