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IU to play in Gator Bowl

By William Coleman wicolema@iu.edu | @WColeman08

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Raffaella Stroik performs during rehearsals in 2016 at the Musical Arts Center. Stroik was found dead last year in Monroe County, Missouri.

A ballet for Raffaella Raffaella Stroik's parents are commissioning a ballet about the life of the former IU ballerina after her death last fall.

By Annie Aguiar aguiara@iu.edu | @annabelaguiar

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Raffaella Stroik danced in “The Nutcracker” every holiday season since she was 5. Her first on-stage role as a ballerina was delivering flowers to the Sugar Plum Fairy, a part she would eventually dance as she grew older.

On Dec. 5 , Duncan and Ruth Stroik drove down from their home in South Bend, Indiana, to attend this season’s IU Ballet Theater production of “The Nutcracker” without Raffaella, who died last November.

“She’s not in ‘The Nutcracker,’ and she should be,” Duncan said.

More than a year after the death of their daughter Raffaella, Duncan and Ruth are commissioning and producing a ballet about their daughter’s life. The Jacobs School of Music has agreed to premiere the ballet, which is currently scheduled for the spring of 2022.

Raffaella studied at IU’s Jacobs School of Music Ballet Department until 2017 and began working as a ballerina at the St. Louis Ballet after college.

She went missing in November 2018, and a search party of more than 100 people looked for her before her body was found in a lake in Mark Twain State Park, around 100 miles northwest of St. Louis. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning.

She was 23.

Raffaella’s standards were high, Duncan remembers.

When he would take the young ballerina to see professional ballets in New York or Chicago, he would ask her afterwards: “Wasn’t that really great?”

“Dad, come on, that wasn’t very good,” she would say before listing her critiques — a bad turnout or prerecorded music when she preferred her musical accompaniment live. It wasn’t that she was unappreciative, Duncan said, it was her love of the art of ballet.

“When I’m on stage, I just feel this amazing joy and love. I just want the audience to feel that way.”

Former IU ballerina Raffaella Stroik in a 2015 interview with the Herald-Times

Duncan’s worried the ballet he and his wife are producing won’t be up to Raffaella’s standards.

“I’m worried I won’t meet them,” he said. “I’m worried I’ll do things that she won’t like. But that’s good because maybe then I’ll do a better job. But I’m thinking that

all the time.”

The show is a special one for the family. Raffaella danced in 17 years’ worth of productions as she moved from school to school and company to company.

At a production one year in Elkhart, Indiana, Ruth was watching from the audience as Raffaella danced in “The Nutcracker” and broke into tears. She was struck by how emotionally connected Raffaella was to the audience.

“I thought, ‘well I’m her mother, I’m connected,’” Ruth said. “But then I looked down the aisle and all the other moms were crying too. So then I felt like, I’m not the only one connecting with her.”

One of four daughters, Raffaella wanted to be a ballerina from early on and started taking classes at age 3. The Stroiks say while she wasn’t always the top ballerina in her company as she grew up, she took it very seriously from a young age.

“I like to dance for others,” Raffaella said in a 2015 interview with the Herald-Times as she prepared for the role of Odette, Queen of the Swans in “Swan Lake.” “When I’m on stage, I just feel this amazing joy and love. I just want the audience to feel that way.”

Duncan said she flowered at IU, especially under the instruction of famed French ballerina and ballet SEE RAFFAELLA, PAGE 4

IU will play in the 2020 Gator Bowl against University of Tennessee at 7 p.m. on Jan. 2 in Jacksonville, Florida.

The only prior meeting between IU and Tennessee was at the 198788 season’s Peach Bowl. The Volunteers, 8-2-1, were ranked No. 17 in the country while the Hoosiers, 8-2, were not ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll. Tennessee sealed the game with a go-ahead touchdown within the game’s final two minutes to beat IU 27-22.

“Playing in the historic TaxSlayer Gator Bowl is a great opportunity for our team,” vice president and Director of Athletics Fred Glass said in an IU Athletics press release. “Earning an invitation to our first ever Florida bowl game is a reflection of the hard work of our players and staff, and yet another remarkable achievement, in a season of remarkable achievements. We greatly look forward to bringing Hoosier Nation to Jacksonville, competing against a high-quality opponent in the Tennessee Volunteers and having the opportunity to be TaxSlayer Gator Bowl champions.”

The Hoosiers are after their first bowl win since the 1991 Copper Bowl, a 24-0 shutout win.

IU’s last bowl appearance came in 2016, a 26-24 loss to then-No. 19 University of Utah in the Foster Farms Bowl.

This season was just the eighth ever in which the Hoosiers finished with at least five wins in Big Ten play. It’s also IU’s first eight-win season since 1993, but its bowl game represents a chance for the third nine-win season in school history.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Wise leads IU past North Florida

By Will Trubshaw wtrubsha@iu.edu | @Willtrubs

“I am very excited and happy about how the Women in Business responded, which is exactly how we teach our girls here at Girls Inc. that when you are confronted with misogyny and ignorance, to face it

No. 14 IU women’s basketball got the win it was looking for, even if it wasn’t the best 40 minutes the team has played this season.

In its return to Assembly Hall after nearly three weeks on the road, IU defeated the University of North Florida 72-45.

Without leading scorer and sophomore guard Grace Berger for the second consecutive game, the Hoosiers relied on scoring from senior forward Brenna Wise’s 22 points.

“On a night where we couldn’t get things going, it was big,” IU head coach Teri Moren said. “Obviously, she took it upon herself to make some aggressive plays at the rim. She was probably the bright spot of the night offensively. You expect your seniors to step up when you have situations like we did tonight.”

Wise was the primary offensive option for IU’s offense as the Hoosiers once again looked unsure of themselves, at least through two quarters.

The Hoosiers went on a 17-0 scoring run in the first quarter, with four points from Wise and six from junior guard Ali Patberg. The defense was gashed in the second

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IU’s Women in Business raises $14,000

By Jess Prucha jprucha@iu.edu | @jess_prucha

Women in Business fundraised $14,000 benefitting Girls Inc. of Monroe County through their sweatshirt sale, with a total of 3,400 sweatshirts sold. The fundraiser was in response to IU professor Eric Rasmusen’s controversial tweet.

The student organization created black sweatshirts reading “Female genius.” on the front and “Support women in academia” on the back in white lettering. Members of the organization distributed the sweatshirts Friday in Hodge Hall. Women in Business president and IU senior Mandy Novicoff said she created the sweatshirts to spread a positive message about women in academia.

“We're an accepting campus, we’re a supportive campus and we’re here for everyone,” Novicoff said.

Novicoff said the fundraiser sold 100 hoodies within the first 20 minutes after the link went live.

“We knew from that moment that it was going to be something absolutely huge,” Novicoff said.

Students shared the link to the sweatshirts on social media and in group chats, Novicoff said.

“We started receiving such good feedback about it that people’s friends from all across the nation wanted them, so we’ve sold hoodies from California to New Jersey to New York,” Novicoff said.

Through the link, students could purchase the sweatshirt or donate to Girls Inc. IU senior Binita Madaiah, vice president of membership for Women in Business, said her organization chose Girls Inc. as the beneficiary because it has worked with Girls Inc. in the past and admire its mission.

“We felt like it was the right organization because they support women who are struggling to go to school every day,” Madaiah said.

Girls Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides academic support and physical activity programs for girls ages 6 to 18. The organization focuses on empowering and advocating for girls.

Martha Whitmill, communications and development director of Girls Inc. of Monroe County, said

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Freshmen Claire Given, left, and Amber Zhao, right, pass out sweatshirts Dec. 6 in Hodge Hall. The Women In Business organization sold sweatshirts that said “Female Genius.” as a fundraiser for Girls Inc.

she is grateful that Women in Business fundraised for Girls Inc. “It was creative and made an opportunity out of a bad experience,” Whitmill said.

