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Allegedly embezzled city funds still gone FROM IDS REPORTS

Tens of thousands of dollars are still unaccounted for of the money allegedly embezzled by former Bloomington project manager Justin Wykoff, said Timothy Horty, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern Indiana District.

On March 18, the U.S. District Court of Southern Indiana denied the U.S. Attorney’s motion to keep former Bloomington project manager Justin Wykoff in custody.

Wykoff faces embezzlement charges against the city.

“There is a considerable amount of money not accounted for,” Horty said. “We thought he was a risk, but the U.S. Magistrate Court judge did not.”

Wykoff, with two co-conspirators, allegedly embezzled more than $800,000 from the City of Bloomington since May 2011, according to court documents.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office conSEE EMBEZZLED, PAGE 6 Jeremy Hollowell

Local man arrested for dealing heroin FROM IDS REPORTS

City police arrested a Bloomington man Saturday for dealing heroin on an arrest warrant stemming from an investigation started in May. Bloomington Police Department investigators made three controlled buys during May and June from Jermaine Obryan Hardin, 27, in a Walnut Grove apartment, according to court documents.

Police informants bought .3 grams of heroin during the first and third buys and .5 grams during the second, according to court documents.

“I find that hard to believe,” Michelle Dixon said about the three counts of dealing heroin. “I’ve known him since middle school.”

Dixon said Hardin is her boyfriend and that the two have been living together since July 19.

Dixon and Hardin’s sister and mother waited outside the court room Monday for Hardin’s initial 1:30 p.m. hearing.

Hardin’s mother said two private investigators asked her if her son was selling drugs. She told them no.

Police were unable to locate Hardin after the third controlled buy because Hardin moved out, according to court documents. Hardin’s mother held the apartment’s lease.

Austin Etherington

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Column: IU program is reeling I saw one writer on Twitter call it Bloody Monday.

Transfer Monday. Exodus Monday. Deuces Monday. The Maddest Monday in March. Call it whatever you want, but when the dust settled Sunday, the IU men’s basketball program was reeling from the departure of several players due to transfers and a professional opportunity.

To recap, IU lost freshman Noah Vonleh on Sunday to the NBA and sophomore Jeremy Hollowell, redshirt sophomores Austin Etherington and Jonny Marlin to transfers. Other walk-ons such as Andrew Calomeris and Joe Fagan are also rumored to be on their way out.

Vonleh’s departure is obviously the most impactful. He’ll most likely be a top-10 lottery pick in the NBA draft this upcoming June.

I personally thought it would be beneficial for Vonleh to stay another year to develop and wait for this crop of great freshmen to go pro so he could go higher in next year’s draft — plus he turns 19 in August — but his decision makes complete sense.

It will be cool to see him wear an NBA uniform next season. Vonleh’s

EVAN HOOPFER is a junior majoring in journalism.

decision to make millions of dollars playing basketball didn’t come as too much as a surprise to IU fans. It was well within the realm of possibility.

Then came the transfers of Etherington and Hollowell. Both averaged more than 10 minutes a game. Etherington came back this year after tearing his ACL and provided some quality minutes.

According to a press release, Etherington will graduate this spring, after three years, so he’ll be able to play for whatever school he decides to transfer to right away.

Plus his departure means the recruiting class of 2011 — which was also my class, don’t worry guys I’m coming back for my senior season — has now completely left the program.

Cody Zeller went to the NBA last year,

Vonleh to turn pro, others to transfer FROM IDS REPORTS

After a disappointing season that saw IU finish with a 17-15 record, a first-round exit from the Big Ten Tournament and no postseason tournament berth, at least three players announced their departure Monday.

CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish reported freshman forward Noah Vonleh planned to enter the NBA Draft. The Big Ten’s Freshman of the Year, Vonleh averaged 11.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per game and is expected to be a first round pick.

“It’s going to suck leaving college without an NCAA Tournament,” Vonleh told Parrish. “But I have to do what’s best for me.”

Adding to Vonleh’s departure was the announcement that sophomore forwards Austin Etherington and Jeremy Hollowell would transfer from the program. Unconfirmed rumors that walk-on players Jonny Marlin, Joe Fagan and Andrew Calomeris planned to transfer surfaced throughout the day.

Should those rumors prove true, they will become the sixth, seventh and-eighth players to transfer from IU in the last two seasons.

SEE REELING, PAGE 6

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MFA, BFA thesis exhibits open

BY ALISON GRAHAM akgraham@indiana.edu @AlisonGraham218

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False fire alarm evacuated Briscoe Quad, page 6 Residents of Briscoe Shoemaker re-enter the building just after it was declared safe on Monday.

The fantasy of marriage, home improvement techniques and a response to Internet culture will all come together in the Grunwald Gallery of Art’s bachelor’s and master’s of fine arts thesis exhibits opening today.

BFA student Bryn Taubensee plans to exhibit her installation exploring the ideas of marriage and the fantasies and plans that surround the tradition.

Her idea came from seeing the wedding Pinterest boards of her friends and other women.

Pinterest is a website that

allows users to accumulate links and pictures that they can organize into different boards.

Many users share ideas for their future weddings on the site.

Taubensee said she thought it was strange her friends created these fantasy weddings so early in their lives without even having marriage plans in the near or distant future.

With this inspiration, Taubensee created a sculpture with spray foam, cardboard, paint and a few statues.

“I used spray foam because it molds in a really gross way,” she said. “I think dreams are really oozy and I thought that correlated.”

Taubensee also incorporated various pastel colors into the piece to contrast the disgusting appearance of the spray foam, she said.

“The idea is you can never achieve this look because it’s so vibrant and intense,” Taubensee said.

The fantasy dreams of a Pinterest-perfect wedding are hard to achieve, and Taubensee wanted to communicate to her audience that people desire marriage without really considering its importance and effect on their lives.

“I just think art is one way to SEE GRUNWALD, PAGE 6

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State of the Campus Address is today Provost Lauren Robel will deliver the annual State of the Campus address at 3 p.m. today in Presidents Hall of Franklin Hall.

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Follow IDS reporter Kathrine Schulze on Twitter @KathrineSchulze today for a live tweet account of the address.

IU OEM Twitter hacked

BY GRACE PALMIERI gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

The IU Admissions Twitter account was hacked by an unknown source Saturday.

Hundreds of spam tweets had been sent out to some of the account’s followers.

The Office of Enrollment Management did not disclose the content of the tweets.

Jackie Fernette, the director of communications for the Office of Enrollment Management, said it is unlikely that it was a student pulling a prank.

She said it was probably a phishing operation of some kind.

Immediate action was taken when the problem was discovered.

IU social media strategist Tom Atkinson directed the Office of Enrollment Management staff on how to deal with the incident.

Within a couple hours, the tweets were deleted.

Account administrators also made sure the account password was changed, Atkinson said. Also, access to third-party apps was revoked, Fernette said.

At 8:57 p.m. Saturday, IUB Admissions tweeted an apology for any disturbance caused.

“We sincerely apologize to anyone who may have received a spam tweet in the last hour,” it said.

One minute later, the account tweeted again to assure followers measures were taken to clean up the mess, and that the account’s privacy settings were reset.

“We have remedied the issue and expect no further disturbances for any of our followers. Thank you for your understanding.”

Monday afternoon, the Office of Enrollment Management met to attempt some additional diagnostics to determine the cause of the hack.

Fernette said there is no new information to report at this time.

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Participants debate during the Cross Examination Debate Association National Championship and the National Debate Tournament Championship tournament Monday at the Indiana Memorial Union.

IU hosts CEDA debate tournament restrictions on presidential war powers.

With debate season beginning in mid-September, debaters prepared by researching the topic for the tournament throughout the year.

DeLong said the policy debate students are participating in is often considered research-based debate.

“Our students do an equivalent of a masters degree worth of research on this topic alone throughout the entire year,” he said.

“They really do it just for the love of the game and the academic rigor that’s associated with it.”

For this tournament, rather than needing to qualify like debaters do for the National Debate Tournament, it is just a matter of how many teams the host school can accommodate.

Most of the schools

the finals, will triple that number in a weekend.”

A total of 170 teams of two competed. During the first two days, each team competed in eight debates.

Those who finished with a 5-3 record moved on to the single elimination rounds.

Going into the second half of competition, 60 teams remained. Each debate lasted two hours and 45 minutes and had one judge.

“There are no clear guidelines on how the judge will evaluate the round,” DeLong said. “Each judge is extremely dynamic and often times the debate rounds will be altered by debaters as they adapt to the judges that they have and attempt to meet some of their requirements.”

