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Provost releases Strategic Plan FROM IDS REPORTS

The Office of the Provost released the new IU Strategic Plan late Wednesday afternoon to be reviewed and open to public comment.

Provost Lauren Robel will discuss the plan during a town meeting March 4 and the State of the Campus Address March 25.

“The important thing to know about the plan that’s up now is that, while it’s a product of a lot of people’s thought, it is a draft,” Robel said at the Bloomington Professional Council meeting shortly after the plan was released. “So I really do want your comments and thoughts about it.”

The plan discusses six main categories — undergraduate life, graduate education, research, faculty development, globalization

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ROBEL TALKS NEW ADVISING Read more about the IU Strategic Plan on page 2.

Motorist killed in crash

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IU Coach Curt Miller talks to players during the game against Michigan on Wednesday at Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers lost 70-58 after leading 32-26 at the half. It was IU’s third consecutive loss and ninth in its last 12 games.

Hoosiers continue slide with loss to Michigan

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A motorist died in a two-car accident Wednesday on State Road 46.

While driving east on SR 46, one of the drivers involved in the crash crossed a patch of ice, which caused the driver to lose control approaching a curve in the road, Monroe County Sheriff ’s Department Chief Deputy Michael Pershing said.

The vehicle crossed the center line and collided into another westbound car, striking it in the front passenger side.

Because the coroner had not yet notified the deceased drivers’ family, Pershing would not say which driver had died, nor offer any other information about their identities.

The other driver, who survived but suffered injuries, was taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital, Pershing said.

— Dennis Barbosa

State board reviews academic standards

BY SYDNEY MURRAY slmurray@indiana.edu

The Indiana State Board of Education is currently in the process of reviewing the Indiana Academic Standards. Last spring, the Indiana General Assembly passed House Enrolled Act 1427, which asked the SBOE to conduct a review and implement the new standards by July 1, 2014.

The SBOE must review current standards, as well as establish college and career readiness standards.

SBOE member Brad Oliver said HEA 1427 was created because some Hoosiers were concerned about the Common Core State Standards and didn’t feel Indiana had reviewed them before implementation.

Final adoption of the new academic standards is scheduled for SEE STANDARDS, PAGE 6

BY SAM BEISHUIZEN sbeishui@indiana.edu

IU women’s basketball maintained a six-point halftime lead against Michigan with a chance to add a conference win and move one step closer toward clinching a postseason bid, only to see it slip away.

Michigan (17-10, 8-6) outscored IU (17-9, 4-9) 44-26 in the second half and handed the Hoosiers their third consecutive loss, 70-58.

With only three regular-season games remaining — two of which are on the road — IU Coach Curt Miller said the loss at home was a missed opportunity.

“We knew this was a very big week, and we don’t talk about it with the team, but the coaching staff knows that it’s a big week,” Miller said.

Senior forward Simone Deloach agreed Michigan was a winnable game, but the Hoosiers lost their resilience during the second half.

SEE IUWBB, PAGE 6 GERARDOT FINDS ROLE AT IU Read more about the first-year transfer player on page 5.

Center Sasha Chaplin goes for a jump shot during the game against Michigan on Wednesday at Assembly Hall.

Roy to perform 10th show at Comedy Attic

BY ANTHONY BRODERICK aebroder@indiana.edu

Comedy Attic owner Jared Thompson said comedian John Roy is severely underrated.

On Feb. 20 through Feb. 22, Roy will be performing his recordbreaking 10th show at the Comedy Attic. Depending on the day, ticket prices range from $6 to $12.

“I honestly believe that John Roy is not only one of the funniest comedians I know, but also one of the most criminally underrated ones,” Thompson said.

“I truly believe he should have been recognized more than he already is right now. Our audiences and everyone else at the Comedy Attic love him and we strongly believe in his career.”

Currently living in West Hollywood, Roy has had many key appearances throughout his years.

He has appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, the Tonight Show and Conan.

He also performed duringBloomington’s Limestone Festival last year, and has a podcast called “Don’t Ever Change” that discusses teenage life and high school stories.

John Roy is one of the few acts who performs at the Comedy Attic twice a year. Thompson said Roy is distinct in because his standup act consists of his old material mixed with his newer material.

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Comedian John Roy will headline at the Comedy Attic tonight, Friday and Saturday.

This will be Roy’s 10th time performing at the Comedy Attic.

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Sphere-screen to display Olympic history Students can see the Olympics like never before tonight in the Cyberinfrastructure building.

A map of the history of the Winter Olympics from 1924 will be displayed on

IU’s Science on a Sphere, a six-foot sphere illuminated by high-definition projectors.

The viewing will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the atrium.

IUSA considers new Congress, Google Glass

BY DANI CASTONZO dcastonz@indiana.edu

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IU students pose during a mock wedding outside Alumni Hall Wednesday. Students from INPIRG, an independent student organization, ran the photo petition to “mock the idea that corporations are people,” INPIRG campus coordinator Matt Gough said.

INPIRG mock wedding protests Citizens United

BY KATHRINE SCHULZE schulzek@indiana.edu

After months of planning and preparation for the big day, McDonald’s and Monsanto were married yesterday during a small ceremony in the Indiana Memorial Union.

They came out of the IMU not as man and wife, but as one merged company.

INPIRG, a student activist organization on campus, organized the mock corporate wedding Wednesday to educate students about the power corporations have in politics.

“We think that’s fundamentally wrong and we’re educating students and working long-term to pass resolutions through the IUSA to support the overturning of Citizens United,” said Matthew Gough, campus coordinator for INPIRG. The group married the world’s largest fast food chain and Monsanto, an agricultural biotechnology company.

“We’re having a corporate wedding to show people how silly it is to treat corporations like people,” Joshua Coker, junior and member of INPIRG, said.

Senior Helena Correa played the part of McDonald’s, while Coker represented Monsanto.

Correa said McDonald’s sells genetically modified foods, but also frequently lobbies in the government.

McDonald’s spent more than $1 million on campaigning during the 2012 elections, Correa said.

Gough said the wedding shows the absurdity of the Citizens United decision.

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is a Supreme Court case from 2010 that prohibits the government from restricting corporate spending in political campaigns.

The decision granted many of the same rights to corporations as people were entitled

to, declaring corporate personhood.

“Corporate personhood is a doctrine that’s developed in our laws where corporations are allowed the rights that are afforded to people under the constitution, and we’re protesting it because corporations aren’t people,” Coker said. “It’s a big part of the corruption of our democratic system.”

Bruce Neswick, an associate professor of organ in the Jacobs School of Music, stopped on his way through the IMU to take a photo with McDonald’s and Monsanto and sign their petition.

“I’m just thrilled to see you guys involved and concerned, and I’m concerned too,” Neswick said. “I think part of the environmental demise of our planet is because of this food production.”

Follow reporter Kathrine Schulze on Twitter @KathrineSchulze.

Robel talks Strategic Plan, new career advising trials

BY KATHRINE SCHULZE schulzek@indiana.edu

Provost Lauren Robel announced the release of the IU Strategic Plan, answered the council’s questions and noted its concerns during the Bloomington Professional Council meeting Monday.

The plan, which outlines campus goals for the next five years as a lead-up to the bicentennial, is now open for public comment.

Robel said she wants faculty to focus on a long-term plan that helps every student.

“I think that that’s all the way through, in every piece of this plan there will be professional staff will be able to say, ‘If we really think about high-impact practices, for instance, here are the kinds of actual implementation steps we ought to be taking,’” Robel said.

Some council members were concerned about their part in the strategic plan.

As professionals at IU, they said they didn’t immediately see how the plan affected them.

“I think really just branching with professional staff in implementing the plans and

bringing ideas to the table in how we can excel in these areas,” said Jennifer Pearl, director of global health partnerships in the School of Public Health.

Robel said there were professional staff members on the planning teams because she believes professionals implement new practices.

“What will appear in here is pretty meta, pretty macro level,” Robel said. “On the website there will also be a lot of reports of teams. Not all of that implementation is going to go into this plan.

“We will put together separate implementation reports for each of the elements of this plan, and someone’s got to own each of these objectives,” she said. “That’s the place where I could use your help a lot — in thinking about the what and the how.”

She said career advising in the new School of Global and International Studies and the Media School will be a trial run for the rest of the University.

“The way the college is thinking this through right now, if I understand it correctly, is they’re trying to take the new schools ... and build

within those two entities a prototype for what career advising should look like across the college, and then do the more specific,” Robel said.