Whitmill said the fundraiser was a smart way to respond to Rasmusen’s tweet.

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FlexePark expands local parking options

By Claire Peters clapete@iu.edu | @claire_peterss

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Members of the Vision ticket for IU Student Government sit together for a photo in Luddy Hall.

IUSG executive branch shares status of campaign promises

By Madison Smalstig msmalsti@iu.edu | @madi_smals

Last April the current IUSG executive branch members were elected into office. They ran off a campaign platform in which they identified different issues on campus they wanted to look into or improve.

Now, one semester and four months later, they have been serving in their elected positions and attempting to bring their ideas on the platform to life.

Some of them have been successful, others have not come into fruition.

Improving student engagement is one portion of the campaign where the executive branch has succeeded, said student body president Isabel Mishkin.

One way they have improved engagement is by organizing two town halls and two surveys this semester.

In the first town hall, executive branch members presented information on current problems and projects in equity and inclusion and led a discussion on that topic. The second town hall topic was academic affairs.

The town halls have provided IUSG members the opportunity to communicate some of their current projects and receive ideas from students, said IUSG vice president Matt Stein.

“Town halls have been successful in getting across to students what we are doing on a day-to-day basis and what we’re working on,” Stein said. “It’s also shown us what students expect from us.”

The two surveys on health and wellbeing and the electric scooters have provided IUSG members with more students’ opinions, which they have used to direct their current projects, Mishkin said.

“Consistently reaching out to students helps change our agenda, helps change where our mindset is, based on student feedback,” Mishkin said.

Mishkin said another successful portion of the platform was administrative transparency because she, and other executive branch members, have continuously communicated with administration to figure out what is going on at that level and have disseminated that to students.

The IUSG student life committee also helped to eliminate the hours when IBUCKS were not available at the Indiana Memorial Union and remove a barrier to purchasing food, which was a part of the platform.

There are many reasons as to why some portions of the platform were not pursued or were stalled. Some

were interrupted by new information which changed their course of action. Others were pushed down the agenda because new, more pressing matters popped up.

One portion of the campaign that was stalled earlier was the creation of the Middle and Near Eastern Culture Center.

This idea was included in the platform because some students communicated to the current IUSG executive branch during the campaign last semester that they did not feel completely welcome at IU. The culture center seemed like a great solution to this problem. However, once IUSG began to pursue the project, it ran into various roadblocks which eventually caused them to stop working on this specific solution, Stein said.

“While we wanted to continue to pursue this policy, we recognized that there are other avenues that the university would be more capable of pursuing to address the problems that were originally presented to us,” Stein said.

The executive branch will continue to work with groups such as the Muslim Student Association next semester to figure out some core ideas in this issue and identify small steps that can be made to eventually help people feel at

home at IU, Mishkin said.

“We recognize that this is a really big step and so much of the work that we do is identifying incremental steps to get to a big university-level change,” Mishkin said.

Another platform topic they did not pursue this semester is working to allow travel abroad programs shorter than one semester to count for students’ worldculture requirement, Mishkin said. This is something they want to look into next semester.

Since this semester IUSG was focused on student engagement and adjusting based on student opinion, some portions of the platform took a backseat because students expressed interest in other areas, IUSG chief of staff Drew Ficociello said.

One issue that popped up this semester which required IUSG attention was how IU interacts with off-campus students. In response to student tweets, emails and other messages, IUSG leaders have taken student input into account and have communicated this with public safety and other campus partners.

They will continue conversations with university leaders next semester, Mishkin said.

“Our platform is everchanging,” Ficociello said.

City council votes for historic district

By Mel Fronczek mfroncze@iu.edu | @MelissaFronczek

Bloomington will be home to a new historic district and a new apartment complex.

The city council voted Wednesday to establish the Near West Side Conservation District and to approve 5.32 acres for a new, 166-resident apartment complex at 1201 W. Allen St. It also approved multiple pieces of legislation regarding the police’s negotiated contract and a request from the council for the Monroe County Food & Beverage Tax Advisory Commission to recommend how to spend food and beverage tax revenues on the convention center expansion project.

Conor Herterich, historic preservation program manager, introduced the first ordinance and said the district would include 325 addresses, making it the largest in the city. It will include addresses on West Kirkwood Avenue, West Sixth through Ninth streets, as well as North Rogers, Jackson, Fairview, Maple, Waldron, Elm, Pine, Oak and Adams streets.

This district meets five out of 10 criteria listed for historic preservation in Title 8 of the Bloomington Municipal Code, Herterich said.

A district only needs one in order to be considered for historic preservation.

One criterion is the area containing an architectural

style, detail or another element in danger of being lost.

He said the Near West Side is the largest collection of historic vernacular house types left in the city. Some are demolished or so neglected they’re close to being demolished.

He also said the area is significant to the development of the city and represents established and familiar visual features, and the area “exemplifies the built environment in an era of history characterized by a distinctive architectural style.”

Another criterion he mentioned is that the Near West Side “exemplifies the social heritage of the community.” Herterich said the neighborhood pertains to black history in Bloomington because around the turn of the 20th century, black people moved to that area of town to be near to their employer, the Showers Brothers Furniture Company, and due to segregation.

“These are important to preserve to tell the history of black history in Bloomington,” Herterich said.

Betty Bridgewaters said during public comment she’s lived in the Near West Side since 1946 with the exception of a few years. She pointed out discrepancies between the presentation and her memories of Bloomington.

“When I see the presentation, I find so many things that are not historical,” she

said.

The motivations of black people to live on the West Side were misstated, she said. People didn’t move to be closer to work.

“You lived where you could live, and you went to where you could work,” Bridgewaters said.

Council member Jim Sims said he wanted to ensure the legislation was historically inclusive.

“I think it’s well-known there has been a whitewashing of history and particularly in black history over time,” Sims said. “There are just certain things that aren’t there because it’s been socially whitewashed.”

That’s why oral history is important, he said. He noted some deeds discouraged home owners to sell their houses to black people, and some realtors wouldn’t show houses to them in other parts of the city.

“That’s the unwritten part, I think,” Sims said.

Herterich said 67% of the addresses in the district are “contributing,” which means they’re categorized as historic properties. There are some noncontributing addresses in the historic district because they’re new.

The commission considers the traditional boundaries of the neighborhood and the boundaries of the national registry nomination.

Council member Isabel Piedmont-Smith asked about the effect on property

owners if the district became historic.

Herterich said they would need to obtain a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission to fully demolish their house, build on a vacant lot or move their house.

Olivia Dorfman, co-chair of the Near West Side Historic Designation Committee, said the committee worked hard to consider all perspectives and concerns. They had meetings for community members, posting CATS TV coverage, using social media and having neighborhood members vote through. She said two-thirds of the votes were for historical designation.

“After all these efforts, we feel confident that the vote represented our community’s wish for designation of a conservation district,” Dorfman said.

Karen Duffy, the other chair of the committee, shared stories she and Dorfman uncovered during research into people who used to live in the neighborhood, some dating to the early 1900s.

“The Near West Side is filled with houses like ours and stories like these,” Duffy said. “As you consider the merits of our neighborhood’s proposal to commit ourselves to compatible change that respects the past, we hope you agree that

In a packed college town like Bloomington, Michael Dowden said he knows how frustrating it can be to find parking.

That’s why he is expanding his company, FlexePark, to provide more available parking lots in Bloomington. The company partners with companies to provide paid parking spaces in the existing parking lots of businesses when they are not being used.

“It works well in college communities; that’s a great place to start expansion,” Dowden said. “It’s where a lot of the activity and investment happens. They’re extremely saturated.”

When they reach out to the businesses, FlexePark sets up everything and sends them a monthly check based on the activity on the property. To park, patrons scan the QR code on the sign to pay the parking fee.

