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Man charged in 2006 rape

By Alex Hardgrave ahardgra@iu.edu | @a_hardgrave

A 47-year-old Heltonville man was arrested by Bloomington police Friday for an alleged 2006 rape.

Jamison Beedie is the suspect believed to have entered a woman’s East Second Street home and raped her while armed with a knife, according to a Bloomington Police Department press release.

Police were able to make the arrest because of a Feb. 5 DNA match.

The woman was showering on March 28 when Beedie entered the house through the unlocked front door. The woman told police she left the door unlocked because she knew her boyfriend would arrive soon.

Beedie came into the bathroom holding one of the woman’s kitchen knives and told her to get out of the shower, police said. The woman told police she tried to escape, but the man grabbed her arm and forced her into a bedroom.

The woman’s boyfriend arrived and saw the suspect on top of his girlfriend. Beedie then left the apartment.

The woman went to the hospital where she had a forensic exam.

Beedie's DNA was collected when he was arrested on a felony charge in Lawrence County in late 2018. Evidence collected from almost 13 years ago resulted in a DNA database match Feb. 5.

The Indiana State Police Laboratory notified BPD of the match.

Detectives traveled to Lawrence County on Feb. 8 to arrest Beedie.

After an interview, he was booked into the Monroe County Jail on preliminary charges of rape and burglary.

Senators address Myanmar crises

By Sydney Tomlinson sydtomli@iu.edu | @sydpt

A bipartisan group of 22 U.S. senators, including Sen. Todd Young, RInd., introduced a resolution Jan. 29 calling for the Myanmar government to make it safe for Rohingya refugees to voluntarily return to their homes in Myanmar and extend them citizenship.

“With all of the crises in the world, some Americans might ask why we should care,” a spokesperson for Young said in an email.

Young believes the U.S. has a responsibility to respond to global atrocities like the violence in Myanmar, the spokesperson said.

The United Nations and the United States Holocaust Museum have called the conflict a genocide.

The Rohingya people are an ethnic Muslim minority in Myanmar, but they are not recognized by the government as one of the country’s more than 135 ethnic groups.

The U.N. considers the Rohingya a stateless group, meaning they are not legally recognized as being part of any nationality, and has called them “the most persecuted minority in the world.”

“Burma is maybe the most ethnically complicated country on earth,” said David Williams, a professor in the IU Maurer School of Law and executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Maurer.

The IU center, including Williams, is helping advise peace talks in Myanmar to end the violent conflict that began in 1948 when the country became independent and revise their constitution, Williams said.

He said the feelings of hostility between ethnic groups in Myanmar are common when there is political

‘Hail and welcome’ Local Pagan group honors the coming of spring

By Ty Vinson vinsonjo@iu.edu | @ty_vinson_

Sidney Bolam, 35, began by centering herself. Being completely prepared is the first step to any Black Bear Grove ritual, Bolam said.

She focused on getting rid of all her anxiety. She let go of worries about leaving her kids at home for a few hours and of her new role in leading the ritual.

Bolam is part of Black Bear Grove, a Druid fellowship that meets in Bloomington twice a month and organizes rituals every six weeks. Druidry, a branch of paganism, believes in the spiritual nature of life itself.

Groves, or branches, of the Druid Fellowship identify themselves as a group or congregation. All their rituals are public, and they have a strict rule of no blood sacrifices during public ritual, though some may practice that privately.

“There are elements of the occult in all pagan rituals, including ours,” Bolam said.

“But the occult and a cult are totally different. But I think perhaps uninformed people just lump all of that together.”

Isaac Bonewits, who founded A Druid Fellowship in 1983, wrote the guidelines for identifying cults, and Black Bear Grove does not meet them. The guidelines have been used by the FBI. The group’s main purpose and belief is wildlife conservation, and all of their rituals are in public spaces where anyone can attend, according to the Black Bear Grove website.

“It’s very open, and everyone is very eclectic,” said Pat Robertson, 70, a participant of Black Bear Grove.

Robertson attended IU as an undergraduate and graduate student, but dropped out to pursue writing mystery novels before she received her master’s degree.

Robertson and her husband lived in a log cabin they built on the outskirts of Monroe County while they pursued their undergraduate degrees in the 1980s. Robertson, who

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Top Sidney Bolam has tattoos on both hands. The one on her left hand symbolizes the earth, and the one on her right symbolizes the sun.

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Above Brigid’s crosses sit on the table for the ritual. Brigid’s crosses are usually made from rushes, and they are used to symbolize the hearth and the melding of paganism and Roman Catholicism.

identifies as an animist and an atheist witch, said she felt bad for cutting down the trees, so she went to each stump to apologize.

Like Robertson, Bolam identifies as an animist, which is the belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

Black Bear Grove is a mixture of people who are open and people who don’t want their names to be known. Bolam said she tries to be as transparent as possible about her beliefs and what she’s involved in.

The people who are open in the group want others to know there is nothing to be afraid of. Anyone is welcome to come to a meeting or ritual to see what it’s all about, but they aren’t expected to stay.

“We don’t care if people leave during the meetings,” Bolam said. “We tend to be transparent.”

Bolam has always been fascinated by the

natural world.

Her uncle believed in Shamanism, a popular tradition in Native American history that focuses on human connection to nature, which is very similar to paganism.

When Bolam was 11, she told her uncle she was sad that the rituals and beliefs of Native Americans were virtually lost, so he suggested she buy some books on the subject. Those books ended up being her first glimpse into the world of paganism.

Bolam’s religion has created tension between her and her mother. Her mother doesn’t like how open Bolam is with her beliefs.

After a ritual with Black Bear Grove, Bolam posted on Facebook about how she enjoyed her day with the Druids. Soon after, SEE PAGAN, PAGE 5

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Hoosiers drop another, lose to Ohio State

By Cameron Drummond cpdrummo@iu.edu | @cdrummond97

IU Head Coach Archie Miller and his staff had two tries to get it right.

With 46 seconds left in Sunday afternoon’s 55-52 home loss to Ohio State, IU had the ball with the game tied at 52. Only seven seconds remained on the shot clock for the Hoosiers, whose season craved the stabilizing force of a home win.

IU called a timeout to set up an in-bounds play underneath its own basket. It was then forced to use another right away after the flailing limbs of Ohio State defenders prevented a successful entry pass.

So IU, now 13-11 overall and 4-9 in conference play, did it all again, but the execution of the new play left plenty to be desired.

The pass went to senior forward Juwan Morgan. He then tried to pass the ball to freshman guard Ro-

meo Langford, who was posted up in the paint near the basket, as the shot clock dwindled down. The ball never got there. Ohio State junior forward Andre Wesson stole it.

“You can put that on me,” Miller said. “We tried to get the ball right at the basket with Romeo, maybe get fouled, maybe get a quick bucket, but it was a big turnover.”

An Ohio State timeout then created the game’s winning play, a slip set that caught IU sophomore forward Justin Smith out of position and allowed Wesson to drive to the basket and dunk the ball unimpeded.

A pair of missed 3-pointers, one a deep attempt for the lead from Langford that rimmed out and the other a prayer from junior guard Devonte Green in the closing seconds, rounded out IU’s fourth straight home loss.

It was a fitting way to commemorate a sluggish offensive perfor-

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Freshman guard Romeo Langford goes up for a dunk against Ohio State on Feb. 10 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. IU lost to OSU, 55-52.

mance in which the Hoosiers miss 32 of their 53 shots and trail by nine points inside the game’s first five minutes.

The reduced scoring output was felt across the board — Mor-

gan’s three points were his fewest in a game since January 2018, while sophomore guard Al Durham scored just two points and attemptSEE IUBB, PAGE 6

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Study supports including K-12 disabled students

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Shauntell Harris and Clara Valentine talk about why they want to become teachers. Both students are education majors who are part of the Inspire Living-Learning Center, a community at IU for future teachers.

Future teachers notice strikes

By Christine Stephenson cistephe@iu.edu | @cistephenson23

Last year, teachers from West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky decided enough was enough.

Last month, tens of thousands of teachers in Los Angeles did the same.

Now, teachers in Denver are planning to take similar action, and Indiana teachers are facing similar conditions.

Teachers across the nation have been striking and protesting, shutting down schools and pressuring state legislators to raise their salaries and fix other problems like class size and resource funding.

Indiana lawmakers are debating over how best to raise teacher pay.

In Gov. Eric Holcomb’s State of the State address last month, he proposed the state use its surplus fund to pay off the teacher pension fund, so schools can use the surplus money to raise teacher salaries.

That might not happen.

And although rallies and walkouts are fair game, striking is illegal for public employees in Indiana, including teachers.