“Divide the college up into manageable bites, because it is huge.”

The plan includes efforts to expand the presence of arts and humanities on campus, Robel said.

“There’s a proposal for a broad, campus-level center for the arts and humanities, and the goal of that is really to bring together the impact of all of the cultural institutions we have in Bloomington that are just phenomenal,” she said.

Robel said in many ways, an educator’s job is to ensure the arts and humanities are supported.

Tony Walker, a senior electronics engineer in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, said he supported the goals Robel discussed at the meeting.

“I think more exposure to diversity, sort of broader education is good, because the truth is that most people will not do the thing that they went to school for when they graduate.”

IU Student Association members discussed Google Glass, IUanyWare and new Congress members at this week’s executive meeting.

IUSA plans to order Google Glass, a pair of glasses that displays a screen to the eyes and operates with a touch screen and voice command, for use on campus.

Google Glass costs $1,500, and IUSA said they will order only one pair at this time.

Students plan to use the advanced technology to develop software, Chief of Technology Trey Weeks said.

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The service has been around for the last three or four years, but members said the resource that was not well advertised.

They said it could be especially useful during midterms and finals week.

IUSA members agreed to try and spread this information to students, especially freshmen.

“It’s our responsibility to tell students about this useful resource,” Chief of Staff Dia Sharma said.

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Teams Talented Tenth, Higher Purpose and Woodson compete at the Black Knowledge Bowl, an event that tests the student’s knowledge of the history, science and politics of African Americans in the United States, on Wednesday at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

Jeopardy-style game show quizzes about Black history

BY JAVONTE ANDERSON ja69@indiana.edu

The buzzer rang. The pressure mounted as the 10-second time limit dwindled away.

“Who is Marcellus Neal and Francis Marshall?”

Junior Isaiah Sloss knew the answer.

He correctly named the first African-American man and woman to graduate from IU. A coterie of IU students gathered at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center to showcase their knowledge about African-American history during Wednesday’s Black Knowledge Bowl.

Sloss’ team, Higher Purpose, emerged victorious for the third-consecutive year.

They dominated the competition from start to finish, holding a 3,900-point lead heading into the Final Jeopardy round.

Organized in honor of Black History Month, the bowl is an academically competitive program that tests students’ knowledge of academic disciplines relevant to African-American history, according to Neal-Marshall’s website.

Presented in the “Jeopardy” television show format, the competition quizzed teams of undergraduate students in various categories such as Black Sports, Black in the Day and Fight the Power.

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software that not a lot of other universities have access to,” Weeks said.

Weeks said the order should be in this week, and will be available for student use in a month or so.

At the last meeting, senior and Vice President of Congress Scott Borer said he had to fire some Congress members who weren’t showing up to meetin gs.

Six of those spots have been filled as of Wednesday’s meeting.

Members also discussed IUanyWare, which Weeks said is an unused technological resource through UITS. IUanyWare allows students to access IU-licensed software without needing to install them,

“The idea was to have a jeopardy game show with black history facts,” NealMarshall Director Stephanie Power-Carter said.

The participants were not told of the categories in the competition ahead of time, but they were given study guides to prepare.

Sloss said his team were dedicated with their preparation for the bowl, which helped them emerge victorious.

“We put together our hard work to win this competition,” Sloss said.

Juniors Aaryn Eady, Mustapha Baryoh and Brandon McGhee, all members of Higher Purpose, said they plan to return next year for a four-year sweep.

Aside from the $300 prize, they said their friendship motivates them to compete every year.

“We’re also friends, so it makes it easy to work with these guys,” Baryoh said.

The bowl is one of many events this month to educate the IU community about African-American history.

“It’s another way to educate people about the contributions that blacks have made in the United States and globally,” Power-Carter said.

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Housing insurance might not cover f lood damages FROM IDS REPORTS

The National Weather Service issued a flood or flash flood warning for today due to melting snow and predicted thunderstorms.

Flooding, the report said, could last through March.

Maps showing areas most susceptible to flooding are available on the Indiana government website. According to these maps, the area south of Second Street surrounding Clear Creek is considered a flood plain.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency warns residents to be aware that their housing insurance policies may not include flood insurance, according to a press release from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.

The vast majority of the 2.8 million homes remain uninsured from floods, the release said. According to an Indiana fact sheet released by the National Flood Insurance

State board chooses I-69 contractor On Wednesday morning the Indiana Finance Authority Board selected a team led by an international company to design, build and maintain Interstate 69 Section 5 from Bloomington to Martinsville. The proposal is still subject to Gov. Pence’s approval.

IU ranks first in state for completion rates College completion data highlights disparity in race, part-time and full-time students The Commission for Higher Education recently released information on students’ college completion rates statewide. On-time completion is at 49.7 percent for IU.

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The Jordan River overflowed and flooded small sections of campus after a downpour Sept. 19, 2013.

Program, only 32,500 flood insurance policies are in effect statewide.

Twenty-two thousand of these policies are in effect in high-risk areas, but the fact sheet reported this represents only about 2 percent of households, leaving many residents at risk.

Disaster assistance can be contacted in the event of a flood, but without flood insurance, the costs of these management services can be

a problem.

The National Flood Insurance Program website estimated the cost of damage incurred by just one inch of flooding for a 1,000 square foot home would be about $10,600.

A typical flood insurance policy typically takes 30 days from application and payment to go into effect, according to the release.

STATE GOAL To have the state of Indiana’s college completion rate at 50 percent by 2018.

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Monroe County deputies chased a suspect in a stolen vehicle for more than 20 miles away from Bloomington into Morgan County Wednesday.

County deputies received a call just before 10 a.m. about a stolen car, Monroe County Sheriff ’s Department Chief Deputy Michael Pershing said.

Shortly after the vehicle was reported stolen, county

deputies saw a vehicle matching the description on North Walnut Street.

The driver refused to pull over and headed north on State Road 37, Pershing said.

The Morgan County Sheriff ’s Department and Indiana State Police assisted in the pursuit after the suspect crossed the county line into Morgan County.

The suspect was taken into custody after blowing past State Road 44 on 37 into

Martinsville and driving over stop sticks, which are devices routinely used by police during chases to gradually deflate tires.

Around 1 p.m. Wednesday the suspect had not been booked into the Monroe County jail yet, Pershing said, but he expected the suspect would be charged with resisting arrest and possession of a stolen vehicle.

— Dennis Barbosa

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For every 100 students that start school, 53 will complete in 4 years and 83 will complete college in 8 years.

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The proposal by Isolux Infrastructure Netherlands B.V. would complete the project for $325 million.

Construction will begin later in 2014, and the 21 new miles of interstate are scheduled to open by the end of 2016.

Out of the 16 public colleges in Indiana, IU-Bloomington has the highest rate of on-time degree completion and total completion.

IU’s on-time completion rate is 49.7 percent.

Purdue-West Lafayette has the second-best rate with 37.6 percent and Ball State is third with 32.6 percent, according to data released by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

The total completion rate includes students who take longer than expected to complete a degree or complete

a different degree than they started.

According to the statewide report, one out of every 10 students completes a two-year degree on time, and three out of every 10 students finish a four-year degree on time.

For Indiana public fouryear colleges, the on-time graduation rate is 31 percent for white students, 19 percent for Hispanic students and 11 percent for black students.

Last week, Gov. Mike Pence announced Indiana was one of only three states selected to lead a national initiative aimed at ensuring

more college students graduate on time and with less debt.

The effort will combine highly-structured degree programs, default course schedules and proactive advising practices that simplify choices for students and provide clearer paths to on-time graduation, according to a press release.

Indiana’s work will be supported by a three-year grant valued at $1 million in financial and technical assistance, according to the release.

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DANE IN REAL LIFE

Equality, no matter what the state says

Noose found on Ole Miss integration statue Authorities are investigating a noose and a state flag with Confederate imagery placed at an integration memorial on the campus of the University of Mississippi. The statue – depecting James Meredith, Ole Miss’ first

black student – was dedicated in 2006 to commemorate the university’s progress since desegregation.

Yet by the looks of it, some at Ole Miss still have a while to go on the road to tolerance.

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DANE MCDONALD is a senior majoring in journalism.

Celebrities have been coming out for years.

Ellen DeGeneres did it on the cover of Time magazine in 1997. Lance Bass did it on the cover of People magazine in 2006.

