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THE IUSB PREFACEWednesday, November 11, 2009 www.iusbpreface.comThe official student newspaper of IU South Bend

Titans Basketball!

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Junior guard Ashley Hummer tries to get past Goshen College’s Erica Emmanuel in Saturday’s 75-48 victory over the Mapleleafs. Hummer scored 16 points, going 5-for-6 from the field. The next home game for the Titans is Nov. 12 against University of Michigan-Dearborn at 7 p.m. in the SAC.

Titans win home openersTitans win home openersBy JEFF TATAY

Titan women’s basketball tipped off the season with an 84-65 victory over Wilberforce on Nov. 3.

Senior Tiffanie Graham led the team with 17 points and went 4-for-6 from the free throw line. Juniors Betsy Grogan and Ashley Hummer each scored 13 points. The Titans went 33-for-64 from the field.

The Titan men also defeated Goshen College 80-70 on Nov. 3 claiming their first victory this sea-son, but faced a 55-72 loss on Nov. 5 against Aquinas College for a 1-2 record. Junior Quinn Brooks led the Titans with 19 points. Senior Mark Comparato had 14 points, with Juniors Dan Kunde, Dylan Mor-ris and Ben Werner with 11 points each.

Both the men and women’s games were hosted at the Student Activities Center (SAC).

“I think that the women have the

By TERRIE PHILLIPSStaff Writer

Chicagoan Alex Kotlowitz, the author of There Are No Children Here, spoke to the IU South Bend community on Monday, Nov. 3 as part of the One Book, One Campus theme this year, The Urban and the Rural.

“This is fabulous, there is not one empty seat in here,” said Vice Chancellor Alfred Guillaume,.

“In the last 10 years 1800 stu-dents have read this book,” said Guillaume, “What affects the least of us, affects the most of us.”

There Are No Children Here, is about two young brothers living in a violent section of Chicago. The book follows the children for two years. They see violence and drugs,

Kotlowitz speaks about violence in Chicagoas well as experience the death of family and friends.

“It is also a book about hope,” said Kotlowitz.

Kotlowitz talked about the peo-ple in the book and shared stories about them with the audience. He talked about the police and their lack of concern and how violence is an everyday thing for the people that live in these areas of Chicago.

“I don’t have friends, I have as-sociates, friends you trust, this from a 12-year-old boy,” said Kotlowitz.

Kotlowitz briefly discussed the history of how Chicago’s ghetto were created.

He described the living condi-tions of the Henry Horner Homes, in which the family he wrote about lived in. He gave statistics on the amount of deaths from murders

that have occurred in Chicago. “The discomforting fact is that

most of these shootings are of blacks and Latinos by blacks and Latinos,” said Kotlowitz.

He told the audience of the chil-dren he had seen with dark circles under their eyes, hyperactive, or de-pressed.

“Somehow we have to find a way to provide a childhood in which these children don’t need to run,” said Kotlowitz.

He said the children had PTSD from the violence in their everyday lives.

He talked about when he asked one of the boys what he wanted to be when he grew up. The answer Kotlowitz got was if he grew up, he

Preface photo/ TERRIE PHILLIPS

Alex Kotlowitz signing an autograph after his speech on Monday, Nov. 3.

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History Journal

There will be a new a publication next spring for history papers. The idea was conceived by Dr. Lisa Zwicker of the history department. See page 4.

V lands on ABC

The popular 1980s cult sci-fi series returned last week with a re-imagined look that taps into our the present political world instead of World War II. See page 7.

Clothing drive

The Black Student Union’s, in association with the Student Alumni Association, annual food and clothing drive is set for Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. near the Student Activity Center’s parking lot and the Administration Building circle. Collections are for the Center for the Homeless located in South Bend. See page 4.

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By REBECCA GIBSONStaff Writer

Whether you are in IU South Bend’s River Crossing Apartments, or in any of the other local apart-ment complexes, you have prob-ably encountered your share of bad neighbors.

Yet, in many typical college expe-riences a bad neighbor is considered to be the one who complains about your partying, but as IUSB is large-ly a commuter campus with a sig-nificant portion of non-traditional students, I will give the reader the benefit of the doubt, and say that studying is much more important than partying.

And if studying is important to you, you know how awful a bad neighbor can be and how many ways someone can be a bad neigh-bor. While these ways are too nu-merous to list, here is how you can avoid being that person yourself.

While the walls of my current apartment are slightly thicker than the last one, I can still hear just about every time my neighbors watch TV, play video games, listen to music, fight with their spouses, or slam their cabinet doors. If the walls in your apartments are simi-larly thin, you can be respectful of

your neighbors’ hearing (and study habits) by keeping the noise to a minimum, using ear buds or head-phones when possible, and being gentle with your roommates and your home furnishings.