Students at IU studying education have differing views on striking, but they know something needs to change. * * * Sophomore Yin Kwok is a secondary English education major at IU, which means she will teach to

middle or high school students.

She’s wanted to be a teacher since she was in elementary school, she said.

When she would play “school” with her siblings, she always chose to be the teacher.

When she tutored in high school, she said she enjoyed helping other students feel confident in their writing skills.

Kwok said she is not sure

“In my mind, it’s a constant battle between wanting to help the struggling schools and wanting to go to a better paying school and get paid enough” Yin Kwok, sophomore secondary English education major

how effective striking would be.

“There’s always strikes going on, but nothing is going change until our government is different,” she said. “It’s important to have someone in charge who can prioritize these issues.”

Teachers often strike for reasons beyond better pay.

One of Kwok’s main concerns is the achievement gap between white and minority students.

Kwok is from the Chicago area, where she said schools tend to be more segregated

in terms of race and income.

This creates a divide for teachers, too.

“In my mind, it’s a constant battle between wanting to help the struggling schools and wanting to go to a better paying school and get paid enough,” she said. * * * Freshman Shauntell Harris chose to pursue elementary education after being inspired by her kindergarten teacher.

The two still keep in touch today, and her former teacher also makes sure to check in on her five younger siblings, Harris said.

“A lot of students say their teachers genuinely care, but she goes above and beyond,” Harris said.

Harris said striking can be necessary, but it has downsides.

Teachers should be allowed to stand up for what they believe in, she said, but teacher shortages are already hurting students.

In the school district where she grew up, Harris said, schools are planning on combining for funding purposes.

This could lead to larger class sizes and not enough teachers to go around, she said.

In addition, Harris said she grew up around poor neighborhoods, and sometimes schools did not have enough resources like technology.

This can hurt students’

abilities to learn, she said, and teachers are punished for it. * * * Sophomore Brigid Rakow thought she wanted to be a teacher while she was in high school.

Her parents were supportive of the idea, she said.

But when she worked parttime as a golf caddy and would tell customers she wanted to be a teacher, they told her she would never make enough money.

Eventually, she folded.

She started out studying in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs but quickly realized she needed to pursue her passion.

Before her sophomore year, she switched her major to secondary English education.

“I was like, ‘I have to go with what I want to do,’” she said. “I’m not trying to live the lavish lifestyle.”

Rakow said she thinks striking is the biggest statement teachers can make, especially when they are not paid enough to survive.

But she worries for students who may suffer as a result, she said.

She said some of her friends in the Chicago public school system have been out of school for weeks at a time because of striking.

“It’s a hard line to balance because you have to teach but also fight for change,” she said. “Someone has to do it.”

IUSG committee finalizes agenda

By Jenna Williams jnw9@iu.edu | @jnwilliams18

The IU Student Government congressional Student Life Committee decided Tuesday to focus primarily on sexual assault and transportation issues this term.

Committee chair Dominic Thompson spoke to students to understand the challenges they face and said he wanted to address topics that affect everyday students.

“It is more important than ever to start making progress on sexual assault and misconduct and working to erase it from our campus,” Thompson said. “Right now is the time to work on parking because it is one of the things that is crippling our campus.”

Plainfield PD deputy named new IUPD chief

By Alex Hardgrave ahardgra@iu.edu | @a_hardgrave

IU announced Thursday the new IU Police Department chief of police.

Jill Lees, deputy chief of support at the Plainfield Police Department, will take Chief Laury Flint’s place March 4, according to a press release.

Flint is stepping down after five years in the position.

She will be the first to take on the role of IU Public Safety and Institutional Assurance director of threat assessment and engagement.

The search for a new chief began in October. IU had a public forum Jan. 17 and 18 to talk to four candi-

dates before making the decision.

Lees is a good fit because she is Jill Lees a forwardthinking leader, said Benjamin Hunter, Associate Vice President for Public Safety and Institutional Assurance, in the press release.

Lees graduated from the IU Police Academy in 1994 before going to Plainfield PD, according to the press release. Lees said she is excited to return to IU. “I am humbled and honored to have been selected as the police chief of IUPD’s Bloomington division,” Lees said in the press release.

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The IU Student Government office is located in the Student Activities Tower of the Indiana Memorial Union. The Student Life committee finalized its plans for its agenda, and will focus on sexual assault and transportation

ily enforced.”

Sexual assault and misconduct Thompson is working with the IU Funding Board to require bystander training for organizations before they can receive additional funds from the board, he said.

The committee is also working on curbing sexual assault and misconduct through the creation of a campaign.

“This is done by helping to get more training on the matter in these organizations,” Thompson said.

“We’re also really focused on ensuring that the It’s On Us training that freshmen receive before they come onto campus is really heav-

An IU research study concluded anyone with a federally-defined disability, such as autism, vastly improved their test scores when they were in a general education classroom as opposed to a special education one.

The study, looking at eighth graders, was conducted by IU’s Center on Education and Lifelong Learning to determine if the placement of students with disabilities affected Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress scores.

ISTEP is an Indiana educational assessment designed to test students on what they learned that school year. The data was taken from all over Indiana and spanned multiple years.

Debate on placement stems from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, said Hardy Murphy, IUPurdue University Indianapolis clinical professor of educational leadership and researcher. One part of the act focuses on giving students with disabilities accommodations, while the other focuses on having those students receive a good education.

People disagree on how to achieve both. Some think it’s easier to give students accommodations when the students are in a separate classroom. Others argue that the separation isn’t needed.

Murphy said their research helps answer that debate. The study supports inclusivity in education and providing extra help for students with disabilities when problems arise.

“If services need to be provided, the services

should be pushed into the general education classroom, rather than pulling the students out,” Murphy said.

The study gives more evidence to the debate of where students with disabilities should be placed, which has been raging for a long time, said Sandi Cole, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community director and researcher. She said she also hopes it gives parents more information to help them decide where to place their child in school.

Cole said this study had to be done because it could help include students who before may not have been given the opportunity to be in general education classrooms.

“We have to talk about inclusion because someone assumed at some point that a group of students should be excluded,” Cole said.

The study followed students who were in eighth grade and worked backward, looking at test scores as far back as the third grade, Murphy said.

Murphy said the methodology of the study was important for analyzing the data because it gave the researchers a more definitive answer to their research question, one which has been debated for decades.

He said everyone benefits from an integrated classroom. Students without disabilities gain more empathy and grow as people, while students with disabilities achieve higher test scores.

“In some ways, you are honoring that humanity and what we feel is a civil right because we strongly believe it is through education people learn to get along,” Murphy said.

Parking and transportation Cassiday Moriarity, a member of the Student Life Committee, said the committee is working on policy briefs to accurately understand the status of transportation and parking before going into conversations with administration.

Thompson also spoke of the timeliness of transportation regarding the recent weather.

“We also need to think about the off-campus students, especially when we have storms like we did just a week ago,” he said. “That pushes everyone onto the bus system and leaves so

many other students unable to get on the buses because they’re so crowded or because they don’t run on a very good time module, and that leaves a lot of people walking to school in those freezing temperatures.”

Parking is also an issue students are concerned about, Thompson said.

“I haven’t been able to figure out where I’m allowed to park or not,” said Kasey Cassle, an out-ofstate student that decided to bring her car with her to IU. Thompson said that parking is one of the complaints he most hears from students.

“I think the parking rules aren’t very clear about the times and spaces that they

apply to,” Cassle said.

Moriarity is working on reaching out to the Residence Hall Association and seeing where their parking goals align because RHA has had conversations about parking and how it affects students, Thompson said.

“Collaboration is really important because it means more student voices that can be heard,” Moriarity said.

Thompson emphasized the need for partnerships as well.

“Coalition building is so important,” Thompson said.

“It’s the only way that we can get things done because things don’t get done on campus unless the student body is united.”

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IU students mourn death of Bear the squirrel

By Peter Talbot pjtalbot@iu.edu | @petejtalbot

Dressed all in black, Emily Jones tossed a few shelled walnuts to a tree in Dunn’s Woods in memory of Bear, the most loyal squirrel she’d ever known.

Flurries of snow fell around her. Jones stood on one of many red brick paths crisscrossing the brush through which Bear used to scurry.

“I met her here on this corner a couple years ago,” Jones said.

A squirrel known by thousands, Bear died Feb. 4 after a veterinarian, a vet technician and a wildlife rehabber determined she had to be euthanized. She was 3 years old.

Bear was a female fox squirrel. She could have lived to be as old as 12.

Jones graduated from IU last year and now works for the university. While she was a student, she founded the @squirrels_of_iu Instagram page, which documents the lives and personalities of squirrels Jones and others have gotten to know on IU’s campus for an audience of 13,000.