Zachary Quinto came out quietly in an interview with New York Magazine in 2011.

Gradually, throughout time, it’s become quite the non-issue. Kind of like saying, “Hey, everyone.

Guess what? I’m a vegetarian.” ‘Cause, you know, big deal.

Yet, as sexuality and gender identity slowly becomes the prejudices of yesteryear, public figures like actress Ellen Page acknowledging her homosexuality still bring a tear to my eye.

It really doesn’t register all that much to me that Page, an Academy Award-nominee for 2007’s “Juno,” is a lesbian.

I’m still going to see her next film because she’s a damn good actress. I’m still going to be drawn to her on screen because she’s an engaging presence. Heterosexual men can still find her attractive because she’s a beautiful person.

Her sexuality is not limiting to her professional life. It doesn’t apply to any of those previously mentioned parameters, or many parameters at all.

In fact, it really only applies to Page herself and whoever she chooses to have a relationship with.

But as Page stood on stage at a Human Rights Campaign event on Valentine’s Day, she represented a heroism we, unfortunately, still must see today as bravery.

Even though the debate over House Joint Resolution 3, which would create a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Indiana, is tabled until 2015 or 2016, we still need people like Page to remind us being gay is OK. The example being set

by Indiana legislators seriously considering and fighting for an outright constitutional ban on same-sex marriage is appalling, and they should be ashamed.

Ashamed that an actress, a profession not entirely known for its guidebook to role-model ethics, is setting a better example than an elected representative.

But then again, I guess I shouldn’t expect that much from politicians.

That’s what “House of Cards” is teaching me anyway.

I can only hope young Hoosiers across the state will listen to Page’s message of acceptance and not the statehouse’s proposed message of bigotry.

Children and teens shouldn’t be sentenced to an adolescence of fear because the officials they weren’t even old enough to vote for don’t have their interests at heart.

Ellen Page is on the right side of history, and I implore Indiana to join her in the coming years. wdmcdona@indiana.edu Follow columnist Dane McDonald on Twitter @thedevilwearsdm.

EMMA WENNINGER is a sophomore majoring in wEnglish.

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WE SAY: #SochiProblems are indeed legit Russian President Vladimir Putin and his friends in the Kremlin are unperturbed by their attention-grabbing expenditures in their most lavish pet project yet.

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will reportedly cost $50 billion after all is said and done. This sum would make these Games the most expensive in history, exceeding the $44 billion for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and more than four times the original budget of $12 billion.

But far from the smooth and jaw-droppingly spectacular rollout of Beijing, journalists and athletes arriving in Sochi last week were treated to a rash of problems and a torrent of embarrassing pictures flowing out through Twitter via “#sochiproblems.”

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believes when all factors are considered, we are within our rights to look at what happened in Sochi and ask both Russia and the International Olympic Committee what went wrong.

The Twitter pictures have no doubt resulted in many chuckles, and journalists who have endured long flights want to have a hot shower and a warm bed. But when they are being confronted with dirty water or no shower curtains, they have the right to complain.

Call it first world problems or not, this is a simple construction failure, especially when these are supposed to be expensive, state-of-the-art hotels.

But if preparing for the largest event in the world and massive overspending cannot clean up a rather sleepy

costal town, then the lead-up to the Games has been an unmitigated disaster.

In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Jean-Claude Killy, who is the head of the coordination committee of the IOC, said the developers of the hotels and sporting venues had concentrated first on the arenas, but were lagging on the hotels.

The hotel situation is not the only concern. High costs have plagued the construction of not only the Olympic venues, but the creation of the infrastructure itself. There are stories of the $9.4 billion road and rail link as well as the $228 million ski jump.

Additional security concerns also might have played a role in inflating the budget.

Putin’s larger hopes that Sochi will one day become a ski

destination rivaling that of Aspen or Chamonix should be tempered when journalists give this seaside town all of their coverage instead of focusing on the unusual stains on the bed.

No Olympiad is ever problem-free and even one as cheap as London had its concerns that later proved to be unfounded. But when a country hails it’s playing host to the Winter Olympics with such pomp and fanfare and claims that “Sochi is going to become a new world-class resort for the new Russia,” the press should not shy away from speaking its mind.

Even if the problems are indeed of the first-world variety.

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ON THE DAILY

The dark side of Disney Like almost every child, I grew up with Disney movies. In my squeaky 2-year-old voice I could — very poorly — belt out all the words to nearly every Disney princess song.

These songs gave and continue to give me so much joy that my roommate and I blast “Let it Go” from Disney’s latest masterpiece, “Frozen.”

The songs are undeniably catchy. However, the movies seem much darker than I remember as a kid.

“Frozen” was the first Disney movie I had seen in quite a while. Easily the oldest people in the theater, with the exception of parents, my friend and I excitedly sat to view the movie many had spoken so highly of.

To date, the film has grossed about $1 billion worldwide.

For those who have not seen the film, watch for spoilers ahead.

Immediately, I was

shocked by the quick deaths of characters, specially given the nature of “Frozen” as a Disney movie. The event was quickly forgotten as the plot continued.

Still, it seemed Disney was interested in making audiences feel desperation — both young and old — in Idina Menzel’s character, Elsa.

After accidentally turning her sister’s heart to ice, Anna returns home for the one cure — a kiss from her true love, which turns out to be a power play by a prince with 12 older brothers desperate for power. With this in mind, it seems Disney is increasingly unafraid to include darker subject matter into its familyfriendly movies.

Surprisingly, this does not bother Disney fans. In fact, many are applauding their choice to make Anna’s first love not work out. It is relatable, with 40 to 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, It appeals to parents, but

to kids it presents darker themes of deception they are too young to think about.

Despite your opinion on Hans’ fraudulent behavior, the final scenes of “Frozen” follow Disney’s pattern of darkness that may not actually be so new.

In “the Little Mermaid,” Ursula turns Ariel’s father into a polyp — a weird shriveled up seaweed thing. Films like “Tangled” and “Beauty and the Beast,” the protagonist’s love interest is killed trying to protect her.

What makes “Frozen” different is the protagonist herself is in harm’s way to protect her sister.

As Hans prepares to murder Elsa after telling her of Anna’s passing — that is, in fact, not true — Anna commits an act of true love and saves her sister, sacrificing herself in the process.

There was an audible gasp in the movie theater. My friend and I turned to each

ALEXIS DAILY is a freshman majoring in English.

other, both of us in disbelief Disney would display something so mature in a movie rated PG. There was a part of me that wondered if Anna would thaw, or if the movie would end on a somber note.

The kids in the theater, though, could not understand why the adults were so shaken by the scene. One sitting behind me asked his mom if he could get more popcorn over Elsa’s sobs.

As kids we cannot comprehend more complex themes. Still maybe we should question whether Disney should expose young children to such mature themes in the first place.

— aledaily@indiana.edu

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In 2007, FairTest.org, a nonprofit dedicated to ending the misuse of standardized testing, published “Gender Bias on College Admissions Tests,” explaining why it was that girls statistically receive lower SAT scores than boys even though girls statistically do better in high school and college than boys.

The College Board has since decided to redesign the SAT. I can’t say how much influence FairTest.org had, but College Board’s three goals all boil down to making the test more fair, more accessible and more appealing to universities.

But if any reform is to be done, the gender gap must be addressed.

There is a 30-point difference in SAT scores between male and female students that remains unexplained. In 1989, a federal judge went so far as to ban New York universities from using SAT scores alone to award scholarships, since the tests were not, and are not, accurate predictors of a student’s success in college.

They were also not accurate predictors of females’ success in college.

No one could explain why girls did better in school, but not better on the standardized tests.

FairTest.org highlights two major areas that need to change.

First, there are biased questions on the test.

When the first reforms were conducted, statistics showed females scored higher on the verbal sections of the test than boys, while boys did statistically better in math.

The verbal section was balanced with questions about sports and business so boys’ scores rose, while nothing was done to balance the math section.

Boys, obviously, began doing better.

The second area of concern was the speed of the tests.

Studies have shown females and males approach problem-solving differently — fast tests don’t allow females the time necessary to answer each question accurately.

When the time constraints were lifted or lengthened, it was found that females did markedly better on their exams.

I think these are easy reforms. If College Board can balance the verbal section, then it can balance the math section.

If the test is already four hours long, it won’t kill anyone to go a little longer.

The SAT is a massive part of students’ lives, and such a definitive score, having it be a gender-biased test is ridiculous.

