THE U of I hits Country all-time rappers ECTOR release record for enrollment. second u N I VI.. K S IT Y 0 F 1 N D I A N A P 0 L I S album. See See page 3. 1400 EA~IHANNA AVENUE INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227 page 5. ISTUDENT LIFE I STATENEWS Governor O’Bannon dies at 73 Polk Foods Service rejuvenates cafeteria addition of salads and baked Jessica Borges potatoes to the line at Streets. SlU/T CVr-itcr For those students who are concerned about their diets, the healthier dishes are something Change seems to be the name they can look forward to. of the game at the Polk Food The sack lunches also offer Service (PFS) this semester. more options this year. Instead of Every year from the time they pre-packaged sack lunches, joined University of Indianapolis, students can assemble their own. about 20 years ago, PFS has been These include, rice and pasta making changes to better itself. bowls, stuffed sandwiches, potato There has been an addition of salad, cottage cheese and chef 46 new items to the school’s salads. menu. Handmade dishes like Why all the change? There are casseroles and wraps are now part a number of factors. Jim Smith, of the cuisine too. The Panini head chef at PFS, attributes it to grill. a new station where students new staff members along with Students select items from the upgraded salad bar. can make their own combos and some of the old staff, who have cook them on the grill, is afeature come from other eateries such as part of the change comes as a is pretty good. I can pick my that is popular with cafeteria Outback Steak Houseand Eagle’s result of Smith and Polk putting favorite stuff and put it in,” Song goers. Nest. their heads together. said. Not only has PFS increased They felt that the cafeteria The question that still lingers Polk and Smith have becn the number of food items but needed to be upgraded. “The is whether the students are happy getting c-mails from students and Photo by George BridgcslKRT nutritional value has also become college offers top notch education with the service. staff congratulating them on the a priority. This includes the salad and we want to do our part by Indiana Governor Frank O’Bannon Sophomore Heidi Merkel improvements by PFS. Polk and bar that has been upgraded with offering top notch food to our mentioned that the salad bar and (above) died in a Chicago hospital on Smith encourage student low fat and low sugar desserts. students,’’ Smith said. the sack lunches are better this feedback. Saturday after suffering a massive Wok dishes are now made to order Ted Polk, manager of PFS also semester. However, other changes “We would like any sori of stroke five days earlier. According to so students can personalize their mentioned that he has been weren’t evident. “I haven’t feedback from students wheiher dishes and choose what they doctors,- the governor, 73, suffered too attending NACUFS (National noticed any change at the line,” it is a pat on the back or a much brain damage and excessive would like to eat. Association of College and she said. Sophomore Jun IL Song, complaint, after all this i< for There have been changes made hemorrhaging for them to save him. University Food Services) along an international student, them,” Smith staid. Students can at Streets Corner as well. The with universities like IUPUI and O’Bannon is survived by his wife, Judy mentioned that he would like to either walk into PFS and meet meal tickets now carry an extra Notre Dame. He got some ideas see more international cuisine at and three children. with Polk or e-mail him at dollar so students can have more from there. “We just put the ideas the line. Both students favored [email protected] with conimtwts to eat. ‘There has also been an into action,” said Polk. A major The Panini grill. “The Panini grill or suggestions. INTERNAT IONA L CAMPUS U of I branch campus, Mar Elias, to open in Israel Organizers hope to encourage learning both at home and abroad strategic partnerships, the university will university without a partnership with an big step forward and it’s pretty great Tor forth in any large numbers until prctty far down the road, and at first most ot thc focus on developing these pro3c’r Llnls established university. U of I to be right there and a part of that,” before adding more. although officials “It really is a partnership.. we’re she said. traffic would come from Israel to the are making plans for a new series of supporting them in the establishment. Like Moore, Chase also expects Mar states. I hope we do have the opportunity programs in the future. They needed a recognized university Elias to provide new opportunities for [in the future] to safely seiid large “We wanted to have some cautious because the Israeli government was not students. “We hope togive anopportunity numbers of students,” he said. optimism and start with these three going to approve them by themselves,” to students who otherwise might not have Having the campus connection in The University of Indianapolis programs and do those hell before we Moore said. it ...to be able to get an American Israel opens many doors, especially for recently announced the opening of anew moved on.” Moore said. Initial approval was received in July, education that really wasn’t going to be Israeli students. Nisreen Deeb, Chacour‘s branch campus in Ibillin. Galilee in Israel. U of1 first learned about Mar Elia:, in and the programs are scheduled to start a possibility for them before,” she said. niece and a U of I junior, explained her The new campus, officially known as 1999 and they have been c\.orking in Oct. with a pilot group of students for While it is likely that some Israeli thoughts on the new school. ‘‘It‘\ iin Mar Elias University Campus, was together ever since to get through the each program. students will be studying for a semester opportunity for Arabs to be able to yo to formedinconnection withRev. Dr. Elias difficult accreditation process in both Unlike many other schools in Israel, at U of I within the coming years, it may a university,” she said. Chacour’s Mar Elias Educational Israel and the United States. Moore spoke Mar Elias is open to any student be some time before U of I students will It [the university] is going to give lire Institutions, and will be the country’s of the difficulties they encountered when regardless of religious affiliation. be able to study in Israel, mainly because opportunity for every Arab and .IN ish first Christian-Arab-Israeli institution. trying to establish the university. For thi s reason administrators,faculty of safety concerns regarding the volatility and Christian and Muslim kid to have University of Indianapolis President “We researched it and found that the and students alike have high hopes that and political instability in the region. that opportunity where they’re ahk to Jerry Israel is excited about this new government was becoming very strict on Mar Elias and its students will have a President Israel noted his concern. study and be what they want to be.” shc partnership. what the rules were to operate, so thar in positive impact both at U of I and in We have no intention for our students to said. Along with the chance to study, “This is another example of ways, the past it was easier to offer a degree Israel. go there right now. I think the program Deeb believes that the university \vi11 especially in the Mediterranean region there. In the last couple of years it has Moore stated some of these goals for will begin with students in lsrael who give both Arabs and Jcws theopportunity of the world, that the University has become very difficult.. ..Thereare many. the partnership. “One of [the goals] is to will live there, some of whom, as they to work together and learn together w hich developed partnerships that help our many, many rules they have that you increase the educational opportunities get ready will probably come here as will help them becomc united. faculty and students gain a better insight have to meet in order to be legal,” Moore for the students in that region of the international students. Should we ever Many people have high expectations into issues of significance in that part of said. world. A second [goal] is to increase the get to the point where the situation in for Mar Elias and believe that it will the world,” he said. Some of these rules include having opportunities for our students to develop Israel is more stabilized and our positively impact the U of I community The school will offer three the samecurriculum, which means having global understanding. So on our campus relationship has grown, if and only then as a whole. baccalaureate programs: computer exactly the same textbooks and syllabi you don’t just have togo away to interact would we encourage our students to go.” “I think we will become much more science, environmental science/ that are used at U of I. with international people.” However, Israel does believe that knowledgeable about the issues that chemistry and communications. Originally a kindergarten through Mimi Chase, director of the MarElias will be successful even without effect all people in Israel, whether they Currently these programs offer the most twelfth grade school.