“We’ll install signs on the property, set up the parking lot and park system,” Dowden said. “The signs include instructions on how to use the system.”

He said most businesses only use their parking lot 25% of the time, and by actively managing the property they are cutting down unwanted activity like loitering.

The new lots are at White Rabbit Print and Design at

601 S. Walnut St., Topo’s 403 at 403 N. Walnut St. and a lot on 700 N. Rogers St. Ryan Rud-Cloud, the owner of White Rabbit Print and Design, spoke highly of how simple the setting-up process was.

“They took care of literally everything but the signage. It didn’t cost us a dime,” Rud-Cloud said. “As a small business it’s always a challenge, so we’re looking for ways to bring in additional revenue.”

He said if they move their business, they will set up FlexePark in their new location.

First United Methodist Church, at 299 E. Third St., increased its spaces from 28 to 60. Vince Taylor, chair of church trustees said its use is increasing since they started working with FlexePark last April.

“If people want to help run our lot efficiently, of course we’re going to consider that possibility,” Taylor said.

FlexePark is located in Bloomington and Indianapolis, but Dowden said they are working on sending sales ambassadors to multiple other mid-sized cities such as Fort Wayne, and Columbus, Ohio.

“If you look at New York, Chicago, L.A., most of the parking startups get started there,” Dowden said. “Their parking challenges are different than what most of America experiences.”

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A sign for a FlexePark parking lot is seen Dec. 5 on Eighth Street.

FlexePark is expanding to more locations in Bloomington.

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Multiple flyers promoting white supremacy were found Thursday morning at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

White supremacist flyers found in SPEA on Wednesday night

By Sara Kress sekress@iu.edu | @sarakress4cha

Several flyers expressing white supremacist beliefs were found in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs on Wednesday night, according to an email from SPEA dean Sian Mooney to students Thursday morning.

IU spokesperson Chuck Carney also said a SPEA employee found a flyer on a bulletin board Thursday morning.

Carney confirmed he

does not know who posted the flyer, and the IU Police Department is investigating the incident.

Carney said the university is taking quick action and will not allow flyers like this to stay on any bulletin board on campus. He said the university will not tolerate these flyers because they go against the views IU stands for.

Carney said the university does not want any students to feel unsafe on campus because of these flyers.

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Nine IU faculty selected as AAAS fellows

By Carson TerBush cterbush@iu.edu

Nine IU faculty members were commended as 2019 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including IU President Michael McRobbie. The scientific association, known as AAAS, is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and is the publisher of the research journal “Science.” The fellow status is a high honor among members of the scientific community, according to an email from Tiffany Lohwater, AAAS chief communications officer.

“Elected AAAS Fellows have been recognized for their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished,” Lohwater said. “The AAAS Fel-

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 it seems fitting to remember a few of the unsung working people who did so much to make Bloomington what it is today.”

Many council members said they appreciated hearing so many personal accounts. The council voted 9-0 to create the district.

The council also voted on the rezoning of 5.32 acres at 1201 W. Allen St. for a new apartment complex to be managed by local company Dwellings LLC. Dwellings representative Mark Lauchli presented the plan, which consists of 11 residential buildings, which can house more than 160 people. There will also be 10 two-car garages and 172 surface parking spaces. The company worked with nearby property owners to install a new bus stop close to the complex.

The property used to be a trailer park, a form of lowincome housing, Lauchli said. With that in mind, the company estimates 15% of

low designation is an honorific that comes with an expectation that recipients maintain the highest standards of professional ethics and scientific integrity.”

Susan Elrod, chancellor of IU-South Bend, received fellow status for her work in undergraduate STEM education.

Elrod said she has worked to promote access to STEM programs by creating assessment tools to change how undergraduate research programs work with students.

She has worked with universities across the country, recently accepting the IUSouth Bend chancellor position on July 1.

“We live in a technologically driven society, and so it’s important for everyone to have an understanding of how the world works, what science is, how we create

evidence, how we draw conclusions,” Elrod said.

James Klaunig, professor in the IU School of Public Health, also received the fellow distinction acknowledging his career in toxicology and pathology.

Klaunig said his research focuses on identifying how toxic different compounds are to humans and determining if certain compounds are more likely to cause cancer. After publishing this research, Klaunig worked with the Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency to provide scientific insight to legal policies regulating toxic compounds.

Klaunig has also worked in higher education, including starting the program of environmental health within the IU School of Public Health, revitalizing IU’s doctoral program in toxicol-

complex should provide “workforce housing.”

“We rent to what we call ‘The real Bloomington,’” he said. “We do rent to undergrads, but that’s not our target market.”

Lauchli said focusing on nonstudent housing will help Bloomington respond to the housing crisis.

“I’m not paying my way out of this problem,” he said.

“We are building direct units that will go for workforce housing immediately.”

Rent will range from $660 to $1,300 per month at the complex.

Council member Dorothy Granger said workforce housing is needed, but so is affordable housing.

“But that’s not going to stop me from approving this,” she said.

Sustainability is important for this project, Lauchli said. High efficiency heat pumps, Energy Star-labeled appliances and low-flow plumbing are some of the sustainable features that will be in each unit. Complexwide sustainable amenities

include a community garden, rainwater capture and reuse system, resident composting and Dark-Sky Design guidelines to reduce light pollution.

Extra produce from the community garden will be encouraged to be donated to Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard. The leasing office will be powered by solar energy, and there will be a maintenance shop with a green roof.

“This development, in a real way, generates its own power,” Lauchli said.

Council member Steve Volan was concerned about the parking ratio. He said the complex’s proposed ratios were higher than average.

Lauchli said the complex needs to have that amount of parking spaces to accommodate residents who commute to work at IU, Cook Medical or even in Indianapolis.

He cited the parking at the neighboring complex Dwellings LLC owns. There are more cars than bedrooms because many couples in one-bedroom units own two

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ogy and staring its doctoral program in environmental health.

“Anytime you get these selective honors, especially from your peers, that’s a big deal,” Klaunig said.

Lynda Bonewald, professor at the IU School of Medicine, received the AAAS fellow status to commend her work starting the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health and her research on a bone cell called an osteocyte.

Bonewald said the center is different because previously, muscular biology and bone biology were separate disciplines, and her work involves multidisciplinary research that combines these areas of study.

“When you combine individuals with different expertise, you can make progress much more quickly,” Bonewald said. “The

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Nine IU faculty members were commended as 2019 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including IU President Michael McRobbie.

members of the center now are great scientists. They’re open to collaboration; they’re willing to share their ideas. That’s what makes all the difference in the world.”

In addition to Bonewald, Klaunig, Elrod and McRob-

bie, biology professors Brian Calvi and Justin Kumar, chemistry professors Krishnan Raghavachari and Michael Van Nieuwenhze and mathematics professor Kevin Zumbrun were commended as AAAS fellows.

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Stephen Volan, Bloomington city council parliamentarian, speaks during a city council meeting Dec. 4 in the Showers Building. The council revisited the proposed 2020 Bloomington city budget.

cars, Lauchli said.

“If they have these two cars and they need somewhere to park, and I don’t have parking, they’re probably not going to rent from me,” he said.

Lauchli also said the changes to the Bloomington Transit routes will end the nearby bus service at 6 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays. He said that’s the time residents are out and about, so parking

is even more important.

Many council members voiced their support for the complex, and the council voted 9-0 to approve it.

“There’s a lot to like,” Sims said.

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professor Violette Verdy, who died in 2016 after a brief illness at age 82.

Raffaella’s death has changed the Stroiks. They cry every day. They’re devout Catholics, but they can’t help but be angry at God sometimes.

Ruth said they are now living in an ocean of sadness with rare moments of happiness.

