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Top Gov. Eric Holcomb stands before state legislators and other invited guests at his first State of the State address Tuesday night in the Indiana Statehouse. He spoke about his five pillars, which include making new roads and raising the budget for pre-K schooling, of improvement for Indiana. Left State legislators greet each other before the State of the State address Tuesday night in Indianapolis. At the State of the State address Gov. Eric Holcomb spoke about educational issues and the war on drugs. Right State legislators greet each other before the State of the State address Tuesday night in Indianapolis. Gov. Eric Holcomb discussed issues with educational funding and infrastructure at the address.
Holcomb delivers his first State of the State Governor discusses funds for roads and pre-K in State of State address INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Eric Holcomb again focused on funding infrastructure and pre-K and tackling the state’s drug epidemic in a well-received, though unspecific, Tuesday night address to Indiana. As Holcomb leads the state into its third century more emphasis needs to be placed on working for the future now than ever, he said in his State of the State speech. “Our secret weapon is the Hoosier pioneering spirit itself, proven over the last 200 years: the ingenuity, determination and common sense that enables us not only to overcome any challenge, but also to continually find better ways of doing things,” Holcomb said. Holcomb spent his 30-minute speech reiterating his five-pillar plan, first announced when he laid out his legislative agenda Jan. 5. The five pillars are keeping Indiana a magnet for jobs, funding infrastructure plans, developing a 21st-century workforce, attacking the drug epidemic and using tax dollars efficiently. The speech, punctuated with both personal and historical anecdotes, was described by both Republican and Democratic legislative leaders as easy to agree with. However, Indiana House Democratic leader Rep. Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, and Indiana Senate Democratic leader Sen. Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said they were disappointed with Holcomb’s lack of specificity. While Pelath and Lanane both said they appreciated the strong delivery of his speech, Pelath said he was not impressed with Holcomb’s discussion of maybe the biggest issue — funding a way to fix Indiana’s roads and bridges — on the 2017 legislative agenda.
Indiana’s plan for improving state infrastructure should include “projects in every quadrant of our state,” Holcomb said. He described the projects as upgrades to US 30 from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Valparaiso, Indiana, and US 31 to South Bend, Indiana; extra lanes on I-70 and I-65 from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Crown Point, Indiana; and completing I-69 from Evansville, Indiana, to Fort Wayne. Holcomb said he’s open to a menu of options when it comes to paying for these infrastructure projects. However, that wasn’t detailed enough for Pelath. The Democrat said the elephant in the room of the governor’s speech was he did not directly say he supports the Republican tax increase plan for funding infrastructure improvements, which could include raising gas and diesel taxes and installing more road tolls. “If you’re going to propose tax increases, you need a chief executive to sell that plan, and it appears to me he’s not willing to do that,” Pelath said. Holcomb will leave the heavy lifting of infrastructure improvements to House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, Pelath said. Bosma said after the address he’s not worried about the governor’s support on this issue. He said he expects Holcomb will support the Republicans’ plan for infrastructure funding, and while their plan isn’t perfect yet, they have three and a half months to improve it. “We need political courage, and we’re showing it,” Bosma said.
The lights dimmed as a door at the side of the stage opened. Five musicians moved out from backstage and stood around the music stands clustered in the middle of the stage. They bowed and took their seats. From there, the Auer Concert Hall filled with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “String Quintet in G Minor.” The five musicians focused all their attention on their string instruments, and the audience silently waited for each note. Members of the Cleveland Orchestra played alongside IU string faculty members during the Chamber Music for Strings, one of many residency events connected with the orchestra’s visit to IU. Debbie Quinn, a retired community member, said she had a simple reason for attending the concert. “A love of music brought me here,” Quinn said. “Especially Mozart. I was in a band for eight years, so I was exposed to a lot of music and I love to see professional musicians here. For a retired person, it’s like heaven. It’s unbelievable.” Nicolette van den Bogerd, a Ph.D. in musicology, said she chose to attend the performance for an ethnomusicologybased study as part of a seminar class that involves a fieldwork component. “I’m actually a violinist, and I feel it’s such an honor to be able to hear people of such caliber,” van den Bogerd said. “I’m looking forward to hearing the musicians and how good they are. Quinn said she and her husband, an avid collector of vinyl records, attend many musical programs across a variety of genres. “The level of expertise is unbelievable,” Quinn said. The event recital featured Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster William Preucil, principal second violin Stephen Rose, principal viola Wes Collins and principal cello Mark Kosower. IU string faculty playing this recital included Simin Ginatra, Ed Gazouleas and Eric Kim. The first five performers selected Mozart’s Quintet and the second group of six played Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” for the audience, made up of students and elderly community members. The event was one of many residency-style programs, during which students and faculty have the opportunity to work with and learn from members of the Cleveland Orchestra in a variety of areas. Yefim Bronfman, the worldfamous pianist playing with the orchestra, will be leading a piano masterclass with IU piano students Wednesday. Later in the day there will be a Classical Revolution Jam Session at Uptown Café. The full Cleveland Orchestra will perform 8 p.m. Thursday in the IU Auditorium Thursday, and
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Zerlina Maxwell, a nationally recognized activist and political analyst, speaks Tuesday night in the Whittenberger Auditorium. Maxwell’s talk focused on consent in rape culture and the intersection of race, gender and sexual violence.
Speaker discusses sexual assault, inequality By Emily Berryman eberryma@indiana.edu | @Ember_Otter
Zerlina Maxwell has been a notable figure for many reasons. She worked as director of progressive media for Hillary Clinton during the most recent presidential election, and is also a political activist raising issues in race, domestic violence, sexual assault and gender inequality. On Tuesday evening Maxwell visited the Indiana Memorial Union to talk about these issues. “We want to make sure to reach
all students,” said Sarah Cramer, sexual assault prevention education specialist at IU. “This is an effort to be mindful of those who might otherwise be left out.” As a result, it is no accident the event took place during Martin Luther King Jr. week. The talk was intentionally planned with the African American Coalition to join professors, faculty and staff in an effort to prevent sexual assault, Cramer said. “I love that people on campus want to address this,” said Rory James, director of the office of
Support phone numbers Sexual Assault Crisis Service 812-855-8900 Middle Way 812-336-7404 student diversity and inclusion. “This way we can get a feel for what sexual assault prevention is like.” James introduced Maxwell to the hushed chatter of a room of students, parents, professors and staff in the Whittenberger Auditorium. “I try to make my talks SEE MAXWELL, PAGE 10
The IU Crimson Cheerleaders are considered the gold standard in the world of all-girl collegiate cheerleading. For the fifth time in the last six years, the Crimson team was awarded the Division 1-A All-Girl National Championship. The honor came after IU finished in first place at the 2017 Universal Cheerleaders Association and Universal Dance Association College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship, which took place this past weekend in Orlando, Florida. Senior Hayley Daniel has now won three national titles with the Crimson team and credited an improved routine with helping give IU an edge in this year’s national championship. “We stepped out of our comfort zone a little this year,” Daniel said.
“The speed of our routine was one of our biggest wow factors. Doing difficult skills at an extremely fast pace and making them look easy is super impressive.” IU Cheerleading Program Coach Julie Horine stressed an increase in the entertainment vttalue of the team’s performance as a reason for its success. “Our assistant head coach, Tony Nash, created the routine and really spent some time trying to be one step ahead,” Horine said. “The routine was much faster than in years past, and we had more structure components than the average team as well.” After finishing in second place at the 2015 national championship the Crimson team has now brought home consecutive national titles for the first time since 2014. The team has also finished in second place or better at every national championship since 2011. SEE CHEERLEADING, PAGE 10
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Jack Schmit, left, said he was interested to hear about Latin American history from a different perspective because he knew Aaron Fountain, the speaker, has a different cultural background. Stephanie Huezo, right, studied Latin American history and wanted to hear more about the history of Latino urban riots at the "U.S. Latino Urban Riots and Social Unrest" event at La Casa.
