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After a trip to Uganda, sophomore Keegan Roembke fueled his energy into a coffee business benefiting the Hope for Uganda school and the Defenders of Wildlife Fund.

Selfless and Soaring: Sophomores roast coffee for charity

Gabi Wy, Features Editor January 21, 2017
As they enjoyed cups of joe in a diner on a late night in June, Keegan Roembke and Mitchell Thomas contemplated becoming coffee roasters.
Junior undecided major Raegan Ball will ride his bike across the country this summer, stopping at hospitals and handing out scholarships for young adults with cancer.

Selfless and Soaring: Student cycles for a cause

Gabi Wy, Features Editor January 18, 2017

Some students, alongside attending classes and working jobs, also contribute to causes bigger than themselves. Through this series, Selfless and Soaring, The Shield will feature Screaming Eagles who promote...

Criminal justice major Ayla Taylor stops to read the schedule on the board in the inspection room at the Vanderburgh County Coroner’s office. Ayla has been interning at the coroner’s office since the beginning of the semester.

‘The art of educated guessing’

Sarah Rogers, Special to The Shield January 18, 2017

As part of the 2016 Basic Reporting class students wrote about a student and their internships. Student journalists were able to follow students during a day of their internship while others found students...

Kristin Reckelhoff, a senior nursing major, uses a blood pressure cuff to check her patient, Heather Sheridan’s blood pressure, during Sheridan’s appointment during December. Reckelhoff goes to USI-Glenwood Community Health Center every other Wednesday at 8 a.m. where she sees anywhere from three to nine patients during her eight hour shift.

Student experiences ‘eye-opening’ opportunity

Megan Thorne, Chief Photographer January 12, 2017
Kristen Reckelhoff smiled and grabbed her clipboard as Heather Sheridan walked through the door into the exam room at the USI-Glenwood Community Health Center.
UNBREAKABLE

UNBREAKABLE

Gabi Wy, Features Editor December 8, 2016

When Jason Miner was in sixth grade, he wrote a yearbook quote he didn’t know would apply to the rest of his life. “Adversity causes some to break,” he wrote, “but it causes others to break records.” The...

Artist Jenna “Citrus” Reuger poses with some of her favorite artworks Monday afternoon in the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Gallery. Reuger has worked for a year on 130 pieces to put in the Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship Exhibit.

Fellow’s art exhibit showcases ‘process’

Gabi Wy, Features Editor December 8, 2016

Jenna “Citrus” Rueger skittered through the open rooms of the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Gallery, her colored socks silent against the cold ground. It was noon of the day before the opening of her...

Student work featured in ‘Robot Invasion’

Student work featured in ‘Robot Invasion’

Gabi Wy, Features Editor December 8, 2016

Katelyn Ryder didn’t know where her fellow Resident Assistants were taking her when they said they were going on a trip. “They abducted me in a staff meeting,” the senior art and psychology double...

The choir sings during the 2014 Madrigal Feaste in Carter Hall.

Madrigal Feaste transports community to Renaissance

Gabi Wy, Features Editor November 30, 2016

Carter Hall won’t be Carter Hall Dec. 1-4. Instead, Madrigal Feaste attendees will walk into a Renaissance-style Baron’s Hall, immersed in a fifteenth-century royal feast with the university...

One novel, one month

One novel, one month

Gabi Wy, Features Editor November 29, 2016

After participating in National Novel Writing Month Sam Morris has no trouble writing essays for school. “With four page papers, I write more than that in a day now,” the senior English major said....

International students represented their countries and cultures Nov. 18 at the Late Night International Extravaganza in the RFWC. Students had the opportunity to go different booths and experience learning about the cultures and customs of the different countries represented.

GALLERY: International Extravaganza

Jordan Auker, Photographer November 25, 2016
International students represented their countries and cultures Nov. 18 at the Late Night International Extravaganza in the RFWC. Students had the opportunity to go different booths and experience learning about the cultures and customs of the different countries represented.

International Extravaganza showcases cultures

Gabi Wy, Features Editor November 18, 2016

The Shield talked to Cailan Walters, junior social work major, and the social coordinator for the International Club, about the International Extravaganza this Friday. Walters said the cultural event provides...

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