The topic for this year, announced in early August, was the issue of having congressional or judicial

BY GRACE PALMIERI gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

Debate teams from Harvard, Vanderbilt, NYU and 62 other colleges from across the country came to IU this weekend for the Cross Examination Debate Association tournament.

The tournament began Friday morning and concluded Monday night. As of 9 p.m., Monday, the winner was yet to be determined.

Brian DeLong, Director of Debate at IU and host of both this tournament and the National Debate Tournament, said it was four days of rigorous competition.

“In a public speaking class, students will likely give anywhere between four and six speeches in that single course,” he said.

“Our students, especially the ones that are making

brought several teams.

Oklahoma had more than 10 teams entered, two of which made the final four.

George Lee, of Oklahoma, said preparation for a national tournament like this involves research on the teams they will compete against to know their argument and what to say in response.

He said they have been building on their arguments throughout the year.

Lee said aside from debate being an intellectual challenge during college, the concepts do transfer to the real world.

“Particularly for me, being an African-American student, I look at debate as just a training round to be able to go transform the outside world, kind of understanding the systems and structures that make the world go round,” he said. “I think debate can be

beneficial to the smartest people our country has to offer, from coast to coast.”

The host of the tournament changes every year.

DeLong worked with Eric Morris, the president of CEDA and an assistant professor at Missouri State University, and many others to organize the tournament.

DeLong said it is an honor for IU to be able to host both CEDA and the National Debate Tournament, considering IU’s debate program is now rebuilding after 13 years of not having a team.

“To be able to host the two most important tournaments the entire year after only four years of being here shows the confidence this community now has in us as being a stable debate program in the country,” he said.

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Freshman Andrew Ireland, the presidential candidate for Unify IU for IUSA, said his ticket had gained 45 prospective candidates, but he did not think they could compete with PLUS. He said PLUS had secured votes “by recycling much of the current IUSA administration and bringing on board many strategic Greek organizations.”

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Ireland said he is running for Forest Residence Center’s delegate to IUSA and recommends that everyone involved with Unify consider running as well, either independently or with another ticket.

Braden said one of the goals of PLUS is to review the Election Code in the near future and make sure everyone has a chance in IUSA elections.

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Political science celebrates 100 years at IU

BY ANNA HYZY akhyzy@indiana.edu @annakhyzy

On March 23, 1924, the board of trustees approved the creation of a political science department at IU. Russell Hanson, the current chair of IU’s department of political science, said the department was ahead of its time; one of the first in the country to use the title of “political science” when many like it were going by names such as “department of government.”

One hundred years later, Hanson said the department has 560 to 600 students majoring in political science.

“The prospects are bright to us and we expect to continue on for another hundred years,” Hanson said.

The department has organized a week-long celebration of its centennial, including two lectures, a roundtable on women in politics and career-based sessions.

IU’s department of political science was founded under the leadership of Amos Shartle Hershey.

According to a history of political science at IU written by Edward H. Buehrig in 1983, Hershey joined IU’s faculty in the department of American history and politics.

“While the close

connection of political science with history on the one side and with political economy and sociology on the other side is generally recognized, it is also generally felt and believed that political science has a distinct character of its own, and that it differs from Historical Science in scope, purpose, and method,” Hershey said to the board of trustees in 1906.

It took eight years after Hershey submitted his proposal, but the department of political science was formed.

Celebrations of the centennial began Monday with a lecture by distinguished political scientist, Larry Bartels, a professor at Vanderbilt University.

Bartels presented some work by himself and Christopher H. Achen at Princeton University.

The lecture was titled, “Democracy for Realists” and focused primarily on the problems that come with retrospective voting.

“Most people just aren’t paying that much attention to politics,” Bartels said.

The lecture, in Woodburn Hall, drew a large number of political science faculty members and graduate students.

Bartels left the audience with a singular closing thought.

“Political progress seems to hinge on political culture,

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Vanderbilt Professor, Larry Bartels, speaks about political issues during his “Democracy for Realists” lecture Monday at Woodburn Hall. The lecture was sponsored by the IU Department of Polictical Science.

political institutions and political economy, not on public opinion, electoral politics or Fourth of July rhetoric,” he said.

He admitted he came to this conclusion reluctantly, as he spent much of his life studying public opinion and electoral politics.

The second lecture will take place at 3 p.m. March 28 in Woodburn Hall 200, where Terrence Ball of Arizona State University will speak on “Lincoln’s Deadly Hermeneutics.”

Hanson said the study of political science is valuable and has multiple

La Casa collects clothes for Shalom

BY SUZANNE GROSSMAN spgrossm@indiana.edu

Norma Rodriguez remembers when she was young her mother telling her they didn’t have anywhere to stay.

She and her mother were homeless and had to depend on friends for a place to sleep.

This week, in partnership with La Casa, Rodriguez is leading a clothing and toiletries drive to benefit Shalom Community Center.

“I want to help people,” Rodriguez said. “I thought there is no better way of helping other people than the homeless.”

The drive is running all week and donations can be dropped off at La Casa.

Executive Director at Shalom Forrest Gilmore said their biggest needs are jackets, sweatshirts and sweaters.

Backpacks, tents and tarps are also really important, he said.

“These drives provide for

basic essentials for daily lives that most of us take for granted,” Gilmore said.

Each March, La Casa themes its programming around activism and advocacy in honor of Latino activist, Cesar Chavez’s birthday, La Casa Director Lillian CaillasOrigel said.

“It’s a reminder that we advocate,” Caillas-Origel said. “If you’re empowered, you should do something, and it can be something as simple as donating some items.”

Earlier in the year, La Casa staged programming focused on Hispanic Heritage Month. Caillas-Origel said celebrating activism in March helps La Casa end the year on a strong note before students check out in April.

“Chavez was a low-income migrant worker with not much education, but look what he did,” CaillasOrigel said. “He led a massive movement, so we do programming to honor him

and Latino activists.”

Rodriguez said she loves helping people who experience homelessness, especially after seeing Shalom’s high need.

“I was researching and what touched me the most is how many women and children were involved at Shalom,” Rodriguez said. “I always thought of homelessness as men, but there were women and children and that touched me since I was once homeless when young.”

She said she hopes, with the changing of seasons and people starting their spring cleaning, the drive will collect a large stock of donations.

The drives after winter are a relief for Shalom, Gilmore said.

“Homelessness never takes a holiday,” he said.

“Winter is the most dangerous time for homelessness, but people are homeless all year round and their needs come all year round.”

Rodriguez said her goal is not for the drive to collect the most of any drive, but to get as many people involved as possible.

And even though students may not have the financial power to help, Gilmore said they make up for it in social power.

“Students often have large social networks, which can be very helpful,” Gilmore said. “The way they can work and connect with others is great and helps make a big difference.”

Caillas-Origel said she hopes the same and urges students to believe they can make a difference.

“No matter how horrible our condition is, we can all do something,” Caillas-Origel said. “Students will say, ‘I don’t have money’, but we all have something to give. We live in this world. We have to be a part of it and contribute to it.”

applications.

“I think many of the problems that we face as a society have political solutions to them,” he said.

He also said a significant number of political science majors go on to study law or obtain jobs in politically influential corporations.

Hanson said that, in light of the centennial, he hopes to improve the curriculum, including the addition of a careers course.

“We’re very proud of what we’ve done,” he said, “We’re ambitious, so we hope to do better.

Political Science turns 100 These are the events this week that celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Department of Political Science at IU. WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 Political Science Undergraduate Advisory Board Women in Politics Round Table When 7 p.m.

Where Swain West 119 This event will feature career discussion with Talisha Coppock, Toby Strout, Charlotte Zietlow, Eileen Braman, Shelli Yoder, and Peggy Welch.

THURSDAY MARCH 27 Department of Political Science MacKenzie Sestak — Careers for Political Science Majors in Federal Contracting When 5 p.m.

Where Woodburn Hall 218 Political Science Undergraduate Advisory Board

Meet the seniors When 6:30 p.m.

Where Woodburn Hall 101 FRIDAY MARCH 28 Department of Political Science Charles S. Hyneman Lecture — Lincoln’s Deadly Hermeneutics When 3 p.m.

Where Woodburn Hall 200 This event discusses Terence Ball’s abstract. Ball is a professor at the School of Politics & Global Studies at Arizona State University.

Centennial Celebration to follow lecture.