Also, recall that not everyone in an apartment is a college student. While you may have class only twice a week, or have several days where classes don’t begin until 2 p.m., re-member that your neighbors may have class earlier, even as early as 8 a.m., and some may need to get up earlier still to go to work.

There is no way to know what that person does at work, and there are several professions that would not benefit from sleep deprivation. I know I want the person fixing my brakes or doing my taxes or cooking my food to have as much sleep as they need, and turning off anything that makes noise in my apartment at a reasonable hour helps that hap-pen.

Into the life of even the most diehard student, sometimes a party falls. However, as a responsible per-son, it falls to each of us to reverse the trend of using college as an ex-

Good walls make good neighbors

cuse to drink to excess. If you host a party at your apartment, make sure that your friends do not make nuisances of themselves, either by driving home drunk, or dropping things off the balcony. I’ll leave the nature of those ‘things’ to your imagination, just remember that anything that goes down may come up again…at the next tenant meet-ing.

A few last cautions: remember that your apartment does not end at your front door. The entryways, the stairs, and the parking lot are communal areas and owned by the apartment complex.

Any damage done to or litter left in those areas may be traced back to its owners. And while the offi-cial noise curfew in South Bend is between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., it is only courteous to extend your quiet hours a bit in either direction as the people you wake up abruptly today may be the ones reviewing your ré-sumé tomorrow.

Manners & Mannerisms

wanted to be a bus driver. He talked about how children did not expect to grow up.

“The fear is if they share these stories they won’t be believed,” said Kotlowitz.

He told the audiences of the two types of silences. The lack of police reporting crimes related to gangs like shootouts.

“Gang shootings where police were so afraid they took cover,” said Kotlowitz.

“As time goes by I am more and more convinced in the power of family,” said Kotlowitz.

He talked about the lack of fam-ily and connections in these areas of Chicago. He believes this lack of connection is part of the cause for the violence.

Kotlowitz believes you have to target the violence. Once the vio-lence is gone, more business will want to be in those neighborhoods.

“I ask questions I have no busi-ness asking, poke my nose where I have not business poking my nose,” said Kotlowitz.

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Wolfson Press unveiled their newest release at a book signing and a lecture at the Schurz Library Nov. 6. The presentation was part of the On Their Shoulders series by Wolf-son.

One book is a study about the African American in South Bend during the early part of the 20th cen-tury and the other book is about the history of the Hering House.

The Negro in South Bend, a social study was written by Buford Gordon in 1922 and was edited by Misha-waka resident David H. Healy.

According to a South Bend Tri-bune article published Nov. 4, the study highlighted some of the issues facing the African American popu-lation in South Bend, including the

limited availability of work and the social functions available.

The next book featured was Lisa Swedarsky’s A Place With Purpose: A History of Hering House, 1925-1963, focuses on the Hering House and the impact it has had on the Af-rican American population in South Bend.

The Hering House opened in 1925 and lasted until the 1960s af-ter the house, a former church, was demolished according to the same article in the South Bend Tribune. The house served a community gathering place that promoted so-cial awareness and education.

For more information visit, wolf-sonpress.wordpress.com. Additional reporting by Jenn Zellers.

Wolfson Press presents books on history of civil rights in South BendThe first books in the On Their Shoulders series chronicling the history of race relations and blacks in South Bend.

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By DANI MOLNAR Staff Writer

IU South Bend is making a sub-stantial effort to increase enrollment and retention. All of this is in an ef-fort to be in coordination with the new Reaching Higher Program by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

The program includes six initia-tives: College Completion, Afford-ability, Preparation, Community College, Major Research Universi-ties, and Accountability. State uni-versities must tailor their programs to fit the Reaching Higher program.

Since most of the initiatives are not relevant to IUSB, the faculty here has to figure out how they fit in to the new program.

“They’re not defining our role as closely as community colleges and major universities,” Jeff Jones, vice chancellor of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, said.

Most of the emphasis for Reach-ing Higher at IUSB has been put on the College Completion section.

There are many things that the state requires of universities like IUSB for this program. Such things like reducing or removing remedial

What Reaching Higher means for IUSB students

classes and eliminating associate’s degrees.

For years now, IUSB has offered both, remedial classes and associate’s degrees. Now with the Reaching Higher program, they are expected to send these students to communi-ty colleges such as Ivy Tech, who are expected to increase their numbers of remedial classes and associate’s degrees.

“We have to work closer with Ivy Tech,” Jones said.

IUSB and Ivy Tech have worked together to create articulation pro-grams.

Students from Ivy Tech who have gotten associate’s degrees can transfer to IUSB and basically pick up where they left off as a college junior.

The program calls this process seamless articulation. Because of the gradual removal of remedial classes, IUSB has to find a way to get their

students prepared for classes they would not otherwise be prepared for.

“The main thing we have to fig-ure out is how we’re going to get students better prepared for col-lege,” Jones said.

Classes like U100 are now in-cluded in linked courses. Students may attend U100, then a math course with the same group of peers.