It’s a place to congratulate squirrels Mike and Charlotte on their upcoming litter and to discuss whether George and Damian are gay or merely cohabitating.

At IU, a squirrel isn’t just a squirrel. Followers mourned Bear’s death with hundreds of comments.

“This is the worst news I’ve gotten like, probably ever. [crying emoji]rip bear [bear emoji]” “Bear was a Bear among Bears. [bear emoji][blue heart emoji]” “Rest in peace, beautiful chonk [two hearts emoji] [crying emoji]” It all started over the summer, when two people sent a message to the account saying they saw a group of boys shooting squirrels with pellet guns in Dunn’s Woods near the Sample Gates. Jones later found Bear bleeding from her neck.

Bear was defensive at first but let Jones feel the wound the next day. Jones said she pulled a small lead pellet from her neck.

Jones began treating Bear

with antibiotics that seemed to help her heal. But Bear’s recovery was marred by false starts and dashed hope.

Jones took the squirrel to a clinic Nov. 15 in Indianapolis, but decided not to leave her there. Without a wildlife rehabilitation license, Jones would have no control over what happened to her. As a wild animal, Bear was state property, and there was no guarantee she would end up being released back onto IU’s campus.

She continued to treat Bear on her own. To give her medicine, Jones called her name in Dunn’s Woods. No matter how high up in a tree she was, Jones said, Bear would always scamper down.

Jones crushed up Bear’s antibiotics and mixed them with almond butter on her finger. Bear was happy to lick it off.

Bear was a gentle squirrel, Jones said. She would cover nuts with a leaf because she had trouble burying food.

Jones named Bear in the summer of 2017 because of her round ears and footballshaped forehead. She was a slower squirrel, and the shouldering, bear-like walk she developed while recovering helped her grow into the name.

In the summer, Bear napped on the curved branches of trees by the Kirkwood Observatory.

When she was excited, Bear flapped her paws together and opened her mouth.

Bear liked to have her belly rubbed, something Jones said was off-limits to anyone but her.

On the Instagram, Jones posted beauty shots of Bear in the light of a setting sun, photos of her eating nuts posed next to a miniature squirrel picnic table and videos of her taking medicine. Thousands of people watched Bear slowly recover.

In the comments, followers considered the potential merits of CBD oil and suggested anti-itch remedies.

Bear seemed to be improving until early January, when Jones noticed a hard, oozing lump on the other side of her neck. Bear was getting worse, and posts about her condition became more serious. Bear needed a vet.

Jones was referenced to Katja Kimball, a licensed wildlife rehabber based in Martinsville, Indiana. Now that Kimball was working with Jones, they could take Bear to a vet without losing track of her.

IU sophomore Lauren Duffy helped trap the squirrel. It took almost two weeks.

The day Bear was finally caught, Duffy said she realized how sketchy she looked standing in the middle of the woods with an angry squirrel in a trap. Duffy did her best to cast off suspicion.

“Oh I can’t wait until we get you to the vet, Bear,” Duffy said in the woods.

“You’re going to feel so much better at the vet.”

Jones took Bear back to the vet Jan. 26 in Indianapolis with the help of two other friends. She was diagnosed with an infection that had spread from her pellet wound to her teeth.

The vet recommended Bear have her teeth pulled, which would have meant life in captivity as an educational animal, Kimball said. Jones and Kimball agreed to put Bear on stronger antibiotics to fight the infection.

Jones needed to raise $600 to pay for a CT scan on top of vet and rehabber costs.

Donations poured in. All to-

gether, followers donated about $1,000 for Bear.

Bear spent nine days in a cage under Kimball’s care.

She chewed the bars, likely making the infection worse. It seemed clear that Bear would not be happy in captivity.

When another veterinarian looked at Bear for a second opinion Feb. 4, it became clear that the quirks that made Bear who she was were actually small adaptations she had made to deal with her injuries.

An X-ray found that Bear’s arm had been fractured and healed improperly and her jaw was misaligned. Bear was also missing a tooth, and another tooth fell out while she was being examined.

The vet, Kimball and the vet technician decided that Bear needed to be euthanized.

“The bottom line is I have to think about the animal first,” Kimball said. “I know it was the right decision.”

Bear was under anesthesia when she was given a euthanasia shot in her heart, Kimball said. Kimball petted Bear as she died.

Jones couldn’t be there.

Kimball said the clinic she took Bear to isn’t open to the public. Kimball texted Jones about Bear’s euthanization that night. She said she wasn’t

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Top Bear the squirrel eats walnuts out of a small shopping cart Nov. 10 near the Kirkwood Observatory.

Bottom Left Bear the squirrel eats a nut Nov. 10 near the Kirkwood Observatory.

sure how to deliver the news.

“I don’t understand….,” Jones wrote back.

Bear’s remains were sent to be cremated. Kimball saved one of Bear’s teeth to give to Jones.

Jones knows the euthanasia put an end to Bear’s suffering, but she wonders if she could have done more.

People were invested in Bear’s recovery for months.

Jones said she felt like she owed it to Bear to bring her

back to health because she brought happiness to so many people.

“She put a smile on everyone’s face,” Jones said.

When she walks through Dunn’s Woods, she said she’s still expecting Bear to greet her. She can’t help scanning the branches, even though she knows Bear isn’t there.

Bear is survived, as best as Jones can tell, by her father Bumpkin and her brother George.

IU grads’ store starts club to grow more food on campus

By Lilly St. Angelo lstangel@iu.edu | @lilly_st_ang

Goldleaf Hydroponics is not your typical garden store.

A tray of microgreens and tomato plants bask under grow lights, but there’s no soil to be seen. Tilapia swim in a pool where their excrements are piped into tubs of water with plants held up by clay balls instead of dirt.

The store’s displays are living examples of hydroponics, which is a way of growing plants without using soil. The store, started by two IU grads about two years ago, is creating a student club at IU that will help introduce hydroponics to campus.

“It’s like a reason to wake up in the morning and harvest and eat your own food,” Kyle Billman, co-owner of Goldleaf Hydroponics said.

“It connects you with this primal feeling.”

Kyle and Monica Billman graduated from IU in 2014.

While Kyle was on the waiting list for a master’s program,

he got a job at Worm’s Way, a hydroponics company that originated in Bloomington in 1985 and was one of the first retailers to sell hydroponics supplies nationally.

Kyle got hooked. He had grown plants since he was 15, but learning hydroponics made his passion even stronger.

Instead of the plants getting nutrients from broken down organic compounds in the soil like decaying leaves and animals, in hydroponics, those nutrients are replicated in a lab or organically turned into liquid. The liquid is then fed to plants through the water they live in.

“My favorite definition is ‘growin’ shit in water,’” Kyle Billman said.

Worm’s Way had a base of 44,000 customers between its retail and online stores, Billman said. In 2016, Worm’s Way was bought out by investment company Sun Capital Partners, which closed Worm’s Way’s Bloomington store.

Kyle and Monica saw the gap Worm’s Way left and decided to fill it. They got married in May 2016 and opened Goldleaf Hydroponics in November.

The store has free hydroponics and gardening classes and does outreach with local organizations and Fairview Elementary School, where Goldleaf has helped a third grade class grow their own lettuce using hydroponics.

Goldleaf recently created Goldleaf Growers at IU, a student group that will focus on bringing hydroponics to IU’s campus. Kyle and Monica’s goal is to eventually spread hydroponics systems to dining halls and dorm lounges so that students can eat fresh food that was grown on campus.

Tarin Tischler, Goldleaf intern and IU grad student, was one of the driving forces of starting the student club, which had its first official meeting Wednesday afternoon at the IU Food Institute.

The club plans to install the

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Kyle Billman shows the hydroponics system he has set up for his tomato plants Feb. 6 in Goldleaf Hydroponics Indoor Garden Supply.

A container with the water flows into the containers with the plants, giving them the nutrients they need.

first hydroponics system on campus at the Food Institute building on North Park Street.

Tischler first learned how to do hydroponics when she began working for the store last semester. She said most people who grow plants at school just grow houseplants to keep them alive, but she thinks growing food through hydroponics is different.

“To go from seed to produce is so much more rewarding,” Tischler said.

Monica does much of the store’s administrative and outreach work. Kyle and she joke they should have studied at the Kelley School of Business, she said. Monica majored in political science and French, and Kyle majored in Spanish and linguistics.

At home, Kyle and Monica

grow about one third of their food and stay busy with their 11-month-old, Kai. Monica said taking care of plants is similar to taking care of Kai. “You have to make sure they’re thriving every single day, you can’t not feed them,” Monica said. “You have to watch out for any kind of pests they might have and treat them before they get worse.”

