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The Indiana University Indianapolis Center for Young Children (CYC), located on campus in downtown Indianapolis, provides childcare and early childhood education for the University and Indianapolis communities. We offer year round programs for children ages 6 weeks – 5 years. We are currently licensed as a Level 3 on the Paths to Quality program – the state’s childcare quality rating system. As such we are approved to accept CCDF and On-My Way Pre-K program vouchers.

The center has 14 classrooms, 4 expansive multi-use areas and two separate playgrounds. The multi-use areas or “neighborhoods” This space is used daily as an extension of the classroom for a variety of activities to include physical exercise, play, and educational activities.

The main entrance is locked at all times and only accessible to parents and staff – likewise, a tall privacy fence wraps around the whole Center and playgrounds. On average, we have 100 total staff members – 24 full-time teachers and the remaining part-time staff members being students from the IU Indianapolis School of Education.

Meals at the Center is provided by our campus food services provider, Chartwells. All meals are created by a registered dietician with Chartwells. The menu rotates every six weeks and we accommodate most dietary restrictions for health, medical and/ or religious customs.

We offer 4 types of childcare programs. The infant and toddler program provides care for children ages 6 weeks to around 2 years old.

The Infant Room schedule is the most flexible because each infant brings their own unique rhythm to the classroom. The program is built around their own personal daily schedule. The Toddler Room introduces more structure and routine to promote stability and security which is the foundation for future growth and development throughout the CYC. The Center provides formula, however, parents can choose to bring their preferred brand or bottled breast milk. Some activities include….

• Gross motor activities such as climbing and riding; and fine motor activities such as sensory table explorations and sorting and stacking toys
• Various books, songs and finger plays that are culturally diverse and developmentally appropriate
• An environment that encourages exploration and experimentation using the five senses
• Quality one-on-one time during care giving routines such as diapering, feeding, napping with plenty of dialogue and conversation to help promote language development

The Wee –School Room begins for children around 2 years old. Our Wee-School teachers plan days filled with a balance of quiet activities, spirited music and movement, and plenty of outdoor play. In this program, your child will experience…

• The use of Learning Centers for imaginary play, creative art projects and playtime with blocks, puzzles and books
• Various activities that explore and celebrate cultural diversity
• The practice of self-help skills including hand washing, putting on shoes, picking up toys and sharing with friends
• Circle time with stories and songs that help to encourage language skills
• Gross motor activities such as tip-toes; and fine motor activities such as crayon and marker use.

The Multi-age room is for children ages 3 – 5 years old. This is a unique experience compared to other schools in that children spend several years with the same teachers allowing the teacher to better understand each child’s strengths and needs to best support individual learning. In this regard, children are viewed as unique individuals and teaching focuses on harnessing the potential of each child’s individual strengths.

Additional benefits of the multi-age program include:

• Children become a family of learners who support and care for each other.
• Older children and children with higher skill levels have the opportunity to serve as mentors and to take leadership roles.
• Children are more likely to cooperate than compete.
• Children are invited to take charge of their learning, by making choices at centers and with project work. This gives them a sense of ownership and self-direction which are the foundation for lifelong learning.
• Children are more likely to cooperate than compete, making it possible for children to help each other as individuals, not see each other as competitors.

And lastly, we offer STEM Pre-K Program for children ages 4 – 5 years old.

The STEM preschool program provides age-appropriate curriculum designed for fundamental comprehension of science, technology, engineering and mathematical concepts. Our teachers guide student-led investigations that are project-based and introduces the scientific method into the learning process. Additionally, art, reading, writing and play time is included throughout the day providing a holistic learning experience. This innovative program allows children to explore their world and provides the foundations for continued intellectual and academic growth preparing them for future success!

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Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing is canceled

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian  tent encampment  at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of  the 2-week-old protest .

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability canceled the hearing after the crackdown, with its chairman and other Republicans welcoming the police action. House Speaker Mike Johnson said, “it should not require threatening to haul D.C.’s mayor before Congress to keep Jewish students at George Washington University safe.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, said she and Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith decided to clear the camp because of signs that “the protest was becoming more volatile and less stable.” Among them were indications that protesters had “gathered improvised weapons” and were “casing” university buildings with the possible intention of occupying them, police said.