“I actually now have a longing to go to be with Raffaella, at the right time,” she said. “I used to pray for a long life.” * * * A couple of months after Raffaella’s death, Duncan and Ruth were in St. Louis to speak with the detectives when Ruth woke up with an idea.

“Her whole life came to me as a fairy tale,” she said.

“Raffaella’s life as a tragic fairy tale. So that’s when the idea came to turn it into a ballet.”

The ballet will be a new work in the tradition of Raffaella’s favorite classic ballets, such as “Swan Lake” and “Giselle.” The story follows a peasant girl in 18th century Italy who is an artist trying to meet her prince. Italy was one of Raffaella's favorite countries she ever visited.

“When you have the death of a loved one, you’re looking for meaning,” Duncan said. “For me, I see the ballet stories and the fairy tales as more real than a lot of our stories.”

Fairy tales cover the basic needs: searching for true love, a fight against good and evil, princesses with fairy godmothers.

The Stroiks created a GoFundMe campaign on Nov. 10 to raise money for the ballet.

While Duncan, an architecture professor at the University of Notre Dame, will be designing the sets himself, he and Ruth aren’t artists and need outside help for the ballet.

The money raised will go toward hiring a composer and choreographer in addition to constructing the sets, creating costumes and promoting the ballet.

In less than a month, the campaign has raised almost $100,000 of its goal of $250,000.

The money has come from 295 donors, including Raffaella’s friends, members of the ballet community, art lovers and people who have similarly lost loved ones too young.

Notes from donors fill the page.

“I am delighted to become part of the Ballet for Raffaella,” one wrote. “I can see it now — just wonder-

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with positivity and ingenuity,” Whitmill said.

Andrea Astill, treasurer for Girls Inc. and accounting lecturer at the Kelley School of Business, said she was excited to contribute to this fundraiser.

Astill said the sweatshirts emphasize Girls Inc.’s mission of empowering girls.

“I hope to promote the message that these ladies are smart, strong and bold,” Astill said.

Freshman Bri Hillock said she bought a sweatshirt to support an important cause.

“I was very much disgusted by the comments of Professor Rasmusen and felt invalidated as a woman in Kelley, so I wanted to get a sweatshirt to support women in academia,” Hillock said.

quarter, allowing the Ospreys to go 3-5 from deep while cutting the Hoosiers’ lead to just nine at halftime.

“We had to play kind of funky tonight,” Moren said.

“We were trying to switch their ball screens, and so we played small. And we hadn’t played small yet in the season.”

After scoring a first-half season-low 28 points, IU erupted for 44 in the second half.

Junior guard Jaelynn Penn caught fire again, scoring 10 of her 14 points in the second half, while freshman Mackenzie Holmes chipped in 10 points off the bench.

But it was Wise’s seasonhigh output that made the difference. Not only did Wise put up 22, but she did so on an almost perfect 7-9 from the floor and 6-7 from the free throw line.

Penn and Wise have seen an uptick in their scoring totals the last couple of games, and it’s been a welcome return to form for both after early-season slumps.

“We have great confidence going into every game,” Wise said. “We put in the work, every day we’re getting into the gym, putting in that work, so it’s just tapping into that resource and relying on that.”

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only coaches in program history to lead a team to a bowl win.

“We are thrilled to head to Florida for the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl,” Allen said in an IU Athletics press release. “It is a tremendous opportunity for our program and a great reward for our players. We have many young men from the southeast region of the country and they are looking forward to playing close to home.”

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Then-juniors Colin Ellis and Raffaella Stroik dance together Nov. 30, 2015.

ful.”

Another note simply reads “Love you Raffi,” accompanied by a heart emoji.

Duncan said his favorite part of the GoFundMe is the opportunity to thank each donor individually.

“If I had an hour to meet with each one of them, I would love to do that,” he said. “But this way, I can

actually talk to each one of them a little bit. They’re giving to the ballet, and we get to be friends.” * * * Duncan and Ruth said Raffaella would have liked this year’s ballet. It had live musical accompaniment, just as she liked it, and everything was beautiful, just

like when Raffaella was at IU. It would have been up to her standards.

Even though Raffaella is gone, Ruth said she’s still here in small ways.

She’s alive again when the Stroiks watch old videos of her ballets, still having that emotional connection with the audience she dances for.

Ruth said watching this

season’s production of “The Nutcracker” was similar.

“I feel her presence on the stage,” she said. “It’s so much her life, her way of making art.”

Duncan said his favorite part was the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, one of Raffaella’s roles.

While watching, he thought: our little daughter used to do all that.

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Senior Brenna Wise cheers on her teammate, junior Jaelynn Penn, on Dec. 7 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Both Penn and Wise had their best scoring games of the season.

struggled through the first 20, defense was strong throughout. The Hoosiers held the Ospreys to just 26% from the floor for the game. The Hoosiers came up with eight steals and three shot blocks, while allowing a season-low 45 points.

“It was very important to protect our house,” Penn

said. “When we came out for the second half, our key was to play better defense.

That was a big emphasis we had and we stepped it up.”

Strong defensive efforts have been a necessity for IU in its last two games but really the whole season as well.

“The nights you have like tonight, you have to

rely on something,” Moren said. “We’re a program that hangs its hat on the defensive end.”

IU still has some issues to clear up, most notably its 65.4% team free throw percentage and 14 turnovers, numbers that Moren said she would like to see higher and lower, respectively.

A positive for the Hoosiers is that a return to full strength looks to be in order soon.

Moren was confident in the postgame press conference that Berger would play Wednesday night at Butler University and hinted that junior guard Bendu Yeaney’s season debut was right around the corner.

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Someone ate the $120,000 banana at Art Basel. Yes, really.

From Tribune News Service MIAMI – Someone ate a really expensive snack at Art Basel Saturday afternoon – to the tune of $120,000.

For one banana.

By now you have probably heard of the now worldfamous banana duct-taped to Emmanuel Perrotin's outer gallery wall at Art Basel Miami Beach. The piece that sold to an art collector for $120,000.

The $120,000 banana – a real, rather ripe and edible one – is the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and titled "Comedian." The work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, and owners are told that they can replace the banana, as needed.

Instructions on how to replace the banana are not included.

But New York-based performance artist David Datuna ate the banana at around 1:45 p.m. in front of a convention center full of art lovers, according to gallery representatives.

While the banana was in-

deed consumed, apparently that doesn't diminish the integrity of the six-figure art work, said Lucien Terras, director of museum relations for Galerie Perrotin.

"He did not destroy the art work. The banana is the idea," Terras said.

Confused?

We were, too, but that's where the Certificate of Authenticity comes in. Collectors are buying the certificate. The banana is not made to last.

"This has brought a lot of tension and attention to the booth and we're not into spectacles," Terras added. "But the response has been great. It brings a smile to a lot of people's faces."

Gallery owner Emmanuel Perrotin was about to head to the airport when he heard that the banana was eaten.

He darted to the space, clearly upset. A fairgoer tried to cheer him up and handed him his own banana.

Perrotin and a gallery assistant re-adhered the borrowed banana to the wall just after 2 p.m.

According to Peggy Leboeuf, a partner at Perrotin Gallery, a startled, and bemused, a woman in the crowd thought the original artist – Cattelan – was eating his own banana off the wall. But that wasn't the case. When she saw Datuna eating the banana, which still had some duct tape on it, she asked him what he was doing.

Datuna allegedly responded he was a performance artist. "But you're not supposed to touch the art!" Leboeuf told Datuna.

The London-based White Cube gallery in the booth next door to Perrotin removed a floor installation because the crowd to see the banana was just overwhelming. Perrotin installed a silver rope line in an attempt to keep the crowd in check Saturday afternoon.

Four Miami Beach police officers also gathered outside the gallery to keep order.

"That banana has been more photographed than the Mona Lisa," remarked Terras. '"This has been interesting," said Miami Beach police

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A viewer takes a photo Dec. 6 of Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" presented by Perrotin Gallery at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida.