When grown indoors, plants grown in hydroponics systems need grow lights, which add to electricity usage, Kyle said. The amount of money and electricity put into hydroponics is one of the main criticisms of the growing system which some say is not sustainable.

While it may cost more to grow food indoors, Kyle said it’s worth it to him because it cuts down on fossil fuel usage from transporting food and gives him emotional benefits.

“It may use more resources,” Kyle Billman said. “But as I like to say, it’s cheaper than therapy.”

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Floods? Snow? Ice? Bloomington just can’t handle it It’s no secret — we’ve endured a horrible season for weather on campus. Each day has been its own opportunity for students to prove their fortitude in these awful conditions.

The city probably has an even harder time addressing these hardships. Bloomington struggles with handling extreme weather, be it floods, ice or snow.

Wednesday greeted students with sirens, a number of walkways and roads becoming inaccessible and a Dunn Meadow that was largely submerged. Those

who didn’t seek immediate cover were either left drenched or, in at least one case, made their way down the Jordan River via a giant inflatable duck.

This was all pretty laughable at first, but quickly became known colloquially as the “Great Flood of 2019.”

Not to discount the work put forth by law enforcement, firefighters and various others involved with alleviating weather emergencies, but Bloomington just wasn’t built to handle these conditions. This wasn’t just a campus issue, but even Monroe

County’s schools were affected by the conditions.

A great number of Bloomington homes and establishments are quite old. This is inevitable in a community that recently surpassed 200 years of, among other things, combating the ridiculous weather thrown its way.

Indeed, much of IU’s mold issues have been pinned on leaking within buildings due to their age.

By leaching through leaks and cracks in the timeworn exteriors of IU buildings, water can get inside and lead to rapid mold growth.

If the building didn’t leak, it could have flooded. It’s victimized staff members and friends. No one is safe from the raging rapids, it seems.

And as soon as rain turns to snow, you better believe that it will induce a rapid shift with pandemonium from students. Classes were cancelled Feb. 1 due to a drop in temperature to a wind chill 40 degrees below zero. This was only the 13th class cancellation since 1908.

Before the final decision to keep students home, the cathartic clicks of over 20,000 supporters of a petition to

cancel classes reverberated throughout campus. Unfortunately, many students still had to venture onto campus for either work, club meetings or other obligations.

You better believe Bloomington will not be able to handle the ice whenever these frigid temperatures terrorize campus. While we like to think that preemptive salting of streets and walkways will pacify any concerns of slipperiness, we can never be too sure.

In fact, one of the only redeeming results of Bloomington’s never-ending ice

fest was learning about the IU service that will clear icy spots on campus if you give them a call about slippery locations on campus. Pretty cool, right?

In these polarizing times, if there is only one topic over which we can commiserate, it is the onslaught of rain, snow and ice that we’ve all endured in just under a twoweek time span. As soon as the next wave of severe weather blasts campus, be sure to watch Bloomington fall apart in its wake.

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The predatory nature of video games

The persistence of blackface

Jack Palmer is a freshman in computer science.

Currently the video game industry is raking in the billions by exploiting one of humanity's worst vices.

The idea is simple. You pay five dollars for a chance to win a virtual item of differing quality by opening a loot box.

If regular gambling is a foolish endeavor, then I imagine gambling for something that is not even real is far worse.

Federal regulations must be implemented to stop this predatory market from going further. Luckily, Belgium began to ban the practice but the rest of the world has yet to act against it.

Unlike the real world where only adults can throw away their life savings, anyone can gamble in video games.

Children are becoming addicted to gambling, and no one is stopping them. It is heinous that it has been allowed to continue for so long.

The odds of winning or losing aren’t even posted. It wasn’t even until China established new regulations in 2017 that forced companies to publish odds. Even then, no kid in America would find them because they are only on the Chinese version of the website.

These companies know that what they are doing isn’t right. They don’t want people to know what they are doing is gambling. They want you to think its good fun. It isn’t good fun, and it's affecting how games are made.

Perhaps this wouldn’t be the biggest issue in the world if the gambling was limited to cosmetic items, fancy hats and the like. However, it has come to the point where a loot box can contain necessary items for progression.

That goes way over the line when people are already paying $60 for most big budget games.

Thankfully, the great machinations of government are starting to move against

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Popular games continue to come out with modifications that require players to spend more money to continue playing.

this predatory market. Belgium and the Netherlands have declared loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal in their respective countries.

Australia called for a review of the subject last year, and the FTC is currently in an ongoing investigation into the subject.

I do not want a collective ban on loot boxes in general as they have their place.

I want them to be regulated and out of the reach of children. They are not and should not be allowed to engage in it,

especially since their psychology is still evolving.

The loot box gambling market is rapidly expanding, and will reach $50 billion by 2022. The video game industry will continue to use this system for as long as possible.

It isn't even willing to consider it as gambling. This market needs to be brought under reigns and quickly before an entire generation of gamers become gambling addicts as well. palmerjw@iu.edu

JAC’S FACTS

Black history is American history Jaclyn Ferguson Is a sophomore in journalism.

Historian Carter Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926 hoping to advocate for the teaching of black history. Negro History week became Black History Month in 1976.

Although Black History Month is an important time to celebrate the achievements of black people, it is often a cop-out in education. The month is used as a time to throw in a history lesson or two, but no substantial education takes place.

The teaching of black history within American secondary schools is inadequate.

It barely scratches the surface on the real history of black people in America.

And teaching it in isolation from the rest of American history perpetuates segregation and a divisive country.

According to a 2018 study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, titled “Teaching Hard

History,” only 32 percent of high school seniors knew an amendment formally ended slavery in the United States.

Additionally, only 8 percent of students could identify slavery as being the central cause of the Civil War. These are basic, historical facts. It is disturbing that someone could ever name all of the presidents in the history of America but has no clue what the 13th Amendment is.

The study also found around 90 percent of teachers feel comfortable discussing slavery in the classroom. Unfortunately, they are often not given proper resources to have these important conversations, with 58 percent of teachers disagreeing to textbooks successfully covering slavery.

Out of 15 states that were analyzed during this study, there was a lack of meaningful requirements that involve slavery and white supremacy as a whole.

Schools typically go over

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Photographs adorn the walls Jan. 29 in the lobby of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

the basics of slavery and then the civil rights movement.

Slavery was legally abolished in 1865, and the civil rights movement began in the early 1950s. What about the one hundred years in between?

Yes, it could very well make people uncomfortable.

Discussing the true horrors of slavery, reconstruction and the Jim Crow South might not be one’s ideal day in history class.

Reading about lynching and beatings could create an uneasy feeling, but that is part of the learning process.

IU senior Montez Myles is a black student-teacher of eighth grade English at a middle school in Martinsville. Although he was skeptical of teaching in Martinsville due to its long history of racism, he has enjoyed his experiences thus far.

When Myles was growing up, he remembers learning solely about the civil rights era. He emphasized that he did not learn about the successes of black people, but only the struggles.

“It’s all struggle, struggle, struggle,” Myles said. “That should change.”

Myles thoroughly enjoys his ability to tie history into his English lessons. He recently had a lesson on segregation, and the students were able to analyze text from Martin Luther King Jr. It was many students’ first experience with the subject of civil rights and segregation, according to Myles. Many of the students felt guilty and had emotional reactions to the subject.

“It’s not about feeling guilty,” Myles said. “It’s about looking forward, trying to be a different person and positively impacting one another.”

As an educator, Myles hopes to change the way black history is viewed in education.

“My biggest goal in education is to change the stigma that black history has to be aggressive and about hatred,” he said. “It’s more about uplifting one another. It’s about looking at successes and being motivated. It does not all have to be depressing and controversial.”

This is an idea that needs more consideration in black history education.

A major part of black history stems around the intense racial divide, but the successes should be given just as much attention.

Black people’s artistic and cultural effects made during the Harlem Renaissance might have one section in high school history books.

For example the work of novelists such as Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou receives minimal attention.

School systems are highly dependent on the state.

Each state needs to develop a denser, stricter curriculum on what is taught involving black history.

Textbook companies need to be held accountable for having an adequate amount of information on black history. And, no, a page with Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Barack Obama is not enough.

We need more teachers like Myles who recognize the importance of the integration of black history in American school systems.

Let’s not celebrate Black History Month in vain. jaraferg@iu.edu

So is blackface still a thing popular literature. Even the in 21st century America? You original 1934 Mary Poppins bet it is! Sadly, since it since it novel and the celebrated 1964 originated in the antebellum Disney movie did not resist its period and peaked in the post allure.

