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Mayor John Hamilton addresses a crowd at the State of the City address Tuesday evening at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Hamilton touched on many topics, including transportation and renewable energy.

Optimism & Opportunity Hamilton addresses the city after nearly 50 days in office

By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu @agarau6

Optimism and opportunity.

These are the themes that Sue Sgambelluri, a member of the Bloomington Redevelopment Commission, took from Mayor John Hamilton’s first State of the City Address Tuesday night.

Standing on the stage of the BuskirkChumley Theater, the mayor of 47 days said he was optimistic because Bloomington was named a Gold Level Bicycle Friendly Community, a Tree City USA and was one of only 47 cities in the country to be given a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index.

But the mayor also acknowledged there are aspects of the city that can be improved upon.

He noted there are too many people in the community that are unsure of where their next meal will come from and the city’s violent crime rate had risen significantly over the last decade, in spite of the national downward trend.

Hamilton said that Bloomington’s gross domestic product is shrinking and has been for four years. He talked about failing infrastructure, noting deteriorating water quality, broken parking meters and sanitation services operating on a system “that was modern in the 1960s.”

He said 20 percent of the city’s plows weren’t working during the first

Louisville musician to perform at Buskirk

snowfall of the year.

It is in these problems that he sees opportunity, Hamiliton said.

Hamilton’s four main focuses for the evening were the same ones that characterized his campaign: jobs, housing, public education and innovative government.

He said nurturing and attracting small businesses is crucial for Bloomington’s future.

One way of doing this is focusing the city’s efforts on enhancing connectivity, he said. Hamiliton announced Bloomington will be looking into providing universal Wi-Fi within the city, beginning with a digital symposium with IU SEE HAMILTON, PAGE 6

MEN’S BASKETBALL

By TJ Jaeger tjaeger@indiana.edu | @tj_jaeger

Will Oldham’s last Bloomington performance was in 2008.

Dan Coleman, founder of Spirit of ’68 Promotions, said Oldham does not frequently perform regionally, despite being from Louisville, Kentucky.

Oldham, who writes music under the name Bonnie “Prince” Billy, will perform Wednesday in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, with Maiden Rodeo opening the show.

Oldham has been performing as a singer-songwriter of various genres for over 25 years.

According to Spirit of ’68, Oldham possesses an individualistic mentality to songwriting and a do-it-yourself mantra to the music industry.

Coleman said he booked Oldham at the Buskirk-Chumley because it offers a fitting atmosphere for the performance.

The venue offers a more appropriate atmosphere than what the Bishop or the Bluebird Nightclub offers, Coleman said.

“Because it’s a quieter thing, you need the more subdued feeling of the Buskirk, as opposed to the more raucous club-feel of the Bluebird. It’s a perfect fit of venueartist.”

Beyond his musical career, Oldham has been credited as an actor.

He has been in several independent films, including 2010’s “Jackass 3D,” 2006’s “Old Joy” and a role in Chapter 15 of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet.”

Although he said Spirit of ’68 Promotions caters to the college crowd that is interested in music, Coleman said a performer like Oldham will draw a crowd, regardless of who he caters to.

Oldham is coming to Bloomington because he has a regional fanbase, Coleman said.

“People who have been following Will Oldham always come SEE OLDHAM, PAGE 6

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Junior Troy Williams keeps the ball away as an Iowa defender fouls him last Thursday at Assembly Hall. IU beat Iowa 85-78.

Williams can’t let his scoring struggles change his entire game

By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu @MichaelHughes94

Troy Williams has had bad games before. So has every player.

But it’s never been as bad as Sunday’s loss at Michigan State, when he failed to score a single point.

But before IU’s game against Nebraska tonight at Assembly Hall, IU Coach Tom Crean isn’t concerned with the performance.

It was bad, he said, but not a sign of things to come for the junior forward.

Crean said the game can be a learning experience for Williams.

Michigan State took away what Williams wanted to do and he couldn’t adjust. Next time, Crean said, he needs to.

“He’s got to understand how to impact the game more when they’re taking things away,” Crean said. “One thing that Troy is really good at is moving without the ball and getting in those corners.”

Williams likes to drift on

offense, Crean said. A lot of the offense he creates comes when the defense essentially forgets about him, and he’s able to shoot an open 3-pointer, drive past a defender closing out or cut to the basket for an easy lay-up or dunk.

But Michigan State didn’t forget about him. The Spartans didn’t take their eyes off Williams so he was never really open.

This meant Williams didn’t shoot much, and when he did, the shots were contested.

Williams missed all three of his shots from the field in the first half which included two contested looks from behind the arc.

Things didn’t change much for Williams in the second half. What did change was the help off the bench. As he continued to miss and his turnover count grew, Williams became frustrated.

He was gambling defensively and driving into traffic. With 11 minutes left in the half, senior forward Max Bielfeldt had a shot blocked out of bounds. This came after a couple offensive rebounds

NO. 22 IU (20-6, 10-3) vs. Nebraska (14-12, 6-7) 8:30 p.m. Assembly Hall Ferrell also struggling, pages 9 and 12 Crean said Ferrell isn’t in a slump, and Sunday’s loss wasn’t his fault.

by Bielfeldt.

As the Hoosiers were getting back on defense, Williams started screaming at Bielfeldt. It wasn’t clear what the screaming was about. Maybe Williams was frustrated Bielfeldt didn’t go up stronger. Maybe Williams thought he was open and wanted the ball.

On the next possession Williams got the ball on the wing and drove toward the basket. But Michigan State’s Denzel Valentine was in his way, and Williams ended up dribbling the ball off his leg and out of bounds, and Williams ended up on the ground.

As he was sprawled out on SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6

Leaders of several major campus organizations have come together to create a diversity and inclusion campaign, “For All,” to increase collaboration among organizations.

IU student organizations began meeting in a round table setting last semester following recent events surrounding diversity and inclusion issues on college campuses.

Sharing the name of a University-wide fundraising campaign, “For All” will be a collaborative campaign that brings student organizations together to create a more diverse and inclusive environment.

“We want IU to be a campus for all students,” IU Student Association president Anne Tinder said.

“The vision is to basically build a coalition of student organizations and individuals who all support this idea of For All.” Student organizations involved include IUSA, Black Student Union, Muslim Student Association, Union Board and others.

The campaign will be completely student-run. Tinder said this will help create an environment where students may feel more comfortable sharing sensitive stories and talking about these topics.

“I do think there is value in a campaign that is completely created and run at the student level,” Tinder said.

The campaign’s first steps will include building a coalition of other student organizations through speaking tours. These tours will be a way to get all students talking and sharing ideas on issues of diversity.

“The campaign will give us a more nuanced understanding of the campus and what really makes up a Hoosier,” John McHugh said.

McHugh represents Project Pengyou, an organization that brings Chinese and American students together to facilitate more interaction and discussion on foreign policy issues.

Once a coalition is built, they will launch a social media campaign to promote awareness through the use of videos and photos.

“I think organizations can be really creative with videos and photos about kind of how they fit in to the whole thing,” Tinder said.

One of the main goals of the campaign is facilitating collaboration between student groups that might not have otherwise worked together.

Tinder said a problem among student groups is they only attract people very similar to themselves even though the goal of a lot of groups is to create a more diverse space and share what it is like to have a common experience.

A way to improve relationships among people who have different experiences is for them to have a shared mission.

“I think ‘For All’ is just so inclusive that if we can get organizations to feel any sort of attachment to that name, then I think they’re much more willing to come together in the same space to do things,” Tinder said.

Representing the Muslim Student Association, the United Nations Association and the Arab Student Association, Dana Khabbaz said it is important to talk about diversity in an atypical way.

Diversity is usually looked at in terms of statistics, race or gender, but it’s more than that, Khabbaz said.

“Every single person has an individual identity and something to bring to the table,” she said. “It’s important to celebrate that.”

For Khabbaz and the groups she represents, this means talking more about minority religions and making sure they are included in issues on diversity.

Similarly, McHugh said there is a tendency to group people into communities of where they came from, but it’s important to stand together and find common experiences.

Although there is no specific timeline set, the goal for this semester is to have a core group of students involved and to set strategies for inclusive programming for next semester’s incoming class.

The campaign’s mission statement includes the phrase “one Hoosier nation.” The word Hoosier is important, Tinder said. It’s completely neutral and represents everyone.

“We’re trying to emphasize that it really is for everyone,” Khabbaz said. “We’re not promoting one person’s idea of diversity.”

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Campi speaks on Mongolia’s national profile President of the Mongolia Society Dr. Alicia Campi will give an address tomorrow about Mongolia’s efforts to expand its role in Eurasia.

Campi’s address will cover several new cultural initiatives that aim to elevate Mongolia’s national profile, including a

redefinition of the “Third Neighbor” policy, trilateralism, Ulaanbaatar Dialogue and permanent neutrality.

Campi will give her address at 4 p.m. in the Global and International Studies Building, room 0003.

Anthropologist to give 2 Patten lectures in March From IDS reports

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Lauren Robel, administrative member of The Bloomington Faculty Council speaks during the Bloomington Faculty Council meeting held at Kelley Business School Feb. 17, 2015. The meetings are held every Tuesday in the IMU.

