March 27, 2013 Volume 38 Issue 6Softball and baseball lose double headers p. 10

Campus Senatecontinued on Page 3

UIS celebrates first International Week p. 6

Photo courtesy of Katie Woodford

By Jess BayerGeneral Reporter

By Sean Bruce

News Reporter

UIS students can look forward to yet another degree path available

to them in the near future. The Campus Senate voted unani-mously on Friday to create an Information Systems Security major. The program would teach students skills related to com-puter security, especially about database protection.

According to the Undergradu-ate Council in a memo to the provost, “The systems based ap-proach of this degree will give students the technical knowledge and theory behind security tools as well as the ability to adminis-ter, write and implement security plans.”

They argued that the major had become necessary and valu-able to students since, “Due to the pervasive use of computers for information storage, systems security has become an integral and significant part of every aspect of business and govern-ment. As a result of this integra-tion there is a tremendous need for qualified individuals in this area.”

Some concerns were raised as to potential issues with providing students with hacking skills. Pro-fessor Peter Boltuc asked, “Are there any concerns....whether we would be training any hack-ers?” He went on to point out that teaching hacking techniques is actually illegal under federal law. Defenders of the major quickly moved to assure him and the sen-ate that ethics remained a vital aspect of the proposed curricu-lum, and that every effort was expended to prevent misuse of the knowledge taught in the cur-rently existent classes.

After assurances that the pro-gram would require no new fund-ing and is expected to increase university revenue, the Senate voted unanimously to pass the resolution.

The Senate continued by read-ing a resolution for the creation

While most people were spending their spring break relax-

ing, putting off homework and hanging out with friends and family, a group of 28 students and two staff members traveled to the Everglades National Park in Florida, volunteering their time to clean up the park.

Since 2009, the Alternative Spring Break organization has been traveling around the United States helping out with differ-ent causes. Trips have included Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee. This was the group’s first year in Florida.

Many students who went on the trip decided to go because it was an inexpensive trip to bond with old friends and make new ones while helping out within a community.

“The trip was a nice balance between volunteering and social-izing with friends,” said Katie Woodford, the resident assistant for the Leadership for Life wing in Lincoln Residence Hall. “It was awesome to bond through volunteering with my peers.”

The group of students and staff departed from UIS on March 9 and returned March 17. Twenty-four hours were spent driving from Springfield to the park. A total of 48 hours was spent within a van for the round trip.

Florida welcomed them with a week of beautiful weather. The sun was shining for a majority of the trip, and the temperature there was between a comfortable 70 and 80 degrees.

While on the week-long trip, students helped to clear trails and campsites by chopping down invasive plants and cleaning up garbage. “While clearing an area on the third day, over 20 garbage bags were filled with trash,” Woodford said.

On top of cleaning the park,

students were given the chance to learn about different invasive plant species from the workers within the park. Not only were they exposed to new plant spe-cies, but they were also exposed to many different animal species and got up close and personal with some alligators.

“My favorite memory would be meeting Bob and Maryland. They are in their 80s and spend half of their year doing exactly what we did over the course of the week,” said Michael Rosen-

berger, sophomore chemistry major.

One evening the group went on a trip to Key Largo, Florida. They spent an evening on the beach watching the sunset, eating food and dancing to old school songs.

“Overall, it was a really fun trip. I enjoy volunteering, and this was a chance for me to learn a lot of different things,” said Danielle Schulthes, freshman at UIS. “It was an experience to try new things and help out others.”

Over the duration of the trip the group stayed at the Ever-glades hostel in Florida City, Fla. Most members slept on bunk beds, while others slept in tents in the backyard surrounded by a waterfall, tree house, garden and gazebo.

If you are interested in par-ticipating in Alternative Spring Break, contact volunteer@uis.edu with further questions.

A green cleanup: Alternative Spring Breakstudents volunteer for a cause during vacation

Campus Senate expands student options

Katie Woodford, Molly Aldrich, Kirsten Davis and Ed Vizcaino participated in an Alternative Spring Break project at Everglades National Park in Florida.

Photo courtesy of Katie Woodford

Katie Woodford, Lyssa Barth, Paige Heiser, Brittani Provost, Jocelyn Frazelle, Caitlyn Clau-sen and Kelsey Thompson take a break from working during Alternative Spring Break.

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By Andrew CravenGeneral Reporter

Rape Casecontinued on Page 4

The months-long rape case first broken by ‘hacktiv-

ist’ group KnightSec has finally come to an end. Two minors were charged as juveniles and convicted of rape. Trent Mays, 16, and Ma’lik Richmond, 17, were openly sobbing as the guilty verdict was handed down in court on the morn-ing of March 17, 2013.

To many observers, the verdict was no surprise. The case has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion like so many others before it. Twitter, Facebook and oth-er social media intensified the traditional media sensational-ism and drove it to new heights. The offenders have been sen-tenced to at least one year in a juvenile detention facility and may be held until they are 21-years-old.

KnightSec, a splinter of the internet subculture called “Anonymous” by uninformed media agencies, is a group of young computer-savvy individ-uals banding together to carry out vigilante justice by bring-ing this case to the public’s attention. Anonymous itself is no organization, but a loose compilation of individuals united by a shared subculture and Internet hangouts. Many

newsworthy events have been spurred by these individuals.

The case was originally brought to national attention by the posting of cell-phone footage recorded at the scene of the crime and recovered by KnightSec members. The vid-eo shows a group of teenagers joking about the rape of a girl, claiming that she is “deader

than Trayvon Martin,” a teen-ager who was shot in killed in Florida last year. One adds, “she is so raped that her [geni-talia] is about as dry as the sun right now.”