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Set up in the front corner of the La Casa Latino Cultural Center, Aaron G. Fountain Jr. presented information on Latino urban riots to a small crowd. Fountain is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at IU. He created an interactive map with data he collected on the history of Latino urban riots. The map provides users with newspaper clippings, photographs and information about riots from 1966 to the present. “I used the term ‘riot’ because ‘riot’ indicated anarchy and chaos,” Fountain said at the beginning of his presentation. Fountain said he created the map because he wanted
to find the historical context for Latino urban riots. He said the context is necessary because many people deny the existence of any even though he believes differently. He said he found 114 incidents, most in Puerto Rican communities. The project took several months to compile and complete. The first event that Fountain cited in his presentation was the 1966 Division Street Riots that took place in Chicago. According to Fountain’s presentation the riots were a surprise to many. “Chicago treated Puerto Ricans as model minorities,” Fountain said. This notion of being a model minority was persistent across the United States and caused a lot of unrest
among Puerto Rican communities, he said. After many Puerto Rican riots the perceptions surrounding them as a minority have changed, he said. Prior to the riots in the 1970’s, Puerto Ricans were considered a model minority, whereas after they were seen as being no different from African-Americans at the time, Fountain said. “What you see throughout these riots are feelings of invisibility,” Fountain said in his presentation. As for the possibilities of riots occurring again Fountain said there have been seven near riots in the United States in the last 10 years. He said there are still areas, like Philadelphia, that are possible places of further unrest due to high rates of
poverty. In the question-and-answer section a student present in the audience asked a question regarding the future of Latino riots under Trump’s presidency. “If they do happen, they will probably happen very infrequently, but not at the same rate as in the ’70s,” Fountain responded. Graduate student Jasmin McCray sat in on Fountain’s presentation for a class and said she wanted to expand her base of knowledge on Latino history. “It made me realize that we never really talk about Latino history in class,” McCray said. “I felt like he knew a lot of information, so it was really cool that he was able to remember all those dates and information.”
Literary scholar to give lectures on digitization, art From IDS reports
Literary scholar and advocate for digital humanity scholarship Franco Moretti will be presenting two lectures Jan. 24 and 26 at IU. Moretti is a professor in the humanities at Stanford University, the founder of the Center for the Study of the Novel, and founder and director of the Stanford Literary Lab. He founded the literary lab in 2010 as a way to analyze literature and past
documents using statistics and computational methods, according to an IU press release. He is also the author of seven books and the editor for a five-volume encyclopedia. Moretti’s visit is sponsored by the William T. Patten Foundation, which invites writers, researchers and authors to IU for a week long visit where they present their work. An IU alumnus, William Patten endowed the
foundation with a gift of funds to enable the foundation to bring scholars like Moretti to IU, Moretti according to the press release. Moretti will give his first lecture on the digitization of literary archives and novels 7:30-9 p.m. Jan. 24 in Presidents Hall at IU. His second lecture will also take place in Presidents Hall on Jan. 26 at
Franco Moretti Free 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Jan. 24 and Jan. 26, President’s Hall the same time. Moretti will talk about the painting and artwork of Aby Warburg and help the audience to gain a new understanding of how different emotional states can affect painting. Dominick Jean
Trans-activist, gender theorist to speak at auditorium From IDS reports
Longtime trans activist and author Kate Bornstein will be speaking at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Whittenberger Auditorium on a number of different topics, such as identity, sexuality and gender. Bornstein has been exploring issues of gender for many years. According to the official Facebook event page, Bornstein recently made an appearance on an episode
of “I Am Cait,” a reality show following Caitlyn Jenner. Bornstein does not identify strictly as a woman or a man. In other words, she is gender non-conforming and she/her pronouns are acceptable. In addition to her activism, performance art and TV appearance Bornstein is the author of several books. In 1994, she published “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us,” a book about gender theory and
Bornstein’s own experiences. In 2012 Bornstein released a memoir titled “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir,” another book featuring her experiences as a transgender person. Gender isn’t the only identity Bornstein has explored intimately and personally. Danielle Hernandez, an IU graduate assistant at the LGBTQ+ Culture Center, said Bornstein also speaks to the intersectionality a person can have with multiple
Kate Bornstein Free 7 p.m. Wednesday, Whittenberger Auditorium religious identities. She said Borstein is Jewish but also practiced Scientology for a while before leaving the church. Bornstein will also remain after the lecture to answer questions. Lyndsay Jones
IU arts and humanities festival to begin in February From IDS reports
IU will be home to the largest Chinese arts and culture festival in the Midwest starting February this year, according to an IU press release. The inaugural Global Arts and Humanities Festival will begin this spring and is called “China Remixed: Arts and Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Culture.” The event is sponsored by the IU Bloomington Arts and Humanities Council along with several other organizations on campus. The event will feature Chinese authors, musicians, exhibits, films and more. According to the press release, the event is intended to highlight the international aspect of IU’s campus. “The Bloomington campus attracts creativity from all corners of the globe,” said Lauren Robel, IU provost and executive vice president, in a press release. “China Remixed’ launches into the stratosphere from that base and gives our entire com-
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Grammy Award-winning musician Wu Man holds her pipa. Students from the Jacob's School of Music will perform with her March 31.
munity an unparalleled opportunity to become immersed in the work of some of today’s finest Chinese and Chinese-American artists and thinkers.” Every spring semester the event will highlight a new country’s or region’s art and culture. All events for this semester, which number more than 40, will be free to the public. Some guests include graphic novelist and MacArthur fellow Gene Luen Yang, novelist Ha Jin, Grammy-winning musician
Wu Man, comedian Joe Wong and others. The 2017 festival will be focusing on modern cultural aspects of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the ChineseAmerican community within the United States, according to the release. “China was a natural choice for our first Global Arts and Humanities Festival,” said Ed Comentale, chair of the IU Bloomington Arts and Humanities Council. “Chinese students and Chinese faculty have made countless contributions to
IU’s history and success. The festival reaches into every corner of the campus and highlights the many ways we facilitate dialogue and exchange between cultures.” IU students will also have an opportunity to collaborate with students from Chinese universities. Students in the IU Contemporary Dance Program will perform with 22 students from Taipei National University of the Arts on Feb. 24. The New Music Ensemble from Jacob’s School of Music will join Wu Man, a world-renowned pipa player, March 31 for a performance. Chinese students, with the assistance of chef Dave Tallent, will translate their family recipes and offer the food at IU’s First Thursdays event April 6. The food will be served on the Arts Plaza. According to the release, IU has 2,800 Chinese students on campus, and they make up 45 percent of the international population.
For the third monthly Bloomington Faculty Council meeting in a row UndocuHoosier Alliance made its presence known. About 20 supporters silently lined the back of President’s Hall and held signs in support of the alliance’s mission to make IU a sanctuary campus — a place protecting undocumented students from deportation. Holding signs that said, “MAKE IU SAFE AGAIN,” “Education Not Deportation” and “Make America Educated, Immigrants are Already Great,” supporters expressed concern about the rhetoric of Presidentelect Donald Trump. UndocuHoosier Alliance supporters expressed fears of the effect unknown policies implemented after Trump’s inauguration might have on students attending IU with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status. DACA protects undocumented children brought to the United States in renewable two-year periods. Anni Liu, a DACA graduate student, briefly shared her story with the BFC. Liu expressed the importance of providing information and resources to undocumented students at IU. “It will help destigmatize undocumented people,” Liu said. “It will encourage people to come out of the shadows, ask for help and create a community.” As a student-teacher and frequent communicator with other undocumented students, she expressed concerns for graduate students who may feel uncomfortable sharing their undocumented status when applying for student-teaching positions given the current political climate. While Provost Lauren Robel said the University does not require IU students to identify themselves, Liu noted concerns associated with graduate students who are federally required to provide right-to-work identification upon applying for positions as student-teachers. “For DACA students, those are our DACA papers,” Liu said. “So for anyone at that level who would be teaching or employed by the University there is someone in the University who knows.” Robel acknowledged these concerns and thanked UndocuHoosier Alliance for acting as a conduit between the administration and undocumented students who may feel uncomfortable sharing their stories. “The difficulty that our students are presenting here today is a real one,” Robel said. “It is a very, very uncertain time for our undocumented students.” In this first of multiple attempts to speak
at BFC’s monthly meetings, UndocuHoosier Alliance representatives were scheduled for 10 minutes to make their case for why a proposed BFC resolution should be passed to protect undocumented students if the Trump administration follows through on promises to revoke DACA. Given the last 15 minutes of Tuesday night’s meeting, UndocuHoosier Alliance outlined a tiered list of propositions. One proposed funding a new graduate assistant within the Office of International Student Services to specialize in undocumented student support. Another requested to increase the number of undocumented students recruited at IU through a joint La Casa Latino Cultural Center-Office of International Student Services program. In his address to BFC UndocuHoosier Alliance leader Willy Palomo made clear the alliance’s proposed resolution was to be seen as a starting point for further conversation. “We would love it if the BFC could support all of these resolutions, but we understand that there might be hesitancy on the part of some faculty members that would like to engage in conversation around now about the resolutions and which ones we can support right now,” Palomo said. No resolutions were passed in Tuesday night’s meeting, which led to some disappointment among the UndocuHoosier Alliance. “Ideally we would have wanted something more definite,” Liu said. Members of UndocuHoosier Alliance took part in a similar silent rally at last month’s BFC meeting without being given the opportunity to state their platform. UndocuHoosier Alliance previously met with Robel after submitting its proposal to President Michael McRobbie in November. Cut off by the BFC’s scheduled end time, the council unanimously agreed to resume conversation with UndocuHoosier Alliance at the next BFC Executive Council meeting Jan. 31. “Most of the faculty members here are in support of undocumented students,” Palomo said. Palomo will continue to work toward smaller resource-based projects leading up to the Jan. 31 meeting. Until then, members of the UndocuHoosier Alliance will be faced with making sense of what is expected to be a drastically different president administration taking office for the next four years. “Friday kind of looms large for those of us with DACA,” said Liu, speaking to the council. “We’re concerned with how and if we are going to be able to work and continue our education.”
