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SAVE YOUR WHEELS
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WATER MOVEMENT MAKES WAVES
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ROBOT ASSISTED
CAMPUS
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INDY GOES GREEN
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UNRELIABLE CRIME STATS
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EDITOR’S LETTER:
NEW BEGINNINGS
This year has been rough, but it has taught me a lot. In the publication industry, there are so many
things that you can do right and wrong with a very blurry line defining which is which.
Ethics are a huge part of that. This year, at the Campus Citizen, we’ve had to dive into and discuss what
is ethical for our publication. We’ve begun to grow in numerous ways. This year, we published our first
investigative story as well as our first creative stories.
I’m so proud of the Campus Citizen and how far we’ve come as a publication. Of course, like any other
publication, we’ve had our ups and downs, but there’s no other publication I would have rather been
with through my academic time at IUPUI.
Here’s to this year and many more.
SPORTS
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THE ROAD OF CHAMPIONS
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MARCH MADNESS
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THE WORLDS SPORT
CULTURE
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ONE MAN STAGE
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SALE JOSEPH
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GIODORNOS
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DAY IN THE LIFE
Upstairs in the Neighborhood Fellowship
Church, Occupational Therapists work to
attend clinic’s needs.

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fills the prescription. It also tries to make the
community more health-aware by offering
programs like smoke-free counseling.
Wahle said students from Butler Pharmacy
work hand-in-hand with students in the med
clinic every Saturday to make sure patients are
well looked after.
The dental clinic is in operation two Saturdays
a month and is the only clinic that doesn’t operate
at the church. It operates just down the road
at the People’s Clinic, where the students have
access to all the expensive equipment necessary
for them to treat patients.
Some people need other life necessities, like
clothing, food or insurance. That is where the
social work students come in.
Peiffer said the social work clinic initiates
community linkage, providing for each individual
need such as the aforementioned necessities.
Operating one of the busier clinics, social work
students can see 20 to 30 clients a day. Making
their job a little easier is the clothing drive that is
operated by the church.
DAY IN THE LIFEIU medical students give back to the east side with free health care
By Vince Roberts
In fact, Neighborhood Fellowship Church is
perhaps one of the most essential partners of the
clinic. Pastor Jim Strietelmeier was instrumental in
the foundation of the clinic and volunteers every
Saturday. Since 2009, the church has housed
the clinic and assisted its volunteers in helping
countless members of the community.
The community is thankful.
Zachary, a regular patient, said the clinic was
extremely helpful and cordial with a real desire
to serve. He said that he and his fiancée were
regulars to the clinic due to medical conditions
and said that his glasses came from the clinic.
Volunteering at the clinic is highly encouraged
but the availability makes it tough to get in.
The Student Outreach Clinic provides information
as well as links to submit an application to
volunteer. As of this time, there is only one such
Student Outreach Clinic in the city, so only a
limited number of students can volunteer.
The clinic is made up of different schools
and programs, referred to as partners, who work
together to meet as many needs as possible.
Students from these partnering schools and
programs seize the opportunity to help out and
get experience in their field.
In addition to the IU School of Medicine,
the clinic’s partners include Neighborhood
Fellowship Church, IU School of Social Work,
IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, IU
School of Dentistry, IU School of Nursing, IU
School of Health and Rehabilitation Services,
IUPUI Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public
Health, Timmy Global Health, Butler University
College of Pharmacy and Health Services, and
University of Indianapolis Krannert School of
Physical Therapy.
Community members are met by volunteer
receptionists whose job, among other things,
is to find out what service the person needs.
Patients then wait for help in a waiting room
with coffee and doughnuts. Medicine is perhaps
the most important service given at the clinic.
The med clinic sees approximately 35 to 40
patients a day.
First, patients give their basic information
to first and second-year med students. Then,
they see third- and fourth-year med students,
whose level of expertise is a little higher. In the
third phase, patients see an actual practicing
physician for complete medical care.
One thing that the clinic is hoping to implement
in the future is an Electronic Medical Record
system. Right now, no such system is in place
and all of the med clinic’s records are kept the
old fashioned way, on paper. The clinic is still in
its infancy, so having things like EMR may be a
while down the road.
New to the clinic is the nursing program which
is just in its first month. The clinic’s chair of
nursing services, Cheryl Gustin, said nursing
students focus on health coaching, providing for
patients in a unique way that differs from the med
clinic. They also actively follow up on patients
by making phone calls and home visits.
“It’s a simple way to give back to the life of
the community,” Gustin said.
Matt Krzywosz is the clinic manager for Butler
Pharmacy and is currently in his third year of
volunteering at the clinic.
“I always thought volunteering was a pivotal
aspect of the collegiate experience,”
Krzywosz said.
By all accounts, the pharmacy is a vital part
of the team. It operates just like a Walgreens.
When a patient has seen the med clinic physician
and been prescribed a medicine. The pharmacy
Just east of downtown Indianapolis, an
underserved neighborhood is receiving help
from a group of students and professionals
seeking invaluable experience and a chance to
give back to the community.
“The IU Student Outreach Clinic offers a vital
link between professionals and the community
that they’ll be serving, and it’s an invaluable
learning experience,” IUPUI student Chris
Peiffer said.
Peiffer is studying for a master’s degree in
social work while volunteering at the clinic.
He is the clinic’s newly elected director of
volunteers and is just one of the many students
who volunteer at the clinic.
Founded in 2009, the clinic conducts its
multi-pronged service at the Neighborhood
Fellowship Church at 3102 E. 10th St. and is
open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“I’m very proud of the work that IU Student
Outreach Clinic volunteers do each week
for Indianapolis’ near-eastside neighborhood,”
said Ben Wahle, third-year medical student
and Outreach Clinic vice-chair. “For me,
being able to both serve and learn from this
community as I’ve gone through medical school
has been a fantastic adjunct to the formal
education I’ve gotten at Indiana University.”
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By Kelsen Hazelwood
Indianapolis offers a service allowing anyone who has his or her bike stolen to have a fighting
chance at recovering it. Last fall, the nonprofit organization INDYCOG made this possible
by teaming with The Stolen Bike Registry and Bike Index, creating a fluid system.
The INDYCOG Bike Recovery system allows users to register their bicycles as they
might register cars. The index stores all the information of a particular bike within
it. Then, if a user’s bike is stolen, it can be marked as stolen in the database. This
will then generate a tweet that posts to the @stolenbikesindy Twitter account.
Several IMPD officers, as well as many of the bike shops and pawnshops in the
city, follow this account. The @stolenbikesindy account also feeds directly into
the @INDYCOG Twitter account, which allows the word to spread even further.
INDYCOG Executive Director Kevin Whited said 12 bikes are known to
have been recovered. There could be more. However, users frequently don’t
return to the system to mark their bikes as being returned.
An IUPUI student was able to get her bike back through this service.
Another user who found a bike matching her bike’s description on
Craigslist contacted her. She got in touch with the seller of her bike and
ask to meet the seller to see the bike. An IMPD officer showed up for the
meeting as well, and she was able to get her bike back.
