The Horizon

Student’s passion remains on the field

IUS Horizon January 27, 2013

Shauna Gramig, catcher for the IU Southeast softball team, has had a passion for softball from a young age. “It all began in the first grade when my teacher sent a permission slip home to students,”...

Student turns room into rap studio

IUS Horizon January 27, 2013

Between turning his dorm room into a mini-studio, collaborating with fellow students for his music and playing shows around the Louisville area, Alex Crittendon, graphic design freshman, is not a typical...

Artist finds passion at IUS

IUS Horizon January 20, 2013

Hope Meriwether, graphic design senior, is a new kind of artist. “I’m really into pop culture, and that shows in my work,” Meriwether said. She is eager to use current technology, and has found...

Student expresses faith through music

IUS Horizon January 20, 2013

Matt Nelson, management and marketing senior, said he has gained a lot in his life through the gift of music, and in turn takes time being thankful and giving back. Though Nelson spends his weeks on...

Harris comes off bench, back on court

IUS Horizon January 20, 2013

During the hours when many students are still asleep or out enjoying leisure, LaMichael Harris can be found in the Activities Building with his team putting in long hours, sweat, and hard work. Harris,...

Student quits school, comes back ready to collect bet

IUS Horizon December 2, 2012
Laura Caruso, communication senior, has not had a typical college experience. She has not attended college for four straight years or been ready to graduate, until now. However, she said this long, winding journey through school was not due to a lack of motivation, but rather to a plan for the future Caruso said she first attended IU Southeast straight out of high school in 2005, took a break after 2008 to put her husband, Michael, through classes at Purdue University and returned in 2011. “It’s a big deal to me that I actually got myself back here, and I’m balancing — sometimes horribly — making sure my husband has food and getting good grades,” she said.

Omelet cook gets batty in different states during summer

IUS Horizon December 2, 2012
Brian Dennis, biology sophomore, said he is known as the guy who cooks the omelets to many IUS students. In fact, Dennis has been working the morning shift in the Food Court all semester, but this is merely a break from his other “batty” job. During summer breaks, Dennis trades his cooking utensils in for tracking devices and nets. His work no longer centers on the needs of students, but on the needs of wild bats. And just as Bruce Wayne’s work as an entrepreneur is merely a side job from being Batman, Dennis’ omelet work is a side job from being his own form of “Batman.”

Student captures small moments with paint

IUS Horizon November 25, 2012
A woman sitting in her favorite green chair with her very fat brown cat, stare directly at students as they walked down into the lower level of the IUS Library. This painting, called “Ambrose,” was just one of the six paintings featured in the “Artist Among Us Gallery,” on Nov. 9. Most of the paintings featured captured moments in bright, eye-catching colors on huge canvases, such as the woman sitting in her favorite chair.

Farmer’s daughter influenced by life’s travels

IUS Horizon November 25, 2012
Most students think of two things for the first day of classes: syllabuses and self-introductions. For many, reading the syllabus is the easy part and coming up with something interesting to say is not. For lack of better alternatives, most end up just blurting out that they have a cat or like to watch TV. There are some people, though, whose unique answers seem destined for the task. If still a student, Audrey Deterding, assistant professor of communication studies, would be one of those people. “I’d probably say that I have four sisters because it’s something kind of unique, and it would be something that people remember,” Deterding said.

Registrar runs back to campus culture

IUS Horizon November 11, 2012
Patrick Fawcett, Registrar, has been working at IU Southeast for six months. He has worked in higher education since 1996. Fawcett said he missed the four-year environment and wanted to be part of a campus culture again, so he left his previous job of nine years with Ivy Tech. When the position became available, he applied for the job at IU Southeast.

Geology adjunct explores through travel

IUS Horizon November 11, 2012
Like most young adults, Ronald Endris, adjunct professor of geology, went to college right out of high school. He said he did not feel as though college was for him, so he decided to quit attending. However, it did not take long for Endris to realize he had made a mistake. He realized he wanted to go back to school. Endris said quitting college and then re-attending was the biggest turning point in his life. “At the time, I had a wife and two kids,” Endris said. “I saved money to go to school while working for a paint company.”

Student finds focus in music

IUS Horizon November 5, 2012
When starting college, some students struggle with declaring majors due to the variety of opportunities offered to them and concerns about choosing the right degrees. However, for Benjamin Johnson, music junior, he said he had a rough start when he first came to college and was unable to focus due to having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. “I was failing my classes,” Johnson said. “I didn’t know what I would do with a music degree.”
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