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Arena out, Hamilton unopposed for mayor By Ellen Hine emhine@iu.edu | @ellenmhine
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Trustees MaryEllen Bishop and James Morris shake hands. Bishop was reelected to her position in the IU Board of Trustees election June 28.
Bishop reelected to Board of Trustees By Avery Williams avefwill@iu.edu | @ Avery_faye
IU Trustee MaryEllen Bishop began her IU journey as an undergraduate in 1975. It isn’t over yet. Bishop was elected for the fourth time to the IU Board of Trustees on June 28. Bishop ran against Brian Davidson, a 2004 Kelley School of Business graduate, and won with 59% of votes, according to an IU press release. Of the nine members of the Board of Trustees, three are elected by alumni while the rest are appointed by the governor. As a trustee, Bishop has made decisions on leadership, changes to college enrollment, controlling the cost of college and more. “It is like drinking from a fire hose when you first go on that board,” Bishop said. Bishop said she never imagined going to college anywhere but IU. After completing her bachelor’s degree at the Kelley School of Business in 1979, Bishop went on to IU-Purdue University Indianapolis McKinney School of Law. Bishop took night classes while working during the day to afford her schooling. Her daughter’s decision to attend IU influenced her desire to become an active alumni, Bishop said. After serving as a national
chair for the IU Alumni Association, she decided to run for a trustee position. She lost her first race in 2009 to Philip Eskew. Bishop said close friends encouraged her to figure out the process and try again. After her win, she is now beginning her 10th year as a trustee. “She is someone who is entrusted with helping make some of the big decisions that influence IU moving forward,” IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said.
“As we search for IU’s next president, it is vitally important to have Trustees with strong institutional knowledge who are aware of the forces shaping higher education.” MaryEllen Bishop’s campaign website
IU Alumni Association chief executive officer and former trustee JT. Forbes said the Board of Trustees’ role is to guide and steer, not direct, the university. “They are not a committee that is set up to tell the university how to run,” Forbes said. “They have to think about how the university
will run in 20-30 years.” Forbes said Bishop has a distinctive ability to empathize and understand the experiences of people involved with IU because she is concerned with their wellbeing and welfare. “She is a strong advocate for the mission, priorities and agenda the president has put forward,” Forbes said. Forbes said Bishop’s commitment to trustee work can be seen in the academic reform and evolution that have taken place during her tenure, including the expansion of facilities like Luddy Hall and the addition of new schools like the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Bishop said the nearing IU bicentennial heightened her desire to be reelected. According to Bishop’s campaign website, her reelection platform focused on her record as a trustee and knowledge of important university issues to aid in the search for IU President Michael McRobbie’s replacement once his contract ends in 2021. “As we search for IU’s next president, it is vitally important to have Trustees with strong institutional knowledge who are aware of the forces shaping higher education,” Bishop wrote on
Election results MaryEllen Bishop received 8,416 votes out of 14,322 votes from IU alumni. Her opponent, Brian Robert Davidson, received 5,906 votes. SOURCE INDIANA UNIVERSITY
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her campaign website. Bishop and the other trustees are trusted to delve deep into the issues to come to a resolution, Carney said. “She is gonna be involved in shaping this decade and more to come,” Carney said.
Ali Patberg granted sixth year of eligibility By Dylan Wallace dswallac@iu.edu | @Dwall_1
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Junior guard Ali Patberg shoots the ball March 7 during IU's second round Big Ten Tournament game against Minnesota in Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Patberg scored a team-high 20 points in IU's 66-58 win over Minnesota.
25 games and was named to the All-Big Ten Second team. Patberg was listed as a junior last season with IU, but with her sixth year of eligibility granted, she
will be listed as a junior again for this upcoming season. The full schedule has not yet been released for next season, but IU knows some of its nonconfer-
Indiana resident and Holocaust survivor dies By Ellen Hine
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IU women's basketball Head Coach Teri Moren brought up the possibility of her soon-to-be senior guard, Ali Patberg, receiving a sixth year of eligibility after the season concluded. "We're trying," Moren said April 16. "We are planning on it, but that's not to say it's guaranteed." Friday morning, the program announced Patberg was granted that sixth year from the NCAA. She will now have two years of eligibility left and can play with the program through the 2020-21 season. Patberg transferred from University of Notre Dame in 2017. She had to redshirt her freshman year with the Fighting Irish after tearing her ACL in 2015-16. She then played in 22 games her sophomore season. Patberg sat out the 2017-18 season with the Hoosiers due to NCAA transfer rules. In her first season with IU last year, her second collegiate season, Patberg averaged a team-high 15.8 points per game and a team-high 4.8 assists. She helped lead the Hoosiers to a 21-13 overall record and to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. She scored in double figures in
Mayor John Hamilton is officially running unopposed in the 2019 Bloomington mayoral race. Monroe County Elections Supervisor Karen Wheeler confirmed in a July 1 interview with WFIU that independent candidate Nile Arena did not have enough signatures on a petition to be on the November ballot. Hamilton won the Democratic nomination after former Monroe County commissioner and mayoral candidate Amanda Barge left the race following sexual harassment allegations reported by the Indiana Daily Student. After Barge left the race, Arena announced his intention to run for mayor. He needed to receive 522 signatures on his petition by July 1. Arena said he ended up being roughly 230-250 signatures short of the goal. “I’m happy to have tried,” Arena said. Arena said while he is not sure if he’ll run for public office in the future, he wants to remain engaged with the Bloomington community and speak for people who feel they don’t have a voice in the current government. Hamilton and incumbent City Clerk Nicole Bolden are now both unopposed in their races. The Bloomington municipal election will take place Nov. 5.
ence opponents, including the likes of University of South Carolina, Baylor University, Washington State University and University of Miami.
Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor and Indiana resident, died Thursday morning. She was 85. Kor died at 7:10 a.m. local time in Krakow, Poland, according to the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center. She was leading an annual trip to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with CANDLES. “Eva Kor has touched hundreds of thousands of people over her 85 years through her message of overcoming tragedy, finding forgiveness and healing,” CANDLES staff said in a statement on the center’s website. Kor was born in 1934 in Portz, Romania, according to the CANDLES website. In 1944, Kor and her family were sent to Auschwitz, where she and her twin sister, Miriam, were separated from their parents and siblings. The sisters survived being experimented on by Josef Mengele, a Nazi scientist, until the camp was liberated in 1945. Following World War II, Kor lived in Romania and Israel before marrying fellow survivor Michael Kor and moving to Terre Haute, Indiana, in the 1960s. She and her sister created CANDLES, or Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors, in 1984 to honor the memory of and find other Mengele twins. Kor was known for her advocacy for forgiveness as a method of selfempowerment. CANDLES keeps a page dedicated to Kor’s definition of forgiveness on its website. “This concept of forgiveness has little or nothing to do with the perpetrator,” according to the statement. “It has everything to do with the need of victims to be free from the pain inflicted upon them.” In 2017, Gov. Eric Holcomb gave SEE KOR, PAGE 7