These teenage football play-ers and friends proceed to laugh and joke further about their rape and humiliation of a 16-year-old girl. The victim was drugged and shuttled from party to party while mostly or completely unconscious and was stunned to see the evidence being circulated the next morn-ing.

This crime took place on the night of August 22, 2012, and the story broke nearly four months later as law enforce-

ment and school officials alleg-edly tried to sweep the incident under the rug. Months later, authorities were still trying to piece together what had hap-pened and who was involved with the cover-up. KnightSec members, acting on intelli-gence supplied to them by local sources in Steubenville High School, went public on Decem-

ber 23, 2012, and released a video threatening justice on the members of the “Rape Crew,” as the group of football players were already known to fellow students.

The Steubenville Police Department was forced to hand over the case to Ohio State Police after months

of misconduct by investigators, including the Sheriff’s Office claiming that the incident was not in their jurisdiction and “in-advertently” deleting several pieces of evidence from elec-tronic devices retrieved from perpetrators. Other electronic devices were mysteriously missing pieces of evidence when sheriff’s deputies cor-nered the football players on the field and sent them to the locker room unaccompanied to voluntarily hand over the de-vices.

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Spring has... sprung?

Left: A student poses outside during the snowday on Monday. The UIS campus was hit by a whopping 17 inches of snow over the weekend.Right: A bicycle remains buried under a heap of snow.

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“It’s disgusting that theyessentially got a slap on the

wrist. Did they know what they were doing? Yes. Why are they allowed to get away with it?”

-Anna Mulch, a UIS Visual Arts and Gender Studies major

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Want a place away from your dorm room to social-

ize and meet new people? Plans for a Student Union to be built on the South Quad of UIS by the fall of 2015 are underway.

Three years ago, a Student Union referendum was pro-posed. The proposal failed; however, last year a revised version of the referendum was proposed and passed with a 3:1 student approval ratio.

According to the Student Union webpage, the Stu-dent Union will be 50,000 to 57,500 square feet of area for students to congregate outside of the dorms, watch movies, play games and eat food. It would also be a place for student orga-nizations to meet.

“There is unlimited poten-tial to a building such as this. It would enhance student life and provide space that the Univer-sity does not have,” said John Tienken, co-chair of the Student Union Committee. “It would also provide a third place for individ-uals to come together with one another.”

The proposed location of the Student Union would be right in the middle of campus on the

South Quad. This location is equally accessible to people from the dorms, apartments, TRAC and UHB.

It has been proposed that within this gathering area there would be a coffee shop, conve-nience store, kitchen, lounge, meeting rooms, pub, restaurant, and outdoor gathering areas.

“My personal dream for the Student Union would be that it has a balcony overlooking the soccer field,” Tienken said.

By opening a building such as this, student organizations would be given another place to gath-er and more job opportunities would be present for students.

It has been estimated that it will cost around $20 to $23 mil-lion to build.

Right now, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Tim Barnett, as well as other individuals on the committee, are working on seeking out prospective donors for the project.

Since state funds cannot be

used for the Student Union, the building’s existence would rely solely on community donations and student fees. These fees will begin once the Student Union is opened in 2015.

For students who are full-time undergraduates, it will cost $200 per semester. For students who are part-time undergradu-

ates, $100 per semester. Then for graduate students, it will cost $25 per credit hour with a cap of eight hours.

“If it is similar to the Stars Lounge, providing an area to congregate out-side of the dorms, then the amount of money to pay

for the extra facility would be a miniscule amount compared to the overall tuition already,” said Cody Kostovski, freshman psy-chology and law double major.

About two weeks ago there were a number of architects on campus submitting proposals for the design of the building. They are in the process of being evalu-ated by the committee and other campus approval committees.

For more information on this topic, contact the co-chairs of the committee John Tienken or Tim Barnett or visit the Student Union’s webpage at www.uis.edu/studentunion.

By Jess BayerGeneral Reporter

Plans for Student Union in progress

What’s happening this weekendThursday, March 28:

• Head over to the LGBTQ Resource Office at 4 p.m. for the weekly social event LGBTea. It is a comfortable, accepting and non-judgmental so-cial atmosphere for LGBTQ and allied students.

• Reese’s Pieces Social: 7 p.m. in the Housing Commons – Hosted by the Black Male Colle-giate Society, this social event encourages di-versity on campus and will include candy, danc-ing and loads of fun!

• The UIS Visual Arts Gallery presents |fon’ seks|: Digital Devices and Transformation of Intima-cy. The gallery will explore the impact of digital devices on intimacy and previously assumed private and personal sexual behaviors. The gal-lery will run through April 11 and is open Mon. – Thurs. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

• The Pharmacy will host an open mic, consist-ing of open format: poetry, prose, spoken word, short fiction, essays, songs, raps, monologues and stand-up. Sign-up begins at 6:30 p.m., per-formances begin at 7 p.m. the event is located at 401 S. Grand Ave West, Springfield.

Friday, March 29:

• Game Night: 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. in the Stars Lounge - Come to Stars Lounge at 6 p.m. for a game night. Games can be played on the Xbox consoles at Stars Lounge. Card games and board games may also be played, such as Magic: The

Gathering. Free pizza will also be provided.• Illinois- based performers Dan Hubbard and the

Humadors will be at Donnie’s Homespun pizza incorporating folk, country, blues and funk. 21 and over. Show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5

Saturday, March 30:

• Join Alpha Phi Omega for an Easter KEG Hunt at 12 p.m. in PAC C/D.