BFC talks Arts and Humanities

By Eman Mozaffar emozaffa@indiana.edu @emanmozaffar

The Arts and Humanities Council aims to publicize current cultural opportunities and to make the liberal arts an essential part of all schools, council director Edward Comentale told faculty members at the Bloomington Faculty Council meeting Tuesday.

The council, which has been in effect for nine months, works with nonscholarly communities and departmental organizations to promote on-campus cultural activities and curriculum reform.

“There has been a lot of talk about the crisis in the arts and humanities, but I see these disciplines as victims of their own successes,” said Comentale, who is also a professor in IU’s English department.

“We have a great number of programs on campus, but

we need to improve student accessibility.”

Members of the council include faculty and staff from several backgrounds across campus, as well as students who provide input to help with planning and promotion.

Comentale said the liberal arts are an instrumental part of every area of study, including professional schools.

One of the council’s primary objectives is to think more flexibly about disciplinary boundaries and to incorporate liberal arts skills to all groups, even business and computer science students.

“Our plans echo what’s happening on a national level,” Comentale said.

“We’re thinking progressively, and as a lot of our campus is being rebuilt and reinvested, we want to make sure the arts and humanities aren’t left behind.”

Many of the goals of the Arts and Humanities

Council fall underneath the Bicentennial Strategic Plan, IU’s comprehensive vision to guide its campuses into its third century by promoting economic development, scholasticism and student success.

The second objective of the plan emphasizes the cultivation of graduates who advocate for the arts and humanities, as well as creative expression.

Comentale said he hopes to contribute by exposing students to thematic content and cultural enrichment.

In the past year, the council issued a survey that asked students about their opinions and concerns regarding the arts and humanities.

Most respondents understood the liberal arts as a leisurely pursuit, rather than one that is essential to a strong education.

“Humanities was a term that not many students

could define,” Comentale said. “As a community of educated people, we understand this to be a significant problem.”

The solution is to showcase research and creativity, Comentale said. His council has several events planned for the future, including a global arts and humanities festival, an interactive arts walk and a humanities research laboratory.

The group is also in the process of building a comprehensive website, which will include a searchable events calendar and the virtual arts walk of on-campus buildings, student performances and photos.

“I think this initiative is a great way to expand what the arts and humanities are doing,” Alex Tanford, professor emeritus of law, said.

“We must, however, continue to add people from other communities and organizations because this council is covering a lot of ground.”

James Scott, a prolific political anthropologist, will be presenting two Patten lectures next month at IU. Scott will evaluate the history of stateless zones and human organization in modern states in his lectures.

Scott serves as the Sterling Professor of political science, a professor of anthropology and a professor in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

He is also founding director of an agrarian studies program at Yale University.

As an activist, Scott works on behalf of people in Southeast Asia. He has worked in several minority communities in the Burmese uplands by supporting democratic opposition in the country, according to an IU press release.

Both of Scott’s Patten lectures are free and open to the public. They will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Franklin Hall.

On Tuesday, March 8, Scott will deliver his address “The Domestication of Fire, Plants, Animals ... and Us.” This lecture will tackle the process of human organization into states.

Scott will explain how the histories of statehood, social contracts, agriculture, reproduction and property can help answer questions about future human development.

On Thursday, March 10, Scott will deliver his address “A Brief History of Flight from the State.”

In this lecture, Scott will explore the role of stateless zones such as “Zomia,” an area in Southeast Asia that has always evaded the reach of various governments.

He will outline the geography and social structures contributing to state avoid-

ance and the historical precedent of Zomia as a haven for state-fleeing James Scott refugees.

Scott has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He holds an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Scott received Japan’s Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize and the University of Copenhagen’s Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development.

On a farm in rural Connecticut, Scott raises sheep, chickens and bees, according to a press release. This rural lifestyle is invaluable for Scott.

He said it helps him have a better understanding of the people on whom his research is centered: those who live independently of the government and formal markets.

He has also written several books, including “Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed,” “Domination and the Arts of Resistance” and “Weapons of the Weak.”

Many of these works also focus on resistance movements, human organization and grassroots politics.

The Patten lecture series started in 1937 and is the oldest lecture series at IU. The series is funded through the William T. Patten Foundation and seeks to bring distinguished scholars in the humanities, arts and sciences to Bloomington for a week.

More than 150 scholars have been brought to the University through the series since it began.

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IU Study finds genetic diversity in plants From IDS reports

New research from the IU Department of Biology is exploring the importance of genetic diversity in plants.

Spearheaded by Professor Leonie C. Moyle, the research focuses on genetic divergences in 13 species of tomatoes, and the evolutionary developments that caused these divergences.

Moyle’s research was funded with a $1.18 million grant from the National Science Foundation, according to an IU press release.

“This study reveals new details about the unexpectedly complex genetic mechanisms that drive the diversification of plant species,” Moyle said in the press release.

Tomatoes were the ideal specimen for the research because they are an ecologically and reproductively diverse plant group, according to a press release. In May of 2014, Moyle visited Ecuador alongside a team of researchers to collect different species of tomatoes native to the Andes Mountains.

The research resulted from the study could be used to help cross-breed more resilient crops. This is particularly challenging in a time of drastic climate changes and also depends on researchers’ ability to boost crops’ resistance to pests and severe weather.

“There are lots of potentially valuable traits in wild tomatoes,” Moyle said in the press release. “Our ability to precisely trace genetic histories in these species might help plant breeders identify desirable traits that can be

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SURROUNDED BY GREENERY Wendy Anderson, Bloomington Urban Woodlands Project intern, checks the condition of plants in the greenhouse in Jordan Hall on Tuesday afternoon.

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The wild currant tomato is a potential source for enhancing natural genetic trait diversity in domesticated tomatoes.

re-introduced from wild species into commercial types using cross-breeding.”

With the help of modern technology, IU’s researchers analyzed the “flow of genes” between the different species of tomatoes and examine the genetic roots of their genetic adaptations.

Three “genetic strategies” of the tomato’s fast adaptation skills were identified in the team’s research: the “recruitment” of genes from a common ancestral pool, trading genes between species through natural crossbreeding and new genes arising from “de novo” evolution.

The last of these — the surprising number of new

genes — is evidence of many mutations in tomatoes’ genetic pools. The researchers found hundreds to thousands of mutations in protein codes in groups from the four larger groups of tomatoes used in the study.

For example, all the species that most resemble the domesticated tomato displayed changes in 10 enzymes contributing to the distinctive red pigment.

Other examples of genetic variations demonstrated more extreme differences, producing tomato species capable of surviving in “the driest deserts on Earth and the high peaks of the Andes,” said James B. Pease, a postdoctoral researcher

who was a Ph.D. student at IU during the study, in the release.

“Although wild tomato species are very different in many traits from the domesticated tomatoes we eat by the millions, they are surprisingly similar at the genomic level,” Pease said in the press release.

Other contributors to the study were Matthew W. Hahn, professor in the IU School of Informatics and Computing and Department of Biology, and David C. Haak of Virginia Tech, another postdoctoral researcher at IU at the time of the study.

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IDP endorses congressional candidates

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The Indiana Democratic Party announced Tuesday it would formally endorse candidates running for congressional positions.

The party will endorse Baron Hill for the Senate and Lynn Coleman and Angela Demaree for Indiana’s second and fifth

congressional districts, respectively.

“Baron, Lynn and Angela won’t be like their out-of-touch Republican opponents, who have thrust their ideology ahead of the well-being of Hoosiers,” IDP Chairman John Zody said in a press release.

IU professor launches luxury baby shoe line

By Melanie Metzman mmetzman@indiana.edu @melanie_metzman

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Michael May teaches children how to play chess at Fairview Elementary School on Tuesday afternoon. May goes to the school every week to teach kids how to play chess.

Residents teach kids chess, life lessons Cody Thompson Comthomp@indiana.edu @codymichael3

Large chess boards rested on stands in front of a group of bright-eyed and eager children at Fairview Elementary School.

Bloomington native Michael May and several other volunteers, teach chess to children who participate in the after-school program sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department every Tuesday. These lessons include the basics of chess strategies: where the best and worst squares are, how to attack and how to defend the king.

“Can anyone show me where the weakest spaces on the board are?” May said.

To this question many students raised their hands excitedly, but all of their answers resulted a response of “Good guess” from May. Eventually May showed them the two weakest points on the chessboard.

“Now, can someone show me the strongest points on the chess board?” May said.

Again, many hands rose into the air, but this time the first student correctly identified the four strongest spaces.

These lessons are not only about the best and worst spaces or how to circumvent an opponent’s knight.

There is much more about

these lessons than just chess, May said.

“Chess is not about chess,” May said. “Chess is a metaphor for life and we have no interest in chess. We have an interest in teaching life skills and teaching life skills over a chess board.”

Apart from chess, May teaches applied contemporary mythology.

“By the fourth move of the game, there are now 315 billion possible board positions, which, for me at least, is unthinkable,” May said.

“So by the fourth move of this chess game, this child, who’s 10 years old, is thinking about the unthinkable.

They’re looking into the deep abyss, and from those 315 billion possibilities they have to choose one, just like life.”

There were six tables positioned around the room with chess boards on which the children were able to practice.