It only contributes to the larger sexism problem, and it is wildly unfair.

If these reforms are going to do anything, College Board needs to consider the girls too. eweinning@indiana.edu Follow columnist Emma Wenninger on Twitter @EmmaWenninger.

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Inspectors give Assembly Hall all-clear A review of the structural integrity of Assembly Hall determined the 42-year-old building is safe and all steel framing is secure, IU Athletics Director Fred Glass said the day after a 50-pound piece of steel fell into the lower bowl.

“We have been told that (inspectors) are confident that they’ll be able to ... give us a 100-percent all clear and confirmation that the plating is secure and Assembly Hall is safe,” Glass said.

One and done

During her first and only season at IU, Gerardot establishes herself as leader

BY SAM BEISHUIZEN sbeishui@indiana.edu

Tabitha Gerardot walked into her coach’s office knowing her time playing basketball for Valparaiso was over.

Gerardot was sweating.

She was nervous. She hates disappointing people.

From the moment she woke up after her final game of her junior season in 2013, before she had even opened her eyes, Gerardot was analyzing her options.

She wrote everything she was going to say in a notebook over and over again. But practicing and doing were two profoundly different things when a basketball scholarship was at stake.

Gerardot was a standout player for Valparaiso, an AllConference player. She was the star.

After about two weeks of scrutinizing, Gerardot composed herself one final time and told her coach she was leaving it all behind.

She told her coaches she would not return for her senior season at Valparaiso. Valpariso Coach Tracey Dorow provided her a letter of contact on the spot and told her she could transfer to any team outside of the Horizon League.

The next morning, Gerardot received a call from IU Coach Curt Miller.

“I knew he was interested right after I got the contract,” Gerardot said. “And I knew I wanted to go there.”

She signed her letter of intent just after graduating from Valparaiso in three years.

Gerardot would join IU’s women’s basketball team and pursue a master’s degree in linguistics.

The match seemed puzzling. Gerardot was transferring to a school she beat last season.

In fall 2013, starting as a graduate student in fall 2013 with one year of eligibility remaining, Gerardot was committing to a struggling program in the second year of a six-year rebuilding plan.

The pairing was unlikely, but Gerardot was determined to make IU her new home.

Her journey to Bloomington was far from typical.

She was homeschooled until she started at Canterbury High School in Fort Wayne her freshman year — a college preparatory school known more for rigorous education than producing basketball stars.

Gerardot calls herself a homebody. Switching from home school to Canterbury was a leap, but a necessary one if she was serious about playing college ball.

As a high school standout at Canterbury, Gerardot led the Cavaliers to three state championships. She was the state tournament’s most valuable player in 2008 and 2010.

In her senior season, she was an Indiana All-Star and a First Team All-State selection.

She ended her high school career with 1,944 points and graduated as Canterbury’s alltime career leader in rebounds with 1,157 made.

When Gerardot left Canterbury to go to Valparaiso, she left her home and family behind.

“It was a big decision to leave,” Gerardot said, “but I realized that if I didn’t do those things that I wouldn’t grow in the areas I really needed to grow in.” * * * Gerardot is driven by faith.

Her parents are both religious people, but Gerardot said she they never pushed her to follow in their footsteps.

Her faith and commitment to God was her own decision, she said, and is a major part of who she is.

“I think that’s the biggest thing about me that influences my life,” she said. “To realize that He’s watching all the time

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Senior Tabitha Gerardot watches team introductions before IU’s game against Michigan on Wednesday at Assembly Hall. Gerardot, in her first season at IU, averages 9.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.

and cares what we do — that’s what motivates me.”

Miller often talks about needing to build a championship locker room before building a championship team.

He said the foundation of a rebuilding process is having the right personalities in the locker room at leadership positions to set the tone for the program.

Gerardot is the model Miller wants his players to follow, and why he wanted her to be a Hoosier.

“It’s not only on the court, intangible things that we believe are very important to our program,” Miller said. “It’s how you carry yourself off the court.”

But as Gerardot will tell you, she’s far from a perfect person.

She admits sometimes she takes things too seriously and risks putting too much pressure on herself and her young teammates to perform well. Miller said since coming to IU, Gerardot’s teammates have helped her learn to relax more.

“Our team, on the other hand, has allowed Tabitha to lighten up a little bit and to realize you can still be a real Christian kid, you can still do all the right things, but you are allowed to have fun,” he said. “The team has coached Tabitha into letting her guard down and having more fun and not taking everything so serious.”

has sometimes led to her overanalyzing situations on the court.

“Sometimes I pay too close attention to details, and what people say and on the competitive floor what you say isn’t always what people mean,” Gerardot said. * * * Gerardot is a one-and-done player at IU. Despite the Hoosiers’ recent history of struggles — IU was predicted to finish last in the Big Ten in the preseason coaches’ poll — Gerardot said she came to IU hoping to help the Hoosiers have a chance at an NCAA Tournament run.

It’s a dream she has had since she was a little kid.

“I have wanted to play in the NCAA Tournament forever,” Gerardot said. “When I came here, that was exactly what I wanted to do.”

During recruitment, Miller explained the potential of

the incoming freshman class helped sell Gerardot on joining the team.

Her decision to come to IU has resulted in her being a part of the most successful start to a season in IU women’s basketball history.

“She’s definitely a key to our team,” senior forward Simone Deloach said. “It’s just been great to have her for this last year. She’s definitely contributed a lot.”

With three regular season games remaining before the Big Ten Tournament and a potential NCAA Tournament run begins, Gerardot said the closing stretch of the Big Ten season is crucial.

She came to IU for a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament, and she said she intends to keep pushing herself in quest for a chance to go to the big dance.

“I’m excited about what has happened with our record, but we’re still fighting,” Gerardot said. “We’ve got more

games to play and they’re all going to matter, especially towards the NCAAs and Big Ten.” The perfect ending to her college career would be raising a national championship banner as a Hoosier. * * * Geardot has become a staple in the Hoosier lineup. She has appeared in all 25 games, 21 of which she has started.

She’s second in the team in scoring at 9.6 points per game and second in rebounding with 5.8 rebounds per game.

The spotlight shines down on Gerardot as she is introduced.

“At forward, a 6-foot-1 senior from Fort Wayne, Indiana — Tabitha Gerardot.”

She jumps up and runs through tunnel of clapping teammates. At the end of the tunnel she’s greeted by another graduate student, Sasha Chaplin.

Chaplin, the most experienced Hoosier player, has made Gerardot feel at home at IU. Gerardot leaps into the air smiling, arms fully extended to high five Chaplin. She takes her spot awaiting the other starters and wipes the bottoms of her shoes.

As freshman guard Larryn Brooks runs by, Gerardot cracks a smile while giving her a high five.

Gerardot said she tries to work with younger players and give them the leadership and perspective they need.

“I just think I understand where they’re coming from and the battles and how it goes,” Gerardot said.

It’s the exact role Miller brought Gerardot to the team to fill.

“The players really look up to Tabitha,” Miller said Gerardot and the rest of the starters huddle for a lastsecond discussion before taking their spots on the court.

She lines up just a few feet away from mid-court where Deloach is preparing to battle for possession on the jump ball.

As the referee throws the ball into the air, Gerardot watches Penn State win possession.

She begins to backtrack towards the North end of the court, yelling “woah” as she scrambles to matchup with a defender.

A Penn State layup attempt gets blocked and the Hoosiers take the ball the other way. Gerardot misses on her first 3-point attempt of the game, but without much reaction she heads back and matches up on defense again.

Gerardot will be one of four seniors to be honored on senior night Saturday against Illinois at Assembly Hall.

She is only guaranteed four more jump balls — four more opportunities to be an IU women’s basketball player.

Four more chances to play for her new home.

* * * During a preseason workout, freshman guard Taylor Agler snapped a picture of Gerardot in the training room looking slightly out of place.

Gerardot stood on a piece of training equipment looking down with a thick book in her arms — a quick study session in during training.

“Sometimes, there’s just not enough hours in the day,” Gerardot said with a laugh.

“So yes, I bring my studying into the athletics room often.”

Gerardot graduated from Valparaiso a year early with a double major in French and Spanish. One of the major reasons she left Valparaiso in the first place was to pursue a master’s in linguistics at IU. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and Swahili along with English. She learned Spanish and French in high school and picked up Italian in her spare time.