“That’s an effort to get people together and support each other,” Jones said.

Every U100 class will also have one peer mentor to help the stu-dents.

Reaching Higher requires most parts of the program to be finished by fall 2011.

The next few years will have many changes in store for the stu-dents, staff and faculty at IUSB and statewide. Jones believes this pro-gram will be good for the college.

“We’re looking forward to the challenges of making IU South Bend a better place for students.”

For more information on the Reaching Higher program, go to www.che.state.in.us.

By APRIL BUCKStaff Writer

With the slumping of the econ-omy, many people are choosing to go back to school and it is evident at IU South Bend.

The various schools are respond-ing with the increased enrollment with added degrees and changes to existing degrees as well. In line with the distinction of being the school with the highest amount of enroll-ment increase at 17% this year, the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts has adopted a new slogan, “Born to be Among the Best.”

“These new degrees and our new personae are a testament that we are a school on the move, training the best that come our way to be the best in the world,” said Dean Mar-vin Curtis.

Two new degrees are offered within the school, a bachelor’s in music education and a bachelor’s in music. The music education degree was previously offered on campus for several years, but has been re-vised to meet new state education standards.

The revised degree allows stu-dents to obtain licensure to teach music in the public school system. In order to do that, portions of the degree are taught by the School of Education.

The bachelor in music is de-signed for students who want music as a major and have a minor as well. Both degrees have been created to give students more skills and better options in the job market.

Additionally, the school is work-ing to add a minor in dance and a minor in arts management with hopes to turn them into majors over the next few years. There is also a possibility of an master’s degree in communication within the next two

years as well.The College of Liberal Arts and

Sciences (CLAS) has had an 8% in-crease in enrollment this year and it too has added several degrees. Now being offered is a bachelor’s in bio-chemistry and anthropology.

In addition, several degrees for-merly offered through the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) have been adopted by the CLAS, namely, the master of public affairs and the bachelor in criminal justice. A few degrees have been dis-continued as well, the bachelor in public affairs and the Master of Arts in Teaching in English.

The degrees in biochemistry and anthropology were added due to student interest, the dissolution of SPEA on this campus prompted the addition of the public affair master’s and criminal justice degrees to the CLAS.

Dean Lynn Williams believes that students who might have been interested in the bachelor in public affairs will be better served by the bachelor’s in political science. The master in English is being discon-tinued for two reasons—lack of stu-dent interest and the lack of faculty resources to be able to offer both the English teaching master and the master in English.

“We are committed to student learning and student success,” said Williams. “Both for those students who come to us initially from high school and those who decide to pur-sue a baccalaureate degree only after enrolling in an associate degree pro-gram elsewhere.

According to David Vollrath, di-rector of general studies, they saw a 13.4% increase in enrollment, and the only change is that the associ-ate of arts in general studies will be phased out by 2011, but the bach-

Broadening our horizons with new degrees, concentrations

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Recognizing scholarship recipi-ents and their benefactors is just part of what the IU South Bend Scholarship Recognition Celebra-tion is all about.

A luncheon was held on Sunday, Nov. 8 as an event designed to bring students together with their schol-arship benefactors. It allows patrons the opportunity to put a name with a face and hear in a personal manner about the difference their generosity is making in the lives of others.

In addition, students had a chance to offer their thanks to those who have made funding their edu-cations possible.

IUSB Chancellor, Una Mae Reck, thanked the individuals, businesses and organizations who make scholarship programs possible through their generosity and sup-port of IUSB.

“The investment made in these students by benefactors pays divi-dends…you have made a difference in the lives of these students,” Reck said. “The impact of your generos-ity will be felt for generations to come. Thank you for your trust in IU South Bend.”

Reck congratulated the students who received the scholarships on their hard work and sacrifice and encouraged them to continue to work hard and accomplish great things.

One of the students who benefit-ted from the Bloss scholarship this year is Miranda Hankins. Hankins, a freshman business and marketing major, made her decision to attend IUSB as a result of the Bloss Scholar Scholarship she received.

“I just moved here from Arkan-sas and I probably wouldn’t be in school if it weren’t for this [scholar-ship],” Hankins said.

Hugo Garza, student recipient

Scholarship recognition celebrationof the Pfeifer, Morgan, and Stesiak Scholarship, Karen Gonzalez, stu-dent recipient of the Charles W. Cole Scholarship, and Wannetta Reid, student recipient of the Op-portunity Scholarship spoke to the assembled guests.

These students told their person-al stories, talked about how these scholarships have affected their lives, and expressed heartfelt thanks to those who have made the scholar-ships possible.

“The scholarship has eased the burdens of going to college because I didn’t know where I was going to get the money” said Reid. “I just can’t say enough about the bene-factors. My education has been challenging and rewarding and this scholarship has helped so much.”

Without exception, students said that their scholarships were making their dreams a reality and indicated a desire to give back to the commu-nity at large.

