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A 23-year-old male suspect was arrested by Bloomington police Monday afternoon at the Super 8 Motel in the 1700 block of North Stone Lake Drive for promoting prostitution.

Investigators received reports that Morris Lamont Hanson promoted prostitution using the motel from late December to late January.

Two women, 37 and 19 years old, admitted to engaging in sexual relations with men who answered escort ads set up by Hanson on backpage.com.

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Licensing standards insufficient to regulate day cares

BY JINGHUA TU jingtu@indiana.edu

Timothy Dunnuck walked around the center, checking in on classes and chatting with children and teachers.

As the manager of Campus Child Care, he has done this routine a thousand times. “Are you doing OK today?� he asked a 3-year-old child.

The boy nodded. “Did you stick your foot in a hole yesterday?� Dunnuck said. “Yeah,� the boy said. “That’s too bad, you are all right now?� Dunnuck said. “I think so,� the boy said, nodding and giggling.

Safety is always Dunnuck’s first concern, he said. “It is a big issue,� Dunnuck said. “Especially when kids are running SEE DAY CARE, PAGE 6

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Dancing queens Sigma Phi Beta organizes drag show to raise money for GLBT scholarships

BY SUZANNE GROSSMAN spgrossm@indiana.edu

Fifteen dancing drag queens and kings wooed a crowd of more than 150 at the Indiana Memorial Union on Tuesday night.

It was the night Sigma Phi Beta fraternity presented its second-annual Drag For a Cause philanthropy event.

CeeCee Marie won top drag queen, and Ryder Harter was named the top drag king.

Last year, funds from the event went toward the Indiana Youth Group, a safe house for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in Indianapolis.

This year, all the proceeds went to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Student Support Services office, but the event is more than a fundraiser.

Its goal is also to promote a better understanding of drag, Sigma Phi Beta philanthropy chair Angel Barraza said. “I think the nature of this sort of art is the underbelly of society,� Barraza said. “People are typically frightened of what they don’t know. We want to show how great drag is as an awesome, all-encompassing form of art.�

Barraza said the fraternity said it also wants to educate people of their existence as an LGBT fraternity on campus, particularly their presence within greek society. “Traditionally, greek life is a homophobic place,� Barraza said. “We stand as a queer and allied fraternity as a powerful message that it’s OK to do anything you want to do. Want to wear heels, a clown nose or a wig? You have complete permission to do that.�

Sydny Bohuk said the fraternity is needed to help peoples’ lives. “Especially in Indiana, we need to show support for those kids who don’t hear acceptance,� Bohuk said. “By telling our stories, we’re saying, ‘Come join us. We’re your new family and you can come to us.’�

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Hoosiers look to complete sweep of Penn State

BY JOHN BAUERNFEIND jogbauer@indiana.edu

After it saw a six-point halftime lead end in a six-point loss Saturday at Minnesota, the IU men’s basketball team (14-9, 4-6) will go up against the Penn State Nittany Lions (12-12, 3-8) at 7 p.m. in Assembly Hall.

IU got its first Big Ten win of the season against Penn State on Jan. 11, defeating the Nittany Lions 7976.

In that contest, the Hoosiers showed a resiliency on the road it has yet to regain in Big Ten play. IU

was down by as many as 15 points in that game, but a 19-point performance from freshman forward Noah Vonleh and a late 3-pointer from sophomore forward Austin Etherington sealed the victory for the Hoosiers.

On the Big Ten Teleconference call Monday, IU Coach Tom Crean said Penn State is a difficult opponent to face. “They play tough, smart basketball and like to control the pace,�

Crean said. “(Penn State Coach) Pat Chambers has built that culture with energy and toughness, and they’re very talented.�

The Nittany Lions enter tonight’s game on a two-game losing streak, losing to Michigan State and Illinois this past week. Prior to that, however, Penn State won three games in a row, with a victory on the road against Ohio State in overtime.

As of Monday, Penn State’s D.J. Newbill is the Big Ten’s leading scorer at 17.7 points per game. In Big Ten play only, though, sophomore guard Kevin “Yogi� Ferrell leads the conference with 18.7 points per game — almost a full point ahead of Iowa’s Roy Devyn Marble and Nebraska’s Terran

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Crean praised Ferrell for his work ethic, saying Ferrell continually strives to make his team and himself better. “He is a tremendous worker and a tremendous player,� Crean said. “We have so many guys that spend extra time in the gym. Yogi is one of those guys.

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New military scholarship available at IU IU has been selected as a Tillman Military Scholars University Partner by the Pat Tillman Foundation, a nonprofit that offers support for student veterans and military spouses.

The scholarship covers direct study-related

expenses for scholars who are pursuing degrees as full-time students.

Qualified IU students can seek a scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year.

Applications are available online.

Panelists proctor merger Q&A

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TOP Ting Chen works on a craft with her mother during the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center Craft Night and Potluck Dinner Tuesday at Weatherly Hall.

BOTTOM Brian Gilley, director of the IU FNECC, helps students craft leather pouches at the event.

FNECC organizes potluck, craft night

BY SUZANNE GROSSMAN spgrossm@indiana.edu

Members of First Nations Educational and Cultural Center crafted leather pouches and ate food during a potluck dinner Tuesday as part of the organization’s goal of giving Native American students a place on campus to connect to their culture.

FNECC Director Brian Gilley said the activities reflected what tribes would do in their free time.

“Every tribe has some sort of craft tradition,” Gilley said. “In native communities when people are sitting around socializing, they do crafts or sing. It brings them together.”

FNECC provided the materials to make the leather pouches, which resembled what Gilley called “strike-alight bags.”

These bags were often used to carry materials to build fires or to carry supplies, he said.

When the FNECC started craft nights three years ago, Gilley said they ran into conflict with groups who wanted to exploit them and extract knowledge rather than understand their culture.

“They were Indian fetishizers,” he said. “They were settlers trying to demand us and school us about things.”

Advancements in the group during the last three years and support from IU Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs James Wimbush have reduced this type of interaction and encouraged more willingness to work together, Gilley said.

“Now we’re more established, so we see less stereotyping,” Gilley said. “People are reaching out to us rather than independently doing stuff.”

Before, Gilley said he saw dormitory bulletin boards for Native American history month that stereotyped American Indians. These, he said, were inaccurate.

Nathan Steininger, cofounder of a community group of Native Americans called Indiana Two Spirit Society, said he thought the biggest problem their community faced was being invisible.

“There’s not a lot of awareness, so when people look at me, they don’t see a native person,” Steininger said.

“We’re not, but we’re still

“Every tribe has some sort of craft tradition.

In native communities when people are sitting around socializing, they do crafts or sing. It brings them together.”

Brian Gilley, FNECC director

seen as the vanishing race.

People then ask, why would you need a program for this if there aren’t that many?”

Steininger expressed the need for groups like FNECC on campus.

“These groups help bring us together and bring us a space that feels familiar so students don’t feel isolated,” Steininger said. “Native students deal with a lot of culture shock and homesickness. When they get homesick, they go home.”

Native Americans make up only 1 percent of the population, and only 1 percent of that 1 percent goes on to receive any kind of higher education, Steininger said.

In order to grow and for their communities to be educated, there needs to be social support for Native Americans on campus.

The group also wants to include more diverse perspectives within the Native American community during their events, Gilley said.

Next spring, they hope to include information about GLBTQ Native Americans.

Lead organizer for Freedom Indiana in Bloomington Hannah Miller attended the event to build relationships with LGBT-affirming communities.

“Yes, our main goal is to beat HJR-3, but when the campaign is over, we still want to change the culture in Indiana through relationships,” Miller said.

In addition including LGBT diversity in their events, Gilley said he is excited for how these events have already become more diversified.

“We’re really a meeting point for all,” Gilley said.

“People here are speaking Chinese and caring about our culture and being respectful just as we would be at their culture events.

That’s a big deal compared to where we were three years ago.”

Follow reporter Suzanne Grossman on Twitter @suzannepaige6.

More than 50 people filed into the Ernie Pile auditorium Tuesday evening to attend the Media School merger question and answer panel organized by the IU Journalism Student Advisory Board.

The Media School, which combines the units of the School of Journalism, Department of Communication and Culture and Department of Telecommunications, will be housed under the College of Arts and Sciences at its new location in Franklin Hall.

Lesa Hatley Major, interim dean of the School of Journalism and associate dean of the Media School, and Larry Singell, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, answered student questions.

One student questioned whether or not there would be enough space for the three units in Franklin Hall.

“That’s exactly what we’re trying to do,” Major said.

“We’re looking at what’s the best way to do this.”

It starts with a wish list, she said.

The space committee is working with student media representatives to try to give everyone what they think they will need and then go from there, Major said.

Another student wanted to know when the move to Franklin Hall would be completed.

Singell said it is tentatively scheduled for January 2016, but part of the building is already renovated.