“The rumor is that I’m fluent in Swahili and Italian, but I’m not fluent yet in those,” Gerardot said.

She’s starting to take classes in Chinese at IU and wants to learn German. She said language has fascinated her since she started learning Spanish in her freshman year of high school.

Her ability to study language and communication

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Freshman guard Larryn Brooks passes the ball during the game against Michigan on Wednesday at Assembly Hall. Brooks, who leads the Hoosiers in scoring with 16.4 points per game this season, scored nine points, pulled down five rebounds and recorded five assists during the night.

Center Sasha Chaplin waits to check in against Michigan on Wednesday at Assembly Hall. Chaplin scored four points in nine minutes Wednesday.

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Senior forward Tabitha Gerardot led the Hoosiers during the first half, scoring 16 points off 7-of-10 shooting. She finished with a season-high 22 points and eight rebounds.

Gerardot nailed a 3-pointer with two minutes and 10 seconds remaining in

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and internationalization and collaborative program initiatives.

“It’s designed to allow us not to be comprehensive, not to think about every single thing we want to do, but to think about some important things that we would like to accomplish between now and the time the odometer rolls over to century three,” Robel said in the meeting.

Robel said that there is about a month available for open comment.

the first half to spark an 8-2 run to close the half.

Coming out of the locker room, IU’s offense stalled while Michigan’s caught fire.

Freshman guard Larryn Brooks turned over the ball during the first possession, and Michigan’s Shannon Smith converted an and-1 on the ensuing fast break.

Smith’s layup sparked an 11-2 Michigan run, giving the Wolverines a 37-34 lead with 16 minutes and 37 seconds remaining.

“We talked about how important it was to sustain it in that first four minutes 167 faculty members, staff and students worked on the reports that went into the plan, Robel said.

“The goal of this big effort on everybody’s behalf is to get to a place where we can put together an academic plan for the campus that really anticipates how we can more the campus forward for the next six years, until we get to our bicentennial,” she said.

The draft is available online at plan.indiana.edu for comment by the community.

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of the second half, and we didn’t get them to miss a shot until almost nine minutes into the second half,” Miller said. “Essentially it took over control of the tempo of the game.”

Deloach converted on a layup with 15 minutes and 24 seconds remaining to give IU a 38-37 lead, but Michigan outscored the Hoosiers by 13 points during the next seven minutes.

IU shot 45 percent from within the arc, but only managed to make one of its 13 3-point attempts.

As IU’s offense struggled

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based off of my own life,” Roy said. “Every joke comes from my reality of living in L.A., and the relationships I have encountered throughout the years.”

Thompson said it is rare that comedians come to the Comedy Attic twice a year based on their ability to create new jokes and routines.

“John is one of those guys who writes new jokes and understands what is relevant in current comedy

Freshman Alexis Gassion shoots a layup during the game against Michigan on Wednesday at Assembly Hall.

from beyond the arc, Michigan was able to pull away.

“I’m not really sure what happened for us,” Gerardot said. “They were hitting shots and we weren’t.”

IU cut the lead to eight points with three minutes and 49 seconds remaining.

Michigan’s Siera Thompson responded with a deep 3-pointer to give Michigan a double-digit lead the Wolverines would hold onto the rest of the game.

IU has three games remaining, including one final home game Saturday against Illinois, to pick up a résuméand not a lot of other comedians know how to do that,” Thompson said.

Roy grew up in Chicago, where he started in a band after graduating college.

His friends then encouraged him to do standup comedy where he performed at open mics in city bars until he gained fans and a reputation.

“What keeps me doing comedy is the way you need a reason to put on a show to entertain others, and that motivates me to be at my finest,” Roy said.

He said he has enjoyed

LAST CHANCE

boosting win the team needs to get a tournament bid.

Despite their 17 wins, the Hoosiers have struggled throughout conference play.

The Hoosiers have only won four Big Ten games.

With the season winding down and not much time left to add wins, Miller said IU still has work to do if they want to ensure itself any games after the Big Ten Tournament.

“I’d love to send this senior class out with a postseason bid, and we don’t know if we’ve quite secured it yet,” Miller said. performing at the Comedy Attic in the past.

Each new standup performance is an opportunity to gain new fans, Roy added.

He said a quality comedy club helps bring in customers.

“The Comedy Attic is a very well-run club that gives a sense of business by doing everything right for their customers and workers,” Roy said. “I hope Bloomington residents are able to recognize that they have one of the best comedy bars in the country.”

April 9, 2014, when the SBOE will vote on the matter. The new standards will be reviewed multiple times by the college and career ready panels, the Indiana Education Roundtable and the State Board of Education.

Each education standard will be reviewed by the panels first, which include teachers and subject experts from colleges.

SBOE member Cari Whicker said a lot of care was put into choosing who would be analyzing the current standards and proposing changes.

There will then be three hearings where the public can discuss the new standards. They will take place Feb. 24, 25 and 26. Whicker said there is also an online public comment forum that opens today.

After the public hearings take place, the standards will go back to the panels for further revisions.

Then they will be presented to the Education Roundtable and finally the SBOE for a vote.

“The educational standards must meet national and international benchmarks for college and career readiness standards and be aligned with postsecondary educational expectations,” HEA 1427 states.

The panels are also working on making sure the standards are clearly written and not too vague.

If new standards are implemented, the ISTEP+ test will need to be replaced by a new test to see if students are learning what is consistent with the new academic standards.

Oliver said he wanted to get the standards finished

by April 9 so teachers have time to prepare their lessons during the summer.

SBOE member Troy Albert said having academic standards are important, because without goals or aspirations, no one would ever be able to achieve anything.

Albert, principal at Henryville Jr./Sr. High School, said this process has been educational for him as well.

“I think education is important to every human being,” Albert said.

Whicker, who is also a sixth grade teacher at Riverview Middle School, said this review of academic standards is larger in scope than in years past.

Whicker said many Hoosiers were worried about whether Indiana’s standards were the best they could be, as well as whether the Common Core Standards would take away Indiana’s academic sovereignty.

Whicker said so far this process has been a good collaboration between the Indiana Department of Education and the SBOE. After these standards are adopted, the IDOE will start to communicate the new standards to teachers.

“I’m excited to have the best standards for Indiana kids that we can,” Whicker said.

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The Olympic games are coming to close, so Putin and his bare chest are heading back to his bunker.

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Quiz results on page 9

Your house is on re.

What bottle of liquor do you save?

Lol, I’m saving the keg.

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I don’t have any alcohol to save.

‘House of Cards’ is back and better than ever, page 8

You have one more night with your sweetie before the games begin. What do you do?

Ice fishing

Let’s go to the movies with friends.

Do you wanna build a snowman?

Sing some karaoke

My love for my country is all that I need.

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How would your Olympic teammates describe you?

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Mostly blue: You got USA! You're bursting with patriotism and you can't wait to match your gold medals to your red, white and blue Ralph Lauren Olympic sweaters.

Mostly yellow: You got Russia!

Your blind determination and stamina painstakingly drive you to bring pride to both Mother Russia and Putin.

The sophomore season of “House of Cards” is just as conniving and ruthless as the first.

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Starring: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright AThe wait is finally over. The Underwoods, fresh into the office of the vice presidency, are back.

Unless you were actually doing something romantic for Valentine’s Day, you probably spent your day binge-watching the second season of Netflix’s original drama series, “House of Cards,” which began streaming last Friday.

It’s the blessing and the curse of the new medium of television watching Netflix has introduced. We get to inhale them all at once, stopping for the occasional meal and bathroom break. Then, we’re forced to wait a whole year for the next season.

So whether you’re taking your time or you’re already done with all 13 episodes, let’s get down to it.

“House of Cards” sophomore season is just as, if not more, conniving and ruthless compared to the first. It’s a magnetic puzzle,

chock-full of manipulative power players who play their cards close to the chest.

But none of those players can match the Underwoods, played by the Emmy-nominated Kevin Spacey and Golden Globe-winning Robin Wright. The hardened pair make for a gripping set of leads, at once both callously cold and filled with fiery energy.

Whereas Frank Underwood’s (Spacey) breaking-the-fourth-wall deliveries seemed cramping in season one, all qualms with his direct-to-the-camera monologues will be forgiven once you have finished episode one.

In fact, I’d be surprised if you were able to move much at all once those credits roll. The twists come fast and quick. It may even warrant a second viewing if you didn’t believe your eyes the first time.