• The Springfield Jr. Blues Hockey Team will take on the Kalamazoo K-wings at Nelson Center Ice Arena in Lincoln Park. Free Fit Club giveaways to the first 250 fans. $10 Adult Admission.

• Easton Corbin will be at the Prairie Capital Convention Center performing hits from his self-titled album. Tickets are $27.

Sunday, March 31:

• Springfield Park District will kick off their Bike and Hike Days at Washington Park from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. and is designed to increase biking, hik-ing, walking and running within the park.

• Angel Brown will perform on the piano from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Lime Street Café for an Easter Brunch. Located 951 S. Durkin Dr. Springfield.

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of a new M.A. program in Busi-ness Intelligence. According to the application for the program, “Business Intelligence (BI) is an industry term for a broad cat-egory of applications, technolo-gies, and processes for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyz-ing data to help business users analyze situations and make fact-based, informed decisions.”

Once again, Boltuc raised concerns about the proposal, ask-ing if the title might cause some confusion. He suggested that the proposed curriculum did not in-clude any course dealing with Business Intelligence in its more traditional understanding.

However, he was quickly as-sured that the name is standard in the business world, and professor Xiaoqing Li even pointed out that a quick Google search revealed much the same information. The Senate then agreed to move on, and that they will return to this resolution at the next meeting.

The Senate also approved two other resolutions. First, they unanimously support a sugges-tion for the modification of pro-cedures for faculty members’ applications for tenure. The new provisions would allow appli-cants to reply to comments and concerns raised by the Tenure Review Committee at any time during the process. Second, they passed a resolution to create pro-motion paths for clinical faculty members.

Finally, the Senate discussed legislation to clarify grading policy language. Specifically, the resolution would change the phrasing of the policy establish-ing the minimum academic re-quirements for graduate school completion. The current lan-guage allows graduate students to apply up to eight credit hours of class, in which they received a “C” grade, to their degree, provided that they had a similar number of “A’s.” The proposed change would instead allow for two courses in which students received a “C” to apply to their degree.

The measure was mostly ad-ministrative in nature, since the current system caused a fair num-ber of hassles with the University computer system. However, the proposition caused a fair amount of discourse. A debate raged on the fairness of using courses over credit hours, however, no clear decision was made. The resolu-tion will be voted on during the next session.

Campus Senatecontinued from Page 1

“There is unlimited potential to a building such as this. It

would enhance student life and provide space that the

University does not have.” -John Tienken, co-chair of

the Student Union Committee.

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OPINION

Imagine that you’ve been of-fered a five month vacation:

you’ll make friends from across the globe, earn school credit, and explore skills and interests you never knew you had. You’ll have more fun than freshman and sophomore year put together, and you can include it on your re-sume. A semester abroad could be one of the most awkward, confusing, exciting and amazing experiences of your life.

Having enrolled in our school’s study-abroad program, I know how challenging and re-warding it can be to live in an-other country. It’s not easy to make lasting personal connec-tions in a few months, especially when your language and customs are so different from your peers. Adjusting to a foreign school is also difficult; your teachers may be much stricter about due dates, word counts and in-class partici-pation.

When I studied at our Brit-ish sister school, the University of Hull, last spring, I made my first mistake about 15 minutes after I left the airplane. I went to the wrong bus terminal, and didn’t arrive at my apartment un-til midnight. I didn’t feel much better after I met my roommates.

Two of them were French and one of them was a Russian ex-change student from the same university; French was the domi-nant language in our apartment!

At first, I spent a lot of time by myself; even the most mundane events, like grocery shopping, seemed intimidating. I went through some awkward experi-ences, but eventually, I started to feel comfortable in my new sur-roundings. I talked more with my roommates and the other inter-national students. I joined clubs, went to school events, and met other people with similar inter-ests.

Together, we all learned about England and about each oth-ers’ countries. I saw places I’d only read about, and did things I never expected to do. It was the best experience of my entire college career. This is why I de-cided to work with International Student Services when I re-

turned to UIS; my time in the UK would not have been as great without the guidance and support of my British friends.

With travel costs, currency exchanges and insurance to mind, a semester abroad can be expensive. By studying at one of your school’s exchange partners, though, you can substantially lower these costs. While I stud-ied in Hull, I paid my tuition to UIS and still received scholar-ship money and state aid. The university’s housing rates were almost identical to ours; although I had to cover my airfare, I ac-tually returned to the U.S. with more money than I had left with.

By spending a semester abroad, you may also gain pref-erence for jobs in education, social work, business, govern-ment and more. To compete in an unpredictable global economy and improve America’s foreign relations, U.S. students need

more overseas experience than ever before. A multicultural, multilingual workforce helps U.S. businesses to compete in international markets and relate to customers from different cul-tures. Knowledge of a foreign language often gives employees better chances for promotions or special assignments, as well as a stronger resume.

Your semester abroad will in-troduce you to cultures, ideas and experiences which you have nev-er been exposed to before. The U.S. welcomes millions of immi-grants every year, and many of us count our classmates, cowork-ers, friends and families among them. Though I spoke the same language as my hosts and shared many of the same beliefs, my ex-periences as a foreigner in Eng-land were often confusing and difficult. This has made me much more sympathetic towards immi-grants and curious about global culture. In fact, I may attend grad school or even work and live in a foreign country after I’ve earned my B.A.

Studying abroad can reap huge personal and professional benefits. It can improve your thinking and communication skills, broaden your knowledge of the world and its people and deepen your love for your own culture. Your time outside of the U.S. is bound to lead to some strange and exciting opportuni-ties; it will also help you to be-come a better student, worker and human being.