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In what is becoming an annual event on the IU South Bend cam-pus, the Black Student Union is partnering with the Student Alumni Association to sponsor a food and clothing drive to benefit the Center for the Homeless.

The BSU is seeking donations of gently used clothing items such as pants, hats, gloves, and jackets, non-perishable foodstuffs and personal hygiene items.

This is an opportunity for the IUSB community to help those in need. The BSU encourages stu-dents, faculty, and staff to make donations beginning Nov. 9, when drop boxes will be placed in the SAC, Wiekamp, and the Student Alumni Office. In addition, mem-bers of the BSU will be on hand Saturday, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to collect items.

Drop-off locations are the Ad-ministration Building Circle and the SAC parking lot.

Giving a helping hand in hard times

By ANDREW SHENEMANStaff Writer

Dining Services is doing a lot of work to make more food avail-able to the faculty and students of IUSB. Their current plans include remodeling of both The Grille, and Northside Cafe.

“What we’re doing with the Grille will mostly be decoration,” said Steve Rose, head of dining ser-vices.

The Grille will, at some point, be remodeled to give it a new, more ap-pealing look. But there will not be anything new in terms of services or food offered.

There are also changes in store for the cafe in Northside.

“There was a kitchenette area, next to the auditorium, that has been completely torn out and is going to be fully renovated into a Green Room [a break area for the cast and crew of a play],” said Rose.

Big plans for food services on campus

The Northside Cafe, which was closed last year, may also be under-going renovations in the near future.

“We closed the Northside Cafe because it wasn’t making enough money. We simply were not getting enough business there,” said Rose.

Even so, the cafe is expected to undergo renovations soon. Among the changes being made will be to add machines to take credit cards, and offer a wider variety of foods.

“Sometime in the next month you should start to see crews work-ing on it,” said Rose.

Rose said he hopes to add a cof-fee bar area to the cafe as well, but plans for that are still up in the air.

Rose also encourages students to e-mail him at [email protected] with suggestions or comments about what they want to see from Dining Services.

“We’re always listening to sug-gestions from students for how we can serve them better,” said Rose.

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The Northside Cafe has been closed because of lack of business. However, workers will soon begin working remodeling the popular study area in Northside. Some of the changes include adding ma-chines in to take credit cards and to offer a wider variety of foods.

The Grille (in Administration Building) HoursMonday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Courtside Cafe (in the SAC)Hours in the SACMonday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.Fridays 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.


You’ve lost your jump drive. It has everything on it. What do you do now? L u c k -ily for you, IU S o u t h B e n d has a Lost and Found.

Lost and Found is locat-ed within the Parking Servic-es department in Room 123A of the Adminis-tration Building and staffed Mon-day through Thurs-day from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

They receive a wide variety of items such as jump drives, books, cell phones, calculators, purses, wallets, clothing items, book bags, jewelry, gym bags, jackets, umbrel-las—pretty much anything one

Where things go when they lose their owners

could possibly lose, even a single shoe.

“If a student loses something with their name on it, we do email them so they can come

get it. Oth-e r w i s e ,

w e h o l d items in our

o f f i c e for one

month and then transfer it to storage in North-side for ap-proximately one year” said Chris Lass of Park-

ing Services. “After one year we sort

the items and give clothing items to Salvation Army. Beginning this semester, we send anything valuable to Ft. Wayne to auction off.”

To check if an item has been turned in to Lost and Found stop by Parking Services or call 520-5528 for more information.

By REBECCA GIBSON Staff Writer

Coming this spring semester, IU South Bend will have a new annual publication: the History Under-graduate Research Journal.

The brainchild of Associate Pro-fessor of History Dr. Lisa Zwicker, this publication will be accepting papers from any history class, re-gardless of the major of the student who produced the work.

Susan Jacobs, a senior history major, president of the history club and treasurer of the art history club has been chosen for the first editor-in-chief.

“History pages often go longer than 10 pages, and we’re looking to produce a journal with a few high quality pieces,” said Jacobs.

The deadline and exact submis-sion guidelines are yet to be deter-mined as the project was conceived in September of this year. However, Jacobs remains optimistic about the publication.

“Right now we are working on getting an e-mail address for sub-missions, and I’m putting together an editing team,” said Jacobs.

She plans to publish with the other annual publications in April, and will keep the IUSB student body updated as those plans prog-ress.

IUSB’s newest publication is most specialized yet

Construction of the Berlin Wall in East Berlin, East Germany in the late 1960s. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There were reportedly over 5,000 successful escapes to West Berlin and 139 deaths. In 1987, former President Reagan de-livered a speech asking then Soviet Union Prime Minister, Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” On the evening of Nov. 9, 1989 hundreds of jubilant East Germans scaled the Wall and were greeted by their German brothers and sisters in West Berlin.