Bloomington High School North freshman Ben Foley has been playing chess for about two and a half years and has recently started giving private lessons in addition to volunteering at Fairview.

Foley was the opposition to a group game of chess.

May would ask the children where to move their piece.

Foley would then call out, from behind the children, the piece he would like to

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KEY Strongest Weakest Volunteer Michael May teaches children at Fairview Elementary School where the weakest and strongest points are on the chess board.

move and the position he would like to move it to in order to counter them.

After doing so, May would ask the children where they would like to move in response, critique their choices and explain Foley’s.

“I love teaching and teaching chess and working with kids and adults,” Foley said.

Each child was paired with a volunteer.

“If I move my piece here, what would you do then?” volunteer Patricia Lopes said to one student she was playing against.

Lopes has been volunteering for this program since last October.

“I get to connect with children and try to understand how I can impact their lives as much as they’ve impacted mine,” Lopes said.

Conversation continues as Indy recycling center halts

By Anne Halliwell ahalliwe@indiana.edu @Anne_Halliwell

Production on a controversial Advanced Recycling Center has been temporarily halted while Indianapolis gathers feedback from interested parties.

The recycling center contract with Covanta Indianapolis, Inc., a waste and energy corporation, has been suspended for 90 days, Mayor Joe Hogsett of Indianapolis announced in a press release.

“Leadership begins with listening, and I believe Indianapolis deserves a true community conversation before we move forward with any waste and recycling plan,” Hogsett said in the release. “I appreciate Covanta’s willingness to agree to this effort as we work toward a long-term solution that best serves our neighborhoods and our environment.”

The Indiana Recycling Coalition supported the mayor, saying the decision will further better recycling goals in the city.

According to the proposal for the Covanta Advanced Recycling Center, Indianapolis residents would send household waste and recy-

clables to the city’s facility in a single bin to be separated onsite.

When it was proposed, Covanta stated that the ARC would increase recycling in Indianapolis five times, as the city does not have a recycling program in place.

Whether the method would increase recycling in families who don’t already own a separate bin or contaminate materials that would have been properly disposed of ordinarily is questionable, Indiana Recycling Coalition Director Carey Hamilton said.

According to Covanta’s “Frequently Asked Questions” about the ARC proposal, the facility could have recovered as much as 80-90 percent of recyclable material from the mixed-bins, as long as that material met or exceeded industry guidelines and could be sold.

However, the actual recovery rate would be dependent on the amount and quality of paper, plastics and metal found in the bins.

Hamilton argued that gains would be negligible after bottles and cans were mixed in with organic waste.

“The material is very contaminated,” Hamilton said.

“If it is pulled out, it’s too contaminated for cities to reuse.”

Hamilton said the IRC had opposed the plan for the ARC since it was proposed two years ago.

Covanta didn’t respond to the IDS’s request for a comment by press time Tuesday.

The agreement for the recycling center was drawn up during former Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard’s term.

“Unlike most other cities and towns, Indy doesn’t really provide recycling for all of its citizens,” Hamilton said.

But the suspension, she said, is an opportunity to renegotiate what a city-wide recycling program could look like.

Hamilton said she hopes for a city-wide recycling program that makes waste reduction easier and cheaper for all of Indianapolis.

Providing recycling carts for all citizens, as well as increasing education and making more recycling drop-offs for small businesses to use would be a good start, she said.

“We’re excited that with the decision in Indianapolis ... we’ll be able to have a positive impact and grow recycling in Indiana,” Hamilton said.

The ability to run a business might be genetic, IU art history professor Michelle Facos said. Both her grandmother and great grandmother started a moving business, so Facos grew up playing with paper cutters in their offices and riding along on the moving trucks.

Today, Facos manages her own company, MooseBooties, with her business partner Felix Backhaus, a senior at Georgetown University.

The company started selling directly to consumers through their website, moosebooties.com, on Feb. 1.

The booties are made from moose leather — hence the name — which women sew in their homes near Krakow, Poland, Facos said.

“It’s very rare,” Facos said. “That’s why it’s such a big deal.”

Facos said she was inspired to start the business when one February she was in Sweden, where she lives during the summers.

She saw moose leather for sale at a traditional trade fair in a small town in the northern part of the country.

Moose are frequently hunted in Scandinavia, but hunters generally only wanted the meat, so the skins were thrown out, Facos said. The skin was considered essentially unusable due to its extremely stretchy nature.

“Moose leather is inherently really stretchy,” Facos said. “You could make a belt when you were 12, and it would fit you when you were old and fat.”

In the mid-1990s, Finnish tanners discovered a process of treating moose leather to make it not stretch, Facos said. The leather Facos uses is currently tanned in a town in northern Finland by one man. Since this technique was invented so recently, moose leather isn’t very common.

Due to moose leather’s soft and strong tendencies, there are many things she could think to do with the material, Facos said.

She began to investigate the industry and discovered there were no companies making baby booties from moose leather.

Backhaus, her business partner, said compared to other baby shoe brands, he thinks MooseBooties goes above and beyond when it comes to quality.

“Usually a lot of these small baby shoe brands don’t even talk about what leather they use,” Backhaus said. “We haven’t found

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Moosebooties, sold by IU art history professor Michelle Facos, are made with moose leather from Scandinavia. The boots are sown by women in Krakow, Poland before being shipped to the States.

“I wanted to make something that is giving joy and improving peoples lives, which in a way is a similar mission to what I do as an art history professor.”

Michelle Facos, IU art history professor and Moosebooties founder

any other brands that use high-quality leather.”

Facos said she wanted to incorporate high-quality products into her vision for the brand. Brainstorming began when Facos’ stepdaughter, who studied costume design, made a few models based off of Facos’s ideas. Facos gave them to friends as gifts.

“They loved them,” Facos said. “They thought they were so cool, and their friends wanted them, too.”

Facos partnered with Backhaus in 2014 shortly after this, and the two worked to create a business plan and find a manufacturer.

Now, MooseBooties is fully up and running.

Backhaus said he believes what sets MooseBooties apart is that the business has an art historian as its chief designer.

“I think Michelle really has an eye for design as an art historian,” Backhaus said.

Facos said she wants MooseBooties to be a great, unique baby present. Her envisioned demographic, she said, is nature-oriented people interested in upscale, luxury baby items.

“A lot of the times, people and grandparents are wondering, ‘What can I give that’s a really singular baby present?’” Facos said. “People give spoons, cups, dishes and layettes, but who’s giving Moose-

Booties? I mean, nobody is doing that.”

MooseBooties also places emphasis on being ecological, Facos said.

All of the materials used to make the product have been tested and treated so they’re not toxic, which is especially important when dealing with babies, Facos said.

“I was always concerned when my daughter was small about things being ecological and organic and all that kind of thing,” Facos said. “I wanted to make something that is giving joy and improving peoples lives, which in a way is a similar mission to what I do as an art history professor.”

Facos said the business is a time-consuming, challenging hobby. On top of continuing to teach, she said she hopes to grow the business in the future by producing baby mittens and adult MooseBooties, and maybe eventually sell the products through boutiques, ski resorts, cruise ships and hotels. MooseBooties will be expanding to Europe in 2017.

Facos said she knew this business was a great idea when she gave a pair of MooseBooties to a friend last week, and the baby couldn’t stop petting the soft shoes.

“To me, that was a sign that we’re doing the right thing,” Facos said.

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Pres. Obama gives Trump a dose of reality Since he announced his candidacy, Donald Trump has risen to great popularity among voters. President Obama had some not-so-kind words for him.

The president explained “being president is a serious job. It’s not hosting a talk show or a

reality show.” He said the American people are sensible enough to not elect Trump.

Many have doubted Trump’s seriousness and viability as a president.

It is up to voters to choose whether they want reality or reality TV.

SLICE OF SOMETHING REAL

The cost of justice in Ferguson, Missouri Ferguson, Missouri, is still in a state of crisis a year and a half after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson.

Last January, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil rights suit against the Ferguson Police Department after the city council contested portions of a deal to reform the broken police and court system in the city.

Now the city of Ferguson is stuck between two choices that continue to punish its citizens.

The Department of Justice presented the Ferguson city council with a plan that would keep the city out of court and help to remedy their racial issues. The plan costs almost $4 million in its first year.

Considering the city has a $2.5 million deficit after the civil unrest following Brown’s death, the added cost in police overtime and legal fees means the implementation of the Justice Department’s plan will put the city into bankruptcy.

The alternative to adopting and implementing the reforms laid out by the DOJ is to go to trial, which is estimated to cost the city another eight million dollars.

This money would come from property and sales taxes paid by Ferguson citizens.

There is some question as to whether the city

RACHEL MILLER is a senior in art history and political science.

council is inflating these cost estimates in order to keep vestiges of the current justice system, but that has yet to be proven.

If the citizens of Ferguson could trust the current city council to use the money to reform their justice system, they might be willing to agree to raise taxes.

But the citizens of Ferguson do not want to pay for court fees for crimes they did not commit. Nor should the citizens of Ferguson have to pay for the overhaul of the justice system.

In the end, the perpetrators are not the people being punished or the ones forced to pay for their crimes against the citizens of Ferguson.

The DOJ needs to come up with a solution that punishes the criminals and overhauls the city’s broken justice system.

