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Car hits two on scooter FROM IDS REPORTS

Two men on a motorized scooter were injured near 17th and Maple Streets when a car rear-ended them Tuesday night.

Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Ryan Pedigo said the crash involved a passenger car and a scooter, and the car fled the scene. Both vehicles were traveling east on 17th Street when the car hit the scooter in the back.

Michael Grubb, a Bloomington resident who witnessed the accident, said he and two men who were with him were at 17th Street Plaza getting SEE HIT AND RUN, PAGE 6

Matisse exhibit to ‘Jazz’ up IU

BY ANTHONY BRODERICK aebroder@indiana.edu

Many artists of the early 20th century made their mark on art history with revolutionary developments in paintings and sculptures.

French artist Henri Matisse is primarily known for his brightly-colored, fluid works.

Beginning today through May 25, the IU Art Museum will feature his art in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.

Titled “Matisse’s Jazz and Other Works from Indiana University Collections,” it will include a selection of his color prints from “Jazz.”

The exhibit has already gained local attention because of the Matisse gallery featured at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in January.

“I am delighted to hear that there is a lot of hype and excitement about SEE MATISSE, PAGE 6

Be More Awards recognize volunteers

BY EMILY ERNSBERGER emelerns@indiana.edu

Ten local individuals and organizations received honors at the annual Be More Awards Tuesday night at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The awards were given for local volunteerism and involvement.

IU graduate students Erikka Vaughn and Carl Darnell received the Be More Engaged Award for creating Free Homework Help Bethel at the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The organization provides weekly tutoring services in various subjects.

The award was presented by retired circuit-court judge Viola Taliaferro.

“I’m just thankful to the Lord to be a part of this volunteer opportunity,” Vaughn said. “I’m just always overwhelmed at how everyone SEE BE MORE, PAGE 6

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A man tears up during a vigil for the seasonal closing of the Interfaith Winter Shelter on Tuesday outside the Monroe County Courthouse. Both those experiencing homelessness and supporters of the cause were walking against the closing of shelter, which give shelter to about 50 people.

Staying vigilant City residents attend rally, vigil to protest seasonal close of low-barrier shelter

BY DENNIS BARBOSA dbarbosa@indiana.edu @DennisBarbosa86

Traffic came to a halt as protesters chanted and marched through the downtown streets of Bloomington for the right to sleep.

A hodge-podge of advocates rallied Tuesday at People’s Park after the Interfaith Winter Shelter closed for the summer.

Interfaith is the only low-barrier homeless shelter in Bloomington,

which means it has no stipulations for potential guests. Volunteers only ask for respectful behavior.

This will be the second summer that more than 50 people will have nowhere to sleep because they do not meet the high-barrier standards for admittance to other shelters.

Bloomington used to have a lowbarrier summer shelter for the homeless, but it shut down in 2012, said Donyel Byrd, a social worker and advocate for people experiencing homelessness. Byrd has been active in helping

Hoosier baseball team to take on Redhawks

BY ALDEN WOODS aldwoods@indiana.edu @acw9293

IU Coach Tracy Smith is finally happy with the performance of his baseball team.

After a slow start to the season that saw the preseason No. 3 Hoosiers drop out of the rankings, the team rallied to win eight of its last 12 games and sweep a threegame series at Ohio State last weekend.

They returned to the top 25, with IU coming in at No. 24 in this week’s Baseball America rankings.

The Hoosiers brought together their sharpest series of the season in Columbus, Ohio, outscoring the Buckeyes 21-7 and outhitting them 42-19.

“We’re hitting stride right now,” Smith said. “We know the way we’re capable of playing. It wasn’t a shock, I mean, honestly, that’s the way we play. We’ve just kind of been waiting for it to happen.”

Smith will look for a continuation of that momentum today as IU (15-10) takes on his former team.

The ninth-year head coach and his Hoosier squad will welcome Miami (Ohio) to Bart Kaufman Field for a first pitch scheduled at 6:05 p.m. today.

NO. 24 BASEBALL (15-10) vs. Miami (Ohio) (10-15) 6:05 p.m. today, Bart Kaufman Field Smith, a four-time letterwinner at Miami, spent nine years in the RedHawks’ dugout before accepting the IU job prior to the 2006 season. His Hoosier teams have fared well against his former squad, going 4-5 against the RedHawks since he came to Bloomington.

He will tap sophomore lefthander Sullivan Stadler to take the mound in pursuit of victory Wednesday afternoon.

After pitching just one inning in 2013, Stadler has made two starts for the Hoosiers this season. He has compiled a 1-1 record with a 5.23 ERA in 10.1 innings.

Miami will send freshman right-hander Christian Bokich to the mound to complete the pitching matchup. Bokich has struggled this season, allowing 9 runs in just 4.2 innings coming out of the bullpen.

Bokich will make his first career start against a talented Hoosier lineup featuring two 2013 All-Americans that is now hitting its stride.

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There are certain zoning standards the shelter has to meet before the city approves it, Bloomington planning director Tom Micuda said.

If advocates propose a site to the city in a residential area, the Bloomington Plan Commission has to have a public hearing on it and make a recommendation to the City Board of Zoning Appeals. The process could potentially take as long as 60 days and 30 days for SEE VIGIL, PAGE 6

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IUSA voting polls open through tonight IU Student Association voting polls opened Tuesday for the 2014 election season and will remain open until 10 p.m.

Wednesday.

Students are able to vote for candidates to fill a variety of positions, including executive

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and residential representatives.

Election Commissioner Jared Thomas said voting takes only a few seconds to a few minutes.

Students can vote online or at a voting station around campus.

BFC discusses promotion, tenure policy

BY KATHRINE SCHULZE schulzek@indiana.edu @KathrineSchulze

KEEPING LEGACIES ALIVE AT KELLEY Kelley School of Business Legacy Week 2014 began on Monday and included a Kelley History Day and Global Day. Today’s Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day will include a Kelley Coffee Break and Teacher’s Excellence Awards. Chair of Legacy Week Allison Frazier described Global Day of Legacy Week as a chance for students to “think about being a global citizen” by exploring the international programs offered through the Kelley School of Business. A “Name That Flag” event and a 19-foot balloon representation of Earth were part of the Tuesday events for the Legacy Week in the Kelley School of Business graduate and education center.

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Kelley Forum to bring business professionals to panels 1275 E. 10th St.

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The Kelley Forum of Business Analytics 2014 will take place tomorrow and Friday.

The forum will include panels with leaders in business and a corporate-student roundtable, according to an IU news release.

WHERE The Godfrey Executive Education Center at the Kelley School of Business,

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Mark Zozulia is an IU alumnus and founding corporate partner of Kelley’s Institute for Business Analytics Advisory Council.

His address titled “Operationalizing the Analytics Enterprise” will be at 2 p.m. Friday.

OTHER SPEAKERS Panelists at the forum

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this year will include representatives from businesses such as IBM, Proctor & Gamble, FedEx Services and the U.S. Army.

IBM, Lilly and Co., Whirlpool and more will lead the forum at 3 p.m. Friday at the Student Corporate Roundtable.

PROGRAM CLOSING Ash Soni, executive associate dean for academic programs, will close the program at 2:45 p.m. Friday.

FULL AGENDA A detailed schedule of the Forum is available on the Kelley Forum on Business Analytics provide the website.

ROUNDTABLE ATTENDEES Presenters from Angie’s List, Discover, Dow Agrosciences,

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The Bloomington Faculty Council made changes to the tenure and promotional policy for IU at a meeting Tuesday.

The first reading of the changed “Principles and Policies on Tenure and Promotion” occurred during the meeting, and small changes to the document were discussed.

“What this is is an effort, I think, to sort of comprehensively update the core policies,” BFC president Herb Terry said. “And we’re really bringing together policies that the faculty have adopted.”

The draft includes added paragraphs to the Statement of Principles section that further elaborate on IU principles, Claude Clegg, associate vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, said during the meeting.

A policy to revisit and revise the document every five to seven years was also added.

“We imagined this document to be a living document,” Clegg said.

The BFC dedicated copious amounts of time to discussing the voting practices for tenure.

“Faculty members and administrators are ineligible to vote on promotion or tenure in review committees or unit meetings if they have not been substantively involved in the review process; including participation in deliberations related to the case,” the current draft reads.

One faculty member said in the case of sabbatical or other academic obligations that require travel, faculty shouldn’t be penalized for missing the vote so long as they have been active participants throughout the whole process.

It was suggested a phrase similar to “material engagement with the case” be added to the sentence to allow for such a person to be included in the vote.

A set number has also been set for letters of recommendation for promotions.

Six external letters is the minimum, Clegg said.

“We’ve also opened up the range of letter writers,” Clegg said.

“Typically, it’ll be expected that letter writers are from peer institutions.

But there are instances that we can imagine a person not in academia who would be an appropriate letter writer.”

Clegg said non-academic letters should be a rare case.

Terry said they need to work out the issue out of those professors achieving tenure in a core school.

A core school is a school that is on more than one campus.