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Larry Singell, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sceiences, and Lesa Hatley Major, interim dean of the School of Journalism explained aspects of the merger of the School of Journalism and the telecommunication and communications and culture departments to students Tuesday at Ernie Pyle Hall. The question-and-answer session was part of Love IU Journalism week programs.

The University completed renovation to Franklin Hall’s old library reading room last spring. It has been renamed President Hall.

The model of the Media School will be based on other universities like Arizona State, University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles.

Major said the goal is to connect the schools, not contain them. The goal is to create collaboration between students and faculty.

“We want faculty to be among students and students to feel welcomed,” Major said. “We hope what happens in the classroom continues out into the hallways. So we want to have these spaces where students can sit and just meet outside the class-

rooms.”

Part of the vision of revitalizing the area is to bring students back into the Old Crescent, the University’s historic center, Singell said.

“If there’s any group that’s there 24/7, it’s media students,” he said, earning a laugh from the students.

One student said potential students looking for a good journalism program might shy away from IU because there is no longer an independent school of journalism.

“That’s the question I’m worried about most,” Singell said.

“The good news is we have talented people in the School of Journalism and these other units to talk about it.”

Journalism will be a prominent part of the Media school, he said, with official discussion on marketing strategy beginning Wednesday.

One sophomore asked what changes he should expect to see before graduation.

It wouldn’t change that student’s degree, Major said, and changes to curriculum will take more than a year to see.

“What I believe will happen, and what I hope you will notice, is there will be a willingness to cross boundaries before that and an understanding among the faculty about how we can work together so that there are classes you can take,” Singell said.

“Often we’re planting trees we’ll never see.”

IU students speed date for fundraiser

BY GRACE PALMIERI gpalmier@indiana.edu

Two rows of chairs lined the center of the room. Boys sat on the right, girls on the left. Each pair faced one another. Time after time, the clock was set for three minutes.

Ready, set, date.

Students in IU’s black community came together Tuesday night for the first Cupid Shuffle Speed Dating Charity Benefit.

Tierra Griffin, president of the Tau chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, said the idea for the event came from the Women of Color Leadership Institute. They joined with the Gamma Eta chapter of Alpha

Phi Alpha fraternity, the Tau chapter of AKA and the Alpha chapter of Kappa Alpha Phi for the event.

Lucretia Black, president of the WCLI, said they discussed a date auction as well as speed dating.

“We had representatives from each organization get together with women of color to kind of give our perspective and expertise and just provide any help with planning that they needed,” Griffin said.

Pre-sale tickets were $3, and tickets at the door were $5. Non-perishable food items and feminine hygiene products were also accepted.

All proceeds will go to a multitude of charities such as Relay for Life and Keep a

Child Alive.

Black said this first-time event was most importantly a way to give back to the community.

“Anything that we can do for public service is really important to the WCLI,” she said.

For the speed dating segment of the event, everyone was given a paper heart. They had three minutes to meet and talk to the person sitting in front of them. The first three couples to match the number on their heart to their partner’s heart were rewarded with a prize.

People who met during speed dating mingled to talk more in depth after a few rounds.

“I wanted to up my social

skills, get out there and meet new people,” IU student Kiara Spells said.

The night included introductions of the organizations and volunteers who helped to plan the event and videos advertising some of the charities.

Griffin said everyone who attended was giving back to their community.

“Any time we can provide any type of service or any charitable event to give back to that organization we’re really happy to do so,” she said.

“We’re just happy to help.”

Follow reporter Grace Palmieri on Twitter @grace_palmieri.

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Bills prioritize pre-K education

BY SYDNEY MURRAY slmurray@indiana.edu

Throughout the nation, pre-kindergarten education is being hailed as one of the best ways to help children succeed in life.

Indiana is no exception, with some legislators working to make pre-K education more widely available.

President Barack Obama mentioned the importance of pre-K education during his State of the Union Address in January. Last year, Obama said he asked Congress to help make pre-K education available to all 4-year-olds in the country.

Since he made this request to Congress, Obama said 30 states have raised pre-K funding on their own.

According to the National Institute for Early Education Research, 1,332,663 children were enrolled in pre-K education programs for the 2011-12 school year.

In Indiana, Senate Bill 389, authored by Sen. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, would have required all public schools, including charter schools, to offer a preschool education program or to contract with a provider to offer a preschool education program.

The bill is dead for the current legislative session.

Rogers said her idea is still alive, though, in House Bill 1004.

Authored by Rep. Robert Behning, R-Indianapolis, the bill will create the early education scholarship pilot program.

It is intended to help some low-income families afford pre-K education for their children.

Rogers said when the bill comes to the Senate, she hopes to expand the bill to include children of all socioeconomic levels.

She used to be a teacher and said she saw first-hand the difference between children who attended preschool and those who did not.

For each dollar invested in pre-K education, $17 is returned on the investment because these children are usually not dependent on state assistance as adults, Rogers said.

Rogers said only 15 percent of Indiana 4-year-olds are currently enrolled in a pre-K program, which ranks Indiana 45th in the nation.

Tim Pritchett, director of school age care at the Monroe

County Community School Corporation, said pre-K education has a positive ripple effect on children’s education as they continue through school.

The Ready Set Grow program at MCCSC serves students ages 3 to 5.

Pritchett said all MCCSC preschools teach their students literacy skills and use well-rounded curriculums.

Pritchett has been working with Bloomington youth, ranging in age from young children to young adults, since 2002.

“I’ve been passionate about serving youth in Bloomington of all ages for a long time,” he said.

Pritchett said statistics show pre-K education helps kids in their later education and said there is a need in Bloomington for more accessible pre-K programs.

State and local programs improve academic readiness for school, according to NIEER. “I would welcome more kids being in preschool,” Pritchett said. “I think the more kids we can get into pre-kindergarten, the better.”

Joan Bertermann, director of Faith Lutheran Preschool, has been working in the field of early education for more than 30 years.

Bertermann said there has always been a push for early childhood education, especially since more parents started working outside the home.

She said pre-K education gives children a chance to learn, rather than just sit in front of a television.

“The children have a learning-rich environment,” she said.

Bertermann said at her preschool, there are no televisions for the children to watch and the students are always busy playing.

She also noted that her preschool can help her students with their social development.

Betermann said Faith Lutheran currently serves 46 children.

These children will not only receive academic education, but will also learn physical and social skills.

“It helps a child build a good foundation,” she said.“I want the best for the kids.”

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Washington, D.C. This amounts to about 35,000 uncollected blood and platelet donations, which the Red Cross said was the equivalent to shutting down national operations for two full days.

BY KATE STARR kastarr@indiana.edu

Katie Herron’s son was about 4 years old when the two started walking to the Bloomington Barnes & Noble and local grocery store from their house in Park Ridge.

Their walks are different than those most parents take with their children. Herron’s son, Ben, has used a wheelchair from a young age.

It wasn’t until these family outings, though, that Ben started to feel more limited by his disability. The sidewalks of Park Ridge are old and were built before curb cuts existed, which poses a challenge for him, Herron said.

“He would come to a point where he couldn’t go any further and we’d have to drive his wheelchair on the road, which wasn’t very safe for a 4-year-old,” Herron said.

The Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan has been implemented by Bloomington since 1990 to handle situations like Herron’s. Currently, the city is seeking public input on a draft of an update to its plan until Feb. 28, according to a government press release.

The draft can be found on the Bloomington government’s official website.

The ADA requires pubCOURTESY PHOTO lic agencies with more than Ben Herron poses with his sister Caitlin in Chicago. He has used a wheelchair since a young age to get 50 employees to maintain an around, and the ADA Transition Plan allows his family to file complaints about sub-standard sidewalks. up-to-date transition plan, which should survey accessi- vision of the Federal Highway department of the city that will & Noble and wherever else we wanted to go. It was really, bility barriers in programs and Administration. It found many respond to it.”

Two of the biggest achieve- really important to my son in services and provide a plan to communities statewide did not have up-to-date transi- ments in the update have been terms of being able to be moremove them.

Title II of the ADA prohibits tion plans in place, said Vince the adoption of Public Right- bile and be with the family.”

From Herron’s perspective, state and local governments Caristo, bicycle and pedes- of-Way Accessibility Guidefrom discriminating against trian coordinator for the City lines and coordination be- the transition plan and the people based on their disabil- of Bloomington Planning De- tween street re-pavement and council have been particularly upgrades of curb ramps adja- important to her family, but ity and from excluding people partment. the plan is just as important for The city has also worked cent to streets, Caristo said. from programs, according to Because of the ADA’s tran- improving the Bloomington with the Council for Commuthe release.

For this particular transi- nity Accessibility to create the sition plan, Herron said she community, Caristo said.