A new undergraduate research journal will offer students a chance to publish history papers. Students, regardless of ma-jor, can submit a paper for consideration. Details are still being formed, however works will require professor approval from the class the paper was written for and the paper must have been written while the student was doing undergraduate research at IU South Bend..

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Marvel Comic’s The Dark Phoenix will be among some of the readings for a new class semester.


On the ground floor of North-side Hall, tucked in a corner with no windows, sits William Feighery, professor of chemistry and chair of the department in addition to be-ing a member of the Faculty Col-loquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET).

Feighery has been a professor at IU South Bend since 1993 and teaches two courses each semester. He received his undergraduate de-gree from Cornell University, his postgraduate degree at Northeastern University in Boston and finally his doctorate from State University of New York.

“I always liked chemistry when I was growing up,” said Feighery.

Feighery’s main interest is in organometallic chemistry, which is

Professor in chemistry helping to create new metalsthe study of chemical compounds c o n t a i n -ing bonds b e t w e e n carbon and metal, ac-cording to w w w . a n -swers.com.

F e i g h -ery finds it interesting because of the possibil-ity of mak-ing a com-pound that no one else has made before.

He helps do soil testing for lo-cal community gardens. The test is for things like lead, nitrates, and pH

balances.

“ I ’ v e been inter-ested in the idea of sus-tainability,” said Feigh-ery, “it seems to be a good and worthwhile m o v e -ment.”

Feighery is hoping that part of his research can go into the direc-tion of sus-tainability.

He is also hoping it will get students interested in the movement as well.

He is currently working with

other departments to create a bio fuel out of algae. The chemistry department is also offering a N190 class that looks at chemistry from an environmental standpoint.

“Our committee is trying to encourage it and publicize it,” said Feighery, “our goal is to give every student an undergrad research expe-rience.”

Feighery feels undergrad research is important for all students from all fields of study. Last year at the un-dergrad research conference there were over 90 students involved. There are four faculty members that are working on another conference to take place during the spring.

“You can become involved in your major by becoming involved in undergrad research,” said Feigh-ery.

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Professor William Feighery

By ANDREW SHENEMANStaff Writer

Next semester the IU South Bend English Department will be offering a T190 class entitled A Women’s Studies Approach to Comics.

The class, taught by Clayton Mi-chaels, lecturer for the English de-partment, who is currently teaching an A190 on comics this semester is expected to fill a niche that had pre-viously been untouched and in the summer.

“I’ve had creative writing col-leagues teach graphic novels as part of their A190 courses. I seem to be the only one in the department, though, who is developing an entire class that focuses on the study of comic books,” Michaels said. “I’m a pretty big geek when it comes to comics, so I’m thrilled to be able teach classes about them.”

But where the A190 courses were mostly about writing comics and telling stories through that medi-um, the T190 class will take a much more academic approach.

Michaels plans to use the frame-work of film studies classes to look at the content in the comics regard-ing women.

“What we’re going to be doing, in a very broad sense, is looking at the way women are portrayed in comic books,” Michaels said. Ac-cording to Michaels, he got the idea from female comic writer Gale Simone who put together a website

describing what she called ‘Women in refrigerators’ syndrome: the ten-dency for male comic book writers to cause horrible things to happen to their female characters.

“I thought it sounded like an in-teresting topic for a class, and when I pitched it to my department chair, Elaine Roth, she liked it, too,” Mi-chaels said.

The reading list for the class in-cludes the House of M. mini-series, Alan Moore’s Batman: The Killing Joke, a volume of Tim Seeley’s Hack/Slash horror series and The Dark Phoenix Saga from the X-men series. In addition, the class will involve watching films like Hitchcock’s Ver-tigo to understand how to approach a visual medium from a feminist perspective.

Clayton Michaels’ women in comics

However, it will not be just read-ing and comics and watching films.

“There will be papers and exams and group presentations—the kind of things you would expect from a ‘traditional’ class. The significant difference, though, is that the pa-pers and tests will be mostly about comic books,” Michaels said.

But even with that word of caution about the work, Michaels thinks that the class will be a good time.

“There’s going to be a fair amount of work, and I think the course will be challenging, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and I don’t think you’re going to find another class quite like it,” Michaels said.

“Go through your closet. If you have anything that you aren’t wear-ing anymore consider donating it,” said Michelle Hairston of the BSU. “I know it is hard right now, but giving things you aren’t using to those who are less fortunate can really help out—especially in these trying times.”

South Bend’s Center for the Homeless has been selected as the beneficiary of the event because they have flexible guidelines for donors and they were so appreciative of the efforts made in last year’s food and clothing drive. Those who received donations sent letters of thanks for the generosity.

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Record high enrollment and the Reaching Higher initiative to change higher education statewide have prompted many changes on our campus.

Reaching Higher is a strategic initiative that has been unanimous-ly adopted on June 8, 2007 by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE). The plan pro-vides a comprehensive overview of the future of higher education in the state of Indiana as well as desired outcomes for the system as a whole.

