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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 gutting 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. UIndy Kellogg Writers Series draws large crowd for female poets
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, communication 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 beginning,” 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 1 c 1 a s s if i e d s with [Rental] want Christian female roommate to share small home in Southport. $400 monthly. Call leave message 446-3846 L it would go to most of the Southsicle. and the cable company Bright HOLISC. doesn’t want us to do that.” X1:iIonq said. “We are handicapped h) that. 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 television 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 [Rental] I am ii 21yr old college sttidciii 2 rooms to rent. S ~ ;I O \A 5 llllil from U of I, for details ciill 373 2.34 I ;ind ask for Christiaan. - ~\o~iIcl like to bee on the station. ‘‘We 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 i\ Iiliall\ available to students. -1 ~.\o~ild like to see UIndy TV 5 s!ro\\ .’. Fitidson said. “I would like to \cc Ii\>e
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