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IDS Professor Eleanor Leach remembered for love of classics By Caroline Anders anders6@iu.edu | @clineands
Eleanor Winsor Leach, a professor in IU’s Department of Classical Studies, was found dead in her home last Monday. She was 80. Her friends knew her as Ellie. “She was someone whom one expected to live forever,” IU professor Mary Ellen Brown, a colleague of Leach’s, wrote in an email. Leach is remembered by
her students and colleagues as a quirky, grandmotherly Rome fanatic with a soft spot for Roman poet Horace and Roman politician Cicero. Leach’s daughter, Harriet Leach, 54, said her mother would start every visit by handing her a bag of apples, and she would end every visit by saying, “Oh, I had a very good time.” It was like clockwork. Eric Beckman, one of Leach’s graduate students, said she told him he could
call her Ellie while they were on one of her frequent trips to Rome — but the nickname wasn’t to leave the city. She was president of the American Philological Association, now known as the Society for Classical Studies, in 2005, and oversaw at least 26 dissertations during her time with IU’s classics department. At the time of her death, she was working on a book about letter writing in AnSEE LEACH, PAGE 5
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Eleanor Leach, a professor in IU’s Department of Classical Studies, stands in Rome in 2011 on one of her many trips with students. Leach was found dead last Monday in her home. She was 80 years old.
Armored truck prompts film event By Chris Forrester chforres@umail.iu.edu | @_Chrisforrester
Despite being named to the First-Team, neither Blaskovic nor Fantoni were named Freshman of the
In response to the City of Bloomington’s controversial recent decision to purchase an armored vehicle for the Bloomington Police Department, a local Black Lives Matter organization is holding a free screening of the documentary film “Do Not Resist.” The documentary screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The film, which was released in 2016, offers an investigation into the rapid militarization of American police forces and its negative effects on marginalized and minority communities across the country. A discussion panel will follow the film and explore the problem further. Vauhxx Booker, community member and organizer of Bloomington Black Lives Matter, said the idea of the event was to complement the discourse surrounding the Bloomington armored car controversy with real facts, education and discussion. “Following the robust democratic process that the community has had of back-and-forth dialogue, I felt like it would be necessary to illustrate to the community why folks of color and marginalized groups feel so strongly about BPD not purchasing this vehicle,” he said. Booker said the film was chosen in part because of the acclaim it received upon its release — it holds an 89 percent approval rating on film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes — but also because of its general hard-hitting approach to the subject. “It kind of relayed a transformational experience for some people,” he said. “They really got to see what modern policing has become and how it’s become militarized, and how that disenfranchises certain groups of people.” Booker said he felt an event like this was necessary because the controversy had stirred up so much fear over local police militarization among Bloomington residents. “People are worried, people are scared,” he said. “A lot of people feel like the police should be enhancing, and the police should be using more militarized tactics. This film will help illustrate hopefully how that’s not the best route for a community, and how it actually brings negative outcomes in the community.” Booker said the panel would include Rasul A. Mowatt, an associate professor in recreation, park and tourism studies, and
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Katherine Posada, an IU alumna and a language arts teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, wipes her eyes while speaking to students on Friday in the School of Education. Posada talked about her experience during the Feb. 14 shooting.
IU alumna in Parkland recalls experience By Hannah Boufford hbouffor@iu.edu | @hannahboufford
It was the last period of the day. There had already been a fire drill earlier in the day, but Katherine Posada paused on reading Act 3 of “Macbeth” with her English II class and evacuated with them when the alarm went off again. Then people started shouting it was a code red. “I never thought that there was really a shooter,” she said. “It just never entered my mind.” But 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz had allegedly just walked into a building on the campus of Marjory Stone-
man Douglas High School and opened fire. On Valentine’s Day, 17 people died and families lost their loved ones, many of whom were teenagers. In her classroom across campus, Posada, who graduated from IU in 2003 with an English degree, and her students sat in a corner, thinking it was a drill. Then a student in Posada’s class started crying while on the phone. His sister was in the building where the shooting took place and called to tell him it was real. “That’s when we sort of knew that it wasn’t a drill, there was really something going on,” Posada said. They huddled in the
classroom for over an hour, knowing little about what was happening. They spoke quietly, trying to stay out of sight of the small window in the doorway. The lights were off and the class sat together, some students with their arms around each other. Some got information from friends and family, others tried to watch local news channels on their phones. For a typically chatty class, the atmosphere that day stood out to her, Posada said. Most of the talking consisted of updates on what was happening, and even though they could hear sirens and helicopters, they had little knowledge of the current situation.
Posada had four other family members at the school that day. Her husband, aunt and cousin are teachers at Stoneman Douglas, too, and her sister-inlaw is a student there. They checked in with each other throughout the afternoon to let each other know they were all right. After more than an hour, Posada and her students heard men shouting in the hallway. There were brief, light taps on the door, nothing like what Posada said she would have expected if it were police. She said the room went silent, not knowing who it was. They heard the fumbling
of keys outside, and then the door finally opened. Standing in front of some of her students, Posada said she was terrified for a moment. A million things went through her head, not knowing if it was the police or the shooter. “The first thing that we saw was the barrel of a rifle pointed at us,” she said. A team of responders yelled orders to the class, telling them to put their hands up, to get in the middle of the room. As soon as Posada saw the way the men were dressed, she began to relax and tried to calm her students down after they saw SEE PARKLAND, PAGE 5
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Hoosiers bring home back-to-back Big Ten titles By TC Malik tcmalik@umail.iu.edu | @TCMalik96
The No. 3 IU men’s swimming and diving team repeated as Big Ten champions for the first time since 1985. The Hoosiers captured the title after four days in Minneapolis at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center. This marks IU’s 26th title in program history, furthering the Hoosiers as the one of the nations best programs. The championship played out like most of the regular season did, a twoteam race between IU and No. 7 Michigan. The margin of error was slim for the Hoosiers as Michigan was close behind and even led
going into Friday night. IU ended up finishing with 1,658 points while the Wolverines had 1,617.5 points. The next closest team was Ohio State with 1,300.5 points, who weren’t even in the same conversation as IU and Michigan. The star all season long has been senior Blake Pieroni. While Pieroni won the 100 freestyle for the third straight year, it was junior Vini Lanza who was named the Swimmer of the Championships. Lanza won the award for the second straight season after winning gold in seven events during the four-day Big Ten Championships. The Brazilian won the 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly, 200 IM, 200 medley relay,
400 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay and the 800 freestyle relay. The past two Big Ten Championships have had three things in common — IU winning the title, Lanza winning Swimmer of the Championships and senior Michael Hixon being named the Diver of the Championships. Hixon swept the meter diving events, winning both the 1- and 3-meter dives. For Hixon, he was given the honor for the second consecutive season. Hixon and Lanza, along with six other Hoosiers, were named to the All-Big Ten First-Team. Freshmen Bruno Blaskovic and Gabriel Fantoni, juniors Ian Finnerty and Mohamed Samy, and
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Freshman Camryn Forbes plunges into the pool for the Women’s 200m Backstroke Finals on January 20. IU competed in the Big Ten Championships last week in Columbus, Ohio.
seniors Ali Khalafalla and Pieroni were the six others. Blaskovic and Fantoni made up two of the three freshmen to be named to the First-Team.
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