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Thursday, April 27, 2017 | Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com

Online stalker faces charges

A NEW ‘ROUTINE’

By Taylor Telford @taylormtelford | ttelford@indiana.edu

A North Carolina woman is facing federal charges for making violent threats on several Indiana colleges, including IU-Bloomington; a Sky Zone; and a private residence while tormenting a Fishers family. Shamonique Ferguson, 21, of Hamlet, North Carolina, is charged with extortionate communication, mail threats and interstate stalking, according to court documents. “We live in times where the Internet, cell phones, and social media allow for unlimited communication with friends, family, and even complete strangers,” U.S. attorney Josh Minkler said in a press release. “When an individual elects to threaten anyone in the Southern District of Indiana, in the manner laid out in our complaint, he or she should not expect to forever hide behind the anonymity of the web.” The primary victim met Ferguson through Facebook in 2012. After a falling out, Ferguson started harassing the victim on Facebook and Twitter and with phone calls, which caused the victim to change phone numbers and abandon contact with Ferguson. The harassment continued and escalated toward the end of 2016. Since last December, Ferguson made numerous reports alleging the victim was planning violent attacks at IUKokomo, IU-Bloomington, Ivy Tech Community College and

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Hoops bass player and singer Kevin Krauter, from Carmel, Indiana, performs Wednesday night at Landlocked Music. Krauter's mom and brother traveled from Indianapolis to watch the show. The group leaves April 30 for a two-week-long tour in the United Kingdom.

Local band goes from house shows to record label, performs before tour By Lydia Gerike lgerike@umail.iu.edu | @lydi_yeah

In the small, hot spaces between stacks of vinyls and CDs, about 60 people gathered Wednesday evening in Landlocked Music and listened to local band Hoops perform music from its new record. Their latest album “Routines” has a smooth pop sound and combines the music styles the band has created in the past from synthesizer-based to guitar-only, guitarist and keyboardist Drew Ausherman said. “It feels nice to put something out that we’re proud of,” Ausherman said. “Just know that I like it.” Hoops will fly to the United Kingdom on Sunday to kick off a six-week tour, Ausherman said. They will spend two weeks abroad and another four traveling around the United States.

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Energy contest saves watts, water By Clark Gudas ckgudas@umail.iu.edu @This_isnt_clark

After three weeks of promoting water and energy conservation, Delta Gamma and Read Center were the winners of the IU Spring Energy Challenge. They reduced their water and energy consumption by more than 12 percent each compared to last year. This spring IU recorded a total savings of 12,759 kilowatt hours of energy and 714,928 gallons of water universitywide. Since the Energy Challenge’s implementation in 2008, IU has saved 16.3 million gallons and 4.9 million kilowatt hours overall. When people see the numbers, they can get a real grasp of the magnitude of their usage, IU Office of Sustainability Intern Jayson Arend said. “Energy may seem invisible, but it really has a large impact on the environment,” Arend said. The challenge took place from March 27 to April 17 and included buildings on campus from residence halls to athletic buildings and greek houses. The challenge aims to demonstrate that living a more sustainable lifestyle is possible with small behavior changes. SEE ENERGY, PAGE 6

Band members mixed the record and released it under the Fat Possum Records label, Ausherman said. Although Hoops began making music in 2011, this is the first full record under the name. After the show started, singer Kevin Krauter said fans should buy the vinyl edition of “Routines” because he had been told it was sky blue. For Krauter, the release process hasn’t always been full of successes. There were times where the label didn’t like the way a song was mixed or the plans among band members would change when they tried to get together and work on a piece. “It was sort of a high-stakes thing,” he said. Krauter would have entered his senior year at Ball State but decided to focus on his music instead of his communications degree, his mother Risa said.

FUTURE TOUR DATES 6 p.m. Thursday, Luna Music, Indianapolis 7 p.m. Friday, June 2, Cactus Club, Milwaukee 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, Ace of Cups, Columbus, Ohio 9 p.m. Saturday, June 17, the HI-FI, Indianapolis

This summer, he told his parents he would not be returning to school, Krauter’s mother said. She doesn’t blame her son for dropping out, although thinking about it makes her sad. Krauter finally convinced her he wasn’t wasting everything she’d done for him when he reminded her of all the music lessons and guitars she’d paid for. In the end, she said she is happy that her SEE HOOPS, PAGE 6

Glass speaks about sexual violence policy By Cameron Drummond cpdrummo@iu.edu | @cdrummond97

When the IU Faculty Athletics Committee approved a new sexual violence policy for IU Athletics on April 12, it brought national attention to the new way IU selects incoming student-athletes. The policy prevents any student-athlete found responsible for sexual violence at a previous college or high school from being eligible for financial aid or athletics at IU. This applies to incoming freshmen, transfer students, walk-ons or athletes of a different status. IU Athletics describes the policy as “unique among individual NCAA member schools,” although IU Athletic Director Fred Glass said he wasn’t trying to be a trailblazer when crafting the policy. “We did it because we thought it was important for the safety of the campus and for students in collegiate athletics to represent IU well,” Glass said. “We’re doing all we can do to attract IU collegiate athletes of whom everyone can be proud.” Recent high-profile incidents at Baylor University and Vanderbilt University drew attention to sexual and domestic violence in collegiate athletics. In particular, Glass said the incidents at Baylor were instructive in terms of

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IU Athletics Director Fred Glass speaks to a crowd during a press conference where new head basketball coach Archie Miller was introduced.

knowing how to deal with sexual violence as an athletic director. “A big lesson from that is you have to deal with issues through a University-sanctioned construct,” Glass said. “We made it very clear to our coaches, staffs and student-athletes that these things wouldn’t be handled inside athletics. We have to get it outside of athletics.” The athletic coaching

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staffs at IU were only one type of perspective Glass sought in creating the policy. Glass also received outside input from IU’s Office of Student Welfare and Title IX and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee to draft and implement the policy. Glass said the head coaches of IU’s sports teams were very supportive during the process.

“In athletics, we have some experience with these issues, but it’s a broader problem,” Glass said. “It’s a problem on the IU campus and on campuses around the country.” IU has the ability to create an individual sexual violence policy in part because the Big Ten does not have a conference-wide policy. This differentiates the

Big Ten from other NCAA athletic conferences like the Southeastern Conference, which in May 2015 passed a rule banning its schools from accepting transfers who were dismissed from their previous program due to “serious misconduct.” The conference defined “serious misconduct” as “sexual assault, domestic SEE GLASS, PAGE 6

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