CORRECTION In an article published Friday regarding the “Roots to Wings” contemporary dance concert, José Limón was incorrectly named as one of the choreographers in the show. The Indiana Daily Student regrets the error.
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BPD releases final-quarter stats for 2016 By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans
In the last quarter of 2016, some tensions between police and citizens eased, as revealed in the statistics from the Bloomington Police Department’s most recent data reports. The data sets, released Thursday, complete BPD’s first year of reporting through the transparency- and research-focused White House Police Data Initiative. The information is divided into 12 data sets, which focus on statistics from hate crimes and use of force to BPD employee demographics and officer training data. The data is available at data.bloomington. in.gov. BPD Capt. Steve Kellams said he was proud of both the department’s data reportage, which he said he sees as leading the charge for such reporting and hopes will strengthen connections between the department and the public, and some of the particulars. Citizen complaints, for example decreased throughout the year. There were three in the first quarter, two in the second, one in the third and none last quarter, and the department had no officer-involved shootings for the entirety of the year. Citizen complaints can be filed. That data sets for those categories exist even when the department doesn’t see instances of them signifies BPD’s commitment to increased data transparency, Kellams said. “We’ve got those data sets there for when we do to let people know we’ll post them when they happen,” he said. Kellams was hesitant to provide interpretation on other statistics. Though panhandling complaints decreased slightly in the final quarter, at the same time, the department made an effort to subdue downtown panhandling. For example, he said it’d be impossible to guarantee BPD’s efforts caused the decrease. Injuries to suspects in useof-force situations also declined by half from 18 to nine from the third to fourth quarter, and total use-of-force situations decreased from 82 to 53, while the use of less-lethal technology in those situations doubled from 6 to 12. Kellams said he would like to chalk it up to good training, but he’s come to the conclusion that much of the police
world is cyclical and the types of crimes committed as well as the situations police find themselves in vary from season to season, he said. Kellams said these statistics can’t predict the future. “An effective and efficient result is a goal for all of our officers,” he said. “Less injuries could very well be a training thing, but sometimes there are situations you don’t have control over — other people push it to the point where de-escalation is no longer possible.” In addition to use-of-force statistics on injuries and lesslethal technology, the department reports demographic information. Among the eye-catching statistics: In 2016 more than a third — 76 of 207, or about 37 percent — of non-police parties involved in use of force situations were black. The rest were almost entirely white. Bloomington is overwhelmingly white — 83 percent of the population is white, and 4.6 percent is black, according to the 2010 census. Kellams was in no position to interpret that data, either, he said. However, it’s information he said he knows people want to have access to. “We provide the information,” he said. “That’s really all it’s there for. We make no elaboration about why we do it or what it’s there for or what to make of it.” The push for BPD’s involvement in the Data Initiative came largely from the mayor’s office, Kellams said. Posting the statistics lines up with the goals specified by the White House in its April 2016 press release detailing its progress on the data initiative, which intends to improve transparency, community trust and police accountability. One hundred twenty-nine jurisdictions, including 76 since April 2016, had signed on to the Data Initiative as of an October report from the Department of Justice. BPD was one of the earlier adopters and one of the smallest . By releasing extensive data sets easily accessed by the public, Kellams said he hopes Bloomington can be a leader in the initiative. “When you look at what other people have done and what we’ve done, we hope you’ll see we’re at the forefront of it,” he said. “It’s a way to break down those barriers and walls between us and the community.”
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Alpha Chi Sigma, a chemistry fraternity, teaches kids how to create electricity with lemons at its event Monday morning in the WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology. Stella Watts (left) and her brothers Harlan and Sawyer attach a Christmas light to the lemons and watch it light up.
WonderLab teaches kids chemistry By Brooke McAfee bemcafee@indiana.edu @bemcafee24601
Kids moved from station to station at WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology and crossed off a checklist as they extracted DNA from strawberries, watched the fizzy reaction of vinegar dissolving in a colorful mixture of baking soda, blue paint and glitter and held sheep brains in their hands. At one station kids turned on a small LED light using copper wires and nails attached to lemons. “This is crazy,” one kid said as he switched on the red light bulb. WonderLab’s “Scientist for a Day” event Monday was a collaboration with Alpha Chi Sigma, IU’s professional chemistry fraternity, to help children learn about scientific achievements and science they can do. As they played around with hands-on activities, the
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An IU student was arrested Monday after drunken exploits at Jimmy John’s allegedly ended in attacks against a police officer and an ambulance worker. Megan Hinds, 21, is charged with felony battery and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. At about 6:30 p.m. officers responded to a call from the sandwich shop at 430 E. Kirkwood Ave. about a woman trying to steal food, Bloomington Police Depart-
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profiling her because she was white and ugly, Kellams said. The arresting officer was also white, and the backing officer was white with some Hispanic heritage, Kellams said. Police determined Hinds was intoxicated enough to warrant calling an ambulance, Kellams said. While they waited, Hinds continued to verbally abuse the officers and eventually started striking and scratching them. The ambulance arrived to take her to IU Health Bloomington Hospital. En route she
began striking and scratching one of the ambulance personnel, Kellams said. She arrived at the hospital, and after she was checked out, she was taken to the Monroe County Correctional Center. She was still intoxicated when officers closed the call at 9:30 p.m. She is not charged with public intoxication or the theft of the food. Kellams said police do not know where she had been drinking. Jack Evans
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OPINION
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Editors Dylan Moore and Zack Chambers opinion@idsnews.com
EDITORIAL BOARD
WEEKLY WISDOM
Textbook prisoners Zack Chambers is a sophomore in business.
Ultimately, Trump voters will have to accept that they bear some complicit responsibility in the undesirable consequences they assumed they could overlook. The opposition, for its part, will have to reach out to those who would deny negative labels and invite them to support causes that protect what a Trump presidency might harm. Although it is not the responsibility of the disenfranchised to convince the privileged to care, we all have the ability to shape our nation’s future. As Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us, “The time is always right to do what is right.”