For instance, the Kelley School of Business has departments at both IU Bloomington and IUPUI, Terry said.

Currently, a faculty member’s tenure is only valid at one campus.

“If you get tenure in one of these core schools, you don’t have tenure in the school,” Terry said. “You have tenure in Bloomington or you have tenure at IUPUI.” A standard set of metrics to evaluate faculty members for tenure and promotion is included in the ballot’s wording.

“Somebody said it’s a living document,” Terry said.

“On the other hand, it has to be specific enough that when you’re hired to come here you know what you have to do, as best you can, in order to achieve tenure and get promoted.”

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Professionals discuss autism City of Bloomington organizes program to share information, experiences

BY LYNDSAY JONES jonesly@indiana.edu

In response to the increasing diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder, the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department organizes an annual program and invites professionals to share their knowledge and experiences.

Currently, 156 students in Monroe County Community School System have been diagnosed with some form of autism, MCCSC representative Michelle Wells said.

One in 68 children nationwide are at risk for autism, increasing from one in 150 in 2002, according to the Center for Disease Control.

Adria Nassim, who is diagnosed with mild autism disorder, joined a group of six professionals this year to share her experiences.

Though she wasn’t diagnosed with autism until 2006, the symptoms were present.

Doctors said Nassim suffered from a non-verbal learning disability.

“In second grade, I couldn’t tell time,” Nassim said. “In fifth grade, I couldn’t count money. Still, at age 28, that’s not an applicable life skill for me.”

Nassim said teachers often told her she was bright. Eventually, she came to IU to study English and minor in Spanish.

Despite having aboveaverage intelligence, Nassim said she struggled with remembering how to get from one building to the next.

“I had to find a different IU student every day, and I would tell them I was a British transfer student with

INDIANAPOLIS — A young man on his usual morning walk early Tuesday morning was attacked, shot and left bleeding from a gunshot wound to the abdomen .

Nathan Trapuzzano, 24, collapsed in the front parking lot of Tron Tire Shop on the 3500 block of W. 16th St. and died at Eskenazi Hospital soon after.

It was another murder in an already busy year. In a 40hour period starting Sunday, five people were shot and killed in Indianapolis.

By 9 a.m., tire shop worker Gerareo Barraza was covering the dried blood with gravel and bits of dirt.

“Cars will park here on it,” he said. Only small rustcolored patches in the gravel hinted at the chaos of hours earlier. “We preferred to cover it. It’s just respect.”

Police are still investigating Tuesday’s shooting, as well as two shootings Sunday that killed four people. The particularly bloody weekend in Indianapolis was the most active period since eight people were shot and killed Feb. 20-21.

As of March 29, there were 33 criminal homicides, an increase of 10 percent from the same point last year, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

The recent violence brings this year’s total to at least 38.

All build on 2013, the city’s most active year for criminal homicides since 2006.

“We have seen a recent uptick in homicides that is not easily explained,” IMPD Sergeant Kendale Adams said in an email. “There are a number of factors that contribute to our recent uptick. Some obvious and some not so obvious.”

The shootings come after a number of efforts in March to address violence in the city.

A multi-organization initiative to reduce black-on-black crime, “Your Life Matters,” was announced in mid-March by

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Educational Consultant Kristie Brown Lofland discusses her reserach on autism during a Q&A session focused on spreading autism awareness Tuesday at the Council Chambers of City Hall.

high-functioning autism and ask where to go,” Nassim said.

“I’ve lived in America all my life. But when I have to, I can do a very convincing British accent.”

Early detection is key to help children with autism succeed, said Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU. Kennedy said experiments are being done with two- to six-month-old children to measure the amount of eye contact they make with others, one of many changes happening in the study of the disorder.

“No longer are we looking for a single neural difference that people with autism share,” Kennedy said.

Kristi Brown Loftland, who has worked with

individuals living with autism for 40 years, echoed Kennedy’s thoughts.

“In my 40 years of experience, I’ve never met two who were alike,” Loftland said.

Wells said MCCSC schools have more to offer than ever before.

“We make sure teachers are trained to work with autistic individuals,” Wells said.

“They are constantly being trained.”

Wells said the school offers iPads with speech-to-text applications and integrates smart boards into classrooms as part of a practice that is proven to help those with autism. The school works with individuals up to 21 years old.

Former school board member Joan Hart said funding wasn’t the only problem.

Allocating the funds and using

them properly was also an issue, she said.

“It depended on the superintendent and what their focus was,” Hart said. “The system is broken, in my opinon. I know many kids who have never touched an iPad. The teachers are great, but the administration has gotten worse.”

Nassim said she feels optimistic about the future and left attendees in the room with what she said was her most important advice.

“The children you work with did not see you get that degree,” Nassim said. “The best tools are not things you get in a lecture. Have an open mind and an open heart.

Don’t see us as your responsibility, something you have to do. If you see joy in us, we’ll find joy, too.”

Shootings leave 5 dead in Indianapolis in 40 hours

BY MATTHEW GLOWICKI mglowick@indiana.edu @mattglo

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city leaders. On March 20, the mayor led a meeting at the Indianapolis Central Library to engage community members in tackling the problems that lead to violence. Just last week, community groups released their Citywide Crime Prevention and Reduction Plan, a nearly eight-month effort that lays out a blueprint for reducing crime.

Reverend Charles Ellis of the Ten Point Coalition, a faith-based organization seeking to reduce violence in and around Indianapolis, said the recent homicides are cause for concern, he said context is important.

“You’d say, ‘Oh my gosh.

What’s going on?’” he said of the cluster of murders. “But you have to look at it with a little bit of balance. There is an ebb and a flow.”

The recent cluster of violence started with a series of non-fatal shootings beginning late Saturday night and into early Sunday morning.

Then, Sunday afternoon, in a strip mall on the city’s east side, a shoplifting at a clothing store turned violent, claiming the life of Ho Shin Lee, 36, of Noblesville, Ind. Lee was shot in the head and later died at Eskenazi Hospital during surgery. Detectives believe he was not a regular employee of the Body Gear store at 2816 E. 38 St. but was a family friend helping out the owners that day.

Lee was shot, witnesses told police, when he attempted to stop a number of suspects from stealing.

Diamond Slaughter, 19, of Indianapolis suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. She was taken to the hospital in good condition.

Deaundre Graves, 18, and a 17-year-old boy have since been arrested following the Body Gear shooting. Investigators are still looking for other suspects that entered the store with Graves and the 17-year-old, Adams said.

Later that day, about 11:30 p.m., police found one man with gunshot wounds outside a far eastside apartment

complex on the 9500 block of Shoreland Court. They also found another man and a woman, both with gunshot wounds, in an apartment.

James Czajkowski, 59, Stephen Herold, 58, and Martha Zuluaga, 53, were pronounced dead on the scene.

Adams said drug paraphernalia was found inside the apartment.

“There’s probably a nexus between the drugs and the victims and the suspect,” he said Tuesday evening.

With no suspect in custody, the triple killing investigation continues.

Like other big cities, Ellis said, Indianapolis has work to do.

“I think what we have to do is not look at homicide as a daily running scoresheet,” the reverend said. “We need to look at the people and figure out how to get them out of that life.”

In the most recent murder, the death of Nathan Trapuzzano, police are asking for the community’s help in catching two suspects.

The first forced the victim in between two businesses while the other served as a lookout, according to police.

The first suspect struggled with the victim before Trapuzzano was shot, after which the suspects fled.

Barraza said he hears gunfire in the community every so often. But when the dead body arrived in front of his workplace Tuesday morning, it caught him off guard.

At about noon, Barbara Avila walked past the tire shop. She was getting off her shift at the McDonald’s just blocks away.

“This used to be a nice neighborhood,” Aviles said shaking her head. “But then, I don’t know what happened.”

An eight-year resident of the area, Aviles said violence in her neighborhood has seemed worse in recent months. She doesn’t see a clear reason behind the violence, she said.

“It just gets worse and worse.”

Fairview Elementary School Principal Tammy Miller welcomed several IU Herbert Presidential Scholars to Fairview Tuesday night to introduce them to the literacy program they will participate in with Fairview students.

Fairview, which has received two failing grades by the Indiana State Board of Education two years in a row, is implementing a literacy program and incorporating the help of the Scholars.

“It’s just phenomenal that we have connected,” Miller said.

Miller said despite what people think about the A-F rating system, students at Fairview aren’t receiving what they need to succeed.

Miller said about 90 percent of students at Fairview are on free and reduced lunch and 70 percent are behind in lessons they should be learning at their grade level.

The program will take place once a week during April and the sessions will last an hour.

The students who will participate in the program are ones the Fairview community believes will benefit from the program the most, Miller said. The parents of these children will also be involved with the tutoring sessions.

Miller said they hope parents will learn some new skills so they can help their children at home. Dinner will also be provided for the

families.

Miller said about 30 Fairview students will be paired with Herbert Scholars on a one-to-one basis.

Miller told the Scholars to engage the students by doing activities such as asking them to imagine another character’s point of view and encouraging them to read throughout the week.