“The ADA is really a piece tion plan, the city is seeking strongest possible transition has been able to call the City Street Department and know of civil rights legislation,” Cafunds from the federal level plan upgrade, Brenner said. risto said. “It was important in “The group acts as an in- her complaint will be heard. that will be put toward fixing “They were out in about our country and in our comsidewalks and curb ramps formal advisory group to the to meet ADA standards, said city, so, anytime anybody has two weeks and fixed the whole munity by taking an imporCraig Brenner, the Communi- any questions or concerns, area,” Herron said. “I was re- tant step towards creating a ty and Family Resources spe- they can come to our meeting ally impressed with the re- community that’s accessible once a month and raise them,” sponse. So then we had a clear to everyone and a community cial projects coordinator.

The emphasis for the up- Brenner said. “One of my jobs walk from our house to both in which persons are not disdate was from the Indiana di- is to take the complaint to the the grocery store and Barnes criminated against.”

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Indiana, with a grant of more than $7 million. Combined, the states will receive more than $67 million.

These grants are awarded to state educational agencies, who then award these grants to school districts in their state who are most in need and demonstrate a strong commitment to help their most struggling schools succeed.

“When schools fail, our children and neighborhoods suffer,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a

press release. “These School Improvement Grants are helping some of the lowest-achieving schools provide a better education for students who need it the most.”

Indiana received School Improvement Grants in 2009, 2010 and 2011 in the amounts of $9,437,827, $9,240,201 and $9,352,258, respectively.

Daniel Altman, press secretary with the Indiana Department of Education, said the application and criteria for schools that want to apply for

these grants will be released later this month. The funds will be used during the 20142015 school year.

“The (Indiana) Department of Education is dedicated to providing schools with the resources they need to ensure that all Hoosier children receive an equitable and high quality education,” Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz said in a press release.

— Sydney Murray

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President Obama does what he wants During a tour of Thomas Jefferson’s estate, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., President Barack Obama, seeminly unaware of his mic, joked to French President François Hollande, “I’m the president, I can do whatever I want.”

Although the comment was in reference to his ability to view the grounds from a private terrace, he is receiving backlash and criticism for his candor anyway.

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America needs to give up on cursive

Indiana’s government continues to fail Hoosiers

SAM OSTROWSKI is a senior majoring in English.

Senate Bill 113 was deemed as a “bill to watch” by our very own Indiana Daily Student.

The bill “Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum” and “requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic school to include reading in its curriculum.”

I really can’t disagree with mandating reading in the curriculum, but I do struggle with making sure that cursive writing does, in fact, outlive our grandparents.

Cursive writing just doesn’t have much of a place in society anymore. We’re done writing letters and drafting documents to free America from Britain.

Why should we force cursive writing when we could be teaching keyboarding — the alternative many schools are embracing.

A lot of cursive’s support comes from the argument that we need students to be able to read cursive and they obviously cannot read it without learning to first write the fancy script.

The proponents fear that future historians will not be able to accurately study important documents like the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

But this won’t be the case at all.

Just like any dead language or script, there will be a reserved elite who will rise up, learn the script and continue to study the original documents. It happened with Egyptian hieroglyphics and even Middle English.

We pride ourselves in basing our literary tradition on foundational texts like the Canterbury Tales, but most students could never study that text in its original script.

Documents get passed down, translated and transcribed if they are important.

The same thing has happened and will continue to happen with our important American documents.

Other proponents are saying that there are more benefits to cursive writing than simply keeping old documents out of the dark. In 2006, the College Board released a statement about the SAT writing section stating, “15 percent of essays were written in cursive, while the other 85 percent were printed. Essays written in cursive received a slightly higher score.”

The “slightly higher score” they refer to averages out to be around two-tenths of a point. Not anything to write home about.

Others refer to cursive as a nice piece of tradition or a piece of art. They see it as boosting creativity, personal ownership of language and the artistic instinct in children.

If that’s the case, we should just keep arts programs in school.

The fact of the matter is that cursive is on the way out and mandating its presence in schools is a waste of valuable time for many politicians.

I learned cursive and followed in my father’s footsteps of creating some kind of monstrosity that now forces me to write in block letters if I want to be taken semi-seriously.

If they ever need a spokesperson for the lack of cursive’s lasting impact, they can go ahead and call me up.

— sjostrowski@indiana.edu

EVAN STAHR is a sophomore majoring in policy analysis.

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Science and faith both lost On February 4, 2014, millions of people tuned in to the live debate staged between popular scientist and entertainer Bill Nye the Science Guy and well-known creationist Ken Ham. Though a general consensus of the perceived winner would probably turn up in Nye’s favor, the Editorial Board believes this widely-publicized event was severely misguided in its occurrence in the first place.

For starters, nothing was achieved in the discourse by either Nye or Ham. Nye certainly didn’t start viewing creationism as a viable model in modern society on the spot, and Ham admitted that he would flat-out refuse to believe anything but his model of the “young Earth” (6,000 years of age, precisely), even in the face of irrefutable evidence.

Neither took into account the many variations of their systems of belief, and both danced around

the question of a marriage between science and religion, which is an idea many Americans with faith have come to share in light of recent scientific discoveries.

Even worse, Nye’s scattered anecdotes and Ham’s hardline beliefs did little more than talk over each other, resulting in a garbled synthesis of arguments we’ve all already heard before.

The discussion was a rather thinly veiled bid for publicity for the two aging entertainment figures, simultaneously making quite the pretty penny for Ham. The debate itself took place in Ham’s famous Creationism Museum, and was a ticketed event that sold out to more than 900 happy museum-goers.

After all the lights, cameras and ticket sales, perhaps Ham will have enough money to fund his old pet project — a massive theme park dedicated to explaining the scientific historicity

of Noah’s Ark. Nye’s motives behind his decision to fly to Kentucky for the showdown are less clear. One can imagine, with restraint, two different explanations.

Either he has become a publicity hound after his fall from the PBS spotlight, or he was rather naïve in his eagerness to defend his reputation as a firebrand for science.

The whole issue also serves as a somewhat chilling reminder to us that Indiana still indirectly funds creationism programs within the state through the use of the voucher program, which allows independent schools with unambiguously Christian agendas to participate and teach intelligent design.

While the Editorial Board staunchly defends everyone’s right to believe what they choose, we maintain that students, especially young students, have the right to hear the most

scientifically accurate information of the day while in such a formative stage in their development.

All in all, it was an uncomfortable 150 minutes for everyone involved.

Nye awkwardly referred to the decidedly unreceptive audience as “his Kentucky friends.” Ham used the Bible to disprove Darwin’s notoriously discredited concepts of high and low races, while failing to acknowledge its use in justifying centuries of slavery.

Neither side seemed particularly appealing.

Though in its conception the idea of the debate might have seemed like an earnest, plausible opportunity for both sides to intellectually duke it out, we believe that in its execution, everybody lost that night.

— opinion@idsnews. com Follow the Editorial Board on Twitter @ids_opinion.

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Grow up, NFL He’s here, he’s queer — get used to it, NFL. Missouri defensive end Michael Sam announced Sunday that he was gay.

Which, provided he gets drafted in April as expected, would make him the first openly gay NFL player.

Since the NFL is apparently run by 12-year-old boys who probably laugh at Dane Cook and the word “pianist,” Sam’s decision to publicly come out is causing some apprehension within the league.

Last week — before Sam’s announcement, mind you — when asked his thoughts about gays in the league, New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma quipped, “Imagine if he’s the guy next to me (in the locker room) and, you know, I get dressed, naked, taking a shower ... and it just so

happens he looks at me.

How am I supposed to respond?”

This is the kind of talk I would expect to hear in, say, a middle school locker room. But this talk among fully-grown adults is downright laughable.

When it comes to players’ acceptance of gays in the league, Vilma is in the minority. Many players are expressing support for Sam. But when it comes to NFL front offices, think GMs, team owners, coaches, etc., it’s a different story.

One NFL assistant coach called Sam’s decision to go public “not a smart move ... (it) legitimately affects (his) potential earnings,” according to an article from the Atlantic. News on Monday revealed he fell 70 points on CBS’s draft prospect board overnight. What does a

player’s sexuality have to do with his athletic prowess?

A lot, says the NFL, apparently.

But let’s be honest — this isn’t about athletic prowess.

It’s about money. The NFL is worried that some of their most treasured and “manly” sponsors will pull their support if it features a gay athlete.

Its also concerned it will lose fans, especially male fans, because watching a gay person play football on television obviously makes you gay.

Less viewers and sponsors means less money for the league, which means less money for the coaches, GMs and owners. This sort of explains the teams’ front offices’ apprehension and the drop in Sam’s draft prospection.

Word on the street is

RILEY ZIPPER is a sophomore majoring in English.

HBO’s working on a spinoff of its new gay dramedy series “Looking” based on Sam’s story, entitled “Looking ... at Football Players’ Butts in the Locker Room,” but this is just speculation.

No official word on the premiere date.

Regardless, Sam will get to the league because he is talented and deserves it. His sexuality has nothing to do with it.

Oh and Michael, if you’re reading this ... call me?

