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Record stores ready for sales By Neal Earley njearley@indiana.edu | @Neal_Earley

The record stores of Bloomington tend to have relaxing and quiet atmospheres. Patrons causally walk through the store, sifting through the collection of various types of records at a slow pace. But this week, employees at Landlocked Music and Tracks are preparing for a tide of chaos. Saturday is Record Store Day, an unofficial global holiday dedicated to the celebration and promotion of independent record stores. Originally conceived in 2007, participating stores will see customers from near and far lining the blocks of downtown Bloomington Saturday morning. “There’s usually a line around the block by the time we open,” said Jason Nickey co-owner of Landlocked Music on North Walnut Street. “We’ll see, it’s pretty chaotic for the first couple hours — which is good.” Nickey said a band will play for patrons as they wait in what he anticipates will be a long line. Disc jockeys Mike Adams, Stephen Westrich, Ann Jonker and Magician Johnson will play from when the store opens at 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., followed by bands such as Thee Open Sex, Birimbi and Cowboys from 4-7 p.m. “It’s tenfold,” said Jarrett Noel, music manger at Tracks located on East Kirkwood Avenue, on his preparations for Record Store Day. “We’re so much busier than normal; this is the busiest week of the year for us.” Noel said he expects a line going around the block. Tracks will open at 8 a.m. and will give free donuts and coffee to customers who arrive early. Both Nickey and Noel said Record Store Day is the most important day of the year for their stores, not just because of the expected large increase in sales that Saturday will bring, but the exposure they get from people who are not regular patrons. “I mean, in sales it will be our biggest day of the year,” Noel said. “What we usually do — you know — in a couple of weeks, we do in a day. It’s basically our Black Friday.” And for music lovers, Record Store Day can be like Black Friday. Maybe not in terms of the discounts, but because of the rush to retailers customers make to get exclusive and limited release records that are sold on the day. Some patrons will feel compelled to get in line early, hoping to grab a limited copy of their favorite record. Both Nickey and Noel said SEE RECORD STORES, PAGE 4 RECORD STORE DAY Landlocked Music 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday Tracks 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday

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Sophomore Tommy Paslaski is president of the IU chapter of Alpha Tau Omega. After multiple semesters on probation, ATO is rebuilding and rehauling its risk management at parties. Paslaski is in charge of making sure that nothing goes wrong.

Holding up a house By Samantha Schmidt | schmisam@indiana.edu | @schmidtsam7

Tommy Paslaski is trying to change the way people think about Alpha Tau Omega. If anything goes wrong, it all falls on him. See the story online Watch an interview with Tommy Paslaski, browse an informational map, and see our photo gallery at idsnews.com.

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n an unusually warm Saturday in February, a group of students swig from blue Solo cups and dangle their feet out second-story windows, where they snap pictures of the crowd on the porch below. A single can of Natural Light sits atop a sign of the letter A, the first of the fraternity’s three letters: ATΩ. The party at the Alpha Tau Omega house is a rare sight for students passing by on Third Street. The fraternity has been off social probation for only a month, and the men are being scrutinized by the administration. But after seven ethics cases, four semesters of probation and one year after a girl said she was raped in the house, ATO is having a party. The fraternity isn’t trying to party secretly in a dark basement. They’re out in the open, on the front porch. In the middle of the afternoon. ATO President Tommy Paslaski cannot stand still. The sophomore scans the party for floating handles of vodka. He walks up to a brother, takes a handle away from him and pours the liquor into a plastic cup for him instead. Walking around the side of the ATO house, he spots a drunken girl climbing on to the rooftop. He immediately asks her to get down. She laughs, “Fuck off.” She doesn’t seem to know who he is. Annoyed but unfazed, the president asks her a second time. She gets down. The girl is a liability — his guest and his responsibility. If one drunken partygoer goes to the hospital, if one ATO member gets too belligerent, if one girl falls off the roof and breaks her neck, ATO could be back on social probation — or worse, kicked

PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT | IDS

Top The Alpha Tau Omega house on Third Street is well lit during a Saturday night party in February. A pledge was stationed at the back door, signing girls into the party. Bottom The Alpha Tau Omega basement party room displays the fraternity’s seal and colors.

“If you see a girl who’s clearly too drunk, or if you see a guy who’s being creepy with a girl, it is your job to step in and do something.” Tommy Paslaski, ATO President

off campus for good. Paslaski carries it all on his shoulders. * * * Rarely have fraternities nationwide faced sharper criticism

than in the past few months. A Sigma Phi Epsilon pledge at Clemson University was found dead after allegedly refusing to buy his brothers McDonald’s. Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at the University of Oklahoma were videotaped singing a

Hoosiers travel to Illinois for pivotal series michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94

For the time being, IU is in seventh place in the Big Ten and a half game ahead of ninth-place Rutgers. This means that as of now IU is in the projected Big Ten Tournament field, but if it falls to ninth place or lower that will not be the case. IU (21-13, 5-6) travels to play

Illinois (30-6-1, 8-1), which is currently tied for first in the Big Ten, this weekend. This weekend offers IU an opportunity to not only improve its Big Ten standing, but also improve its national ranking. Illinois is ranked No. 27 in the RPI so far this season, compared to No. 77 for IU. By virtue of how the RPI rankings work, simply traveling

to play Illinois will give IU a boost in the rankings. And after losing to No. 176 Cincinnati at home, at No. 177 Indiana State and at home against No. 67 Evansville, IU needs the boost. IU has five weekend series remaining this season, four against Big Ten opponents. Of the five weekend opponents, four are currently ranked in the top 30 of the RPI.

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racist song. A Facebook page for Penn State’s Kappa Delta Rho displayed photographs of drugs, hazing and nude women. On a campus known nationwide for its greek life, with the “world’s greatest college weekend” days away, Paslaski must keep one of IU’s most infamous fraternities off probation and out of the headlines. He’s heard the names people call ATO. “AT Blow,” “AT Snow” “The Party House” and even “The Rape House.” Before pledging, Paslaski refused to believe the rumors that if he joined ATO he would have to “do a line of coke and get a dildo” — both of which ended up being entirely false. ATO’s reputation is scarred in part by its notorious but discontinued “Ménage à Tau” party, an annual, exclusive soiree at which female guests drank expensive alcohol and wore lingerie. It was there, last year, that a student said she was raped. Paslaski received minimal training for the job, but every weekend he has to manage hundreds of intoxicated men and women under one roof. Every day, he makes decisions that could affect — and potentially upset — up to 140 men. These men are his closest friends, the kind of guys who are always there to listen if he just needs to watch a game of football and vent, a group of men who stood together even when their fraternity was in shambles. Paslaski knows ATO is more than a party house. He just needs

IU (21-13, 5-6) at Illinois (30-6-1, 8-1) 7 p.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday, Champaign, Ill. IU also plays one game against Notre Dame, currently ranked No. 26, at a neutral field in Indianapolis. SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 6

On Wednesday’s Page 1 centerpiece article, there were several errors. The districts of Bloomington were colored incorrectly in our story. Some personal information about Philippa Guthrie, Nelson Shaffer and Andy Ruff was incorrect. All the inaccuracies have been corrected online, and appropriate actions have been taken to ensure this doesn’t happen again. The staff of the Indiana Daily Student regrets these errors, sincerely. Evan Hoopfer Editor-in-chief


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