There is a social custom in this country that you should not pitch your product to a captive audience. Those that have nowhere else to go, generally, should not be hit up for sales. This concept was most obvious to me flying to Florida for winter break, when I watched the responses of my fellow airline passengers when the steward tried to sign us up for credit cards mid-flight. So if it is considered rude to try to make sales to a captive audience, it would stand to reason that it is the height of impropriety to force a captive audience to buy things from you, yet this goes on every semester at IU. This gross abuse became obvious to me this semester after attending the first week of classes and hearing from professors about how I must buy a specific textbook for the class. The textbook in question was, conveniently, written by the professor of the class I was in and published by the University. Arriving at TIS bookstore, I was greeted by a sticker informing me I would pay more than sixty dollars for a spiral-bound notebook. Kelley School of Business accounting classes require students to purchase this workbook new, one that looks suspiciously similar in both layout and content to ones from previous semesters. This is now the second semester that I have been forced to purchase books authored by the professor teaching the class. In Kelley’s A201: Introduction to Financial Accounting course, your grade in the class is in part determined by exercises in the book. So students are, in effect, a totally captive audience forced to engage in this forced sale. Only the university and the professors stand to profit from these transactions. IU needs to address this obvious conflict of interest. While there are obvious reasons a professor would want to use their own book to teach a class, the conflict is too great for the university not to take action. If professors insist on using their own books, the university should mandate that they be sold to students at cost. Professors have plenty of opportunities to make income off their books at other campuses, particularly if the material is good enough to be used in their own classrooms. This would be a powerful first step to take towards reigning in out of control textbook prices. There is no reason students should be spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars a semester on textbooks. We’re wasting money on supplies we don’t need and often will never even use. Many students’ freshman Calculus textbooks were put into a drawer or on a shelf on the first day of classes never to be opened again. In my experience, most textbook versions are the same as previous ones with a token amount of cosmetic changes. Compare what these textbooks cost to even the newest books. You will struggle to find bestsellers for over the thirty dollar mark at a normal book store. Professors have been allowed to abuse students and their checkbooks for entirely too long. Universities continue to allow it because they profit from publishing, but this era needs to come to an end. If IU is to be a place where knowledge is efficiently filtered to the next generation, it must cease being one where previous generations line their pockets at student expense.
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ILLUSTRATION BY MERCER T. SUPPIGER | IDS
Saying goodbye to Barack Obama Looking back on two terms of policy and poise under Obama’s presidency This Friday we will say goodbye to the 44th president of the United States. President Obama and his family will pack their bags and move out of the White House to make room for our incoming president. When Obama leaves, we will lose a professional, reasonable and polished man. Though the Editorial Board doesn’t agree with much of the policy enacted during Obama’s two terms, we admire the grace and professionalism with which he led our country. In short we feel the policies passed during Obama’s time in office were lacking. Marijuana is still a Schedule I drug, the United States dropped more than 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone, and Obama’s health
care law harms the lower middle class more than anyone else. “Obamacare” has not been a smooth ride. According to the Miami Herald, Consumers who were told they could keep their health care provider found that to be untrue, and the cost of insurance is going to continue to increase in 2017. People with preexisting conditions could more easily find coverage, but it’s still cheaper for poor families to pay the fine for not having coverage than to insure themselves. Under Obama we also expected a presidency that would foster peace in conflict-riddled areas of the world. He even said he would
end the war in Iraq on his first day in office. Though we have far fewer troops stationed there than we did during Bush’s presidency, the majority of those 26,000 bombs dropped in 2016 targeted Iraq and Syria. The Obama presidency was not as peaceful as we hoped it would be. Despite the problems in policy during Obama’s terms we unquestioningly admire his professionalism and poise. The Editorial Board fears that this air of civility will be lost on our next president. In the 2016 presidential election we saw some truly nasty remarks and actions from both the Republicans and the Democrats. President-elect Donald
Trump won his primary by bullying his peers and talking over everyone who disagreed with him, and Hillary Clinton’s laughable attempts to be relatable made everyone cringe. Think back to the 2008 and 2012 elections. They may seem comparatively boring when you pit them against our most recent presidential race, but the candidates involved showed much more respect for one another than we saw this past year. Obama didn’t win his elections based on ad-hominem attacks or deception. He won with civil debate and respect for the office. No one can argue with that. Throughout his entire
presidency, Obama was a funny, smooth, relatable and respectable figure. When he gave a speech, people earnestly wanted to listen. The U.S. is headed for a period of uncertainty. We aren’t sure what we are going to get during Trump’s presidency, and that frightens us, so we look at the professional attitude Obama had during his time in office, and we admire how he’s carried himself for the past eight years. Though much of his policy left something to be desired, Obama loves the U.S. and wanted to steer us in the right direction during his time as president. He respected the office and his peers, and for that we are grateful.
COZY UP WITH KATIE
The dangerous reality of upcoming virtual reality systems According to Forbes, virtual reality is arguably going to be one of the biggest tech crazes of 2017. It is also one of the most accessible because VR comes in a device — a cell phone — that more than half of the American population owns. VR experiences come as videos that you can view from all angles by moving the device around in different directions. There are many videos to choose and range from surfing to roller coaster rides. These videos are an incredible way to see how other people live and to see places you have never been before. But what some people seem to forget during the experience is the social aspect of VR. There isn’t one.
My first time using a VR headset was a couple months ago. I put the headset on and selected the Jungle Book. I started to see animals coming out from the shadows and walking closer to me. I tried to explain to my mom what I was seeing, but it wasn’t the same as experiencing it with her. That’s when I realized the biggest setback to the VR: it doesn’t allow us to share these experiences with others. We traded the headset back and forth and watched more videos, and each time it seemed to become increasingly lonelier. We were just sitting there and watching the other enjoy an experience that you couldn’t see. What the creators of the
VR missed is that reality is more than just pretty places and thrilling rides. It’s interaction, storytelling and memory-making. While the VR was enjoyable and it was fun to watch everyone respond to the different videos, when it was over, I felt a strange sense of loneliness. We could talk about the different things we saw in the videos, but we weren’t able to talk about any experiences that we shared. There was no connecting with one another. More than anything I felt the VR was giving us more individual memories and fewer shared memories for us to talk about together. As technology continues to advance and more developments are made towards improving VR, I worry that
the line between reality and virtual reality will become increasingly blurry. With shared experiences already nonexistent in VR, this can be a dangerous combination. Skinterface is a new product that allows individuals to wear a suit while experiencing a VR. The nodes on the suit send vibrations to different parts of your body to mimic the sensation of something touching you. At first I thought of all of the wonderful uses that this could have. I could be walking down the streets of New York City and feel people bumping up against me, or I could be running down the sidewalk and feel raindrops hitting me as I ran. When I was thinking about how adding the sen-
Kathryn Meier is a senior in journalism.
sation of touch could make VR better, I also realized how much damage it could do. In its current state, people using the VR can obviously tell that what they are seeing isn’t real, but with the addition of touch and other inevitable advancements, VR could become completely indistinguishable from reality. VR should never be used as a substitute for reality and could be dangerous in its future developments. While we should embrace new technology, we should also learn to tread carefully with VR. kkmeier@umail.iu.edu
KLEIN OF A BIG DEAL
We need to move from name-calling to nation-building Donald Trump will officially become president of the United States on Friday, and for one reason or another, there will be many people for whom his inauguration will be a thing of joy. Having watched their candidate rise to victory, those who took issue with what they viewed as the liberal agenda of identity politics likely now feel validated. These voters will, however, need to share blame if Trump’s policies disenfranchise groups of people. They chose a man who they felt could speak plainly and truthfully about American culture, and Trump’s supporters now feel they’ve taken a stand against elitists on the other side of the political spectrum who dared to insult them with
negative social labels. Among the many profiles of Trump voters various news organizations have published in an effort to illustrate these voters’ reasoning, a common thread of indignation at all of the so-called -ist labels emerges. People who voted for Trump don’t like being called sexists or racists primarily because they don’t believe they deserve to be described as such. Maybe they’re right. Many of them are decent people who argued that because no candidate is perfect, they could permit themselves to overlook whatever they found unappealing about the presidentelect and choose him instead of a supposedly even less appealing alternative. It is precisely that act of
overlooking, though, that so many who felt repulsed or marginalized by Trump struggled to understand. Many people couldn’t believe that this man’s indecency and insensitivity hadn’t barred their fellow citizens from supporting him. While it might be possible that the over-lookers would never individually treat women or people of color unjustly, many Americans who rejected Trump still viewed votes for him as a decision to tolerate a man whose administration would perpetuate such unjust treatment. Asking a person who opposed Trump to cease his or her usage of -ist words feels like asking a victim to accommodate an aggressor, yet, branding a person
who voted for him with such words can in some ways be reductive. When we decide what to do next, there has been talk of breaking out of social media echo chambers to foster conversations with people who hold different beliefs. Others have suggested that bickering factions should focus on what unites them in order to do work for the country rather than continuing to dig in their heels about what divides them. We should do those things. But what happens if they don’t work? You can’t very well expect that a survivor of sexual assault will smile on the decision of her neighbor to vote for a man who bragged about the power of his privilege to place him above concern for consent.
Madeline Klein is a sophomore in English.