The students who participate in the program will be able to take an iPad home with them during the program. Miller said the Monroe County Community School Corporation has agreed to buy Hotspots for families without Internet access.

The program will also receive books from Barnes and Noble, and each week the student will be able to pick out a book to take home.

In the fall, Fairview hopes to start a year-round program.

Miller said she thinks the program will be beneficial for both the Scholars and the students and said the relationship will keep the children coming back.

“You bring many gifts and assets to our children,” Miller said. “We’re very grateful.”

The Scholars will spend their first day with the children next week.

Junior and Herbert Scholar Elizabeth Rettig said she volunteered for the program because she hasn’t ever worked with children.

She also said she thinks she did well in school because she read well for her grade level.

“I wanted to challenge myself because reading is really important,” she said.

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White House meets ACA enrollment goal The accomplishment is in part due to a late surge in activity.

According to officials, more than 4.8 million visits were made to HealthCare.gov on the final day of open enrollment.

In what amounts to a victory for the Obama administration, the Affordable Care Act secured 7.1 million sign-ups before open enrollment ended April 1st, surpassing the White House’s original goal of 7 million.

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Ukraine is no Cold War redux WE SAY: Russia is acting out of weakness When news broke that Russia had invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea, part of Ukraine’s territory, alarm bells went ringing across the world.

The European Union and the United States, among other world powers, immediately began paying attention.

Among the typical rhetoric thrown around whenever international conflicts arise, many pundits have been claiming that we are witnessing the rise of a second Cold War. The Editorial Board sees this narrative as an incorrect portrayal of an international conflict involving a nation with which we’ve had a strained relationship in the past.

When the Cold War was beginning, there was a definitive clash of ideologies between

Old Navy got into some trouble last month.

The Gap Inc. retailer was accused of Photoshopping thigh gaps in between the legs of mannequins modeling plus-size jeans.

As a former employee and frequent shopper of Old Navy, I was concerned by this accusation.

A Tumblr blogger noticed an odd white spot in the thigh area of a pair of jeans. Upon further investigation, similar awkward spots have been seen in other pairs of jeans.

An Old Navy spokesman released a statement denying the use of Photoshop or “any photo-altering techniques,” passing the blame off on the pinning of the pants on the mannequins.

Normally, pinning wouldn’t cause blurry edges or result in random lumps protruding from the leg. But maybe that mannequin has a special condition, and I’m being insensitive.

Target was in a similar situation earlier in March,

the U.S. and the then-Soviet Union. The Soviet Union saw capitalism as a flawed, destructive system, while the U.S. viewed communism as a cancer of the world and an existential threat to our democracy.

Today, Russia is attempting to liberalize its economy, pushing for more free market opportunities. Instead of being a worldwide conflict between the East and West of ideology, it’s one of jostling for regional influence. Russia is not acting out of power. It’s acting out of weakness.

Modern-day Russia pales in comparison to the Cold War-era Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, at the time of the Cold War, had a population of about 400 million people. Today, that number has

plummeted to 143 million. The U.S. has almost 320 million people.

The Russian economy is also unimpressive, standing at $2.1 trillion compared to the U.S. economy, which is at $16.7 trillion.

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, is orchestrating a power play to try and appeal to Russians domestically.

Meanwhile, he’s further isolating himself from the world.

Russia needs the support of other nations in order to maintain its economy. Currently, trade accounts for roughly 40 percent of Russia’s economy, making it dependent on its relationship with other nations.

Additionally, when Putin grabbed Crimea, he supported a vote that Crimea held, under Russian occupation, to

join Russia and separate from Ukraine. Putin argues that, since Crimea is mainly Russian-speaking or ethnic Russian, they deserve to be able to choose whether or not to be part of the “motherland.”

Putin has witnessed and experienced instances of territories within Russia attempting to separate as well, the most memorable being Chechyna.

The heavily Islamic territory of Chechnya attempted to secede from Russia, during which the Russians led a war against the state.

During the First Chechen War, Russia was unable to defeat the small state, despite having tremendous military, economic and technological advantages.

It stands to reason that Putin will have to answer to

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but it was much worse.

Photos of a teenager modeling juniors swimsuits were butchered. In one photo, it was obvious a part of her shoulder was removed, leaving a creepy streak of skin dangling from her body.

In another photo, her waist had been altered, resulting in another weird bump of flesh. The most startling edit, however, was a little farther south. The girl was missing part of her crotch. In both photos, one of her back and the other of her front, the girl is missing almost perfect squares of her crotch.

Target at least had the courage to acknowledge the fiasco. Spokesman Evan Miller said, “It was an unfortunate error on our part, and we apologize.”

But a simple apology isn’t going to fix the damage that’s been done. These two Photoshop disasters risk drawing the annoying thigh gap trend from the depths of hell and back to the

forefront of the Internet.

Social media has played a big part in supporting the thigh gap obsession. Photos of girls showing off their creepy chicken legs can be found all over Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest. You can see the posts of girls whose arms have the circumference of water bottles complaining about how fat their thighs are.

These girls need a hard slap in the face from reality. The thigh gap is not just a matter of fat. Orthopedic surgeon and fitness expert Vonda Wright said a thigh gap comes down to genetics. You have to have wide hips.

You can lose every ounce of fat on your body, but if you don’t have the genes for wide hips, no thigh gap for you. If you’re narrowhipped, you would have to start getting rid of your body’s muscle, which you need to, you know, walk.

So thank your parents for their crummy genes, and move on.

LEXIA BANKS is a sophomore majoring in telecomm.

One thing social media has been good for is catching idiot mistakes like these.

Retailers need to realize that children and young adults are paying closer attention to fashion than ever before. Through online shopping and fashion blogs, they are always keeping tabs and absorbing slight trends like the thigh gap. And they definitely notice shitty Photoshop jobs.

Retailers hold a lot of power in how children, especially young girls, view themselves.

They need to use that power for good and promote healthy and positive self-image through their clothes and models. lnbanks@indiana.edu @LexiaBanks

ZIPPER UNZIPPED

Curiosity kills intolerance It annoys me when straight people ask, “When did you know you were gay?” It also annoys me when straight people ask, “What did your parents say?” But it doesn’t matter that these questions are annoying — because they’re important.

The answers to these questions themselves are important, yes, but what’s most important is the fact that they’re being asked in the first place.

It can be argued that these types of questions denormalize gays, that is, they distance us from straight people by requiring us to explain something about our lives that straight people don’t have to explain.

Although we are normal, it’s obvious that we’re still different. And these types of questions not only bring awareness to the fact that

states in his country, such as Chechnya, as to why he supports Crimea separating from Ukraine due to ethnic differences, but won’t allow other states of ethnic variance to do the same in relation to Russia.

What Putin has succeeded in doing, in our view, is grabbing a relatively small territory that is useful in trade and oil transport. He has, however, potentially risked internal upheaval, further international isolation, disdain from the U.N. and an overall expectation of power that he simply does not control.

The Editorial Board does not believe that a second Cold War is imminent. And we pray that we’re right.

we’re different — they celebrate it. It’s this sincere curiosity on the part of straight people that actually normalizes us.

You see, back in the days of gay activist Harvey Milk and gay hater Anita Bryant, most straight people weren’t curious about gays.

They were terrified of them.

They didn’t care to know when gay people knew they were gay, or what their parents said when and if they found out. All they cared about was how to stay the hell away from them.

Today, with support for same-sex marriage in the United States at an all-time high of 59 percent, straight people are more accepting than ever. And with this acceptance comes a natural curiosity. Homosexuality is nothing new, of course, but, provided you don’t count Ancient Roman

bathhouses, tolerance of it is.

It’s our duty as gay Americans to share our world with others in order to increase this tolerance.

We need to show straight people that, yes, we are a little different, but we’re still normal.

I understand it gets repetitive saying stuff like, “No, the ‘catcher’ is called the bottom. The ‘pitcher’ is called the top — cut it out with the sports analogies,” over and over again, but, if that’s what it takes for society to grow, so be it.

The more of these questions we answer, the better our relationships with our straight counterparts will be. Pretty soon, that 59 percent will grow to 69 percent. Then 79, 89. Of course, 100 percent of America will probably never be supportive of same-sex marriage,

RILEY ZIPPER is a sophomore majoring in English.

but we can get close.

As the old saying goes, knowledge is power. This knowledge has the power to create equality. And that’s something to be hopeful about.

So the next time a new friend asks, “How did you come out?” sit them down and tell them the same story you’ve told 1,000 times with the same gusto as when you told it the first time.

And when they ask you how you can tell if someone’s gay, show them a picture of Ryan Seacrest. zipperr@indiana.edu

The IU Student Association Congress voted Sunday night to amend the election code to include two reforms I recently suggested in a March 12 Indiana Daily Student column and another reform I strongly support.

The Election Commission will now be housed under the judicial branch of IUSA as opposed to the executive branch, a change that should hopefully decrease conflicts of interest in information dissemination for IUSA campaigns.

Dates for elections will now be announced as much as 11 months in advance, removing a significant barrier to tickets from outside the current administration. Previously, election dates were announced during the spring semester, meaning opposition tickets had a few months to prepare while the incumbent ticket had as much as 12.