— ziperr@indiana.edu Follow columnist Riley Zipper on Twitter @rileyezipper.

I grew up near the intersection of U.S. Routes 30 and 41 in Schererville, Ind. These two roads are two of the “Crossroads of America” that give our state its motto.

Northwest Indiana is a strange place, culturally and economically tied to Chicago but governed by Indiana.

Moving from Schererville north toward Lake Michigan, we come across one of the best examples of this contradiction. It is Cline Avenue, a major local thoroughfare through northern Lake County toward lakeshore industrial plants and toward Chicago.

The Cline Avenue Bridge, crossing the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, was closed in 2009 and since torn down.

In addition to closing industrial plants and depopulation, communities like East Chicago and Whiting have now had to deal with this closure.

Roads are one of the quintessential examples of a public good — taught to all beginning level economics students as one of the things the government, and not the market, should provide for its citizens.

Yet, our state has time and time again refused to help East Chicago construct the Cline Avenue Bridge. After years of wrangling and missed deadlines, the city has finally made a deal with a private company to begin construction on a new bridge in 2014.

The private owners of the bridge will charge a toll to cross, putting additional burdens on communities that have enough economic troubles — and residents already have to pay high tolls on the nearby privatized Indiana Toll Road. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., is absolutely right when he calls the situation a “disgrace.”

All of this could have been avoided if the state had simply agreed to help with construction of a new bridge.

In the same interview, Sen. Donnelly pointed out that the state refused to set aside any money from the $3.8 billion sale of the toll road to reconstruct the bridge, which he said would cost about $133 million.

Instead, East Chicago now must deal with a private company charging its own residents $6 to drive to and from work each day.

The state has also refused to help Northwest Indiana expand the South Shore Line, a public transport system that links the region to downtown Chicago, despite bipartisan support for the proposal.

Rep. Linda Lawson, DHammond, said it best — “Nobody in Indianapolis gives a ... about us at all.”

Gov. Mike Pence, like Mitch Daniels before him, continues to keep Indiana in stasis. Troubled urban communities across the state continue to decay while the GOP-dominated legislature pushes forward with redundant, discriminatory constitutional ban on same-sex marriage against the wishes of Hoosiers.

Instead of legislating social mores that are rapidly becoming obsolete across the country, Gov. Pence should try working on Indiana’s crumbling infrastructure.

Public goods and infrastructure build community, unlike divisive, regressive social issues.

For our state to be the great place we know it can be, Indiana needs to start giving a damn about the well-being of its citizens.

— estahr@indiana.edu

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To Russia, with understanding I landed in Moscow on a ridiculously cold October morning. I was there — among other reasons — to develop an understanding of the Russian perspective of the country’s new gay propaganda law.

As a gay American, I had my work cut out for me.

With the Sochi Olympics upon us, it’s time to look back on a few of the things I learned.

As Americans, we have a tendency to say a decision is universally wrong if we wouldn’t choose it ourselves. We’re not always right about that.

Horrible things do happen to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals in Russia, and their struggle is vital, relevant and deserving of our support.

But this image of Russia as a backward, traditionalist society that we have cultivated in response to that reality is also problematic.

My first night in the country, I went to meet some Russian students in their dorm.

While they gave me a tour, I noticed one of them had a small rainbow flag hanging from her wardrobe door.

After the tour finished, I asked her about it. She told me she was an activist, that she didn’t identify as lesbian herself but that she supported GLBTQ people.

Then she surprised me even more. She told me she didn’t feel like the Russian law was that important, that she didn’t think it would make that much of a difference, that she thought there were a lot of bigger problems in Russia that needed to be dealt with.

And she’s right. Russia has a huge problem with political corruption and cronyism — especially regarding recently-privatized state enterprises. Moscow’s automobile infrastructure is absurdly overstrained and media freedom is a farce.

Russia’s population is actually falling. She seemed much more concerned about these problems, and I can see why.

There’s a story about the double-headed eagle seen

DRAKE REED is a senior majoring in economics.

on Russia’s presidential flag.

According to the story, the double-headed eagle was a symbol used by the Byzantine emperors. One of its heads kept watch over the eastern half of the empire, the other, the Western.

When the Russian Czars began styling themselves as Byzantine emperors, they brought the double-headed eagle to Moscow.

Russia is well-represented by this synthesis between East and West. Its relationship with the Europe and the rest of this half of the world is vital to its economic survival, but that same relationship has been a source of strain and tension throughout its history.

For decades the Western world, with the United States at its head, looked at Russia and pointed the way down the path of neoliberalism to prosperity.

For a while Russia dutifully followed. The results were mixed at best, and often the blame for those results was laid at our feet. A bit of a jaded attitude is understandable.

While I was in Russia, I had a conversation with another student who told me he would never agree with me because I was an American.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise today when the Western world scolds Russia for its anti-gay legislation and the average Russian is less than sympathetic to this latest criticism.

This doesn’t make them right, but it should remind us “basic human rights” as we conceive of them don’t automatically resonate universally across cultures. They are a Western concept best understood from a Western cultural perspective.

— drlreed@indiana.edu Follow columnist Drake Reed on Twitter @D_L_Reed.

Jordan River Forum LETTER TO THE EDITOR

What to do with the budget surplus With a great budget surplus comes many options.

The state of Indiana should invest its $1.94 billion budget surplus to provide long-term benefits to the people of Indiana as opposed to waiting for the surplus to reach the $2 billion dollar trigger, activating an Automatic Tax Refund credit.

November 2012 was the first and last time in Indiana history that the state has given a tax refund, which was worth $111 per filer. Only two years later in the face of critical state needs, it seems as if we will experience another. Some suspect that Governor Mike Pence may be timing this potential tax refund with his reelection campaign.

Such a tax refund risks creating the perception that there is no important work to be done by the Indiana state government with this money.

This is simply not the case.

The state of Indiana is still taking steps to heal from the recession. As anyone who studies business cycles knows, the 2009 recession will not be the last .

As homeowners should patch leaks in their roofs before it rains again, the state of Indiana should invest the surplus money to better prepare for future recessions.

This money should be wisely invested. For one, Indiana could expand its

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public education system. Indiana is one of 10 states that does not offer a full day public kindergarten voucher program. About 25,000 young Hoosiers are unable to attend an early childhood program.

Currently, the state is instituting a pilot program to study the effects of kindergarten when the benefits of kindergarten have been well proven.

This money could also be used to improve Indiana’s infrastructure. It is always cheaper to perform basic maintenance on a bridge instead of having to fix it after it breaks.

Or it could be used to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to increase

the access of Indiana’s poor to heavily federally subsidized health care insurance.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School say that 240 to 758 Hoosier’s lives could be saved each year through this expansion.

None of these programs would cost the entirety of the $2 billion, and each of them provides direct long-term benefits to the people of Indiana. Additionally, each one better prepares Indiana for future recessions.

Investing in education better prepares the future workforce, the Medicaid expansion increases the productivity and the economic security of the state’s poor, and investments in

infrastructure reduces the risk of greater future costs in the case of accidents.

Deciding what to do with this surplus is about picking between good options. Many Hoosiers would appreciate the ATR credit. However, the credit would spread the surplus out thinly and decrease the total amount through transfer costs.

While long-term investments to Indiana’s education, infrastructure or health do not have the same short-term political gain as the ATR credit, they would better promote the general welfare of the state of Indiana.

— Conner Shaw, Scott Zellner

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I support President McRobbie IU President Michael McRobbie withdrew membership from the American Studies Association after it issued a boycott against Israeli institutions of higher education.

In a statement regarding his decision, McRobbie said, “Boycotts such as these have a profound chilling effect on academic freedom, and universities must be clear and unequivocal in rejecting them.”

McRobbie joined more than 200 universities in

condemning the ASA boycott, including Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell and more than half of the Big Ten Conference.

His decision was received with widespread support, but also some skepticism.

Some people are unsure if withdrawing from the ASA is in the best interests of IU and its academic integrity.

It is true that the ASA has upheld the highest precepts of the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history since its

establishment in 1951, but McRobbie acutely recognizes this boycott as a sharp turn from those values.

The United States is a global leader in international trade, teamwork and collaboration, and has pioneered collective advances in science, medicine and technology around the world.

Israel has offered invaluable research and development to America since becoming a nation-state and a democracy in 1948, before the ASA existed. And

many of the most profound breakthroughs that provide our standard of living were first developed in Israel, including Netafim’s drip irrigation agriculture, Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip microprocessor and Given Imaging’s Pillcam Capsule medical camera.

The educational tie between the U.S. and Israel has been and will continue to be a critical tool to IU and institutions of higher education all over America.

— Joshua Brown

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Dogs pay for Russia’s stupidity

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More than Black History Month

I am a sucker for a good Buzzfeed photo scroll of cute dogs.

When I came across some supporting pieces of paper with their names written over a crossed out “biological waste” I had to do more than “oh” and “ah.”