Appropriation or covers slavery/Jim Crow America as the most popular enter- of black music by white singtainment outlet for the white ers topped the hit parade of working class, blackface has the 1950s-60s. Who can unretained remarkable staying hear Pat Boone’s version of Little Richard’s “Tutti-frutti”? power.

Almost every month we These efforts were attempts witness yet another white to “clean up” the negative person — college student, image of blackface and make celebrity, politician, talk show black music acceptable to the host, housewife, average Joe white middle class.

Wasn’t or isn’t blackface partyer — become entangled by black face reproductions all just harmless fun — for or ill-informed pontifications. white people, that is? ActualHistory tells us that white ly, blackface and imitations of showmen who smeared their stereotypical black behavior faces with cork and wowed arise from envy of a culture audiences with renditions of that is supposedly despised. “darkey” plantation melodies “Love and theft” is what and dances were rock stars scholar Eric Lott calls it in his groundof their day. breaking Their perWasn’t or isn’t book. Blackformances blackface all just ness conveys were meant harmless fun — for joy of life, exto caricature black people white people, that is? uberant selfexpression, and “keep in comfort, and their place” those who dared to test their yes, freedom to the many who continually embrace this new freedom.

Blackface minstrelsy so persona. Ridicule gives cover defined American popular to something more fundaculture that black entertain- mental that is missing in their ers who performed for these own lives.

Like Al Jolson so many same audiences were forced to cork-up to imitate white years ago, who loved and imitators. When motion pic- yearned for his “mammy,” ture “talkies” came along in this primal longing is diffi1927, vaudevillian Al Jolson cult to abate. Marketers know took the blackface craze to that foundational American the silver screen. In “The Jazz brands like Uncle Ben’s and Singer,” he played a cantor Aunt Jemima evoke similar who yearned to sing like Ne- feelings.

We should consider groes and, decked out in full blackface, bellowed out love these underlying psychological issues as we assess for his mammy.

Walt Disney cartoons kept just how far we have come blackface alive and popping as a nation. in the 1930s — Mickey Mouse Audrey T. McCluskey included. The preoccupation Professor Emerita with blackness — blackface The Department of African and supposed black speech American and African and dress — for comic efDiaspora Studies at IU fect took up lots of space in Bloomington children’s books and other

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 her mother’s then-boyfriend, now husband, friended her and started asking questions about what the post meant.

To hide her daughter’s religion, Bolam’s mother told him she was talking about a Dungeons and Dragons group.

Things have lightened up since then, but there’s still a disconnect between Bolam and her mother.

“She doesn’t quite have it right, but she makes an effort,” Bolam said. “It’s really sweet to see her make an effort.”

Bolam is a local artist and limestone carver. She and her family have a few acres of land

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 unrest in a country because people feel anxious and look for someone to blame.

In the Rakhine State of Myanmar, arson, murder and rape targeted at Rohingya people broke out in August 2017, according to the U.N. More than 725,000 Rohingya refugees fled between August 2017 and August 2018, mostly to nearby Bangladesh.

Williams said while he thinks countries like the U.S. and China can exert some pressure on the Myanmar government to improve the situation, a foreign government won’t be able to resolve the conflict.

“Powerful people in Burma don’t want to take a brave stand on this subject,” he said.

“In the end, there’s very little a foreign government can do to make local politicians be brave.”

surrounding their house.

“My yard and I are good friends,” Bolam said.

They don’t have many neighbors, so they have come to know the animals that live on their land. Bolam has organized rituals with Black Bear Grove in her yard, and she also gardens, which makes her feel more connected to nature and its spirits.

“I’m part of its story, it’s not part of my story,” Bolam said. “I’m a passing thing in that yard.”

Unlike many other religions, paganism doesn’t include any specific details on an afterlife.

The majority of members, including Bolam, believe their

souls go back into the earth and become part of the environment.

“I think that’s the most sexy thing in the world,” Bolam said.

The purpose of the Imbolc ritual is to usher in spring. The holiday has helped Bolam cope with her seasonal depression, which is heightened in the winter months. It’s positioned between Christmas and Easter, so there isn’t a large gap between big events.

“It helps to mark the passage of time, and it’s almost vital to have something to look forward to,” Bolam said.

After individual meditation, the sound of an accor-

dion played by a friend of the Grove called everyone back into the shelter. Bolam blessed people as they walked in with water from a Brigid’s well in Ireland. The group ritual began, led by Bolam and a senior Druid of the Grove.

Every participant of the Grove has their reason for honoring Brigid, and Bolam’s has to do with her children.

“I just like her,” Bolam said.

“I have kids, and she’s a midwife goddess. She has a lot of influence with breastfeeding and healing.”

The group circles around the bonfire in the middle of the shelter, holding each other’s hands to open a portal between worlds. Bolam stands

More than 25,000 Myanmaris, including Rohingya refugees, currently live in Indiana, according to the Burmese American Community Institute in Indianapolis.

This makes Indiana home to one of the largest populations of refugees and immi-

stitute.

Vahnie came to IU from Myanmar in 2003 after receiving a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State.

Indiana politicians also have a strong history of supporting the people of Myanmar. Former Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., promoted democracy in Myanmar throughout his 36 years in the U.S. Senate.

Vahnie said he thinks the focus of both Myanmar and the international community should be on finding longterm solutions.

He said he thinks getting humanitarian aid to the Rohingya refugees is a shortterm priority.

In the long run, the Myanmar government needs to create a safe environment for the Rohingya people to voluntarily return to their homes, he said.

Williams has been working with Myanmar through

the Center for Constitutional Democracy for 17 years, he said.

He said he thinks the conflicting groups in Myanmar are closer to coming to a peace accord now than they have been in the last 17 years, but the work will likely continue for the next five to 10 years.

“That’s when things are going to happen,” Williams said.

The Senate resolution also calls for the release of imprisoned Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were sentenced to seven years in prison in September 2018 in Myanmar for reporting on murders of Rohingya people committed by Myanmar government security forces.

“The continued detention of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo only underscores the Burmese military’s efforts to conceal the atrocities they have committed,” Young said in a statement.

“With all of the crises in the world, some Americans might ask why we should care.”

Spokesperson for Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind.

grants from Myanmar in the country.

IU has a rich tradition of supporting the people of Myanmar, including through the Center for Constitutional Democracy and partnerships with the Burmese American Community Institute, said Elaisa Vahnie, executive director of the in-

Top left Claire Neff and Sidney Bolam drink water and whiskey from ceramic cups. The beverages, which have been blessed, symbolize taking in gifts from kindreds.

Top right Sidney Bolam reads tarot cards Feb. 2 during the Imbolc ritual honoring the Celtic goddess Brigid. The tarot cards give the gods, nature spirits and ancestors an opportunity to speak during the ritual.

Bottom left Sidney Bolam blesses people with water from a well in Ireland before they enter the shelter for the ritual honoring Brigid. It was the first ritual of the year for Black Bear Grove.

Bottom middle Claire Neff, a friend of Black Bear Grove, brought Irish soda bread to the ritual honoring the goddess Brigid on Feb. 2. The group ate the bread and used it as an offering to Brigid.

Bottom right Members of Black Bear Grove join hands in a circle to close the ritual honoring Brigid, a fire goddess. The members say goodbye to any spirits that are present to end the ritual.

with her left palm facing up, an earth symbol tattooed on her index finger facing the ground. Her right palm faces down, a sun symbol tattooed to match her other hand, fac-

ing the sky.

Bolam’s hands pulled from the people around her and came together in a clap.

“Hail and welcome, Brigid,” the group said in unison.

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couldn’t really get any rotation, get over the top, and our offense hurt us at that point in time.”

Green said there’s a sense of urgency for IU’s players with seven regular season games to go. That comes as a natural response to losing

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ed only two shots after scoring 11 or more points in each of the last three games.

“To start the game, our offense was a problem,” Miller said. “They went under a ton of ball screens, and we

nine of their last 10 games and winning just twice since the calendar flipped to 2019.

But it’s also the manner in which the losses have occurred. Blowout losses featuring a noticeable lack of energy from IU’s players have come alongside games decided in

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Senior forward Juwan Morgan fights for the ball against Ohio State on Feb. 10 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. IU fell to OSU, 55-52.

the second half.

“Obviously when you’re able to win some games early in the season, close games, one-possession games, they obviously could have went a number of ways,” Miller said.

“In some ways maybe you got fortunate. In some ways may-

be you did good things.”

IU’s recent run of form has frittered away the positives from its nonconference season, and while opportunities exist for the Hoosiers to get on the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble, they will have to return to their

old ways of performing in key situations to take advantage of them.

“It comes down possession to possession,” Miller said. “We’ve won a few like that. There’s also obviously — today is one of the instances we weren’t able to finish it.”