Capt. Steven Feldman. When asked if he had ever heard of someone deliberately destroying artwork at the fair, he said, "Not that I can remember."

He noted it was a balancing act to accommodate the crowd.

"The gallery is OK with people taking pictures of the banana. It is a delicate balancing act. We just want to make sure the area is secure," said Feldman.

For what Cattelan's banana fetches, Datuna could have bought 631,579 bananas

at Trader Joe's, which sells bananas for .19 cents each.

The gallery reported the incident to security, but Datuna was not arrested.

By Howard Cohen and Siobhan Morrissey Miami Herald

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The toll it took

Bloomington police officers cradle the dying, rush toward gunfire and miss holidays with their kids. Over 18 months, they fought for better hours and pay.

By Mel Fronczek mfroncze@iu.edu | @MelissaFronczek

Paul Post rolls out of bed and stumbles in the dark to the bathroom, dodging his boots and a bulletproof vest on the floor. It’s 4:20 a.m. It takes him two alarms to get up.

He steps into his pants and boots.

He checks the cylinder on his backup gun, a Smith & Wesson 638, and holsters it on his left ankle.

As he gets dressed, Paul sees a Bible quote from 2 Timothy 4:5 hanging above his gun cabinet: “Keep your head in all situations.”

A challenge coin, earned after completing hostage negotiation schooling, goes into Paul’s pants pockets, along with a handkerchief, leather gloves and two pocketknives.

Paul buckles himself into his duty belt and hooks on a flashlight and a portable radio. He checks that his Glock 17 is loaded, holsters it.

As he pulls out of the garage, he passes an American flag billowing from his porch.

On any given work day, he might give out a few tickets. He might be screamed at, spit on, punched or kicked.

A Christian since childhood, Paul has prayed every morning for safety, wisdom and peace since he became a police officer 17 years ago. Lately he’s especially prayed for wisdom in negotiating with the City of Bloomington as the president of the local chapter of the police union.

His coworkers – his friends – are counting on him to secure benefits for them. His wife is counting on him to set a good example for their two kids. The city’s team is counting on him to wrap up the negotiation quickly.

Paul is counting on himself to do a good job. All this struggle has to be worth it.

* * * The negotiations started in late July 2018, but Paul and other officers say the last good contract ended a decade ago.

Paul and other members of the police bargaining unit have spoken at multiple city council meetings, offering statistics about being overworked and underpaid. A salary study from 2018 compared Bloomington Police Department to those of 19 other cities in the state.

On average, agencies had 1.7 police officers per 1,000 residents, according to the study. BPD had 1.2 when fully staffed with 103 officers. Detective Jeff Rodgers, the bargaining unit’s numbers guy, said the department hasn’t had a full staff in years. The department is at or below minimum staffing almost year-round. There are six positions open now.

Each shift should have about 15 to 20 patrol officers, Paul said. When a shift is understaffed and no officers choose to work overtime, an officer who worked the previous shift is expected to fill it. It’s mandatory if the shift is down two officers. In November, Rodgers said, officers had to pick up extra shifts at least 62 times.

One officer came to work sick and went to buy cold medicine during his shift. He was still taking it the next day.

One officer had to miss his brother’s wedding. His wife went alone.

One officer couldn’t take time off for his own wedding. He quit.

Paul’s family often celebrates Christmas twice. His wife takes the kids to see out-of-state family on Christmas Day, and they find time to have their own Christmas later. They aim to do it in January before the kids go back to school. But they’ve had Christmases in November, December, even February.

Kristy would tell the kids Santa came early or while they were gone.

The kids didn’t question it much.

“I tried to make things really special,” she said. “They are pretty gullible.”

Police departments across the country are seeing fewer applications, paired with more exits and retirements, according to a 2019 report by the Police Executive Research Forum. Chief Michael Diekhoff said the economy is doing well now, and government entities typically can’t compete with salaries and benefits offered in the private sector. Recent media coverage of law enforcement doesn’t help, he said.

Rodgers said Bloomington is the seventh-largest city in Indiana, but BPD ranks 66th in pay.

With salaries like that, coupled with the national trend, the department can’t recruit new officers nor keep the ones it has, Rodgers said.

Since 2016, at least 46 have left — twice the rate of the previous four

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Paul Post arrives at work Nov. 21. Post has to arrive to the station by 5:30 a.m. for roll call.

years. Some retired, but most transferred to other agencies. One of the most recent officers to leave was a new recruit. BPD paid for him to go to the police academy, but he left for a higher-paying job.

Deputy Mayor Mick Renneisen said the bargaining unit’s numbers comparing BPD to other agencies look at base pay, and most officers make more than their base pay. A BPD officer can earn more money for working overtime, having a certain level of education, getting extra training, having a specialty assignment and more. Other agencies have similar opportunities, but pay structures vary.

“It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison,” he said.

Paul said other agencies pay more as base pay and bonuses.

He and many officers have outside part-time jobs to rake in extra cash. Paul’s side job is to do security checks at a church.

The city wants to give the chief more say in officers’ shifts, which will spread senior officers more evenly, Renneisen said. Diekhoff was a BPD patrol officer 32 years ago, and he said working with senior officers as a new officer was useful for him.

Bargaining unit members want officers to choose their shifts based on seniority. Paul said many officers choose shifts to maximize time with their families.

The conditions, negotiations and day-to-day police work create a stressed home life, Paul said.

“The pressure from both sides wears you down,” he said.

* * *

mom. Her mom told her, “No one’s guaranteed anything.”

Her mom would know. Kristy’s dad, a preacher, died of cancer when Kristy was 11.

“I can’t live in fear,” Kristy said.

Today, Kristy has embraced her role as an officer’s wife. She painted the dining room bright blue — “police officer blue.”

Their seventh-grade daughter Alli sits at the dining room table working on decimals, fractions and percentages.

On the wall behind her is a poem. It starts like this: “My daddy is a policeman who works hard night and day. ‘Lord, please bring him home to me,’ I ask every time I pray.”

Paul is off today, so he’s packing her lunch.

Alli’s favorite thing about her dad being a police officer is bragging to people at school.

“I say, ‘You wanna rob a bank?

Well, my dad’s a police officer.’”

When Alli finishes her homework, she goes to the backyard to play with the family’s new puppy, a mix of Australian blue heeler and Jack Russell terrier.

The Posts are still debating what to call him.

Wyatt, a high school freshman, wants to give him a police dog’s name – Major, Sarge or Sniper. Alli is fighting for Oliver, Murphy or Meatball.

The dog had come with the name Wilbur.

“I vote Wilbur,” Paul says with a laugh.

* * *

Kristy, Paul’s wife of 18 years, wakes up hours after Paul does. In the shower each morning, she prays.

It goes like this: “God, thank you for Paul. I ask you to protect him today. Give him the courage and strength he needs to make it home safely. Help him feel rested even though he is tired and help him feel loved, appreciated and supported even when he may not think that he is. Thank you for Paul and for the man, husband, father and officer he is. Please keep him safe and help him come home each night to Wyatt, Alli and me.”

Sometimes she asks herself: “How can I send him out there every day?”

Kristy and Paul met on the first night of freshman orientation at Anderson University in 1997.

The next day, Kristy’s boyfriend from home called her to break things off. Paul called her afterward, and he could tell she was upset. Paul invited her to the lobby of his dorm building to talk. As Kristy talked, Paul listened.

“Don’t worry,” he said. “It’s his loss.”

They started dating that fall.

Paul worked security, and he’d take her on late-night dates driving her around in the security golf cart.

Dating Paul made Kristy aware of the dangers around her. He would only hold her right hand with his left, in case he needed to get to his gun.

As she and Paul got more serious, she worried about being a police officer’s wife. “I don’t know if I can do this,” she remembers thinking.

