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AMPLIFY APPEALS DISQUALIFICATION By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma
Amplify for IUSA has appealed its disqualification from the IU Student Association election to the IUSA Supreme Court. The election commission disqualified Amplify after the ticket failed to include branded T-shirts and a miniature pony in its total
campaign expenditures and failed to list the shirts and pony in its final financial statement. According to the election code, tickets may not spend more than they receive in campaign donations, may not spend more than $3,000 and must submit a final financial statement by 5 p.m. the day after the election. According to the original
financial statements, before accounting for the shirts and pony, Amplify received $2,541.20 in campaign donations and spent $2,477.74, less than the limit and less than the ticket received in campaign contributions. The election commission, however, determined the fair market value of the shirts to be $1,023 and the pony to be $350.
According to the revised financial statements supplied by Amplify to the Supreme Court, after accounting for the shirts and pony, Amplify received $3,959.60 in campaign donation and spent $3,937.03, more than the limit of $3,000, but less than the ticket received in campaign contributions. According to the election code, tickets that spent more money than
they received in campaign contributions or that spent more than $3,000 are eligible for disqualification. According to the original financial statements, Amplify didn’t exceed both limits. According to the revised financial statements, the ticket did exceed the $3,000 limit. The ticket also exceeded the SEE AMPLIFY, PAGE 8
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PCBs continue to make headlines, spur controversy By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu | @agarau6
It’s been 36 years since the chemicals were banned, 28 since the city’s first lawsuit against Westinghouse Electric Corporation and six years since a plan for cleaning up the chemicals was finally agreed upon. Yet the controversy on polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs1, rages on in Bloomington. There are multiple superfund sites2 in Bloomington where hazardous PCB waste is located. These areas were contaminated when Westinghouse3, which has now become CBS Corporation, used PCBs in the electric equipment they were manufacturing. But that was all years ago. After all of these years and all of this activity, the question is: Why is this still an issue? Mr. Anonymous and civilian fracas The most recent push for citizen action to address PCBs in Bloomington was started by a man who goes by the name of John Smith. He has used three different names when talking to local EPA staff. Employees have taken to calling him Mr. Anonymous. “It’s just a really disturbing thing,” he said Saturday. “The more I learned, the more upset I got. It goes really deep, and the whole thing kind of alludes to huge systematic corruption.” He is attempting to rally community support in order to establish
1 Polychlorinated biphenyls, or “PCB” PCBs are a type of man-made chemical in widespread use from the 1930s to the late 1970s. They’ve been shown to cause cancer, reproductive problems, learning deficiencies and other health issues. They were banned by the Environmental Protection Agency after researchers found the chemicals in the fatty tissues of fish and other wildlife. Bloomington is home to six of the most contaminated sites in the country, three of which are Superfund sites. 2 Superfund site A Superfund site is an uncontrollable or abandoned area where hazardous waste is located that could be harmful to local people or ecosystems. The sites in Bloomington are the Lemon Lane Landfill, Bennett’s Dump and Neal’s Landfill. 3 Westinghouse
Westinghouse, now known as CBS, stopped using the chemicals in 1977, and the corporation has invested millions of dollars into the cleanup process since then. The chemicals have been largely removed from the ground and either transported to other communities or placed in capped landfills. More than 1.6 billion gallons of contaminated water have been filtered in an expensive water treatment plant constructed SEE PCB, PAGE 4 by the EPA.
‘Into the Woods’ to take the stage at IU Theatre By Lanie Maresh emaresh@indiana.edu
For senior and musical theatre major Kelsey Shaw, being the witch in IU Theatre’s production of “Into the Woods” is a dream come true. With this being her last production with IU Theatre, she said it will be a bittersweet feeling when the final curtain drops. “It’s not like it will be my last performance ever,” Shaw said. “I have my career to look forward to, and I’m excited to start that, but it’s going to be sad. There will be a lot of tears on closing night for me for sure.” At 7:30 p.m. Friday in Ruth N. Halls Theatre, Shaw will perform alongside her fellow actors for the last time at IU in “Into the Woods.” When Shaw found out she was playing the witch during the first week of the semester, she said she was thrilled. As she developed her character, she said she wanted to steer away from comparing herself to the famous actresses who played the witch in the past, such as Bernadette Peters on Broadway and Meryl Streep in the movie, and try to find things about her character that were a little bit more relatable. “At the end of the day she’s a mother and okay, well I know single mothers,” Shaw said. “And being able to dig deeper than she wears a cape, she’s ugly, the magic and all of that.” Shaw said she also enjoys the complexity of her character. There are moments when there’s a lot of comedy, she said, but there are devastating ones, too.