It was a comment made

by Alexie Sorokin that started this furry petition. Sorokin is the owner of Basya Service, a private company hired by the city of Sochi to exterminate stray dogs. He called them “biological waste.”

Call me crazy, but if anyone dared to call my dog “biological waste,” there’s a good chance I would find myself in handcuffs.

Animal rights activists estimate that between 5,000 and 7,000 dogs have been killed in an effort to clean the streets of Sochi. I don’t need to say that this is horrible.

But I will — this is horrible.

If I wasn’t disgusted with the simple-minded Russian government before, I definitely am now.

Some of these animals used to be pets. They had families who loved and cared for them. But when the government needed to mow down homes to build the Olympic facilities, families were compensated with apartments. Pets aren’t always ideal in small areas, and families were forced to abandon them.

I am not at all saying that it’s acceptable for people to ditch their pets. I understand that life happens and it throws you curve balls, but abandoning your pet in the city is ridiculous. When you choose to take in an animal you accept certain responsibilities, which includes finding a suitable home for your pet when you can no longer care for it.

LEXIA BANKS is a sophomore majoring in telecom.

But in this particular case, I’m putting most of the blame on Russia’s government. The reality is that Sochi wasn’t ready to take on the responsibility of playing host to the Olympics. And all the while, they knew that Sochi was overrun by stray dogs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, has acknowledged the high population of stray dogs in Sochi. It is nothing new to them.

In spite of that, Russia neglected to take the proper time it needed to prepare, acting like a teenage girl trying to clean up her mess by shoving all the dirty laundry under the bed. But the laundry is dogs and they’re being killed.

Another aspect of this issue to look into is the way the dogs are being killed.

Sorokin claims his company uses traps and poisons to euthanize the animals, because apparently in Russia poisoning is humane.

Dogs are not rats. They are man’s best friend, and killing your best friend is frowned upon.

If Russia wants to look pretty to impress the international cool kids of the world for two weeks, it needs to find a humane way to do so.

Stop hogging all the Chobani yogurt and build some animal shelters.

— lnbanks@indiana.edu Follow columnist Lexia Banks on Twitter @LexiaBanks.

As a mixed-race American, I was disgusted by Cameron Gerst’s column from Feb. 7, “Coke gets it wrong.”

I won’t deny his right to his own opinion on the merits or drawbacks of this country’s diversity, but in misrepresenting its importance to our nation’s development, his column displayed a poor understanding of America’s history and present-day identity.

Although I missed Coke’s ad when it originally aired, I took a minute to watch it after reading Gerst’s column.

Was the ad a cynical attempt to gain market share by exploiting the heritage of potential customers? It sure looked that way.

Did it misrepresent this country or the people who live here? Not in the least.

To suggest that those Americans whose first language isn’t English — or, good heavens, those of us who don’t speak it at all — somehow don’t belong here, at least not in the way that Anglo-Americans do, betrays a mindset that our society should have outgrown decades ago.

Gerst’s use of the “melting pot” metaphor partly explains his confusion. Despite his claim that “National

identity hinges on unity ... on common culture,” cultural unity is the exception, not the rule, among the countries of the world, as Mikesell points out in “The Myth of the Nation-State” (1983).

I don’t mean to make light of historical assimilation efforts or the resulting injustices, especially against the American Indians, but ultimately those efforts failed, and our country is the richer for it.

It’s certainly true that most countries have not yet resolved the tensions between their peoples. It seems likely that such tensions tie up political and social resources that could be better directed elsewhere.

But to argue that minority groups must either assimilate or suffer exclusion in the supposed interest of the majority is thoughtless at best.

Let me be clear — there is nowhere on Earth that welcomes people of all backgrounds and allows them to be themselves to the extent that America does, and until recently none of our neighbors even came close.

Our country’s success and unique identity owe more to this fact than to any other.

— Tyler Kerr

Although Black History Month can trace its roots back to 1915, the 50th anniversary of emancipation, its true roots began in 1926. This celebration happened in the middle of February and lasted only a week. It was not until 1976 that the celebration spanned an entire month.

But is a month even enough? Why not make every year a Black History Year, where the contributions of black scholars and leaders are acknowledged along with the everyday life of black Americans. To set aside only a month this year seems a bit underwhelming.

Even though a week of celebrating black history began in 1926, when I was growing up in Virginia in the 1960s, not much was said.

And now a whole month is devoted to the celebration and remembrance.

February is a month intentionally set aside as a time to celebrate all of the achievements and contributions of black individuals in the United States.

Truly, this celebration should be year-round. But the purposefulness of setting aside a single month is what gives Black History Month its impact and power.

We should celebrate and

remember all year every ye ar, but in February we should devote significant time to this remembrance.

At IU, this year’s theme is “Let’s Move! Freedom and Wellness in a Civil Society.”

It is a time for the entire campus can focus on a holistic understanding of wellness.

We have set aside a month to ponder freedom and wellness. But it is my hope that this month will run over to next month, the following month and the rest of this year.

This month is a celebration that should continue throughout the entire year. As should every heritage month that we celebrate. Black History Month is a truly important month. It sets the trajectory for the entire year as we work to remember the large and small contributions of all black individuals from the likes of Malcolm X, Carter G. Woodson, Louis Armstrong and Rosa Parks.

I think our celebration should be Black History Year, with a single month, February, set aside to refocus for another year of celebration.

— James Wimbush, vice president for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs at IU

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Barraza and Bohuk said they felt watching and performing in drag helps them express who they truly are, and helps them keep in touch with their femininity as well as their masculinity.

“Drag helps me respect my feminity and fierceness,” Bohuk said. “It lets me go against the way I have to act in society because of heteronormatives. Otherwise I’d be bottled up.”

Barraza has never performed in drag, but for the event he wore six-inch heels.

“I feel more masculine than I ever have probably in my whole life,” Barraza said.

“It has helped me find my own masculinity, and what it means to be a man. Now I’m walking around in the Union at a Big Ten feeling masculine.”

The fraternity wants to attract all kinds of people, Barraza said, even those who haven’t experienced drag or don’t believe they will enjoy it.

“You’ve never seen anything like it,” Buhok said.

“Come to a drag show. We’ll dance for you, we’ll sing for you, come be a drag queen yourself.”

President of Sigma Phi Beta and event judge Brendon McGrayel said the chapter also puts on a drag show because it’s popular and helps them raise money for charity.

“Drag is an essential part of gay subculture,” McGrayel said, “But a lot of people like it so it gets money for sure.

Drag show and the GLBTSSS fit together. It just makes sense.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “He continues to work at it at a very high level. He wants to be a great player, and he really wants to be a great leader.”

Chambers, also speaking on the Big Ten teleconference call, said Ferrell is playing at a high level similar to Michigan’s Nik Stauskus.

“He is playing out of this world,” Chambers said. “He is up there with Stauskas on level of play in this league.”

Vonleh was a big part of IU’s win against Penn State last month. He connected on 5-of-9 shots from the

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Mesmerelda performs at Sigma Phi Beta’s Drag for a Cause on Tuesday at the Wittenberger Auditorium. Each queen and king recieved tips that will be donated to GLBTSSS for scholarships and support.

After all the contestants performed, the winning queen and king from 2013 each performed a final song and dance before the winners of the night’s competition were announced.

Only first prizes were awarded.

Barraza said he is excited for this event in the future

because of its ability to help students find themselves.

“Most people never feel fully confident in themselves until they’re 50 or 60, and that’s 50 or 60 years too late,” Barraza said. “The most important thing I’ve learned from this event is that everyone has the inherent permission to be themselves.”

field and made both of his 3-point attempts. He also pulled down six rebounds.

Chambers said Vonleh was a tough matchup for Penn State in the first game between the teams.

“He got our bigs in foul trouble and did a wonderful job,” Chambers said. “He is a difficult matchup and one that Coach Crean will try to ride if he thinks there is a mismatch.

“We are going to have to try to mix up some coverages and make it uncomfortable for him.”

Transitioning into Penn State, Crean said IU will have to be sharp on offense.

“Defensively, they will sag off players,” Crean said.

“So we are going to have to be creative offensively because they will do some serious sagging off players.

“We have to make sure the ball is moving and our bodies are moving consistently during the game, and that we are taking care of the ball. They, like so many others, do a great job of turning live-ball turnovers into baskets.”

Follow reporter John Bauernfeind on Twitter @JohnBauernfeind.

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around a playground, there are lots of threats out there.”

As executive director of IU Early Childhood Education, he oversees five day cares that serve IU students and faculty.

Amid reports of lax safety standards, the state government is trying to create a safer environment in Indiana day cares the past few years, an issue critics say has been overlooked for decades.

As of July 1, 2013, Indiana child care centers were required to run staff background checks. The state also invested an additional $23 million in child care programs for lowincome Hoosiers.

Despite the efforts, operators and experts said the high cost of regulation, small inspection scope and high turnover of early childhood teachers slows progress.