Kristy did what many girls would’ve done. She consulted her

The police officers need to be reasonable, the city’s negotiation team said. They need to think about equity with other city employees.

Paul said police officers can’t be compared to other city employees.

Paul’s been screamed at, spit on, punched, kicked. He’s been exposed to another officer’s pepper spray. He’s cleaned up urine and puke. (There’s a reason the back seats of patrol cars are hard plastic.)

He’s performed CPR on a dying baby.

Paul was first to respond to a call that a baby wasn’t breathing.

He rushed to a decrepit house that was serving as an at-home daycare. The woman in charge fled because there was a warrant for her arrest in another state. When Paul got there, a man was hysterical and yelling. Paul did CPR on the baby until the fire department arrived. He carried the little body to the ambulance. Paul can tell you exactly where the house is. He drives past it sometimes.

He’s watched a car crash victim take her last breath.

There was a little red car on Country Club Drive. “I can see the car,” Paul said. The driver was impaled on the steering column.

The driver was talking, but Paul knew she wouldn’t be talking for much longer. Paul reassured her the ambulance was coming. She died as she was being removed from the steering column. Crushed chest cavity. Internal bleeding.

He’s lowered people who hanged themselves down into body bags.

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Paul, Kristy, Alli and Wyatt Post pray before their family dinner at their home in Bloomington. The Post household represents law enforcement in many of the rooms, including the walls in the dining room.

One was a college student who hanged herself from her bedroom ceiling fan. Her roommates had a party that weekend. They were in the midst of a fight. They assumed she was home and didn’t want to come out of her room. It turned out, they were home with her corpse all weekend, and the only thing separating them from her body was the girl’s bedroom door.

One was a man who had rigged a noose using a tall tree branch. The man had climbed onto the roof of his detached garage and jumped. Paul found him swinging.

One was a man who hanged himself in a tree next to State Road 37, now I-69. The man hung there for two or three days before someone reported it. Paul still can’t believe no one noticed him.

“He was a big guy,” Paul said. He said cutting him down was hard.

Despite all of this, Paul believes he was meant to be a cop.

“That’s cliché, I know,” he said.

“Everybody says that about their job.

But not everybody could do this job.”

* * * Leading the union and its bargaining team has come at a cost, Paul said.

In mid-April, tensions peaked in the negotiations. The city declared an impasse and got a mediator involved. Paul spoke at a city council meeting for the first time May 1.

Later in May, Paul was removed from his specialty, crisis negotiation.

Paul said Diekhoff reprimanded him for speaking as a BPD officer at a police union event honoring fallen officers of Monroe County. Paul believes he made it clear he was working the event as a union member. He thinks the chief’s actions violated the city’s non-harassment policy protecting union workers.

The officer and the chief differ over the details, but in the end, Diekhoff told Paul he couldn’t trust him to make good decisions, Paul said. The chief forbade him to speak to the public outside of his patrol duties.

Paul later got a change of pay notice. His specialty bonus was cut.

Paul appealed, citing eight policy violations. Ultimately, the mayor upheld Paul’s removal from the negotiation team but overturned the public speaking ban.

Diekhoff said the situation was a personnel issue and declined to comment on the details of it. Paul’s removal had nothing to do with any of his union work, Diekhoff said.

Paul calls it an obvious retaliation for his union work. * * *

In April of 2018, Paul began keeping track of how much time he’s devoted to unpaid work for the police union. He said it’s close to 300 hours.

Kristy said she can see the toll it’s taken on Paul. He doesn’t spend as much time with the kids as he did before, and his patience is just a little thinner.

One night last month, Paul sat at the computer in the living room. He stopped typing every few minutes to yawn or rub his eyes.

No more than three feet away, Alli and Wyatt played with Wilbur.

“Don’t rile him up,” Paul groaned.

He didn’t look away from the computer screen.

“We’re not riling!” Wyatt said.

Paul was about to send out an important email to the 67 voting members of the bargaining unit. Attached was the city’s most recent contract proposal. The contract needed 51% approval to pass. Paul worried it would be close.

The options were far from ideal.

If they voted for this contract, they’d make steep compromises on salary and shift selection.

If they voted no, they risked having no contract at all. That, they believed, would leave the city free to strip their benefits.

The city disputed that interpretation, but either way, time was running out, and this felt like the city’s last offer.

* * * The bargaining unit voted Nov. 14 to pass the city’s proposed contract, but Paul called it an act of self-preservation.

The city council approved it on Dec. 4.

The city attorney said it’s a relief that the negotiations are over. He said both sides came to a fair agreement.

Paul sat stoically in the back of the chambers. He sat through another hour of the meeting, watching people debate tax revenue recommendations while his mind churned.

The negotiations may be over, but Paul and other union members still aren’t happy.

Paul’s only happy to be done with it.

He doesn’t know if it will fix the problems in the department, but he knows he and the team did their best.

Paul went home, where his kids were sleeping soundly and his wife was waiting up. He pulled into the garage and passed the American flag billowing from the porch.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

IU gets blown out in Big Ten opener for first loss of the season

By Phillip Steinmetz

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MADISON, Wisconsin — As IU men’s basketball trailed with 15:12 remaining in the game, junior guard Al Durham drove inside for a floater.

When he made his way past the free throw line, he lifted his knee and made contact with Wisconsin junior forward Nate Reuvers. He was called for the blocking foul, and Durham headed to the free throw line for two shots.

While Durham walked to the free throw line, the Wisconsin Jumbotron showed a replay of the foul. The Wisconsin fans yelled in disagreement with the call, and one IU fan responded.

“We are down by 24 points guys,” the man said. “Cut us a break.”

At that point, IU trailed 51-27 as the game was all but over. From the very beginning, IU couldn’t match the intensity Wisconsin brought to the floor. It continued through the second half as the Hoosiers fell 84-64 in the Big Ten opener.

The last time IU defeated

Wisconsin within the confines of the Kohl Center was Jan. 25, 1998, and that losing streak will live on for another year.

“Your first road game is what it is,” IU head coach Archie Miller said. “You could’ve played really hard today and could’ve had a dog fight of a game and you still come out short in the win column. We weren’t ready to play as hard as we needed to against Wisconsin, and we didn’t play tough enough.”

The only lead IU had of the day was 2-0 after Durham made a pair of free throws less than a minute into a game.

From that point, Wisconsin took over and never looked back. The Badgers went on a 20-4 run with only two points coming from the post. Wisconsin was hitting perimeter shot after perimeter shot. There wasn’t anything IU could do to limit the onslaught that was occurring.

At halftime, Reuvers and sophomore guard Kobe King

combined for 28 points, enough to outscore IU entirely as a team by one point. King came into the game averaging 10.4 points but had 17 through the first 20 minutes.

No matter who was out on the perimeter guarding him, he continued to make IU pay for each opportunity he was given.

“It’s definitely hard on the road especially when they come out hot the way they did,” senior guard Devonte Green said.

Over Wisconsin’s prior three games, the Badgers failed to score more than 54 points and lost each one of them. Early in the season, Miller talked about how his team would need to get punched in the mouth in order for the defense to grow.

Against No. 17 Florida State University, the Seminoles went out to an 11-4 lead, but IU responded and fought back due to defense and a career performance from Green.

This time around, it was the opposite. The Hoosiers were outplayed in every facet of the game and couldn’t

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Senior guard Devonte Green looks up at the score during the second half of the game Dec. 7 at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Wisconsin beat IU 84-64.

find their footing. Each time IU would seem to find some sort of offensive groove, Wisconsin would respond with another made shot. There was a lot of hype around the men’s basketball program after the FSU win. Wisconsin shut down those talks from the start and made IU look like the unranked team it will likely still become Monday.

