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Van crashes into wall of Buffalo Wild Wings on Tuesday night From IDS reports
Police were dispatched to Buffalo Wild Wings on Bloomfield Road Tuesday night after a van drove into the restaurant. Two people believed to be the driver and passenger were taken to the hospital. Sophomores Patrick Wettig and Justin Wentz said they were sitting in the booth next to where the van crashed into the restaurant. “Our table pushed out a foot or two,” Wettig said. “It pushed us to the side.” Wetting said the car caught on fire after it crashed. Wentz said he heard someone in the next booth begin yelling “Help her!” after the impact. Samantha Sur sat at a table with her friends near the area as well. She said no one was sitting at the tables the van hit. “Those tables were empty,” Sur said. “We’re happy no one sat there.” Sur was sitting with her friends at the time of impact. She said when the car hit, she didn’t know what to think. “I thought maybe a TV fell,” Sur said. Shortly after she said a fire alarm went off and people began running out of the restaurant. Police at the scene were unable to comment on the accident. Lyndsay Jones
Man robs student in Dunn’s Woods From IDS reports
A robbery occurred in Dunn’s Woods at about midnight Monday, triggering an IU Notify alert. A man grabbed a male student from behind and pressed a metal object to his temple, Capt. Andy Stephenson said. The victim, sitting on a bench just east of Bryan Hall, said he thought it was a gun but did not see the object. The suspect demanded the victim surrender his cell phone and wallet. The student complied with the suspect, whom he described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, thin, about 5-foot-9 and dressed in a blue, hooded Adidas track jacket, Stephenson said. The victim reported the suspect had been talking with other people, indicating there could have been multiple individuals involved in the robbery. According to the victim, the suspect fled on foot to the northwest. The victim returned to Forest Quadrangle, where IU Police Department officers met with him. IUPD combed the area surrounding the incident, but they found no one. There are no leads, but the investigation is ongoing. Emily Miles
Music discussion series talks feminity By Brielle Saggese bsaggese@indiana.edu @briellesaggese
Looking around her freshman engineering seminar, Nina Young found herself surrounded by a sea of men. Of the thousands of people enrolled in her major, she graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the only woman in the ocean engineering program. Even still, Young, now an internationally acclaimed composer, will join the Jacobs School of Music’s Unapologetically Female three-part series this week to talk SEE FEMALE, PAGE 6
‘628 on the field’ NOBLE GUYON | IDS
Senior wide receiver Mitchell Paige, left, congratulates sophomore wide receiver Nick Westbrook after Westbrook scored against Ball State on Sept. 9.
Leading IU football receivers bond and build chemistry on and off the field as roommates. By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @TaylorRLehman
Football and Rocket League: those are what senior receiver Mitchell Paige and sophomore receivers Nick Westbrook and Luke Timian talk about most at their apartment when they’re not on the field. On-field strategy and a video game that simulates soccer with rocket-powered vehicles. The trio tries to get at least one game in every night before they go to bed. Then on Saturdays they catch touchdowns for the Hoosiers. “We’ve built an awesome bond,” Paige said. “Especially being an older guy, it’s nice to have younger guys that are buying in to what we do here and the standards that we set here the way that they have. It makes coming in here a lot more fun.” Between the three of them, Paige, Westbrook and Timian have 566 of IU’s 1,002 receiving yards and five of its seven receiving touchdowns. Coming into the season though, it appeared that, for the younger guys at least, the targets would be few and far between. That was until junior receiver Simmie Cobbs was suspended for the season opener and
went down with an ankle fracture in IU’s home opener. Westbrook stepped in for Cobbs and caught six passes for 70 yards at FIU and three passes for 133 yards — with two touchdowns of 48 and 79 yards — against Ball State. The sophomore also had six catches for 129 yards and two touchdowns in the Wake Forest loss. Paige has caught 15 passes — tied with Westbrook for the team lead — for 169 yards, while Timian has reeled in six catches for 65 yards and one touchdown against Ball State. Timian nearly had another touchdown against Wake Forest as well. Westbrook said it wasn’t the production the trio expected coming into the season, but, because of each other, they were able to perform at that level. “We all hyped each other up,” Westbrook said. “We brought each other up all of camp and throughout the season. We back each other as brothers because we’re roommates. We’re so close. It wasn’t that we were expecting it. I guess it was more like we were anticipating it, pushing for it.” The pushing began in camp, when all
three were on the field at the same time. “Six-two-eight on the field. 628 on the field,” they would shout for anyone on the field to hear. Their apartment number is 628. Westbrook said that rally cry served as comfort and drive for the young receiver, who knew he had to keep getting better because Timian and Paige were getting better, too. Now with 628 all within IU’s top-four receiving wideouts, IU offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach Kevin Johns said he sees additional chemistry between the three players that helps them on the field, too. Even within a positional group that is already tight. Paige wants to lead IU’s young receivers in order to set the position’s standard for the future. Westbrook and Timian have received that message. “Me, (Timian) and Mitchell were talking that we need to have that chip on our shoulder now so that when Mitchell’s gone or when (senior receiver Ricky Jones is) gone next year, we need to step up as leaders,” Westbrook said. “Helping the young guys come along, like they helped me and Luke come along.” For Westbrook and Timian though, the mission with Paige has been a personal one. SEE ROOMMATES, PAGE 6
Franklin Hall rededicated as home of the Media School By Regina Mack regmack@indiana.edu | @regmack_
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Officer Keaton and Ike, BPD’s sole police dog, take a picture in the morning after their night shift together.