But Moataz Salim, a Palestinian student at George Washington who has family in Gaza, said the authorities merely “destroyed a beautiful community space that was all about love.”

“Less than 10 hours ago, I was pepper sprayed and assaulted by police,” he told a news conference held by organizers. “And why? Because we decided to pitch some tents, hold community activities and learn from each other. We built something incredible. We built something game-changing.”

Tensions have ratcheted up in standoffs with protesters of  the Israel-Hamas war  on campuses across the United States and  increasingly in Europe . Some colleges cracked down immediately. Others have tolerated the demonstrations. Some have begun to lose patience and call in the police over concerns about disruptions to campus life and safety.

Police also moved in Tuesday night to break up an encampment at the University of Massachusetts. Video from the scene in Amherst showed an hourslong operation as dozens of officers in riot gear systematically tore down tents and took protesters into custody. The operation continued into early Wednesday. Police said about 130 people were arrested after protesters refused orders to disperse.

“I found it to be a complete overreaction,” said Lucas Ruud, editor-in-chief of The Massachusetts Daily Collegian. “It was a completely unnecessary show of force.” The staff of the college newspaper counted more than 100 police vehicles on campus for the crackdown.

In Washington, police said they arrested 33 people at the George Washington protest, including for assault on a police officer and unlawful entry. They confirmed they used pepper spray outside the encampment against protesters who were trying to break police lines and enter.

Two Democratic lawmakers appeared at a news conference with five of the students who had been arrested. “I want all Republicans and Democrats to know that they cannot arrest their way out of this growing dissent,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. “This was an explicit attempt to repress students exercising their First Amendment rights.”

Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri said that “those who refuse to stop the genocide in Gaza think they can arrest and brutalize their way out of this.”

The school said in a statement that while it is committed to free expression, “the encampment had evolved into an unlawful activity, with participants in direct violation of multiple university policies and city regulations.” It said later that normal operations had resumed after the “orderly and safe operation” to disperse the demonstrators.

President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said the president believes the right to dissent is “fundamental to who we are, but it cannot lead to disorder and violence, threats, vandalism, trespassing and/or shutting down campuses. Students have the right to be safe, and antisemitism is repugnant, and we’ve been very clear about that.”

Throughout the roughly two weeks of the encampment, the scene had been largely tranquil.

The tightly organized demonstrators and pro-Israeli counterprotesters who stood along the edges interacted without serious conflict. Some of the most charged confrontations involved people objecting to the treatment of a George Washington statue, wrapped with Palestinian scarves and flags with “Genocidal Warmonger University” spray-painted on its base.

Since April 18, about 2,800 people have been arrested on 50 campuses — figures based on Associated Press reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement agencies after this latest anti-war movement was launched by  a protest at Columbia University  in New York.

At other U.S. schools:

— Student protesters at the University of Vermont ended their nine-day encampment Wednesday. Among their demands, protesters wanted the school to cancel Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, as commencement speaker because of U.S. votes blocking cease-fire resolutions. The school said Friday that Thomas-Greenfield would not give the address.

— A pro-Palestinian tent encampment was  cleared by officers in riot gear  at the University of Chicago on Tuesday after administrators who initially adopted a permissive approach said the protesters had crossed a line. Hundreds of protesters had gathered for at least eight days until administrators warned them Friday to leave or face removal.

— The president of Wesleyan University, a liberal arts school in Connecticut, commended the on-campus demonstration, which includes a pro-Palestinian tent encampment, as an act of political expression. The camp there has grown from about 20 tents a week ago to more than 100. “The protesters’ cause is important — bringing attention to the killing of innocent people,” university President Michael Roth wrote to the campus community. “And we continue to make space for them to do so, as long as that space is not disruptive to campus operations.”

— The Rhode Island School of Design’s president, Crystal Williams, spent more than five hours with protesters discussing their demands after students started occupying a building Monday. On Tuesday the school announced it was relocating classes from the building.

— New York City police arrested 50 people outside the Fashion Institute of Technology on Tuesday evening after protesters who had been rallying nearby arrived to support a student encampment.

In Amherst, school Chancellor Javier Reyes said he ordered the sweep after talks over a wide range of demands failed to yield an agreement to dismantle the encampment and engage in “constructive discussions.”