SATURDAY MARCH 29 Department of Political Science Political Science Graduate Student Conference — How to get hired When 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where Woodburn Hall 200

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DR. STEVE ZEGREE, DIRECTOR LY WILDER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR IAN BOGOST, one of the smartest scholars of new media and gaming, regular contributor to tech blogs, denizen of the Twittersphere, will deliver a public presentation titled “HOW SUCCESSFUL VIDEOGAMES EXPLAIN SOCIETY.” His books as well as the games he has designed (including the self-ironizing Facebook Game, Cow Clicker) all display the same exploration and wit.

Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. An award-winning designer and media philosopher, Bogost is author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, How to Do Things With Video Games, and the recent Alien Phenomenology: What It’s Like to Be a Thing.

He is also author/designer of A Slow Year, a collection of videogame poems for Atari VCS, Windows, and Mac, and winner of the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival.

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Bogost will also hold an OPEN CONVERSATION with students and faculty earlier that day, at 11:30am in the Walnut Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, though seating is limited.

For more information, go to www.indiana.edu/~cahi or call 812-856-1169.

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Indiana first to repeal Common Core Indiana became the first state to back out of the federal Common Core education standards Monday.

Governor Mike Pence signed legislation requiring Indiana to create their own

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Social studies standards update released for 2014

$300,000 awarded to county schools The Monroe County Community School Corporation received $300,000 from the IDE. The grants are intended to aid communities with high instances of poverty and low-performing schools, according to the release. They are targeted specifically at after-school programs.

“These groups work throughout the state to support student learning and development in communities affected by poverty,” said Ritz in the release. “I am honored to award these organizations

FROM IDS REPORTS

The Monroe County Community School Corporation was one of 53 organizations in Indiana to be awarded a 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant this year, according to a press release from the Indiana Department of Education.

Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz announced the grants, which total to about $11.1 million. Awards ranged between $50,000 and $300,000.

BY SYDNEY MURRAY slmurray@indiana.edu

which are working every day to strengthen our communities.”

Almost 80 organizations applied for grants from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers. The organizations awarded grants serve 184 after-school sites, according to the release.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program is authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and is federally funded.

M.K. Wildeman

Grants awarded to Indiana school corporations Twenty-eight state school corporations received grants this year. The Department of Education intended grants to be awarded to low-income areas with low-performing schools.

Letters on the right correspond to the school corporation’s 2013 grade assigned by the IDE. A

Monroe County Community $300,000 Evansville Vanderburgh $275,000

B

New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated $150,000 C Elkhart Community $150,000 Lafayette $150,000

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Vigo County $150,000

The Indiana State Board of Education recently adopted new social studies standards, which will be in effect for the 2014-15 school year.

According to a press release from the state government, more than 175 Indiana social studies teachers were involved in the adoption of the new standards. Every six years, Indiana Academic Standards must be reviewed.

Social studies encompasses classes such as U.S. History, World History, Economics and U.S. Government.

SBOE member Tony Walker said the most important component of the standards for him is that decisions can be made at the local level and said he thinks the current social studies standards accomplish that task.

Walker said the standards haven’t changed much since 2007. According to the press release, SBOE member Cari Whicker said she found only about 25 word changes between the old and new standards.

“I taught social studies for 14 years, and my middle school standards differed only by a few words,” Whicker said in the release. “The high school version changed in that examples that were previously included in the standards text are now listed in a

separate reference sheet.”

Walker said what students need to accomplish doesn’t change much throughout the years, but society changes. Six years from now, when the social studies standards will be reviewed again, Walker said technology and the economy might be different and whole countries might not even exist.

Walker said it is important to keep the standards current, and social studies education helps form the bedrock of citizenship. He said it would be hard to know your role in society if you haven’t studied the system.

SBOE member Andrea Neal said she thinks Indiana took a step backward with its new standards, and she will continue to push the IDOE to implement better standards.

Neal said she sees standards as a guide of what good teachers should be teaching.

The new standards will have a resource guide created by the Indiana Department of Education. Neal said the body of core knowledge that was in the old standards has now been transferred to the resource guide.

She said there have been some changes in the standards for eighth grade and high school, such as in the U.S. History and World History classes at those grade levels. She said documents such as the Monroe Doctrine and

the Civil War Amendments are no longer mentioned.

Neal commissioned Jeremy Stern of the Fordham Institute to look over the new standards.

Neal said different people see the standards in different lights. She said she does not see standards as “do or die” rules.

“The detail offered in Indiana’s 2007 standards — whether presented as “examples” or in the text of the standards themselves — did a sound job of pointing out the core, common knowledge that informed students and citizens must share,” Stern said in his report. “The proposed new setup directly undermines that essential (and already all-too-rare) achievement.”

Neal said she would like to see pre-Common Core standards re-implemented.

“I don’t think we can do much better,” Neal said, referring to these standards.

Neal also said social studies education is important to a healthy democracy, and U.S. history is one of the most important classes students can take. Neal teaches U.S. history at St. Richard’s Episcopal School in Indianapolis.

“That’s sort of the essential course that young people need to grow up to be involved, knowledgeable citizens,” Neal said.

Education grant competition opens F

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education standards, according to a report from Indiana Public Media.

State education officials hope to have the new standards prepared next month, the report said.

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The U.S. Department of Education has announced the opening of applications for the Investing in Innovation Grant Competition.

Grants totalling $134 million will go to schools to help their students achieve more and be ready for college and careers. There are three categories for the grants — development, validation and scale-up.

The development category can be pre-applied for now, and the validation and scaleup category applications will be released later this spring.

This is the grant competition’s fifth year. The development grants help schools implement new ideas to help

their students succeed.

“We’re excited to begin this year’s i3 Development competition to support promising efforts in the field,” said Nadya Dabby, acting assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement, in a USDOE press release.

The USDOE aims to accomplish specific goals with these grants, including effective use of technology, improved academic outcomes for English learners and improved academic outcomes for students with disabilities, among others.

During the 2013 competition, the USDOE received 576 pre-applications. It has consistently been the most popular category during the past four years.

All grantees that receive awards must also find privatesector matching funds that comprise 15 percent of their budget.

The deadline for pre-applications is April 14. Those chosen from the pre-application process will be encouraged to complete a full application for the development grants.

“The initiatives supported by i3 are not only designed to boost students’ success. They also improve our understanding of what works for students and educators,” Dabby said in the release. “We look forward to supporting new ideas to help all students — especially our highest need students — achieve.”

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O’Hare train jumps track, climbs escalator The Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train jumped the tracks and failed to stop at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport platform early Monday morning.

The lead car of the eight car train appeared

to have started climbing the escalator of an adjacent platform.

32 people were injured in the accident, none seriously. The crash has yet to be removed, as experts are investigating.

EDITORIAL BOARD

RIELD UP

No longer ‘the idiot’s lantern’

Girls being punished for their bodies

JORDAN RILEY is a sophomore majoring in comparative lit.

CLAIRE MCELWAIN is a freshman majoring in journalism.

Bored suburban educators are at it again.

A recent modification to an Illinois school’s dress code has restricted all females at Haven Middle School from wearing leggings, yoga pants and skinny jeans during the school day.

The school’s administration cites the reason for the change to be the distracting nature of the clothing articles for young male students during school time.

I’ve heard of limitations on tank tops, shorts, skirts and even flip flops, but not allowing females to wear leggings, yoga pants and skinny jeans is ridiculous.

I understand there are scenarios in which leggings can look inappropriate when worn a certain way, but the same is true for dresses and skirts. Banning any article of clothing altogether is eventually going to leave females with nothing to wear.

I don’t understand, however, how the three pant options can be blanketly judged as inappropriate.

Leggings and yoga pants are high rising, thick, dark, long and move with your body.

Skinny jeans are made of denim, which is thick and stiff enough to create just about as much coverage as possible for a pair of pants.

If the administration at Haven Middle School were being truthful, they would admit the coverage supplied by the three styles of pants has little to do with their impending ban.

If it were really about that, then the school would have put into effect a policy about boys sagging their own bottoms, displaying various pairs of plaid boxer shorts.

The decision to ban leggings, yoga pants and skinny jeans was based not on the styles and coverage, but how the female students look while wearing them.

A curvy figure isn’t a sin or a fault, and, therefore, it shouldn’t be punished.

Certain females are blessed with a better butt than others, and I guarantee it’s going to get attention whether it’s covered by leggings, a skirt, a pair of jeans or a muumuu.

Females are not at fault for the way they are built, yet they’re being treated that way.

Middle school girls shouldn’t be led to believe they are to blame in any way for their male classmates’ behavior, like these new policy installments suggest.

If these boys are spending their learning hours staring at girls’ butts, then I don’t understand why the female is automatically to blame.