INDYCOG intends to push its service in the spring when cycling
season comes back. It wants everyone to register their bikes because
bike theft does happen, and it’s not an easy thing to combat.
Usually the money made by stealing bikes is put into illegal items
such as drugs or weapons, Whited said. Often, bike thieves are felons
for some other reason. Bikes make a good target for these criminals
because they are easy to steal. If the person is caught with a stolen
bike, it is easy for him or her to say it was bought from someone else.
“A lot of bicyclists get this emotional attachment to their bicycles, and
it’s traumatizing when your bike gets stolen,” Whited said. Bikes are
some people’s primary mode of transportation, and it isn’t easy to have
that taken away. “We are trying to do our part to fight this crime.”
SAVE YOUR WHEELS
IndyCog offers bike recovery service
CITY + CAMPUS + SPORTS + CULTURE
WATER MOVEMENT CREATES WAVES
IUPUI group hosts art auction to provide
clean water in Central African Republic
By Alec Kammerer
A tiny ripple can make a big wave. That is exactly what the IUPUI
Water Movement is tried to do with its latest fundraising event.
The IUPUI Water Movement were host to an art auction at
the Indy Indie Artist Colony on Saturday, Feb. 28. The auction
featured 16 Indianapolis area artists, six from IUPUI’s Herron
School of Art and Design. All proceeds go to provide safe and
clean drinking water to Central African Republic.
The Water Movement is a student-run organization that
focuses on bringing clean and safe drinking water to the
world. The organization is the brain child of current
IUPUI student Olivia Lehman, who started it
around three years ago.
This is not the first fundraiser that the
organization has orchestrated, but it is their
first involving the arts community. The Water
Movement wanted to be able to go off campus so it
could not only embrace the IUPUI community but
involve the Indianapolis community as well.
“The Water Movement is the local solution to
the global water crisis,” Lehman said. “We try to
bring the community together, IUPUI students and
Indianapolis, to try to fight the water crisis with a lot of
different events and activities we put on.”
Through sponsorship connections with Reverie Estates, the
owner of the Indy Indie Artist Colony, the Water Movement had
an open gallery and felt like the next reasonable step was to host
an art-based event.
“We have a couple leaders in the program who are in Herron
School of Art and Design, so we just started asking artists around
Indianapolis and Herron to get involved,” said Lehman.
Most fundraisers held around campus and tend to raise around
$300 in proceeds. However, off-campus integration tends to spike
those numbers.
At its first off-campus fundraising event, The Water Movement
was able to raise roughly $3,000. The goal for the art auction
was $5,000, making it the largest amount made from a Water
Movement fundraiser to date.
“It definitely varies. On campus, students can only really throw
in a dollar or two, but if we do it off campus, there’s a much higher
chance that outside sponsors will come,” Lehman said.
The Water Movement worked with two other organizations for the
event. The first is MudLOVE. MudLOVE is another organization
that tries to provide African nations with clean water. MudLOVE
provided bracelets and mugs for ticket purchasers depending on
ticket bracket.
The other organization is Water for Good. The idea behind
Water for Good is the capability of not just contributing clean
water to the Central African Republic, but making sure it is a
sustainable relief effort.
“They don’t just want to go in and build water wells and take
off,” Lehman said. “They want to build water wells and keep
maintaining them, as well as the sustainability and the education
for the people there.”

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INDY GOES
GREENA list of Indy’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities
List by Amanda Bau mann
ROBOT
ASSISTED
IU Medical School pioneers
physical therapy with exoskeletons
By David Schroeder
Robotics are being used more frequently for physical therapy and the IU School of
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is at the forefront of it.
The Indiana Center for Advance Neuro-rehabilitation, or ICAN, is a physical
therapy lab that utilizes robotics to assist physicians during treatment. The goal is
to establish the best treatment environments for patients with neurological disorders
using technology as a base.
One robotic piece the lab has is an exoskeleton walking system. The patient is
placed into the exoskeleton and the device attaches at the hip, knee and ankle of both
legs. The exoskeleton will control the patients walking by controlling the patient’s
joints. The patient is then placed over a treadmill where the exoskeleton’s walking
speed and the treadmill speed are synchronized. If the patient speeds up, the
treadmill will speed up and vice-versa. The device also comes with suspension
equipment to allow the doctor to regulate how much weight a patient does or
doesn’t feel.
This system also allows the doctor to determine how much work the patient does
and how much work the robot does for the patient.
“Initially we may have the robot doing a lot, but then we can back them off and
have the patient doing more and more,” said Dr. Altenburger, cochairman of IU
Department of Physical Therapy.
The force plates give a very accurate assessment of the patient’s balance. Before
force plates were used to determine where the patient’s balance issues stemmed from,
doctors would have patients stand on blocks of foam until they lost their balance and
fell. With the implementation of force plates doctors now know where patients are
putting their weight, how they’re trying to control it, and how they’re trying to adjust it.
Robotics have also helped with child patients. Physical therapy is tiring, repetitive
and demanding of consistent, accurate movements. These elements combine to make
physical therapy tough on anyone, but particularly hard for children. The robotics
help a child to be more accurate, faster, while also assisting them in making the
desired movements.
The ICAN labs also use a device similar to a video game you might find in an
average kids’ home. The machine works by displaying an avatar or character on a
screen in front of the child. As the child moves, so does the character. This turns
physical therapy into a game, which makes it easier for the child to stay motivated
and enthusiastic. Combined with the assistance of the robotics, it is easier for the
child to do higher repetitions of the required exercise. This, in turn, leads to faster
improvement in the patient.
“WE HAVE MUCH FEWER MISSED APPOINTMENTS AND WE
DON’T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF KIDS SAYING ‘I DON’T WANT TO
COME BACK.’ THEY ENJOY THE THERAPY MORE.”
PETER ALTENBURGER.
There is another piece the labs have called an end-effector. The end-effector
robotic attaches to the patients feet and takes their body through the movement of
walking. Patients hold onto a bar when using this device, because it requires greater
balance and participation from them.
Ten years ago, according to the science of physical therapy, you needed a lot
of repetition and lots of practice. A difficulty for doctors has been figuring out
how to ensure that the practice and repetition the patients are doing consists of
accurate movements.
“With the end-effector robot, the child holds onto the arm and
then a target appears that they have to move to,” Dr. Altenburger
said. “If the patient doesn’t move, after a few minutes the robot
will begin to move for them. It will guide the patient through the
movements and onto the target.”
The end-effector robot allows the patient some leeway in the
accuracy of their movements, at first. If the patient’s movement is
inaccurate, the robot will guide them back on track. Over the course
of the repetitions, the robot will become stricter in its enforcement
of the accuracy. Patients that are consistently accurate will
receive less feedback from the robot. If a patient is making the
movements accurately and consistently enough, the robot will
even turn itself off.
The ICAN lab has been told by manufacturers that they are one
of a handful of locations that have the combination of equipment
they possess. The ICAN labs currently have an end-effector lower
extremity robot on loan for a six-week trial. This device is one of
three in the entire country.