A week ago, the George Washington encampment was host to a somewhat chaotic visit from several Republican members of the House oversight panel who criticized the protests and condemned Bowser’s refusal at that point to send in police.

“We did not have any violence to interrupt on the GW campus,” she said then.

But in the early hours of Wednesday, hundreds of Metropolitan Police Department officers descended on the scene, reported The GW Hatchet, the university’s student newspaper.

At least two officers deployed pepper spray on protesters, who then set up an impromptu medical area at a nearby market, the paper said. Organizers ran to a convenience store to buy water to rinse their eyes.

The oversight hearing, now scrapped, was another pressure point in the fraught relationship between Republicans in Congress and officials in the heavily Democratic district. Former President Donald Trump has threatened a federal “takeover” of the city, to control crime, if he wins back the White House.

The district is already a federal enclave, though with a measure of self-government and its own police department, over which the federal government can exert control in some emergencies.

Associated Press journalists around the U.S. and the world contributed, including Charles Rex Arbogast, Pat Eaton-Robb, Steve LeBlanc, Jeff Amy, Christopher Weber, Mike Corder, Barbara Surk, Rick Callahan, Sarah Brumfield and Pietro de Cristofaro.

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Campus protests over the Gaza war

Top companies are on students' divest list. but does it really work.

A demonstrator protests outside the encampment established in support of Palestinians in Gaza at Columbia University on April 29, 2024. Columbia protesters are demanding their university sell off investments in a number of companies with business ties to Israel. Alex Kent/Getty Images hide caption

A demonstrator protests outside the encampment established in support of Palestinians in Gaza at Columbia University on April 29, 2024. Columbia protesters are demanding their university sell off investments in a number of companies with business ties to Israel.

It's become a common mantra by protesters at universities across the country: "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest."

Broadly, the protesters want their universities to sell off their investments in companies that have businesses or investments in Israel because of the country's invasion of Gaza. That's where the term divest comes from.

College antiwar protests grow as students take over buildings on campuses

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The calls on campuses vary. Columbia University protesters, for example, have a broad list of divestment targets, demanding the Ivy League college disclose and unload investments in a broad set of companies with ties to Israel, including Google, Amazon and Airbnb .

Other protesters at universities are targeting defense-related companies and weapon manufacturers. Cornell University protesters are calling for divestments from companies including Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Here's a look at what divestment means.

Why there's a call for divestments

Protests against university investments have a long history.

During the 1970s and 1980s, students at Columbia and other universities successfully pressed administrators to sell off investments in companies doing business with South Africa over the country's apartheid policies.

Since the 2010s, students have successfully called for some universities to divest themselves from companies tied to fossil fuels or to freeze their investments in that sector, including at Syracuse University.

Do divestments actually work?

Not really. Divesting by universities doesn't change corporate behavior, but it can provide a big moral and symbolic victory for protesters.

Most analysts agree that divestments don't usually punish the companies targeted. And some analysts argue divestments actually are worse in the long run. By staying invested, the reasoning goes, universities can have more of a say about a company's operations. Selling off their investments would likely be scooped up by other investors who are less likely to speak up.

For universities, divesting from companies that do business in Israel could also risk blowback from students, faculty or alumni who support Israel.

The University of California, for example, said it was opposed to "calls for boycott against and divestments from Israel."

"While the University affirms the right of our community members to express diverse viewpoints, a boycott of this sort impinges on the academic freedom of our students and faculty and the unfettered exchange of ideas on our campuses" the university said last week.

These are big reasons why almost no university has yet agreed to divest from investments tied to Israel, though a few have been willing to hold talks with protesters.

Protesters are pressing on, however. That's because getting a university to divest from companies with ties to Israel would not only achieve their goals, it would also likely serve as a moral victory by sparking a lot of headlines and debate.

"Divestment itself doesn't really influence the companies or the industries being targeted directly," said Prof. Todd Ely from the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. "It's more the stigma created and drawing attention to the issue more broadly."

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A person stands among tents at an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus of Columbia University on April 25, 2024.

Can universities actually do it?

Yes, but it can be complicated.

Endowments at the nation's top universities have grown into multi-billion dollar chests, with investments in all kind of investment funds, including specialized private funds that prevent people from cashing out for a number of years.