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FEATURE ‘Go Mamaw! Go!’ How a Martinsville grandma built a life around going fast

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By Lexi Haskell ldhaskel@iu.edu | @lexi_haskell

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — Misty Cosman smells the burning gas and calms.

From grocery shopping to setting out helmets and uniforms, so much goes into getting to this moment. She’s been running around all day, and her pre-race anxiety has been growing.

Misty is so involved, people at the racetrack call her Mama Cos. But now, for a moment, she’s still. She has already put on her racing suit, raised her hand up to make an “I love you” sign to her son Owen and driven into the lineup shoot.

Around her, Hornet race cars buzz angrily.

Stripped and caged four-cylinder street cars from the ‘80s, ‘90s or 2000s, the cars are named after this bee-like sound their engines make.

Misty sits alone in her own Hornet, a stripped and caged Chevrolet Cavalier, listening to the buzz. She loves this sound.

These next laps in the heat race will determine her placement in the final race later that night. If she wants to win later, she must win now.

She knows her family — her team — is watching her: her husband Paul, her son Owen, her daughter Ashley Blondell and her grandchildren Joey, 6, and Amelia, 1.

As the race begins, Misty leaves the other cars behind. For the next few laps, it’s just her and the track. * * * The grandmother got her first motorcycle at age 7. It was from her dad, a race car driver himself.

Misty became addicted to the adrenaline rush. At 15, she started racing off-

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Misty Cosman’s Chevrolet Cavalier sits on jack stands Feb. 4 in her garage.

Cosman has driven the same car the past two seasons.

road dune buggies as one of the only women on the track.

“I was beating grown men,” she said. “And they didn’t like it.”

Misty is 47 now. She got married and had kids, and then one of her kids had kids. Now when she races, a 6-year-old sits in the stands rooting for her.

“Go, Mamaw! Go!” her grandson Joey cheers.

Misty’s oldest child, Ashley, 24, is Joey’s mother. Her other child, Owen, 22, also races Hornets. The Martinsville native spends her week working in medical billing for AmeriPath, at a desk lined with pictures of her kids and grandkids.

But those weekends racing Hornets with Paul, Owen and their family friend Dan Smith — who call themselves “A-Team” — are her favorite. Paul serves as the team’s mechanic and has built Hornets for the team. Misty, Owen and Dan race them.

There are a community of tracks in Indiana, including ones in Bloomington and Paragon.

While the A-Team primarily races locally, they’ve also traveled to Illinois, and they made their furthest trek the weekend of Feb. 8. They drove all the way to Georgia for Owen, who placed ninth in the county in Hornet racing in 2017, to race.

Misty and the rest of the A-Team traveled to support Owen.

In the racing world, Misty is one of the oldest on the track. After every race she is covered in bruises, and she has a bad neck and knee.

She’s begun racing less.

“The body won’t allow it much longer,” Misty said.

But Misty can’t seem to give up the sport she loves.

“I keep saying I’m done, but I can’t bring myself to do it,” she said.

With each race, Misty puts on her helmet and signs “I love you” to Owen, knowing she’s coming closer and closer to retirement. * * * Some racers have good luck charms. Not Misty.

“That’s what the right foot is for,” she says.

Misty drives with two feet. Her left foot is exclusively for the brake and her right foot is exclusively for the gas. Even when driving her GMC pickup truck through the neighborhood, Misty does this. Driving has become a rite of passage in the Cosman family.

Ashley was 11 when she first learned to drive in a Kia Spectra. Owen was so short when he learned to drive at age 9 that he had to sit on a pillow to see out the windshield. Ashley didn’t take up racing, but Owen did.

Joey first sat in a race car when he was a few months old.

He was 14 months old when he first started a race car. Instead of a key ignition, it had a button to start and Joey pressed it. The car roared to life and Joey smiled. He loved it. The car was in park, so they let him sit there, giggling as the car buzzed.

Amelia was also young when Misty began putting her in a driver’s seat.

While Misty waited for a Green Apple Slush with Jolly Ranchers at Sonic one October afternoon, she stood the 11-month-old up in the front seat.

Amelia instantly grabbed the steering wheel of the truck.

“You wanna drive, don’t you?” her grandmother asked her.

Ashley’s husband doesn’t want Amelia or Joey to race. He thinks the sport is too dangerous.

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IU uniforms a nod to Black History Month

By Dylan Wallace dswallac@iu.edu | @Dwall_1

The IU women’s basketball team came running out Wednesday night to the IU fight song played by the band, donning the beloved candy stripe pants and crimson top with the cream cursive Indiana stitched onto the back.

It’s what Hoosier fans are used to seeing. Except this time, after the starting lineups were announced and the stripes were ripped off and the top was unbuttoned, the team wasn’t in the usual cream and crimson jersey.

Instead, the Hoosiers were sporting special “Harlem Renaissance Collection” uniforms created by Adidas to celebrate Black History Month.

The jersey features a unique bean stitch texture around the “Indiana” written over the front of the top. The word “Ballroom” is placed on the inner waistband on

the shorts and there’s a patch near the shoulder that displays “CBC” with “Celebrating Black Culture” circling the three letters.

“Inspired by the wooden floors of the ballrooms where basketball became culture, each Adidas team jersey also includes patterns which mimic the fabrics and prints of the 1920s that became a means of self-expression and community pride,” Adidas said in a release. “Each detail is meant to be an homage to the art, poetry, sounds and sport of the Renaissance, and to those driving their passion forward.”

IU was one of 10 schools selected to wear these special jerseys.

“I think it’s great to represent Adidas and Black History Month,” IU Coach Teri Moren said. “We’re happy to be one of the schools that get to represent something like this.”

For sophomore guard Bendu Yeaney, this month

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Sophomore guard Bendu Yeaney makes a layup during the game Feb. 6 against Minnesota in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The women’s basketball team debuted new uniforms to celebrate Black History Month.

means a lot to her as her parents are from Liberia.

“Black History Month means a lot to me because it means my parents had the opportunity to come to this country,” Yeaney said in a video tweeted out by Indiana

Hoosiers. “The people who came before them helped my parents get here, so it means a lot to me.”

Along with Yeaney, junior guard Ali Patberg said it was an honor being a part of Black History Month in such a way,

and that it says a lot about IU as a school and as a team.

The men’s basketball team was also be decked out in Harlem Renaissance attire Sunday afternoon when IU played Ohio State.

The Hoosiers will also have a special addition to their cream-colored, long-sleeved shooting shirts. On the shirts will be a silhouette logo of Bill Garrett, who broke the Big Ten color barrier in 1948.

Garrett played under Coach Branch McCracken, who the wooded floor is named after in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. On Dec. 4, 1948, Garrett started in IU’s opening game against DePauw University, making him the first African American to start a Big Ten basketball game.

“He was the one that broke that barrier and just gave us all really the confidence to be able to not be looked at any different,” senior forward Ju-

wan Morgan said in the video.

As Morgan spoke with the statue of Bill Garrett inside Assembly Hall to his right, he said he doesn’t take it lightly that he is able to wear these alternate uniforms as well as throw on the Hoosier colors every time on the court.

In addition to the jerseys, both teams got new sneakers to wear as well. The two different types were shoes of NBA players James Harden, “Harden Vol. 3,” and Damian Lillard, “Dame 5.” The shoes’ color schemes are described as core black, shock red and active purple.

Despite the one-game occasion for these Harlem Renaissance Collection uniforms, sophomore guard Al Durham believes it’s more than just one day or one month.

“I feel like it’s more than just February,” Durham said in the video. “It’s a celebration every day.”

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Halftime show upstages IU men's basketball and Ohio State Murphy Wheeler is a senior in sports communication.

Both the IU and Ohio State men’s basketball teams were upstaged by a fourth-grade girl on Sunday afternoon.

When Georgia Webb, one of the more petite members of the Firecrackers Jump Rope Team, latched on to two of her teammates and was slung around in the air as a human jump rope during the team’s halftime show, the IU crowd reacted with one of the few standing ovations of the entire day.

“The crowd’s reactions are awesome,” Firecrackers coach Lynn Kelley said. “That’s the

fuel that makes them want to do more and get even better in practice.”

This is by no means insinuating what Webb and her teammates did wasn’t remarkable. In fact, the stunts the girls pull off with their jump ropes each show could be classified as pure wizardry.

Yet the impressiveness of the Firecrackers’ halftime show was magnified when comparing it to the basketball that was produced from both teams on the court.

If you would have offered me a chance to watch 20 extra minutes of jump roping instead of the rock fight that was the Hoosiers’ eventual 55-52 loss, I would have taken you

up on it without hesitation.