Comfortable, stylish pants like leggings, skinny jeans and yoga pants aren’t the real problem in this situation.

It’s the mindset of this particular administration that the girls who are wearing leggings to school are responsible for a negative learning environment and the delayed success of their male classmates.

I understand the need for a dress code, but one that sensibly illustrates solutions to inappropriate outfits would be much more easily accepted than one that limits females to dressing like they’re straight off of “Leave It To Beaver” and isolating genders to seem like innocent bystanders verses sadistic temptresses.

After all, they’re just pants.

ILLUSTRATION BY ROSE HARDING

School and guns don’t mix WE SAY: Keep your firearms off our campus Earlier this month, the governor of Idaho signed a bill into law that would allow students with gun permits to carry concealed weapons on university campuses across the state.

The reaction to the law in Idaho has been relatively negative, with all eight of the state’s public universities speaking out against it.

The schools claim the law will threaten public safety and repel prospective students.

Alarmingly, the momentum for the Idaho law stemmed from a bill passed in the Indiana State Legislature that would allow high school students to keep their guns in their cars during the school day.

The Indiana bill has yet to be signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence.

But the question at hand is whether or not students have the right to carry concealed weapons on public

university campuses. The Editorial Board believes the answer is a resounding no.

As is the case with every other politically charged issue of our time, we recognize that there are many layers to deal with when it comes to addressing gun violence. No one wants any more tragedies like Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora or the more recent tragedy at Purdue.

The National Rifle Association, which drafted the Idaho bill and later sent it to the legislature for passage, believes this law would result in increased safety for students. Its president has said, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

On the other side of the aisle, progressives are more willing to pass laws restricting the use of guns in certain areas, hence the transformation of school campuses into “gun-free zones.”

Unfortunately, it is obvious that making schools legally “gun-free” doesn’t result in schools being free from gun violence itself.

It seems that the solution to problem of gun violence is more complicated than most people would like to admit. But allowing students to carry concealed weapons on campuses won’t solve the issue. If anything, it might even result in more accidents and deaths than it would prevent.

Regardless of the effect of the Idaho law, we recognize there are more comprehensive and effective reforms we can undertake to reduce and prevent gun violence.

A few of these reforms include: mandatory background checks on gun buyers — a policy supported by nine out of 10 Americans — imposing a waiting period on the purchase of guns, monitoring

the purchase of ammunition and implementing mandatory gun safety training.

The political problem with gun violence is it’s always framed as a question of balancing the number of laws imposed on gun owners with the number of deaths that result from gun violence. We believe this might not be an issue of how many laws we pass to reduce gun deaths, but rather an issue of passing smarter laws aimed at preventing the problem.

We will have to sit back and watch how the rollout of the Idaho law plays out.

But, in the meantime, if any Indiana legislators are getting any similar ideas, all we have to say is thanks, but no thanks. opinion@idsnews.com @ids_opinion

CONSYDERATIONS

The beauty of March Madness March Madness is in full swing. Brackets have been chosen. People are cheering on their teams. #MarchMadness is trending on Twitter.

And I couldn’t be happier.

I know that some people take their bracket predictions very seriously in hopes of winning large amounts of money, but that is not why it appeals to me.

The thing that really gets me is the spirit of the games.

People throughout the country are participating and it’s awesome to say the least.

People from California and Kansas can bond about wanting Arizona to win it all.

People from Texas and New York can shake their heads about the surprising victory of Dayton over

Syracuse And all of this ties people together.

Even if you aren’t a huge basketball fan, you can still participate in the fun. My little sister doesn’t know a thing about the Florida Gators, but she is still cheering them on, hoping for them to win it all.

Just the idea of calling the winning team makes March Madness fun.

This year, millions of people entered Warren Buffet’s billion dollar bracket challenge. Right now, none of them are still in the running.

This isn’t surprising, considering the fact that the odds of picking a perfect bracket are 9.2 quintillion to one.

However, these almost unbeatable odds make it

even more exciting to make a bracket and cheer your teams on. A single game could make or break your bracket.

And since no one is likely to call a perfect bracket, people who don’t really know anything about basketball can still participate. Last year, my 8-year-old cousin won the family’s bracket challenge.

One of the great things about March Madness is it’s completely all right to get beaten by an 8-year-old.

That is why I don’t understand why some people get so worked up about their brackets.

March Madness can be extremely exciting if you are in it just for the fun of it. And everyone who wants to can

SYDNEY RAFTERY is a freshman majoring in journalism.

get in on it.

Few people care if you can’t name a player on the team that you are rooting for. It’s the friendly competition and the connection between people all over the country that make March Madness fun.

So, don’t take it too seriously. If it makes you feel better, there is a very good chance that your bracket is doing better than mine. syrafter@indiana.edu

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There is a stigma that comes with TV programs that, I think, is mostly unfair. The idea of “the idiot’s lantern” that regulates television to being a time waster for lazy people is outdated. And yet, some people still proudly declare their ignorance of anything displayed on the silver screen.

These people are so frustrating to me because no other medium is rejected with such pride. You don’t hear hipsters smugly stating “I don’t watch films” or “I don’t own any books.” While there might have been a time to differentiate between the artistic and intellectual differences between these mediums, that time is past.

We, as viewers and as a society, are currently enjoying what could be considered a golden age of television. The stories are more complex and compelling, and there are more distributors than ever before. Our television is more expensive, more pensive and more entertaining, and yet it is still being denied the credit it deserves.

No other medium is going through the cultural renaissance that television is currently experiencing. The quality of movies — generally considered to have intellectual and cultural value by the same pseudo-intellectuals who throw shade on television — has actually gone down in recent years with influxes of sequels and clichés.

On the other hand, television is the most widely used media device in the United States.

Perhaps it is this mainstream appeal that repels some people. But willfully ignoring such a large and stimulating aspect of culture does not make a person seem impossibly intellectual, posh and busy. It just makes them out of touch.

Shows like “House of Cards” and “Game of Thrones” are offering engaging social commentaries on our political system and the drug-like effects of power on the human psyche, respectively. By choosing to not to engage in this conversation, people miss relevant observations about the world around them and are left behind. They are also missing out on some incredible entertainment.

The idea of entertainment for entertainment’s sake is perhaps another reason people hold disdain for the medium. These people should keep in mind that even intellectual darlings like Shakespeare were considered low culture in their time.

It offers the longest exposure time to interesting and complicated characters, like Walter White and Don Draper, giving the audience more time to digest, dissect and draw conclusions in a way that is impossible in a twohour time frame. Its timely creation and distribution spanning multiple years also gives it the ability to reflect real time cultural issues with commentary.

On top of its political, social and cultural affects, it is also really fun to watch. So when I make a simple reference, and someone hoping to seem smarter than me smugly replies, “Oh, I don’t watch television,” they should know that I’m not impressed. That person hasn’t excluded themselves from the vapid entrapments of lesser folk, but instead revealed themselves to be hopelessly removed from the very thing they are trying to project — culture. jordrile@indiana.edu @RiledUpIDS

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express your cultural opinions,” she said. “This is my way of vocalizing mine.”

Another sculptor exhibiting in the show is MFA student Devin Balara, who also decided to criticize an aspect of society.

Balara’s installation utilizes the tools of home improvement and applies them to cast-off objects.

For example, the sculptor took old mattresses she had found and painted them to turn them into decorative objects.

Balara’s idea came from growing up in the suburbs of Tampa, Fla., where everything seems perfect on the surface, she said.

“People try to decorate their homes according to their individual tastes, but they are shopping at the same stores for the same crap that ends up in everyone’s homes,” she said.

“If everyone has the same blinds from Target, that doesn’t make your home any different from anyone else’s.”

Poking fun at this idea, Balara created her installation to appear like a mix of a furniture showroom and the way furniture actually gets set up in a home.

Her installation includes six mattresses, a rug, a separate wall and various other household objects that have been comically decorated to appear unique, she said.

A second MFA artist in the exhibit is painter Zach Koch, who is displaying a series of 16 paintings he has been working on over the past year.

Koch described himself as an appropriation artist.

He takes things from other existing artwork or items in pop culture and adds his own creative spin to them.

“Basically I would take screenshots of things and arrange them in a new order,” he said. “I would mash them up together or layer

FROM IDS REPORTS

Students at Briscoe Residence Center were evacuated from the building Monday after smoke detectors went off in the late afternoon.

Sergeant Jeremy Goad of the Bloomington Fire Department said a belt inside an air handling unit at the top of the building malfunctioned and caused smoke to fill an elevator shaft.

