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Indiana limestone company bankrupt
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The Sheehey show 93-86 Hoosiers defeat Hawkeyes in high-scoring thriller
BY MICHELA TINDERA mtindera@indiana.edu @mtindera07
BY JOHN BAUERNFEIND jogbauer@indiana.edu
Indiana Limestone Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week and is expected to lay off 166 employees. Headquartered in Oolitic, Ind., about 20 miles south of Bloomington, ILC has been facing layoffs since 2010 when Cleveland-based private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners bought and merged it with Victor Oolitic Stone Company, another southern Indiana limestone company. Local 741 of the Laborers International Union of North America, one of four unions with employees at ILC, used to represent 45 to 50 quarry workers at ILC, but since the sale, that number has decreased to nine. “It’s been going downhill ever since they took over,” Bobby Minton, business manager for the Local 741, said. Layoffs are expected to take place between April 28 and May 11, according to a notice filed Monday with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. “We will try to put them
After a wild first half that saw both teams combine for 101 points, the IU men’s basketball team rode a career-high 30 points from senior wing Will Sheehey to a 93-86 win against the No. 20 Iowa Hawkeyes. After Iowa opened up the second half on a 6-2 run, the Hoosiers and Sheehey answered. Graduate student guard Evan Gordon and Sheehey both hit 3-pointers. “Really I was scoring without the ball in my hands,” Sheehey said. After Iowa regained the lead off a Melsahn Basabe layup, making the score 66-64, the Hoosiers came right back. After sophomore guard Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell’s layup attempt caromed off the rim, freshman forward Devin Davis grabbed the miss and got fouled going up for a shot, earning a 3-point play. On its next possession, sophomore guard SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 8
Sheehey, Robinson lead IU over No. 20 Iowa
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Campus plan could lighten student debt loads FROM IDS REPORTS
Student debt might get a little lighter if the initiatives outlined in IU’s Strategic Plan come to pass. The plan, released last week, primarily focused on improving students’ awareness of financial aid information. The initiative in the Undergraduate Life section recommends increasing the visibility of scholarship and financial aid information for students. IU’s goal is to create a comprehensive database of all the scholarships available and applicable to students, M.A. Venkataramanan, vice provost for strategic initiatives, said. One of the concepts behind this initiative is to have a pool of funds, predominantly through philanthropic efforts, to further help students financially, he said. In addition to scholarships, the plan also recommends expanding financial literacy programs in place at IU. “We’re expanding upon it to help the students know that you don’t have to borrow that much SEE DEBT, PAGE 8
Offer feedback READ THE CAMPUS STRATEGIC PLAN A downloadable PDF of the Campus Strategic Plan draft can be found online at plan.indiana.edu. SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE PROVOST Submit your comments online at plan.indiana.edu or write to provost@indiana.edu. TOWN HALL MEETING IU Auditorium Noon to 2 p.m. March 4 All members of the IU-Bloomington community are invited to attend.
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Forward Will Sheehey dunks against Iowa on Thursday at Assembly Hall. Sheehey led Indiana with 30 points in the win.
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In IU’s home reopener, the Hoosiers defeated another ranked opponent in Assembly Hall, defeating No. 20 Iowa 93-86. It was the team’s third home victory against a ranked opponent this season and the win keeps the Hoosiers from falling into a five-way tie for last place in the Big Ten. It was the Hoosiers’ greatest offensive outburst since scoring 102 points against Washington on Nov. 21. Ten IU players scored but two wing players were responsible for more than half of the Hoosiers’ points. Senior Will Sheehey and freshman Stanford Robinson recorded 30 and 17 points, respectively, which were career highs for both players. Sheehey said the team’s game plan was to run to the corners and space the floor, opening up the middle of the court. “I think our team from the start was built to run like this,” he said. SEE SHEEHEY, PAGE 8
‘King Lear’ to premiere at Ruth N. Halls Theatre BY BRANDON COOK brancook@indiana.edu
Actor Henry Woronicz, the king, spoke from a throne imprinted with the inscription “Ex Nihilo,” or “out of nothing,” as the attention of the onstage cast moved to him. In the first minutes of the IU theater department’s Monday night dress rehearsal of Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” nothing was everywhere. “Nothing will come of nothing,” the king says in the first act, in a scene that prompts his future tragedy. The concept of nothing is one of the central themes in the theater department’s production of “King Lear, ” which premieres at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Ruth N. Halls Theatre. The word inspired director Fontaine Syer’s adaptation of the play. “It’s a really important theme for Fontaine,” said senior Sasha Belle Neufeld, who is majoring in theater and drama and plays Cordelia in the production. “You have to look at life in this existentialist manner — life is here, and then it’s gone. It’s nothing.” Neufeld’s character, one of the king’s three daughters, makes an appearance in the text only when she is banished in the first act and killed in the fourth. “I get to relax in the middle,” Neufeld said. “But it is really difficult. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do backstage to keep
me focused and to keep me in the show.” “King Lear” was written during the time of Shakespeare’s quartet of tragedies, which includes “Hamlet,” “Othello” and “Macbeth.” It tells the story of an aging despot who splits his kingdom among his daughters, provided they declare how much they love him first. Cordelia, Lear’s most beloved daughter, answers his question with the word “nothing.” “Actions speak louder than words,” Neufeld said. “That’s how Cordelia represents nothing in this play. She believes the love that she showed him should be enough for him to understand.” The furious king deposes his daughter and sets in motion the tragic events leading up to his overthrow, insanity and death. Nevertheless, Neufeld views the king as more pitiable than detestable. “Lear is senile,” she said. “When Lear chooses to banish her ... it’s not him. It’s this illness that’s taken over him. But I think Cordelia fights that because she wants to hope that he’ll come back to her, that he’ll overcome this terrible thing.” The idea of redemption also figures heavily into Shakespeare’s play. “We can find no other word than renewal,” wrote the Shakespearean scholar Lionel Knights. Even so, early critics of “King
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Henry Woronicz, cast as King Lear, performs during a dress rehearsal of “King Lear.”
Lear” thought the writer was too harsh with the tragic death of Lear and Cordelia, agreeing with the late historical Shakespeare critic Samuel Johnson, who remarked he was so shocked by Cordelia’s death he avoided rereading the play for years. Complaints such as these resulted in a radically altered version of the play by Nahum Tate that kept Lear and Cordelia alive. This adaptation was performed for nearly two centuries. However, Syer’s production would suggest nothing of this optimistic rendition. The play features costumes in the drab, gothic colors of a party of
KING LEAR Ruth N. Halls Theatre 7:30 p.m., Feb. 28, March 1, 4-8 2 p.m., March 8 mourners and a massive set piece that looks like different sheets of driftwood. A member of the design team described it as epic and crumbling. “But to the characters, that’s just their world,” cast member and IU doctoral student Eric Heaps said. “There is this falling apart. It’s coming apart. Nothing is coming from nothing.” SEE LEAR, PAGE 8