K-9 Ike proves valuable to Bloomington PD officers By Dominick Jean drjean@indiana.edu | @Domino_Jean
As the police car accelerated and the siren was switched on, Adele played in the background and the police dog, Ike, paced in the backseat. Ike was excited once he heard the sirens switch on. Bloomington Police officer Will Keaton is the police officer in charge of Ike, BPD’s sole police dog. Keaton said while he and Ike are the only current members, a department the size of BPD could have as many as four police dogs. “Ultimately there should be one on duty at all times,” Keaton said. The issue with that is the cost, Keaton said. Ike, a German Shepard from the Czech Republic, and his training have a price tag of $13,000. They also require special police cars with a cage in the back. Ke-
aton’s car is also equipped with a remote door opener so he can let Ike out at a moment’s notice. The approximate expense of getting another three dogs would total $39,000, which does not include training for officers or the special police cars that are required for the dogs. BPD Sgt. Lucas Tate, the supervisor for the K-9 unit, said while the K-9 units are expensive, they help officers in many situations. “It gives them something extra to use,” Tate said. “It’s a very useful tool.” Keaton said he remembered when Ike gained his trust for the first time. Keaton was helping another officer with a traffic stop and BPD had only recently gotten Ike. As officers searched the vehicle they were not finding anySEE K-9, PAGE 6
A large crowd gathered Tuesday afternoon in Presidents Hall for the rededication of Franklin Hall as the home of the Media School. IU President Michael McRobbie, Executive Vice President and Provost Lauren Robel and former IU student and current sports broadcaster Joe Buck were present to speak about Franklin Hall and the new Media School before the rededication. Buck, a Fox Sports broadcaster and seven-time Emmy award winner, received an honorary doctoral degree at the event. Larry Singell, Executive Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, introduced Buck as both an accomplished broadcaster and philanthropist. “Joe Buck captures the essence of what we hope for from Media School students,” Singell said. “If my fraternity brothers could see me now,” Buck said to many laughs from the crowd upon presentation of his honorary degree. Buck left the University at the age of 20 to follow in his father Jack Buck’s footsteps and pursue a career as a broadcaster for the St. Louis Cardinals. He joked that he landed the job due to nepotism but said picking IU was one of the best decisions he ever made in his life. Buck addressed Media School students in the crowd to say much good can come from the internet and social media when it comes to newsgathering and charitable endeavors. He warned of their power to scare the opinion, ease and sense of humor out of people.
“There has never been a more exciting time in media than as we sit here in 2016.” Joe Buck, Fox Sports broadcaster
“It can affect your life, it’s affected mine in the past,” Buck said. “And it can also affect your work. What I’m saying is don’t let it.” Buck repeatedly stated his pride in IU and said what the University is doing is nothing short of spectacular. “There has never been a more exciting time in media than as we sit here in 2016,” Buck said. Telecommunications, film studies, game design and journalism are some of the areas that comprise the Media School, which formed within the College of Arts and Sciences in 2014. McRobbie said Franklin Hall, which was constructed as the University’s first library in 1907 before being used for administrative purposes, has once again become a center of vibrant activity. President McRobbie said the creation of the Media School is in response to the dramatic change the media environment has undergone in recent years and provides students and faculty the technologies they need to adapt to this environment. A 24-by-12-foot TV screen in the building’s commons and the Ken and Audrey Beckley Studio for TV broadcast classes and production workshops are just two of these new technologies available to students. Dean of the Media School James Shanahan said a building SEE FRANKLIN HALL, PAGE 6