Briscoe employee Cecily Anderson said she was one of the few people that received information about the cause of the incident.

“One of the generators broke on the roof,” she said. “It created a lot of smoke that went into the

air conditioning so they had to evacuate.”

The fire station dispatched a unit at 4:32 p.m. on 12th Street and Woodlawn Avenue and arrived on scene at 4:36 p.m., Goad said.

Though they did not find any sign of fire or major damage, Goad said they had problems resetting the alarms. The physical plant was contacted and asked to take care of both the alarms and the belt.

Because most of the smoke was inside of the duct work, little visible damage was done and the scene was cleared at 5:51 p.m., Goad said.

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them on top of each other.”

The process begins when Koch creates a digital collage of screenshots he has collected.

Working off the collage, he paints the images onto wood panels with oils.

“It would be easy to keep them as digital images, but I like translating it to some kind of archaic form,” he said.

Each painting takes one to two weeks, and almost every one ends up differently than he expected from the digital image.

“Since you’re working from something that’s artificial, it’s hard to emulate the same kind of look that a digital file has,” he said.

“A lot changes along the way, but I think they look

even better with the oil paint. Some expectations fall flat sometimes, and that can be hard.”

Despite the time and challenges involved in creating the pieces, Koch was able to install his pieces in time for today’s show.

“I think it’s an opportunity to see different perspectives,” he said.

“I hate imposing things on people, especially when it comes to art. There’s that thing that if you don’t look at art, you’re uncultured, but I don’t necessarily believe that. Anybody that does anything creative, if they can make people amazed by their work, that’s a success.”

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During the address, Robel will speak on the Strategic Plan, which finished its public comment phase Wednesday.

The Strategic Plan outlines IU’s goals in the years leading up to the campus’s bicentennial.

The State of the

BY JAYLEN JOHNSON jayljohn@indiana.edu

The No. 14 IU water polo team played four games against ranked opponents during spring break, going 1-3.

The Hoosiers started their trip in Davis, Calif., against No. 15 UC Davis.

IU beat UC Davis 11-10 after a steal by junior utility player Shelby Taylor with 22 seconds left stopped a late Aggie scoring opportunity and sealed the win.

Senior attacker Shae Fournier scored the first goal for the Hoosiers on a fastbreak goal.

The Aggies scored their first goal on a power play and led 4-2 after the first quarter.

Junior utility player Summer Creighton scored a goal to start the second quarter, followed up by a goal from Fournier to help IU take a 8-6 halftime lead.

In the third quarter, UC Davis tied the game at 9-9 at the end of the third quarter.

Eight of the Aggies’ 10 goals came through power plays.

Taylor and senior attacker Meghan Lappan scored backto-back goals to give IU the 11-9 lead with three and a half minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

UC Davis was awarded a penalty shot and scored with one minute to go to tighten the

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Last year, Provost Robel announced her intention to recommend the merger of the School of Journalism and the Departments of Telecommunications and Communications and Culture to the Board of Trustees.

Faculty, students and public may attend the address in person, livestream it at broadcast. iu.edu or watch it live on the campus cable television, according to the release.

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“His birthday was yesterday,” Jermaine’s sister Paulette Hardin said Monday. “He’s missing out on his life.”

A Monroe County Jail official said Hardin is being held on preliminary charges of dealing a controlled substance, a class A felony, and criminal mischief, a class B misdemeanor, with bond set at $50,000 surety and $500 cash for the felony charge and $1,000 surety and $500 cash for the misdemeanor.

Hardin’s two preliminary charges are for two different cases. The misdemeanor charge stems from a case opened in January 2013 involving property damage.

Hardin was convicted in 2008 for intimidation and in 2010 for resisting law enforcement and battery resulting in bodily injury against a police officer, all class D felonies.

sidered Wykoff, 43, Roger D. Hardin, 51, and Zachary Hardin, 25, at risk of not showing up for future court hearings and a risk to society.

Wykoff and the Hardins, former owners of Reliable Concrete Construction in Bedford, Ind., conspired to commit a federal crime through at least 24 false invoices created and signed by Wykoff, according to court documents.

The district court did not consider Zachary a risk and released him March 13. Four days later Roger waived his detention hearing, Horty said.

Wykoff is to be released to a home detention site once one has been approved by the probation office.

Each of Wykoff ’s 24 counts of embezzlement carry 10year imprisonment sentences. Roger and Zachary each face one count of conspiracy.

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Remy Abell transferred to Xavier and now Etherington will leave.

Zeller’s departure was expected, but Abell and Etherington could have really helped this upcoming year.

Hollowell is more of a sad story of unfilled potential.

Billed as one of the premier players of “The Movement” recruiting class of 2012, he has never become the player IU fans thought he would become.

His on-court effort has come under fire and he was benched for three games earlier this season for “focus issues.”

OK, take a deep breath IU fans. This is a lot to digest.

For IU to take a jump next year, the young core of

game to 11-10.

The Aggies began a fastbreak, but Taylor came up with a steal with 22 seconds to go to give the Hoosiers the win.

Fournier finished with four goals, five steals and an assist.

Junior utility player Rebecca Gerrity added one goal and had three steals.

On the defensive end of the pool, sophomore goalkeeper Jessica Gaudreault had two saves for the Hoosiers and helped propel IU to a win.

IU traveled to play No. 8 San Jose State next where the Hoosiers lost 11-9.

Taylor and Fournier started the scoring for the Hoosiers as they led 2-0 before the Spartans scored their first goal.

The Hoosiers led 4-2 after the first quarter and Gaudreault recorded three saves.

Fournier, Taylor and Gerrity scored three straight goals in a row to end the second half. IU led 7-4 at halftime.

Freshman driver Clara Espar Llaquet scored four goals in the last two periods for the Spartans.

Three other Spartans scored goals, and the Hoosier offense managed only two goals in the second half, losing 6-11.

“The games haven’t been turning out how we wanted them to,” Taylor said. “We have

been struggling to play a full game. We’ve played well in parts.”

The Hoosiers traveled to Honolulu to compete in the Hawaii Invitational.

To start the Hawaii Invitational, the Hoosiers played undefeated and No. 1 USC. The Trojans dominated the game after the first quarter, to win 15-5.

During a scoreless stretch for Indiana, USC scored seven goals.

Fournier and Taylor both scored two goals, and Gaudreault recorded six saves.

The last game the Hoosiers played in was against No. 11 Hawaii. The Hoosiers lost again, by a score of 9-5.

At the end of the first quarter the game was tied at 2-2.

Hawaii scored two more goals and led 4-2 at the end of the second quarter.

Hawaii outscored the Hoosiers 4-2 in the last quarter.

Freshman utility player Claire Nixon scored three goals for Hawaii.

Senior goalkeeper Amy Carlson recorded a careerhigh 14 saves.

The trip dropped IU’s record this season to 11-5.

“The team was passive against Hawaii,” IU Assistant Coach Zach White said. “To beat a team ranked higher than you, you need to play with some aggression.”

Ferrell-Williams-RobinsonDavis will have to improve, Oladipo-style.

Incoming freshmen five-star James Blackmon and four-star Rob Johnson will help mend the levee IU basketball is currently undergoing.

It’s hard for any program to sustain success after three quality role players transfer — don’t forget about Luke Fischer — and a top-10 lottery pick leave in a single year.

But here’s the problem: IU isn’t trying to sustain success.

It’s trying to take a significant step up.

This season was a disappointment in terms of fans’ expectations. Nobody was expecting a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament like last year’s bunch, but people expected this to be a tournament team.

Not only did IU not qualify for the NCAA tournament, they couldn’t even qualify for the NIT. The development of Ferrell-Williams-RobinsonDavis, plus the additions of Blackmon and Johnson might be enough to get IU back to the same level they were this year with the departures of Vonleh, Sheehey, Gordon, Etherington, Howard and Etherington.

But going 7-11 in the Big Ten isn’t good enough for IU fans.

IU fans will expect a bounce back year. Instead of reading about what they can do to return to greatness in March, IU fans expect to be rooting for a team that’s dancing.

All yesterday did was make the mountain to relevance steeper.

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David Chen asks a student to repeat a phrase in Chinese during his class on December 9. Chen rewarded every student with a piece of candy after they had pronounced the phrase correctly.

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A NEW WAY

Rookie teacher David Chen employs an unorthodox method in MCCSC’s first-ever Chinese language classes. But success isn’t guaranteed. First-year programs often fail.

