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The alto ladies practice during the choral ensemble rehearsal Wednesday at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

Still singing Choir to celebrate 40th anniversary for annual spring concert By Abigail Gipson apgipson@indiana.edu | @apgipson

Members of the African American Choral Ensemble lift their hands above their heads to begin warming up, shaking them out while counting in unison. They shake out their feet, still counting, then begin to sing. Some keep time against their sides and some filter in late, already singing as they walk to their spots. Their sound fills the room. “Stay focused, stay positive,” said Tiffany Williams, an associate instructor for the class. “Let’s look forward to making some great music.” She was met with applause, nods and amens. The AACE’s spring concert Saturday night will celebrate the choir’s 40th

anniversary with a variety of repertoire from spirituals to popular culture songs, such as “I’ll be There” by the Jackson 5. The concert will also feature AACE alumni for two of the songs. All past directors and several alumni of the ensemble will be on campus for the event, AACE director Raymond Wise said. Yukari Shinagawa has been a member of AACE for seven years, and Saturday will be her last performance with the ensemble. “AACE gave me a space where I can forget about everything and focus on what I love to do,” Shinagawa said. She will have one final performance with the ensemble before handing it over to the next generation, she said. “I hope I will enjoy every moment on the stage,” she said. “I hope I won’t cry.”

Later this spring, the ensemble will travel to Germany, Wise said. It will be the AACE’s first time performing abroad. The AACE will perform songs in different languages, including German, in this weekend’s performance, Wise said. “Since the music has been globalized, we’re preparing to become an international group, a group that has a message,” he said. Gospel has been globalized for a long time, Wise said, and in the last decade its international popularity has increased. However, AACE performs more than just gospel, with its repertoire including spirituals, blues, jazz — any music written for, by or about African Americans. “The diversity that we share, we’re not able to only go and share the muSEE CHOIR, PAGE 6

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Donald Trump promised a big announcement Thursday in Evansville, Indiana, but he delivered a repetition of Wednesday’s show: a rally about winning, featuring former IU basketball coach Bobby Knight. Knight and Trump recycled their talking points. Knight compared Trump to President Harry Truman and thanked Indiana for his years of basketball coaching. He placed emphasis on Trump’s knowing what it takes to win. And win he has. Trump gave a breakdown of the 21 states’ primaries he has won. “If we win in Indiana, it’s over,” Trump said. Trump and Knight addressed the Hoosier crowd with fervor. “We need to start winning again,” Trump said. “Bobby knows about winning.” Fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz announced in Indianapolis on Wednesday that he would run for president with Carly Fiorina as his running mate. Ohio Gov. John Kasich suspended his Indiana campaign to give Cruz a chance at stopping Trump from reaching the delegate count. Trump said the Fiorina choice w as futile because Fiorina’s only successful political experience was at the “children’s debate” that occured before she debated Trump. “She’s a nice woman,” Trump said. “But she’s not going to help him.” Trump called the Kasich-Cruz pact “pathetic” and an example of the “evil” in the political world. “Lyin’ Ted is gonna get clobbered,” he said. Harrison High School senior Justin Lewis and his stepbrother lined SEE TRUMP, PAGE 6

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Hoosiers hope to capitalize on Northwestern pitching By Zain Pyarali zpyarali@iu.edu | @ZainPyarali

It will be a tale of two teams on the pitching mound this weekend when IU (23-16, 8-4) welcomes last-place Northwestern (10-30, 2-13) for a three-game conference series. The struggling Wildcats enter the series as losers of their last six consecutive conference games, with just one win in the last 13. A sweep for the Hoosiers would be beneficial because IU is only two games back from first-place Minnesota. Due to inclement weather in the forecast for Saturday, a doubleheader has been scheduled for Friday starting at 3 p.m., with the series finale Sunday. IU Coach Chris Lemonis said he hopes to get the offense going

again after leaving nine runners on base last game against Notre Dame. “We’re not getting an average at-bat. We’re getting a really bad at-bat in those situations,” Lemonis said after the Notre Dame game. “Getting a better pitch and our swings going a little bit, we’ve got good hitters they just didn’t have a good night.” After getting rained out Wednesday, IU will return home for the first time since April 17, when they fell to Iowa in extra innings. That snapped a six-game home win-streak for the Hoosiers, but they still remain eight games above .500 in Bloomington this season. Returning home after playing five consecutive games away will be a major advantage for the club. Northwestern’s main strug-

IU (23-16) Doubleheader vs. Northwestern (10-30) Game 1, 3:05 p.m., Friday, April 29, Bart Kaufman Field gle this season has been on the mound. As a group, the Wildcats own a 6.22 ERA on the year and are even worse in conference games with a 6.90 ERA. The Hoosiers, on the other hand, own the second-best ERA in the league, have allowed 130 less runs than Northwestern in the season and have racked up about 80 more strikeouts. While these two teams are fairly comparable at the plate, the Hoosiers are still outgaining the Wildcats by more than 20 runs scored while also relying on the long ball more often.

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The Hoosiers are introduced before their game against Notre Dame at Victory Field in Indianapolis. IU lost 5-0.

Although the IU lineup hasn’t produced eye-popping numbers, the pitching staff has been the backbone of this club. Unlike Northwestern’s pitching staff, IU’s pitchers have kept the Hoosiers in position to compete with the rest of the conference.

“This is Indiana, and we’re a pitching school,” junior relief pitcher Thomas Belcher said. “Ever since the Omaha year, we’ve had guys step up and pitch well every SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 6

‘Great 8’ graduate with Ph.D.s from School of Education By Sarah Gardner gardnese@indiana.edu | @sarahhhgardner

They call themselves the Great Eight. They are a group of black women in the School of Education all earning Ph.D.s this spring. After coming across each other at different points in their doctoral education, they decided to carve a community out for themselves. Juhanna Rogers, one of the eight, said she didn’t think she would have made

it through the program without the rest of them. It started with sharing classes and cars. Rogers, Jasmine Haywood and Nadrea Njoku realized they would all need to commute from Indianapolis to Bloomington for classes one semester, so they decided to carpool every day. But while they originally drove together for convenience, they soon found themselves giving each other pep talks for the day ahead, discussing how to balance their

relationships with going to school and talking about what it felt like to be a minority group at a place like IU. “There usually are not this many Ph.D. students graduating from a school at one time, period,” said associate professor Robin Hughes, who has taught all eight of the graduating women. “So it is incredibly significant to have eight black women graduating at once. It’s just not the norm.” Haywood said she was driven to pursue a Ph.D. in higher educa-

tion and student affairs when she realized she couldn’t find any black women in the field, particularly in Bloomington. “When that happens, there’s this sort of subliminal message that gets into your brain,” Haywood said. “And those messages make you wonder if it’s even possible for you to get a terminal degree when no one like you has before.” Six of the eight — Haywood, Rogers, Njoku, Demetrees Hutchins, Shannon McCullough and Johari

Shuck — will earn doctoral degrees in higher education and student affairs. The other two women, Tiffany Kyser and Jada Phelps-Moultrie, will earn doctoral degrees in urban education studies. None of their experiences have been the same, especially because they are in different doctoral programs and began them at different times, Hughes said. But they all had enough in common to come SEE GREAT EIGHT, PAGE 6


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