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MOORE TO SAY
JORDAN RIVER FORUM
Arizona republicans calling for a safe space Two Republican lawmakers from Arizona are calling for a safe space from social justice ideals on university campuses and proving that even conservatives want to limit our free speech now. It’s sickening. State representatives Bob Thorpe and Mark Finchem recently proposed a bill that would essentially make it illegal for universities to sanction classes, student groups or events that single out a specific race. This ridiculously broad law would make it impossible to have clubs like a Black Student Alliance or teach a class on race relations between whites and Mexicans in America. Thorpe said he doesn’t want anyone to be blamed for the actions of their ancestors 200 years ago, so he doesn’t think it makes sense for to have groups that single out one race or ethnicity. He’s afraid of students being vilified because they are white Americans. I know some leftist extremists would probably try to make me feel guilty for my skin color, but those people are few and far between, not to mention the fact that no one even takes them seriously. Thorpe and Finchem are trying to suppress the freedoms of countless people in a laughable attempt to stop a problem that hardly exists. Freedom of speech is already dying on too many college campuses, but the calls to restrict what we can and cannot say generally come from the left. Apparently republicans want their turn to whine. We’re seeing two rightwing lawmakers attempt to create their own bastions of ignorance. I understand it’s gratifying when people agree with us. We’re humans — we
Dylan Moore is a sophomore in business and English.
want to feel validated and important — but if the only way that people like this can find validation is through silencing the opposition, you can count me out. Thorpe and Finchem probably don’t even understand the hypocrisy they’re displaying. If someone wanted universities to rid themselves of any pro-gun or prolife groups, I’m sure they would take offense. The marketplace of ideas is a sacred, integral part of American culture, and people who want it to end on our campuses make me feel physically ill. Universities pride themselves on offering us an enriching, enlightening experience. If we don’t combat ideas we hate with ones of our own, we don’t grow. I urge IU and all other colleges across the country to fight back against this sort of tyranny and to allow students to speak their minds freely without concern of government or university retribution. Student media, student advocacy, and student welfare all depend on our ability to speak freely about what we think. Many conservatives laugh at the idea of a safe space, but I wonder how many would agree with Thorpe and Finchem’s plan to abolish student groups and course options based on race. We need to come together as a nation and realize that freedoms of speech and expression trump anyone’s feelings. If you need a safe space, go home and lock your door until you’ve cooled off. Keep my university free. dylmoore@umail.iu.edu
REYNOLDS WRAP UP
Trump’s NATO remarks lack substance Whether leaving the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would benefit the United States and the world or not is uncertain. The issue presents many complexities, but the reasons President-elect Donald Trump gave in an interview published on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2017 with the Times of London, when he condemned the alliance, lacked conviction. In the interview, Trump revisited his thoughts concerning NATO and explained his first issue is that it is “obsolete because it was designed many, many years ago” and explains “it’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror.” This statement exhibits many errors in reasoning. NATO acted against terrorism in years past and is prepared to do so again in the future. NATO invoked Article 5 — the collective defense clause stating an attack against one ally is equal to an attack against all allies — only once since the alliance’s founding, and it came as a response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The invocation of Article 5 showed explicit support for the United States during a horrible time, so to say NATO did not assist in taking care of terror is simply untrue. Since September 11, 2001, NATO has launched operations such as Active Endeavor, which detects and deters terrorist threats in the Mediterranean Sea — the first ever operation of this kind. NATO also developed the Defence Against Terrorism Programme of Work, which mitigates terrorist attacks using developing technology. These are just two of NATO’s many actions to counter terrorism. In ad-
Sam Reynolds is a sophomore in business.
dition to these the alliance announced support to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, which the U.S. initiated and exists as a core strategy in the U.S.‘s efforts to end terrorism. Saying NATO is not combating terrorism while it directly acts in line with the U.S.‘s own counter-terrorism strategy is puzzling. Since the inception of DAT POW, the efforts have expanded to include active trials and exercises and research on technology to improve troop preparedness. Trump also said “countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to pay.” This remark is a much more salient argument against the organization. However, issues still exist with how he wants to handle the problem. Paying into NATO more than other countries is indeed a problem, but this problem alone does not warrant exiting NATO. Negotiations, for example, could solve this issue without drastic measures. Leaving NATO does not automatically result in money saved. Unfortunately, the complexity of this issue makes Trump’s comment difficult to analyze. While no easy answer exists to whether the United States should leave NATO, the comments made by Trump are ineffective. If Trump does indeed want to leave NATO, he must bring better explanations. Without a stronger argument exiting the alliance would be shortsighted and clearly not well thought-out. sareynol@umail.iu.edu
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Take college courses to challenge yourself and grow For those who read my previous letter to the editor on Thanksgiving, I neglected to mention what I am thankful for. I am extremely thankful to be a student at IU receiving an education about the world. While I am focusing now on understanding the natural world in the pursuit of my dream to attend medical school and grow more amazed with the human body every day, I will never forget the knowledge about the social world my political science major afforded me. I just completed the last necessary class and wish to persuade all fellow IU students to take advantage of classes that introduce them to an aspect of the world with which they are unfamiliar. In the last two years I have taken International Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics, Eastern European Politics, Russian Foreign Policy, 4th Semester Urdu — the native language of Pakistan — a senior seminar on Nuclear Weapons and International Strategy, Organic Chemistry 1, and General Physics 1. I graduated high school an unapologetic liberal with a narrow interest in learning and even entering American politics.
I told my parents, who are immigrants from Pakistan, that I was not interested in learning about my roots and did not want to learn my ancestral language. Having won a few awards in speech and debate — a fond high school memory — I was sure that law school was my calling. Science was something I saw as superfluous to my goals in life. Oh, how that all changed. In International Comparative Politics I learned about the distinct democratic systems of Europe. In Middle East Politics, I was given an introduction to the sad Israel-Palestine conflict and a glimpse into how to overcome the obstacles. In Russian Foreign Policy, I learned an incredible amount about Russia, the Cold War, and the recent “assertive” trend of Putin which has lead him to be the Times Most Powerful Person. Needing a language credit, I decided to capitalize on my decent working knowledge of Urdu (a language closely related to Hindi) and discovered a tradition of beautiful poetry in my ancestral tongue. In my senior seminar on nuclear strategy, I learned about the reasons why the lands of Pakistan and India (I have descent from both
countries) have become such bitter enemies and why, contrary to the opinion of some international scholars, nuclear weapons have stabilized South Asia and actually prevented major conventional wars such as those of 1948, 1965 and 1971. In Organic Chemistry, I learned why a slight variation in the three-dimensional structure of a drug can convert it from being helpful to a deadly toxin — e.g. Thalidomide. In General Physics, I learned about the orbit of satellites, that in an elevator going down a scale would show that we have lost weight, and the rate of blood flow in capillaries can be calculated from the rate of flow through an artery. Aside from developing an unusual interest in both science and politics, I learned my view of the law was naive. I have grown to view politics as useful to ensuring people’s rights but useless in improving the actual daily lives of people. I see medicine as a life path that can give me the great honor of alleviating suffering on a daily basis. My initial learning toward liberalism was due to a desire to reduce poverty in America. I now know my ancestral countries of Paki-
stan and India need educated and sincere people to return and work to feed, house, educate and empower those who live in the abject poverty I referred to in my previous article. I came to college seeking to be a lawyer and a man of America. I now seek to combat disease as a physician and spend my later years helping the poor in Pakistan and India. Without my academic experience at IU, I would never have attained these goals. I would be ignorant about the world and indifferent to the suffering of those in developing nations. I implore fellow students to realize that academics should never be boring. We should study what we enjoy. We must open our eyes to the world around us. Rather than searching for a blow-off class to fill a requirement, I ask that you carefully search and find a class that teaches you about an aspect of the world to which you are ignorant. By doing so, you might even find a new purpose in life. If not, you will at least realize that we are not just citizens of America but human beings in a diverse and amazing world. Kamran Zahid Bloomington
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Seperating money and state with cryptocurrency Every time the market value of Bitcoin drops as measured by its exchange value against government fiat currencies, the same people who declared it dead last time and the time before that come out of the woodwork to declare it dead again. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency, which just celebrated its eighth birthday, once again finds itself surrounded by priests offering it last rites and callers asking the Make-a-Wish Foundation to offer it a trip to Disney. Its price took a precipitous 10 percent fall after the Chinese central bank announced inspections of the country’s Bitcoin-related businesses. As usual Bitcoin naysayers are missing the forest for the trees. Why is the Chinese regime attacking Bitcoin?
