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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
IU looks to end losing streak By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu | @grace_palmieri
IU Coach Teri Moren won’t say the L-word. But if there’s any motivation for beating Purdue on Monday night, it’s that they’re sick and tired of coming up short. The Hoosiers are on a fourgame losing streak. They haven’t won a game since Jan. 11 against Wisconsin. That was followed by losses at then-No. 23 Minnesota, at Penn State, at home against thenNo. 7 Maryland and at Michigan State last Wednesday. Moren called the 15-point loss to the Spartans the worst her team’s played this year. “If we don’t have motivation at this point, I don’t know what will make us have motivation,” Moren said. In practice, going up against the guys on the practice squad, her team gets excited to compete, Moren said, but that isn’t transferring into games. They’ve gone back to focusing more on themselves, especially on the offensive end, rather than preparing for other teams. Moren said they get too caught up in remembering every part of the opponent’s offense and each player’s tendencies. She said they haven’t gone away from working on gap defense in practice, but when it comes to a team like Purdue that has so many different offensive sets, they’ve just looked at bits and pieces of it. “You break down their top three or four things that they really are good at and like to run the most,” Moren said. “Then, try to spend more time on us.” Containing Whitney Bays When IU played Purdue at the beginning of January, transition defense was the name of the game. The Boilermakers scored 16 fast-break points to IU’s 0. The lack of effort getting back on defense is what disappointed Moren most about the 86-64 loss. But if there was a player the Hoosiers didn’t have an answer for, it was Whitney Bays. The senior forward completed her schoolrecord fifth double-double in a row against the Hoosiers, with 27 points and 10 rebounds. Her streak extended to nine games before ending against Minnesota. Bays is averaging 15.8 points and 10.7 rebounds per game. “She’s a challenge for us,” Moren said of Bays. “You just try to make her work for everything and try to make it a tough shot for her to make.” On every Big Ten team, though, SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6 IU (12-8, 2-7) vs. Purdue (10-11, 3-7) 8:30 p.m. Monday, Assembly Hall
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A pint of winter ale sits atop the bar at Lennie’s Restaurant and Brew Pub. Lennie’s is allowed to sell alcohol on Sundays because of their brewer’s license.
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Bill in Indiana legislature could legalize Sunday alcohol sales By Brian Gamache bgamache@indiana.edu | @brgamache
After years of debate, Bloomington residents may be able to go to Big Red Liquors on Sundays. Rep. Tom Dermody, R-LaPorte, has introduced a bill to allow carryout sales of beer, wine and liquor between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays. “We talked to package liquor stores, owners, retailers, anybody this bill affects,” Dermody said. The move by Dermody, chairman of the Indiana House Public Policy Committee, has Sunday sales advocates energized. “It’s huge for a committee chair to sponsor a bill,” said John Elliot, public relations spokesperson for Kroger and representative of Hoosiers for Sunday Sales, an organization that supports the bill. Past bills to allow Sunday sales have been stopped by Public Policy committee chairs, Elliot said. “This is the first time for discussion and voting on the legislation,” Elliot said. Liquor, grocery and big box retail stores are all prohibited from selling alcohol on Sundays by laws dating back to Prohibition. Matt Bell, a public affairs representative for Big Red Liquors, says the company opposes the bill but is not opposed to Sunday sales on principle. “We think some limited hours are appropriate,” Bell said, but raised concerns about minors accessing alcohol in grocery and big box retail stores. “Leave beer and wine in the grocery aisles, but not the hard liquor,” Bell said. “That’s a bill we would support.” Bell said state law does not regulate alcohol effectively. “If they put forward a program for where
and how alcohol is sold, we would be open to talking about when,” Bell said. Unlike package liquor stores, Jeff Mease, owner of Bloomington Brewing Company and Lennie’s, is allowed to sell alcohol on Sundays. “We can sell beer on Sundays, and we do sell a fair bit of beer on Sundays,” Mease said. Possessing a brewer’s permit and a restaurant permit allow BBC and Lennie’s to have in-store and carryout sales on Sundays, Mease said. Mease was not worried about the possibility of the bill passing. “It wouldn’t affect us a whole lot,” Mease said. And his support for the bill? “Personally, I go back and forth,” Mease said. Sports venues are also permitted to sell alcohol on Sundays, according to state law. “This law drives business to every neighboring state every Sunday,” Elliot said. “Tax revenue and jobs are going to other states.” The effect of the law is most felt in border counties, Elliot said. “This isn’t just about Sunday sales, this is about economic free market principles,” Elliot said. Patrick Tamm, CEO of the Indiana Association of Beverage Retailers, opposes the legislation. “Alcohol has never been in a free market,” Tamm said. “Alcohol is in a very regulated environment and continues to need to be.” The IABR represents package liquor stores, including Big Red Liquors, which are regulated under state law. “You have to be 21 and an Indiana resident to be an owner,” Tamm said of package stores. “Who we are, what we can sell, has all been dictated to us.” Tamm compared state package store regulations to those of national chains, such as
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Walmart and Kroger, who would be allowed to sell on Sundays if the bill passed. “We’re at structural disadvantage right now,” Tamm said. Package stores are required to sell only certain types of items and their clerks are required to be licensed. Big box retailers, on the other hand, do not have to follow these regulations, Tamm said. The proposed bill would remove those regulations from package stores, allowing them to carry other items besides alcohol and related products. “Consistency across regulations will be a great part of having the bill,” Rep. Dermody SEE SUNDAY SALES, PAGE 6
Mellencamp coming to Auditorium SOIC triples in size
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By Adam Smith adbsmith@indiana.edu | @adbsmithIU
Few Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are able to call themselves Hoosiers. Of those, the only one to call Bloomington home is rock ‘n’ roll legend John Mellencamp. Mellencamp will return to Bloomington to perform at IU Auditorium on Tuesday and Wednesday. He is on the road for an 80show tour of North America that started in South Bend at the Morris Performing Arts Center on Jan. 21 and will end in Indianapolis at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Aug. 4. The tour is in support of his most recent album, “Plain Spoken,” which was released September 2014. Each SEE MELLENCAMP, PAGE 6
By Dani Castonzo dcastonz@indiana.edu | @Dani_Castonzo
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John Mellencamp performs at the Greek Theater on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008, in Berkeley, California. Mellencamp will be performing at IU Auditorium this week.
In 2007, there were only 400 undergraduates in the School of Informatics and Computing. As of 2014, there were 1,196 students with majors within the school. The School of Informatics and Computing has tripled in size over the past seven years. The number of graduate students has also doubled. The school offers bachelor’s degrees in computer science and in informatics, as well as a variety of masters and Ph.D. programs. Associate Dean of SOIC Esfandiar Haghverdi said there are three reasons the school has seen this
rapid growth. One reason is there has been a growth in computer science programs nationally as a result of the increase in jobs demanding technology skills. The informatics and computer science programs also offer a large degree of variety, Haghverdi said. The credit hours in the major are diverse, touching on programming, the social aspects of computing and societal impacts of computing. “You cannot find that kind of variety in many other computing programs,” Haghverdi said. Informatics majors are also required to pick a cognate, which SEE SOIC, PAGE 6