INTO THE WOODS Tickets: $15-25 7:30 p.m. Friday, Ruth N. Halls Theatre “That’s been really enjoyable for me to be able to dig deeper in that way to really experience every range of emotion in basically a two and a half hour show is kind of an amazing thing for an actress to be able to do,” Shaw said. IU Theatre professor and director of “Into the Woods” Kenneth L. Roberson said the musical itself is also very complex. “There’s a balance of the light and the dark, the hope and despair and faith and fate,” Roberson said. Shaw said her biggest takeaway from the IU Theatre program was learning the importance of collaboration and how important each little piece is to making the production what it ends up being opening night. “You’re creating your character, and that’s your goal, but then there’s so many people that help you get there also,” Shaw said. During their senior year, Shaw said musical theatre majors are required to take THTR T-401 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase and perform in the Senior Showcase in New York on May 12. Shaw said she will move to New York the day after graduation and start auditioning after the showcase. Casting directors, agents and others in the business will come and watch students perform at the showcase. Shaw SEE THEATRE, PAGE 8
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Matisyahu performs during Israelpalooza on Tuesday in Dunn Meadow. The event was hosted by the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center at IU.
Israelpalooza Matisyahu performs at Israeli culture festival By Alyson Malinger afmaling@indiana.edu | @aly_mali
Gathering people together to celebrate the culture of Israel and hear music from a variety of artists, including the international rock star Matisyahu, Israelpalooza was a platform for the Israeli voice on Bloomington’s campus. The event took place Tuesday in Dunn Meadow for an evening of Israeli culture exposure. Israelpalooza, usually a daylong cultural festival produced annually by Hillel, a Jewish organization on campus, was revamped this year by a new organization at IU, Students Supporting Israel. Students Supporting Israel is a pro-Israel international campus movement that supports the Jewish Democratic State of Israel. Students Supporting Israel is a growing international movement with 30 chapters, including IU. “I thought about putting on a music festival last spring
showing our campus the eclectic and pluralistic Israeli society through music,” said Amit Boukai, president of Students Supporting Israel. Tulane University had previously put on a similar concert with Matisyahu as the main headline as part of the Declare Your Freedom festival. DYF is a pro-zionist festival founded by a grassroots student-led movement. Boukai approached Hillel officials in attempts to change Israelpalooza to a music festival setting and ended up adopting the DYF concert as well. The planning process started back in October when Boukai and her board decided to move forward with the festival. From then on, a lot of brainstorming took place and it transitioned into DYF confirming a headliner, not known at the time, and the board reaching out to different advocacy organizations on campus to become involved. About 12 different outside
organizations hosted booths and interactive activities at the festival. Most were organizations connected to Israel in some way, and others hoped to facilitate healthy conversation. Masa Israel, Stand With Us, Indiana Israel Public Advocacy Committee, Jewish National Fund, Tamid group, The Jewish Federation, Greek Jewish Council, Nahariya Hospital Project, Table Talk and Save a Child’s Heart were all organizations that contributed to the festival. “I’m excited to see at the end of this festival the impact that it has on the Israel conversation on campus and the way in which students on our campus think about Israel next time,” Boukai said. “To think about a country that is so important to so many people on campus.” Other than Matisyahu, local artists including Stellardaze, Deven Khoury, Hooshir and DJ SEE ISRAELPALOOZA, PAGE 8
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Missed opportunities cost Hoosiers 6-2 By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94
TERRE HAUTE — IU could have had more. But it lost its opportunity and was now watching Indiana State’s Andy Young round the bases after his two-run home run off the trees beyond the left field fence gave Indiana State a four-run lead. The half-inning prior, the Hoosiers had runners on second and third and one out with its senior catcher, Brad Hartong, at the plate. SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 8
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Freshman infielder Isaiah Pasteur stands beside redshirt freshman pitcher Austin Foote during a mound visit in IU’s game against Indiana State on Tuesday at Bob Warn Field in Terre Haute. Foote gave up a two-run home run in IU’s 6-2 loss to the Sycamores.