They’re afraid of it, and they should be. Chinese investors are moving capital out of the country’s fiat currency, the renminbi/yuan, and out of sight of — which means beyond the control of — the People’s Bank of China. Governments aren’t going after Bitcoin because it’s bad. They’re going after it because it’s good. It threatens their monopolies on money and their abilities to tax. Yes, Bitcoin prices remain volatile. That’s unsurprising. As I write this, all the Bitcoin in the world, if sold at once at the current price, would bring in about $12.5 billion. That may sound like a lot, but it really isn’t. One single corporation, Apple, is about 50 times the size of the Bitcoin marketplace, with a current market capitalization of $633 billion.
When Apple’s market cap fell quickly and by more than 10 percent at the end of 2015 and again last April, I don’t remember anyone declaring Apple dead. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by nearly 30 percent in October and November of 2008 people were certainly worried, but not many considered it a sign the United States’ economy was on its deathbed. As with the Dow and Apple a few big players can certainly rock the Bitcoin boat, but rocking that boat and sinking it aren’t the same thing. One way Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can reduce their own volatilities while increasing their exchange values is by reducing the ability of nation-states to be among those big boat-
rocking players. In the last few years there’s been ongoing and often fiery debate among cryptocurrency creators, users and advocates as to whether or not they should willingly subject themselves to government regulation and oversight. As entities like the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the People’s Bank of China take increased interest in Bitcoin, those debates will presumably settle on the correct answer and the technology will follow suit. That correct answer, in case you hadn’t guessed, is “no.” The more quickly and completely we separate money and state, the better off humanity will be. Thomas L. Knapp The William Lloyd Garrison Center
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ARTS Editor Sanya Ali arts@idsnews.com
Honoring David Baker Weekend events celebrating life of jazz professor will include panel discussion, concert By Sarah Gardner |
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF IU ARCHIVES
Top David Baker, a former writer, composer and IU professor, poses in his studio in the 1970s. Middle An IU News Bureau release dated Nov. 18, 1982, accompanies this image. It reads, in part: “James Pellerite and David Baker go over the score for Baker’s ‘Concerto for Flute and Jazz Band,’ which Pellerite will perform with the IU Jazz Ensemble, Monday, Nov. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center...”” Bottom An IU News Bureau release dated March 5, 1980, accompanies this image. It reads, in part: “They prepare for a concert featuring the bass at 8:30 p.m.Monday, March 10, in the Indiana University Bloomington Recital Hall.”
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he life and career PANEL DISCUSSION of David Baker, a Free prolific jazz musi- 2 p.m. Saturday, MAC Lobby cian, composer and IU professor, will be CONCERT celebrated this Saturday in the Free Musical Arts Center with a panel 7 p.m. Saturday, MAC discussion and a concert of his work. Baker, who founded the Ja- 31, 2003. “It’s really important cobs School of Music’s Jazz Stud- to be able to play for the people ies Program, died last March at who are so close to me.” One of his more unusual age 84. “The thing about Baker is that compositions was the “Conhe was incredibly prolific and certino for Cellular Phones and not just in one area,” said Tom Orchestra,” which he wrote for Walsh, the current chair of the the Chicago Sinfonietta’s 20th jazz studies department. “He anniversary. It incorporated the was what you might call a Re- sound of a ringing phone, usualnaissance man. He was a trom- ly a distraction in a concert hall, bonist, he took up the cello, and into the music. Baker’s most well-known he’s written so much music.” During his life, Baker was a style of music was his thirdstream jazz, jazz master of which comthe National bines eleEndowment for “There is nothing ments of both the Arts, a Pulitquite as satisfying as jazz and claszer Prize nomiplaying for friends, sical music, nee, a Grammy colleagues and the Walsh said. nominee and Baker wrote an Emmy people who have for all kinds of winner. been fans for years. groups from He was inIt’s really important small jazz ducted into bands to symjazz halls of to be able to play for phony orchesfame, presentthe people who are tras. ed awards for so close to me.” Baker also his teaching cofounded the and given five David Baker, former IU professor, composer and jazz musician, said Smithsonian honorary docin an IDS article from July, 31, 2003 Jazz Mastertorates. He is works Orchesthe reason stutra, which he dents can study conducted and directed for 22 jazz at IU. Saturday’s celebration will years around the nation and the feature a panel discussion at 2 world. Baker was the chair of IU’s p.m. in the MAC lobby. Baker’s daughter, April Ayers; his biogra- jazz studies department from pher, Monika Herzig; Brent Wal- 1968 to 2013. He often taught larab; Luke Gillespie and several four or five classes every semesother former students will speak ter, retired ethnomusicology about different aspects of Baker’s professor Portia Maultsby said. “He was a very dedicated life and music. There will be a concert of man and such a giving profesBaker’s work at 7 p.m. Saturday, sor,” Maultsby said. “He was full and IU President Michael A. of innovative ideas in his comMcRobbie will speak. The first position and his teaching, which half of the concert will feature was certainly an experience every one of Baker’s classihis students cal music with a cherished.” string ensemble “The thing about Wallarab, a and a classical Baker is that he was former student trio -- piano, incredibly prolific of Baker’s and violin and cello a musician in -- and the secand not just in one the Smithsoond half will be area. He was what nian jazz ora performance you might call a chestra, said of some of BakBaker was one er’s jazz music, Renaissance man. the kindplayed by both He was a trombonist, of est but most small and large he took up the cello, demanding jazz groups. teachers he “The music and he’s written so knew. he wrote, the much music.” “He held music we’ll be Tom Walsh, the current chair of himself to a playing and the jazz studies department very high stanhearing Saturdard and held day, is for everyus to that high body,” Wallarab said. “So much contemporary standard, too,” Wallarab said. music is hard to understand if “He worked us hard, but it was you haven’t studied it, but Baker because if we were going to go meant for his music to be en- out into the world with our mujoyed by all people. And it really sic, he knew we needed to know and love and respect the history is joyful to listen to.” Baker began his career as a and tradition of jazz.” Baker’s presence alone drew trombone player, but after a car accident injured his jaw and many students to IU. Former stumade it difficult to play his in- dent Gillespie, now a jazz piano professor at IU, said he came to strument he became a cellist. Later in his career Baker was IU specifically because of Bakwell-known for his composing. er, who encouraged Gillespie He is credited with writing more to pursue jazz and classical than 2,000 pieces of music and degrees. “Berklee College of Music in often composed pieces for specific faculty members at Jacobs, Boston was known for jazz, and Juilliard in New York City was Walsh said. “Ultimately there is noth- known for classical, but finding ing quite as satisfying as playing a school that had a strong curfor friends, colleagues and the riculum in both jazz and claspeople who have been fans for sical music was extremely difyears,” Baker said in an Indiana ficult,” Gillespie said. “So I owe Daily Student article from July everything to David Baker.”
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Hoosiers to face improved Nittany Lions By Andrew Hussey aphussey@indiana.edu @thehussnetwork
After picking up its second Big Ten conference win, IU men’s basketball is headed east looking to notch its first road victory of the season at Penn State. Penn State is 3-2 in Big Ten Conference play for the first time since 2010-11, and the Nittany Lions are 11-7 overall. They have won seven of their 10 home games so far this season. “I think they are better this year,” junior guard Rob Johnson said. “They are definitely playing faster. They got more guys, so they have a little more depth, so I think they’re a better team.” Playing at Penn State has been a challenge for IU in recent years. The Hoosiers suffered one of their three conference losses last season at the Nittany Lions’ Bryce Jordan Center. “Last year they popped us because we didn’t come in there with the right mindset,” IU Coach Tom Crean said on his radio show on WHCC 105.1 FM. “On a veteran team we did not come in there with the right mindset of knowing that we were going to be in a fight that day. If we don’t go into this game with the mentality
IU (12-6) at Penn State (11-7) 7 p.m., Wednesday University Park, Penn. that we are going to be in a fight in this game, then it will happen to us again.” In recent weeks, Penn State freshman forward Mike Watkins has been one of Penn State’s best players. He took home Big Ten co-Freshman of the Week last week for the second time this year. Watkins is a huge threat on the boards and ranks only behind Purdue’s sophomore Caleb Swanigan in rebounds in conference play with 9.8. “We have to be aggressive with him when he has the ball in the post and the pick-and-roll,” Crean said on his radio show. “The biggest thing is we have to keep him off the glass because he is coming off a 15-rebound game.” Junior guard Shep Garner is Penn State’s leading scorer. He averages 12.4 points per game. He is also Penn State’s leading shot taker with 10.7 shots per game. Junior forward Payton Banks is Penn State’s best 3-point shooter and is shooting just less than 40 percent from beyond the arc. Crean said he is im-
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Junior guard Robert Johnson passes around a Rutgers defender to sophomore forward OG Anunoby. The Hoosiers beat the Scarlet Knights, 76-57. The win was the Hoosiers’ second Big Ten win, and IU will look to make it an even 3-3 in the conference against Penn State on Wednesday.