Campaign staffers can also no longer work at polling stations. In the past, these staff members have advocated for their particular tickets at the polling station, effectively turning a secret ballot into an open one. Instead, these will be staffed by election commission staff, and campaign members will have to stay at least 300 feet away.

I’m thrilled these reforms have been enacted. They’ve restored a bit of the confidence in my student government that I have lost over the last four years.

PLUS for IUSA has made it clear that they support these reforms as well and that they want to take a sincere look at

DRAKE REED is a senior majoring in economics.

how student government represents students.

A portion of their platform is an open committee application process, another reform I have suggested and an important part of a robust level of student participation in future administrative decisions.

Their feedback forum and mobile safety technology for campus are well-planned and executable strategies. Increased recycling and a longer drop/add period, while more ambitious, would be valuable additions to campus. As a Counseling and Psychological Services user myself, I know the significant effect increased access to such a valuable resource could have.

I’ve written quite a few columns lamenting administrations that were elected unopposed, and I oppose uncontested elections for student government purely on principle. When a ticket doesn’t have to compete against anyone else for power and knows it, there’s a much smaller incentive for it to get it right.

In any case, PLUS for IUSA seems to have done just that in spite of a lack of competition.

Their platform is strong, their ticket is diverse and their energy is high. They have my vote and my support for the coming year. dlreed@indiana.edu

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Restoring faculty governance at IU You may have heard news about IU’s strategic plan for the next five years.

You may have read that it’s being headed by Provost Lauren Robel, and “developed by 167 faculty members and staff serving on 11 committees,” according to Steve Hinnefeld on the University website.

You may also think that the plan expresses the common vision of the campus community for academic excellence, and that it’s now the task of the Provost and the rest of the University administration to devote themselves to making this vision real.

But if you also think that means the principles and processes of faculty governance are alive and well at IU, you’ve been misinformed.

The vehicle for faculty governance at IU is the Bloomington Faculty Council. Under the Constitutions of the University

Though Claire McElwain’s claims to “understand” the reason for school dress codes and what problems might come from them, clearly she doesn’t.

She completely took one public middle school’s dress code change out of context.

The change is that wearing leggings, yoga pants, and skinny jeans will be banned on campus during school hours because they are a distraction to young male classmates.

McElwain goes on to basically say that the ban is sexist since males in middle school aren’t penalized for wearing their pants sagged to their knees.

and Bloomington Faculties, the Faculty Council has legislative authority to determine the academic mission of the campus and must be consulted about campus facilities, budgets, athletics and anything else affecting the academic mission of the University.

To say the least, that authority has been undermined and appropriated by the University’s administration in recent years.

Many of the IU faculty are concerned with the erosion of faculty participation in University governance.

Faculty at IU and nationwide are experiencing a loss of authority in areas where we traditionally had a voice: the determination of educational goals; the allocation of resources for facilities, research and tuition; and the initiation of recommendations for academic reorganization and improvement.

In 2010 President

Michael McRobbie called for revitalizing “shared governance” at IU. But what could those words mean when at the same time, he asserted that “at broader organizational levels ... universities must often respond to important external constituencies with a rapidity and unity of voice that is more compatible with corporate and governmental organizations than with universities.”

As if corporations and governmental organizations are the best bodies at realizing the common visions of communities.

Some of us are so concerned about the erosion of faculty governance that we’re standing as a slate in the BFC elections that are currently open.

We have a loose set of aims on which we agree: faculty definition of research, teaching and service standards; substantive consultation with faculty

on decisions about critical institutional matters (such as graduate programs and support, department mergers, committee appointments, long-range planning and privatization of services); a real and ongoing commitment to attract and retain African-American, Latino and other underrepresented minority faculty; consultation with faculty on investments in pedagogical and curricular technology with the aim of furthering excellence in teaching; fair labor practices for all IU employees including non-tenure track instructors and all staff ; and meaningful consultation with faculty about expenditures on and the distribution of profits from athletics.

You can’t expect a bunch of faculty to agree about much, but the main goal on which we concur is the renewal of an intellectually rich culture of

governance.

This culture is above all one of open, public, collaborative and democratic reasoning. It’s the process through which scholarship develops and progresses, leading to innovation and shared ideas.

If a proposal for reorganizing the academic structure, or changing pedagogic practice, or connecting between the University and the community is a good idea, it will pass this test of public scrutiny, win broad support and make common sense.

That’s what the BFC is for, and that’s what we aim to have the BFC do again.

Jon Simons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University

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Re: Girls being punished for their bodies

Leggings are pants

That is completely untrue, uninformed writing.

Being that I am a female who attended a public middle school and am now a freshman in college, I completely understand the reason for this change in the dress code. At that age, bodies are changing into their more adult shapes, and boys and girls are discovering their sexuality.

When I was in eighth grade, the dress code was basic: no midriff, no thigh, no feet, and no butt for boys and girls.

Yet somehow girls found ways to still flaunt their newly sexually pleasing bodies. I am absolute-

ly guilty of wearing tight low-cut tops with push-up bras and tight low-cut jeans.

It was my way of accepting myself and getting approval from my male friends.

And the boys were and are required to wear their bottoms with a belt around their waists. I reflect on how ridiculous and immature that was often, and now still dress how I want to, but with class and respect.

Wearing leggings and yoga pants to school is unnecessary and to boys at that age, distracting. It isn’t girls’ faults that we have beautiful bodies, but it is our responsibility to dress appropriately.

The only thing I disagree with in the ban is skinny jeans, because there isn’t anything distracting about them, and they’ve been around for decades.

But to quote McElwain, “Banning any article of clothing altogether is eventually going to leave females with nothing to wear” is the exact opposite of what school administrations are doing.

They’re enforcing that all students wear more clothes than what is being accepted now.

Taylor Cole

Last week I got dressed to go to class and threw on a pair of leggings, to which my boyfriend said, “Leggings are not pants.”

I started to wonder why this opinion is prevalent in a society where women are free to wear whatever they want. Leggings cover my whole lower half, so why do people insist that they are not pants and should not be worn as such?

The answer I got back was that leggings are too tight and show off too much of a woman’s body. Leggings show no more skin or curves than tight skinny jeans, tight cotton skirts or daisy duke shorts. Yet these are “acceptable” for women to wear.

We need to take a step

back and realize that by shaming women for wearing leggings, we are regulating how she can present herself in public. Are people really offended by a woman showing off her curves? In the words of YouTube star Laci Green, “everyone has a butt.”

We don’t go around shaming people for wearing tight shirts, so we shouldn’t go around shaming them for tight pants.

But, the most important argument for leggings is that Audrey Hepburn wore them.

No one would dare call her a slut, so stop judging the girl sitting next to you in class for her fashion choices.

Jessica Albright

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There should be no shame in sabbatical Somewhere along the line, we made college the most defining years of our collective experience. We imbued it with a pressure that makes everything seem like possibly the end of existence if we screw up. And that’s just not right.

This may seem like it’s coming out of left field, but we’re nearing the end of second semester, which means that it’s internship season for most undergraduates and the most stressing part of the job hunt for graduating seniors.

I think we could all use a reminder that it’s going to

work out.

True, there will be some people who will head off to New York for their internship at Goldman Sachs or what have you. But for every one of those people, realize that there are probably thirty more who are returning home to work a smaller-scale internship or even stay in Bloomington for the summer.

And that’s great.

I’ll be graduating this May, and if I get an internship back in Chicago, I’ll be moving home to live with my parents for a bit.

If I don’t get any type of

internship, I’ll probably live out the rest of my lease here in Bloomington.

So yes, this column is self-affirmation that I’ll be fine, but it’s also to show you that we often get blinded by this idea that we have to move away from home and make bank right this minute or we’ll never do it.

There are realities that we have to face, now more than ever, that were mostly brought up in Eduardo Salas’s piece on internships in yesterday’s edition of the Indiana Daily Student.

We’re all gunning for internships that aren’t paid,

that have a low chance of employment and may not even offer a truly educational experience.

Quite frankly, this is stupid.

When you look at the facts plainly, we’re in an idiotic spiral.

I don’t want to have to go through this internship process, but then I’m not finding any entry-level work at any valuable companies, so I have to go through the process to gain experience.

We’re stuck in the machine.

So maybe you don’t need to throw yourself into the machine so quickly.

Professors and professionals take sabbatical all the time. After many of us have gone to school for seventeen years without a break, I think we deserve a little bit of time to reconvene and think about the future.

And yes, some people will try to shame you for that — the gap year seems to have completely fallen out of existence for fear of laziness. But there’s no reason you should feel bad for pausing in order to gain momentum.

It’s fine to take a step back and be rational about your choices.

SAM OSTROWSKI is a senior majoring in English.

Some people will thrive on making irrational choices and powering through unhappiness or being poor.

I can’t do that, and I refuse to feel bad for it any longer.

And you shouldn’t either.

Good luck with the hunt, Hoosiers. sjostrow@indiana.edu

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ready to cross the road when they heard an explosive sound.