Rape Casecontinued from Page 2

case, Big Red head football coach Reno Saccoccia was rude to reporters from the New York Times. When he was asked about the players involved and why he chose not to discipline them, after dodging the first question, he became agitated and threatened the reporter. “You made me mad now,” Sac-coccia said, throwing in several expletives as he walked from the high school to his car. Near-ly nose to nose with a reporter, he growled, “You’re going to get yours. And if you don’t get yours, somebody close to you will.”

Many feel that this case has exposed the “rape culture” in small town America, forcing it to the attention of the major-ity of American citizens. Anna Mulch, a UIS Visual Arts and Gender Studies student, had nothing but criticism for the media handling of the case as well as the teenagers them-selves.

“It’s just another way of showing that women are still oppressed, especially with the fact that CNN was focusing on how the verdict would af-fect the boys and their family instead of focusing on how the trauma affected the victim,” Mulch said. “It’s disgusting that they essentially got a slap on the wrist. Did they know what they were doing? Yes. Why are they allowed to get away with it? If they murdered someone, odds are they would have been tried as adults.”

Have an opinion? Then write a letter to the editor!email: journal@uis.edu

Life lessons: The incrediblebenefits of studying abroad

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http://go.uis.edu/StARS

Thursday, April 11, 2013 • UIS Music Performances –

Brookens Auditorium, 5 p.m.

• The Alchemist Review Launch –Brookens Auditorium, 6 p.m.

• UIS Theatre Play –Clifford Odet’s Awake and SingStudio Theatre, 7:30 p.m. (ECCE Speakers Series Event)

Friday, April 12, 2013• Student Presentations, Art

Exhibitions & Music Performances –PAC Lobby, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• Student Directed Play Reading of William Inge’s Bad BreathPAC Conference Room H, 10:15 a.m.

• Keynote Speaker –Dr. Ryan Ewing, Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences,University of Alabama~ 1:30 p.m. Sangamon

Auditorium~ Exploring the surface of Mars

with the NASA Curiosity team –Presentation titled, Mars' Past and Present Dynamic Environments

• Keynote Speaker –Mary Jo Bang, Poet & Professor of English, Washington University~ 5:30 p.m. Reception

6 p.m. Address7 p.m. Book Signing Brookens Auditorium

~ Author of Elegy (2007), National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

• UIS Theatre Play – Clifford Odet’s Awake and SingStudio Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

NOPINIO

A lot of people wouldn’t find being stabbed repeatedly

with up to 27 needles at one time enjoyable. However, I just can’t get enough.

I’m not saying I’m addicted to tattoos as many claim to be. I only have six tattoos, mostly small, barely noticeable, or completely covered by clothing.

My latest additions have cre-ated a stir that has ruffled my feathers a bit. Recently, I added a rose to my right forearm and, more importantly to me, a pur-ple cow on my left forearm.

There have been two main responses to my new body mod-ifications.

First is the ever popular con-cern about my future employ-ment opportunities. “Who’s go-ing to hire you now?” “You’ll have to wear long sleeves shirts for the rest of your life.”

This type of response doesn’t

bother me all that much. There are thousands of tattooed people in America who are gainfully employed. In fact, you probably have more coworkers with tat-toos than you know about. As for long sleeves, what does it matter to you?

The second set of reac-tions really gets under my skin. Snidely asking why I chose a purple cow or how I’m going to feel about having a purple cow tattooed on my body when I’m 80-years-old is just plain rude.

All of my tattoos have some kind of meaning to me. They are not just spontaneous, drunk and/or stupid decisions made by a young person. Each piece has been contemplated for months, even years, before I finally de-cide to permanently add the art-work to my skin.

In this case, my purple cow is not just some cute picture. She represents one of the most important people in my life, and when I look down into her big eyes a sense of pride swells over me as I remember just how blessed I am to have known my great grandmother.

One of the last times I saw OlaBelle Kingery was as she handed me a little plate with the picture of a purple cow on it. She had gotten it some years before and wanted me to have it. She said it was different, like me.

Since then, the poem ac-companying the little cow has become somewhat of a mantra for me. Often when I’m stressed or upset I find myself reciting “I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see one. But if I saw a purple cow, I’d rather see than be one.”

Once said, I am reminded of my grandma Belle and all is well. It only seemed logical to have a permanent remembrance tattooed somewhere I can see it.

So yes, when I am 80 I will still love my tattoos, especially my purple cow. I will gladly tell my grandchildren the stories of my life when they ask about my pretty pictures. I will continue to wear them with the pride that I wear them with today. I will not regret them because they are all thoroughly thought out and have special meaning to me.

“My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story,” John-ny Depp once said. I feel the same way.

I will gladly tell you all about my tattoos but please don’t judge me or my decisions about body modification. They are a part of who I am.

Julia’s purple cow tattoo was done by Styx at Styx Unlimited TattooEmporium.

Getting inked: An anecdote about my tattoo

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International Weekcontinued on Page 8

By Nafia Khan

Assistant Editor for News

WHAT’STRENDING

#217SnowApocalypse

Check out this popular hashtag to see the Snow

Apocalypse snow fun…or nightmares (as in 8 feet of

snow piled on top of your car). Many people in the 217 were so bored that they built igloos

or unique snow men.

in pop culture

Game of Thrones

It might be spring, but winter is coming for many. After months of waiting, many

anticipate the return of Game of Thrones on HBO for a third

season on March 31.

Jeff Gordon’s “Test Drive”

Jeff Gordon, teaming with Pepsi MAX, disguises himself and goes to a car dealership

where he takes anunsuspecting car salesman on

the test drive. Theresult is priceless. This video

has received over 30million views on Youtube.

