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IUPUI reports campus gunman
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Students discover benefits, challenges of getting engaged while still in college
Police captain says suspect not found, 3 calls not related
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IUPUI was under “high alert” for about four hours on Tuesday after police received reports of a man with a gun on campus before giving the all clear just before 5 p.m. IUPUI police Capt. Bill Abston said no suspect was found matching the descriptions reported by a female student, and there was no threat after a campus search. The IUPUI student told police that she saw a man in a brown trench coat with a shotgun or “long gun” in the trunk of his car at about 12:30 p.m. “She walked up to the car, saw a musical instrument case,” Abston said. “She’s a musician so she was kind of curious and she kept looking. It was a case for a shot gun or ‘long gun.’ So that’s what she saw. The person never pulled it out of the car.” Police also received a report at IUPUI’s School of Nursing and a 911 emergency call that reported somebody with a rifle at the corner of North Blackford Street and Indiana Avenue. Abston said he doesn’t believe the reports were related. The campus wasn’t placed under an official lockdown and students weren’t prohibited from entering or leaving campus, Abston said. A lockdown would have been challenging because of the number of buildings on campus.
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IUPUI TWITTER UPDATES Alert: Man with what may be a gun seen near Barnhill & Vermont. Campus remains on lock down. We will continue to update as possible. 1:22 PM - 19 Mar 13
DN ILLUSTRATION JENNIFER PRANDATO
« Wenvironment hen else are you going to be in this that is filled with people
your own age? You have the freedom to be around people that share your interests, and there’s this openness in the university setting to begin new relationships, most people are looking for new relationships.
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LYNDSEY KELLET, senior elementary education major
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Campus remains on full alert. If on campus, continue to shelter in place. Do not leave buildings or walk in open areas. 1:22 PM - 19 Mar 13 Police continue to search campus for suspicious individual. #IUPUI remains on full alert. We will update as situation develops. 2:03 PM - 19 Mar 13 Campus remains on full alert. Reports of campus or some buildings being “cleared” are not accurate. Please continue to shelter in place. 3:07 PM - 19 Mar 13 This is the real, official, trusted “all clear” message! All clear. Now returning campus to normal operations. 5:06 PM - 19 Mar 13
22-25 years
age to get married for most intact and high-quality marriage
18 percent
of undergrads are already married
SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, “Later first marriage and marital success,” a study at the University of Texas at Austin
Defiant teen gets life sentences in Ohio high school shooting T.J. Lane smiled in court, raised middle finger, showed lack of remorse | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARDON, Ohio — Wearing a T-shirt with “killer” scrawled across it, a teenager cursed and gestured obscenely as he was given three life sentences Tuesday for shooting to death three students in an Ohio high school cafeteria. T.J. Lane, 18, had pleaded guilty last month to shooting at students in February 2012 at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. Investigators have said he admitted to the shooting but said he didn’t know why he did it. Before the case went to adult court last year, a juvenile court judge ruled that Lane was mentally competent to stand trial despite evidence he
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suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies. Lane was defiant during the sentencing, smiling and smirking throughout, including while four relatives of victims spoke. After he came in, he calmly unbuttoned his blue dress shirt to reveal the T-shirt reading “killer,” which the prosecutor noted was similar to one he wore during the shooting. At one point, he swiveled around in his chair toward the gallery where his own family members and those of the slain teenagers were sitting and spoke suddenly, surprising even his lawyer. “The hand that pulled the trigger that killed your sons now masturbates to the memory,” he said, then cursed at and raised his middle finger toward the victims’ relatives. A student who was wounded in the rampage dismissed the outburst. “He said it like a scared little boy and couldn’t talk slow enough that anyone could understand him,” said
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QUICK FACTS T.J. Lane, 18, was sentenced to three life sentences Tuesday for killing three students in 2012 at a school shooting in Chardon, Ohio. Daniel Parmertor, Russell King Jr. and Demetrius Hewling were shot and killed by Lane on Feb. 27, 2012. Nate Mueller, who was nicked in the ear in the shooting. Dina Parmertor, mother of victim Daniel, called Lane “a pathetic excuse for a human being” and wished upon him “an extremely, slow torturous death.” She said she has nightmares and her family has been physically sick over the crimes. “From now on, he will only be a killer,” she said, as Lane’s smile widened. “I want him to feel my anger toward him.” Prosecutors say Lane took a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the
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he walk across the stage at commencement is the most important walk on most college students’ minds. However, some are more fixated with another special walk: a walk down the aisle. A 2011 PEW Research Center study reported the average age to get married is up to 26 for women and 28 for men. Despite this, some students still feel the pressure to get engaged while in college. Eighteen percent of undergraduates are already married, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. RELGIOUS TIES
Ball State sociology professor Richard Petts said in an email that those with religious backgrounds, particularly strong conservative or evangelical Christian backgrounds, are more likely to get married at a younger age. The Catholic Church is central to Alea Bowling and Branden Stanley’s relationship. They met through a homeschooled production of “The Hobbit” 10 years ago and became friends. When their relationship turned romantic in January 2010, Bowling fell in love with the traditional Latin Catholic ceremony Stanley was raised in. Their wedding will be a traditional Latin Mass as opposed to the normal Catholic wedding ceremony, which Bowling said she thinks adds to the dynamic they have. The couple holds strong traditional values, which influenced their decision to get married young. “Getting married was always the intention of dating,” Bowling, a junior art major, said. “When we started dating, knew our purpose was to find someone to marry.”
Stanley said they looked at their dating as more of a seeking process than a way just to have fun. The idea of marriage was always there, but they did not seriously discuss it until last summer. In college, not all have the mindset of dating with marriage on the brain. Marriage at a young age wasn’t in senior elementary education Lyndsey Kellett’s plan until her relationship with God developed. “If God hadn’t pursued me and saved me, I would not be getting married right now. I would probably think it was inhibiting to be married,” said Kellett, who didn’t become a Christian until she was 16. “It’s hard for me to even wrap my mind around what planning a wedding would be like in college because I don’t think that I would consider getting married so young. I would want to pursue a career, or I would want the freedom to date around, things like that,” she continued, explaining her thinking before she became religious.
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LAWYER ASKS THREATS TOWARD GIRL TO STOP Steubenville rape victim bullied through social media after sentencing | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio — A girl who was raped by two high school football players is being victimized by threats against her on Twitter, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Tuesday as he demanded an end to such postings. Two girls, 15 and 16, were accused of posting the tweets Sunday following the conviction and sentencing of two boys for raping the 16-year-old West Virginia girl after an alcohol-fueled party. The older girl was charged with aggravated menacing for a tweet that threatened homicide and said “you ripped my family apart,” according to the attorney general’s office. The girl is a cousin of defendant Ma’Lik Richmond, attorney general spokesman Dan Tierney said Tuesday.
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A Twitter message from the younger girl threatened the accuser with bodily harm, leading to a menacing charge, DeWine’s office said. One of the messages was later reposted on Facebook. Such threats have to end, DeWine said Tuesday. “People have the right to express their point of view, and they have the right to be stupid, and they have the right to be wrong, but they don’t have the right under Ohio law to threaten to kill someone,” he said. This is not the first time the girl and her family have been threatened through social media, DeWine said. “What’s sad particularly to me is that the victim has had to go through the rape, the aftermath of the rape, the trial, and she continues to be victimized on the social media,” DeWine said. The girl, who had been drinking heavily, has no memory of the attack. One of the ways she learned that something had happened to her was by viewing parts of a 12-minute
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