“We’re still in an early adopters phase and not part of the
main stream to have a large amount of technology in one clinic,”
Altenburger said. “But, I think the trend is moving in that direction.
Maybe in the next 10 years that technology will be more evenly
distributed across the country.”
PHOTOCOURTESYOFINDIANAUNIVERSITYSCHOOL
OFHEALTH&REHABILITATIONSCIENCES
1. Greening of the Canal
Bring on St. Patty’s weekend the right way with
the must-see Greening of the Canal. The event
starts at 5 p.m. on March 16 at the Canal at
Ohio and West streets. There will be dancing,
free necklaces and hats, live music by Eunan
McIntyre, prize drawings and much more. Wear
green to avoid those pesky pinches.
2. Mugs ‘n Hugs St. Patrick’s
Day Weekend mini bar crawl
Start off the weekend in style with the Mugs ’n
Hugs mini bar crawl. The event starts at 5 p.m.,
March 13, and ends at 3 a.m., March 17.
Register at The Pub on 30 E. Georgia St. and get
St. Patty swag. The cost is $5, but if you want full
access you can purchase a 3 day pass for $15.
3. St. Pat’s Bar Crawl
Get your ticket for the St. Pat’s crawl and get
three drink tickets. Admission to each bar is
included in the price. The event is March 14,
and starts at the Subterra Lounge at 250 S.
Meridian St., from there you crawl your way
through Tiki Bob’s, Revel Nightclub, Howl at the
Moon, Taps and Dolls, 247 Sky Bar and end at
the Shamrocked Lot located at 220 S. Meridian.
Tickets cost $25 and check-in is from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Some of the proceeds will go towards
Cathedral Food Kitchen. Buy your ticket today at
stpatsbarcrawl.com.
4. Blarney Bash
Start the party early at the third Blarney Bash
on Georgia Street on March 14. Local bars and
restaurants, such as The Pub, Tilted Kilt, Howl at
the Moon and Kilroy’s, will be hosting the event.
Enjoy live bands, and all the green beer you can
stand. Food trucks like Der Pretzel Wagen, and
Brozinni’s Pizzeria food truck will provide tasty
eats. The event is free and will take place from
2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Georgia Street’s east block
between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets.
Admission is restricted to 21 and over.
5. Shamrock Run and Walk
Shamrockin’ The Circle event.
10a.m. - 1p.m.
If you’re not up for green beer and shenanigans,
there is no need to fear. Indy has you covered
on St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Run the 24th
Shamrock Run and Walk on Saturday, March
14. It’s a 4-mile run from Monument Circle to
Fountain Square “Irish Hill” neighborhood
then heads back to the Circle. If running is
not your thing, you can choose to do the fitness
walk without a time tag. This event is open to all
ages. Registration is $25 and all proceeds go to
the Indy Sports Foundation, which helps local
amateur sports organizations. If you register by
March 9, you will receive a long sleeve race shirt.
Wear green or a costume and you might win an
award or other awards for overall male and female
winner and age groups. This race is connected to
the Shamrockin’ the Circle event. You can wait
for friends and family to finish the race and enjoy
a beer in the Beer Garden until 1 p.m. There will
be food and entertainment.
6. 2015 Shamrock 5K Beer Run
Come join the fun at the beer run. This event costs
$7 with all the proceeds go to local charities. The
race fee includes a shirt, medal, pint glass and 31
ounces of beer. The event is 21 and over only. The
nice people at fun-races.com gave IUPUI a special
Coupon Code CC40 that will save runners and
walkers 40 percent of the cost.
www.fun-races.com/shamrock
7. Parade and Block Party
Experience the biggest St. Patrick’s Day Parade
in Indiana. Last year, 20,000 people came to the
event, so grab a spot early. The route starts on
East North and Pennsylvania streets. The parade
will start at 11:30 a.m.
The Block Party is located on Vermont Street
between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets.
Participants can enjoy the free entertainment, buy
Irish wears or enjoy the beer garden. The Block
Party will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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IUPUI officer David Briggs said the website just needed to
be updated. For example, at the bottom of the webpage an email
is listed for Capt. Bob True. Briggs said that information is not
accurate. True is now chief of police.
When asked if the rest of the data in the summary were accurate,
Briggs said, “Probably.”
Most states don’t independently verify college crime statistics,
and the U.S. Department of Education does not conduct regular
audits. Out of 63 reviews, the department found 50 colleges had
problems with their crime statistics.
NO ALERTS FOR NEAR-CAMPUS CRIME
Many colleges have failed to meet the most basic requirements of
federal law for campus crime reporting.
Other colleges like IUPUI do not issue alerts for crimes near
campus, which is legal. But at a college where less than 8 percent of
students live on campus, does it make sense not to?
Recent research shows many colleges underreport sexual assaults
on campus even after paying heavy fines.
A new study published by the American Psychological Association
examined 31 universities and colleges for crime reports during audits
by the U.S. Department of Education for federal law compliance.
“The study shows that many universities continue to view rape and
sexual assault as a public relations issue rather than a safety issue,”
said researcher Corey Rayburn Yung, in a prepared statement.
“They don’t want to be seen as a school with really high sexual assault
numbers, and they don’t want to go out of their way to report that
information to students or the media.”
In analyzing the audits, Yung discovered the reported numbers
of sexual assaults increased 44 percent on average from previously
reported levels.
Under federal law, universities and colleges can face fines of more
than $35,000 per violation. Yung said the fines should be increased
because they don’t discourage undercounting of sexual assaults.
The Clery Act requires colleges and universities participating in
federal financial aid programs to keep and distribute campus crime
statistics and security information. After audits, the number of
sexual assaults in succeeding years dropped to their original levels.
This supported the study’s hypothesis that “the ordinary practice of
universities is to undercount incidents of sexual assault” and report
more accurately while under investigation.
COLLEGES, VICTIMS UNDERREPORT
The underreporting of crime by colleges, coupled with the
underreporting of sexual assault by victims, allows thousands of
crimes to go unreported. According to the 2007 Campus Sexual
Assault Study, each year about 14 percent of college women are
sexually assaulted and 3 percent forcibly raped, with 12 percent
of the victims reporting to police (or 5 percent, according to an
earlier study).
The study differentiates between forcible rape and incapacitated
rape, which involves drugs and alcohol. The 14 percent figure does
not include attempted sexual assaults.
A conservative estimate for IUPUI would put forcible rapes at
24 per year. IUPUI reported 12 forcible sex offenses and zero
“nonforcible” sex offenses for 2011 to 2013. (From 2004 to 2014,
average enrollment at IUPUI was about 29,000, with an average
female population of 16,000.) Federal law defines “nonforcible”
sex offense as statutory rape or incest.
College crime reports are available on the U.S. Department of
Education website, but there is a caveat: “The crime data reported by
the institutions have not been subjected to independent verification by
the U.S. Department of Education. Therefore, the department cannot
vouch for the accuracy of the data reported here.”