An untold amount of day cares can operate without licenses because if the number of children is fewer than five in total, they may be exempt.

In Indiana, day cares can be divided into five categories.

The first is licensed day care centers, which have the most regulations. Child Care Development Fund providers are day cares that receive federal funds that serve lowincome parents.

Day cares operated by churches register with the state voluntarily and are inspected twice every year. Licensed day care homes look after between six and 16 children at a residential home.

Day care homes that care for less than five children have no inspection or rules because they can register and operate without a license.

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration Spokesperson Marni Lemons said under current law, the only way to regulate the unlicensed or illegal homes or

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Hanson denied soliciting or promoting prostitution.

He admitted to helping the women with anything they needed and

centers is through filed complaints.

If authorities find a center is operating illegally, they will provide a cease and desist order.

“That’s the extent of what we can do,” Lemons said.

Dunnuck said he doesn’t understand why Indiana requires licenses for fishing and hunting, but a place that takes care of children can be operated without one.

“We believe all centers should have the same requirement,” Dunnuck said.

Indiana House Bill 1036 aims to tighten regulation of unlicensed daycares like church and home day cares.

Opponents claim the bill, in the process of passing to the Indiana Senate, would interfere with the religious freedom of church day cares.

The expense of background checks for workers can also slow the process of improving safety.

Dunnuck said background checks cost him thousands of dollars because he has to pay $40 for each individual staff member for the three licensed centers he oversees.

Some smaller day care centers may have to use money from the professional development budget, which they usually use to train their staff, Dunnuck said.

Jon Racek, the father of two pre-school girls in Bloomington, said it took time to find a day care that was both qualified and affordable.

Of the five day cares Dunnuck oversees, three were licensed. Toddler fees are $240 per week, and infant fees are $254 per week because toddlers and infants need the most attendance.

Racek, an IU faculty member in the Department of Apparel Merchandising & Interior Design, said the cost of day care is too high.

“It costs more than our mortgage,” Racek said.

According to a study by Child Care Aware of America Advocacy Network, an organization that aims to provide information and services to parents across the nation, Indiana is among the least affordable day care states.

A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count shows 50 percent of preschool-aged children come from low-income families in Indiana.

Despite the high cost, the money did not go to the pockets of day care center employees.

“It’s not a money-making business,” Dunnuck said. “I wasn’t able to buy a house for my family until I was 50.”

In recent years, preschool teachers’ average salaries are less than $22,000 nationwide, while bus drivers make $26,000 on average, according to Indeed.com.

Michelle McCready, director of policy for Child Care Aware, said the money is being spent in multiple ways including payrolls, staff training, quality raising and regulation management.

“This is not easy for either the parents or the child care providers,” she said.

Dunnuck said he thinks the state is not doing enough because many people do not care that much about regulation of child care.

Nationwide, Child Care Aware works on projects to increase the quality and availability of child care, undertaking research and advocating child care policies that aim to benefit communities, McCready said.

The proposals will be applicable to all day care centers that receive federal funding.

Unlicensed or illegal day care homes are still off the radar because no one is obligated to supervise them.

“They only need to obey the fire marshal,” Dunnuck said.

setting up the ads on backpage.com.

He also admitted to receiving money from the 37-yearold woman, but did not say how much.

“Probably nearly nothing,” Hanson said.

He told officers the amount of money was not worth it, that he messed up and knew he was going to jail.

Hanson faces preliminary charges of promoting prostitution, a class C felony, and probation violation with bond set at $10,000 surety and $500 cash.

There is a probation hold on Hanson preventing him from bonding out.

— Dennis Barbosa

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A flower Ryan Hoffman made for his wedding cake topper is displayed at Volta Glass Studio. He started the project two days before the wedding.

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Glass vases and toasting glasses sit on a shelf Monday at Volta. Ryan Hoffman, who owns the studio, makes a variety of different pieces, including vases, bottles and beads.

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Ryan Hoffman, owner of Volta Glass Studio, blows a bottle Monday at Volta Glass Studio. Hoffman learned to blow glass in 1998 in Evansville, Ind.

Playing with fire Local glass blower says making art with glass ‘like nothing else on earth’

BY HANNAH FLEACE hfleace@indiana.edu

It is an art born of fire, crafted by lungs and perfected with time. For Ryan Hoffman and his team, it is an art they hope to share with others.

The front room of the Volta Glass Studio is typical. Showcases filled with sculptures laced in color line the room.

Paintings hang on the gray walls, and Hensen, the loveable mutt, investigates newcomers.

On the far wall there is a window that peers into the workshop, the place where their art is fashioned.

Volta Glass Studio officially made its home on Sixth Street in 2011. Hoffman said business started out slow but has begun to grow. Now that it has picked up, he said he has big plans for the future.

“In time, I would like to generate enough interest to potentially turn it into a school,” Hoffman said. “That would be the grand scheme, to have an Indiana glass blowing school.”

Hoffman’s dream is personal, something he said would be great for Bloomington’s rich cultural diversity.

“I feel like it’s something I didn’t have the opportunity for, and if I can create something like that, I think it would just be a great avenue for people — especially in the Midwest because there is not a fluent glass-blowing community,” he said.

Ryan Hoffman embraces his dog Hensen on Monday at Volta Glass Studio. Henson is a one-year-old mutt who stays in the studio during the day.

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Henson, a one-year-old mutt, greets people at the door Monday at the studio.

“I feel like it’s something I didn’t have the opportunity for, and if I can create something like that, I think it would just be a great avenue for people — especially in the Midwest because there is not a fluent glass-blowing community.”

Andrew Hoffman, glass-blower

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Ryan Hoffman blows on the glass Monday at Volta Glass Studio. Hoffman learned to blow glass in 1998 while attending college in Evansville, Ind.

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Ryan Hoffman heats the glass by spinning it in an open flame Monday at Volta.

Hoffman said this dream is still 10 to 20 years out, but he has a plan. He said generating interest and building a team capable of teaching is the groundwork for the school.

“I’m training apprentices,” he said. “I have taken on three apprentices in the course of the last few years that work semi-regularly with me.”

Hoffman said he wants to train a team capable of facilitating a school, creating a staff to work with students and run the studio.

His team consists of four apprentices — Trent Young, Ben Belgrad, Andrew Gandersman and Sam Freeman.

Young is the oldest apprentice at Volta with twoand-a-half years under his belt. He worked at a store that bought glass from Hoffman, and when that job fell through, he joined the Volta team.

Although Young has worked with several art mediums, including stain glass

and sculpture, he said glass blowing is the most difficult.

“The material is like nothing else on earth,” Young said. “Working with the glass and getting it to do what you intend is very challenging in comparison to other mediums.”

He said the risk involved in working with such a hot material is part of the draw.

“The material demands for you to respect it,” Young said. “It keeps you on your toes. You have to pay attention.”

Andrew Gandersman, another of Hoffman’s apprentices, is in his second year at Volta.

His duties mostly revolve around handwork and helping to teach one of the newer apprentices.

Once an IU student, Gandersman left school in pursuit of glasswork. He said Hoffman was his inspiration.

“It was some of the first really nice work I’d seen,” Gandersman said. “Without even meeting him, his work got me into this.”

Gandersman joined the team and, like Hoffman,

grew to love the craft.

“I love the dance,” Gandersman said. “Moving constantly and using my hands every day, shaping things with my bare hands.”

Hoffman said apprentices usually stay a year or two and may be contracted through the studio after to complete pieces.

His first apprenticeship was between 1998 and 2001.

Hoffman began working with glass while he was attending the University of Southern Indiana. His first apprenticeship was under glass artist Dene Stevens.

“He was my first true teacher,” Hoffman said. “I stayed with him for a few years, learning. That’s where I picked up a lot.”

After apprenticing for Stevens, Hoffman traveled to North Carolina where he attended Penland School of Crafts as a student and later a teaching assistant. He credits Penland with giving him a diverse education and becoming the driving force behind his work.

After moving back to Bloomington, Hoffman said

most of his work was done through wedding and event planners.

“Individual wedding planners were handling my work and showing it to clientele,” Hoffman said. “That’s where the grandiose idea of the store came from. It was the avenue to directly market to clientele.”

He said creating a venue for the art to be shown allows the Volta team to expand.

The team creates an array of glasswork from items as small as marbles and necklaces to a combustion chamber for Rolls-Royce.

Hoffman said pendants and marbles are making a comeback. Items like these started his love of glass during childhood.

“I’ve always had interest in glass since I was a kid — marbles and things like that, down to the level of toys, that I think prevailed in the end,” Hoffman said. “I’m back in my childhood, in a sense, playing with toys.”

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Film festival to honor Hoffman FINAL WEEKEND!

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IU Cinema will have a memorial tribute to late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman by screening a film marathon of his best-known work Feb. 18 and 19.