BY GAGE BENTLEY gbentley@indiana.edu @gagebentley

He wants every day to be different, so today David Chen will teach Chinese with fried green onion pancakes.

It’s Sept. 20, the day after the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Fried green onion pancakes are staples.

“Perfect day for a food lab,” he says, holding a plate of the oily, aromatic cakes with one hand and fumbling his keys with the other.

Unlocking the door, he steps into the classroom he shares with TriNorth Middle School’s social studies teacher. Chinese characters are written on the chalkboard opposite the U.S. Constitution.

Chen is Monroe County Community School Corporation’s first-ever Chinese language teacher. At a time when budgets are tight, and Indiana education seems obsessed with teaching students to pass tests, Chen is confident he can succeed where other teachers have failed. He not only wants every one of his students to pass Chinese, but to love learning the language, too.

So far, he says, it’s working. His students are already learning at a rate faster than most high school classes.

“As soon as you focus on grades, their motivation lies no longer in Chinese but in, ‘how do I get an A? Then you lost that student.”

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“Compare my 12- and 13-yearolds to high schoolers, and they’ll beat them every time,” he often says.

But would they really beat them every time? He couldn’t possibly know. A first-time teacher, Chen has never taught a class of his own.

So he’s taking it day by day. Each morning, he sets a goal — learn those words, then that sentence, then review last week’s stuff. That’s what food labs are for; the students are rewarded with food if they achieve the goal. He calls it “controlled chaos.”

Last week, they cooked dumplings

in class after learning how to say “I want.” Today, they’ll learn wo xiang chi cong you bing — I want eat fried green onion pancake.

The bell rings, and students crash through the door. They shout their hellos.

“Ni hao, Mr. Chen.”

There are the three boys who can’t keep still; the two girls who whisper answers to his questions; and one girl from China, who, like Chen at her age, is trying to learn how to survive as a Chinese-speaking student in an American school.

After teaching them to say fried green onion pancake and reviewing “I want,” Chen begins.

“OK, so how do you say ‘I want eat fried green pancake’?” he asks.

Chen translates Chinese in broken English. Words like “a” and “is” don’t exist in Chinese, he says, omitting them makes translation easier.

Several students attempt the phrase and stumble. A few offer no response at all.

Chen takes control. He goes to each student, offering the plate of pancakes. They won’t get one until they ask for it in Chinese.

They try sounding the syllables, many of which have no English equivalent. Some succeed the first time.

Chen helps those who mumbled failed attempts.

“How do you say ‘I want eat fried green pancake’?” “Wo xiang chi cong you bing.”

Soon, everyone is asking for fried green pancakes in Chinese, and everyone eats some. Chen plays Chinese lesson videos on YouTube until class ends. The day’s goal was met.

But it’s only day 12 of 180, and Chen worries whether his methods are working. Are his students committing Chinese to memory? Can they truly learn Chinese and love it, too?

He’s confident the answer to those questions is yes. But he doesn’t have proof.

There’s no proof his students are actually learning what he’s teaching. No proof the principal who hired him will have his faith rewarded. And no proof the new and fragile Chinese program will continue.

“Every day, I ask myself,” he says, “Am I going to be fired?”

Addy Kao practices her calligraphy during David Chen's class on December 9. Students were asked to practice writing a Chinese character with calligraphy brushes and water.

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When Chen first interviewed for the teaching job, Jackson Creek Principal David Pillar didn’t know what to make of him.

Pillar had been to China. He saw students there were learning other languages faster and at younger ages than those at Jackson Creek Middle School. He feared whether his students would be able to compete in a globalized world.

So he came back to Bloomington,

fought and won approval for new Chinese classes, and prepared to hire a teacher. He didn’t know exactly what he was looking for, but he said he knew he wanted one thing: experience.

Then he interviewed Chen.

A 6-foot 27-year-old with a round face and barrel chest, Chen talks with his hands and looks more like a coach than a teacher when he speaks about SEE CHEN, PAGE 11

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Former TV judge arrested for contempt Joe Brown, the former star of the reality court show “Judge Joe Brown,” was arrested Monday in Tennessee.

Brown, 66, was charged with five counts

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of contempt of court after an outburst in a juvenile courtroom hearing.

He was sentenced to five days in jail.

War coming to the Bishop

BY CHRISTIAN KEMP cjkemp@indiana.edu

MATAILONG DU | IDS

JOYOUS NOISE

Genticorum musicians Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand (right) and Pascal Gemme (left) perform at the Monroe County Public Library on Monday.

Local band Charlie Patton’s War will play tonight at the Bishop along with Kentucky Knife Fight and Heather French Henry. Admission is $7, and the show starts at 9:30 p.m.

Charlie Patton’s War is a four-piece multi-genre band.

The band consists of drums, guitar, vocals and keyboards.

Aaron Frazer, the band’s drummer and one of two vocalists, said the band has many different styles.

Kyle Houpt, a guitarist for Charlie Patton’s War, said the band focuses on rock ’n’ roll with a nod to American roots music.

Charlie Patton’s War formed in 2010. The band members met at the Jacobs School of Music where they were all recording arts majors, Houpt said.

The band expanded from a duo consisting of Houpt and Blake Rhein, a guitarist and vocalist for Charlie Patton’s War. Frazer said he has traveled around the country with Charlie Patton’s War. He said the band’s last tour started

in Indiana and then went through Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina before returning to Bloomington.

He said the key to being on the road is keeping healthy and in a good state of mind.

Aside from playing on the road, Charlie Patton’s War frequently plays Bloomington venues, too.

“For Bloomington, we try to bring a really tight, special show,” Frazer said, “Our close friends and families are here.”

Charlie Patton’s War’s name is a pun taken from the movie title “Charlie Wilson’s War.” Charlie Patton was a blues musician whose stage performances are something the band tries to reflect in their own shows, Frazer said.

“Charlie Patton is one of the pioneers of the Delta blues,” Frazer said. “He was known for his performance style, which was pretty ferocious.”

Charlie Patton’s War will be playing a few new songs from an unreleased album at tonight’s show. This will

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Bloomington band Charlie Patton’s War will play at 9:30 tonight at the Bishop with Kentucky Knife Fighter and Heather French Henry.

be their last show in Bloomington until they return from their next tour, which will take them to the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, Miss.

Frazer said Charlie Patton’s War has played for wide ranges of crowds, from empty rooms to packed houses.

He said the band’s energy is undeterred by smaller crowds.

“We try to bring a quality live show everytime,” he said.

In addition to performing for a recent winter tour, Charlie Patton’s War released their first, self-titled album last year.

Houpt said the band is a fan of Heather French Henry, and they are familiar with Kentucky Knife Fight via the Internet.

Frazer said Charlie Patton’s War enjoys playing at the Bishop for a variety of reasons, including the fact that the venue does a good job of booking regional bands as well as local bands.

“The Bishop is our favorite venue in town,” Frazer said. “It is because they consistently support original, live electric music in Bloomington.”

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Chalfant named All-American Redshirt senior Adam Chalfant Re nished sixth at the 2014 NCAA finish Wrestling Championships last Wres week and was named an Allwee American.

Ame Wrestling in the 285-pound W

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IU’s five-match slide stretches to seven

FROM IDS REPORTS

After defeating No. 14 Louisville and taking two of three from Michigan this past weekend, two IU baseball players were recognized by the Big Ten. Second baseman Casey Rodrigue was named co-Big Ten Player of the Week, and Kyle Hart was named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week.

During the four-game stretch, Rodrigue hit .444 with seven RBI, scored five runs and stole three bases.

Rodrigue transferred from LSU-Eunice and has played in all of IU’s 21 games, starting in 20 of them.

The speedster stole 68 bases last year in Louisiana and has stolen nine bags this season.

After being demoted from the weekend rotation earlier in the season for struggling, Hart has turned his season around to win two straight Big Ten Pitcher of the Week awards.

The lefty from Cincinnati

BY MICHAEL HUGHES michhugh@indiana.edu @MichaelHughes94

The IU men’s tennis team entered spring break having lost five straight matches against ranked opponents.

During spring break, that losing streak grew to seven.

No. 70 IU lost 4-2 March 16 at No. 37 Texas Tech, and lost again Sunday at home, 7-0 against No. 9 Illinois.

Those two losses, coupled with a 7-0 victory against unranked Morehead State, brought the Hoosiers’ record to 10-11, 0-3 in the Big Ten. IU Coach Randy Bloemendaal said this record is not enough to qualify for the NCAA tournament.

“I think we’re running out of season,” Bloemendaal said. “We’re going to make a run at the end of the season.