The only moments that rivaled the crowd’s cheers in response to Webb’s jaw-dropping acrobatics on the decibel level were maybe when junior guard Devonte Green hit a long, go-ahead 3-pointer as the shot clock expired with just under two minutes to go.

Yet that big play still wasn't enough to help IU avoid a defeat. Rather, it was a rare occasion of offensive cohesion in a game was largely devoid of it.

That low energy from the crowd during the actual game wasn’t from a lack of excitement. This was a momentous juncture in the season for the Hoosiers, especially when it comes to building a resume to

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make the NCAA Tournament in March.

There was simply so little from either team for fans to cheer about. Sunday was a display of two middling teams trying to survive in the purgatory between the middle to lower tiers of the Big Ten. IU desperately needed a victory after losing eight of its last nine games. But instead of showing an inkling of urgency, it came out with no movement on the offensive end once again and sloppiness on both ends of the floor.

The only reason the game was close was because Ohio State wasn’t much better.

Sunday’s game wasn’t just a poor outing for IU. We’re

past that point with this team.

It was the kind of performance that has plagued the Hoosiers for the entire second half of the season and nothing seems to be fixing those problems anytime soon.

This was the last opportunity for IU to prove its Feb. 2 upset victory at Michigan State wasn’t a fluke. Time has run out for them. Any NCAA tournament hopes the Hoosiers have are hanging by the weakest of threads, and the only way they probably qualify in March is if they win out on the season or win the Big Ten Tournament.

At this point, those two options are wildly beyond belief, especially if IU continues to

play like it did against Ohio State.

Looking back, the Hoosiers were lucky the Firecrackers came to town.

They shot some adrenaline into the crowd after a yawn of a first half. Maybe the school should consider hiring them full-time.

If this kind of low-level basketball continues, the attention and energy of a once optimistic fanbase is going to quickly dwindle.

The Hoosiers could really learn something from little Georgia Webb — she knows how to feed off the energy. jonmwhee@iu.edu @murph_wheelerIU

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Printmaker discusses ethics through art

By Lauren Fazekas lfazekas@iu.edu

Alexander Landerman is a master of fine arts printmaking student with the School of Art, Architecture + Design.

Growing up on a Christmas tree farm in a small town in Wisconsin, Landerman was surrounded by the outdoors.

He fell in love with animals at a young age and began drawing around the same time.

Landerman graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point with a degree in two-dimensional art and is scheduled to graduate from IU’s masters program this spring. The IDS talked with Landerman about the inspiration for his art and what he plans to show this spring in the MFA Thesis Show.

Indiana Daily Student What is your artistic focus?

Landerman I’m interested in animals, and my work focuses on animal ethics, kind of how intelligent animals truly are and why we view animals the way we view them and how we treat them.

What do you hope people see when they look at your drawings?

It’s all about engagement and question asking. Aesthetically, the work should be attractive to help people engage. It is always the goal to make an attractive, pretty thing people will want to look

at, then get them to ask the question of ‘what is happening here and why?’ It’s never my intent to be accusatory or say ‘look what you’re doing.’

Can you give me an example of a current piece you’re working on that asks the “what is happening and why” question?

I have this piece that I’m doing, it’s a bunch of herons. The whole bottom of the frame is filled up with these herons and they kind of reach their way up. There’s these swirling leaves going on, and then when you look at the leaves, you can see that some of them are actually fishing lures, the kind that look like little fish. I hope that somebody would look at these kind of frantic birds that are clearly moving and engage with it.

The imagery is exciting, and then they ask ‘what’s going on here?’ They’re carnivorous, so it’s a danger to these birds because there are these fishing lures. That is a jumping off point there, which could lead to a conversation or inspire research. That’s really my goal.

Where did you get the inspiration for the herons?

They’re these predator animals. That doesn’t mean they’re smart, so when they find something and don’t know what it is sometimes they eat it, and then they die.

I’m all for land being public and people being able to utilize that land. Although I don’t fish or hunt or do those things, those practices are the

reasons we have money to devote to the welfare of animals.

It is important to me that those things persist, but some people who do it don’t clean up after themselves the way they should. If you leave stuff there, that could kill a bird.

Also, there’s just something so alluring about herons. They’re weird water ostriches.

Are these animal subjects coming from real-life experiences?

The heron piece started as I was walking my dog by Miller-Showers Park, that weird little water area by Square Donuts on 17th. I saw them in the pond and ran home, put the dog in the house, grabbed my camera and ran back. There was just a heron hanging out by the water. I must have took 200 photos of him with a camera. Now I have this informed drawing.

Can you tell me more about your work process?

I was always kind of a Luddite. I was going to draw pen and ink on paper, but recently I’ve gotten more interested in digital processes. What I’ve been doing now is I’m drawing everything digitally. With a tablet I can do my own illustrations just how I would on paper. Then, when I print them out on a big stencil banner printer, I have this nice sketched-out drawing on pristine paper. I always joke that I’m not a good illustrator, I’m just really persistent. I draw and erase and draw and erase a lot.

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Alexander Landerman is a master of fine arts printmaking student with the School of Art, Architecture + Design. Landerman graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point with a degree in twodimensional art and is scheduled to graduate from IU’s master’s program this spring.

IU music scoring program to expand Music conference to celebrate hiphop's golden age

By Lauren Fischer

lfische@iu.edu | @lauren-fischer7

This fall the Jacobs School of Music plans to add a master’s degree, undergraduate and doctoral minors and two certificate degrees to its Music Scoring for Visual Media program.

The program was created from the ground up by visiting professor and composer Larry Groupé.

“I’m designing it, and that in itself is really exciting,” Groupé said. “I like the opportunity to develop this idea here.”

Currently, the program consists of a series of classes designed to help students learn to score a movie and navigate their way in the film industry.

Junior Ryn Jorgensen said they began taking these classes their freshman year, and they are now pursuing a composition major with a minor in scoring for visual media.

Jorgensen took a composing for short form class last semester and is currently enrolled in composing for long form. Jorgensen said composing for longer films requires more extensive planning for musical themes within the film, whereas a short film would most likely only have one theme.

“Over the course of a two-hour movie, you have to pace yourself so you don’t overshoot the feeling of the movie by escalating too quickly,” Jorgensen said. “You develop themes in a way that helps to guide viewers through the movie instead of just giving tone and mood.”

Groupé said the classes

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Professor Larry Groupé and his class watch a clip a student has worked on Feb. 7 in the East Studio Building. This class gives students the chance to practice creating film scores.

not only focus on the technical composing skills but deciding what the story arch and characters are emotionally.

Conveying emotions, Groupé said, is the purpose of the music.

“Writing the emotional content and the core of what the story’s about is the key to a really good score,” Groupé said. “That’s where we spend the majority of our time, trying to understand things as the filmmaker before we apply our musical ideas.”

Jorgensen said composers begin their process by watching the film they are composing for, often more than once if it is long-form.

They then come up with thematic musical ideas that help capture the film’s mood and feeling.

The director of the film then tells the composer where music is needed, a process called spotting.

Recording the music and making final revisions and edits completes the composing process.

In addition to learning about the composing process, Jorgensen said students learn a great deal about the film industry, which has been beneficial.

“I wasn’t expecting to learn anything about the business side, because that’s not in any of the

class descriptions, but it just comes up all the time,” Jorgensen said. “It’s something that’s ingrained in the industry in such a way that you can’t get away from it.”

Groupé said resources at IU, such as the numerous Jacobs students who can help composers record pieces, give the university an edge in the film scoring world.

“Here in the Midwest, we’re going to be that alternative choice for people that want to go into serious film and media scoring,” Groupé said. “That makes it special for us, and we’re now competing against the top schools in the country.”

An interdisciplinary conference presented by the Jacobs School of Music on Feb. 16 and 17 will celebrate the golden age of hip-hop in honor of Black History Month.

The conference, “Hip-Hop in the Golden Age,” will also recognize the 30th anniversary of the De La Soul album “3 Feet High and Rising.”

“Hip-hop’s golden age (ca.

1988–95) was a time of unprecedented creativity,” reads the event’s Facebook page.

“Having crossed over into mainstream culture but not yet bound by the restrictions of major labels, rappers and producers explored seemingly limitless avenues of beat production, flow, and lyrical topics.”

Producer and recording

artist Prince Paul will deliver a keynote address at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 in the Simon Music Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Prince Paul, whose real name is Paul Huston, is known for his work producing De La Soul’s album “3 Feet High and Rising.”

Registration for the conference is $25. For those interested but unable to attend, conference papers and events will be available for online viewing through IU Music Live.

The conference begins Feb. 16 and runs through Feb. 17.