Hoffman was an Academy Award-winning actor who died on Feb. 2. He is known for his wide variety of acclaimed work in film and on Broadway.

“I love Philip Seymour Hoffman as an actor because he was infinitely relatable,” said Brittany Friesner, associate director of IU Cinema.

“No matter which character he played, even if they were seemingly despicable, he managed to completely inhabit them, rooting out their humanity and reflecting back to the audience a piece of themselves.”

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“We were asked if we were going to do anything to honor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and we only had one free day for a film screening, so I thought it would be great to do something big and have a marathon,” Vickers said.

“I thought this would be a great day to honor such a versatile actor like Hoffman.

Though it was a challenge to create and put this event together with the all technical issues and clearing out rights for the show.”

IU Cinema will screen 12 films in 24 hours. It will be free for all students to stay as long as they want. No tickets are necessary, but the cinema can only sit up to 260 people.

The marathon will kick off with the 2010 film “Jack Goes Boating,” Hoffman’s directorial debut.

Other films that will be

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Joaquin Pheonix and Philip Seymore Hoffman star in the Master. IU Cinema will screen12 movies Feb. 18 and 19 featuring Philip Seymore Hoffman, who passed away Feb. 2.

screened at the marathon include “Almost Famous,” “The Savages,” “The Master,” “Doubt” and “Magnolia.”

The 2005 film “Capote,” for which Hoffman received an Academy Award for Best Actor, will also be shown.

“This film marathon is meant to be a friendly environment open for all

individuals to participate in,” Vickers said.

“Philip Seymour Hoffman’s commitment to the craft of acting and his unrealized future artistic output will be missed by all, and we highly encourage participation from all the student body.”

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Hoosiers’ 2014 football schedule released

IU football announced its full schedule for the 2014 season Tuesday.

For the third consecutive season, IU will open the season with a home game against in-state foe Indiana State on Aug. 30.

IU will open the conference season against Maryland in the Terrapins’ first-ever Big Ten game.

The season will conclude with the Old Oaken Bucket clash against Purdue on Nov. 29.

Hoosiers look for defense to slow PSU stars

BY ALDEN WOODS aldwoods@indiana.edu

It’s a problem that has plagued IU for almost every one of its first 21 basketball games this season.

The opponent didn’t matter. The stakes didn’t matter.

In seemingly every game, the Hoosiers allowed the opposing team’s star player to score — and to score in bunches. Opponents’ leading scorers averaged 21.5 points per game during that stretch.

IU didn’t discriminate who it allowed to light up the scoreboard. While Big Ten Player of the Year Gary Harris scored 24 and 26 points in Michigan State’s two games against the Hoosiers, Chicago State’s Clarke Rosenberg scored 27 in IU’s season opener.

For every Rayvonte Rice of Illinois — 49 points in the Illini’s two games against IU — there was a Dallas Moore, who scored 27 against the Hoosiers, despite his North Florida team losing by 21 points.

Their inability to stop star scorers nearly felled the Hoosiers in their first matchup with Penn State this season.

Nittany Lion junior guard D.J. Newbill poured in 24 points in State College, Pa., keeping his team within striking distance of IU before losing 79-76.

IU Coach Tom Crean said Penn State’s versatility on offense challenged IU during the Jan. 11 matchup.

“They are very good on the break and with their half-court offense,” Crean said. “They are very, very good at pull-up jumpers and getting to the rim. They play smart, tough basketball and like to control the pace.”

For 21 games, IU struggled to slow opposing scorers.

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Senior Eric Ress was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Week and senior Darian Schmidt was named the Big Ten Diver of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday.

In a 186-114 win against Purdue on Saturday, Ress had two individual wins as well as two second-place finishes in helping the Hoosiers defeat their in-state rival.

He earned an NCAA Bcut in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing in 1:37.68.

Ress also took the 200yard backstroke victory against the Boilermakers.

Added to his victories, Ress placed second in both the 500-yard freestyle and 400-yard freestyle relay.

Ress has found his stride in the late parts of the season.

During the last two meets of the regular season before the Big Ten meet, Ress won five of his eight events.

Schmidt was named Big Ten Diver of the Week for the seventh time in his career as a Hoosier after diving against Purdue.

He had first-place finishes in both the one-meter and three-meter competitions.

Schmidt’s 397.95 points from the one-meter is a season-best score, and his 450.30 points on the threemeter marks the second time he has scored more than 450 this season.

Both scores are NCAA Zone diving qualifications.

The IU men’s swimming and diving team will compete Feb. 26 at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich.

— Grace Palmieri

IU Coach Tom Crean talks to Noah Vonleh, Kevin “Yogi” Ferrel and Will Sheehey between plays during the game against Michigan on Feb. 2, 2014, at Assembly Hall.

Now, more than a month after that Penn State matchup, the Hoosiers appear to have bucked that trend.

In IU’s last two games — a win against then-No. 10 Michigan and a loss at Minnesota — they held the opposition’s leading scorer to an average of 14.5 points.

That success has been a large part of a defensive rebirth that has seen the

Hoosiers allow only one opponent of its last six — then-No. 3 Michigan State — to score 70 or more points.

IU will look to continue its defensive revival tonight when the Nittany Lions come to Assembly Hall.

Newbill will be joined in Penn State’s offensive attack by graduate student guard Tim Frazier, whose 16.2 points per game trail just 1.5 points per

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This is a must-win The phrase “must-win” is overused in sports.

But when IU (14-9, 4-6) welcomes Penn State (12-12, 3-8) into Assembly Hall, the Hoosiers must win to keep their already slim hopes of being an NCAA tournament team alive.

To go dancing in March, they will have to be pretty close to perfect the rest of the season.

But they still have a chance. If they go 6-2 in the remaining eight games, it would be hard for the committee to keep IU out of the tournament.

But that means going at least 2-2 against Iowa (home), Wisconsin (away), Ohio State (home) and Michigan (away).

That also means the Hoosiers home games against Penn State, Purdue, Northwestern and Nebraska all have to be wins.

The two road games in that cluster are Purdue and Northwestern. And knocking off the Wildcats will be no sure thing, as IU couldn’t beat Northwestern in Assembly Hall.

That makes this matchup tonight against the Nittany Lions that much more vital for IU’s NCAA Tournament aspirations.

So yes, this is a mustwin game.

And luckily for IU fans, this should be a relatively easy victory for the Hoosiers. The Nittany Lions are just 3-8 in the conference, tied with Illinois for the cellar in the Big Ten. IU already beat Penn State this year at University Park by three. It was the team’s first and only road win. Expect the Assembly Hall bump to give IU the extra oomph necessary to beat Penn State for a second time.

The Hoosiers are a different and better team than they were 32 days ago when they beat Penn State for the first time.

Freshman guard Stanford Robinson hadn’t

EVAN HOOPFER is a junior majoring in journalism

emerged yet, and sophomore guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell wasn’t on his current hot streak.

Penn State’s D.J. New guards very well.

The Nittany Lions don’t have anyone who can keep up with Noah Vonleh. But to be fair, not a lot of teams have anyone who can corral Vonleh.

The freshman phenom only played 27 minutes in the last game. Lately, Vonleh has been playing a few more minutes per game.

So expect to see a heavy, heavy dose of Vonleh.

But on the other hand, nothing about this IU team surprises me anymore.

This is the same team that beat then-No.3 Wisconsin and four days later lost to a sub-.500 Northwestern team. Both games were in Assembly Hall, as is this one today.

So if the Hoosiers come out and lay a brick against Nittany Lions, it will be the first brick of building for the 2014-15 season — this current season will be done.

But I don’t see that happening.

IU is too good for Penn State. They have much more talent. And as long as they maintain the focus they need to have over the next eight games, they should take care of the Nittany Lions.

The Hoosiers will win the must-win.

Prediction- IU 68, Penn State 55 Evan Hoopfer is 9-5 in predictions this year.

— ehoopfer@indiana.edu Follow columnist Evan Hoopfer on Twitter @EvanHoopfer.

game behind Newbill’s 17.7.

Crean said the Nittany Lions have yet to find a reliable third scorer, but he thinks sophomore forward Brandon Taylor could step up and be that player.

“If there is one guy who is continuing to flourish, people would think it is Tim Frazier and D.J. Newbill, and they are,” Crean said. “But Brandon Taylor is playing extremely well for

them also.”

Taylor’s 9.8 points per game place him third on Penn State’s roster. Should IU be able to build on its progress on the defensive end and slow Newbill and Frazier, the outcome of tonight’s game could hinge on his ability to score.

Crean said IU is close to getting where he wants it to be and have been overcoming its youth to get there.

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“We are so close,” Crean said. “There are so many corners that you have to turn to be a good basketball team. So we have turned and we want to make sure that we don’t lose sight of that.

“Some we haven’t turned yet. The bottom line is that the more confident these guys get from the experiences they go through and the understanding of it, the better they will be.”