Today was disappointing, but they came right back out and handled the pressure.”

In Lubbock, Texas, things started anything but

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Junior Kyle Hart pitches during IU’s game against Kentucky on March 11 at Bart Kaufman Stadium. Hart struck out eight batters, picking up the 7-2 win for the Hoosiers.

regained his weekend spot and led IU to a 5-1 victory over Michigan on Saturday. His line was 7 innings pitched, 2 hits, 0 runs, 3 walks and 7 strikeouts.

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In his last three starts, Hart has given up just one earned run in 22 innings pitched.

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division, Chalfant compiled a 28-6 record in 2013-14, finishing his career at 78-30. He was the No. 3 seed at the NCAA Championships and ended the season at No. 2 in the NCAA RPI.

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predictably. The match, which was originally scheduled to take place outdoors, was moved inside because of severe wind conditions.

Then, a decision was made to forgo the doubles point due to time constraints.

A week later back in Bloomington, an attempt was made to try and reverse IU’s fortune. Sophomore Samuel Monette was moved down to No. 2 singles while junior Sven Lalic was moved to No. 1.

In addition, freshman Stefan Lugonjic was moved from No. 6 to No. 5, freshman Matthew McCoy was inserted at No. 6 and sophomore Elliott Yee was given the day off due to recent struggles.

“I feel like it’s healthy for the team, it keeps guys moving and competing for spots,” Bloemendaal said. “That’s what we need right now and nobody’s really sewn up any positions.”

The Hoosiers also lost the doubles point, the second

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time they have done so in the last twelve matches. This affected the rest of the match, Tasic said.

“We are a team that is used to winning doubles,” Tasic said. “The problem is when we don’t get it a couple guys just completely shut down.”

Despite these struggles, Tasic said he believes his team still has a shot to qualify for the NCAA tournament.

The schedule will not get any easier for the Hoosiers, as seven of their next eight opponents are ranked.

Bloemendaal said he would not have it any other way.

“We need it,” Bloemendaal said.

“It doesn’t matter whether we like it or not, we absolutely need it. We need it to continue to get better because that’s the bar. We aren’t going to lower the bar in this program. We need to have ranked wins to get to the postseason so those give us that opportunity.”

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Dental Care Center Jill Reitmeyer, D.D.S. We provide quality, affordable general dentistry to all ages. We can accept insurance and Medicaid.

Discounts are available to student and student family members. Call for an appointment.

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Located adjacent to the campus just off Atwater. Convenient off-street parking. We provide complete family dental services in a caring atmosphere.

Emergencies Welcome University Dental Ins. Accepted Cosmetic Treatments Root Canals Extractions Mon. - Thu.: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Dr. Suzanne Allmand, D.D.S. Dr. Kurush Savabi, D.D.S. At Southern Indiana Smiles, our excellent service, friendly team and state-of-the-art facility will ensure you receive the highest quality dental care in the most calm, relaxing environment possible. Dr. Allmand and Dr. Savabi provide cosmetic, general and restorative dentistry.

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Most insurances accepted, including the Indiana University Aetna and Cigna Insurance plans as well as the Aetna Graduate Student plan.

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80 students in all.

Pillar’s new fear was whether Chen could keep the new program alive.

For any language program, the first year is the most important. It’s when you retain enough students to sustain new classes. MCCSC required 80 percent of the first year’s students register for secondyear. If classes are too hard, too few new students sign up, and too many first-year students drop out. If retention rates drop below 80 percent, the program might be scrapped.

Pillar said he’d be heartbroken if the program died in its first year. It was his baby.

But securing the retention rates falls to Chen, and there were no guarantees.

“Classes die all the time,” he said.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Chinese. His voice is melodic, rising and falling with his mood.

Pillar interviewed this rookie teacher, fresh out of graduate school at IU, and listened to him talk about downplaying grades, giving out candy and playing movies every day. All that was supposed to add up to stronger Chinese classes than he’d get from anyone else.

Pillar wasn’t sure it would work. That’s why he’d asked Brian Flaherty to the interview.

Flaherty knows the field of Chinese language education. Before joining IU’s Chinese Flagship Center, one of the nation’s premier Chinese learning programs, his experience included teaching English in China for four years and teaching Chinese at IU for about three years.

Chen’s methods struck him as unorthodox.

Flaherty said Chen’s methodology is fascinating: sticking to daily goals, knowing exactly what he wants students to learn and review each day and taking calculated steps to achieve that goal while also mitigating the stress that comes with being a middle school student. Flaherty was impressed.

But what impressed him most, he said, was Chen’s obvious passion for teaching Chinese. Pillar agreed.

“You knew it when you saw it,” Pillar said. “His enthusiasm outweighed any lack of experience he had.”

Chen was hired. Every day he would drive between three middle schools — Batchelor, Tri-North and Jackson Creek — teaching four classes, about

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Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Someone needs to take responsibility. Grow courage and leadership. You’re attracting the attention of an important person.

Watch out for hasty accidents. Advise a radical to calm down. Take it slow, inexpensive and easy.

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It’s Oct. 2, week nine, and Chen is at Jackson Creek.

He doesn’t share this classroom; it’s all his. His cabinets are pantries, filled with potato chips, candy and cooking ware. Next to the door, there’s a photo of him holding the textbook. But inside, the textbooks are on the shelf. Few have their spines broken.

He teaches two classes here, with about 15 students each. Right now 12 of his 15 students are jumping around in a circle, playing Chinese hacky sack.

Screaming and flailing, they kick the feathered ball to one another, trying to keep it aloft, and count each successful kick in Chinese.

Yi ge! One. Liang ge! Two. San ge! Three.

Today’s goal is learning to count to 15 — shi-wu. The students sigh and frantically re-

Horoscope Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — Postpone a financial discussion. Focus on your next gig.

Clarify issues. It takes patience.

Make the changes. Some things get lost forever. Your team is inspirational over the next two days.

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call more numbers in Chinese with each missed kick and dropped pass. If they reach 15 in a row, they earn a reward more satisfying than any grade: five gummy bears each.

Chen worries less now about whether he’ll be fired. A practice test showed signs his students are retaining much of what they’d learned. Rather, he worries aloud about the projector hanging from the ceiling as wild kicks send the ball in all directions.

“If this gets violent,” he says, “no candy for a week.”

Then, shi-wu. Victory.

Cheering, the students collect their five gummy bears.

After about 10 minutes of review, they’ve grasped counting by playing the game. All Chen does is reward them with candy.

Another day, another goal met. Everyone gets candy and everyone gets an A. But ev-

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 6 — Concentrate on studies for the next days. Refuse to be suppressed. Start planning a vacation.

Turn down an expensive invitation.

Travel is appealing, but not without peril. Proceed with caution. Work demands take priority.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — New evidence threatens complacency. Make big changes today and tomorrow, but without spending money yet. Set long-term goals. Get a strong coach. Negotiate higher expenses with vendors.

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Apply yourself. Unblock the flow.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Get a physical workout.

Your mind’s less on work and more on enlightenment over the next few days. Share results. Obstacles block the road. Respect your partner, and offer support. Postpone travel and entertainment spending.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 5 — Focus on making money today and tomorrow. Don’t gamble; do more testing. Work out the details... commit time, energy

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Addy Kao, one of David Chen's students, practices her calligraphy during class on December 9.

eryone almost always gets an A. Aside from tests, there are no grades in Chen’s classes.

He thinks students’ only motivation should be to learn Chinese.

“As soon as you focus on grades, their motivation lies no longer in Chinese but in, ‘how do I get an A?’” he says.

“Then you lost that student.”

For similar reasons, Chen rarely assigns homework. He says only about one-fifth of students benefit from it. The other four-fifths have hectic lives, unsupportive parents or just no motivation to do homework. Those are things he can’t change.

“I try to make school as much not like school as possible.”

Yet school is still school, a place where not every student will grow at the rate Chen wants, and Pillar still needs test results to know Chen’s

classes are meeting standards.

The first real test is two weeks away. His highest achieving students are ready, he says, but the struggling students have more work to do.

He says that’s his most important job: to help the average student excel. Too often, he says, Chinese teachers play favorites with star students, leaving others feeling dejected. Chen has seen it himself and experienced it.

For his average students to succeed, he says, it’s simple.

“They need to become Chinese.”

and resources when you’re clear about it. Don’t talk back. Avoid an intense argument this way. Big wishes bring results.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Postpone an adventure with friends. You find it easier to concentrate for the next few days. Finish an old job that requires study. Take it slow and guard your energy. Flow around obstacles like water.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Get into some fun with water. Be cautious with a new skill or tool. Prepare the garden to flourish. Bury the compost. Share expenses. Get ready to party. Let your sweetheart set the schedule.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Resist the impulse to be impetuous. Put energy into a team effort. Finances may displease.