However, these statistical inaccuracies are not entirely because
of college underreporting. Victims tend not to report sexual assault
because they don’t always know if what happened was a crime.
More than half of college women forcibly raped said they did not
report because they lacked proof, feared retaliation or did not want
their families to find out, according to a 2007 Medical University
of South Carolina study. And even more victims of incapacitated
rape said they didn’t know if a crime had been committed or if the
incident was serious enough.
LACK OF VERIFICATION FOR CRIME STATISTICS
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education fined Delaware State
University $55,000 for reporting inaccurate crime statistics and
lacking documents to support its crime data for 2004 to 2007.
Likewise, IUPUI may have published some statistical inaccuracies.
The IUPUI Police Department published a summary of crime
statistics dating back to 1973 on its website, along with a PDF of its
latest annual safety report detailing crime statistics for 2011 to 2013.
Summary statistics for 2011 to 2013 forcible sex offenses do not
match the annual safety report. Forcible sex offense refers to rape,
sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and fondling.
COLLEGES’ UNRELIABLE
CRIME STATISTICS
Part 2 of a series on campus sexual assault
By Dennis Barbosa
From 2011 to 2013, five forcible sex offenses, 11 robberies, 22
aggravated assaults, 17 burglaries and 46 motor vehicle thefts
occurred on “noncampus” or “public property,” according to
IUPUI’s annual safety report.
“Noncampus” is defined as “certain noncampus buildings
or property owned or controlled by the university,” and “public
property” means “property on or immediately adjacent to
the campus.”
In 2011, two forcible sex offenses occurred, according to police
reports: one on Eskenazi Health property and the other at Park
Place at City Center apartments.
The following year another occurred at Park Place, with an arrest
for battery. And in 2013, two forcible sex offenses were reported,
one at Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center and the other in
the 1300 block of West Michigan Street.
“Because some incidents occur outside of IUPD’s territorial
jurisdiction, it’s critical that IUPD-Indianapolis work with
the investigating agency to ensure their investigation is not
compromised.” said IUPUI spokeswoman Margie Smith-Simmons
in a prepared statement. “IUPD-Indianapolis is currently working
with a number of agencies to develop a process by which to notify
students of off-campus crime.”
Smith-Simmons said she could not offer any details for off-campus
crime notifications because plans are still in early development.
FERPA CONFUSION
Several colleges in Indiana do not interpret the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act correctly.
FERPA protects the privacy of student educational records
but often is cited as a reason for not releasing non-educational
disciplinary records.
In early February, Indiana State University acknowledged receipt
of The Campus Citizen’s open records request. Indiana State’s
general counsel said in an email that much of the information was
protected by FERPA, but an official response would be issued after
reviewing the request and “privacy-related issues.”
Thus far, only Vincennes University has agreed to grant The
Campus Citizen’s request for disciplinary records for violent crimes
and nonforcible sex offenses, via open records laws. The university
anticipated releasing a list of names, violations and disciplinary
results for more than 100 incidents.
The Campus Citizen submitted identical requests to Ball State,
Indiana State, Purdue and Indiana universities, as well as the
University of Southern Indiana. Purdue and IU may take longer to
reply because they also are processing records requests for their
regional campuses. All campuses acknowledged receipt of the open
records requests in early February.
When asked for comment on Part 1* of this series, Amber
Monroe, director of the IU Office of Student Ethics, declined and
said in an email that FERPA prohibited her response to such
inquiries.
In 1998, Congress amended FERPA so colleges and universities
no longer could use it as an excuse to withhold information
regarding the final results of a student’s disciplinary hearing for
violent crimes and nonforcible sex offenses.
“When it comes to sexual assault and rape, the norm for
universities and colleges is to downplay the situation and the
numbers,” researcher Yung said in a prepared statement.
“The result is students at many universities continue to be attacked
and victimized, and punishment isn’t meted out to the rapists and
sexual assaulters.”
___________________________
*Part 1 included the results of a disciplinary hearing for a
male student at Indiana University who forcibly groped a female
freshman. The victim provided The Campus Citizen with a copy
of the no-contact order issued against the offender. The documents
provided the date of the offense, university punishments and
offender’s full name, which The Campus Citizen chose not to
publish because the offender was not convicted of a crime.
“BECAUSE SOME
INCIDENTS OCCUR
OUTSIDE OF IUPD’S
TERRITORIAL
JURISDICTION,
IT’S CRITICAL THAT
IUPD-INDIANAPOLIS
WORK WITH THE
INVESTIGATING
AGENCY TO ENSURE
THEIR INVESTIGATION
IS NOT COMPROMISED,
IUPD-INDIANAPOLIS IS
CURRENTLY WORKING
WITH A NUMBER OF
AGENCIES TO DEVELOP
A PROCESS BY WHICH
TO NOTIFY STUDENTS
OF OFF-CAMPUS
CRIME.”
IUPUI SPOKESWOMAN
MARGIE SMITH-SIMMONS

14 |
MAN ON THE STREET
CHICK-FIL-A
Recently, students at IU voted to
remove the Chick fil A restaurant from
their campus library. If given the same
opportunity to vote on whether Chick-
fil-A stays at IUPUI, would you vote to
keep it? Why or why not?
By Vince Roberts
KENNETH GRIGGS
“I care about the issue but I don’t
care about Chick-fil -A’s ideology. I
think we should be looking at how
much money Chick-fil-A brings to
the school.”
ALENA JONES
“I would vote no. I don’t eat there
because of their ideology and I
wish there was some place I could
actually eat.”
ADRIENNE FAIRBANKS
“I like the Chick-fil-A sandwich. I vote to
keep them if only for the chicken sandwich.”
DERRICK BRODNEX
“I would keep Chick fil A.
They serve some good food.”
TYLER CLARK
“I would vote to remove Chick-fil-A.
You can’t discriminate against people.”
MAX SCHOLZ
“If students feel that’s what they want to
do, it’s their decision. But don’t force them
out because of ideology. It should be a
fiduciary decision not an ideological one.”
BROOKE HIATT
“I would vote to remove it for
something healthier. I’m confused
about Chick-fil-A’s moral standing
because they discriminate against
some and open doors for others.”
SAI MARAKANI
“I don’t think we should promote or
support Chick-fil-A because they
discriminate against humanity.”
CLASS ON
THE COURTKhufu Najee is one of the thirty students nominated for
Senior CLASS award
By Rob Hunt
FEATURED

The Senior CLASS Award is given out to a
senior student-athlete in each sport of collegiate
athletics. CLASS is an acronym that stands for
Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying
in School and the award stresses community,
classroom, character and competition as traits of
its nominees and winners. Najee was one of 30
nominees for the award in men’s basketball along
with 30 nominees for women’s players.
Although Najee did not make the list of 10
finalists for the award, the achievement of this
type of national recognition is no less remarkable.
Najee’s coach at IUPUI, Jason Gardner, was
also a finalist for this award when he was a senior
at Arizona University. Najee expressed surprise
and appreciation at the honor of being nominated.