One year later, a series of recom-mendations in six areas determined as(access, accountability, affordabil-ity, student success, college prepara-tion and contributions to Indiana’s economy) was adopted. ICHE formulated a set of strategic plans to bring about changes in order to advance the system of higher edu-cation in Indiana to make it among the best in the country.

According to Jeff Jones, vice chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management

One of the changes that the state would like to see is all associ-ate degrees being earned at Ivy Tech which will leave bachelors and mas-ters degrees at IUSB.

“The elimination of Associate Degrees is another effort to differ-entiate between Indiana University and the Community College of In-diana (Ivy Tech)” said Jones

According to Jones, the changes will take time, but will allow the university to focus on the higher-level education needs of our region.

“I think, in the long run this will provide IU South Bend with out-standing opportunities to strength-en and broaden our offerings, and in turn, our impact on the citizens we serve,” said Jones.

Hossein Hakimzadeh, Director of Informatics, expressed some re-gret over the loss of the Associate of Science in Computer Science.

“This two year degree was first developed about a dozen years ago to offer students a stepping stone as they pursued their BS program in computer science,” Hakimzadeh said.

“Given that our requirement for the AS degree is completely in line with our BS degree, our department will not realize any savings from not offering the AS degree in computer science.”

The changes will not affect stu-dents currently in a two year degree they will be allowed to finish their degree.

Changes to IUSB’s academic programs

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potential to be a very strong team this season,” said Ty Miller. “The men are definitely flying under the radar, but they are one of the stron-gest in-the-paint teams we’ve had in a while.”

The Titan men will be in action at home again on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. when they face off against the University of Northwestern Ohio. There will also be an opportu-nity to get a team photo and autographs of the team.

Then, on Nov. 18, the Titans will battle McKendree Univer-sity. Tip off it is at 7 p.m. Both games are in the Student Ac-tivities Center.

The Titan women will take on the University of Michigan at Dearborn at 7 p.m. on Nov. 12 in the SAC.

Titans on TV

Catch the Bethel games on SBT2. The women’s game will be shown Nov. 14 at 10:30 p.m. The men’s game will be shown on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. GameDay AM 960 host Craig Wallin and former Riley head basketball coach Bob Berger will provide the commentary.

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IU South Bend 75Purdue North Central 79

Goshen College 70IU South Bend 80

Aquinas College 72IU South Bend 55

Wilberforce University 65IU South Bend 84

Goshen College 48IU South Bend 75

Men’s Titans Basketball Record Women’s Titans Basketball Record

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Freshman forward Courtney Simpson goes for a shot against Wilberforce University on the Nov. 3 home opener. The Titans won 84-65,

Junior guard Quinn Brooks reaches for a basketball against Gos-hen College in the home opener on Nov. 3. The Titans won 80-70.

elor of general studies degree will continue as before.

“Our division was changed to a college because it now incorpo-rates two schools, namely, nursing and social work—in addition to the programs in dental education and radiography and medical imaging,” said Mary Jo Regan-Kubinski, dean of the College of Health Sciences.

Thus far, with an enrollment increase of 10.5%, the college has only eliminated the certificate pro-gram in dental assisting. Currently enrolled students are finishing their requirements with no new students being accepted into the program.

Two new programs are being of-fered by the college, a bachelor’s in dental hygiene and the bachelor’s in medical imaging. In addition, they are still offering associate’s degrees

in dental hygiene and radiography. “There have been misconcep-

tions and even rumors saying that the associate degrees in dental hy-giene and more so, radiography are no longer being offered,” said Regan-Kubinski. “While that is a longer range plan (per the Reach-ing Higher directives), we still have those programs and prospective stu-dents can apply to them.”

IUSB’s School of Education is seeing changes as well. The associate degree program in early childhood education has been eliminated.

Currently the school is work-ing on three masters in teaching degrees for those who wish to en-ter the teaching field from other careers. They are also developing a dual licensure program in elementa-ry education and special education;

and revised the graduate special ed-ucation master’s degree.

“We are planning a graduate degree program in urban teacher leadership. We have begun a gradu-ate certificate program in drug and alcohol abuse,” said Horvath, “Our programs are always evolving. Stu-dents from 20 years ago would find that the programs are very different today.”

According to Robert Ducoffe, dean of the School of Business and Economics, the school began offer-ing the Bachelor in Economics in 2008, as well as a concentration in healthcare management. This year the school added new concentra-tions in finance and marketing to their MBA program.

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Elizabeth Mitchell is Erica Evans in the new ABC series V. The series airs Tues. at 8 p.m. on ABC. Check local listings for correct chan-nel.

We are not alone in the universe.Twenty-five years ago, TV audi-

ences were captivated by aliens from another planet. They came under the guise of peace, yet some citizens of Earth remained skeptical of the aliens’ true intentions.