Grubb said he saw a maroon sedan hit the scooter and said he watched the bodies of the two men fly through the air and hit the ground.

“We thought they were dead,” he said.

Grubb said he and the men with him ran out onto the street to stop traffic.

One of them called 911.

Grubb commended BPD for responding so quickly.

“They busted their butts and got this taken care of,” he said.

Both men were transported to IU Health Hospital.

Sydney Murray

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 junior catcher Kyle Schwarber and junior first baseman Sam Travis to spark the offensive surge.

“They tried to do a little too much earlier in the season,” Smith said of his two All-Americans. “It’s nice that they’ve settled in with quality at-bats.

The thing is, when they do that, other guys are going to follow.

You trust the guys around you, you take a walk if they’re going to give you a walk and trust the guys to drive you in.”

Schwarber said he and the rest of the IU lineup have finetuned their approach and will look to put up runs no matter the opposition.

“We really focused on putting in quality at-bats at the plate,” Schwarber said. “We haven’t been putting in quality at-bats for the last month or so.

We wanted to make a team effort towards that, and I feel like we made a really good adjustment.”

The statistics back up Schwarber’s claim. After scoring 69 runs in its first 17 games — going 9-8 in those contests — IU has scored 51 in its last eight games, winning six of those.

Schwarber said despite the RedHawks’ struggles in recent games, with five losses in a row and a 10-15 overall record, the Hoosiers will look to jump on Bokich early.

“We don’t care who we’re playing,” Schwarber said.

“We’re going to come out and play Indiana baseball. If we play Indiana baseball, we’re not going to be afraid of the results.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 comes together to make this work. I’m thankful for that.”

“Thank you so much,” Darnell said while accepting the award. “We want to give the glory and honor to God.” After the event Vaughn said she felt humbled, inspired and grateful to attend the ceremony and receive an award.

IU Best Buddies received the Be More Involved award, given to a college student or organization. IU Dean of Students Harold “Pete” Goldsmith presented the award.

“This group provides amazing friendship and leadership opportunities for those with learning

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A man holds a sign in protest of the lack of low-barrier overnight shelters during the summer Tuesday on Kirkwood Avenue. The walk ended at the Monroe County Courthouse with a candlelit vigil.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 any additional hearings.

Byrd and several other advocates found a property on the city’s northwest side but quickly found they were in a catch-22 situation.

“We can’t apply for grants or raise money until we secure a place,” Byrd said, but the hearing process took so long the owner of the property sold it to a buyer who had money.

The only way advocates could secure a shelter site by summer is if the site meets the conditional use permit requirements, which means the site has to be a commercial, medical or institutional space.

Advocates have found no such places yet, Byrd said.

“When you tell people you’re looking for property for a homeless shelter they have a lot of concerns, and many times (are) not willing to rent their property for that use,” Byrd said.

Ross Martinie-Eiler, rally organizer and advocate, led the march west down Kirkwood Avenue all the way to

disabilities,” Goldsmith said. “Over the years, this group has impacted over 1,000 community members.”

The organization partners members with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. More than 100 students are involved in Best Buddies.

Other winners included Susan Welsand from Volunteers in Tutoring Adult Learners, Patty Andrews of the First United Methodist Church Outreach Committee, Centerstone Recovery Engagement Center volunteers, Janice Clevenger with the Monroe County Civic Theater, Stone Belt meal delivery volunteers, Area 10 Agency on Aging, Yasmin Martinez of Key Club of Bloomington, Monroe County Circles Initiative

“Our passion for freedom is stronger than their prison.”

Several city police cars showed up, circling the area as advocates wound around the courthouse for their candlelit vigil and short order of speakers.

Advocate Joe Varga asked for a moment of silence for those who had died of homelessness before introducing speakers.

Traffic surrounding the courthouse returned to its usual rhythm as advocates held their candles in silence.

Standing at the top of the stairs on the corner of Kirkwood Avenue and Walnut Street, Trevor Richardson, a man experiencing homelessness, called out to the crowd.

“You have to speak,” Richardson said. “You have to march. It starts with us.

You want change. You seek change.”

Before the march, Richardson spoke about difficulties he encountered while trying to find a job to better himself. He said he felt discriminated against by an employer because an investigative consumer report they conducted on him cited his

Morton Street.

Marinie-Eiler said there used to be several places for people experiencing homelessness to camp, but the city has systematically rooted out all those places.

“The need is for legal, safe places to sleep,” he said.

Marinie-Eiler led the march followed by a small band equipped with a portable PA system, clogging traffic and turning heads all the way to the Monroe County Courthouse.

The area Marinie-Eiler referred to used to be called the Switchyard Park before the city acquired it from the CSX Railroad Company, said Mick Renneisen, Parks and Recreation Department director.

“There might have been a time where folks camped there before we owned that property,” Renneisen said.

Since the 2009 purchase, the city has built the B-Line Trail through the property and enforces the policy of no camping.

Traffic came to a complete halt on North College Avenue in front of the courthouse as advocates chanted,

Allies in the South Central Community Action Program and Helen Freeman with Meals on Wheels.

Awards were distributed

by Mayor Mark Kruzan.

Each of the award recipient’s volunteer organizations received $500.

The 77 nominees were nominated by other citizens or organizations through an application. A horse from the People and Animal Learning Services network was also nominated.

The event was sponsored by the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, the Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County, the IU Credit Union, the United Way of Monroe County, the Bloomington Entertainment Arts District and WTIU Public Television.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the show,” museum curator Nan Brewer said. “Henri Matisse, along with his friend and rival Pablo Picasso, is one of the most important artists and one of the leading figures of 20th-century modern art.”

The “Jazz” print book contains more than 100 prints based on paper cutouts that Matisse made in his 70s when he could no longer draw or paint.

Brewer said the focus of the book emphasizes the artist’s works on paper from the last 30 years of his life, when he had to overcome numerous obstacles to re-invent himself and create some of his most acclaimed work.

Matisse’s pieces in the collection were acquired by the museum through purchase

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Donations including clothing, toiletries and first aid supplies are collectied for those in need of them at Bloomington People’s Park on Tuesday.

stays at the Shalom Center as a high-risk indicator.

“This is a dangerous trend,” Richardson said. “We are trying to better ourselves and apply for jobs and we get denied because we have gone to agencies to assist us in bettering ourselves.”

The sun began its decent and the candles glowed. Byrd recalled her last time on the courthouse lawn in 2012 after the Sandy Hook shooting.

“Together we expressed solidarity with those who

and gifting. A large number of the prints came from Diether Thimme, a former professor in the art history department.

The museum recently collaborated with the Indianapolis Museum of Art, lending them 20 color stencil prints for their exhibit entitled “Matisse, Life in Color: Masterworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art.” Since the prints returned to Bloomington, they will be the centerpiece of the exhibit.

The museum had previously framed the individual plates for their exhibition and took the opportunity to show all these prints together for the first time since they were acquired in 1965.

“Although the ‘Jazz’ plates are the centerpiece of the exhibition, we wanted to highlight other works by this important artist in IU collections,” Brewer

were grieving,” Byrd said.

“Tonight, together we stand united to share our concern about a different kind of tragedy. This is the tragedy of our neighbors who have nowhere safe, warm or legal to sleep at night.”

She said at least 50 people would likely have nowhere to sleep that night.

“Together we can show we care and unite against this tragedy,” Byrd said. “After all, Bloomington is a home for all of us.”

MATISSE EXHIBIT April 2 to May 25 IU Art Museum said. “We’ve only displayed one plate at a time in the past, while we have included over 40 additional works from the collections of the Indiana University Art Museum, Lilly Library and Fine Arts Library.”

Matisse’s work is known to be influential to many painters and sculptors in the art field. Senior art student Seth Headdy said he is very excited for the unveiling of this exhibit.

“There is a lot to appreciate and learn from his use of color choices and line quality in his pieces,” Headdy said. “His influence on my own art work is nominal, but it’s hard to deny that his work is some of the best art creations ever made.”

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Qun Sun, 21, works the counter at Lotus Garden on a busy Friday night. He is one of four restaurant owners and a junior at IU studying management at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Apart from waiting tables, Sun is usually stationed at the counter, where he interacts with customers on their way in and out and checks off receipts. Inspired by his father, who owns three business in their hometown of Yantai, Sun treasures Lotus Garden as the cornerstone in a long line of businesses he plans to own in the future. His devotion to its success stems from his determination to prove his maturity and capability to others, but mostly his friends and family.

Feeding the dream With an increasing number of Chinese student enrollments, a trend of Chinese student-owned businesses has emerged. These student entrepreneurs prove their mettle, all while growing up and chasing their version of the American Dream.

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eft hands slam moist fish heads against chopping boards. Giant, overworked fridges drone. Workers call to one another in rapid-fire Chinese. Amid the chaos, Qun Sun weaves through aisle after narrow aisle of towering shelves.