“Game of Thrones” fans know what I mean when I say the season two opener of “House of Cards” contains a moment as shocking as the Red Wedding, except this one could actually happen to you. It’s terrifying and sets the stage for the following 12 episodes, during which the Underwoods continue to climb the political ladder.

Season two also adds a few thought-provoking players into the mix, the best of these being Molly Parker’s Jacqueline Sharp. Sharp is a veteran and eventual House Majority Whip, whom Frank approached to succeed him in the position. Sharp proves she can play the political game as well as anyone else, laying ruin to both enemies and friends in her ascent to power.

And while the “House of Cards” ensemble faces threats at almost every turn, Frank and Claire Underwood remain comparatively blemish-free. Sure, they endure scandal, but we’re never made to feel like their house of cards is in danger of collapsing. A true adversary, perhaps Sharp, could be the key to really igniting the fire “House of Cards” lets burn so steadily.

Regardless, this series does well painting these times of political unrest in an engaging light. Trust is no longer a factor. It’s all about who controls the battle field with an iron grip, and no one does so quite like Frank and Claire Underwood.

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Whether you traveled to Sochi by reindeer or snowmobile, you've come in swinging and you're kicking some serious Olympic ass.

Mostly red: You got China!

You're a team player always looking out for your teammates and fellow Olympians above all else. Your focus is unmatched, almost to a fault.

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‘About Last Night’ Starring: Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall B “About Last Night” is about an African-American quartet polarized into two separate couples. Bernie (Kevin Hart) and Danny (Michael Ealy), like Joan (Regina Hall) and Debbie (Joy Bryant), are best friends. However, both pairs of friends have near-opposite

personalities. The stark contrast between the two couples gives the movie balance.

After hooking up on the first night, Bernie and Joan drag their best friends along on their first real date.

Danny and Debbie are both conservative, and, despite their attractiveness and success, they are both single.

After Bernie chases Joan into the women’s restroom for a quickie, Danny — in true gentlemen fashion — walks Debbie outside, which leads to a passionate first-night hookup.

Bernie and Joan’s chaotic and sex-driven relationship is refreshing and provides some awkward but frequent laughs.

While the bedroom scenes are invasive, they break the mold of the typical “perfect” bedroom scenes. Instead of candles, bubble-baths and the missionary position, they give the audience the leg-over-the-head, dental fantasies and chicken masks.

Joan and Bernie relentlessly spew obscenities at each other throughout the entire movie. Although it’s vulgar, it’s refreshing and a large portion of the comedy in this film. Seeing and hearing the vulgar verbal battles between Bernie and Joan is hilarious. Unfortunately, this means all the comedy in “About Last Night” comes from a divided and fractured couple verbally abusing one another.

Hall matches Hart’s natural skill to discharge impromptu sexual obscenities and vile language one may hope isn’t used in real-life relationships. It is their constant and explosive bickering that leads to their break-up, but also leaves the audience rooting for their sexual rendezvous to evolve into a relationship.

Though Danny and Debbie aren’t funny, their relationship is initially therapeutic. They provide the audience some relief from the chaos of Bernie and Joan. They allow the audience to feel good about and root for love.

Danny and Debbie are a mature, composed and

elegant couple. Their intimate moments conform to the typical Hollywood lovemaking scenes.

Danny is calm, smooth and gentle — a nice contrast to his best friend Bernie.

Despite having sex their first time meeting, Danny and Debbie’s relationship resembles the conventional relationship. It is through their relationship the audience is able to witness the hurdles many couples are forced to overcome.

The nucleus of the plot lies within the dynamics of Danny and Debbie’s relationship. As we watch the predictable, and at times stagnant, ebb and flow of their relationship, it’s refreshing to see the chaotic and

buffoonish distraction that is Bernie and Joan.

Bernie and Joan provide a refreshing chaotic twist in what would have been a traditional love story. Without their lewd behavior and flammable chemistry, this romantic comedy would have been your run-ofthe-mill love story.

It has some of the most sexually explicit language I’ve ever heard in a film, or anywhere for that matter. But I appreciate how raw the dialogue is.

It’s a solid film with big laughs and vulgarity at its finest.

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‘Winter’s Tale’ Starring: Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe C I’ve never read Mark Helprin’s novel “Winter’s Tale,” so I can only hope he felt insulted by the mockery director and writer Akiva Goldsman turned it into.

“Winter’s Tale” is the story of Peter Lake, played by Colin Farrell, an orphan who grew up to be a thief in early 1900s New York City. He has an Irish accent, for no explained reason.

Peter used to run with a bad crowd, essentially the demon mafia of New York. The leader of the mob would be Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe), who feels he raised Peter.

As he got older, Peter developed morals and no longer wanted to harm people, inviting the unreasonable fury of Pearly.

Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay) is a young privileged

woman dying of consumption, an illness that requires she stay cold even if it means sleeping in a tent on the roof in the middle of winter.

But Beverly doesn’t let her illness darken her life. She’s a gagme-now optimist who sees the world in rays of light, which plays a central theme throughout the film.

It’s that same optimism that allows her to fall in love with Peter when he breaks into her home, instead of calling the police.

This incident of love at first sight thrusts Peter into the role of the unlikely prince. He saves Beverly’s life, meets her father, teaches her some valuable skills, saves her family and takes her dancing. Then he has sex with her and she dies. Very romantic.

With little will to live, Peter is easily captured and disposed of

by Pearly. But Peter survives and passes through time for almost 90 years with no memory. He only has an image in his mind of a girl with red hair.

Virginia Gamely (Jennifer Connelly) comes to his aid and the aid of the film in general. Together they try to understand why Peter hasn’t died, while Pearly wonders the same but for a completely different reason.

This film had the makings of a wonderfully tacky, somewhatmodern fairy tale. But the objective storyline has too many loose threads. The audience is never sure if it’s a battle between angels and demons or the abstract aspects of light and darkness. At one point, it’s explained by a Native American folktale.

It’s all just too confusing.

But, I must commend Colin Farrell. Through the chaos of the screenplay, his character was consistent. He played a man who went from having nothing to lose to having everything taken, and he did it with tenderness and thoughtfulness.

In her minor part, Jennifer Connelly stole the show. Her sincere performance grounded me to the real world even as the fantastical plot unraveled around her. She keeps the audience in their seats, while Crowe’s horrible accent pushes them away.

Whether the fault of the author or the screenwriter, there was just too much going on in this story.

Let’s just hope, in the future, Akiva Goldsman sticks to action flicks.

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Andrew Greene, a lawyer who is portrayed in the Oscar-nominated “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is suing Paramount Pictures and the film’s producers.

Greene is seeking more than $25 million in damages for what he claims was defamation

of his reputation.

“Mr. Greene is portrayed as an individual with no moral or ethical values, which is injurious to him in his trade, business or profession,” the suit said.

Ryder film series to show Oscar-nominated shorts

COURTESY PHOTO

Nashville-based band The Apache Relay will play at the Bishop tonight at 9:30. They will be joined by The Lonely Wild and Promised Land Sound.

Apache Relay playing at the Bishop tonight

BY ALISON GRAHAM akgraham@indiana.edu

Before Nashville-based band the Apache Relay goes on stage, they form into a group huddle and scream “nice” in Australian accents.

“It’s how we get our willies out and shake ’em off,” lead vocalist Michael Ford Jr. said.

“We can’t remember where it came from. There’s no explanation why.”

The Apache Relay will perform at 9:30 tonight, along with the Lonely Wild and Promised Land Sound, at the Bishop. Tickets are $12 and anyone 18 or older can attend with an ID. Tonight’s performance is in celebration of the band’s upcoming self-titled album, set to be released on April 22.

The album took the band about three months to

complete, working on and off from Oct. 2012 to May 2013.

“It’s a pretty long-winded record,” Ford said. “It was one of those things that needed time to get all of the songs right.”

This album will be the third released for the indieroots band. Its first, “1988,” came out in 2009. The band released its sophomore album, “American Nomad,” in 2011.

Ford met fellow Apache Relay members Mike Harris, Brett Moore and Kellen Wenrich in a dorm room at Belmont University in 2006.

He later dropped out of college to pursue his passion for music.

Moore plays keyboard, guitar and mandolin. Wenrich plays the fiddle, and Harris plays the guitar and provides vocals.

The group also now

THE APACHE RELAY at the Bishop Bar 9:30 tonight 123 S. Walnut St. includes Ford’s brother, Ben, who joined after the release of “American Nomad.”