Either direction taken by the current plan puts further burden on the citizens of Ferguson. It doesn’t do enough against the leaders who setup an unconstitutional justice system in the city. rcm2@indiana.edu @RachelCMiller1

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Gender equality in a galaxy far far away

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The surveillance of things WE SAY: Government surveillance is ineffective From self-teaching thermostats to voice-controlled TVs, “smart” home devices offer the potential to integrate cutting-edge technology into everyday appliances.

But many forget the security risks that come with sharing private information through these devices.

James Clapper, the United States director of national intelligence, told the Senate that the internet capabilities of smart home technology will open the door for government surveillance.

Clapper said intelligence agency access to these devices would provide information such as identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking and more.

We, the Editorial Board, believe such data collection and surveillance is harmful and ineffective.

Data collection in this manner would likely be legal

under the Patriot Act, which in 2001 granted the United States government the ability to create domestic mass surveillance programs.

But despite the legality of these programs, the Pew Research Center reported 54 percent of Americans disagree with the bulk data collecting done by government agencies.

Such surveillance programs became exposed in 2013 after Edward Snowden revealed the National Security Agency’s surveillance activity.

Now, the possibility of a “Big Brother” scenario raises questions about the effectiveness of national mass surveillance.

To put it simply, this level of privacy invasion should be allowed only if it provides major advancements in national security.

President Obama and intelligence officials

regularly claim domestic surveillance is successful, even claiming it has saved lives.

However, studies from the New America Foundation and a White House review panel showed the total number of terrorist attacks stopped by the NSA’s bulk data collecting was neither effective nor essential.

It’s also thought that intelligence agencies are already backed up with too much data.

William Binney, a former NSA worker turned whistleblower, said the NSA failed to stop terrorist activities such as the Boston Bombing and the Paris attacks simply because there was too much information to sift through.

If intelligence agencies like the NSA or CIA were to collect audio heard through smart TVs or location information recorded by cars with built-in WiFi, the problem would surely in-

crease.

It could render all mass surveillance programs virtually useless.

It’s not enough that millions of phone calls and emails have been hoarded.

Now, your TV viewing habits and thermostat settings are worthy of collection, too.

Even if you believe you have nothing to hide, the invasion of privacy created when using smart home devices should make anyone feel uneasy. What you believe is safe today could be considered dangerous in the future.

There are certain lines that should not be crossed in realm of privacy. Covertly gathering data through smart home devices crosses that line.

U.S. intelligence organizations should instead work on building a better program to make the world a safer place.

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Following the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” one of the most anticipated pieces of entertainment media in the 21st century, I expected stores to start carrying action figures of one of the main characters of the film, the intrepid scavenger Rey. Instead, I saw nothing but action figures with villain Kylo Ren plastered front and center, and many didn’t even feature Rey at all.

It’s disappointing Hollywood continues to downplay female characters in the promotional materials of its films, even if said female characters are major parts of a film’s story.

Even though “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has been out since December, I’m a firm stickler for spoiler culture so I’m going to start discussing plot points that were featured in the movie from this point onward.

Rey, along with characters Poe Dameron and Finn, is part of a new trilogy of Star Wars films.

What was noteworthy about the characters from the original trilogy is they were all played by white actors and didn’t feature a woman in the role of the hero.

The new trilogy of films, beginning with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” features a trio of performers who are more diverse than the previous casts and also increases the importance of the major female character in the story.

Oscar Isaac, who plays Poe, is Latino and John Boyega, an African-American man, plays Finn.

This brings us to the importance of Rey’s character.

The main woman in each of the previous Star Wars trilogies was not the protagonist of the films she was in.

In The Force Awakens, however, Rey is the main protagonist.

Rey is the character we spend the most time with in the film, as we see her life on the isolated desert world of Jakku as she scavenges

TRISTAN FITZPATRICK is a junior in journalism and history.

old starships for parts. Rey is the one who faces off against the evil Ren in the film’s climax. Rey travels to find Luke Skywalker at the end of the film to bring him back to fight the First Order.

Yet in the early merchandising of the film, one was hard-pressed to find anything resembling a heroic Rey action figure fearlessly clutching a lightsaber.

According to the A.V. Club, this problem has happened before.

When Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2014 and introduced its first line of merchandising from the original trilogy, there were no dolls of Leia that fans could purchase.

Yet every major male character could be found in stores.

It was only after fans pressured Disney on social media that the company finally began offering Leia dolls.

Why exclude female characters from merchandising of Star Wars movies?

I’m sure part of the answer lies in the thinking of marketing executives who believe that boys are the only ones who enjoy Star Wars movies.

If the science fiction future of the Star Wars movies is any indication of anything, however, it’s that women can and will do awesome things in the galaxy.

Leia takes command of Rebel troops several times in the original trilogy, for example, and no male character questions her leadership or battle strategies.

The toys from the Star Wars films should reflect the ambition and accomplishments of its female characters.

After all, is it so difficult to imagine gender equality in a galaxy far, far away? ttfitzpa@indiana.edu @tfitzwrites

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Mr. Anderson, I’m sorry you feel as if Beyoncé’s halftime performance was an inappropriate example to America’s black community. As an AfricanAmerican woman who grew up in a south suburb of Chicago, I think I am well versed in the “black community” as you put it. First and foremost, Beyoncé paid homage not only to the Black Panther Party but to Michael Jackson as well. Additionally, her dancers helped raise awareness of an African American man, Mario Woods, who was shot and killed by the San Francisco police.

I do not believe that many people knew of this.

Secondly, your article wanted to explain the history of the Black Panthers but you left out several KEY details: 1) It was founded by Dr. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale (educated black men) in 1966 in Oakland, California, to arm citizens and create citizen patrols to monitor the behavior of the police and the police brutality.

(Now remember this is the 1960s where black people did not have civil rights, couldn’t eat or drink at the same place as whites and were often beat and unjustly jailed. Yes, the Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1964, but everyone did not immediately welcome mi-

nority peoples with open arms.)

2) In 1969, the Black Panther Party started bringing in community programs to help African American people. They provided the “Free Breakfast for School Children” program, community health clinics, explanation of laws in their newsletter, etc.

3) It is known that the U.S. government targeted black groups (especially militant) to dissolve them. Lastly, you spoke of the ammo belt that Beyoncé wore, but if you know anything about previous Super Bowl entertainers, you would know that she was paying homage to Michael Jackson.

So Mr. Anderson, I’m sorry you felt offended by Beyoncé, but she is using her platform to raise light to injustices that African American people have faced for years. We are here and the system has tried to keep us down in many ways, but in the words of Kendrick Lamar: We gonna be alright!

In the future, I ask you do not have opinion pieces where you have not researched the matter fully and you also obtain the opinion of the other side as well.

Aisha Burton burtonai@umail.iu.edu

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Justice Antonin Scalia’s enduring legacy will forever remain in Bush v. Gore.

Nothing he ever said, wrote or did compares to the influence of his vote and authorship of the majority decision.

This man, who claimed to revere the U.S. Constitution, ignored Article II, Section 1, which stipulates that disputes in presidential elections are to be resolved by the House of

Representatives.

In so doing, he subverted the Constitution, gave our nation the worst president in its history and belied the ideal that the Supreme Court transcends partisan politics.

Claude Cookman, Ph.D. ccookman@indiana.edu Professor Emeritus Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-7108

CRAZY IS MAJORITY RULES

Getting information from various sources It’s quite common to have a go-to source for information and news. I’m primarily a consumer of science-related media.

Someone else might be interested in some other niche area of information: video games, sports, celebrity news or whatever the case may be.

The niches we sometimes settle in have been on the rise for a while now, according to a 2009 report from the Pew Research Center.

This hurts general news outlets, and undercuts the diversity of information consumed by any given individual.

A 2015 study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used network science models on social media to see how rumors and misinformation tend to spread through social

media.

The study found echo chambers isolate niches in which information resonates, relatively without external influence.

These echo chambers were prevalent among scientific news consumers and conspiracy theorists.

As described in the paper, these communities are usually “homogenous and polarized” and have “similar information consumption patterns.”

According to the article, this polarization and homogeneity lead “to proliferation of biased narratives fomented by unsubstantiated rumors, mistrust, and paranoia.”

A professor from the Rochester Institute of Technology found politically-derogatory prejudices and rumors spread easily in Demo-

crat and Republican-only groups of people.

But when the groups mixed democratic and republican members, the ideas didn’t gain as much of a foothold.

Even from a purely pedestrian standpoint this makes sense.

Take for example the upcoming election: there have been countless examples on social media of straw-man attacks on various candidates.

These tend to be ignored by those who disagree and affirmed by those who agree, which allows the attack to gain strength within its own echo chamber.

The real takeaway from these studies and from the election media is we need to be wary of our own tendencies to form echo chambers like this.

We should acknowledge

Jacob Worrell is a freshman in neuroscience.

what looks to us like harmless niche media consumption may seem to others like narrow-minded promotion of a biased narrative.

Unfortunately, no single individual can do anything significant about the formation of these biases, but we can vary our own consumption of information in order to transcend our penchant, and firmly promote a simple, narrow worldview.

This might not extend far beyond our own minds.

