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Phi Psi loses house for year By Austin Faulds afaulds@umail.iu.edu | @a_faulds9615

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An IU police officer demonstrates on a training dummy the proper way to administer naloxone Wednesday night at the IU Police Department. Naloxone, when used effectively, can save someone’s life who is suffering from an opioid or heroin overdose.

EQUIP AND EDUCATE Attorney General announces grant program to treat opioid, heroin overdoses By Alexa Chryssovergis aachryss@indiana.edu | @achryssovergis

A new grant program was announced Thursday to better equip first responders in an attempt to curb the increase in overdoses and death caused by opioids and heroin. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced the program, which will provide more naloxone, an antidote for opioid or heroin overdoses. The grant money totals $127,000 and will be distributed to three Indiana non-profit organizations: Overdose Lifeline, Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County and Indiana Naloxone Project based in Bloomington. These organizations are tasked with distributing naloxone kits and providing train-

Related Content, page 4 Two heroin overdoses were reported in Bloomington on Wednesday.

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ing to police officers, firefighters, EMTs — anyone who may be first on the scene of an overdose. Opioid painkillers and opioidbased heroin cause at least a third of drug overdose deaths in Indiana, and heroin deaths specifically have doubled in the last few years, Zoeller said. “We’ve got a prescription drug and now a heroin abuse crisis here in Indiana,” Zoeller said. “And it’s really tearing apart our communities and our families.” Zoeller said he expects at least 3,500 of the kits to be

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The House Corporation Board for the Indiana Beta chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity plans to rent the Phi Psi chapter house until the fraternity’s expected return to IU in 2017, Wade Garard, Phi Psi House Corporation Board president, said. The fraternity was placed under suspension Dec. 19, after five incidents occurred within two years, said Assistant Dean of Students Steve Veldkamp. The suspension was a decision made by the headquarters, the alumni advisory board and the university administration based on “a repeated pattern of mental and physical hazing, drug violations and non-completion of prior judicial sanctions,” Veldkamp said. Veldkamp said the fraternity received two notable but separate instances of hazing Dec. 5 and 7. One included mental hazing in the form of lining students up to be verbally abused “for long periods of time” and another in the form of physical hazing with extreme exercises and bruising caused by pushing bottle caps into the skin. “The chapter also continued to host parties with alcohol and in November we received a police report of rampant drug use for an ‘overwhelming amount of marijuana’ with no chapter standards board to hold members accountable,” Veldkamp said. Phi Psi’s recent suspension came following a past deferred suspension in the spring also on account of hazing. Veldkamp said this deferred suspension came with educational and punitive sanctions, such as a membership review, a new redesigned educational program, educational support and social restrictions. Veldkamp said he learned later in the fall that the new member education program was never implemented and that hazing and partying with alcohol continued. “Individually, the lack of following prior sanctions after repeated warnings and chances to make up sanctions, the drug incident and repeated pattern of mental and physical hazing are all triggers for the deferred suspension,” SEE SUSPENSION, PAGE 8

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Local Surfing releases new EP By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans

When singer-guitarist Hannah Groves and drummer Brett Hoffman formed surf-rock band Local Surfing last spring, the duo wasn’t in pursuit of a serious project, Groves said. Rather, they were a tongue-in-cheek take on the genre — there’s no surfing in the Midwest. “It started out as a joke,” Groves said. “Wouldn’t it be funny if we made a surf band about our lives, since they’re so irrelevant to surfing?” But after seeing a positive crowd reaction at Local Surfing’s first show, Groves and Hoffman decided to flesh out their songs and expand to a four-piece. On Tuesday, they released a new EP, “What a Buzzkill,” their first since last April’s selfproduced “Dead Friend” EP. In addition to the bigger lineup and bulked-up songs, “What a Buzzkill” also shows an expanded approach to recording, Groves said. The band tracked it with producer William Chen over the course of several sessions in the fall. Groves said Chen, a friend of the band, didn’t charge for his production duties — one of the benefits of playing in a tight-knit DIY music scene. “I think the EP we just released is a testament to how you don’t need to pay a company to make a quality set of recordings,” she said. “The tools that are around you, they’re on par with the capabilities of companies who get paid a shit ton to do the same thing.” And while “What a Buzzkill” still contains the band’s self-aware humor on songs like “Cowabunga (Surfin’ Moo.S.A),” it also features darker tracks like “Song 4 Speed” and “Friend Who Died.” Groves said she wrote the former about a Vyvanse binge. “It’s like a breakup letter to Vyvanse,” she said. And while the latter was written in the spring without a specific person in mind, it has taken on a new meaning for Groves.

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Sophomore guard Tyra Buss jumps towards the basket in an attempt to score a layup. The Hoosiers beat Samford 65-56 in December.

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Hannah Groves sings “Palm Tree Dream” Wednesday in front of Middle Earth, a Bloomington co-operative living place. Groves is lead singer and guitarist of the band “Local Surfing.” The band was organized last spring and released their second album three days ago.

“I did have a friend who liked that song who killed himself last summer, so that song’s kind of about him now,” she said. “(Songs) totally exist out of time. You can write something and then something different happens.” Groves, who also makes solo music under the name Duck Trash, said playing and writing songs for Local Surfing also works as a stress reliever more than her solo work does. “I have a tendency to not be lighthearted about music stuff, and that’s exhausting for me,” she said. “This is a way to unload that. It’s helped me look at performing in a different way.” Groves comes from a classical music background; she played cello in Indianapolis’s New World Youth Symphony Orchestra and studied music composition for a semester at Butler University before transferring to IU . She said that training sometimes puts her into a self-critical headspace. But that experience also translates to performing with other mu-

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Hoosiers can’t keep pace with Buckeyes in the second half By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @trlehman_IDS

sicians, even in a rock setting, she said. Playing in a band takes some stress off performing, as does seeing how crowds respond to Local Surfing’s music, she said. “People knock each other over and mosh,” she said. “I love that. The energy there is so beautiful.” There’s a collaborative spirit to “What a Buzzkill,” Groves said. “The album’s credits list a total of eight contributors, from the band members to Chen to album artist Sarah Conaway. Groves said those collaborative opportunities are a particularly fulfilling part of playing in Local Surfing. “If you want something done the way you see it, do it with people you’re close to,” she said. “All the people making this were on the same page. I love collaborating with people. It’s always way stronger than any one person can do.”

Four days removed from an overtime victory against Michigan in Assembly Hall, IU women’s basketball traveled to Columbus, Ohio, for another test against the No. 5 team in the nation, Ohio State. While they stayed within five points against the second-best scoring offense in the Big Ten after the first half, IU allowed Ohio State to pull away late in the second half, dropping the Hoosiers’ conference record to 1-2 thanks to a 97-70 road loss. “We did a good job of focusing on the game plan in the first half,” IU assistant coach Todd Starkey said. “We still don’t want to give up 40 in the first half, but we just got tired in the second half.” Jumping ahead of the Buckeyes 18-10 early in the first quarter, the Hoosiers allowed an 8-0 run to

97-70 eliminate the early lead with an 18-18 tie heading in to the second quarter, where Ohio State would stack up 22 points to lead IU by just five, 40-35. IU forced Ohio State to shoot just 38.1 percent in the first half, including 0-for-4 on three-point attempts, but the Buckeyes would get off 18 more total shots than the Hoosiers, making 23 of their 42 second-half shots. “Those moments when we get tired, we can’t give in,” Starkey said. “(Ohio State is) one of the top teams in the nation in transition, and we were slower in transition lanes in the second half, which contributed to the loss.” Coming off of a 28-point game SEE BUCKEYES, PAGE 8


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