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Freshmen Alexis Gassion, Karlee McBride and Taylor Agler watch the end of the game against Michigan on Thursday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Out of the running 82-57 Michigan’s defeat of IU stopped its Big Ten Tournament run BY STUART JACKSON stuajack@indiana.edu @Stuart_Jackson1

INDIANAPOLIS — For the second consecutive year, IU faced Michigan in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. And for the second consecutive year, the Wolverines sent the Hoosiers home. Led by junior forward Cyesha Goree’s double-double of 18 points and 11 rebounds, Michigan defeated IU to advance to face No. 2-seeded Michigan State in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament. The Hoosiers have not made it past the first round of the tournament since the 2008-09 season. “Obviously we’re disappointed in the end result today,” IU Coach Curt Miller said. “But you’ve got to give Michigan a lot of credit.” Trailing by 15 after halftime, the Hoosiers had six chances to cut their deficit to single digits in the second half. Each time, Michigan responded with a key play to keep IU from clawing back. “We had to expend so much energy to get ourselves into that position,” Miller said. Much of that energy was also devoted to keeping up with Michigan’s second-chance points. The Wolverines had a 24-8 advantage in second-chance points against the Hoosiers while grabbing 12 offensive rebounds.

Haseeb Mohidden has always been a helper. His ultimate religion is helping people, he said. His friends know him as the one who will always answer their calls for help, even if it’s 3 a.m. and they need him to go to Wells for help on a paper, he said. Mohidden volunteers and tutors at Midway House and on campus, and dreams of joining Doctors Without Borders to help refugees and underprivileged people receive medical care. Even though he’s not Arab, he helped form the Arab Student Association at IU. As a Muslim student at IU, Mohidden said he has never faced any discrimination, but still believes there is confusion about his

‘The Act of Killing’ director speaks at IU Cinema

Haseeb Mohideen

Dana Khabbaz

Romaze Akram

beliefs. Every day at dawn, in the afternoon, the evening, after sunset and at night, Mohidden prays. During the day, Mohidden tries to find less trafficked areas to pray, because he can’t always make it home. He often picks the stacks at Wells, he said. “I’ve never felt any type of prejudice, but sometimes I feel that people don’t understand why I’m doing something,” Mohidden said. “Like, I have to pray five times a day. Sometimes it’s in the library, and I don’t think people understand.” The prayers require different positions, and attract stares, which he said makes him uncomfortable. But aside from this, IU has been a safe place for him, he said.

In his hometown of Valparaiso, Ind., Mohidden did experience more hostility after Sept. 11. “In middle school I was called a terrorist every now and then,” Mohidden said. “One student was beat up for being Muslim, too. He was in the 8th grade when I was a 6th grader.” Mohidden said he hopes the events from Islamic Awareness Week will educate the campus about diversity and result in less confusion and fear. “It wasn’t fear for me, it was more anger,” Mohidden said. “I told myself that if it was me I would fight back, but now I know it’s best to fight it with education and in a more peaceful way.”

Dana Khabbaz is one of the only women currently active in the Muslim Student Union at IU, group President Romaze Akram said. Khabbaz said she studies political science and hopes to become a lawyer, but not the kind most people talk badly about. “I’ve always wanted to pursue the type of law that’s not viewed in a negative way,” Khabbaz said. “I want to be in the type that helps people.” She is a member of Oxfam, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, at IU. She said she believes in its methods of long-term fixes for problems of global issues, rather than temporary aid.

When the Indonesian government was overthrown by its military in 1965, inconsequential gangsters turned into death squad leaders. They assisted the military in killing more than one million people in a single year. Congo Anwar, the main character of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary film “The Act of Killing,” was one of the perpetrators. Oppenheimer spoke at the IU Cinema Thursday afternoon. “The film was meant to be kind of an antidote to the fear that underpins a present day moral and cultural vacuum built by the killers and it still remains in the present,” Oppenheimer said. “That was our guiding ambition, but I never expected it to succeed.” The film won a BAFTA Award for Best Documentary and was most recently nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Brandon Walsh, the former Director of Film for Union Board, organized Oppenheimer’s visit, which consisted of a lecture, film screening and Q&A session. Walsh led the lecture, during which Oppenheimer discussed how he developed the idea for the film, problems he faced in Indonesia and what the film has done for the country. “Whatever the film has done is partial and I don’t think a single film can transform much in the world,” he said, “but I think that the film is such an apocalyptic vision that a big part of me in making it has to be a pessimist or I couldn’t create something so dark.” Oppenheimer showed video clips of the killers reenacting how they treated the victims of the murders. He said once he began filming them, there was no end to the number willing to boast about what they had done. Torture was being celebrated. “I was afraid to approach the perpetrators because I didn’t know if it was safe,” Oppenheimer said. “But when I did, I found an astounding openness, a willingness to talk about the most awful details of the killings, often with smiles on their faces.” Oppenheimer said almost every perpetrator he encountered was willing to give him detailed accounts of the killings. “I had this queasy feeling that I had wandered into Germany 40 years after the Holocaust only to find the Nazis still in power and

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Senior Simone Deloach, right, puts her arm around freshman Jenn Anderson after the Hoosier’s 82-57 loss to Michigan on Thursday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The Wolverines also had 24 points off turnovers. “That’s very tough,” said freshman guard Alexis Gassion, who led the Hoosiers with 12 points. “Credit to them because they were very good in transition and they were getting all those rebounds.” In the first half, the Hoosiers started quickly with five points in the first 50 seconds of the game and jumped out to an early 9-6 lead. But IU would score just eight in the next 11 minutes 52 seconds of play.

Late efforts not enough A missed 3-point shot ended the Hoosiers’ upset hopes against Michigan. See page 12. The Wolverines responded with a 9-2 run for their first lead of the half. That run grew to 13-4 through the first five minutes. Michigan led by as many as 18 and shot 50 percent from the field in the first half, while the Hoosiers shot SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6

BY SUZANNE GROSSMAN spgrossm@indiana.edu @suzannepaige6

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BY GRACE PALMIERI gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

Muslim students share experiences at IU This year, the Muslim Student Union at IU declared this week as Islamic Awareness Week because, even though hate crimes in Bloomington have calmed down and the word Islamaphobia appears less often in newspapers, misconceptions and fear of Muslims is still a reality for IU students. Three Muslim students shared their experiences — good and bad — of life in the United States and at IU.

Campus driving service Safety Escort might soon incorporate some of SafeRide’s most popular features. IU Student Association proposed that Safety Escort include later hours of operation, picking up drunken students and driving to off-campus locations. The recommendations were based on ridership data from SafeRide, IUSA’s pilot program that began in summer 2013 and ended last weekend. Director of IU Parking Operations Doug Porter approved the policy changes, but they still need to be approved by the dean of students and the provost to be implemented successfully. IUSA President Jose Mitjavila said Safety Escort responded well to the

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