But as a matter of personal health it certainly benefits us to broaden our exploration of the world around us and to remain aware of the faults in our own information consumption habits. jacob.worrell@gmail.com

FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH

North Korea has an information problem As you peruse the Indiana Daily Student, you have at your fingertips the most powerful weapon known to humanity. Information.

We are lucky to live in a country that was built upon Enlightenment ideals of rational thought and the protection of certain freedoms and liberties. We have never wanted for information.

We are bombarded with information and opinions ceaselessly from every direction. Sometimes, it is difficult to separate fact from fallacy.

Last month, North Korea made alarming yet unsurprising headlines. It had conducted another nuclear test.

This is North Korea’s second in the last three years.

In North Korea, a country defined by its atrocious human rights record as well as the state’s notoriously controlling hand, information is scant. Communication of any sort is likely to come directly from the government,

along with nearly everything else.

As threats of military intervention ring hollow with the state, the dilemma in North Korea must be tackled by other means, and it’s clear the world is catching on.

Following the test launch, South Korea restarted its counter-propaganda offensive against its northern neighbors.

The strategy involves placing loudspeakers along the border which broadcast factbased news, messages critical of North Korean head of state Kim Jong-un, as well as K-pop music.

These unconventional tactics have inspired fear in the North Korean government.

Following similar past efforts

by South Korea, Pyongyang launched artillery toward the south after demanding a cessation of the broadcasts.

The legitimacy of Kim’s regime rests on the state’s ability to indoctrinate its people with a carefully-crafted ideology

promoting loyalty to government above all else and decrying the evils of capitalism.

South Korea’s efforts are eroding this legitimacy, and it’s time for the United States to launch similar efforts to leak counter-propaganda into the north.

In the Age of Information, ideas travel at blistering rates, and even Kim’s all-powerful hand is being challenged.

As information seeps through the cracks of North Korea’s previously impregnable borders, brainwashed North Koreans are able to get a glimpse of the real world.

Increased flow of unadulterated information has not only opened minds, but is also emboldening North Koreans to take real action.

Over the years, hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have crossed the borders into China and South Korea, and more are defecting each day.

A study by the Seoul National University’s Institute

DANIEL KILCULLEN is a sophomore in marketing and sustainable business.

for Peace and Unification confirmed an influence of foreign media.

Of the nearly 150 defectors surveyed, 80 percent had been exposed to South Korean entertainment items.

It seems the best way to combat a regime that has so unilaterally deprived its people of information, the most basic nourishment of the mind, is to continue the work that has already started.

Instead of continuing our policy of nonaction against North Korea or threatening military intervention, we need to do what we can to ensure that this flow of information continues to spread.

The lone weapon capable of turning Kim’s regime upside down does not have any nuclear capabilities. It’s information. dkilcull@indiana.edu

Mr. Anderson’s recent column clearly cherrypicked facts in an attempt to either distort the history of the Black Panther Party or merely to incite controversy (maybe both?). And many IU faculty, staff and other students are better equipped than I am to defend the BPP’s history and mission.

But to me, Mr. Anderson’s ignorance, willful or not, is part of a bigger problem here.

What concerns me is many of us here at IU are not adequately prepared to fight this ignorance in our community, as we are not exposed to the history of groups like the BPP or the issues they stood for.

As a community, we can only fight ignorance

and hate when we have the knowledge and understanding to identify it and push back.

Yes, Mr. Anderson’s warped view is very disturbing. But why don’t we have courses where those views are brought to light and debated in the classroom? Why aren’t students, like myself, more willing to have conversations on race with people who hold different views?

The more we are all educated about issues of race in America, the more likely our IU community will be able to stand up to ignorance.

Jalen Walker Kelley School of Business Indiana University walkejal@indiana.edu

NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS

Presidents are not perfect either Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, isn’t very popular. If you heard something about Harding on Presidents Day, it probably wasn’t anything positive.

A 2015 poll conducted by the American Political Science Association rated Harding 42nd out of 43 presidents. However, I don’t agree that Harding should be at the bottom of the barrel. For one thing, Harding fought for the protection of rights.

The early 20th century was plagued by racism. In 1920, an average of two black Americans were victims of lynching every week, according to the NAACP. Woodrow Wilson, Harding’s predecessor, imposed internment on German Americans during World War I and also signed the free speech-restricting Espionage Act of 1917 — the same law that was recently used to justify charges against Edward Snowden.

Amid these national struggles, Harding became a president who stood up for civil rights.

He fought against racism in the South with passionate speeches and vigorous support for a civil rights law that was, unfortunately, defeated in the Senate.

Harding did succeed in desegregating the White House. Further, in an act of political kindness, Harding pardoned the Socialist Eugene V. Debs, who had been imprisoned just for speaking out against the U.S. government because of the Espionage Act. Despite how often Harding tackled moral issues, it could be argued his most remarkable triumphs lay in economics. In 1920, a depression damaged the U.S. economy.

Stock prices plummeted and businesses

failed.

Although unemployment wasn’t officially measured before World War II, economists Stanley Lebergott and Christina Romer estimate unemployment within the U.S. spiked to nearly 12 percent within a year of the crash.

This, the 1920-21 Depression, is what Harding inherited on day one.

The reason this economic emergency didn’t receive a fancy name is probably due to how quickly the situation turned around.

By the time Harding died in office two years later, he had helped unemployment bottom out at 3 percent. He had kicked off the Roaring Twenties.

Does this man deserve to be remembered as one of America’s worst presidents?

Harding’s critics point to his character flaws.

Admittedly, he was notorious for drinking, gambling and having extramarital affairs.

Worse, his administration became associated with scandals that shook Americans’ trust in the government, but those scandals were caused by the untrustworthy friends to whom Harding had given Cabinet positions.

As far as historians know, Harding himself never plunged his hands into the mud. In my mind, Harding’s faults shouldn’t overshadow his wide-ranging accomplishments.

Even the best presidents have a dark side. The world doesn’t need perfect leaders; it simply needs the good in them to outweigh the bad. That is how Harding deserves to be remembered.

People aren’t perfect, and neither are presidents. mitcchri@indiana.edu @AtlasMitchell

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In regard to housing, Hamilton advocated for pursuing inclusionary zoning and long-term affordability.

“We need to protect mixed-income neighborhoods,” he said.

The audience agreed, cheering.

Hamilton mourned that the state government is pulling more than a million dollars away from public schools to private schools through unlimited vouchers. He vowed to meet with teachers and parents and to work for a referendum in the fall.

Looking to the future, the mayor said he is eager for the chance to try new things with the support of citizen involvement and engagement.

“Our government does not need unloving critics and we don’t need uncritical lovers,” he said. “We need loving critics who will roll up their sleeves and be the doers for our great city.”

This type of creative, for-

ward-thinking governing will involve, in part, what Hamilton called the city’s “string of pearls.”

The string is the B-Line trail and the pearls are the Technology Park, the current location of the IU Health Bloomington Hospital, Switchyard Park and the Monroe County Convention Center.

Interim Deputy Mayor Mick Renneisen said this was the part of the speech he found “most impactful.”

“Those are the catalysts that make everything happen,” he said of the prominent organizations that make up Bloomington’s downtown.

Renneisen said the hospital is moving to a new location, so there’s an opportunity to do something new and exciting with the space. He also said talks surrounding the expansion of the convention center have been circulating for a while.

After showing charts, graphs and photos of children, the Sample Gates and the strings of holiday lights twinkling above the downtown square, Hamilton

the paint, Michigan State moved back up the court on the fast break and found an open man behind the 3-point line. Alvin Ellis III made the 3-pointer to give the Spartans a 17-point lead, the largest of the game to that point.

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returned to optimism and opportunity.

He praised the city for supporting LGBT rights, for standing with Planned Parenthood and for having teachers that “perform miracles.” He pledged to put solar panels on city hall, to support an education referendum and to welcome new businesses.

There are plenty of problems, some that he probably doesn’t even know about yet, he said.

But when looking at a list by reporter James Fallows called “Eleven Signs a

City Will Succeed,” he said he thinks Bloomington is doing pretty well.

He flashed one through 10 on the Powerpoint overhead.

Among the qualifiers were: near a research university, a community college they care about and they have big plans.

It was number 11, though, that he saved for last: “They have craft breweries.”

“We’re on the move with a year of action ahead,” he said.

“So I’ll see you in the lobby now or in a craft brewery soon.”

out to his shows,” he said. “People are going to come from Ohio and Indianapolis.

Caroline Marchildon said she will be attending the event.

She works with Bloomington’s Secretly Group, a group of independent labels.

Oldham has a big, established following, she said in an email interview.

His popularity merits him to perform at the 600-maximum population venue, Marchildon said.

The Buskirk-Chumley is well-suited for acoustic, intimate performances, Marchildon said.

“Playing in a room like that sort of elevates the night right off the bat,” she said.

Oldham is performing only three shows in February, with stops in Bloomington, Chicago and Champaign, Illinois.

Crean said the poor shooting brought down his entire game and that can’t happen.

“Troy didn’t do a good enough job impacting the game on the boards,” Crean said. “He didn’t do a good enough job defensively, and it’s not about the jump shot.

It’s about continuing to impact the game.”

“A Will Oldham show is, in any capacity, such a rare occurrence that it always brings out a good crowd,” he said.