The band has performed across the country and opened for bands Mumford & Sons and Young the Giant.

Being on the road has some disadvantages — mainly being stuck in a van with five guys, Ford said — but also brings new opportunities.

“I am most looking forward to meeting people after the show,” he said. “That’s one of the most fun things about doing shows. Everyone’s so loosey-goosey.”

Follow reporter Alison Graham on Twitter @AlisonGraham218.

The Ryder Film Series will screen several Oscar-nominated short films this weekend and next week before this year’s Academy Awards telecast on March 2.

Screenings will take place at the IU Fine Arts Theater, Woodburn Hall, Bear’s Place, the Back Door and the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The films that will be shown come from the Animation Short, Live Action Short and Documentary Short Subject categories.

For a list of screening times and locations, visit the TheRyder.com. Here is a selection of films in each category that will be shown.

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“Helium,” one of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Live Action Short Film

ANIMATION “Feral” A young feral boy is found in the woods and tries to adapt to civilized society.

“Get a Horse!”

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow enjoy a wagon ride until an enemy shows up to run them off the road.

“That Wasn’t Me,” one of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Live Action Short Film

“Room on the Broom” A witch and her cat take a ride on her broomstick and invite others to join them along the way.

LIVE ACTION “Just Before Losing Everything” A woman and her children take refuge in a store after leaving her abusive husband.

“Helium” A hospital employee tells a dying young boy about a magical place where children can go after they die.

“Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?”

A woman tries to ready her family for a wedding, but runs

“Mr Hublot,” one of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Short Animation Film

into problems along the way.

DOCUMENTARY “Facing Fear” A man encounters a neo-Nazi who attacked him 25 years earlier as a child.

“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” Alice Herz Sommer, the

world’s oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor at 109-years-old, shares the story of her life.

“Prison Terminal: The Last Days Of Private Jack Hall” Jack Hall, a terminally ill prisoner, is cared for by fellow prisoners in a maximum security prison.

— Rachel Osman

H.M.S. $3

Pinafore W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

$2.50 bottles of Bud and BudLight AUDREY PERKINS | IDS

A popular Parisian dish, coquille is traditionally scallops on the half shell served in a cream sauce.

AUDREY PERKINS is a junior majoring in journalism.

Paris is modern for a city dedicated to its tradition and history.

You don’t really realize this when you spend day after day maneuvering your boots over cobblestone and pushing your way into 1990s-era metro cars. However, the idea was placed in my head the other night.

I was seated in a nice seafood restaurant, and rather than have a menu placed in my hands, the waiter put an iPad in front of me.

My family, who is currently here to visit me, paused. We were unsure of what to do. None of us have ever had to sift through an iPad for this reason. In fact, I hardly ever use them for any reason beyond recreation.

I mean, every so often, I see them used as a pointof-service system for small businesses, but I have never seen them used on such a big scale.

Realizing I was still in a restaurant, and in need of an order, I ducked my head back down to the iPad and flicked my finger across the menu. I was pretty fascinated by how well placed the technology was in a professional setting.

Much like how eReaders cut down on weight for a book, the iPad cut down on pages for the menu. Instead, there were panels at the top designating dish types. Also, being in a tourist destination, there were other languages offered.

Once you tapped a category, the background came to life as a slow-moving video.

In my case, I saw fog, induced by dry ice, seep around a shell-encrusted bowl of crab legs. If I were curious about a dish, I could click on the name to see a full-sized picture of the plate.

Above all, the restaurant managed to put a sizeable menu inside a compact machine. The daily specials were folded into the rubber-

ized iPad cover.

Personally, I thought this was a fascinating idea that reflected the modern atmosphere of the restaurant. But I do have one question.

The interactive menu app, though highly entertaining, made us take twice as long to decide.

First, I spent five minutes discovering the menu.

I played with the pages, changed the language and opened pictures of the food.

Then the waiter came for my order, and I realized I had spent the allotted time playing with the iPad, not picking my meal. I ended up picking the first thing I saw — the daily special tucked in the cover.

Unless I am slightly more unfocused than most people, I feel the extensiveness of the menu took away from the simplicity of what a menu should be — a way for one to choose a meal.

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Call 332-2311 to see. fierstrentals.com 4 and 5 BR, $1400-$2k.

A/C, D/W, W/D, with pics at www.iu4rent.com 4 BR houses, 2 full baths, close to campus.

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812-323-8243 5 bedroom house 2 blks to Music School.

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812-330-1501 gtrentalgroup.com 6-8 BR dntwn. & IU. Super nice, all ammenities. 334-0094 7 BR house avail. Lrg. rms, recently remodeled.

Hdwd. flrs. Fully furn. 4 rms avail. 1 blk., School of Music. 812-219-5510

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2 & 4 BR houses. $600/pp. 812-360-6800 www.big10rentals.com 2, 3, 4, & 5 BR houses.

Close to campus. All w/ W/D, D/W, A/C, stove & refrig. Prices: $880-$2500. 327-3238

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3 and 5 BR houses avail. on campus. All amenities included. 812-360-9689

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2, 3, 4, and 5 BR houses. thunderboltproperty.com

The Willows Condos Great rates, limited availability – updated, modern feel.

Now leasing for Summer, 2014.

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5 BR, 2BA & 3 BR,2 BA. Avail. 08/14. 2 blks. to campus & Kirkwood.

412 Smith Ave. On-site prkg. $570/mo. per BR. 317-636-3848

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Updated 1 BR. Great price and location.

812-361-1021

3 BR luxury house.

Aug., 2014. Near 3rd on east side of campus.

333-9579

3-4 BR, Aug., 2014.

Located at 9th and Grant btwn. campus and dwntwn. 333-9579

8 BR 3 BA Occupancy 7-10 Price based per person 10 parking spots W/D, D/W, A/C 2 Kitchens 2 Laundry spaces

4 BR 2 BA W/D, D/W, A/C

Hickory Grove now leasing for August – reserve your spot today.

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2,3,4 bedroom apartments available downtown at Smallwood! $500 flat deposit for new leases!

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Stella Ridge 2 & 3 BR, 2.5 BA, $1140.

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Avail. Aug. 906 S. Fess, $1650/mo. + utils.

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1) 5 BR, 3 BA, 902 E. 14th St., $2300/ mo., 3 blks. to Geology & SPEA, off-street prkg.

2) 4 BR, 2 BA, 900 E. 14th St., $1500/mo.

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All houses: A/C, free W/D, 12 mo. leases, Aug., ‘14-’15. No pets.

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The Indiana Daily Student is a learning environment where students have the chance to develop skills that distinguish them from other candidates in future careers. As a member of the IDS Advertising Sales Team you will have the opportunity to develop your own business, learn networking skills, develop communication skills and gain real world marketing experience working with local and national businesses.

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Horoscope Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — You’re in the midst of a breakthrough, with increasing value. Stretch yourself mentally, and follow your passion. Your mind and heart agree. Don’t let this windfall slip through your fingers, and remember to say, “Thanks”.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Rely on partners. Start a new phase in your relationship.

Compromise. Support friends.

Invest for success. Everything seems possible. Affinity grows with kind words.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Concentrate on your work.

There’s plenty coming in! Get creative. Provide great service. Others appreciate the material you’re sending. Get something you want for your home. Relax afterwards.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — For the next two days, you score big with creative output.

Practice. It’s getting fun! There’s more money coming in. You have lots of emotional support. Provide love. Your credit rating’s going up.

Invest in your business.

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — Enforce household rules today and tomorrow. It gets easier, with practice. Accept compliments graciously. Get into practical and domestic tasks. Clean your workspace, and de-clutter. Learn from an engineering type. Play with long-range plans.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — You can learn what you need today and tomorrow. Allow your dreams to run wild. You’re sharp as a tack. Articulate your vision. Step up communications,

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and get the word out. It travels farther than expected.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Focus on finances for a few days. It can be quite lucrative.

Use your cleverness. Expand your idea base and find ways to monetize them. You’re an inspiration to others. Make long-term plans, and share.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — You’re becoming more confident. Reject a far-fetched scheme in favor of a practical solution. Use what you have to achieve a dream. Travel intrigues. Inspire, rather than demanding. Soon the whole neighborhood is involved.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — Slow down and consider options. Complete projects now. Your sensitivity richly flavors artistic pursuits, writing and music. Contemplation, meditation and quiet time reap rewards.