At Asia Mart in Indianapolis, he picks through racks crammed with freezedried seaweed, pickled Chinese mustard leaves and pearl-toned melamine bowls painted to look like fine china. He selects tins of ginger, jasmine and oolong tea leaves, shaking each one close to his right ear.

He’s quite a tea aficionado, he says.

He knows which tea sells best. For Sun’s new Chinese restaurant, Lotus Garden, it is critical to choose tea that complements the dishes.

Sun grabs yü yuan, or fish-meat balls, for hot pot — a soup-like dish containing meat and vegetables. Then pastes, powders and oils for dishes with names like chuan pao yao hua — pork kidneys — and hong you chao shou — wontons in chili oil.

He jerks to a halt. “Where’s my list?”

The grocery list — scribbled in Chinese on a crumpled sheet of notepaper — is important but not necessary. After months of making this weekly shopping trip, Sun already knows exactly what he needs and where to find it.

But he still worries. There is a lot at stake. One mistake could put his investment in Lotus Garden, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, at risk.

He finally finds the list under a pack of dried lotus leaves he sifted through a moment before and jams it into his side pocket.

“Sometimes I’m not very careful,” he says. “Now I have to practice not to do it.

Every mistake will add to the cost of my restaurant.”

A 21-year-old junior at IU, Sun owns Lotus Garden with three other Chinese students. It is the first restaurant he has ever owned. And it’s only the second job he has had.

As the major shareholder, Sun takes charge of most business planning, people management and other day-to-day duties.

He is part of a growing breed of young Chinese students establishing businesses in Bloomington.

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A CLOSER LOOK AT QUN SUN Hear Sun talk about his experiences and view more photos of Sun, his restaurant and friends online at idsnews.com

Lotus Garden, or he yan can ting in Mandarin, sits along North Walnut Street and is open for eleven hours every day. The restaurant has been in operation since May 5 last year, but officially opened on August 1. Sun is confident in the restaurant’s continued success due to the steady influx of Chinese students into Bloomington.

Chinese students lead international enrollment International students are a common part of IU’s college experience and make up a big part of campus culture. However, one student nationality trumps the rest. Chinese students have quickly become the majority among international students at IU and across the nation.

According to Open Doors, the most common major among the international students is business and management. In 2012-2013, international students contributed more than $24 billion to the United States economy.

Percent change for Chinese students Fourty-three percent of Chinese students study at the graduate level, and 38 percent study at the undergraduate level. Chinese student enrollment has increased 293 percent since 2000.

21.4

percent from 2012 to 2013

Percent change for all international students Indiana ranks 10th in the U.S. for international enrollment, and it has 24,408 international students enrolled.

IU is number two host, trailing INDIANA Purdue by nearly 3,000 students.

NO. 10 ILLINOIS NO. 5

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percent from 2012 to 2013

Top 3 countries of origin Chinese students dominate the international student community.

49 percent of all international students come from India, South Korea and China.

In total, there were 819,644 international students in United States during the 2012-2013 school year International students make up 4 percent of the total United States higher education population.

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Mainland Chinese enrollments in the United States higher education institutions increased by 21.4 percent in the past academic year, to 235,597 students.

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Szechuan food. 3Xs Delivery offers barbecued meat and vegetable kebabs — popular street food in China. MoNo Beauty Shop sells cosmetics imported from Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

Someone recently offered to sell Sun Joyce Chinese Restaurant and Karaoke, which is currently being built in downtown Bloomington.

Along with the influx of Chinese nationals pursuing higher education in the United States, the Chinese student population at IU has tripled to more than 3,000 within the last five years.

This has created a greater demand for authentic Chinese food, retail and other services. It has become a viable market that Chinese students themselves, typically in management-related academic tracks, are moving to cater to.

These Chinese student-entrepreneurs all share common motivations to gain experience in real-world business outside the classroom. They also want to achieve some form of independence from their parents’ financial support.

Sun’s primary source of inspiration is his father, a prominent businessman in their hometown of Yantai in northeastern China. The elder Sun owns businesses dealing in food, medicine and coal.

When Sun noticed the opportunity to set up a restaurant because there was “no real Chinese food” in Bloomington, he turned to his father.

The experience of operating a small business would help him understand the process of running a big one, his father said.

Since opening Aug. 1 last year, Sun said Lotus Garden is packed to the brim most nights, especially Fridays. The 14-space parking lot fills fast.

The emerging trend of Chinese-student enterprises contributes to more diverse cultural and business landscapes in Bloomington. But for these young student-entrepreneurs, it is simply a matter of learning how to juggle between roles.

It’s simply about growing up. * * * Mandarin is spoken around corners in IU academic buildings. Along dorm corridors. From the next table in a dining hall.

In fall 2009, there were 1,008 Chinese students enrolled at IU. Two years later, there were 2,289. The number rose to 3,078 in fall 2013.

A majority of the foreign students on campus are Chinese.

The same is often true at many other American universities.

The Open Doors 2013 report, released by the Institute of International Education in November, revealed that China, the top place of origin, contributes to almost 30 percent of the international student population in the U.S. — up from 15 percent five years ago.

Mainland Chinese enrollments in American higher education institutions increased by 21.4 percent in the past academic year, to 235,597 students.

For the same year, Indiana is listed as one of three states with the highest rates of growth in international student enrollment — a 10-percent increase.

Chinese student organizations, primarily the IU Chinese Students and Scholars Association, present their culture in highly visible ways on campus, entertaining large

crowds during spring and mid-autumn festival celebrations.

Off-campus, Chinese students flock to restaurants for a taste of home.

“Of course more Chinese students make a difference,” said Kathy Tzeng, a long-time Bloomington resident.

Tzeng opened Lantern House in the 1970s, which she says was the second Chinese restaurant in town. She is now one of five owners of Mei Wei, or “delicious flavor,” a Chinese restaurant that opened in February last year.

The Bloomington restaurant scene has evolved over the past 40 years, she said.

These days, people can afford to eat out at restaurants more frequently. The increase in wealth typically means Chinese students are dining out more and ordering more expensive dishes.

Lotus Garden is one of 21 known Chinese restaurants in Bloomington, and the only one run by students.

When designing the menu, Sun placed emphasis on catering to Chinese students’ tastes, choosing to include more atypical dishes like “bullfrog with Sichuan peppercorn,” “Thai-style pig ears” and “lamb testicles with cumin.”

Sun searched the Chinese immigrant community to find a chef, placing ads in national Chinese-language publication “World Journal.”

Early last year, Hao Yu boarded a Greyhound in Flushing, N.Y., for Bloomington. He was selected as Lotus Garden chef from eight other applicants.

Yu received about $4,500 along with a 10-percent share of profits at Lotus Garden.

Sun provided housing for Yu and his kitchen aides. .

After less than a year, however, Yu chose to leave. His last day was March 26. Sun said the split was amicable.

Yu has been replaced with two chefs. Like Yu, they are from China and were previously based in New York City.

Like him, they make abovemarket wages.

Choosing to pay his chefs higher wages makes good business sense, Sun said. It serves as an incentive, enabling them to develop a sense of ownership and loyalty to Lotus Garden.

“If (other restaurants) want to hire my chef, if they want to pay more salary to hire him — if he goes to their restaurant, we will close,” Sun said, lowering his voice to a whisper. * * * To strangers, Sun introduces himself as “Blake.” To his friends and others in the Bloomington Chinese community, he is addressed affectionately — sometimes teasingly — as Sun lao ban, or Boss Sun. As a freshman in 2011, Sun got a job working at Wright Food Court. He worked hard and enjoyed the experience, he said, but it didn’t satisfy him for long. The following year, Sun decided to open a restaurant.

Sun wasn’t able to take the mandatory Integrative Core component of the Kelley School of Business curriculum because he spent the summer working to launch Lotus Garden. Unwilling to delay his graduation date, he decided to transfer to a management track in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

“I didn’t want to wait half a year — what a waste,” he said.

“The tuition can’t buy the experience I have here.”

Though supportive of his dreams, Sun’s family feared he was taking on too much.

Sun’s friends join him for dinner at Lotus Garden on March 1, three days before his 21st birthday. Sun said that although his friends tease him about his business, they remain supportive of his endeavors. “Like a motivation, it spurs me, “ he said. “To go further.”

Now, nine months after opening Lotus Garden, Sun says he has finally proven himself. He is able to cover all his expenses, from tuition fees to trips abroad during school breaks.

Sun admits he is not doing as well in school as he used to, but it is a sacrifice he said he is willing to make.

He developed a strong sense of independence growing up. From the age of 11 through 18, he attended boarding school, returning home on occasion.

His upbringing, Sun said, has taught him not to fear difficulties and to find solutions to problems despite the circumstances.

Sun invested about $50,000 in Lotus Garden, almost twice the amount each of his coowners contributed. Eighty percent came from regular allowance provided by his father. The rest were loans from two of his roommates.

He spent almost $100,000 remodeling, replacing equipment and fixing plumbing in the building — a property along North Walnut Street that used to house Korean eatery Shin’s Family Restaurant. He pays about $4,000 a month in rent.

The goals he set when starting out were easy to achieve, Sun said. Such success has spurred him on to take more risks in his business and prove naysayers wrong.