Even if you don’t likeNASCAR, this clip is

worth watching. http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=Q5mHPo2yDG8

F EATURES

From the grins on the per-formers’ faces to the whoop-

ing and clapping of the audience at the bazaar, it was clear the first-ever International Week was met with excitement. “When I was looking at other schools be-fore coming to UIS, I saw other schools had their International Week but UIS didn’t have it,” In-ternational Student Association (ISO) President Zehra Ozkan Shahidi said. “Then I figured, let’s create something for stu-dents.”

Several UIS ethnic and cul-tural student organizations like the ISA, the Indian Student and Asian Student Organizations teamed up to present different activities to share their customs with the campus community. Students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to learn dances from different continents, learn to speak different languages and even sample cuisine from around the world in the PAC Food Em-porium.

Shahidi lights up as she talks about the bellydance lessons on Tue, where she taught students how to shimmy, do hip circles and more. “This is part of my culture’s dance,” said Shahidi. “That’s why I figured to teach,

or show Turkish bellydance…in Turkey, it is more Arabic basic but Turkish steps are a little bit different. I just wanted to show everyone a little bit of different steps and movements and they can just enjoy the dance.”

The week began with conver-sational language class, teaching students basic Turkish and Hindi phrases. Wed was met with an International Bazaar which in-cluded dessert tasting of dishes like flan, a Mexican favorite and kheer, an Indian sweet. UIS In-dian Student Association, Asian Student Organization, ISA and others presented native dances and other forms of arts presen-tations, while the Black Student Union intermittently led a trivia game. Bazaar attendees were also invited to donate money to

send to Gambian children. Zan Zhang is a native of

Shanghai, China and is studying at UIS for a year through a pro-gram at her school at home. She and her dance partner opened the bazaar with an intricate dance and she said she was excited to perform for the campus. “It’s im-portant for students to know our culture, to know our traditional dance. This dance is very popular in China and we love our dance and love to share it with other students.”

MPA graduate student Justin Rose attended the bazaar. He said he really enjoyed the experience and is happy to see the campus accommodating international students.

“You got to see an array of dif-ferent cultures represented and

food and dance and the interac-tions with the participants as well as the people observing,” he said. “It was really great to build that bridge of cultural competence.”

Thu featured a Day of Dia-logue presentation on Asian ste-reotypes by Associate Professor Frances Shen as well as another conversational language lesson. The week ended with a game and karaoke night.

Senior global studies ma-jor Dexter Burns expressed his feelings about the depiction of Asians in Gangnam Style at the dialogue event. “You know those people who are a YouTube sen-sation and it lasts a couple of months to a year and then it’s over? It’s [Gangnam Style] like a fad. There’s been other people who made videos like Chocolate Rain boy.”

Public health graduate student Jesse Andrews didn’t see stereo-types the same as Burns. “I was an African American studies ma-jor so I studied the Mammy, the Tambo,” he said. “That’s why I don’t watch Tyler Perry. Why is Tyler Perry making it? He’s basi-cally casting black people in ste-reotypes. I feel like black people like the image everybody already has.”

UIS’ Inaugural International Week features dance, food and fun

Photo by Terra EasleyUIS held an International Dance Class, instructed by Madduri Vishnupriya to celebrate International Week. Vishnupriya taught to many people with different cultural backgrounds various Latin and Indian dances.

Photo by Terra EasleyUIS students and faculty of different ethnicities came together to listen to Frances Shen discuss the stereotypes directed toward the Asian culture. Many also joined the conversation and gave their experiences with Asian stereotypes.

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By Ashley Henry

Assistant Editor for Features

Illustration by Alex Johnson

YTECHNOLOG

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@uisjournalTo better suit the needs of students on the go, UIS

Web Services launched the UIS Mobile App. Earlier this year, Web Services collabo-rated with the Office of Records and Registration to offer a better extent of services offered by the app.

Through the UIS Mo-bile App, users can access the UIS A-Z Index, as well as find information on Academics, Athlet-ics, Calendars, Directory, Emergency information, Food Service, iCard, the Library, Maps, News, Ra-dio, Records, Social In-teraction and Technology. The app is free for users and is available through iTunes and Google Play. The “content first” app differs from many apps allowing for minimal nav-igation and maximum content, explained Munindra Khaund, Director of Web Services.

“The ‘records’ app provides students with the ability to view final grades and student class schedule information,” said Brian Clevenger, director of Records and Registration. “This app does not replace Stu-dent Self-Service, but is meant to be a supplemental way for students to access important information.” AITS Senior Sys-tem Engineer at U of I Urbana-Champaign Jim Caputo added that the mobile app “enables students to securely view their information from a mobile de-vice…”

Not formally marketed, the mobile app had a soft launch, prompting individuals who accessed the UIS webpage through a supported device to download the app if they so chose to do so. This informal launch prompted nearly 3,500 individual installs, from 13 countries worldwide.

“It’s been a really nice pro-cess,” said Khaund. “But there are challenges, and the chal-lenges for us are our small team, and the rate of change with technology. That means we have to adapt quickly. And we are able to do that so far, we are able to put UIS on the map. It’s about our institution; it’s about our story collectively.”

Khaund explained that a task force was created to develop

UIS Mobile App: A useful campus resourcethe app around what was rel-evant to UIS content viewers on the traditional UIS website. Unlike many other colleges and universities that solely rely on Blackboard Mobile to design their school app, UIS Web Ser-

vices decided to create the app in-house in order to differenti-ate it from others like it. The task force worked with graphic designers to create a colorful and integrative app design that gives individuals the opportu-nity to navigate in a “friction-less” and “user friendly” man-ner, explained Khaund.