pressed by how Penn State Coach Pat Chambers has improved recruiting and increased the talent level in recent years. “They are a deep team, and by deep, I mean when he goes to the bench — in
the past with Penn State, at times when he would go to the bench, you could see a difference,” Crean said on his radio show. “When he goes to the bench now, you don’t see a difference. I think that is a tribute to what he
has done in his recruiting.” Against a deep team like Penn State, IU is going to have its hands full to get to .500 in the Big Ten. “You’ve got to take it one game, one possession at a time, especially when you’re
going on the road,” Johnson said. “Every possession matters, and we have to come with a really strong mindset from the beginning of the game, so that’s something we have to do well this time around.”
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After early success IU optimistic for success in 2017 By Austin Ghirardelli aghirard@imail.iu.edu | @a_ghirardelli
The IU men’s track and field team is off to a hot start early in the 2016-17 season. The Hoosiers started the season in December with the Hoosier Open. After a lengthy time off for break IU returned to the track in January and won both duals it has competed in so far. IU defeated Tennessee last week and its rival Purdue this past weekend by a final score of 93-41. IU Coach Ron Helmer said he wants to get his team back to winning championships and competing at the highest level. He said the team’s goal for this season is to finish inside the top three of the Big Ten. “We would hope to have the ability to go into an
NCAA championship meet and be a top-20 team and ultimately a top-10 team on a regular basis,” Helmer said. “It takes one or two great athletes to do that, and right now, our athletes that have the ability to go to a national meet and score six to 10 points as an individual are still young.” Helmer said these are things IU has accomplished previously, but they have not been accomplished in the past few years. The last time the men’s team won the Big Ten Championship was in 2012. “I feel like we’ve finally put enough talent into place that we can start doing that again,” Helmer said. “We always have eight to 10 athletes who are going to perform on a high level every time out, but it’s that next
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Hoosiers back in competitive mode after invitational By Dylan Wallace wallacedyl1@gmail.com | @dwall_1
The Varsity Tennis Center was the host of this weekend’s Winter Invitational. The Hoosiers welcomed Abilene Christian, Marquette and Colorado to town to compete in the invitational in a match where score wasn’t kept and winning didn’t matter. “We accomplished our goal of trying to get back into that competitive mode,” IU Coach Ramiro Azcui said. “Everybody came in healthy and by putting them in a lot of matches over the course of the weekend, the competitive spirit was brought back out of them. It was a great start to the spring season.” The question still remains about who is going to be the consistent doubles teams throughout the season. Due to each player’s different style, Azcui said the team will be switching up combinations throughout the season. One doubles team that has proven to be successful thus far is the tandem of senior Kim Schmider and sophomore Madison Appel. During the fall season they compiled a record of 11-1 and added a 5-1 record this weekend. “We are very different in terms of people on the court,” Schmider said. “We both know our roles. She brings the
energy, which helps me out, and she does a good job setting me up at the net.” On the second day the sophomore-senior combo had two tough matches against two teams from Abilene Christian. Both matches went to tiebreaker, but they were able to prevail 8-7 in both. “We love how Kim and Madison are playing, so it’s going to be hard to split up a good doubles team,” Azcui said. “We have to work with the rest of the personnel to try to come up with better combinations.” Schmider, who usually specializes in doubles, went 2-0 during the weekend in singles play as well. “I’m now playing more aggressively and I was just really chill on the court and was having fun,” Schmider said. “I think having that mental state helped me play better.” As for the rest of team, the Hoosiers finished with a 11-14 record in the doubles matches and 9-7 in the singles matches. “It was weird getting back on the court and back into that competitive mode,” Schmider said. “I feel like the team did a really good job and we all fought really hard in the tough matches. I think we are ready for the dual matches to start, and this was a good preparation for it.”
eight to 10 people that need to start doing their job and pulling their weight. I’m starting to see more and more of those people having prepared better and are able to make a bigger contribution than they have in the past.” Helmer said he had stressed the importance of winning during the offseason. He said he would like to start focusing on that more throughout the year to help fix the overall mindset of the team, including the coaching staff. “I told my coaches that I wanted them to coach skill,” Helmer said. “I wanted them to coach strength, I wanted them to coach speed, and I wanted them to coach fitness, but above all else, I wanted them to coach winning. There is a process, but
then there is also the result. The process is great, but it has to lead us to the result and that result has got to be winning.” The athletes have responded to Helmer’s preseason message by winning every meet they’ve competed in this year. The Hoosiers have earned their victories thanks to a balanced scoring effort in both track and field events. There are only eight seniors on this team, but Helmer said he still believes they are the leaders. The senior trio of sprinter Diquis Manley, hurdler Adrian Mable and long distance runner Mark Chandler are all Indiana natives and have been around for at least three seasons. “The older guys aren’t going anywhere,” Helmer said.
“They have a lot of time and experience under their belts. Our older kids are still the leaders of the locker room. They set the tone, but respect is respect. Our older kids respect these kinds of efforts from the young ones.” The young ones are the 29 freshmen and sophomores that account for more than half of the team. Many of them have already found success early on. Sophomores Bryce Millar, Eric Bethea, Treyton Harris and Willie Morrison and freshman Kyle Mau have all won at least one event this year. “They are there and they are lurking,” Helmer said. “That’s exactly what you need — the young ones who are willing and able to take on a little bit of that burden to relax some of the older ones.”
There is plenty of room for optimism with a young roster like IU’s. The Hoosiers have already been successful this season and are currently ranked No. 1 in the initial dual meet rankings. Coach Helmer said he believes success like this will hopefully lead to a greater level of progression once his young kids develop more physically. “I don’t know if we can get there this year, but we need to get closer to getting there so that as we grow, people will start to believe that it is coming,” Helmer said. “They’re seeing it, they’re feeling it, but we’re not quite there yet. Right now, we just have to wait for some of those young guys to fully develop. They need to enjoy the contributions they’ve made in the overall team effort.”
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Artist plans event at I. Fell By Sanya Ali siali@indiana.edu | @siali13
Artist Amy Burrell’s installation work has decorated the walls and tables at I. Fell Gallery throughout January, and the popularity of her first interactive event has inspired another night of creation and photography. Burrell’s exhibitions will be showcased at an event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. During that time attendees can craft faux flowers into crown shapes, model them for photos and hang their coats on a moving art piece. Burrell, as member of the As Good As Mine collective, said the headdress portion of the exhibition, titled “#YourGoddessIsAsGoodAsMine,” is similar to a past interactive display she did with a photographer friend when she was pursuing an MFA at IU. “I created garments, people put them on and what we were interested in was how people change how they act, how they feel, when they put certain garments on,” Burrell said. As a massage therapist, Burrell said she deals a lot with the connections between subconscious and unconscious desires, and that for her those desires often play into how she designs her interactive pieces. When she was thinking about this exhibition in particular, Burrell said she was drawn to photos of Ukrainian flower headdresses and found a childhood connection. Though not expressly
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Nicole Ribeiro, Lena Weber, Isla Weber will be participants in the #YourGoddessIsAsGoodAsMine event that is coming in June.
political in her art, Burrell said she hopes the politics of the weekend with the inauguration inspire women and men to come out and try on the headdresses. “With all the political stuff, too, there was this desire to kind of empower women and not women that are like men — women that are feminine and bring out this idea of beauty,” Burrell said. “Flowers in the hair belong to so many cultures and have so many different meanings. It’s elevating.” The other installation Burrell created, called the
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”Pendurador,” sits at the front of I. Fell and is comprised of a collection of hangers on hooks and rope that are designed for attendees to hang their coats. This installation was inspired by Burrell’s time as a fine arts student, when she said she noticed people did not have space to hang up their coats in the gallery before her textile show. “The idea was that you enter the gallery to take the outside off, and come into this more magical or art space where other things can happen,” Burrell said. “I also had
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this clear idea that I wanted people to have to look up, to physically move their bodies, find the hanger, lower the hanger. The two installations come from different areas of inspiration, but connect under a theme of identity. “People come in, take their outside layer or shell off, then they go into this space and put on this kind of beautiful, different kind of persona and get their photo taken while in the gallery,” Burrell said. “Then, on their way back out, they go back to who they are normally.”