IU played with inconsistency throughout the eight nonconference games to start the season. At its best, it cruised past then-No.17 Florida State, and at its worst it looked like it did Saturday in Madison. How IU responds come Tuesday against the University of Connecticut in New York, showing whether the blowout win over Florida

State or blowout loss to Wisconsin was more realistic, will be a clear indication of what type of season this could turn out to be.

“This team has shown the ability over the early part of the year to be coachable and team-oriented,” Miller said.

“I don’t think that’s going to change. We got another one on Tuesday.”

IU’s offense plays far below season averages in Kohl Center loss, tying its lowest point total in a game this season

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

What IU men’s basketball had five days prior — when it put up 80 points against a No. 17 Florida State University defense, after 3-pointers fell in like free throws and a young team celebrated jubilantly in front of a raucous home crowd — shriveled away as it stepped out of friendly confines for the first time.

In the Florida State game, IU's offense proved that its prior performances that had it ranked among the top units in the nation was not just a product of lesser opposition. IU entered Madi-

son, Wisconsin, ranked as the seventh scoring offense in the nation, averaging 85.6 points per game. At least it was before regressing back to a performance resembling that of the 1-12 streak in Big Ten play last season. Instead, IU head coach Archie Miller had a group that he said was quiet, without the passion, smiles and energy it had just days prior in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. It didn’t communicate at the Kohl Center.

It had nothing to celebrate.

“We’ve got to be better in the area of talking,” Miller said. “I think that we’ve pleaded with this team as much as any that I’ve been around in

terms of trying to get guys to talk a little bit more.”

IU scored fewer than 79 points just once in the first eight games. It scored 64 in an 84-64 loss to Wisconsin, a margin that could have been far wider had IU not had flashes of an improved offense in the final minutes.

“You learn about your group and we’ve got to be more of a grinding team on the road,” Miller said. “At home it’s easy when you’re playing in the environment that we play in.”

The Hoosiers lead the Big Ten in free throw attempts and free throws made, averaging 241 and 171 respectively.

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That averages out to IU shooting 21.24-30.13 free throws per game.

“Our team is built to do something really well and that's get fouled,” Miller said after IU’s win over Florida State. Against Wisconsin, it only got to the line 26 times. It only made 17.

And most of that came in IU’s only stretch of good offense, coming when the result was already all but decided. IU was fifth nationally in total rebounding margin coming in at a +11.8 mark. It was out-rebounded 29-28.

IU’s offense improved in the second half, shooting 55% from the field. But the per-

formance in the first half — shooting 33% from the field, being constantly stymied inside by the sum of Wisconsin bodies and playing without the comfort and rhythm it did five days prior in Assembly Hall — left IU so far behind that none of that mattered. A 10-0 second half run only cut the deficit to 21 points.

IU only had one player, freshman forward Jerome Hunter, with a positive +/- rating (+3). Junior guard Al Durham’s 15 second-half points marked one of the few bright spots in a game where the Hoosiers fell short of nearly all of their season averages offensively.

The early 15-4 deficit IU found itself in isn’t something uncommon. IU was down early to Florida State, and it failed to pull away early against teams it was supposed to beat by margins like the one it lost to Wisconsin by.

"Our team was pleading with each other in the fourminute timeouts,” Miller said.

“We were searching for that breakout moment.”

Against Florida State and the non-major conference teams IU faced, that breakout moment happened. IU would go on a run to pull away and win.

Against Wisconsin, that never happened.

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The British royals are not your friends Emma Getz is a senior in English and history.

The British royal family is going through a period of relevance after being generally ignored for most of the 21st century as the world grows more and more disturbed by the idea of a monarchy still existing. What’s the best way to keep their image up? Making them fun and quirky, apparently.

From “The Crown” on Netflix to Queen Elizabeth II’s possible death leaked on Twitter via a man named Gibbo in a Whatsapp group chat earlier this week, the royal family is everywhere you look.

A recent example happened at Buckingham Palace’s NATO reception Dec. 3. A video surfaced in which Princess Anne shrugged off President Donald Trump instead of greeting him. This delighted American liberals who took it as a sign of “#resistance” on the part of Princess Anne.

The internet took off with this, praising the princess for her interesting and hilarious life anecdotes. One viral tweet stated: “People are surprised that Princess Anne can hang? That woman once was the victim of an attempted kidnapping and when she was told to get out of her car at gunpoint she said, ‘Not bloody likely.’ A true bad bitch.”

As it turns out, the “bad bitch” in question wasn’t actually shrugging off Trump at all. According to journalist Valentine Low, a journalist at The Times: “Instead the Queen, after greeting the Donald (and then Melania), turned to Anne to see who was next.

But there wasn’t anyone waiting: Trump was the last leader to be received by the Queen … Anne raised her hands in the air, laughed and said: ‘It’s just me,’ adding a moment later ‘and this lot’ as she pointed to the members of the household behind her.”

Long story short, people are giving Princess Anne far too much credit for an act of resistance that didn’t happen.

Even if she did shrug off Trump, it would be ridiculous to label any member of the royal family as a member of any form of resistance.

As an American, or per-

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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, left, and the Duchess of Cambridge, attend the first Royal Foundation Forum on Feb. 28, 2018, in London.

haps anyone who isn’t British, it’s a little baffling trying to comprehend how the British monarchy has stood so long when all others have fallen long ago. It could have to do with the longevity of the empire — they’ve never really had anything else. The execution of Charles I during the English Civil War in 1649 was supposed to be the end of the divine right of Kings, but even Oliver Cromwell didn’t have an alternative to hereditary succession.

The Glorious Revolution brought them right back to where they started (though perhaps without any more divine appointment of the monarchy. Progress is progress, right?)

That was over 300 years ago, and the monarchy is still strong, but not with the public support Americans might assume it has.

Recently, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn suggested he doesn’t watch the

Queen’s Speech on Christmas Day, which was disturbing to many Royalists.

He has gently criticized the royals a few times during his current campaign and garnered heavy criticism each time, but Labour has a lot of supporters.

It goes to show that a large faction of people in the U.K. don’t support the royal family at all. As for the entire population of Britain, YouGov found in a 2018 poll that 69% support the monarchy.

When it comes down to it, many Royalists in the U.K. or fans of the royal family everywhere else are either blind to reality or do not care.

They can ignore the fact that the colonial British Empire, everything the royal family stands for, was built on blood and imperialism.

They can also ignore the fact that the members of the royal family are simply not good people.

The latest highly-publicized scandal involves Prince Andrew and his connections to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein that forced the prince to step down from his public duties.

His disastrous interview left many unanswered questions, especially regarding Epstein’s victims.

This is only the most recent example of a moral transgression by a royal, and there are countless others. It’s notable to mention Prince Philip here, too. The Duke of Edinburgh’s blatant racism is treated by the British as a sort of “public secret,” reported on, but only gently, hinting at his intentions rather than incriminating him — the silly old man is just speaking his mind.

There are many examples of Philip’s public racism, including occasions such as the Prince asking an Aboriginal Australian if he

was “still throwing spears” and telling a group of British students in China that if they stayed longer they would become “slitty-eyed.”

Royalists, and much of the British media, find ways to look past these transgressions.

On this topic, journalist Hamid Dabashi of Al Jazeera states, “His racist remarks should not be whitewashed or camouflaged.

They need to be properly, accurately, and verbatim catalogued in the British Library and made available to future generations of scholars and critical thinkers, anthropologists of the racist foregrounding of European imperialism for careful and close analysis.”

The royal family even has complicated Nazi ties. Phillip’s sisters both married Nazis, and King Edward VIII had strong ties to the Nazi party.

This history is even documented in “The Crown,” so

one would think that loyal fans of the show, and subsequently the family itself, might stop to think about those implications.

It’s almost laughable how easily those who condemn billionaires and conservative politics in the United States blindly adore the royal family, treating them as silly reality show characters or even resistance icons in regards to how they have treated Trump.

