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By Dominick Jean drjean@indiana.edu | @Domino_Jean
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A student runs through blue powder coloring during the JB5K color run Saturday.
Color for a cause Jill Behrman Color the Campus 5K continues growth in 17th year By Lydia Gerike lgerike@umail.iu.edu | @lydi_yeah
By 10 a.m. Saturday, Chris Geary’s face and hands were covered in yellow powder as she prepared for the day ahead. As service director for evaluation, special events, special projects and sponsorships for IU Recreational Sports, she is in charge of the Jill Behrman Color the Campus 5K Run/Walk. About 15 minutes later, Jill Behrman’s childhood friend Kristin Nelson arrived at the race as she did 17 years ago and every year for the past five years since the JB5K became a color run. Soon after that, Eric Behrman, Jill’s father, walked up to the painting of his daughter that he and Jill’s mother donated to the Student Recreational Sports Center some years ago. Jill is painted as a freshman in her dorm and is smiling in a yellow shirt that matches her bright personality. The artist made sure to include Jill’s favorite necklace and teddy bear in
the frame, Eric said. By this time, Marilyn Behrman, Jill’s mom, was late, but no one was particularly worried. She’s never on time, Geary said. Not for the weekly board meetings she attends Monday nights and not even for this, the 5K race honoring her daughter. Jill was late once, too. On May 31, 2000, right after the end of her freshman year, she was supposed to meet her grandparents for dinner after a shift at the SRSC, but she disappeared before she and her bike could make it to the restaurant. Her body was found in 2003 by hunters in the Morgan County woods. In her honor, people like Geary and her parents have helped develop the JB5K from almost nothing to what is now — IU’s first and only color run and walk to promote safety awareness and to encourage fun and fitness. During the past 17 years, they have all watched this 5K do something Jill no longer can — grow. As a biker, volleyball player, weightlifter and generally healthy per-
son, Jill would have loved to participate in the JB5K, Marilyn said. Although Jill was a business major her freshman year, Marilyn said the 19-year-old was leaning more toward exercise science by the end. “She always felt that was a good use of her time,” Marilyn said. “She’d rather be doing something than sitting around watching TV.” Only the past five years of the 5K have been a color run, and during this time the student board that makes decisions about the run has created a vibrant event. As part of their sign-up fee, participants were given neon sweatbands, white sunglasses and white shirts. The T-shirt designs had purple, blue and green color splashes in the middle that said “Color the Campus” followed by either “Safe,” “Strong” or “Aware.” Employees from the SRSC led the sea of white shirts in a cardio hip-hop warm up to help everyone get loose before the race began. SEE BEHRMAN, PAGE 6
Children run around and play on Friday, safe inside the fence surrounding Fairview Elementary school playground. They, unlike their parents, are unaware that a Fairview bus driver was arrested earlier that week, disturbing this safe environment. The Bloomington Police Department arrested 43-year-old Timothy Poteat, the driver of bus 44, on Oct. 21 on charges of child exploitation and child molesting. BPD is encouraging anyone who has children on that bus to contact the police about anything unusual. One parent, Elke Acosta, expressed her disbelief as she picked her son up from school. Acosta said she prefers to pick her children up to avoid issues like bullying, but now she has another reason. “It’s crazy,” Acosta said. “You don’t know what he did on that bus.” Poteat was originally arrested on Oct. 18 after he finished his bus route. Police began an investigation Oct. 11 after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children stating child pornography was being accessed from a specific IP address. BPD then traced the IP address, the electronic signature of the images, to Poteat’s house. BPD searched Poteat’s home and found six phones, two computers and seven external hard drives. BPD Lt. Brad Seifers said they are still reviewing all of it for evidence. The day after Poteat was taken into custody, another report came indicating that Poteat had attempted to take photos of two sisters, ages 8 and 7, as they rode his bus. Poteat was originally released on bail from the first arrest but was then taken back into custody without the option of bond and was arrested a second time on charges of child molestation. The charges were added once pornographic photos and video were discovered on Poteat’s computer. BPD SEE BUS DRIVER, PAGE 6
FOOTBALL
IU fails to make enough competitive plays in 24-14 loss By Jordan Guskey jguskey@indiana.edu | @JordanGuskey
Whether it’s as simple as going to class or cleaning up the locker room, the Hoosiers are going to start doing the little things that winners do. That was the pledge Mitchell Paige made after the IU football team lost Saturday to Northwestern, 24-14. “It’s kind of the same thing that’s been happening, things we need to fix,” the senior wide receiver said. “In critical situations we’re getting a penalty, or we’re not making the play that we need to make. We’ve got to find a way this week.” IU fell into a 14-3 hole at the end of the first quarter and a bigger 24-3 hole at the end of the first half. Wildcat quarterback Clayton Thorson used his Big Ten leading receiver, Austin Carr, and others, to match a career high total of three touchdowns in a game in half the time.
Northwestern’s defense stifled IU’s offense both on the ground and through the air. They allowed the Hoosiers just 120 yards of total offense through two quarters while the Wildcats amassed 371. IU’s defense woke up in the second half, but its offense couldn’t make the competitive plays to do the same. All game long, whether it was jump balls Northwesrern’s defensive backs would come down with instead of IU’s receivers or blocking matchups that would end with IU junior running back Devine Redding down for a short gain instead of a first down, the 50-50 plays always seemed to go Northwestern’s way. It appeared as if Northwestern just wanted it more. If IU (3-4, 1-3) could have come down with a few more of those deep balls, some of which were incomplete because Lagow couldn’t make
Related Content, page 8 Richard Lagow’s struggles are a big problem for the Hoosiers and even cost them the game Saturday. the throw, or broken out a few more runs, the offense may have kicked into gear. “Whenever Ricky makes a good play I’m hype,” sophomore wide receiver Nick Westbrook said. “I’m just, I want to make the next big play. It’s contagious and, I don’t know, I feel like we could have made more obviously, but, it’s unfortunate.” IU’s only play that gained more than 30 yards was a 33-yard pass from Lagow to Westbrook on a drive that ended with a field goal. Northwestern (4-3, 3-1) had two touchdown passes that traveled MICHAEL WILLIAMS | IDS
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Junior running back Devine Redding is brought down Saturday at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois. IU lost to Northwestern 24-14.
Eskenazi Museum to close for 3 years due to renovations By Brielle Saggese bsaggese@indiana.edu | @briellesaggese
After receiving a $15 million donation from the Eskenazi family and a $20 million donation from IU, the Eskenazi Museum of Art will be closed to the public for renovations from May 2017 to the spring of 2020, according to a press release from the museum.
The renovation project will update the museum with expansions to gallery and event spaces, a new entry and atrium, integrated gallery technology and modernized building systems. While the project ensures improvement to the museum facilities and programs, museum employees may suffer the consequences of losing their steady income during the
three-year shutdown. “If, by next summer, we don’t have a definite answer if we have a job or not, I’m going to apply somewhere else because that’s my only source of income, and, as students, especially, I can’t wait around to see if my job is still there or not. It’s frustrating,” said sophomore Milly Cai, who currently works at the museum’s Angles Cafe and Gift Shop.
During her two years at the museum, Cai has worked at the information desk and as a museum studies intern. Cai said all student employees at the museum are part of IU’s work-study program, which for many students acts as a needed source of income. According to the release, staff members will receive priority consideration during the hiring process
when the museum reopens in 2020. However, the museum’s undergraduate students will be long gone before they can get their jobs back. Sophomore Hannah Gregory, who also works at the cafe, said their boss told them about the shutdown two months ago. While nothing has been confirmed, Gregory SEE ESKENAZI, PAGE 6
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