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‘What Alice Forgot’ traverses ideas of what is possible For my first book of the semester I wanted to choose a relatively easy read that I already had on hand or, well, on my Kindle. “What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty proved to be the perfect choice for me to return to reading again. The novel follows the story of Alice, who suffers from temporary amnesia after falling off an exercise bike during a spin class. Instead of simply forgetting a few minor details about her life, 39-year-old Alice cannot remember anything that has happened in the last 10 years. In the beginning of the novel Alice awakes from what she assumes is a dream and believes herself to be a goofy, easygoing, newly pregnant wife. Instead, she is shocked to discover she is now an ambitious, somewhat uptight mother of three going through a divorce. This book became much more enjoyable once I stopped questioning the plausibility of the story. Although the story is unbelievable, Moriarty’s candid writing style and use of humor kept me engaged. While the story focuses on Alice, Moriarty also provides insight into the life of her sister Elisabeth and her stand-in grandmother Frannie, who came into Alice’s life after the early death of Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —
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her father. Elisabeth’s point of view comes from diary entries she writes as homework for her therapist, while Frannie writes to a former fiancé who passed away years ago. Although I especially liked reading from Elisabeth’s point of view, it was confusing at first to read them because neither the diary entries nor letters were directly connected to Alice. Although Alice’s struggles are those of an affluent, privileged woman, Moriarty does touch on deeper topics such as loss, divorce and infertility issues. What struck me while reading the novel is also what struck Alice after she lost her memory — how much her current relationships changed in 10 years. Overall the book was breezy and cheerful but not to a fault. I often find my mind wandering while reading, which is probably a side-effect of being a part of the generation raised on social media, but I was finally able to lose myself in a book again. It might be a little early for some to start a spring break reading list, but this book is perfect for a beach read or even a long weekend. kchrisco@ius.edu and clear new space for creating what’s next. Hide out and consider what you want to generate. Discover options. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Your friends are your inspiration. Have fun on committees, at parties and at social gatherings. Sidestep a controversy with diplomatic humor. Smile with grace and tact.
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State legislators applaud as Gov. Eric Holcomb enters to give his address. The State of the State address took place Tuesday night at the Indiana Statehouse.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We staked this territory out. It’s a proper investment.” In addressing the need to tackle Indiana’s drug epidemic, Holcomb offered several potential solutions. He reiterated his announcement to appoint Jim McClelland as executive director for drug prevention, treatment and enforcement. McClelland also said he hopes to give county officials the authority to establish their own syringe exchange programs. Pelath said he was happy to hear Holcomb discuss the drug epidemic and talk about it pragmatically. It was a big change from his predecessor, Mike Pence, who Pelath said didn’t talk about the issue at all. Senate President Pro Tempore David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said handing the
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responsibility of tackling the epidemic to locals through needle exchanges makes sense. They are the ones on the front lines, he said. Forming plans to deal with the drug epidemic is a learning curve for everyone, said Long. “The Midwest is on fire with this epidemic right now,” Bosma added. The governor’s mission to double the state’s investment in pre-K education to $20 million annually is strongly supported by both Republican leaders, though Bosma admitted some are reluctant about the program expansion. If House Bill 1330 passed, “On My Way Pre-K,” which gives grants to low-income families with 4-year-olds to allow access to higher-quality pre-K education, would be spread further throughout the state.
Lanane said the $20 million isn’t enough. “We really should be tripling or quadrupling the amount of funding for early childhood education,” Lanane said. “We need to really be bold in regards to that.” Additional points in Holcomb’s speech included finding a way for Indiana to burn coal cleanly and adding a fourth water port in southeast Indiana, which he said will help accelerate economic development and play to our strength. He ended his speech with a commitment to making his promises a reality. Pelath said ultimately, while Holcomb’s speech may have lacked specifics, his pillars are difficult to oppose. “I strive to listen to every incoming governor with a purely open mind,” Pelath said. “In this case it was rather easy to do.”
will also visit, and a variety of musicians will lead workshops for their instruments. From the perspective of an ethnomusicologist, reviewing and studying a show with this type of music is a different experience from most, van den Bogerd
said. “This is Western music, and ethnomusicology is obviously not, so I’m trying to apply the methods of ethnomusicology to this concert,” van den Bogerd said. “This is a very interesting experience.”
entertaining and a little bit lighter because the topic is so heavy,” Maxwell said as she began her talk. “My goal is to help you to identify rape culture in everyday things so you can call it out and prevent its perpetuation.” Maxwell prefaced her speech by sharing how she chooses to frame her sexual assault conversations. She said people need to talk about consent. She said everyone knows rape is wrong, but many do not know what consent is. “Some believe consent is a blurred line, like the song. They think you do not have to ask for consent — you can just tell,” Maxwell said. “I do not frame my conversations with men as the perpetrators because women are not the only ones affected.” One in 33 men experience sexual assault in their lifetimes, Maxwell said, citing a statistic from a report
by the United Nations in her presentation. Survey results from the Association of American Universities show one in four women experience sexual assault during college. Bloomington has many resources, including Middle Way House, IU Sexual Assault Crisis Services and Culture of Care, for victims. Though sexual assault prevention frequently discusses methods for women to avoid rape and sexual assault, Maxwell said her goal is to prevent rape before it happens. Throughout her presentation Maxwell cited instances where social media, news reporters and advertisements perpetuated rape culture. She discussed ways to avoid blaming victims by rephrasing the way sexual assault is discussed and asked listeners to be empathetic. “Rather than saying ‘Are you sure? It seemed like you were asking for it — you were wearing a short skirt,’ offer
to connect them with support services,” Maxwell said. “Even if you don’t believe them, it might be a bigger situation than you can deal with. Just try to be empathetic.” Cramer said she hoped students would walk away with thoughtful questions about sexual assault. She said it’s important people pay attention because it shows people care and everyone, especially victims, needs to know people care and there are people who can help. “No one can prevent their own rape,” said Maxwell. “The perpetrator is the one who chose to do it. There is nothing the victim can do to prevent being raped.” Maxwell’s primary themes during her speech were to believe survivors, to support survivors, to be a vocal ally, to be an active bystander and always to ask for consent. “Default to believing. Default to empathy,” Maxwell said.
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“Consistency really is key,” Daniel said. “I believe our team bond is a crucial part in the success of the program.” Despite having 34 athletes on the team’s roster, Horine can only take 20 of them to compete at the national championship. Therefore, Horine selected five athletes at each cheer team position — flyer, main base, side base and back — to make the trip to Orlando. Because the national championship is the only competition the team competes in each year, Horine uses practices and the athletic events the team cheers at to determine who will earn a spot on the final roster. “They are basically working all year to be considered for nationals,” Horine said. “Every practice is at play, as well as every game.” Along with the co-ed Cream cheerleading team, the Crimson Cheerleaders
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The IU Crimson Cheerleaders perform at the 2017 UCA and UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship, which took place from Jan. 13 to 15 in Orlando, Florida. The team won the Division 1-A All-Girl National Championship.
appear at football games and volleyball matches. The Crimson team primarily cheers at women’s basketball games and occasionally at men’s basketball games with the Cream team. Freshman Crimson team member Kaylie Kindler chose to attend IU not only because of the recent success of the cheerleading program but also due to the gameday experiences it offered her. “Coming into such a great
program as a freshman was very exciting,” Kindler said. “Nothing really prepares you for the excitement that comes with college gamedays.” Kindler was one of seven freshmen selected by Horine to the national championship roster. “I have learned more and grown more as a cheerleader and person in the past few months from being a part of IU cheerleading than I have in my last 12 years of cheerleading,” Kindler said.
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