I like many others at the time—I’m old enough—were glued to their screens to see who the visitors were and if the humans were going to come out on top again.

V went on to become a cult suc-cess in the mid-1980s on the NBC network. It started off as two mini-series followed by a short-lived TV series on the same network.

The popular series returned last week to the ABC network, com-pletely rebooted from its original. The aliens are still the same lizard-like humans who eat rats and har-vesting humans for food and some of the humans conspire with their new friends while others search for the truth.

Gone are the Nazi era references to, deportation centers, mysterious arrests and random executions. The story of V is meant for modern au-diences. The war on terrorism and the politics associated will probably figure heavily into the series. If you don’t like politics entering escapist TV, then the series probably isn’t for you.

Somewhat stealing a page from the “re-imagined” series of late—Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Wom-an—the new series has re-invented itself in many ways. Gone are the original cast of rebels and lizards, right down to the characters.

But the current cast of characters can easily be dropped into their pre-decessors.

Erica Evans, a dedicated coun-ter-terrorism agent played by Eliza-beth Mitchell, is the heroine of the series. Joining her is The 4400’s Joel Gretsch as Father Jack Landy and Morris Chestnut as Ryan Nichols. Each of the characters has a back story established within the first 20 minutes or so of the first episode.

If this sounds familiar, it is. The recent Galactica did the same thing with turning characters upside down and making key characters sleeper cylons. Yes, that was a spoiler.

Then there’s the reporter Chad Decker played by Scott Wolf of Par-ty of Five fame. He’s your typical get the story reporter trying to claw his way to the top of the network food chain. He catches the eye of the Visitor’s leader Anna and she offers him an exclusive interview. Decker’s a tool, or so Anna thinks. However, Decker’s a skeptic—as all good jour-nalists should be.

The visitor’s leader, Anna is played by Morena Baccarin who comes across just as devilish as Jane Bader’s Diana in the original series. Baccarin is a lot easier on the eyes and definitely has that appeal of peace and love that the visitors will use to convince the world that they mean no harm.

From a character standpoint, and without giving away spoilers, they are more developed than the original series. There are a lot of is-sues put into play early in the first episode about all of the major play-ers.

On the story front, it is a lot less campy than the original. V doesn’t seem to have the bad humor—ex-cept for an off-handed reference to the Will Smith movie Independence

Re-imagined V goes modern

Day—that plagued the original. The dialogue is edgy, but for some char-acters the dialogue gets borderline annoying.

Special effects have also greatly been improved. The advancement of technology has allowed for great-er use of ship interiors and flying sequences (to come).

The sad thing is, is that ABC is going to give us a teaser of the series. Now half-way through this four-ep-isode taste, the series will return in March after the Olympics.

The series premiere scored over

14 million viewers according to the Nielsen ratings, making it one of most watched ABC shows in recent history. And considering it went up against the CBS hit NCIS, it shows that enough people were interested.

I just hope that the series has staying power. Nothing like a good alien revolt to entertain the masses, but then—it might have been the tongue-in-cheek references to our current political climate that made it entertaining.

Etna GreenBy DANIELLE MOLNAR Staff Writer

The band, Etna Green, out of Walkerton, Indiana just finished a show at the Praise Tabernacle in LaPorte, IN. During a month long hiatus, the band is preparing to put a new album out. With one album already out, entitled “The Deeper the Roots the Higher the Reach,” their upcoming album is already sure to be a hit.

The band originated from mem-bers of the band “This Time Tomor-row” in 2007 and include Michael Moore (vocals, piano, synth), Ethan Marosz (guitar, synth, vocals), Dave Morgan (guitar, vocals) Matt Kuzmicz (bass, glockenspiel) and Matt Frazier (drums, kettle).

Frazier attends IU South Bend as a Computer Design major.

Moore plans to write 20 songs for the band to choose from for the upcoming album.

“I’ve been writing about 2 songs a week,” Moore said.

This sounds like a lot, but Moore does not seem concerned about it.

From Chicago to Michigan, Etna Green has fans everywhere in the area.

“The best feeling in the world is to have people singing along with the songs I wrote,” Moore said. “We really are blessed to even say that we have fans.”

Moore feels that it is important for the band to have a local fan-base before they try to get into a national market.

“We had people out the door for our [first] CD release,” Moore said. “We sold every CD we had.”

Etna Green knows that differ-ent audiences like different styles of music. They play their own songs, but they tailor it to the audiences they play for.

“We try as best as we can to in-terpret the audience,” Moore said.

Eventually, the band does, of course, want to make it big and they know how hard it can be in an area where the music scene appears to be dying down, but they aren’t worried.

“We want to make something of ourselves “I’m not worried about it because we have the drive.”

After their developmental hiatus, the band’s next concert will be at the Underground Café in South Bend on Nov. 14.