“I think it’s handy,” said Jar-ed McDale a freshman at UIS.

“It’s nice to be able to check things quicker than having to go to uis.edu and then find what you are looking for. Instead, you can just search the app twice as fast.”

UIS Web Services, although developing the app in-house, also worked along-side U of I Champaign Ur-bana AITS Office in order to expand the information available through the app. From its original concep-tion in October 2012, the app has undergone a few updates and now includes student records, as well as student grades – two of the most visited pages by students. Khaund ex-plained that the updates were made in order to bet-ter provide users and stu-dents with what they find useful. He added that user feedback was important in this process and will con-tinue to be in the future in order to further develop the app to suit the chang-

ing needs of users. “This is how we contribute

to the whole idea of supporting what the chancellor is talking about, the promise that we have to our students, our faculty, our staff and the community in gen-eral,” said Khaund. “The whole idea of Leadership Lived… this is our way to support that ef-fort.”

Inappropriate songs to have stuckin your head at work

• You make me feel like a whore - Everclear

• S&M - Rihanna

• A.D.I.D.A.S. - Korn

• Cigaro - System of a Down

• Slob on my Knob - Three 6 Mafia

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International Weekcontinued from Page 6

http://go.uis.edu/StARS

National Book Award Winner to read at UIS

Mary Jo BangMary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poems, including Elegy (2007), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of

Dante's Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Friday, April 12, 2013 • 6:00 pmBrookens Auditorium, UIS

Poetry reading and reception with refreshments!

“Had the jacket not said Elegy chronicles the year following the death of her son, Bang’s book would still move you for its grace, not its real-life poignancy.”

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I did not give up my child, my child was taken from me, said

Susan Schnirring. Schnirring was featured in Anne Fessler’s documentary “A Girl Like Her.” Fessler’s documentary told the story of millions of single wom-en who were pregnant and forced to give up their children during the 1950s and 60s.

According to her film and extensive research, Fessler ex-plained that women were forced by their parents and society, indirectly, to give up their chil-dren and pretend that their en-tire pregnancy wasn’t real and to completely forget about their children.

Prior to the Suffrage Move-ment, it was legal to deny wom-en jobs and/or the right to go to school if she was unmarried with a child. This was even true for older, established women. Age was never the concern.

Women who decided to keep their children were exiled and considered promiscuous by soci-ety. The majority of the women

affected by this were middle class, Caucasian women, accord-ing to Fessler. Anything that could be detrimental to the social status of a woman at that time was strictly banned.

Fifteen to 20 of the women Fessler interviewed were pro-life. Their parents offered them the option to abort, but they re-fused, viewing adoption as a more viable option. However, these women did not have the choice to keep their babies, so these were their two options.

During this time, another op-tion offered to women was to

leave town, birth their babies and return after a considerable amount of time upon their return would lie and explain how their husband had died in the war. This excuse, however, was not always used because it was still risky.

The documentary highlighted several stories about these wom-en and for some, this was the first time they had talked about it with anyone else. “Every one of those interviews was emotional,” said Fessler. She went on to say that she would leave “really drained.” In some the interviews, she re-called, the interviewee was cry-

ing so much that she was unable to put them in the documentary. She was able, however, to put them into her book.

Fessler, herself, was an adoptee. Her mother, like other women of that time, was forced to give up their baby and that was the only way they would be able to be functional members of the society. She said that unlike other adoptees she was more ac-cepting and understanding of her situation. She said they she never recalled herself being upset with her mother for putting her up for adoption.

After having the baby and their baby being taken from them, they had to live the rest of their lives a lie. They were un-able to tell friends or other fam-ily members and had to bear a smile and grin when they were told they did not know anything about children or about having children. According to an audi-ence member, Fessler did a great job at capturing these women’s lives and what they had to en-dure.

By LaNee WoodFeatures Reporter

F EATURES

Rose added he believes UIS accommodates its international student population effectively through events such as the ba-zaar.

“The few international stu-dents I have spoken with rant and rave about the job that’s been done by UIS in putting them in housing courts – they put them in with similar people with their background,” he said. “However, they do mix up the house so that they can be exposed to American culture and it’s been great. They do a good job of representing their food in the Food Empo-rium for them and doing more events like this; giving them the leadership tools so they can do what they need to express them-selves.”

Shahidi agrees with Rose. “[Our] Chancellor Koch is really great, trying to help all organiza-tions. She’s supporting us with money or being there. She is do-ing everything for us,” she said. “I’m grateful for it. I am so proud to say I’m a part of UIS and I’m proud of the international stu-dents here.”

Ann Fessler showed a film, “A Girl Like Her,” that she directed. This film was about parents who were forced to give up their chil-dren for adoption.

Photo by Terra Easley

‘A Girl Like Her’ sheds light on a difficult pastUnwed mothers forced to give up children for adoption

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You are being unusually sneaky now-a-days. You should find something productive to do with your time and stop trying to catch someone up in a lie. Just know that what is done in the dark must come to light.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Take a break from life and go live a little. You deserve a break after all the work you have been putting in the past few month. Let your hair down!