“In the past, I’m like a child in the family,” he said. “So they tell me what should I do, what shouldn’t I do. And educate me — a lot. I want them know I do the right thing now. And now I see — I think they are proud of me.” * * * Chinese students are not too fond of American food, said 3Xs owner and IU sophomore Xiong Xiong.

“We miss Chinese food a lot,” she said. “That’s why we start food businesses.”

3Xs is named for the three female delivery business partners — Xiong, Rui Xu and Xianglin Wu. Two male coowners handle grilling of the meat and vegetable kebabs, made with ingredients from Kroger on a grill bought from Walmart.

Unlike many other Chinese parents, Xiong said, hers encourage pursuit of other interests beyond her studies.

Xiong, like Sun, is a SPEA management major. Like Sun and Yuan, her entrepreneurial endeavors are part of self-improvement efforts.

“I realized how hard it is to earn money,” she said. “It’s an experience I can look back on and tell my grandkids how, when I was in university, I had

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MoNo Beauty Shop sells cosmetics through a registered vendor account with e-marketplace AliExpress.

Due to MoNo’s success, owners Mei Yuan and Huan Zhang have a team of ambassadors representing the business in other American colleges. They plan to expand to an online store soon.

There isn’t a formal estimate of the total number of Chinese student-owned businesses in Bloomington. No one keeps track, or is able to, since businesses are either listed under other names for legal reasons, or not registered at all.

For unregistered businesses, transactions are made over the phone or online, usually through Chinese social media platforms like Sina Weibo and Tencent’s WeChat.

Other Internet-based businesses include the popular dai gou — “purchase on behalf” — system, where Chinese students take orders for goods in the U.S., which they bring to clients during visits home.

Due to high tariffs and unavailability of certain products in China, this is an easy and lucrative enterprise.

These business-savvy student-entrepreneurs have the advantage of growing up in a China that has opened its doors to foreign influence, said Dan Li, associate professor of international business at the business school.

The country underwent drastic changes following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. China’s rapid development since then has played a big part in shaping the younger generation’s mindset, she said.

“They have all kinds of resources,” Li said. “They’re sensitive to business opportunities. They’ve seen more successes in China than failures. They have everything any entrepreneur could dream about.”

Yajing Chen, a graduate

assistant with the IU Office of International Services, said difficulty in finding a job in the U.S. due to immigration regulations pushes international students to seek opportunities for business experience in other ways.

An overseas experience never means only an academic one — running a business is part of the learning process.

While there are more business opportunities in China, there is a more structured, but open, business environment in America’s more mature market, Li said.

“The issue is uncertainty in China,” she said. “In the U.S., rules and regulations are written out. In China, there are many hidden rules. Things are ruled by who has the power at the moment. Compared to the risks in China, people choose to migrate their wealth abroad.”

Sun said Lotus Garden has enabled him to foster many new relationships within a diverse community.

Frequent customer Larry Singell, executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has begun to develop a close friendship with Sun, rooted in shared knowledge of Chinese language and culture.

Singell said he is impressed

by Sun’s maturity and business acumen.

“A good part of learning in college is what’s called collateral learning,” he said. “Students who demonstrate these kinds of skills — willing to take a risk, observe and find a need, then be able to provide and serve that need — they’re going to be quite successful later in life.” * * * Weekly grocery days are always the same for Sun. A full day of traveling, shopping, and bargaining in Indianapolis and a night of waiting tables back at the restaurant.

Sun typically works four days a week. Lotus Garden, with its stained glass lamps,

floor-to-ceiling tinted windows and traditional Chinese paintings stuck haphazardly onto scarlet, plum and olivecolored walls, has become an important training ground for him.

It is where he faces constant challenges and works to achieve his goals.

At 21, Sun is at least 15 years younger than a handful of his employees.

“Maybe they think I’m just a child,” he said. “But yeah, I am the boss. I’m learning how to manage, to explore what’s the way I should use.”

In February, Sun and his partners put the restaurant on the market for more than twice their initial investment.

They received offers from several Chinese students, but Sun ultimately decided to keep the business.

Lotus Garden is a responsibility he is not yet willing to shed. Motivated by past successes, he believes there’s still more he can do.

He wants to construct a mini garden, featuring a lotus pond, in the vacant lot beside the restaurant.

Sun will graduate in May 2015. Even if he goes to a different city for graduate school, returns to China or starts new ventures, Sun plans to keep Lotus Garden, preserving it for a steady flow of income.

He offers an ancient Chinese proverb — qi hu nan xia.

Once you’ve mounted the tiger, it is unwise to get down.

There is nothing to do but ride on.

“Just like I have started and I run it, I must keep it going, going further,” he said.

Even Sun’s greatest mentor, his father, has begun to see the change in him. Now Sun is able to hold his own in fatherson conversations — voicing his own opinions and partaking in a mutual exchange of ideas.

“From a boy to a man — I need to think about myself, about my life,” Sun said. “I’m not a child anymore.”

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Individual Time Trials set to run today The Little 500 Spring Series events kick off at 3:30 p.m. today with the Individual Time Trials (ITTs).

Four riders at a time will take to the track in a four-lap, one-mile sprint to determine the

quickest riders in the 2014 Little 500 fields.

The IDS will have full coverage of the ITTs on Twitter @ids_little500 and will provide live updates through HoosierHype.com.

Sycamore softball hands Hoosiers 7-5 loss

BY DAN MATNEY cdmatney@indiana.edu

After going 1-2 in last weekend’s conference home opener, the IU softball team went into Tuesday’s game with Indiana State looking to get back into the win column.

Despite a comeback attempt in the final inning, IU fell to Indiana State 7-5. The loss was the third straight and also the sixth in the last seven games for the Hoosiers.

After the loss at home, IU Coach Michelle Gardner said she was encouraged from what she saw in relief from senior pitcher Meaghan Murphy, who didn’t allow a hit in two innings.

“Her performance was huge,” Gardner said. “She came out and dominated.

I really liked what she was doing out there.”

Indiana State’s offense got started early, driving two runs across the plate in the top of the first inning.

Senior utility player Morgan Allee reached base after being hit by a pitch on the second pitch of the day.

ISU junior utility player Megan Stone drove in Allee with a double off of the right field wall.

Two at-bats later, the Sycamores struck again when sophomore right fielder Alexa Cavin hit a ground ball just outside the glove of diving IU senior shortstop Breanna Saucedo.

As the ball rolled passed Saucedo, the Sycamores had time to score freshman catcher Brooke Riemenschneider.

With runners on the

SOFTBALL (9-24-1) vs. Indiana State (18-14) L, 7-5 corners, IU escaped a jam when sophomore catcher Kelsey Dotson threw out Cavin in an attempt to steal second base.

After IU junior center fielder Brianna Meyer became the first Hoosier of the day to reach base on a walk, Dotson drove a pitch to left field to get an RBI single.

Dotson’s timely hit brought the Hoosiers closer to the Sycamores, cutting IU’s deficit to one run early on in the game.

But in the next half inning, Freshman Sycamores left fielder Rylee Holland hit a ground ball and beat out a Saucedo throw to first, driving in junior pitcher Yvette Alvarez in the process.

In the home half of the second frame, senior third baseman Shelby Gogreve hit a fly ball to Cavin in right field.

During the play, Cavin appeared to lose the ball in the glare of the sun, which resulted in sophomore first baseman Kassi Farmer scoring from second on the play as the ball hit the ground.

As Farmer scored, Gogreve was thrown out attempting to stretch her double into a triple.

After Boetjer allowed a triple to ISU center fielder Erika Crissman, Gardner brought in IU junior pitcher Lora Olson in for relief, but the change couldn’t slow down the Sycamore’s offensive output.

Crissman scored shortly after the change off a bunt off the bat of Holland, which

An Indiana softball player keeps Indiana State from recording an out at second base on Tuesday at Andy Mohr Field.

was the first of two ISU runs in the inning.

The Hoosiers were able to get back onto the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth inning when Farmer sent a flyball to deep center field, driving in sophomore right fielder Natalie Lalich in the process.

After going scoreless in the fifth, Indiana State’s bats reemerged in the top of the sixth inning.

After Riemenschneider and Stone reached base on a single and double respectively, senior third baseman Shelby Wilson hit a pitch to right field to give the Sycamores a 7-3 lead.

IU senior left fielder Jenna Abraham hit a tworun home run to left field in the bottom of the seventh inning, but the Hoosier’s comeback attempt fell

short.

The home run was Abraham’s second of the season, which was something she was excited about.

“I’m not really one to hit the long ball,” Abraham said. “I’m usually not swinging for the long ball.

I usually just try to get base hits so when that happens it feels good.”

While one streak continued for the Hoosiers, another ended.

Saucedo, who came into the game with a 10-game hitting streak, went 0-for-3 on the day, ending her hitting streak.

IU now has a 9-24-1 record as they head into West Lafayette for a weekend series with the Purdue Boilermakers.