After missing a performance of his a few years ago, Marchildon said she has been waiting to make up for her absence.

In January, Oldham released “Pond Scum,” a collection of old BBC sessions that were previously unreleased.

Because of this recent release, Marchildon said she expects Oldham to perform songs off of “Pond Scum.”

He might have a full band, Marchildon said, but Oldham will probably perform some solo, acoustic songs.

“Since the album he just put out is a collection of recordings from old sessions, his set might pull from a wider range of his records than if he were supporting a completely new album,” Marchildon said.

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week of freezing temperatures, paparazzi harassment and increased Uber calls, New York Fashion Week is the industry’s high point for each season, an Oscars or Grammys-type affair for the stylistically inclined.

But whereas an award show assesses its winners in a quantitative measure with rankings or statuette prizes, the pre-show red carpet evaluates in a more qualitative degree, assessing which looks are most cogent or stimulating in the overall picture.

This season’s New York Fashion Week has taken upon the grading system of the latter. No longer praising the collections we thought were simply best, it instead recognizes the designers who proved most efficacious or causative to the system of fashion week as an entity.

Now, more than ever, we’re focused on the future of fashion by questioning a variety of variables that might constitute how the industry will run in coming seasons. These questions are less about the clothes themselves and more about the overall process: how do we want to fashion our fashion?

In search of answers, New York designers have spent the past week experimenting with new venues, presentations, online experiences and retail timelines, all turning this season into a sartorial sound board to test run every possibility.

With their experiments, the week became a race toward what we might expect for the future of fashion week, each new day begging the same question: how should labels showcase their collections, involve clients and pace production, all to serve both a brand’s creative processes and also the public’s fast-paced thirst of consumerism?

Now that each designer has submitted his answer and shown his collection, it’s time to choose which of them is best.

We started off Thursday with the show heard round the world, Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3.

While West’s participation in the fashion industry has sparked mixed reviews, Yeezy performed as the most elaborate investigation in how we choose to experience fashion.

Predominantly, West tampered with fashion’s environment by opting out of the typical SoHo gallery or loft for the 18,200 seats of Madison Square Garden, a considerable upgrade more appropriate to a concert than a fashion show.

But it was clear West’s collection wasn’t just a show, it was an event complete with a 21-foot-tall Jumbotron, more than 1,200 cast models and a two-hour time length that ran several times over the average designer show.

Yes, the experience was one to remember, but attendees were too busy spying on the Kardashian clan’s presidential box or trying to get on the Jumbotron to even notice the clothes. In all, Yeezy Season 3 argued the spectacle eclipsed the work, a slightly terrifying thought if used as the answer to the industry’s future.

Next came Rihanna’s design debut with Fenty x Puma, a collection of supposed athleisure that resonated as hip-hop counterculture mixed with a myriad of tricked-out footwear.

But more than the clothes, Rihanna tapped into the question of fame and fashion’s dependency on a celebrity force.

The rise of social media-centered models like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner has already recognized the ILLUSTRATION BY MORGAN ANDERSON

Brielle Saggese is a freshman in journalism.

importance of an Instagram following (Hadid and Jenner have 62.5 million followers between their accounts).

As brands transition to mobile platforms and audiences, they’ve learned hiring a model who doubles as a celebrity utilizes that fame factor but doesn’t sacrifice the sartorial element of a look.

Puma reversed this formula, collaborating with Rihanna and her following and then transitioning her as a celebrity into a fashion career.

This time, the experiment worked and produced a show of interesting value, but celebrity stand-ins still may be a questionable long-term solution.

Sunday’s shows brought around many new voices, each offering a different view on the fashion week conundrum.

Victoria Beckham was the traditionalist, both in style and presentation.

Her models sported modernized corsets and bustiers in the standard Beckham houndstooth and tartan prints. She also continued in her theme of outerwear in a variety of weights and moods that were all well-received.

The show itself was much in the same style, appropriately set at the exquisite Cipriani 25 Broadway with a standard runway setup. And in the first row, her family (of course dressed in a matching color scheme) all sat in supportive duty.

J. Crew was the teacher of the bunch, giving a lesson in the creative and unexpected layering techniques we can all steal for next fall.

The collection mixed sophisticated pajama sets, cheetah print jackets and cotton candy knits, all in a playful whimsy that is often missing from the New York gravity.

The schooling sensation came from the lack of runway, instead J. Crew showcased models on one platform at the same time. This staging made it easier to appreciate each design but also seemed to squarely look at attendees, saying, “Now you go.”

The party animal was most definitely Diane von Furstenberg, who instructed her models to just dance.

Many clad in contemporary disco attire, the models did just that and threw one of the most lavish and well-dressed house parties one could imagine.

Alternatively, Tommy Hilfiger created romance by constructing a lavish ship in the middle of the stage with the earned name T.H. Atlantic.

The clothes that followed mirrored this sense of nautical make-believe and drafted a fashion week meant for the fanciful and illusioned.

Many more voices were heard with many more hopes for fashion’s future, and it’s important to assess all that we’ve seen, from Kanye’s concerto to DVF’s disco.

And ultimately, out of the many submissions, one clear theme can be determined: we’re not ready to have a winner because the future of fashion still has a long way to go.

No designer has caught on completely and no brand is entirely off the mark, but all have a clear amount of transition ahead and all show that they are open to the industry’s unknown possibility.

Whatever identity that becomes, here’s looking toward next week’s collections. bsaggese@indiana.edu

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Alumnae involved in Grammy victories From IDS reports

Three alumnae of the Jacobs School of Music were involved in work that won awards at Monday’s 58th annual Grammy Awards.

Laura Sisk, who graduated in 2010, won an album of the year award for Laura Sisk her work as an engineer on Taylor Swift’s “1989.” The album also won the award for best pop vocal album.

Two vocalists were also members of groups that won awards, according to a release from the Jacobs School.

Lindsey Lang, who studied in the Jacobs School’s Early Music Institute, is a member of the Kansas City Chorale, Lindsey Lang which won a best choral performance award for its “Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil.”

Angela Brown contributed vocals to “Ask Your Mama,” composer Laura KarpAngela man’s Brown multimedia adaptation of poet Langston Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.”

Several other Jacobs alumni and faculty members were nominated for awards in categories including best Latin jazz album and best opera recording.

Jack Evans

LIVING LA SEVILLA LOCA

What they fail to mention about studying abroad When people talk about their experiences abroad, they tell you how amazing living in a different country is, and how fun it is to taste the life of a jet setter traveling all the time, but they never tell you how hard it can really be living so far away from your loved ones.

This past weekend, my grandfather was admitted to the hospital with some sort of painful internal infection.

Unfortunately, he has been sick for several years, so I didn’t think much of it when my mom told me the news.

Then things were different.

I received a phone call early Friday morning with both of my parents on the line. When I heard their voices, I immediately panicked.

There is only one other time I can recall when my parents were talking to me on the same line. It was when they called me Saturday, January 14, 2014, to tell me my uncle had killed himself.

I couldn’t have these voices tell me something of that level of devastation when I wasn’t even remotely close to them to swallow the news.

My grandfather’s condition had worsened very fast overnight and my parents were on the phone to say my mom was about to get on a plane because the worst was a possibility. I was asked the impossible question of whether I wanted to fly home to be with my family.

I was speechless. I have made such a family of my own here in Spain, made of my friends and the family of my host mother. Additionally, would my grandfather want me to be there if it meant losing part of this once-in-a-lifetime experience?

I couldn’t make a decision in the moment, and my parents understood completely.

I have been extremely fortunate to have had all of

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Alyson Malinger, fourth, and some of her pseudo family celebrating Valentine’s Day or el dia de San Valentine.

my grandparents alive for the entirety of my life so far. Although it was inevitable they would eventually die, I never thought the odds would increase when I was more than 4,000 miles away.

Another thing people fail to mention about studying abroad is the friends you make here have the potential to be some of the most genuine people you will have the pleasure of encountering in your lifetime.

Once I found out the news, I informed my host mother and she immediately put me in her arms.

She brought me to one of her daughter’s houses close by and I met all five of her grandchildren.

I was immediately initiated as part of the family, no

questions asked. She kept telling me, “There is nothing you can do here but live your life,” and tried to provide as many distractions as possible to help me do just that.

After telling my host mother, I wrote a message in a group chat with some of my friends here and immediately received many messages of compassion and love. They made sure I had the perfect balance of alone time and distractions in making plans to fill up the empty weekend.

One of the hardest parts of this experience was the day my parents were supposed to get on a plane, first to visit my aunt in Berlin and then to visit me here in Spain.

They were forced to cancel their trip.

My mom is looking into other times she can visit before my semester is over, but my dad most likely won’t have the chance anymore due to the constraints of his job.

This column was originally going to be about their visit here, but, unfortunately, life gets in the way of plans sometimes.

Right now my grandfather is still in critical condition, but somehow, due to a power I usually don’t believe in, he is still alive and making progress. If anything was stopping me from feeling right at home here until now, those worries are erased.

If I didn’t feel comfortable during this semester, I wouldn’t be able to

ALYSON MALINGER is a junior in journalism.

function. I would be on the first plane back to the U.S. My piece of advice for anyone interested in studying abroad is to search for a family in your new home.