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Stay clear from the party scene. You just need to focus on work and keeping your personal life in order.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) A mass of stress has just landed on your plate, but do not wor-ry. Things will get better. You have to take the first step in swallowing all of this stress. Bury-ing it will no longer work.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You are at your emo-tional peak. You need to sit down and organize things that are important. Push unimportant things to the side for now. There will be a time sometime soon where you will have a chance to address these issues.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You are a little down in the dumps about getting back your nor-mally scheduled programming, but it is for the best. You are so close to your goal; you do not want to be pushed too far off onto the wrong path.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Your love life will heat up very soon. Be sure that you are still pacing yourself, though. You do not want to scare away your partner.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your temper has been out of whack lately. You need to take a chill pill and catch up on some sleep.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Something in particular is stressing you out. Let go and let God! You do not need to stress about something that does not directly affect you or anyone close to you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Someone you know has a really big crush on you; do not ignore the signs of a good relationship. Trying some-thing new is not bad.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You are at a point in your life where you are ready to move up the social ladder and change yourself for the better. Prove people wrong and show them what you are capable of.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Just because you are right this time does not mean that you need to rub it into someone’s face. Soon enough they will realize that you are, indeed, correct.

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S PORTS

Mixed feelings erupt as Pete Kowall leaves the UIS

women’s soccer program with-out a head coach for the spring season. Kowall has coached UIS women’s soccer since it began, and leaves after five seasons.

Kowall will begin his new journey at a Division I college in Indiana. “I feel that there are times to coach, times to stay, and a time to leave. I felt that this was the best time for me to leave” stated Kowall. “I decided to leave the program that I built so that someone else can take the program to the next level.”

A decorated coach, Kowall came to UIS after coaching indi-viduals for 13 years in the Olym-pic Development Program, as well as student athletes at Illinois State University and the Univer-sity of Michigan.

Coming to UIS in 2008, Kow-all began to build the program, obtaining three important play-ers to help him start the women’s program.

Casey Elmore, Kelli Kubal and Jessica Jaime were Kowall’s first players to join the UIS wom-en’s soccer program; however, Kowall struggled to put together a full roster in the beginning sea-sons.

“[Kowall] wasn’t just a coach, but he was a mentor to me. He pushed me beyond what I thought my limits were and taught me to be a leader. He encouraged me to be confident. That was definitely something I wasn’t before I came to UIS,” Elmore said. “[Kowall] worked his tail off. One of the hardest working guys I have ever met and he had so much passion for what he was working to-wards. He worked day and night with not just me, but the whole team to better us not just as a soc-cer team, but as students and as well as individuals.”

In fall of 2010, Kowall’s third season as head coach, UIS wom-en’s soccer signed nine recruits who all helped win UIS’ first GLVC game, against Kentucky Wesleyan.

In fall of 2011, Kowall signed nine new recruits. With this incoming class, many in-dividuals came from winning backgrounds and entered UIS hoping to change the program; however, the end of the season brought many doubts to players on the team. The team had only four wins. Many players became uncertain about Kowall and his coaching skills.

Emily DeLong a junior de-fender and midfielder said, “Players weren’t exactly in the appropriate positions during the season. There were better combi-nations that could have resulted in more wins, but [Kowall] never

bothered to give those different combinations a chance.”

Kowall in response said “You can try certain line ups and try changing things or you can stay and try to improve on what you think works. It was not just my decision it was the coach-ing staff’s decision. We played players where we thought they worked best.”

Fall 2012 only brought more disappointing feelings. With four recruiters and three wins, some players began to blame Kowall for the poor chemistry on the field and lack of wins for the sea-son.

Ally Redington, senior for-ward, said, “I originally trans-ferred here as a junior for [Kow-all] and the team. But by my senior year my feelings com-pletely changed for [Kowall]. He never gave the team an opportu-nity to change and improve. He never gave me the chance to play to the best potential.”

Redington continued,“My last senior game of my entire soccer career, I was benched by [Kow-all]. To me, I felt disrespected throughout the whole season. [Kowall] and I never saw eye to eye and at times I felt that he played favorites on the team. I definitely was not one of his fa-vorites.”

Kowall commented, “I played players who trained hard and I thought could win games. If I played favorites I did not do it on purpose, I played players who worked and earned their playing time.”

Now, Spring 2013, Kowall says goodbye to UIS and the pro-gram he started.

“As much as I hate to say this, I am happy to see [Kowall] go; the reason why I began to dislike soccer was because of [Kowall]. It’s time for a new lifestyle for the team and a new coach to help the team become better in every way and angle in,” Redington said.

“He has been there for five years, endured a lot of emotions and didn’t really get the support he needed to take the team where he wanted it to go. There comes a time when one must make a hard decision, and leaving a place where one has built roots and it is one of the hardest decisions a person can make,” Elmore said. “It’s emotional, stressful, and it endures a lot of thought. Whether it was now, five years from now, or ten years from now [Kowall] would leave one day. He was obviously led to make the deci-sion now rather now than later. We all have to make tough life decisions, and if we made them based on everyone else’s feelings we would never find true happi-ness.”

The UIS women’s soccer will continue their spring season without a coach.

Women’s soccer coach leaves UIS, mixed feelings

UIS softball loses in a double header against University

of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL). During both games, UIS held up a strong battle offensively and defensively against UMSL.

During the first two innings, UIS was unable to get any play-ers on base; however, during the third inning UIS was able to put players on base, but the runners were left stranded.

It was a quiet game with not many hits from either team. UIS and UMSL battled into extra innings. Leading into the 12th inning, UIS fell apart, making countless errors and allowing UMSL to take six runs.

Infielder Brooke Carroll said, “Our pitches really kept us in this game. But we just weren’t fully there offensively. Our coach al-ways tells us to ‘jump in the pool, but don’t just stick your toes in and feel it out,’ mean-ing that we need to attack early and not let the other team hang around. However, we did not at-tack them early.”

Unfortunately, UIS could not come back from the six runs and ended up losing against UMSL in the first game.