Despite how cool and funny you think Princess Margaret or Princess Anne is, this could not be farther from the truth — the mere existence of the British monarchy represents centuries of racist colonial violence and quite frankly, crimes against humanity.

It’s time for Americans to understand their complicity in this and help British leftists work toward a future without a monarchy. emmagetz@iu.edu

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Editors Ally Melnik and Greer Ramsey-White arts@idsnews.com

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15th Parranda marks fall’s end BAFT offers new courses

By Claudia Gonzalez-Diaz clabgonz@iu.edu

In Spanish, the verb “parrandear” generally means to go out and enjoy yourself. It comes from the noun “parranda,” which can be a celebration or a party with dancing, food and friends.

Bloomington residents gathered for the annual Parranda celebration, which started in 2004, from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The Latino Graduate Student Association organized the event with the La Casa Latino Cultural Center and the Latino Faculty & Staff Council.

Law professor Luis Fuentes-Rohwer said this event helps bring together Bloomington’s Latino community, whether or not people are affiliated with the university.

“The parranda brings people together from the university and the Latino community at large to celebrate the end of the year,” Fuentes-Rohwer said.

“It implies ‘party’ or ‘celebration.’ It’s a way of being open to all different kinds of Latinos who will recognize the name ‘parranda,’” said Javier León, director of the Latin American Music Center at the Jacobs School of Music.

In places such as Puerto Rico, a parranda is a key Christmastime tradition similar to caroling. The cel-

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The interior of Mathers Museum of World Cultures is seen Dec. 8. Since 2004, the Christmas celebration has been organized by the Latino Graduate Student Association and La Casa Latino Cultural Center.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is an 8 — Contemplate beauty and listen to your heart.

Enter a three-week philosophical and spiritual phase with Mercury in Sagittarius. Speculate on eternal questions.

The Bloomington Academy of Film and Theatre is set to present more than 20 courses for this upcoming 2020 winter/spring session.

The session will run from Jan. 21 to May 9 with a 10day hiatus for spring break.

This session will be different than previous sessions with having class once a week rather than twice over the course of the season.

Some of the courses being offered include: acting; movie making, cinematography and film editing; animation and CGI; improv comedy; ballet (beginning and beyond) and voice lessons.

BAFT is also presenting two December workshops.

The first is “Voice Over for Anime, Commercial, and Audiobook,” which will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Dec. 7 and

will cover the basics for voice over performance. The second will be an editing workshop where students will edit a full BAFT film, “Confidentiality,” and gain hands-on experience of the industry and using Adobe Premiere Pro. The organization is about to celebrate its one-year anniversary. Opening in January 2019 as a satellite company off Indiana-based film company Pigasus Pictures, the Academy offers professional training in various disciplines of entertainment including filmmaking, screenwriting, acting, dance, improv and musical theater.

Youth and adults of all ages and experience levels work with professionals to hone in on industry skills and use industry-standard equipment.

For registration and more information, visit www.thebaft.org.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is a 7 — Support your partner. Over three weeks with Mercury in Sagittarius, the competition is extraordinarily fierce. Ignore petty stuff and pull together. Rely on each other.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8 — Get excellent advice from family. It's easier to express affection with Mercury in Sagittarius for three weeks. You're especially persuasive. Talk about what you love.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 9 — Creativity surges.

Begin a three-week intensive study phase with Mercury in Sagittarius.

Your curiosity seems intensified.

Study with passion. Write reports and investigate assumptions.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is an 8 — Create and discover efficiencies. Discover solutions for your work and health through communication over several weeks with Mercury in Sagittarius. Network and assess suggestions.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8 — Fix up your place.

Over three weeks with Mercury in Sagittarius, prioritize household renovation. Uncover forgotten treasures and discover new purposes for old stuff.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 9 — Find more ways to make money. It's easier to spend, too, with Mercury in Sagittarius, so take care. Keep close track of income and outflow.

By Greer Ramsey-White gramseyw@iu.edu

ebration is not characterized by any religion or border. Rather, it brings together traditions from multiple Latin American countries.

About 100 IU students, faculty, Bloomington residents and children attended the event. Sitting at long tables eating Puerto Ricanstyle rice and beans, tamales and “pan dulce” or sweet bread, the audience sang and clapped along to familiar Mariachi songs.

Mariachi Perla del Medio Oeste, a mariachi group, performed at the parranda.

The group’s lead singer is a dancer at the Ballet Folklórico de IU, which also performed at the event.

The Mariachi Perla is a student volunteer group sponsored by the Latin American Music Center, La Casa and the Department

Horoscope Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is an 8 — For the next three weeks with Mercury in your sign, you have an advantage. Practice to improve your communication skills and talents. Polish and edit.

The Bloomington Academy of Film and Theatre is set to present more than 20 courses for this upcoming 2020 winter/spring session. BAFT is also presenting two December workshops.

of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.

The Ballet Folklórico de IU performs folk dances native to different Latin American countries.

León said the value of

performance and music from different countries in this event.

“The idea is to showcase the diversity and variety of Latino expressions,” León said.

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The outside of Mathers Museum of World Cultures is seen Dec. 8. Since 2004, the Christmas celebration has been organized by the Latino Graduate Student Association and La Casa Latino Cultural Center.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8 — Group activities go well. Confer with others to discover hidden truths. Enjoy a three-week social phase with Mercury in Sagittarius. Accomplish great things together.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8 — Long-distance communications, traffic and travels improve over three weeks with Mercury in Sagittarius, so expand your territory. Write, research and study.

Investigate and share discoveries.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is an 8 — Professional opportunities arise in conversation.

Begin a three-week testing phase with Mercury in Sagittarius. Let others know what you want. Communication benefits your career.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is an 8 — Set long-range financial targets. Building a savings plan comes easier for three weeks with Mercury in Sagittarius. Track budgets and financial investments.

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PAYMENT: All advertising is done on a cash in advance basis unless credit has been established. The IDS accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, check or money order.

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REFUNDS: If you cancel your ad before the final run date, the IDS will refund the difference in price.

A minimum of one day will be charged.

COPY ERRORS: The IDS must be notified of errors before noon the date of the first publication of your ad. The IDS is only responsible for errors published on the first insertion date. The IDS will rerun your ad 1 day when notified before noon of the first insertion date.

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HOUSING ADS: All advertised housing is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act. Refer to idsnews.com for more info.

COPY CHANGES: Ad copy can be changed at no additional charge when the same number of lines are maintained. If the total number of lines changes, a new ad will be started at the first day rate.

Misc. for Sale 2015 Mercedes Benz C300, white, 4Matic. $22,500 neg. aliwu@iu.edu

12 pc. dinnerware set w/ 4 dinner & salad plates, bowls, & silverware. $15. yafwang@hotmail.com Columbia women’s size 8.5 medium hiking boots.

Never worn. 2 styles, $45 each. 812-322-0808 I-Core financial calculator. New. $35. alebwalk@iu.edu New Beats Studio3 Wireless with “Shadow Gray” Color. Cash.

812-558-4274

BMW 528i. Black/black leather int. 300K miles. $4,500 OBO. ecord@indiana.edu 520

AD ACCEPTANCE: All advertising is subject to approval by the IDS.

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To place an ad: go online, call 812-855-0763 or stop by Franklin Hall 130 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday.

Full advertising policies are available online. idsnews.com/classifieds

Bicycles Electric bicycle in great cond. - Like new. $800.

812-349-8730

Brand new Samsung Galaxy earbuds, never opened. $115, obo. leongood@iu.edu

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Gently used gray Microsoft Surface Pro 4.

128GB. $225. ltupshaw@iu.edu

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GoPro HERO5 Session and accessories. $100. grigutis@iu.edu

Instax Camera. Brand new. Never used. $45. junhxu@iu.edu

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