“I was speechless to be one of the 30
nominees,” he said. “It’s an unexpected honor.
As a basketball player, I’ve kind of bounced
around so I never thought my name would come
up as a part of something like this. It’s an honor,
but definitely unexpected.”
GOOD BYE CALI, HELLO INDY
Najee’s journey began in Berkeley, Calif.,
where he was named to the All-Metro team by
the San Francisco Chronicle. He attended San
Jose State University after high school, but left
after one semester when the university broke their
promises to him, he said.
“They (San Jose State) didn’t keep their word
to me,” he said. “I left after the fall semester,
despite all of my family and teammates telling me
to stay. It was a decision I made because I didn’t
think it was going to fulfill what I wanted.”
Next, Najee played his freshman year at Diablo
Valley (California) Junior College where he
averaged 21 points per game. As a sophomore, he
played at Allan Hancock Junior College, also in
California. He led the school to a 20-10 record,
averaging 16.2 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists
and 1.4 steals per game and maintained a 3.7
grade point average.
Najee then decided to venture east and play
for IUPUI. A portion of his decision process was
in me at a young age,” he said. “I recently had a
conversation with someone really close to me that
complimented my penmanship. I told them a story
about how my dad would keep me in an extra hour
to work on my cursive handwriting before I could
go outside to play. Little things like that shaped
my work ethic in the classroom. I was always
excited about school at an early age.”
Despite all the twists and turns on his journey,
Najee is happy with how his collegiate life has
gone, even if it hasn’t been the way he originally
envisioned it. The Senior CLASS nomination is a
large part of this feeling.
“It’s definitely something to put a staple on my
college career, because it hasn’t gone like I
thought it might,” he said. “My dream was to go
away to school for four years and make a mark on
that community, but I’ve bounced around. To be
nominated, it really makes me feel good about the
way my college career has turned out. It’s an honor
to be on that list with those names. It’s something I
never thought would happen for me.”
Najee will be a 22-year-old with a master’s
degree once his time at IUPUI is over. While his
achievements stand out, his long term dreams are
similar to those of many sports journalism students
at IUPUI with an eye on working at ESPN. He is
also keeping an open mind about his future.
“I WOULD LIKE TO WORK ON
SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES,
I FEEL LIKE I’LL HAVE TO TAKE
OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY ARE
PRESENTED TO ME. COLLEGE
AND LIFE NEVER GO AS WE PLAN
IT. I MIGHT GET TO MY ULTIMATE
GOAL, WHICH IS TO MAKE ‘30
FOR 30 FILMS’ FOR ESPN. THOSE
ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS TO
WATCH, I COULD WATCH THOSE
ALL DAY.”
In an era when many Division I men’s college
basketball players are content with being
known as athletes First and students second,
IUPUI’s Khufu Najee wants to be known as
a graduate student who happens to play
basketball. His diligence in the classroom and
on the court recently earned the senior guard
a nomination for a national award.
based on the playing time he was promised in
Indianapolis, but also a desire to grow as a person
and as a player.
“My decision to come to Indy was based on a
desire to get out of my comfort zone,” he said.
“I wanted to gain an experience living somewhere
else. It’s taught me a lot about stability. It’s also
solidified my appreciation of family, because this
is the furthest I’ve ever been away from my family.
It’s allowed me to focus on growing as a player,
instead of the distractions of being around friends
and family during my down time.”
In his first season at IUPUI, Najee was voted
to the Summit League’s All-Newcomer Team as
he averaged 9.9 points per game and started 30
of the team’s 32 games. He continued his stellar
work in the classroom, maintaining a 3.0 or better
GPA for both semesters and landed on IUPUI’s
Academic Advisor’s List.
Despite missing some game time during
his senior season due to injury, Najee is still
performing at a high level, both on and off
the court. He is averaging 7.6 points
per game as team captain and was
once again named to the Academic
Advisor’s List for the fall semester.
Najee, who graduated last
spring, is expected to complete
his graduate studies in
journalism soon.
“This June, actually,” he said.
“The program is designed for one
year, and I will be done after the first summer
session in June and hopefully done with school
forever. I am studious, but I want to give it a rest
for a while.”
EYE ON THE FUTURE
Najee has taken school seriously his whole life
and it is something that he has always enjoyed.
“I think that was something that was instilled

| 1918 |
THE ROAD OF
CHAMPIONS
A legacy of overcoming
discrimination in high
school basketball
By Antonio Gomez
Success does not always come easy, and that was proven by
Crispus Attucks’ high school basketball team in 1955, the year
that Crispus Attucks was the first all African-American team to
win the Indiana state championship game.
The team’s star player, Oscar Palmer Robertson, lead the way
as the Flying Tigers pummeled their competition. Coached by
Ray Crowe, the team went on to win the state championship game
again the following year in 1956, defeating Lafayette 79-57.
The Indiana tradition for state champions is to ride around the
circle, downtown, and celebrating the players for a job well done.
This wasn’t the case for Crispus Attucks.
The team did not get the reward of cruising around downtown
because townspeople and authorities believed that they would tear
up the town with their appearance if they were spotted in the city.
They faced adversity wherever they traveled.
Crispus Attucks could not play in their school gym because
the space was too small, so they were forced to play on the road.
The opposing teams, mostly white organizations, did not accept
the Flying Tigers into their arenas. Crispus Attucks was forced to
travel far to find their competition.
Crispus Attucks went an astonishing 21-0 in the 1956
season, being the first team to win a state championship and
remain undefeated. Bob Collins, a reporter at the time, said in
a biographical video about the Flying Tigers, “‘56 team was the
best team I ever saw play.”
The team broke many records, beyond going undefeated, and
most of them were from “The Big O,” Oscar Robertson.
Robertson set an array of records including a single game
scoring record on February 11, 1956. Robertson scored 62 points
that day, but didn’t seem too enthusiastic looking back on it.
In the aforementioned biopic, Robertson said, “They forced me to
do it, I didn’t want to do it.” It seems comical but the fact was no
one could stop Oscar, or the team for that matter.
The team made history, and is still celebrated to this day,
receiving its 60th anniversary this past basketball season.
The players of the championship team went on to pursue many
different things, some not related to athletics at all.
Robertson went on to attend the University of Cincinnati,
where he played three seasons and broke nearly every school
record he could. His career continued when he was drafted by
the Cincinnati Royals in 1960. In 1970, he was traded to the
Milwaukee Bucks where he remained for the rest of his basketball
career until retirement.
In early February, Ray Crowe’s assistant coach, Albert
Spurlock died at the age of 101. Spurlock stood beside Crowe and
the Flying Tigers through both state championship seasons.
The Tigers are 13-5 this 2014-15 season, and ranked 54
throughout Indiana. Crispus Attucks is not expected to win the
state title again, but the titles under the school’s belt will remain a
basketball milestone.