“We played very well against UMSL and were in the game the whole time, we just began to fall apart at the seams toward the end, and UMSL was able to catch on and take advantage of it,” Carroll said.

Into the second game against UMSL, UIS had great potential to score runs by getting players on base, but never getting any-one home. In the third inning, UMSL scored three runs, taking the lead.

As the second game closed, UIS was unable to score any runs and lost against UMSL.

“It’s always hard to go through 12 innings and lose, some of that carried over into our second game. It was hard for the team to string together and score any runs. We ended up beating ourselves in both games,” Car-oll said. “I wouldn’t say the team was any better than ours. Both teams had a solid defense throughout the games. We both put up tough fights. UMSL was able to catch a break while we were not.”

Due to the weather, UIS was not able to play against Maryville. UIS softball will play Drury on March 29.

By Cameryn BarbeauSports Reporter

UIS baseball and softball loses double headers over weekend

Mallory Beck and Tina Buck load the bases, but fail to score as the Prairie Stars lose 0-6 and 0-3 against University of Missouri St. Louis.

The men’s baseball team trav-eled to Romeoville, Ill. Sat-

urday to play a double header against the Flyers of Lewis Uni-versity. The Prairie Stars lost the first game in extra innings with a score of 4-6 and lost game two with a final score of 3-6.

In the first game, the Stars could not get anything going as they fell three runs early on in the game. Then in the fifth inning, the Flyers added another run to their score to take a 4-0 lead over the Stars with game almost over.

Then the Prairie Stars finally gained some momentum going into the seventh inning. The in-ning began when junior Adam Unes was walked to first shortly followed by junior Logan Frye hitting a single right up the middle. Unes and Frye both ad-vanced thanks to junior Adrian Brown. Then junior Nick Sand-ers hit an RBI single allowing the Stars to get their first run of the game.

Junior Trevor Johnson record-ed a RBI double to tie the game and send it into extra innings.

In the extra innings the Stars just could not finish as they had three runners on base but could not get the big hit they needed. At the top of the eighth inning, the Flyers scored two runs to give them the win in the first game.

The second game started off just like the first as the Flyers picked up an early four-run lead. The Stars scored their first run in the third frame when junior Blake Baker hit a double down the line allowing junior Jared Massengill to advance to third, where he took advantage of an error by the third baseman and ran to home plate scoring for the Stars.

During the sixth inning, the Stars cut the Flyer’s lead to one after Frye scored on a single by junior Josh Johnson, followed by Trevor Johnson hitting a sacrifice fly to the outfield to allow Sand-ers to score.

The Flyers put the game away in the top of the seventh when they added two more runs to in-sure their lead over the Stars.

The Prairie Stars return home Wednesday night as they take on Benedictine Springfield at Lan-phier Park at 6 p.m.

Prairie Star softball fails to score

By Adam BuckAssistant Editor for Sports

Baseball fallsto Flyers

By Cameryn Barbeau and Adam Buck

Sports Reporters

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newspaper

March, a time when winter melts away and spring

blossoms (or so we hear), a time for new beginnings, a time for warm sunny days, and bonfires on the weekend, but for some people March is a time for mad-ness.

Every year in March, NCAA men’s basketball comes to an end and begins the championship playoffs. The term March Mad-ness first began being used by fans around the 1980s, and ever since then fans can’t seem to get enough of it. Fans love March Madness for all kinds of reasons.

“I love watching all the differ-ent teams playing their hearts out to try and win the championship. I especially like to root for the underdogs” said sophomore Alex Fruth.

For some fans it’s the uncer-tainty, “I love the unpredictabil-ity of March Madness. You never know when a Cinderella team is going to make a deep run into the playoffs” said sophomore Eric Lemay.

On campus there are multiple March Madness events going on that students can attend, for ex-ample the Recreational and Ath-letic Center along with Resident Housing Association held their

own March Madness tourna-ment.

Each year fans are glued to their televisions so they don’t miss a single game. For decades fans have been creating brack-ets to see if they could predict the outcome of every game and who the champion will be. Some fans do it for fun while some fans place bets to see who can be the most accurate with their predic-

tions. Predicting the playoffs has become a national pastime for sports fans all across the country.

Some die-hard fans will base their predictions on statistics and online information while some fans will base their predictions on other things like team colors, mascots and names. Fruth picks his teams by gut decisions but he watches the teams year round. He places a strong emphasis on team defense.

“I base my picks off of how I’ve seen them play throughout the season and also how they’re seeded. Usually low seeds are

better than the higher seeds, but that’s not always the case,” Le-may said.

There are different scoring systems for correctly making predictions but the simplest is by awarding points predicting wins. However, they make their predictions or keep score for ac-curate predictions, fans still have fun making brackets and watch-ing the games to see what hap-pens.

One problem a lot of students face during this time is keep-ing up with school work. “I try to balance my homework and watch the games, but my quality of work may slip slightly,” ad-mitted Fruth.

“I tend to neglect my home-work to watch the games, but my grades don’t usually suffer,” Le-may said.

This year Fruth would like to see Kansas win the tournament; however, he also stated “after watching all of the games I think any team can win no matter what rank.” Lemay also believes that it is anyone’s game for the cham-pionship.

The next set of games to de-cide who will go to the final four will be Friday, March 29. For more information and to see the official NCAA bracket you can go to the NCAA website online.

Photo by Terra Easley

Santiago Pedraza serves against Ethan Arns of Quincy University Pedraza defeated Arns 6-3 and 6-1. The men’s tennis team beat Quincy 5-4

By Adam BuckAssistant Editor for Sports

March, a month of madness Men’s tennis defeats Quincy at home

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