According to the Facebook page, the conference will explore any and all aspects of the hip-hop era, ranging from its historical context to its legacy.

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Vincent Mason of the group De La Soul performs June 16, 2013, during the Kings of the Mic Tour in Durham, North Carolina.

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Softball defeats No. 6 Georgia to cap off weekend

By Phillip Steinmetz

come.

Despite the initial call, the third base umpire overturned it — claiming that the runner never tagged up at third base before making her way to home.

With IU up by one run heading into the final in-

ning, Radcliffe notched a two-run home run to put the team ahead 6-3 with just three outs remaining before pulling off the upset.

“For her to have that moment against Georgia, you’re excited when your kids have moments,” Stanton said. “She’s special, she’s been a great addition.”

Senior Tara Trainer pitched all seven innings for the Hoosiers, picking up her third victory of the weekend.

Trainer also moved to third all-time in program history with 578 strikeouts during a relief appearance against Florida Atlantic “Tara was special,” Stanton said. “Coming in last night to close the door and today had an All-American performance against one of the better hitting teams in the country.”

Last season, it took 24 games for IU to find its fifth victory. This year, IU has opened the 2019 season 5-0 for the first time since 1990.

Coming into the season, there were plenty of questions as to whether last season’s third-place finish in the Big Ten was a fluke.

Six Big Ten teams at least received votes in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and USA Softball preseason Top-25 poll. IU was not one of those teams.

“Going 5-0 on the weekend makes us stand out a bit because it’s something a lot of teams probably haven’t done,” Trainer said. “I think people will start keeping an eye out for us.”

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IU softball coach Shonda Stanton had almost no voice left in her.

Nearly three hours after a 6-4 statement victory over No. 6 University of Georgia to cap off a perfect 5-0 start to the season, Stanton struggled to talk with the voice she had left, but her excitement about the weekend was evident.

As part of the Florida Atlantic University “First Pitch” Classic in Boca Raton, Florida, IU defeated the University of Virginia, BethuneCookman University, St. John’s University and Florida Atlantic University by a combined score of 26-3.

In the final game of the weekend, IU faced perhaps is biggest challenge of the season against Georgia.

“As a coach you always want your team to get out to a fast start,” Stanton said.

“We talked earlier this week about owning moments and that’s what we did this weekend.”

The Hoosiers were down early to the Bulldogs.

In the third inning, Georgia got out to a 2-0 lead behind a pair of back-to-back RBI singles. Despite the deficit, IU responded in the next frame.

Sophomore Grayson Radcliffe and junior Bella Norton strung together ensuing hits to give IU a pair of base runners with no outs.

Then, sophomore Maddie Westmoreland laid down a bunt to bring in the first run.

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Then-sophomore utility player Katie Lacefield and then-junior pitcher Tara Trainer high five during the 2018 season. IU won all five of its games during the Florida Atlantic University First Pitch Classic this weekend in Boca Raton, Florida.

After recording their first out, the Hoosiers got another bunt from sophomore Annika Baez. Her single brought in another run.

A Georgia fielding error at the plate brought in a third run for the Hoosiers.

“Our pressure offen-

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sively on the base path is what really opened things up for us,” Stanton said. “We weren’t stringing a lot of hits together, but we were able to put on pressure with our aggressive style of play.”

With IU maintaining a 4-2 lead heading into the

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43 They’re planted in snow while skiing 45 Civil rights icon Parks 46 Largest living bird 47 Emails a dupe to 48 Couture initials 51 Tapped-off cigar remnant 52 Hours for cuppas 54 Cord cutters’ reception aids 58 Air filter acronym 59 __ hop: gym dance 60 Infatuation 61 “I’ll take care of that” 62 Log splitters 63 Spade of handbags 64 Education support gps.

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55 __ populi: popular opinion 56 Blackjack half 57 Gun lobby org.

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Used 26 in monitor (NEC LCD 2690 WUXi).

Good cond., $100. aluhur@indiana.edu

Electronics 32” 720p Toshiba TV, great cond., works perfectly. $85, obo. basermer@iu.edu 40” LG HD LED TV w/ wall mount. Great cond. $200,obo. 847-951-8991 yunho@indiana.edu 50” LG 4K Ultra HD Smart TV. Model #: LG50UH5530. $350, obo.

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Textbooks

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“Introduction to International studies” by Brian Orend. $40. jacagard@indiana.edu

Clothing Nike Vapor Untouchable Pro men’s football cleats.

Size 8, Never worn. $40. s.e.mosier1@gmail.com

Wood coffee table and chairs with black fixtures for balcony. $30. zhanyiyi@iu.edu

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Black 2008 Nissan Sentra, 55K miles. Good condition + etc. $7,000. rholyn@indiana.edu

Bicycles Bianchi Via Nirone Dama Sora bike, perfect for Little 500 training. $700, obo. salpohlm@iu.edu

55”, 4K TV, brand new w/ remote and box. $350. nebhatt@indiana.edu

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LG 70 inch UHD TV. Never opened. Great cond. $850. kim341@indiana.edu

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Numark Mixtrack Pro 3 DJ controller, like new, great cond. $110. jbrannig@iu.edu

Avail. now- July ‘19: 1 BR in 4 BR apt. w/ 3 male rmmtes. in Deluxe at the Monroe. Utils. & internet incl. Reduced rate $434/mo. 317-557-7394

Vintage board games.

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White metal bunkbed set with 2 twin mattresses.

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HP OMEN 15 15.6” gaming laptop, used but excellent cond. $699. zhezhou@iu.edu

310 N. Dunn 5 BR, 2 BA, new kit, WD, DW, AC. $3,750 per month.

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26’’ monitor for print to screen color integrity.

Pro grade. $70. aluhur@indiana.edu

3 BR, 1 BA. Close to Campus. $950/2 person, $1050/3 person. + util.

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Twin size foam mattress.

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Only used 5 months. $80. hj14@iu.edu

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Solid wooden dining set (5pc., 1 table, 4 chairs).

Good cond. $200. kim959@indiana.edu

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Queen size mattress w/ pillows and blankets. 1 yr of use, great cond. $120. lee2065@iu.edu

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Contact: 651-428-6052.

Kendall & Kylie Brooke boots, women’s size 7.5.

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3 piece dining set, table and 2 chairs. Barely used. $180, neg. maalam@indiana.edu

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 But Misty is adamant that her grandkids grow up around race cars.

Someone will have to carry on the family tradition. * * * The A-Team are leaders at the track. Even people who don’t know them come for advice and extra car parts.

Despite being one of the only female racers at the track, Misty is accepted.

“She’s like one of the guys,” her A-Team teammate Dan Smith said.

But her age and gender change her role at the track.

“I’m like a mother to all these truck guys,” Misty said.

She said she always jumps to help out by putting out cones or directing cars into the lineup.

Misty partially does this because she doesn’t understand the mechanical side of cars. Her husband jokingly

says it’s because “she’s just a woman,” but Misty said she also prefers taking care of people.

“I’m always out there talking to everybody because there ain’t nothing I can do on the cars,” she said.

Misty’s car has “Mom Cosman” printed on the front.

Her racing responsibilities include packing the family’s large white car trailer with food, water, clothes or anything they might need. The team may not leave for the race until the afternoon, but Misty’s day starts at 10 a.m.

“I am so detailed,” Misty said. “Being a female and a mother, you pay attention to detail and think about what can happen. I always plan for that shit.”

Misty will do anything for her family on the track. One time, an angry competitor stormed into the Cosman’s camp and started yelling at Owen. Misty walked up to him and poked a finger into his chest.

“I jumped out of that car

lickity split telling him to get out,” Misty said. * * * Misty stood at the fence waiting for Owen to race a few months ago when someone came and stood next to her.

“You don’t want to stand there,” Misty said.

She needed at least an arm’s length of space so she could cheer for her son properly. This spot on the fence is a place where she’s getting more comfortable lately. The bruises covering her body after each race are reminders of her age.

Still, even in retirement, Misty knows she’ll never be able to stay away from the adrenaline rush.

The smell of the gas. The sound of the car. The speed.

Even after Misty signs “I love you” from the driver’s seat for the last time, she will still be at the races. She’ll just be here at the fence, cheering for her son and, hopefully, her grandkids.

PHOTOS BY SAM HOUSE | IDS

Top Right Racing paraphernalia fills the inside of the Cosman household along with photos of grandchildren and family friends. Several members of the Cosman family have been involved with racing at various levels.

Bottom Misty Cosman’s bucket seat sits in her stripped and caged Chevrolet Cavalier on Feb. 4 in her garage. The Chevrolet Cavalier is an example of a Hornet, the ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s modified street cars Misty and her son race.

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