PHOTOBYKEVINDOOLEY(FLICKR)
WILDCATS CHASE
HOOSIER GLORY
Kentucky shoots for
40 – 0 Season
By Leighann Strollo
There is an unwritten rule of sports. Avoid
a jinx by not speaking of perfect games or
undefeated records. However, with University of
Kentucky’s men’s basketball team on the brink
of being the first to go through an entire season
undefeated and win the NCAA championship
since the Hoosiers did it so famously in 1976.
It’s hard not to make them and their winning
streak the center of attention.
Coming off of a championship loss in 2014,
the Wildcats recovered quickly and have gone
25-0, taking down teams like Florida and Texas
A&M that were poised to be big hurdles in
their schedule.
For those of us living in Indiana, its hard not to
talk about the possibility of Kentucky landing in
Lucas Oil Stadium on April 6, undefeated record
still intact, 40 years after our very own Hoosiers
did it. Kentucky claims to not be focusing on their
undefeated record, but it’s on the mind of anyone
interested in college sports.
Unanimously, Kentucky was voted No. 1 for the
third week in a row, leaving Virginia behind at
No. 2. The Virginia Cavaliers did however lose
their top scorer, Justin Anderson, to a fractured
finger, diminishing Kentucky’s competition,
giving them all the more luck in holding onto not
only their spot at No. 1, but also their record.
While for most fans, a 25-0 record is enough
to give them hope for a perfect 40-0 season, it’s
the fact that they’ve beaten teams like Kansas by
32 points, or Texas by 12 points that makes their
dream not too far out of reach.
The Hoosiers aren’t going to make magic this
year recreating the ’76 season or going undefeated.
In fact, their tough and close losses to teams like
Purdue and Maryland have made it hard for them
to even secure a spot in the tournament, something
that Purdue has seemed to do pretty well. Despite
being currently last in the draft, Purdue has gone
11-7 in the Big Ten and proved that they are worthy
of a NCAA tournament.
As for the women, University of Connecticut
looks promising once again. Headed for their
third championship in a row, the Huskies are
steamrolling through their schedule. Most recently,
UConn gave their biggest rivals, the South Carolina
Gamecocks, their first loss of the season. With the
win, the Huskies claimed the right to be No.
1., improving their record, only having lost their
second game of the season to Stanford in overtime.
While UConn holds their own as the best team,
they are being crept up on by their New England
neighbors, Rutgers, who have won 10 of their
last 12 games. They have gotten into gear and
kicked it up a notch in order to make a run for the
tournament. The Rutger Scarlet Knights are a
force to be reckoned with.
NCAA Conference tournaments begin on March
3, with Selection Sunday falling on March 15.
The round of 64 takes place March 19 and
20, two days you do not want to miss, and the
brackets continue until the championship game at
Lucas Oil Stadium on April 6.

| 2120 |
By Antonio Gomez
Indy’s new soccer team is looking to expand its worth by proposing
a new stadium to the state legislature. When Indy Eleven was
created, there was confusion as to where they would play. Luckily,
IUPUI and Indiana University gave the team a place to call home
at Michael A. Carrol Stadium, located on IUPUI’s campus. Indy
Eleven, a fresh team with a used stadium is something fans didn’t
think much of.
Indy Eleven’s first season was a ticket success, selling out every
home game with 12,100 seats, and topping ticket sales throughout
the league. So why a new stadium?
“After year one, soccer was in demand in this state,” said John
Koluder, public relations representative for Indy Eleven.
With soccer high in demand, a new stadium would make the fans
happier, and give the game of soccer a better facility to play at.
“IUPUI and IU have been wonderful in making Carrol an
adequate venue for our team,” said Koluder.
Key word being adequate. Carrol Stadium is a great facility for
college sports, but for a professional team, a stadium with state of
the art concessions, restrooms and locker rooms would be ideal.
Major improvements to the new stadium would create many benefits
for the community.
The new stadium, temporarily being called Stadium Indiana
Project, would cost around $82 million to construct. This $82
million would come from taxes, but not directly from tax payers
themselves.
Tax payers’ pockets will not be poked at.
“If you don’t go, you won’t pay,” said Koluder.
Indy Eleven aims to collect this tax money from taxing admittance
tickets. The time frame for the costs to be covered would span over
the next 30 years, although the franchise has hopes of building the
stadium much sooner.
The renderings of the stadium are impressive. The location of the
stadium is undetermined, but is expected to seat 18,500 spectators
at once, with state of the art facilities to make you feel at home.
If the stadium is built, the location is hoped to be easily accessible
by Indianapolis residents.
The stadium would not be limited to soccer, but would have
potential to host many other events. The Indy Eleven organization
aims for this multi-purpose stadium to host events ranging from
lacrosse and rugby to concert performances. With the city adapting
so well to the team the Indy Eleven organization is also considering
creating a women’s soccer team.
Indy Eleven stresses their deep concern about the comfort of their
fans both physically and financially.
“We [will] aim to keep the tickets around that of a movie ticket.
Of course, the closer you get to the field your ticket will increase, but
the benefits of the higher seats will be worth it I promise you that,”
said Koluder.
A strong promise, but the mindset of this organization is optimistic.
The construction of the seats would wrap around the stadium,
giving each seat a clear view of the field.
According to Koluder, the goal is to make everyone experience
something that is world-class material.
Indy Eleven did great when it came to selling seats, but what
about scoring goals? In the middle of the standings, Indy Eleven
finished the season an average record of 6-5-7, ending the season
with a five game winning streak.
As the streak suggests, the team started to get comfortable in their
new league and began to make noise on the field to further their
reputation. Koluder stressed that every day the team is consistently
improving and making moves to become the best.
Many players are returning to play for Indy Eleven, including
Don Smart and Kyle Hyland, but the focus is to improve as a team,
not stay the same. The team needs more talent in the midfield and
better players to attack the goal and take control when the team
needs a leader.
Koluder said that the five game win streak was a result of critical
defense as a unit. To make the team more efficient and provide the
team with veteran experience in the locker room, Indy Eleven signed
defender Greg Janicki from the San Antonio Scorpions.
The team takes the field Saturday, April 4 against the Atlanta
Silverbacks to begin the start of their second NASL season. Michael
A. Carrol stadium will remain the host of Indy Eleven’s home games
for seasons to come, but only until their new home is built.
THE WORLDS SPORT,
INDIANA’S $82 MILLION STADIUM“Stadium for Indiana” purposes new facility for Indy Eleven

22 | | 23
SALE JOSEPH
Indy folk duo thrives in
small spaces
By Alec Kammerer
Feelings and friendship are what define, Sale Joseph (pronounced
SHa’lā), an Indianapolis folk duo.
Originating in Anderson, Ind., Sale Joseph is made up of guitarist and
vocalist Alex Camp and vocalist Logan Dodd. The two are trying to bring
their personal living room touch to the metropolitan area of Indianapolis.
The band’s name comes from Logan’s middle name, Sale, and Alex’s real
first name, Joseph.
“We wanted to do a name that was based off of names, but we didn’t just
want to do Logan and Alex,” Camp said. “We thought it was cool because of
people, like Bon Iver, get mispronounced a lot … it can be memorable.”