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Hoosiers welcome 7 recruits for 2014

IU prepares to make postseason push

BY SAM BEISHUIZEN sbeishui@indiana.edu

At this point in the IU women’s basketball season last year, the Hoosiers were 10-14 with one lone win in conference, en route to finishing last in the Big Ten. What a difference a year can make.

ESPN women’s basketball bracketologist Charlie Creame has IU projected as a No. 12 seed in next month’s NCAA Tournament. He has the Hoosiers playing No. 5 California in Lexington, Ky. “The Hoosiers sneak back into the field but have a daunting week with Penn State and Nebraska on tap,” Creame wrote.

With six Big Ten regular season games and next month’s Big Ten Tournament left to play, IU has less than one month to pad its résumé and get invited to the big dance.

Monday’s RPI update through NCAA.com has IU ranked as the fourth best team in the Big Ten at No. 39.

IU Coach Curt Miller said he believes IU will need to finish 4-2 to make the NCAA Tournament, and added he believes IU winning two games would get the Hoosiers an invitation to play in the WNIT. IU has not been to the NCAA Tournament since losing to TCU 55-45 in the opening round in 2002. The Hoosiers are 1-4 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, with the lone win coming in 1983 when IU beat Kentucky 87-76.

Because of IU’s youth, Miller said the coaching staff has begun to change

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IU Men’s Soccer Coach Todd Yeagley announced the signing of seven recruits for the 2014 season on Monday.

The seven recruits — defenders Grant Lillard, Tim Mehl and Francesco Moore and midfielders Jay McIntosh, Jake Rufe, Trevor Swartz and Cory Thomas — join four early-enrollees who have already joined the program.

Midfielders Matt Foldesy, Jack Griffith and Michael Riedford and goalkeeper Will Lukowski previously came to IU in January and have begun training with the team.

Yeagley kept the Hoosier state talent pipeline flowing to Bloomington, with three members of the 11-man class — Griffith, Riedford and Thomas — hailing from Indiana.

The recruits will look to fill the shoes of those who left the team which included three players being drafted into the MLS earlier this month.

The Hoosiers finished the 2013 campaign with a record of 8-12-2 and were 2-4 in Big Ten competition.

—Alden Woods

Horoscope Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 5 — Postpone a financial discussion. Wait for a quiet, peaceful moment. Spend more time on love today and tomorrow. There’s no need to buy toys. Have fun with what’s at hand. Go for a hike.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Handle disagreements privately. Enforce rules. Choose solid directions over ephemeral.

Study with quiet discipline. Check out a new neighborhood establishment. Practice with others pays off. Get your body moving.

practice format in recent weeks in an attempt to ensure the freshness of his players as they make a potential postseason run.

By this time of year, the girls basketball high school season is coming to an end for many schools. This is the longest season many of the IU freshmen have played in their careers.

“We still have (six) games left, let alone the tournament,” Miller said. “We’re trying not to over-practice. We’re trying to practice with intensity but for shorter durations and never go too long.”

IU has relied on heavy scouting throughout the season, because the first-year players are seeing their opponents for the first time.

Miller said this part of the schedule has remained the same and will remain crucial down the stretch run of the season.

“We’re trying to keep the preparation for scouting reports the same and trying to keep them on their routine,” he said.

Miller said upperclassmen like senior forward Simone Delaoch have taken on the duty of helping the younger players stay fresh.

Deloach said she remembers what it was like to go through th e long season for LUKE SCHRAM | IDS the first time, and she said Guard Larryn Brooks elevates for a layup Saturday at Assembly Hall. Brooks led Indiana with 22 points and she is doing her part to help the Hoosiers defeated Wisconsin 76-69. the younger players take their “But I’m trying to preach minds off basketball when dinner night definitely helps exciting, but the Hoosiers to keep their mind off the have a long month ahead of to our team that it’s still about needed. the process and (taking it) “We’re going to play bas- stress of basketball and the them.

“Certainly, on Feb. 10, it’s game by game.” ketball, but we’re also here stress of school at times.”

In just his second season really, really fun to even be to educate ourselves and to Follow reporter learn,” Deloach said. “Taking at the helm of the program, talking about this subject,” Sam Beishuizen on Twitter little trips to the mall or seeing Miller said the possibility of Miller said on his radio show @Sam_Beishuizen. a movie or even having family playing in the postseason is Monday.

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Send love to one who loves you.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — Today and tomorrow are good for financial planning.

Find a new option to high costs.

Add to your savings instead.

Postpone expansion, distracted by a beneficial development. Don’t gamble. A partner sets a social date. Review accomplishments.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Costs overruns could throw surprises. Stick to budget, and finish work. Make big changes without spending money. Entertain creative suggestions. Your partner’s the teacher. Get outdoors.

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Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day dining options Restaurants around Kirkwood Avenue will offer special Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day menus for couples looking for a night out. Due to high demand of tables on this day dedicated to love, reservations are recommended.

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Much like in the U.S., where I have heard waiters can get paid as low as $3 an hour, these waiters would be rushed to increase volume and, therefore, their pay.

American waiters make up the difference by getting tips.

I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what the French do to make up the difference.

Since I know we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually tip outside of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built in the price, I can only assume that the more customers the waiters serve, the better their pay is.

Unfortunately, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think anything will change soon for the plight of the cafĂŠ worker.

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Visiting a Parisian cafĂŠ is probably one of the more touristy activities to partake in, along with buying street crĂŞpes. However, there is something to be said about how relaxed cafĂŠ culture is here.

In the United States, if I were to sit down in a restaurant and only order a coffee, I might get a weird look from the waiter. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just me, but I felt that if I sat down somewhere, I had to order food.

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just sit and nurse a drink in the States like they do here in Paris.

Personally, I think it is because of the tip pressure on waiters.

People donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really tip in Paris. Gratuity is included in the price of a meal. If I were to sit down rather than take my coffee straight at the bar, it will jump in price by a euro. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I have never felt rushed to leave â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I am not being pushed out the door to make way for an empty-stomached diner.

However, there are always exceptions to this rule â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tourist traps.

I was talking about this with my host mother the other day. We were discussing touristy things to do in Paris on one of my free weekends, and I mentioned Angelina, a place well known for their hot chocolate. She quickly talked me out of it.

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Several Bloomington restaurants will offer special menus to diners in honor of Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day on Friday.

Here are a few options.

RT RESTAURANT TALLENT The downtown establishment that prides itself on its organic, Indiananative cuisine, will have a three-course menu on Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. Tuna crudo, chopped salad, beet and goat cheese ravioli and truffled white bean soup are all options for the first course. EntrĂŠe options include WE Farm chicken cacciatore, scallops, bistecca and lasagna.

Dessert choices include tiramisu, Robiolo due latti and ricotta zeppole.

The price is $55 per person.

SI SCHOLARS INN GOURMET CAFĂ&#x2030; & WINE BAR A four-course meal will be served at an exclusive

Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day dinner at Scholars Innâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 717 N. College Ave. location. Main course options include aged filet mignon, grilled pork loin, roasted chicken and blackened salmon.

Cost is $65 per person and does not include beverages, tax or gratuity.

FB FINCHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRASSERIE The Kirkwood restaurant will serve a wild mushroom crepe appetizer, pan seared scallops and grilled beef tenderloin entrees, and a raspberry semifreddo and meringue dessert.

Appetizers are $12, entrees are $30 to $32 and desserts are $8.

IL THE IRISH LION RESTAURANT AND PUB The Irish restaurant will have a Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day wine dinner.

Diners will start with grilled prosciutto-wrapped duets of roasted shrimp and pineapple paired with a

special wine. EntrĂŠe choices include Lobster Newburg with bowtie pasta or port wine-braised lamb shank with white cheddar potato cake. Chocolate-laced, poached pomegranate-infused pear, served with Greystone merlot, will be available for dessert.

The dinner is scheduled from 4 to 10 p.m. Feb. 14 and 15 and costs $50 per person plus gratuity and tax.

TO TOPOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 403 The Greek and Mediterreanean restaurant will serve a three-course prix fixe menu. Entrees include seared red snapper, lemonthyme crusted Amish chicken, vegetable risotto and Heartland Farms strip loin.

The cost is $60 per person.

FA FARMBLOOMINGTON Chef Daniel Orrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s locally-focused restaurant will serve a five-course Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dinner. Main course

options include slow-roast pork shoulder, black angus petit filet, curry broiled salmon, grilled chicken breast, forest mushrooms and sweet pea risotto.

RESTAURANT TALLENT 208 N. Walnut St. 812-330-9801 restauranttallent.com SCHOLARS INN 717 N. College Ave. 812-332-1892 scholarsinn.com FINCHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRASSERIE 514 E. Kirkwood Ave. 812-333-2700 finchsbrasserie.com IRISH LION 212 W. Kirkwood Ave. 812-336-9076 irishlion.com TOPOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 403 403 N. Walnut St. 812-676-8676 topos403.com

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