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IUPD to test body cameras By Storme Dayhuff sdayhuff@indiana.edu

The IU Police Department will begin wearing body cameras Saturday as part of a field test. This field test will span IUBloomington, IU-Northwest and IU-Purdue University campuses. Cameras will be worn on the officer’s temple, neck or center chest. Jerry Minger is the superintendent of public safety for IU and oversees the police chiefs of all IU campuses. “We are going to try to use them in a variety of different environments,” Minger said. “That means day shift, second shift, night shift, mainly because of the different types of lighting conditions that there are and the different types of calls officers respond to.” The field test is scheduled to run from Saturday through midApril, Minger said. The cameras will rotate among selected officers of all departments across campus. However, there is not enough equipment available for every officer to wear a camera during every shift, Minger said. This field test is running on campus to answer a variety of questions concerning officers’ safety and health, Minger said. “Does a product like that obscure your vision when you need to have more peripheral vision when this thing is on one side of your eyes?” Minger said. “Or does it become an added piece of hardware on the side of your head that might be a danger if you were involved in an altercation with a person? It might get driven into the side of your head.” The body-worn cameras bring up privacy issues for officers and citizens, Minger said. “Body-worn cameras, of course, rose in heightened awareness just for law enforcement because of community concerns about accountability and police,” Minger said. “Police also raised the question of accountability of people they came in contact with to verify things that were said, behaviors that were committed by a perpetrator and crime scenes that they walked into.” The events in Ferguson, Mo. brought the body cameras to the attention of the committee responsible for the field test, Minger said. The committee is made up of students, law enforcement representatives, faculty and privacy experts, according to an IU Public Safety and Institutional Assurance press release.

IU tries to regain success at Big Ten Championships By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @trlehman_IU

With the Big Ten Championships this weekend in Geneva, Ohio, IU can expect to head one direction from its ninth-place finish last year. A new direction. That is what IU Coach Ron Helmer has pushed to implement in the 2015 season. “When I made staff changes this year, I knew that the renewed energy we wanted was going to be a longterm thing, not an immediate turnaround,” Helmer said. “I told the team that I mainly expect growth this weekend and for them to go out and compete with these tough teams.” The 2014 Big Ten Championships presented major, glaring issues for the team. IU placed top-five in just seven events and scored 40.5 points, the program’s second-lowest mark in the last 16 years, after winning the conference in 2012. Helmer responded to the subpar season by adding four assistant coaches to the staff in 2014, including former IU assistant coach Ed Beathea, who left his head coaching position at Ohio State. “We’re getting better,” Helmer said. “We aren’t ahead of schedule, but we certainly aren’t behind schedule.” It hasn’t taken long for the team to see an increase in production. Nine Hoosiers are projected to place topfive in their respective events this weekend, and more than 20 events feature new athletes with top-10

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK Big Ten Indoor Championships Friday and Saturday in Geneva, Ohio records, up from 18 in 2014. The team is far from lacking star performers, as sophomore middle distance runner Tre’tez Kinnaird and junior pole vaulter Sophie Gutermuth both broke school records this season. Kinnaird has now contributed to three school records after breaking the 800-meter run record with 1:48.20, good enough for third in the Big Ten, while Gutermuth shattered her previous school record with a vault of 4.26 meters, second-best in the Big Ten. Another Hoosier projected in the top-five is sophomore Matthew Schwartzer, who ran the third-best 5K in the Big Ten this season and owns the ninth-best 3K in IU history. “I think if any of us finish in the top-three of any event, people will be surprised because we are all so young,” Schwartzer said of the men’s and women’s distance teams. “Rorey SEE TRACK, PAGE 6

Top Junior high jumper Sophie Gutermuth vaults during IU’s practice Tuesday at Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse. Left Junior high jumper Stephen Keller prepares to vault during IU’s practice Tuesday at Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse. Right Freshman high jumper Paul Galas completes a jump during IU’s practice Tuesday at Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse. Galas was doing final tune ups to his jump prior to his first time competing in this weekend’s Big Ten Tournament.

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Internet freedom underway at federal, state levels 1 Federal Communications Commission “Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.” (fcc.gov) 2 Net neutrality “Under this principle, consumers can make their own choices about what applications and services to use and are free to decide what lawful content they want to access, create, or share with others. This openness promotes competition and enables investment and innovation.” (fcc.gov)

By Daniel Metz dsmetz@indiana.edu | @DanielSMetz

No blocking, no throttling, no fast lanes. These are the components of a new policy initiative that was voted on Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission1. The driving force behind this initiative is net neutrality2, the concept that Internet providers cannot slow down access to websites. The FCC passed the measure with a 3-2 vote, redefining the Internet as a telecommunications service3 and giving the FCC the

ability to regulate Internet service providers. The policy includes three distinct measures that would directly affect consumers. ISPs would not be allowed to block access to legal content or Internet applications, ISPs may not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of content and ISPs may not favor some lawful Internet traffic over other traffic in exchange for compensation. Journalism associate professor Anthony Fargo, who specializes in media law and policy, supported the decision the FCC made in the context of today’s

telecommunication laws. “I think the approach they’ve taken now is probably the only one open to them that made any sense,” Fargo said. “It will, I think, go a long way toward preventing Internet providers from taking us into the cable TV age where we had a lot of complicated (content) rating systems.” He said there have not yet been any indicators that the FCC intends to regulate content. One of the most well-known examples of recent net neutrality violations is the incident between Netflix and Comcast4

3 Telecommunications service With the Internet defined as a telecommunications service, the Internet now falls under the jurisdiction of the FCC. If it was not, cable companies could have controlled speed of certain websites as a bias. 4 Netflix and Comcast The cable giant threatened to slow down the streaming service’s website to users, which accounts for 30 percent of all Internet traffic at certain times of the day, unless they compensated Comcast.

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