Re-juice and your creativity grows.

Capture it by recording.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — It could get emotional over the next two days. Travel’s favored, too, despite strong feelings. Continue with your planning.

Accept more assignments. Extra paperwork leads to extra profits.

The action is behind the scenes.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —

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1 __ Club 5 Eat __ 9 Film __ 13 Sleep __ 14 Mata __ 15 “I’m __ you!”

16 “__ to please!”

17 __-steven 18 SWAT __ 19 Blank 22 __ of bounds 23 Electric __ 24 Blank 31 “It __ to reason” 33 “You’re taking a big __” 34 __-TURN 35 Good for what __ you 36 Costa del __ 37 __ Elevator Company 38 “I Like __” 39 __ the scales 41 San Diego __ 43 Blank 46 Hopping __ 47 Jacqueline Kennedy __ Bouvier

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Rebellions flare up. Advance your own agenda with perfect timing. You’re in the groove. By now you should know how much you can spend. Keep cash stashed away. Save through private connections. Trust love.

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Today is a 7 — Career matters claim your attention. Committing and assuming more responsibility brings peace of mind. Your actions carry you farther than imagined.

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‘Endless Love’ Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Robert Patrick B+ It’s easy to extract the essence of “Endless Love.” Great love? Yes. Great movie? No. But it’s Valentine’s Day. No one cares about the trivial cinematography or delicate narrative. Love is the predominant rhythm and the magic greenishness that penetrates the hurdles in front of our protagonists.

Director Shana Feste resolves the paradox of a movie that was both immersive and alienating by presenting a story between a privileged girl Jade (Gabriella Wilde) and a “Cinderella man,” poor yet charming David, played

by Alex Pettyfer.

Even the disparity of backgrounds and the melodramatic twists detach the protagonists from couples outside the big screen. Loads of romantic gestures make the film

more resonant.

Feste’s camerawork is somewhat hypnotic, with shallow depth of field and plenty of shallow focus perspective. The images directly and indirectly solicit viewers’ sense of touch and smell. The scenes’ crystalline precision heighten and bring every view into the foreground.

Thus, instead of solely creating romance through the actions and feelings attached to characters, “Endless Love” locates and condenses the romance in the texture, color, sounds and rhythms of concrete things.

Together the film visualizes the reckless love between Jade and David, which oozes a sense of warmth and softness, just like the melting guttering of a candle.

Like other classic romances such as Romeo and Juliet, Jade and David’s affection wouldn’t seem so sincere without an opposing force, which in this case is Jade’s father Hugh (Bruce Greenwood). Much of his character’s poignancy comes from the fact that he became a control-freak after the death of his eldest son, and he can’t afford to lose Jade. So when David breaks into Jade’s life and makes the meek daughter

a rebel, Hugh goes to some extreme measures to separate them. As Feste pinpoints the conflicts between David and Hugh, their every exchange makes the blood surge.

Now there’s the arcanum that makes the film something closer to the bone — the soulful and vivacious youth impulse that’s embedded in the young couple’s fearless persistence.

The finishing touches of “Endless Love” are the date scenes. Seductively filmed and crowded with rich colors, they’re sensual, spiritual and dreamlike.

Feste adopts many exteriors to balance the intense relationship of the characters.

Most scenes are filled with lush green and saffron yellow, which expresses the warmth and bittersweetness of Jade and David’s story.

The narrative is not exquisite, and the cinematography is kind of immature. The storyline that carries a series of twists seems to be farfetched. However, it’s the sincerity that makes the film impressive.

So we should swallow these critiques, and take a sweet bite.

Happy post-Valentine’s Day.

ROBO FLOP

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‘Morning Phase’ Album: Morning Phase Artist: Beck B Beck Hansen tends to be one of those artists you forget about.

He hasn’t released an album of his own music in six years.

He’s worked on other artists’ albums since then, but it’s easy to remain invisible as an album’s producer.

He’s trying to stay invisible on his latest LP, “Morning Phase.”

Every song is a soundscape, with multiple layers of guitars, pianos, strings and more.

Interwoven in those layers are Beck’s vocals.

His voice isn’t a commanding presence. It’s always been understated and nuanced. Even so, Beck elects to put heavy reverb on all the vocals, further masking them. The echo is a borrowed technique from today’s pop bands, like fun. and Imagine

Dragons, especially on “Blue Moon’s” soaring melody. But Beck makes the style his own.

One of the projects Beck completed during his hiatus from solo music was a cover of David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” in early 2013. It was ridiculous, overreaching and unnecessary. It featured nearly 160 musicians and ran almost 10 minutes, adding way too much and completely missing the point of Bowie’s original, elegant, near-perfect production.

Maybe Beck learned from that experience. Maybe he, like me, hated that cover after the fact. Because while “Morning Phase” still has many, many layers, they all mean something and come together coherently.

“Morning Phase” would probably best be categorized as psych-folk. On “Say Goodbye,” he borrows styles from chillwave bands like Tame Impala and Toro Y Moi. The drums and bass are straightforward and lay down a funky groove, but the vocals echo around the song and the synths come in and blur everything together.

“Blue Moon,” though, is definitely more folk than psych.

Beck supplements that song’s

acoustic guitars and piano with mandolin, giving it an ever-soslight country tinge. And “Wave” features little accompaniment besides strings to go with Beck’s voice.

Some of the songs even borrow from classic rock bands.

“Unforgiven” has the same slow, plodding drum beat that many Pink Floyd songs have, and in places on “Don’t Let It Go,” Beck sounds almost exactly like that band’s David Gilmour.

Beck has been said to be a musical chameleon, and that’s an apt description of him on “Morning Phase.” He’s been in the music business for more than 20 years, and clearly he’s heard some things he likes.

“Morning Phase” can’t hold a candle to Beck’s earlier masterpieces, like “Odelay” and “Sea Change.” And it doesn’t quite have the charm of fan favorites like “Midnite Vultures” and my personal favorite, “Guero.”

But it’s a solid and fitting late-period effort for him. And since he’s had such a huge influence on alternative music for the last 20 years, we’ll give him a head start anyway.

BY JACOB KLOPFENSTEIN

Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton DI think we can all admit the 1980s was a great decade for film — especially for the nerds. The science-fiction genre was developing and evolving into a form to create real horror, amazement and social commentary.

We got “Back to the Future,” “The Terminator,” “Aliens,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and more.

And then there was “RoboCop” — an interesting and iconic piece of film that garnered enough success to warrant two sequels, but certainly nothing deserving of a remake. That’s where director José Padilha intervenes.

The new film follows the old storyline, only interjecting enough modern references to make you think the filmmakers are standing for something when they’re not.

OmniCorp is making drones that are saving the world, and

they want to expand their business and safety model to the United States. But there’s some reluctance from both the American people and the federal government about the safety of drones walking the streets of the U.S. without human emotion.

The president of OmniCorp (Michael Keaton) decides he needs to get a human into one of his machines to seem relatable. Honestly, it’s a highly unclear plot device.

Enter Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), a Detroit policeman who gets injured during a bomb explosion in a strange mixup with organized crime. An OmniCorp scientist, played by Gary Oldman, salvages Murphy’s head, esophagus, heart and lungs by putting them in a clunky robotic suit, thus making OmniCorp happy and the movie actually happen.

The main problem is the movie tries too hard. It fails to recognize all it has to be is a “shoot ‘em up, blow up some bad guys” kind of action flick to make the people happy. Instead it tries to get into nuanced commentary about humanrobot interactions — essentially, it tries to go where the critically acclaimed “Blade Runner” went

in terms of futuristic existential critique.

But there are many issues with this, chiefly the fact that “Blade Runner” was made in a time when that critique was highly palpable. Now, it just seems dry and forced.

“RoboCop” also fails because it never commits to a side on the issue at hand. It seemingly tries to stay bipartisan throughout the whole 108 minutes.

And finally, “RoboCop” still has to live up to what the trailers promised and be an action movie.

In order to get everything Padilha wanted there to be in the movie, the plot is cramped and compromised. Action sequences are poorly plotted and confusing, and actors literally seem like they just got off the stage of their fifth-grade school pageant.

The only thing saving this movie from a failing grade is Gary Oldman’s impeccable effort to try and save a sinking ship.

That and the fact I got to see a “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” trailer piggybacking on a trailer for “X-Men: Days of Future Past” before the film started.

BY SAM OSTROWSKI

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