Sale Joseph has been together off and on for three years while continuously
evolving. Originally rooted in pop and country, Sale Joseph found its sound
in the folk genre more than anywhere else.
“Folk has always been in our roots,” Dodd said.
“Were an acoustic duo, so someone like Simon and Garfunkle are a big
influence on the kind of music we play,” Camp said.
Logan and Alex met when they were both 12 years old. As friends and
musicians, they decided to collaborate on a song for fun. This turned into
Sale Joseph. The friendship and the chemistry they have shines through in
their music and are apparent in their care free manor amongst one another.
“You just have to have the relationship as two people, even if I primarily
do the music. We are always in tune with each other’s lives,” Camp said.
“We know where [the other is] relationship wise, emotionally, spiritually,
stuff like that.”
The band is currently working on a full length album, but they view
themselves as a live band. They started off doing house shows for fun for
about a year ago and have now played at a few venues such as Birdys Live in
Indianapolis. The intimacy of their music and emotions is reflected best live.
PHOTOCOURTESYOFSALEJOSEPH
They feel that the connection that they have can get the audience to feel a connection.
Sale Joseph wants to strip it down.
“Big venues are great and we’d love to play there anytime, but also I’d be happy playing at a coffee
shop on a Thursday night,” Camp said. “Like if you get 12 people that are all really into it, that’s as
good as 60 that are half listening.”
“I think that’s where we shine and were definitely most comfortable, somewhere where we can
connect,” Dodd said.
This does not mean that Sale Joseph is looking to turn away from the spotlight. New to the Indianapolis
area, they are hoping to make an impression on this city with their personal style.
The upcoming albums demo tapes are completed with the exception of some final touches.
Their music is available on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/sale-joseph .
ONE MAN
ONE STAGE
PLENTY OF
LAUGHS
Scott greenwell commands
the stage in an eclectic
one-man comedy
By Benjamin Cooley
Painting fences, pulling weeds, working retail, babysitting and
waiting tables are jobs that should seem familiar to most. Odd jobs
like these are often not glamorous, but they pay the bills — kind of.
In Phoenix Theatre’s upcoming production, “Buyer & Cellar,”
Scot Greenwell plays a man who also finds himself stuck in an
odd job as a retail clerk in a shopping mall. But this is no ordinary
shopping mall: It’s Barbra Streisand’s basement.
Acting as a witty commentary on the world of celebrities and
the quest for stardom, Jonathan Tolin’s “Buyer & Cellar” revolves
around a struggling actor named Alex More and the people he
encounters while working in the basement of one of the world’s
biggest and most beloved stars, Barbra Streisand. In the opening
scene, Alex approaches the audience with full disclosure,
explaining that the story he is about to tell is entirely a work of
fiction. But the setting of a shopping mall in Barbra Streisand’s
basement? That’s a real place.
As if that’s not enough to raise an eyebrow, Greenwell plays all
six characters in the play including the legendary singer herself.
“We are who we are, ya know? So playing five or six different
characters in one show is a challenge,” Greenwell said.
Throughout the play, Greenwell switches among these six
characters through small changes and quirks. “Sometimes it’s way
the person folds their hands, if they have certain tics ... it can help
me plug into the character,” Greenwell said.
Since graduating from the University of Evansville in 2000,
Greenwell has participated in roughly 20 productions at Phoenix
Theatre in addition to acting in other theaters throughout
Indianapolis. Greenwell first heard about “Buyer & Cellar” from a
friend who saw it in New York shortly after it opened in 2013.
After seeing the play, he knew Greenwell would be a great fit.
“I GOT AHOLD OF THE SCRIPT, AND
SURE ENOUGH I LAUGHED OUT LOUD,”
GREENWELL SAID. “WHICH WAS NICE,
BECAUSE THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN ALL THE
TIME, EVEN WITH COMEDIES.”
Chuck Goad, one of the founders of Phoenix Theatre and the
director of “Buyer & Cellar,” remembers having the same thought
on Greenwell’s potential. From the moment Greenwell proposed
doing the play at Phoenix Theatre, Goad was sold.
“When Scot pitched the play, it was like, you could just tell he
was absolutely perfect for the part,” Goad said.
For Greenwell, stepping into a one-man play is familiar territory.
Looking back on his first solo appearance in “The SantaLand
Diaries,” Greenwell recalled the challenges of acting alone on stage.
“I found that one of the toughest challenges was when I walked
off the stage after the show,” Greenwell said. “Whether it felt
fantastic or whether it felt mediocre, I would go to the dressing
room and there was no one to give a high five to.”
Goad also knows the difficulties of putting on a one-man show.
He said that audiences have a tendency to stray away from
monologue-heavy performances.
“I think one-man shows can have a certain stigma,” Goad said.
“But this is a really nice night in theater.”
Both actor and director agree that “Buyer & Cellar” will bring a
laugh out of all types of audiences. Even those who have no interest
or reverence for Barbra Streisand will enjoy the humor.
“It really goes beyond that,” Goad said. “It’s a really human story.”
Running through the month of March, “Buyer & Cellar” opened
March 5 at Phoenix Theatre with student discounts available for
PHOTO BY BENJAMIN COOLEY, STAR OF PHOENIX THEATRE’S
UPCOMING BUYER AND CELLAR, POSES ON STAGE WITH THE
BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE SETTING AND PLOTLINE OF THIS
UNCONVENTIONAL, ONE-MAN COMEDY SHOW.

| 2524 |
Some college kids speak chemistry.
Some college kids speak French. Some college
kids barely speak at all, but every college kid
speaks pizza. And Giordano’s Pizza is a staple in
the stuffed pizza world.
Based in Chicago, Giordano’s Pizza was
launched in 1974 on Chicago’s south side by two
Argentinians with Italian origins, according to
their website. The recipe for their famous stuffed
pizza is said to be at least two hundred years old.
Bringing their time tested recipe to
Indianapolis, Giordano’s joined the downtown
pizza circuit and opened Feb. 3 on East
82nd Street.
The company owns 40 plus locations,
including several in Florida. It uses the same
GIORDANO’S TAKES
A SLICE OUT OF INDY
Chicago-based pizza chain makes a permanent
home and looks to expand in Naptown
By Victoria Lane
recipes, ingredients, pizza dough and sauces
that are used at the original Chicago locations.
With ingredients delivered three times a
week via a cold delivery truck from Chicago,
Giordano’s Indianapolis is trying to keep up
with heavy demand, said Julia Honious, general
manager of the restaurant.
At a seating capacity of approximately 97, the
location realistically needs around 400 seats in
order to meet demand.
Customers need to be prepared for the waiting
game if they want to enjoy a slice of Chicago.
Wait times can vary anywhere from a few
minutes to 4 1/2 – as was the case when I went
on a Saturday afternoon. Add onto that the 45
minutes it takes to make the stuffed pizza and
customers might spend an entire day waiting on
and eventually eating a pizza pie.