They will be your much needed support system for some of the best months of your life.

Enjoy every second and don’t forget to live. I said when I got here I wouldn’t say no to any adventure, and I will continue fulfill this goal with the time I have remaining. afmaling@indiana.edu

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Date set for last game of basketball season IU announced its last game of the regular season, against Maryland, will be at 4:30 p.m.

March 6.

The game will be aired on CBS. It will also be senior guard Yogi Ferrell’s last game in Assembly Hall and could decide who

wins the Big Ten regular season title.

Both IU and Maryland are in the top three of the Big Ten standings with five games remaining in the season.

IU plays fist place Iowa on road March 1 in Iowa City, Iowa.

MEN’S TENNIS

IU freshman more than just a tennis player

By Lionel Lim lalimwei@indiana.edu

Coming to the United States was an opportunity freshman Antonio Cembellin could not pass up.

The ability to pursue both tennis and a full-time degree at the same time was something Cembellin said was not available in Spain. He wanted a shot at being a professional tennis player, but he also wanted an education.

However, it was not as if Cembellin woke up one morning and receive numerous offers from colleges in the U.S. He had to put himself out there for his talents to be noticed.

“I posted my videos on YouTube for coaches to see and IU found it,” Cembellin said. “I also posted all my records online for coaches to see.”

Making a decision to pursue tennis full-time was also not done quickly.

Cembellin, from Avila, Spain, had a first love of soccer and supports Real Madrid. Cembellin’s father though, told him his frame was too slight to ever make the cut at the professional level.

Besides sports, Cembellin also studied in a conservatory in Spain, and he plays both the piano and the trumpet.

“I made the decision between tennis and soccer at 12,” Cembellin said. “Actually when I was 12 I was playing soccer, tennis and music. I have been playing the trumpet for 10 years and the piano for five.”

Cembellin was a recruit

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Freshman Antonio Cembellin celebrates after scoring a point against Washington’s Sebastian Hawken on Jan. 5 at the IU Tennis Center. Cembellin lost 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.

of former IU Coach Randy Bloemendaal, and the Spaniard eventually committed to the Hoosiers because he believed IU had a good academic program to complement its tennis.

“I feel that some schools are only good in tennis and not good in studies while some are only good in studies, but IU has both,” Cembellin said. “I’m studying

biotechnology here, and as kid I always wanted to do biotech or biochemistry.”

Though Bloemendaal recruited Cembellin, there were no complications with him getting up to speed with current coach Jeremy Wurtzman.

Wurtzman said he feels that it was easier to establish a relationship with Cembellin as they were in contact for

close to a year prior to Cembellin’s arrival.

“We established relationship with Antonio right after I was hired last January,” Wurtzman said. “We definitely had a relationship coming into the fall, and I probably had a closer relationship with him than the other players because I had at least six months to get to know him before I started

coaching him.”

Wurtzman said he feels Cembellin has contributed positively to the team since his arrival and Cembellin has also notched a few victories in the spring including the clincher over against Marquette at the end of January.

“Coming in we did have expectations that he was going to be very successful. What we’ve liked from

Antonio is that he is very quick and fast out on the court and he also has very good ground strokes and a feel for the game,” Wurtzman said. “The two freshman have transitioned well and it’s only going to get better with the start that they’ve had, and I feel that’s a true telling of good they are because they are doing well shortly after starting.”

SWIM AND DIVE

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Crean not concerned with Hoosiers preparing for the Yogi Ferrell’s shooting woes Big Ten Championships

By Grace Palmieri

By Hailey Hernandez

gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

hmhernan@indiana.edu

Yogi Ferrell hasn’t been himself.

During the past three games the senior guard is shooting 8-of-34 (23.5 percent), well below his average.

But IU Coach Tom Crean said he isn’t worried about Ferrell’s slump heading into tonight’s game against Nebraska in Assembly Hall.

“I’m not worried about his shooting,” Crean said.

“I’m not worried about his minutes. It’s just a matter of trying probably to make too many things happen, rather than just continuing to move it.”

Although Ferrell was 2-of9 from long range during the Iowa game, he went 8-of-8 at the free throw line. He made four of those in crunch time to help the Hoosiers pull out an 85-78 win.

Four days later against Michigan State, though, his shooting woes continued.

Ferrell converted one 3-pointer and missed the front end of two one-andones. He finished with nine points — the first time he’s scored in single digits since the Notre Dame game Dec. 19, 2015.

Crean has said when Ferrell is playing well, he carries his team with him. But part of the problem is in the past couple game, Ferrell’s teammates haven’t made the plays they normally do, Crean said.

“When that’s happening, it’s going to put more pressure on the guys that have the ball the most,” he said.

“Get the most out of every day.”

That’s what Crean said has been the key to his team’s success in Big Ten play.

After one practice earlier this season, they even cut a film session short to go back onto the court and walk through something they saw on the film, he said.

Crean often credits wins to the level of improvement from

HALEY WARD | IDS

Senior guard Yogi Ferrell attempts to drive to the basket past Michigan State’s Alvin Ellis III on Sunday at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. The Hoosiers lost 69-88.

the freshmen through the senior class.

In IU’s game against Nebraska on Jan. 2, freshman forward OG Anunoby had a breakout game as he went 4-of-4 from the field to score 11 points. Since then, Anunoby has earned more significant playing time, including minutes at the end of close games.

After practice yesterday, Crean said all four freshmen were still in the gym long after team practice had ended. “(OG) is in that group of freshman over the years that’s in the gym a lot,” he said. “That’s what you want is a group of guys that has that kind of hunger.”

Shields out for Huskers The biggest difference between last time IU played Nebraska and tonight’s game is the absence of Shavon Shields.

Nebraska’s senior forward went down with a head/neck injury against Rutgers on Feb. 6.

Nebraska Coach Tim Miles

The key this week for IU is simple: swim fast and dive well.

The team will travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to compete in the Big Ten Championships beginning today. Over the next four days, preliminary heats will take place in the morning, followed by finals.

The Hoosiers are looking to improve last year’s second place performance, IU Coach Ray Looze said.

“It’s just part of what we do,” Looze said. “We want to keep getting better. We’re seeded third, but our goal is to get ourselves in a position to control the outcome and do better than that.”

No. 3 Michigan will be the toughest competition for No. 13 IU in their quest for a Big Ten title. Other nationally ranked top-25 teams in the

conference include Wisconsin, Ohio State, Purdue, Minnesota and Penn State.

In 2015, Minnesota brought home first, beating IU by just 27.5 points. Michigan finished in third place.

“Depth will be the key for us,” Looze said. “We have to have a high percentage of personal bests. We know our best athletes can score, but now we need new people to show up and help us overcome our imperfections. We need as many athletes as possible to really step up and improve.”

IU will be bringing 27 athletes to compete in the meet, including 2015 Big Ten Champions junior Gia Dalesandro, sophomore Kennedy Goss, senior Haley Lips and sophomore Grace Vertigans.

Dalesandro was first in the 200 butterfly and Goss will compete in the 200 and 500 freestyle. After a short break following IU’s win against

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thursday-Saturday Ann Arbor, Michigan Louisville, the women’s team has started tapering its training.

“We were in a little bit of a resting process,” Looze said. “We’ve started sharpening bodies to set up for peak performances. It’s a little bit of fewer reps, less volume and less frequency. But we’re swimming faster and really emphasizing fundamentals.”

In the last seven seasons, IU has placed either first or second. This year as the high expectations continue, the Hoosiers hope to compete to add another first place team finish to their collection.

“We want to come in strong,” Looze said. “We are going to bring the mentality to come in and give ourselves a chance to do what people think we aren’t capable of.”

NO. 22 IU (20-6, 10-3) vs. Nebraska (14-12, 6-7) 8:30 p.m. Assembly Hall confirmed Tuesday evening Shields, who is averaging 15.7 points and five rebounds per game, would not travel to Bloomington.

“It’s unfortunate when someone gets hurt like that when he’s having the kind of year he’s having,” Crean said.

“The game has not changed a ton without him in there. They still put someone out there that can shoot the ball.”

The Hoosiers are currently tied for second with Maryland in the conference standings and are still in the running for a Big Ten title.

They’ll also have to face three ranked teams in the next five games.

“To be in the hunt this time of year, I think everyone knows it. It’s not something we spend a lot of time talking about because I think they all know that,” Crean said. “The key is why are we in and what do we have to do to stay in it?”

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Filmmakers discuss ‘The Good Catholic’

By Bridget Murray bridmurr@umail.iu.edu @bridget_murray

John Armstrong, producer of “The Good Catholic” film that is shot in Bloomington, said this is an Indiana film.

“We all met at IU, and we wanted to make this film here,” Armstrong said.

He and fellow filmmakers and IU alumni Zachary Spicer, Paul Shoulberg and Graham Sheldon spoke about the making of their film during a panel, “In the Mind of a Hoosier Filmmaker,” Tuesday at IU Cinema.

Filming for “The Good Catholic” wrapped Saturday, Feb. 13.

“The Good Catholic,” written and directed by Shoulberg, follows a young priest, played

by Spicer, who falls in love with a woman after meeting her in confession. Other actors include Danny Glover, John C. McGinley and Wrenn Schmidt.

