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Lack of teachers affects county Standards are being lowered in the search for more substitutes by Taylor Telford ttelford@umail.iu.edu | @ttelford183
Indiana’s crippling teacher shortage means districts like Monroe County are struggling not only to find permanent teachers, but substitutes as well. Monroe County Community School Corporation employs approximately 750 full-time teachers. On an average day, about 60 are absent for various reasons, said Tim Pritchett, MCCSC public information officer. To fill these absences, MCCSC pulls from a pool of about 300 substitutes. This pool doesn’t always cut it, Pritchett said. “Sometimes we won’t be able to fill an open spot and a principal or administrator will have to fill in and supervise,” Pritchett said. “It happens enough that it’s problematic.” To find more substitutes, MCCSC lowered its standards: in the past, a substitute needed to have 60 college credit hours — not necessarily in education — to be considered for a temporary position. Now the district only requires 24 college credit hours. Although altering the requirements makes it easier to find substitutes, this might not benefit the students they are teaching said Linda Carter, treasurer of the National Substitute Teachers Alliance. “When you start lowering degrees and lowering quality of professionals, you don’t know who you’re getting,” Carter said. “They may say they have a good background, but you may discover they aren’t really teacher material.” Not only are districts hiring less qualified substitutes, but they are also alienating their ideal candidates — retired teachers with degrees — with poor compensation and second-class treatment, Carter said. “A lot of people are discouraged by the lack of respect from administration and the abuse substitutes get at the hands of kids,” Carter said. “You have to treat them like professionals. Why should people go teach where they feel unwanted and neglected?” At MCCSC, Indiana licensed SEE SUBSTITUTES, PAGE 6
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Junior Dan Nelson, left, pumps up a crowd of students just before the start of the Nearly Naked Mile Run, which started at Dunn Meadow and ended at the Sample Gates Wednesday night. Students had the choice of donating two articles of winter clothing or paying $10 to participate.
RUN AND BARE IT Eighth annual Nearly Naked Mile continues homecoming tradition
By Sarah Gardner gardnese@indiana.edu | @sarahhhgardner
Crowds of students taking their clothes off in Dunn Meadow were encouraged rather than disciplined Wednesday night. They were participating in the Nearly Naked Mile, an IU Homecoming tradition in its eighth year. Students clad in almost no clothing wore LED lights and ran from Dunn Meadow, past Showalter Fountain
and finished at the Sample Gates. “It’s a really simple idea,” said Mike Mann, director of alumni programs for the IU Alumni Association. “It’s only a mile, it’s nothing serious and it’s not timed, so that makes it easy for students to have fun with it.” But the participants were running for a greater purpose as well, Mann said. To register for the event, students must have donated either $10 or two items of clothing. These donations all go to United Way of
Monroe County. “We teamed up with IU for a clothes drive, and it eventually turned into the Nearly Naked Mile,” said Darcie Lowe, resource development assistant director for United Way of Monroe County. “The more fun an event is and the more people that are around, the easier it is to get the word out about the actual work you’re doing.” SEE NAKED MILE, PAGE 6
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Freshman receivers take on bigger roles By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @trlehman_IDS
When junior wide receiver Ricky Jones was asked how much the IU offense needs playmakers, he looked up to the ceiling and gave a simple answer. “Big time. Big time.” Early in the season, when senior quarterback Nate Sudfeld threw for seven touchdowns and one interception through four games and junior running back Jordan Howard ran for 150-plus yards on a weekly basis, the Hoosiers didn’t expect to be asked about a lack of offensive playmakers. But with the flip of a switch — that switch being Sudfeld’s ankle injury — IU has thrown for just 358 yards in its last six quarters, after recording 497 in the six quarters before Sudfeld’s injury. After injuries plagued the quarterback and running back positions for the Hoosiers, they also saw their top second-string receiver, sophomore Isaac Griffith, tear his ACL. Enter freshman receivers Nick Westbrook and Leon Thornton. “Coach (Kevin Wilson) always preaches next guy up, so that’s what we’ve got to do with the injuries,” Thornton said. “Nick and I, both of our roles are going to increase, and we’ve got some other guys who are going to step up, take some
IU (4-2) vs. Rutgers (2-3) 3:30 p.m. Saturday Memorial Stadium more reps in practice and get more comfortable and confident.” The receiving corps, as well as the offense, is split into three teams, where the coaching staff mostly rotates the first- and second-team players into the game to keep the receivers’ legs fresh and facilitate quicker routes, Thornton said. Both receivers have seen the field plenty of times this season but have not been targeted with passes yet. That will change now, as it is Westbrook and Thornton’s job to replace Griffith at the top of the second team. Besides the top-three starters at wide receiver — Jones, junior Mitchell Paige and sophomore Simmie Cobbs — Griffith has the most receptions in the receiving core, with five for 54 yards receiving, 31 of which came on two catches against Penn State before his injury. “He is just a great player, and he knew everything as a veteran,” Westbrook said. “He’s really a speedster, and we could use that. You saw in the last game where he made those really nice catches and really big plays when he needed to, going up and
Warren to recite poetry today at the Venue By Sanya Ali siali@indiana.edu | @siali13
allowing him to attack balls at their highest point and fend off aggressive defensive backs. Both catches the freshman has made were in traffic with a defender on his back, including one catch where he broke two tackles and ran
Poet Rosanna Warren grew up surrounded by literature. Her father was a novelist and literary critic, her mother was a writer — her life was filled with the written word from a young age. “We didn’t have television, so my brother and I had to amuse each other on our own, pretty much,” Warren Warren said. “We built toys and read a lot of books, and I became crazy about stories and poems — memorized and recited them.” Warren will recite her poetry starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Venue Fine Art & Gifts. She
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Redshirt sophomore wide receiver Isaac Griffith attempts to avoid a defender during the game against Penn State on Saturday at Beaver Stadium in University Park. The Hoosiers lost, 29-7.
getting the ball.” Between the two freshman receivers, Westbrook has made two catches for a total of 15 yards, and Thornton has no catches yet this season. What stands out the most between the receivers, though, is Westbrook’s size and strength,