Milla Jovovich stars as Dr. Abigail Tyler in Universal Pictures' The Fourth Kind (2009) Copyright © Universal Pictures. All Rights Re-served.

TERRIE PHILLIPS Staff Writer

The Fourth Kind is a mixture of The Exorcism and The Blair Witch Project, directed by Olatunde Os-unsanmi. The film based on actual footage and evidence from Dr. Abi-gail Tyler from Nome, Alaska.

Milla Jovovich plays a believable Tyler, a psychotherapist continu-ing the investigation in the large amount of people reported miss-ing since the 1960’s. Osunsanmi placed actual footage from police video, home video, and tape record-ers alongside dramatized scenes.

Elias Koteas, Will Patton, and Hakeem Kae-Kazim co-star nicely next to Jovovich. Koteas plays Dr Campos, a concerned friend. His

Scary encounters of The Fourth Kindcharacters name was changed as well as Patton and Kae-Kazim. Campos helps Tyler with her and her late husband’s research, experiencing many of the events together.

Patton plays Sheriff August, and acts as the antagonist to Tyler. He portrays very convincingly a mix-ture of concern for Tyler and her sanity and worry about her actions and the effect they are having on the community.

Kae-Kazim as Alolowa, an expert on ancient civilizations, helps Tyler translate a language recorded on a recording of a suspected abduction.

An extremely intense film, all characters portray convincingly the people they are meant to. It is now making me look twice at the sky.

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By KRISTINE BAILEYStaff Writer

They are in every building. They are simple and easy to understand—or are they?

The tall blue bins that capture the cans, paper, and glass for pro-cessing and reuse seem to be pretty clearly labeled and conveniently lo-cated. For those who wonder why they should recycle, the answer is simple. Why not? Recycling can be quite easy and effective at reducing waste, conserving natural resources, and ultimately reducing greenhouse gases.

Nearly everywhere on campus that there is a trash can there are recycling bins as well. In addition to the tall blue bins, those who read the online or paper Preface last week know that there are also a couple of other places to recycle. They are the two boxes located on the commu-nity information table just inside the main entrance to the Schurz Library. Rechargeable batteries and ink jet cartridges will be recycled free of charge simply by placing them in the boxes.

While most on campus are aware of, and hopefully using the recy-cling receptacles, who knows what happens after items are placed in the bins or boxes?

The paper, cans and glass are col-lected by campus custodians, as is the waste placed in the trash bins.

“When collected the custodi-ans typically have two bags within a single container on their cleaning

cart,” recycling committee member Professor Deb Marr explained in a recent email. “One bag is desig-nated for recycling and the other for trash. The waste is placed in the appropriate dumpster, and the recycling all goes into a dumpster labeled for recycling.”

“Last year the campus moved to single stream recycling,” Marr wrote.

As with recyclables collected at curb side recycling in the city of South Bend, the items are collected together in the dumpster and then sorted at the recycling center.

The one exception, explained Marr, is that “aluminum cans are re-cycled separately and provide reve-nue for recycling items such as elec-tronic media and transparencies.”

Recycling electronics and trans-parencies require a fee.

The work done by the custodi-ans, and especially one in particular, Albert Peiffer, is so important to environmental and sustainability ef-forts that he was given an award last spring. Peiffer received the first ever IU South Bend Campus Sustain-ability Award in recognition of his efforts in getting the best price for aluminum cans. The money allowed for expanded recycling on campus. He has also been crucial to imple-menting ways to recycle books, Styrofoam and ink jet cartridges on campus. A custodian for more than 30 years, he was also a founding member of the recycling committee that was started in the 1990s.

Campus recycling update

Info BoxWhat can be Recycled at IU South Bend

PAPER - office paper, file folders, newsprint, staple-bound catalogs and maga-zines, junk mail, sticky notes, telephone books, paperboard, (e.g., cereal box)CORRUGATED CARDBOARD - Flatten and place near a paper recycling binALUMINUM – cans and clean aluminum foil STEEL - cansPLASTIC BOTTLES (#1 and 2) - soda, juice, and water bottles, milk jugs, ketchup, dressing and condiment bottles, and laundry and shampoo bottles INKJET CARTRIDGES - place in boxes located in the Schurz library or Faculty/Staff copy roomsLASER PRINTER CARTRIDGES - use the envelopes provided by the manufacturerOVERHEAD TRANSPARENCIES - place in boxes in Faculty/Staff copy rooms BOOKS - place in Better World Book cardboard boxes located outside the North-side Hall bookstore, and first and second floor in Wiekamp Hall. CELL PHONES - place in ink cartridge boxes in the Schurz library or Faculty/Staff copy roomsFor more information about IUSB recycling http://www.iusb.edu/~recycle/.

Recycling contain-ers such as these can be found in all campus buildings. Special recycling containers can be found in the library or the faculty/staff copy rooms. Books can be recycled outside the book-store in Northside and in Wiekamp on the second floor.

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