However, pizza lovers can get a shortened wait
time by visiting the Giordano’s food truck parked
outside of the restaurant. Straight from Chi-town,
the truck offers several pizza options and a side
of winter air for those who prefer not to wait in
the restaurant.
Additional include the ability to ship a pizza
as well as order ahead and pick-up at their
desired Giordano’s location.
With such a heavy demand and not enough
space to feed Hoosiers, Giordano’s is scouting
out potential locations around Indiana. Currently
there are rumors of at least three more locations
in areas like Carmel, Greenwood and another
in Indianapolis. Giordano’s is looking to have
another restaurant opened by the end of 2015.
Honious hopes that once future locations are
open that demand will decrease at her specific
location.
Whichever Giordano’s you visit, Giordano’s
wants the customer to have a great time even
while people wait to eat their Chicago-style
pizza. What can fill the time between an
order and a pizza’s arrival? A friendly staff,
comfortable atmosphere and a varied menu
offers customers plenty of choices including the
traditional stuffed, thin and extra-thin pizza, as
well as appetizers and salads.
PHOTOS BY VICTORIA LANE AND LYDIA XIONG

| 2726 |
The wind whipped with a savage, unforgiving
chill as three company members stood huddled
around one of the many community fire barrels,
their hands stretched out towards its warmth
with the hopes of it taking their minds away
from the frigid pace of snow that plummeted
from the gray, late evening sky and covered all
of the surrounding scenery with a thick white
quilt. The barrel’s soothing glow illuminated
the men’s faces and held their attention in a
fixed trance that relaxed their sore, weary eyes
from the day’s usual events. The man at the left
of the barrel — a stout fellow with a wool hat
pulled tight on top of his head that clashed with
his bushy, rusty gray facial hair that decorated
his face — let out a lung throbbing cough that
snapped the other two men’s attention from
their entrancement.
“Still got that retched cough, eh Gunner?”
inquired Shamus, a young, light spirited
Irishmen of about 23, who stood stationed at
the center of the barrel.
Clearing his throat, Gunner hacked up a
rather unpleasant red-spotted mucus and spat it
out onto the ground nearby him.
“Them damn coal mines ain’t helpin’ it none,”
he replied. “Gets worse as we dig deeper n’
deeper.” He took a small pause and scratched
his head, letting loose a heavy sigh.
“Gotta bring food to the table somehow, though.”
Shamus rubbed his hands together vigorously,
softly blowing his warm breath onto them.
“You outta grab yerself a pack o’ lozenges
from the shop,” he said back. “Heard they
dropped em’ down te twenty cents now.”
Gunner let out a snort that needed no
explanation. A wage given from Mr. James
Whittman, heir to the Whittman industrial
fortune, left you with little to no money for
anything aside from the essential bread and
water that was just enough to put something in
the belly. Shamus, a fairly new member of the
Whittman Mining Division, was still ignorant
of how life was going to be.
The Whittman Industries specialized in
three different areas of development: mining,
manufacturing, and engineering. Although
diversified, each division’s contribution played
a key role in the nation’s economic upbringing.
The coal mined from Whitman Industries
powered more than three quarters of the
locomotives that traveled across the country.
Steel manufactured in a Whittman facility
became the structures of the monumental
towering buildings being constructed in New
York. The products and ideas that emerged
from the Whittman Engineering Facilities
provided innovation and enhanced technologies
that offered both satisfaction and praise from
the United States Federal Government. But
the most prominent and well-known aspect of
Whittman Industries was the company town it
provided to house its laborers. Through years
of hard-working success, the Whittman family
had become national royalty, the hierarchy of
American wealth and prestige.
All thanks to the backbreaking labor
supplied from its laborers, individuals who
saw no gracious rewards for their support of
this industrial giant. In addition to low wages,
Whittman Industries supplies the company
town, a small established town created by the
Industry that houses the workers at so called
“cheap rates.” Although from an outside
perspective it may sound delightful. Once inside
things prove otherwise.
The town is nothing short of an urban ghetto
with the squalid, ram shackled buildings
placed within a dilapidated environment.
To make matters worse, the money rewarded to
them was not U.S. standard issued currency,
but rather company currency that held zero
value outside of the town. No labor union dared
to rally the workers, or rather slaves, of the
Whittman Industry, as they greatly feared
the security team, a group of men who monitor
the company town’s population and make sure
it does what it’s expected to do. The End
Result would be brutal.
Essentially, once a worker in debts his life
to Whittman Industries, he’s selling his soul to
the devil.
The sound of a small baby wailing soon filled
the men’s ears. The man positioned to the right
of the barrel, who’d been silent and lost in deep
thought, turned his head towards the direction
of the heart wrenching cry, his mouth twisting
into a distressed frown.
Gunner, observing the man’s change in
demeanor, responded accordingly. “The little
one doin’ any better, Chauncey?”
The man named Chauncey looked at him
with swelled eyes that signified a regretful
doubt. “The fever is persistent,” he replied.
“No matter what we try it just won’t go away.”
The sound of frantic footsteps soon filled
the men’s ears. Turning to look, the outline of
a young female could be seen jogging towards
them, her face stricken with panic. It was
Mildred, Chauncey’s young wife.
“Chauncey, Chauncey,” she exclaimed in
between exasperated breaths, “I can’t take it
anymore!” She ran straight into him, wrapping
her arms around him while burying her face
into his broad chest. “I can’t stand to see our
little Sammy in pain!”
Chauncey held his grieving wife with an
iron clasped hug, resting his mouth on top
of her head. She looked up at him with a river
of tears streaming from her eyes, her body
trembling with terror. “What are we going to
do?” she asked.
Shamus, oblivious to the tragedy, made a
sympathetic inquiry. “What’s the matter?”
he asked.
“It’s my newborn son,” Chauncey replied.
“We think he might be stricken with the scarlet
fever, and we can’t find a way to treat him.”
“Have ye tried te hospital?”
“We have, but they’re overbooked,” he said,
his eyes dropping to the ground. “We don’t have
enough money to pay the incentive fee. It could
be months before we even make it half way up
the list.”
The shrill cry of young baby Sammy rang out
into the night once more. Chauncey turned his
head towards its direction. “We don’t have that
kind of time,” he murmured aloud.
“Well why didn’t ye say so, Chaunce?”
Shamus piped up exuberantly, “I’ll lone ye some
money so you can make it to te top o’ the list!
Just pay me back when ye can!”
“That’s kind of you, Shamus, but I couldn’t
take your money.”
Shamus persisted, “I insist!”
“No,” Chauncey said, “I have another way.”
Mildred’s head jerked up again.
“Another way?” she questioned with surprise,
“What is it, Chauncey?”
He looked deep into Mildred’s eyes with a
burning determination. “I’m going to ask Mr.
Whittman for an advanced payment.”
Gunner’s eyes shot wide open, his mouth
agape with surprise. “He’ll never agree to
that, Chauncey!”
“I’ll make him agree,” Chauncey said,
“I have to do it for my son!”
To be continued…
Ragsto
Riches
Part 1
By Casey Kenworthy

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