THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
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Bill aims to create access to injection By Daniel Metz dsmetz@indiana.edu | @DanielSMetz
In the case of an opioid overdose, an injection of the prescription drug naloxone could be lifesaving, and Indiana legislators are looking to make this option more accessible throughout the state. A new piece of legislation, Senate Bill 406, seeks to increase access to overdose-intervention drugs such as naloxone in an effort to reduce the number of preventable overdose-related deaths each year. According to a 2012 report issued by the Indiana Department of Health, opioids and painkillers were a factor in almost 21 percent of cases of fatal drug overdoses in Indiana. SB 406 would address this issue by allowing specific health care professionals to prescribe overdose-intervention drugs to patients without an examination under certain circumstances, allowing for the friends and family of an at-risk individual to be able to obtain and administer overdose-intervention drugs. The bill would also require certain ambulances to be equipped with these drugs. In a column, Rep. Cindy Ziemke, R-Batesville, one of the bill’s sponsors in the Indiana House of Representatives, argued that some fatal overdoses could be prevented if overdose-intervention drugs became more accessible. “While these drugs could reduce death caused by overdose, they currently can only be prescribed to emergency responders and technicians,” Ziemke said. “Family members, concerned friends and other loved ones are not legally able to obtain them in our state.” Naloxone works by being injected directly into a vein or skin and counteracting many of the side effects of an opioid overdose such as SEE INJECTION, PAGE 6
Students participate in Model EU today By Alyson Malinger afmaling@indiana.edu | @aly_mali
Every April, more than 160 college and university students meet to decide the future of the European Union. Playing the roles of prime ministers and presidents, ambassadors and commissioners, and ministers and diplomats, they spend three days haggling over policy, resolving disputes, building compromises and charting the course of European unity. This year, the Midwest Model European Union will be hosted by IU under the Institute for European Studies. This is the second year IU has hosted the three-day conference event. About 15 schools will be participating in the conference this year with about 180 students and 200 participants in total. The students will simulate meetings of the three major institutions of the European Union. These institutions include the European Council, the European Commission, and the Council of Ministers. “The conference is very closely related to how the actual European Union works,” said Megan Immerzeel, administrative secretary for the Institute for European Studies. “It gives students a clear understanding through this simulation.” The actual Model European Union takes place every year in Strasbourg, France, at the Louise Weiss Building, the official seat of the European Parliament. SEE MODEL EU, PAGE 6
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Lori McDonald holds her work and stands by her display table Tuesday at the wVenue, Fine Art & Gifts. The artist creates living jewelry box terrariums, which unite jewelry storage with living, breathing art.
Living art Local artist Lori McDonald brings terrarium jewelry boxes to The Venue By Sanya Ali siali@indiana.edu | @siali13
The galleries of Bloomington often have the opportunity to share atypical works in their showrooms. From abstract sculpture to performance pieces, the definition of art is ever-changing. At the beginning of April, local artist Lori McDonald introduced her artistic perspective through jewelry and jewelry boxes to The Venue Fine Art & Gifts. Among her collection are earrings, bracelets and rings made from old materials. “My focus is on using vintage pieces and reclaimed materials,” McDonald said. “There’s a real focus on breathing new life into found pieces and bringing them life in the present.” Everything has a story,
McDonald said, and with her work she hopes to introduce people to something old and new and something special. Jewelry is only one part of McDonald’s latest exhibition. The artist also created living jewelry box terrariums, uniting the function of jewelry display with the natural world through live plants growing at the center of each box. McDonald said she began making just one box for herself and fell in love with the idea of what she calls “a secret garden of living things.” “I have my wedding ring in there, a necklace my dad gave me and a bracelet I wear all the time, pieces that are still living art for me,” McDonald said. “I want to see them and not stash them away.” After she made one for
herself, McDonald said she felt compelled to start making more so others could experience their own secret gardens. Another art form with which McDonald experimented is a three-part vessel with little orbs of marimo moss inside. “They’re little pond creatures,” McDonald said. “They are moss, they are alive and they live very well in aquariums. Someone found out they can live well in little glass vessels.” McDonald placed the marimo balls into the vessels with water and more vintage material, this time beads she had since she was 8 years old. “It just was a really cool way for me to acknowledge the vintage things of my own that weren’t really doing anything,”
McDonald said. An interesting feature of the marimo vessels is a characteristic of the moss orbs themselves. McDonald said if an orb becomes “lonely,” it will migrate to another section of the vessel with some of the other moss orbs, then migrate back. Much of McDonald’s inspiration, she said, comes from the natural world. This affinity for the outdoors began during her childhood growing up around the Rocky Mountains in Utah, where she frequently hiked and explored the wilderness. “There’s ponds you can fish in,” McDonald said. “There are places you can just go swim. There are waterfalls. I miss it evSEE LIVING, PAGE 6
BASEBALL
Home woes continue as bullpen costs IU 5-4 By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94
IU Coach Chris Lemonis was fed up. He said it’s been the same story the past two weeks. IU gets a lead, the bullpen gives it up in the latter innings. Recap, page 5 And after IU’s 5-4 loss Take a look at the Wednesday inning-by-inning night at Bart recap of the IU Kaufman loss to Cincinnati. Field, as IU huddled around him in left field, he let his team know he was upset. As he walked away from the huddle, he yelled at his team to figure it out. “It’s been excruciating, and it’s been happening the last two weeks,” IU Coach Chris Lemonis said. “Every time we get the lead we seem to give it up.” Freshman Logan Sowers had hit a two-run single to to give IU a onerun lead in the bottom of the sixth inning. In the beginning of the season, this meant handing the ball to a reliable and dominant bullpen. But tonight it meant handing the ball to freshman Austin Foote,
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Sophomore outfielder Craig Dedelow hits a triple to lead off IU’s game against Cincinnati on Wednesday at Bart Kaufman Field.
who allowed the first two runners of the inning to reach base. Then the task was left to senior closer Ryan Halstead. After Halstead came into the seventh inning with runners on first and second and nobody out, he left a fastball up and inside that grazed the brim of Cincinnati’s No. 2 hitter, Ryan Noda, to load the bases with still no outs. He then struck out Ian Happ
— who was hitting .400 entering Wednesday — on a fastball low and away out of the strike zone. “You just have to throw strikes and get ahead of hitters,” Halstead said. “If Coach has confidence for you to go in the game, then you have to be confident in your stuff, with your pitches. Just throw strikes and try to get people out.” Cincinnati’s next batter, cleanup hitter Jarod Yoakam, eventually
worked the count to two balls and two strikes. Halstead threw an off speed pitch that looked to sail over the outside part of the plate. The umpire called a ball. Three pitches later, Yoakam singled home the go ahead and eventual winning run. “At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter because he called it SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 6