The story is loosely based on the meeting of Shoulberg’s parents, who were a priest and a nun before they fell in love and left the Catholic Church.

While the film has been classified as a romantic comedy, Shoulberg said that wasn’t all true.

“There’s a lot of romance and a lot of comedy in it,”

he said. “I wouldn’t pair it with ‘Love Actually.’”

Sheldon, a producer of the film, said one of the film’s strengths is Shoulberg’s ability to bounce between humor and severity with every line of the script.

Sheldon said Indiana provides talented people and diverse locations for a project but lacks support on the state level to make more films here.

Since most of a locally made film’s budget would be spent in Indiana, Sheldon said tax incentives from the state would encourage more filmmakers to shoot here.

Spicer said he considers their production company, Pigasus Pictures, a blue-collar film company.

“Nobody here is an expert at what it is that they’re doing,” Spicer said. “But it’s the fact that, if we don’t know how to do something, then we try to figure out how we can do it.”

As graduates of the IU Theatre program, Armstrong said they have drawn from what they learned from their coursework, where the four originally crossed paths.

“People say, ‘Why do you get a degree in theater? You can’t use it,’ but — and here we are making a movie,” he said. “The stuff that we learned here is — you know — is invaluable.”

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Indie band returns to Bloomington

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Indianapolis musician Ryan Perkins said he wants to get out of the Midwest.

“I want to go to space,” he said. “Play on Neptune or something, you know?”

For now, his band, Chives, is confined to earth.

The band frequently travels to Bloomington to play shows, and they performed last Friday at a house known as The Loveshack.

There they premiered songs from their to-be-released album “Porcelain.”

“Bloomington shows a lot of love,” Perkins said.

“If a place is going to show love, I’m going to show love back.”

He said Bloomington always brings a big crowd, as opposed to other cities where Chives might play to an empty bar.

It’s also conveniently close to Indianapolis, the band’s home base.

Chives has performed all over Bloomington in the past.

Perkins said they’ve hit the Bishop, the Back Door and a slew of houses.

He said the house shows are some of his favorites.

“There’s just more soul to it,” he said. “Any day I can go play a bar, but like, to get a whole bunch of people in a fucking house and just go crazy, how often can you do that?”

One of Perkins most memorable shows was at a spot called the Big House, he said.

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He was electrocuted during a performance at the Big House, he said.

“I don’t even know if people knew I got electrocuted, but I, like, blacked out,” he said.

After a light bulb started to bother him, he said, he tried to adjust it and touched a hot wire.

“I, like, just came back and was just looking around, and I didn’t know what was going on, but the band was still playing the song,” he said.

Regardless, Perkins said playing the Big House was possibly his favorite show in Bloomington.

Playing house shows also means Perkins doesn’t have to worry about the law as much.

Perkins had some problems with booking shows at bars in the past, he said, as he’s only 19 years old.

“Most of the time people don’t even have a clue how old I am,” he said.

At one particular bar in Chicago, Perkins said Chives had already unloaded all their gear when he was carded and told he was too young to enter.

“I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I’m also headlining the show,’” he said.

Thankfully, he said, the bar still arranged for Chives perform that night but at a different venue.

“We just set up down the street and everybody from the bar just went to there,” he said.

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Ryan Perkins is a member of Chives, a Indianapolis based indie rock band. The band played last Friday at Loveshack in Bloomington.

writing songs.

He taught himself how to play guitar, Perkins said, He said he’s not musically trained, but he’s always loved to create.

He uses songwriting to to romance.

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Sophomore guard Tyra Buss and head coach Teri Moren talk strategy during a stopage in play against Gerogia Tech Dec. 2. 2015. IU beat Georgia Tech 69-60.

IU’s success due to chemistry

By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @trlehmanIDS

It all started when Teri Moren hit the Quan.

Fans and students went crazy in the dimly-lit Assembly Hall while the IU coach danced back and forth at centercourt during Hoosier Hysteria with point guard transfer Tia Elbert.

Please watch your step ‘cause I’m feeling myself.

Throw a flag on the play.

Man, somebody get the ref.

This was a fun team. It was going to be a special year for IU women’s basketball.

Now, four months later, the Hoosiers stand at 17-9 overall, 9-5 in Big Ten play and 12-0 at home. The team is also projected as a No. 9 seed

by ESPN’s Chris Creme in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.

But with all the story lines surrounding the team this season, and all the things that happened in the offseason, the coach gives the credit to team chemistry.

“Our chemistry is 100 percent different than it was a year ago,” Moren said. “That’s why you’ve seen this success.”

Moren, who is in her second season at IU after former IU Coach Curt Miller’s sudden departure, said having summer to prepare and get to know the players as people helped after a 15-16 season.

Coming in at the end of August in 2014, Moren, her coaching staff and the players didn’t have the time to work and get to know each other, especially after two starters and two bench players in Larryn Brooks, Taylor Agler, Maura Muensterman and Liz Stratman, transferred. That’s an important part of the offseason, Moren said.

This year has been different.

“They enjoy being around each other, they enjoy playing with each other,” Moren said about this season’s team. “We talk a lot about really falling in love with each other’s success, and I think that’s what this group’s about.”

She said, to the players, it doesn’t matter who scores. It’s about winning.

It stems, Moren said, from team building. Through an inaugural team meeting that set the foundation for the team’s identity, a one-word activity

to keep each other accountable and team gatherings at Moren’s house, the team has become a tight-knit group.

“We’ve spent intentional time together where it hasn’t really been about basketball,” Moren said. “It’s been about getting to know each other on a deeper level, not just as a player or just as a coach.”

Four IU women’s basketball alumnae sat in on practice Friday and noticed what Moren has been saying since October — this team has fun.

Whether it’s wishing each other a happy birthday on Twitter, laughing and joking at press conferences after games, there is an aura around the team that translates onto the court.

“We’ve finally been able to spend time together where it’s not in between the lines focusing on competition,” Moren said. “It’s been about getting to know Indiana better and getting to know your players. It’s about being with them and getting to know their values and who they are and who they’re parents are and who their brothers and sisters are.”

Even the fan base catches on. Following every game,

IU (17-9) vs. Minnesota (18-7) 7 p.m. Thursday Assembly Hall fans of all ages walk directly onto the court and talk to the players, the biggest crowds gathering around sophomore guard Tyra Buss.

The team is finally finding success to parallel the men’s team, and fans are noticing.

“I laugh at some of the young kids,” Moren said. “It’s the same kids, and I have a feeling we have the same adults that are still hanging around trying to get Tyra Buss’ autograph.”

With that added chemistry, IU has defeated three top25 teams, owns the program’s best Big Ten record through 14 games in 32 years and will play Minnesota on Thursday in Assembly Hall for a share of third place in the conference.

“The winning has helped, there’s no question,” Moren said. “They’ve pulled together even stronger. But sometimes it’s difficult to get 11 or 12 women in a room and everything be great, but they really enjoy playing together.”

Yogi Ferrell had some bad games, and suddenly it’s time to worry. The senior guard wasn’t himself for a few nights, and the sky is falling.

On an afternoon when nearly everybody struggled mightily in the second half, people chose to focus on the miscues of IU’s most reliable player.

IU Coach Tom Crean thought it was odd, too.

“We don’t really talk about slumps,” he said. “It’s not a real issue. He’s not in one.”

He’s right. Ferrell has been the rock of this team all season.

During a trying stretch when IU was trying to adjust to losing sophomore guard James Blackmon Jr., Ferrell was the one dominating each and every game and keeping the ship afloat.

The rails could have fallen off easily back in January, but having an experienced star running the show allowed other Hoosiers to grow while still winning.

Now, Ferrell, IU’s alltime assists leader, has had three straight games shooting 30 percent or worse, and he isn’t getting the benefit of the doubt.

People need scapegoats, sure. Just keep things in perspective.

There is something people are missing lately, and it’s something big.

If IU can’t compete — and other people can’t step up — when Ferrell is struggling, what hope does this team have when tournament time comes around?

The big issue is that the success of IU often stems from whether Ferrell is on his game or not. That is especially the case on the road.

If this team believes

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it has any championship hopes, it can’t be dependent on the play of one star.

Complete teams win championships.

Multiple players step up when one or two have an off night on championship teams.

This isn’t a call out of Ferrell’s teammates. They certainly stepped up last week in an impressive home win against Iowa.

It’s just that the attack should not be on Ferrell.

Don’t forget all of the games where the IU offense became stagnant around Ferrell, so he had to put the team on his shoulders.

Jan. 26 at Wisconsin comes to mind.

The offense had no movement, no substance, and Ferrell went into beast mode and put up 30 points to push IU into overtime.

After the Sunday loss at Michigan State, Crean said other guys weren’t making plays.

The team shot 32 percent from the field in the second half.

He admitted Ferrell pressed too much and should have gotten to the foul line more.

But Ferrell was one of many players struggling Sunday.

There’s a reason Michael Jordan has six championships and Allen Iverson has zero.

Jordan had a long list of people stepping up on his off nights, Iverson didn’t.

IU is a team capable of a long run, no doubt about it.

Just remember that its success can’t be dependent on whether Yogi Ferrell is hot that night.