Think twice before acting. Get into a homebody phase. Clean, scrub and putter. Don’t rush.

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Chen’s first students were his mom and dad.

He was born in Munster, Ind., to Taiwanese immigrants who spoke little English. Neighbors were “unforgiving.”

For as long as he can

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Make preparations for the big job. There’s extra money available today and tomorrow.

Flexibility with obstacles and grace around scheduling earns respect (and future business). Stick close to home. Get the rest you need.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — Keep a lid on distrac-

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tions... especially expensive ones.

You have extra confidence today and tomorrow. Personal matters demand attention. Effort at home pays off. Go slow and stay flexible.

Follow the path of least resistance.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Don’t buy toys. Focus on keeping old commitments today and tomorrow. There’s another way to solve a problem. Review plans and wait for a better time to launch. Start with cleaning out your closets. Select one task.

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remember, Chen was his parents’ translator, English teacher and defender. He rebuked strangers who scoffed at their accents, explained their customs and did his best to protect them from racists.

Speaking only Chinese at home and trips to Taiwan meant Chen’s English suffered, too.

“I’d get ostracized for saying things like ‘the day before today,’” he said.

After leaving Munster in 2006, Chen studied business at Purdue, later transferring to IU’s Kelley School of Business. But the longer he studied business, the less it interested him, and the more Chinese language education attracted him.

Through studying Chinese at IU, Chen discovered a lifetime of serving as a

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 bridge between the U.S. and China distinctly prepared him to be a teacher. Now he combines what he learned coaching his parents with his favorite teachers’ best techniques. “My whole life, I’ve accumulated knowledge on being Chinese, being American and everything in between,� he said. “So now, I’m the fastest avenue to these kids becoming proficient at the language.� *

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On test day, Oct. 18., it’s still dark when Chen arrives at Batchelor for his first class.

When he flips the switch, only half the lights come on.

He frowns.

The bell rings. “They’re coming up,� he says.

One by one, the students file in silently. Usually his students are raucous and lively, but not today.

Chen’s not worried, but he is nervous. He has spent time every class working one-onone with the most struggling students. Despite that, they’re all behind when it comes to writing. Today’s test is all about writing.

His students don’t all agree about what’s the best part of his class. As for the worst, though, it’s unanimous: tones.

Each Chinese character can represent different words, defined by the pitch with which it’s spoken. Ma might mean horse or mother, depending on its pitch, or tone.

That’s why the students are so quiet. Writing Chinese means remembering tones.

Chen passed out the test: full sentences of Chinese characters comprising almost all the words they’d learned so far. They needed to translate the sentences to English on one line, and on another spell its pronunciation, complete with tones.

The first student finishes after about 10 minutes. The other students take their time, some handing in half completed tests just as class ends.

Chen has already finished grading. Mostly A’s and B’s, a few C’s and D’s. But there are 18 students, and he had only 16 pieces of paper.

Two students had walked out without turning in their tests.

Of all his students from three schools, they were the two who struggled the most.

What if he didn’t get them back? Would this show he’s not the teacher to keep the program alive? He doesn’t know. Right now he wants only to know why they kept the tests.

Trotting past lockers, full classrooms and the front office, Chen searches in a huff.

Some teachers might let it go, he says, especially considering he lets his students retake tests as many times as they need to get an A. He found the first student in another class. When he sees Chen standing in the doorway, he immediately stands to hand over the mostly unfinished test.

Chen asks him why he didn’t turn it in. “I don’t know,� the student says, shrugging.

Chen learned as a student teacher not to weigh too heavily on your students, but also not to be too doting, lest you make the student think you’re pretending to be a parent. “Well, don’t do it again,�

Chen says.

Continuing his search for the second student, Chen finds him at his locker.

Like the other, the student gives up the test without argument. “Why didn’t you turn it in?� Chen asks. “I didn’t know the answers,� the student replies.

Only half of one sentence was translated. “That’s OK,� Chen says. “You know you can retake it again, anyway.� “Thanks, Mr. Chen.� *

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It’s Thanksgiving, and most students have retaken their tests four or five times.

Eventually, they all scored A’s, including the students who walked out.

A week goes by, and they’re already preparing for the semester’s final exam: translating and reciting about 200 Chinese characters. For the students, it’s just another test. For Chen, it’s another opportunity to prove how quick-

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ly his students are learning.

He no longer worries about whether his methods are working. He said he stopped when one of his students came to him and asked, What can I do at home so I don’t need you anymore?

Days before the final, snow fall prompted a two-hour delay. Chen took the extra time to tidy his room at Jackson Creek. “I almost had a student drop out,� he said while bundling calligraphy brushes.

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dent to participate in an activity, the student refused. Chen said he asked the student if he wanted to drop out of Chinese.

Yes, the student replied.

He walked the student to the office, prepared to help the student drop his class. But the student changed his mind, admitting he didn’t want to leave. “He cried. I cried. We hugged,� he said. “And he’s still learning Chinese.�

With only one week remaining in the first semester, not a single student has dropped from Chen’s classes.

Soon after next semester begins, students sign up for classes. Chen doesn’t know whether they’ll achieve the retention rate needed, but he’s confident they will.

He dreams of what the second year will look like. Maybe classes at both high schools, another Chinese teacher to work with. In time, Chen says he could grow MCCSC’s Chinese program to the largest in the nation.

Maybe then, he says, Chinese teachers around the nation will look at his program and see every student can successfully learn the language. But it all starts with the classes relying on him now. “After 10 years of this, I’ll probably be jaded and forget students’ names,� Chen says. “But not this first year, I’ll remember them forever.� *

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For Chinese New Year, Chen gets to teach Chinese to all of about 550 of Jackson Creek’s students.

It’s Feb. 4, five days after the start of the Chinese New Year, and Pillar has called the entire school to the auditorium for a celebration. Chen’s

the star of the show. He’s in front of the stage, at a table topped with cooking ware from his classroom and ingredients from Kroger. This time it’s dumplings.

As students take their seats, some who he doesn’t recognize walk by and say, Hi, Mr. Chen.

The school’s band — some of Chen’s students are performers — is here to play China-inspired songs that sound like what you’d hear at a Chinese restaurant. Brian Flaherty’s here, too, dressed in traditional Chinese clothing to demonstrate Tai Chi. Pillar takes the mic and starts the show.

He introduces Chen. “Mr. Chen is a very accomplished and good cook,� Pillar says.

Most know the Chinese teacher. But they don’t know Chen and Pillar heard the program was a success. They don’t know the three classes at Batchelor, Tri-North and Jackson Creek will continue, and two more will start at Bloomington North and South high schools.

Chen’s not worried about all that now, though. He’s worried whether his dumplings are too salty. “Not too much soy sauce,� he says as he mixes the dumpling filling. A camera broadcasts his cooking to a white screen on the stage.

Pillar’s controlling the camera with a laptop. While Chen was setting up, Pillar said his classes at Batchelor and Tri-North retained all but two students, and his classes at Jackson Creek retained every one. He said such a high retention rate in a first-year program is rare. “It’s a testament to him,�

Pillar said. “That just doesn’t

happen.�

Chen finishes making filling, satisfied with the saltiness, and the band takes the stage. By the time it finishes playing songs with names like “Chinese Folk Fantasy,� Chen is ready to show his 550 students how to wrap dumplings.

When Chen was young, Chinese New Year meant making dumplings with his mother, grandma and family.

The number of folds is up to you, he says, while he wets the dough and presses.

Though his program will continue, Chen has learned he can’t make every student learn Chinese, let alone love it. There were the two students who didn’t sign up for year two, and others who, despite one-on-one coaching, never seemed able to catch up.

Scooping more filling to another doughy sheet, he tells the crowd the portion is the most important part. Not too much, not too little. “If you try to overpack it,� he says, “you will never close this dumpling.�

After Brian Flaherty’s demonstration and a performance of traditional Korean drums, Chen serves his dumplings to his fellow teachers. There’s the math teacher whose classroom is across the hall from Chen’s, and the Spanish teacher.

Then the celebration ends.

All the students and teachers leave the auditorium, until only Pillar and Chen are left.

Pillar will go on to facilitate the growth of the Chinese program, and Chen will continue doing what he does best: cook and teach Chinese.

But there’s one dumpling left. Pillar eats it. It’s good, he says. “Thanks, Chen.�

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