More broadly, endowments have become a vital source of financing for universities. They allow for investments and scholarships while securing the university's financial future.

What a 1968 Columbia University protester makes of today's pro-Palestinian encampment

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John Hostettler, a former congressman opposed by AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition, faces state Sen. Mark Messmer in Tuesday’s congressional primary

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Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN)

Tuesday’s Republican primary in Indiana’s 8th Congressional District is likely to come down to the wire, after pro-Israel groups injected millions in outside spending in a bid to block a former congressman — who voted repeatedly against Israel — from returning to Washington.

The race is largely down to former GOP Rep. John Hostettler and state Sen. Mark Messmer, according to political operatives tracking the race. Hostettler, while in office in the late 1990s and early 2000s, voted repeatedly against funding for Israel and other pro-Israel legislation, and claimed in a self-published book that a primary motivation — driven by prominent Jewish officials — for the Iraq War was protecting Israel.

The AIPAC-linked United Democracy Project has spent close to $1.3 million on advertisements in the race, while the Republican Jewish Coalition’s super PAC has spent nearly $1 million. AIPAC and RJC have both endorsed Messmer. Other outside groups have pumped additional millions into the race, mostly to Messmer’s benefit, although Hostettler has seen some outside help.

After Jewish Insider covered the initial spending against Hostettler and his record, Hostettler posted on his Facebook page implying that a “cabal” is conspiring against him.

He also slammed the Anti-Defamation League as the “Anti-Defamation of Leo Frank,” whose lynching in 1915 prompted the ADL’s creation, and referred to its former national director, Abraham Foxman, as “Rabbi Foxman.” (Foxman is not a rabbi.)

Antisemites continue to insist that Frank, who was posthumously pardoned and widely believed to have been unjustly prosecuted and convicted of rape and murder due to antisemitism, is guilty.

Cam Savage, an Indiana Republican political strategist unaffiliated with any campaign, said that Messmer’s campaign generally feels comfortable about where it stands going into primary day, but the election is likely to be close. There has not been public polling on the race.

“I hear people in both camps say they expect it to be close,” Savage told JI. “If anyone tells you they know, they’re probably lying.”

Another individual familiar with the race echoed the view that Messmer is in a strong position, but said it will be a race to the finish line on Tuesday.

Outside spending, as well as the Messmer campaign’s own substantial fundraising — Messmer raised $763,000 to Hostettler’s $40,000 as of the end of last month — has helped fuel Messmer, Savage told JI. But Hostettler remains well-known in the district, even years after having left public office.

“I think [Messmer’s team] would acknowledge that he’s been a tougher opponent than they probably would have anticipated,” Savage said.

Hostettler, Savage explained, consistently faced competitive reelection races when he was in office, meaning that he was “very well-defined and very well-branded among the primary electorate” in a district that’s largely the same as when he was last elected. Savage added that the primary voting base tends to be older and will be more likely to remember Hostettler’s time in office.

Hostettler’s son also represents a portion of the congressional district in the Indiana state House.

Messmer, though, is a popular state Senate incumbent, giving him a solid base of support inside the district, which includes Evanston and Terre Haute. Whether the spate of advertising is sufficient to help Messer expand his voting bloc outside of his Senate district will be a key deciding factor in determining the election, Savage said.

The primary is largely a race to the right, according to Savage, and Hostettler established himself in office as someone often willing to buck the rest of his party — a “private Freedom Caucus before the Freedom Caucus was ever dreamt up,” but with a more “likable, charming, good natured” attitude. 

Much of the advertising from UDP has focused on Hostettler’s views on Israel, an issue that Savage said is more salient now than it might have been months ago for the primary electorate, but would still probably not be a top issue for voters in the district.

Local endorsements aren’t shaping up to be a major factor in the race, according to Savage, but he noted that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — who is well-known inside the district, coming from an adjoining state — has shot TV advertisements touting his support for Hostettler. 

Hostettler is also receiving outside support from the American Leadership PAC, a group affiliated with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), a former Hostettler staffer.

A Banks spokesperson said that he has not issued an endorsement in the race and “thinks there are a lot of good Republicans running and [is] looking forward to working with whoever wins after 2024.”

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