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Sheehey invited to play at College All-Star game FROM IDS REPORTS

Almost a month after his college basketball career ended, Will Sheehey will play one more game.

Sheehey will represent IU in the Reese’s Division I College All-Star Game on Friday as a member of the East Squad. He will join 20 other Division I seniors to play as a part of Final Four weekend

festivities.

Roster invitees were selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

“It’s always an honor to represent Indiana University,” Sheehey said in an IU release. “I’m excited to get a chance to play one more time on such a big stage with some outstanding players, and I appreciate the NABC for the

opportunity.”

Sheehey is Hoosier No. 13 to participate in the event, and the first since 2006.

The game will take place 4:30 p.m. Friday at Dallas’ AT&T stadium and will be aired on CBS at noon Saturday.

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Coaches name IU’s Schmidt Big Ten Diver of the Year FROM IDS REPORTS

For the second consecutive year, senior Darian Schmidt is the Big Ten Diver of the Year, the conference announced Tuesday.

At this year’s Big Ten Championships, Schmidt won both the 1-meter (381.30 points) and 3-meter (451.90) springboard title. It was his second career title on the 1-meter.

Schmidt’s success earned him Big Ten Diver of the Championships for the third straight season.

This past weekend at the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships, Schmidt placed sixth in the 3-meter competition. He earned All-America honors in the event for the third year in a row.

Last year, Schmidt was All-American in 1-meter

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This marks the third year in a consecutive that a Hoosier has been named Big Ten Diver of the Year. Zac Nees won the award in 2012.

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Tucked away on Paris’s left bank, perched on cobblestone providing some quiet from the chatter of cafés nearby, is the bookstore Shakespeare and Company.

Next to Notre Dame, Shakespeare and Company specializes in English-language literature. There are two separate shops, one with vintage and antiquarian books and the other with new books for sale, ranging from classics to contemporary releases.

Shakespeare and Company serves as a Mecca of sorts for book lovers and writers alike.

The setting alone is sure to make any bookworm giddy.

Books of all genres fill every nook and cranny. Typewriters hide on top of desks and in little corners of the store.

But it’s the history of writers who gathered here and its continued presence in Paris that makes it such a worthwhile stop for any tourist or visitor.

An American expatriate, Sylvia Beach, initially established the bookstore in 1919 on rue Dupuytren. She later moved the store to rue de l’Odéon in 1922, where it remained until 1940.

In the beginning, it was both a lending library as well as a bookstore.

During this time, the store served as a meeting place for discussion, collaboration and the basic exchange of ideas and conversation for writers and artists of the Lost Generation. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest

Shakespeare and Company is a bookstore in Paris which specializes in English literature.

Hemingway and Gertrude Stein were among the crowd of writers who frequented the bookstore.

The original Shakespeare and Company was forced to close because of the German occupation of Paris in 1940 during World War II. Hemingway, at the end of the war, “liberated” the store, but it never officially reopened.

Disguised with the name Le Mistral, American George Whitman opened another English bookstore on the left bank of Paris in 1951.

Just as the original Shakespeare and Company had served as a focal point for the

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Lost Generation, this new location served as a focal point for many Beat Generation writers.

After Beach passed away in 1962, Whitman changed the name of his store to Shakespeare and Company as a tribute to her original bookstore. Whitman’s daughter, Sylvia Whitman, now runs the store.

Today, the store continues to run similarly, allowing young writers to work in the bookstore. There are daily and weekly events, such as readings, talks and discussions.

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Director Jonathan Glazer said Scarlett Johansson’s pink sweater against the cold Glasgow landscape made her look like an exotic insect on the wrong continent. This is exactly what he wanted.

Glazer worked with costume designer Steven Noble to create a disguise for Johansson’s character in his latest film, “Under the Skin,” which premieres in the U.S. April 4.

Johansson has a knack for sci-fi characters, particularly the seductress, kick-ass type like Black Widow in “The Avengers.” But in this project, Johansson plays Laura, a girl with an alien allure.

She plays an alien siren that preys upon hitchhikers in Scotland. Teasers of the film set the scene for an uncomfortable suspense that is heightened by a unnaturally rhythmic score and of course a wardrobe.

Johansson said she couldn’t have embraced this character if it wasn’t for the cold. Noble’s signature selection for her was a thick brown fur coat that framed her pale skin, botched haircut and red lipstick.

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sometimes it’s about what’s missing more than what’s there. “Skin” is a subtle, intellectual thriller that has critics calling the film a modern derivative of works like Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.”

The film works with an extensive visual and special effects team to create extraterrestrial events to modernize what historically would have been achieved through costume and set design alone. Noble embraced the modern tech influx when selecting costumes. Despite adding to the unnatural demeanor of Johansson, costumes were unnoticeable.

In fact, in some scenes costumes were genuinely natural because characters were not hired actors, but filmed secretly. In order to achieve this secret filming, cameras were installed in Johansson’s character’s van as she approached random men to try and lure them. It was only after the filming the men were notified.

Also, Noble recognized nudity as a costume in itself.

Johansson removed simple black lingerie to appear fully nude in certain scenes. It was a highly publicized decision for the actress. Johansson said it was the most human she felt while playing her alien character. Also, a perfect play on “skin.”

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Local artist makes connections crocheting

BY ALISON GRAHAM akgraham@indiana.edu @AlisonGraham218

There was a knock on the front door. IU student Trevor Doud answered.

On the other side stood a man, wearing handmade crocheted clothes, asking to bum a cigarette.

Doud didn’t have a cigarette for the stranger, so he watched the man return to the house across the street and come back with two crocheted koozies in hand, one for Doud and another for his roommate.

The three started talking, and Doud told the man, Rafael “Stitch” Diggs, he liked his vibe. Diggs, he found out, sells his crocheted pieces to customers in Bloomington through his business, “New Diggs.”

“He carried a musical tune and he was wearing his crochet stuff,” Doud said. “I genuinely connected with him and we talked a lot.”

Not long after, Diggs moved in with Doud and his three other roommates. He didn’t pay $200 a month for rent, though. Rather, Diggs offered his crochet work in exchange for a place to live.

Diggs said although most people are not entirely appreciative of his art, the four guys living in the house believe he works hard to accomplish everything he has done.

“They realized how cool it was and how passionate I was about doing it and so it was an easy sell,” he said.

His new roommates suggested the idea to trade crochet work when he was moving in.

“I always saw it as a fair trade,” Doud said. “It was a rare experience for someone to really care about what they’re doing. I always thought he was bringing in as much as he was getting.”

Diggs made each roommate a jacket, valued at about $500 because of the time he spent on each piece. He said he is still overworking while getting underpaid for the

exchange, but that the money is not important to him.

Money takes away from the main point of his crocheting, which is the art and selfexpression that accompanies each piece, Diggs said.

“That’s kind of lost when you appraise it or assign it a value in green pieces of paper that were invented,” he said.

Diggs employs this philosophy when he runs his crochet operation.

“My customers design what they buy, and the point of it isn’t money,” he said.

The main point of crocheting is to promote intuition about art in others.

“Even if they don’t realize it, the fact that they can appreciate what I’ve done for myself is valuable,” he said. “If you appreciate good art, you’re an artist.”

Diggs doesn’t add his logo to each item of clothing to allow his customers to put themselves into his pieces, so it shows their own personality.

Despite the desire to avoid money, Diggs can’t evade it entirely.

To combat this, he tries to promote awareness by asking questions about the validity of money.

“I have to pretend that money means as much as my art, or it’s equivalent,” Diggs said. “I have to make up a number.”

He first learned to crochet from his mom when he was 12 years old.

“One Christmas we were too poor to buy presents, so she taught us to crochet to make each other things instead,” he said.

Diggs has now been crocheting for about 20 years, and has learned to create jackets, overalls, hats, koozies and bags without using a single pattern.

“The potential of things I can create is pretty much limitless,” he said.

Diggs is also a DJ. He said that he found the dancing and music cool and had a really personal experience with it.

Both DJ-ing and crocheting remind Diggs of his mom and

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Rafael “Stich” Diggs models a crocheted jacket in his house Monday. Diggs offers his crochet work in exchange for rent. He said money takes away from the true meaning of his crocheting, which is the art and self expression that accompanies each piece.

the hard work she always put into her children’s lives.

Diggs remembers his mom staying up late at night braiding his and his siblings’ hair, working on projects and crocheting. His mom started college two separate times after having five children.

“Growing up she gave us everything and nothing,” Diggs said. “We were poor so she gave us the skills of crocheting. We were not rich after my dad got fired from his rich job, and we moved to the ghetto. But we were still rich in our heads. We were poor, but we hid it well.”

Currently, Diggs sells his crochet work and DJs smaller events around Bloomington.

“It’d always be fun making a living off of what I love, but it’s easy to forget that if it’s not one thing it’s another,” he said. “Rich people have their problems, too. I’d rather be a happy poor guy than an angry millionaire.”

Rafael Diggs crochets a jacket for a high school friend in his house Monday, March 31. Diggs has been crocheting since he was 12 years old, when his mom taught him the skill to make presents for his siblings.

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