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Members of the baseball team high-five each other after the game against Xavier at IU Bart Kaufman Baseball Field March 5. The Hoosiers won 2-1.
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Eastside bank robbed Monday
Living for Tibet Locals commemorate the 55th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising BY ALDEN WOODS aldwoods@indiana.edu @acw9293
FROM IDS REPORTS
Police are investigating a bank robbery at the Old National Bank on North Kinzer Pike, located inside Marsh. Piles of money were seen left on the counter and floor. At about 11 a.m., police were on the scene. Bank representatives and the investigating detective declined to comment. The suspect is a black man wearing a dark jacket, jeans, a lightcolored hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joseph Crider said. The suspect fled on foot from the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash, Crider said. Dennis Barbosa During and after a robbery Turn to page 6 for a security photo of the suspect, and a photo of the robbery’s aftermath.
Champion IU soccer team visits President BY ALDEN WOODS aldwoods@indiana.edu @acw9293
Members of the 2012 IU men’s soccer team were honored at the White House Monday for an event celebrating 19 teams that won NCAA Division I championships in 2012-13. The Hoosiers received their invitation by way of the 2012 NCAA College Cup, the IU program’s eighth national championship. A goal by former IU midfielder Nikita Kotlov made the difference in that season’s College Cup Final, handing IU a 1-0 victory over Georgetown to seal its ticket to Washington, D.C. After dining with Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., and Sen. Joe Donnelly, DInd., the Hoosiers were greeted on SEE SOCCER, PAGE 6
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Tsering Yangkey stands with demonstrators to recognize the 55th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day, when tens of thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The protesters rallied against China’s invasion and occupation of their homeland.
Fifty-five years ago Monday, Thupten Anyetsang watched as his country erupted. On March 10, 1959, 9-year-old Anyetsang sat in a monastery high in the Himalaya Mountains and looked down to Lhasa, capital city of Tibet and his hometown, as it began its rapid descent into chaos. “I was a little distance, maybe a couple miles, in a monastery called Sera monastery,” Anyetsang said. “From there, looking down to Lhasa, the capital, you could see it.” On that day, the Chinese government invited the Dalai Lama to a theatrical performance in Lhasa with the request he bring no bodyguards or security. “When the general public heard that, they got suspicious,” Anyetsang said. “They thought he would be kidnapped ... so they surrounded the Dalai Lama’s palace, not let him go to Chinese theater. Then he snuck out one night with the help of Tibetan freedom fighters. My father was one of them.” Nine days later, the Chinese government began to drop bombs to break up the uprising. From his perch in the surrounding mountains, Anyetsang saw Chinese shells destroy the Tibetan capital. More than 80,000 Tibetans were killed. “We walk around, there’s thousands of bodies lying around, blood everywhere,” he said. “And then, curious, we went down to see it and we see bodies all over. All over.” He fled Lhasa three days later, leaving his family behind. He found refuge in India, living there for more than a decade before coming to the SEE TIBETAN, PAGE 6
Plan seeks interdisciplinary majors BY ANNA HYZY akhyzy@indiana.edu @annakhyzy
New majors and minors are likely in the near future for IU. The provost’s Strategic Plan is seeking to make interdisciplinary education more accessible with the creation of unique academic programs. Interim Vice Provost for Education Dennis Groth said students seek to enhance their undergraduate experience by pursuing second majors, minors and certificates. “I’m looking at ways that we can investigate the paths that our
students have already taken,” he said. In the process of creating interdisciplinary majors and programs, Groth said he has begun to look at data that shows the most popular major and minor combinations. “I would hope that it would identify either the potential for new joint majors, or just the potential for new services and programs to help students be aware,” he said. Jonathan Elmer is a professor of English and chair of the committee for integrated programs in humanities and arts for the Strategic Plan. He said the model upon which the College of Arts and Sciences is
founded is essentially a model of interdisciplinary learning. “The idea behind it is simple,” he said. “Learn a lot about a few things, but some about a lot of things.” The initiative Elmer is part of in the Strategic Plan seeks to incorporated this model to the entire campus, he said. Larry Singell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said he sees a demand for it. “Much of interesting and important problems and the skills to solve these problems sit at the border of
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