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Police follow rape report FROM IDS REPORTS
A 23-year-old woman reported to Bloomington police that she was sexually assaulted in her east side apartment early Saturday morning. The woman was out with friends at some downtown bars late Friday night, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joe Crider said. She left the bar and walked to a friend’s house at about 3 a.m. Saturday. An unidentified man gave the woman a ride home to her east side apartment. The woman woke around 10 a.m. and thought she had been sexually assaulted. The woman went to IU Health Bloomington Hospital that day, and the BPD received her report of sexual assault at 9:30 p.m. Police detectives have interviewed the woman. The case is still under investigation. Dennis Barbosa
Athletic violation agreement reached by IPS BY SYDNEY MURRAY slmurray@indiana.edu @sydlm13
The Indiana Public Schools system and the U.S. Department of Education have reached an agreement after IPS failed to give girls an equal opportunity in athletics. The USDOE’s Office for Civil Rights found IPS was in violation of Title IX of 1972, which states “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” According to an USDOE press release, IPS failed to provide athletic opportunities for girls as well as equal opportunity and access to facilities, locker rooms, equipment, supplies and scheduling of games and practice times. According to the release, there were 5,538 students enrolled in high schools for the 2010-2011 school year, with the students close to evenly divided between boys and girls. However, 65 percent of the 1,466 athletes were boys, and 35 percent girls. Victor Bush, IPS district director of athletics, said the investigation began in fall 2010 as a general inquiry into IPS. He said no complaints were filed against IPS before the investigation began. District-wide, there were questions surrounding the number of boys’ athletic games played during “prime-time,” Fridays and Saturdays, versus the number of girls’ games played during prime-time. He said there were questions surrounding the facilities at Arsenal Technical High School. At the time of the inquiry, the school was under construction and using only one gym. The school was also not able to use four of their locker rooms because of construction. There was concern about the SEE TITLE IX, PAGE 5
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Gleb Alexeev, an international student, was born in Ukraine and moved to Bloomington at age 7. His family moved back to Odessa, Ukraine in January.
A world away Ukrainian student left to watch as crisis grips his home BY ANICKA SLACHTA aslachta@indiana.edu @ajslachta
When Gleb Alexeev thinks of Ukraine, he sees the sea. It’s the Black Sea, just an arm’s length from his back door. Sometimes, he sees the sweeping sunflower fields, the faces of the tawny flowers tilted toward the sky. They sit next to expanses of lakes and green stretches of land. His favorites, though, are the grape fields. They stretch to the horizon, he said, going on forever. But they’re just these neat rows of sticks, so you can see perfectly between the lines. When Alexeev remembers his home, he thinks of the beauty and ease of his childhood summers. Now it’s cold. The flowers are dead. And his home country is in flames. On Nov. 21, 2013, Ukraine’s thenpresident Viktor Yanukovych announced he was going to abstain from signing an agreement that would have strengthened Ukraine’s ties with the European Union. The simple refusal set off a spiral of events that peaked in early 2014 with violent clashes. Dozens of people were killed, and Ukraine’s safety and stability were uncertain. Now, half of the country is pushing for an alliance with the European Union, while the other half is encouraging a connection with Russia, IU history professor Padraic Kenney said. But at the core of the current problems, he said, is democracy. “Civil rights matter,” Kenney said. “And the best way to have civil rights is to have a democracy.” That the citizens of the Ukraine are struggling to define a leader from a pool of possibilities, he said, suggests that they are moving toward that ideal. Alexeev is divided. He’s from Ukraine but is Russian by blood. He was born in Odessa, about 300 miles south of Kiev, and was raised there, in what he calls the “cultural hub” of Ukraine, until first grade. Now, Alexeev calls Bloomington home. “I’m a townie,” he said.
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Protesters clash with police in central Kiev Feb. 20. The protests began after then-president Viktor Yanukovych announced a trade abandonment with the European Union, seeking closer ties with Moscow.
He has lived here since he was seven. In January, his parents made the move back to Ukraine. Back to where the protests, bloodshed and terror were just beginning to swell. * * * Alexeev knows it’s dangerous where his family lives. “My biggest worry is that it will actually escalate into a full-out war,” Alexeev said. “There’s a potential for more conflict.” He’s a worrier already, he said, but his parents’ safety is always in the forefront of his mind. He doesn’t like to think about the “what ifs” and hesitated when asked about the worst that could happen. “If things expand from Kiev into Odessa—” Alexeev trailed off and paused for a moment. “Even though it’s 300 miles away, that’s not as much of a distance as you think.” The protests in Kiev have settled down, but on March 1, Russian troops moved into the Crimea region of Ukraine. Kenney said he thinks the most violent
of the protests will begin to dwindle soon. He said he thinks a full Russian invasion is unlikely, but that even in the U.S., people should pay attention in case it does. It’s not likely that the U.S. would get involved and send troops, but Russia is a nuclear state, and Ukraine has a sizeable army. It could be incredibly destabilizing for the world, Kenney said. The U.S. in particular, he said, can’t afford the hit the economy would suffer. “There are conflicts around the world that would affect us a little bit,” he said, “but this one would affect us a lot.” * * * Alexeev said he avoids the news — a habit he picked up from his mother, who doesn’t like all of the negative coverage — but it doesn’t scare him. Or it didn’t, at least, until he left home. “I saw on the news these people that were burning tires and throwing Molotov cocktails,” he said. “Me, sitting on the SEE UKRAINE, PAGE 6
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