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Homeless to be more protected By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu | @agarau6

In a unanimous decision, Bloomington City Council voted Wednesday to make Bloomington the first Indiana city to recognize homeless people as a somewhat protected class. This decision comes after more than a year of work by Shalom Community Center staff and members of the Bloomington Human Rights Commission. When a client of Shalom Community Center applied for a job in Bloomington, he was hired. When the employers received the results of his background check, however, they immediately let him go. The report hadn’t uncovered some horrible, undisclosed criminal history. Rather, it simply showed that several of the new employee’s recent addresses belonged to homeless shelters. “High risk indicator,” the background check read next to each address. This discrimination based on housing status is not illegal in the United States. Amongst the people sitting in groups on the grass at Seminary Park, it’s hard to find someone who does not feel that their housing status has hindered them when seeking employment or shelter. One woman said her job application was thrown in the trash when she listed Shalom as her address. Many people said that Bloomington motels have begun turning away homeless

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Freshman Andrew Gutman (left) smiles at sophomore Grant Lillard after Gutman drew a foul during the match against St. John’s on Friday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

The Fire at IU Hoosiers share history with Chicago Fire Academy By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu @MichaelHughes94

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MARS program expands Alexis Daily aledaily@umail.iu.edu | @AlexDaily1

Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault’s IU chapter was founded in 2013. Today, the organization has 86 members committed to engaging and educating men about the issues of rape and sexual assault. “We realized there was a need for a comprehensive educational program about these important topics, and MARS not only focuses on the issues, but also on the solutions,” said Jesse Scheinman, vice president of membership development on the Interfraternity Council. In an effort to make the sexual assault discussions more focused this year, Scheinman said he hoped to use thematic speakers at their meetings. “With new members joining fraternities in the coming weeks, we’re hoping to emphasize these important topics in their new member education,” he said. “We plan to target freshmen and show that talking about these issues is an important aspect of joining the IU and greek communities.” Additionally, Scheinman said he hoped to work more with Safe Sisters, a Panhellenic group trained by the IU Health Center’s Sexual Assault Crisis Service, to serve as a resource for sisters on the issue of sexual assault and potentially plan a joint philanthropy event. “We want to create an organization that all Hoosiers can be proud of,” he said. Dan DeBard, president of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity, said 10 members of his fraternity are in MARS. He said these representatives bring information and training from MARS meetings to their chapter, making all members better able to respond in situations involving sexual assault. “It’s not only understanding what happens in the moment, but also learning what to do to prevent these incidents from happening in the first place,” DeBard said. “It’s time for the fraternity community to be part of the solution, and that starts with proper education.” SEE MARS, PAGE 6

Last season, Grant Lillard was a freshman who started every game at center back for IU. His transition into the starting lineup was eased by then-senior Patrick Doody who was starting at left back, next to Lillard. Now, Doody has graduated, and a new freshman has stepped in to replace Doody at left back: Andrew Gutman. What all three have in common beside being left-footed defenders: they all played in the Chicago Fire Academy before attending IU. “I went to IU and that kind of spiraled off into a couple other guys attending IU,” Doody said. The Fire academy, partners with the MLS’ Chicago Fire, has quickly become one of the top youth academies in the country. The U-18 team won the U.S. Soccer Development Academy national championship this summer, with Gutman

starting on the backline. Part of the reason the academy team is so strong, and why its graduates are finding success after leaving the academy is because the Fire doesn’t treat the academy team like an academy team. The Fire treats its academy as an extension of its senior team, giving its youth players opportunities to train with the first team. “Obviously that’s something you can’t get anywhere else,” Lillard said. “It’s always a good opportunity to practice with those guys, and it’s a good experience. That helps, especially physically because the jump from academy to college, that’s one of the biggest things.” Another one of the big things, Gutman said, was that he could no longer take plays off. While training with the academy, Gutman said he could get away with taking a play off every once in a while. Once he arrived at IU, however, he was quickly told this was no longer the case. The

person to tell him this: his backline partner and former academy teammate, Lillard. “We’ve had a lot of conversations on what to do with the left side of the backline,” Gutman said. “I think that we just understand each other so well and our tendencies that we know what each other are going to do.” IU Coach Todd Yeagley said he sees a lot of similarities between Gutman and Lillard, similarities he attributes to their background with the Fire. He said the physical challenges they faced have prepared them for the rigors of college soccer. The training has prepared them mentally for tough situations and for the quick decisions they need to make in games. At the end of last season, Lillard was named the top freshman in the Big Ten. This season, Yeagley said he thinks Gutman is more than capable of following Lillard. “I think right now Andrew has an opportunity to be Freshman of the Year in the confer-

ence,” Yeagley said. “I think he’s that dynamic and good at what he does. It was pretty clear quickly that Grant was in a special category, and I think Andrew is in that same category, which is great.” The connection between the Fire and the Hoosiers is not one that will be disappearing anytime soon, Yeagley said. “I think the dominoes are getting even stronger and that pipeline will continue to grow,” he said. One of the factors is that the Chicago area is one of the top areas the University draws its students from. Yeagley said most everyone from Chicago knows somebody who attended IU and loved their time as a Hoosier. And with the Fire continuing to be one of the top teams in the country, there’s no reason Yeagley would want to turn them away, he said. “They’re producing players, Andrew won’t be the last one that we recruit,” Yeagley said. “It’s not going away.”

The Bishop to celebrate 6 years in business By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans

The Bishop Bar is no stranger to touring acts. At the moment, the bar-and-music venue’s schedule promises upcoming performances from far-flung and wide-ranging bands — Long Island neo-disco, Pacific Coast drone metal, Madrid indie rock. But the biggest night of the year at the Bishop doesn’t involve any bands from outside Bloomington. When the venue plays host to its yearly anniversary celebrations, the lineups are strictly locals-only. “The fact we can have our biggest night of the year without a ‘Special Surprise Guest,’ ... with just locals, is really great,” Bishop owner Stephen Westrich said. “It says something about the scene we’re lucky to have.” This year’s celebration marks the bar’s sixth anniversary. The 21-plus show, which begins at 9 p.m. Friday, features three local acts: rock group Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, pop-punk outfit High Dive and power-pop band Full Sun. Admission is free. Westrich said the Bishop has thrown an anniversary event every year since opening, with some of the venue’s favorite bands on stage. “It’s mostly about some of our favorites that we want to celebrate with and we feel like are a summary of what the bar is about — who we cater to, who we want to be here,” he said.

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The Bishop will celebrate it’s sixth anniversary this Friday where local bands will begin playing at 9 p.m. The three featured artists are rock group Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, pop-punk outfit High Dive and power-pop band Full Sun. The anniversary show will be free to the public who are 21 and older.

Mike Adams at His Honest Weight will headline the show. Frontman Mike Adams has been part of the Bloomington music scene since arriving in 2001, and he called the Bishop “the best-sounding room in town.” “We were really flattered that they asked us to help celebrate this year,” Adams said. “The Bishop feels very much like home base to

me, so I’m always happy to do anything they want.” Though Adams has played music in Bloomington since the turn of the century, Westrich said the most bittersweet changes in the local music scene in the six years since he founded the Bishop have been the departures and dissolutions of other local favorites. Still, he said, the venue is relatively young — young enough, at

ANNIVERSARY SHOW Free to the public who are 21+ 9 p.m. Friday, the Bishop least, to have not yet seen a big musical sea change. “It’ll be a long time before we can look back and say, ‘Remember the bands that were active in 2010? SEE BISHOP, PAGE 6


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