Wednesday, April 13, 2016

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

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LITTLE 500 GUIDE ON STANDS NOW

Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com

INVESTIGATIONS CAMPUS SAFETY

ELECTIONS 2016

This is the last of a three-part series. You can read the entire series online at idsnews.com/in-the-dark.

ACCOUNTABILITY

IU blue lights part of big issue

IU Board of Trustees campaign contributions add up to more than $500,000 that go to state and national politicians. Some board members have donated a combined $72,000 to Gov. Mike Pence’s campaign since 2010.

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By Nyssa Kruse nakruse@indiana.edu | @NyssaKruse

Blue lights are just one part of a disjointed safety program on campus. Administrators know little about the blue lights. There is a disconnect between official statute and police officers in philosophy. Active restructuring of the IU Police Department has brought the rate of officers per student to less than half the rate in 1985, just before the lights were installed. ADMINISTRATORS UNAWARE The IU administration has never evaluated whether or not the blue lights are useful. John Applegate, executive vice president for University academic affairs and the administrator who oversees IUPD, said he believes not enough data is collected from the emergency phones to map and evaluate their effectiveness. “My understanding is they’re used extremely rarely for emergencies,” Applegate said. He’s right — the phones are almost never used to report crimes. But people are still dialing IUPD dispatch from the phones almost every day. Applegate said he does not know much about the rate at which the lights are used. “I’m not aware that that’s a huge problem, but I’m sure it does happen,” Applegate said. “Prank calls and false alarms certainly happen from time to time.” Since October, 113 calls have been made from the blue lights. In the last 10 years, more than 4,600 calls have been made. Only four were legitimate, as far as veteran IUPD officers can remember. Applegate said he feels no more investment should be made in blue lights, but with every new campus construction comes a new blue light, said Andrew Lowry, assistant director of Building Systems. In the last 10 years, IU has paid the distributor of the lights nearly $250,000. Administrators and police say the lights can prevent crime. In 2010, the IU Student Association studied safety and reported 72 percent of student respondents felt the blue lights made campus safer. However, several colleges across the country have removed the emergency phones, including the University of California, Davis and New Mexico State University, citing their high cost, lack of use and the prevalence of cellphones.

RANDALL TOBIAS

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$ 3 0 6 0 2 MICHAEL MIRRO

By Laurel Demkovich lfdemkov@umail.iu.edu | @laureldemkovich

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ince Gov. Mike Pence took office in 2013, he has appointed five IU Board of Trustees members. Since 2010, four of these trustees have donated a combined amount of more than $72,000 to Pence’s campaigns. More than 75 percent of this total donated was given by Chairman of the Board Randall Tobias, who has donated $55,624. Michael Mirro, James Morris and Andrew Mohr join Tobias in donating to Pence, who is up for re-election this year. With Indiana’s primary election on May 3, many people have been making political contributions to different local, state or national candidates. The Board of Trustees is no exception. The trustees have been donating to their favorite candidates for years. In total, their individual donations since 2000 add up to $570,466, which have gone mostly toward the Republican Party and its candidates, according to followthemoney.org. In 2013, Pence appointed Tobias and Morris to the board. In 2012 Tobias gave a total of $35,360 and Morris gave a total of $5,000 to Pence. Board of Trustees members can be either appointed by the governor or elected by IU alumni. Five of the current trustees are appointed by the governor, and three are elected

by alumni. The ninth trustee is a student who is also appointed by the governor, but she has not made any donations. In 2004 and 2008, six board members donated to Mitch Daniels’ campaign for governor. The top contributors were Tobias, Mirro, Morris and Mohr. In total, Tobias donated $163,019, Morris donated $23,500, Mirro donated $5,250, and Mohr donated $2,500, according to followthemoney.org. Former governor Frank O’Bannon appointed Patrick Shoulders to the board in 2002. In 2000, Shoulders donated $1,200 to O’Bannon’s campaign. To Tobias, Daniels was one of Indiana’s most effective governors. “He was fiscally conservative and at the same time believed social issues had no place in state government,” Tobias said. In addition to governor races, many trustees have donated to other candidates, including those running for House or Senate, attorney general or the school board. Fiscally conservative but socially more liberal, Tobias said he supports like-minded candidates. Although he’s been a lifelong Republican, Tobias said he has been a long-time supporter of former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton. “Party labels often lead to assumed stereotypes that may not be accurate,” Tobias said.

Donation breakdown Members of the IU Board of Trustees have contributed a range of monetary sums to various candidates and parties from 2000 to 2016. (See top three donors above.) PATRICK SHOULDERS

$ 1 5 8 3 8 DERICA RICE

$ 5 2 5 0 ANDREW MOHR

$ 3 0 0 0 MARYELLEN BISHOP

$ 9 2 5 PHILIP ESKEW JR.

$ 1 2 5 ANNA WILLIAMS

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SOFTBALL

IU softball gives away early lead, loses by 10 in 5 innings By Jake Thomer jjthomer@indiana.edu | @jake_the_thomer

2-12 Despite having an early lead, IU was ultimately stifled by Louisville’s pitchers and lost 12-2 in five innings Tuesday. Louisville (27-9, 11-4 in the ACC) took advantage of walks and errors to overwhelm IU (22-17, 5-6 in the Big Ten) with a few breakout innings. The Hoosiers led 2-0 after the first inning and trailed by one run heading into the fourth before the Cardinals took control of the game with nine runs in the last two innings. Senior outfielder Michelle Huber scored for IU with a two-run double off the left-field wall in the bottom of the first. In the top of the second, freshman pitcher Tara Trainer walked

the bases loaded before allowing a two-run double to Louisville outfielder Jordan McNary. Trainer walked in a third run before being removed in favor of fellow freshman Josie Wood. Louisville blew the game open in the top of the fourth inning with the help of five singles. The Cardinals plated five runs to take an 8-2 lead. Sophomore Emily Kirk took the circle during the fourth inning and finished the game for the Hoosiers. In the fifth, Louisville would tack on four more hits and score four runs to make it 12-2. IU finished with just three hits and none in the final three innings. Junior infielder Erin Lehman went 2 for 3 in the game, with Huber’s first-inning double being the other hit. Lehman’s multi-hit performance raised her season average to .333. “Well, they brought in the new

pitcher, and we got a little overanxious, I think,” IU Coach Michelle Gardner said. “We felt too much pressure to score, and we let that get the best of us.” After allowing three hits and two runs in the first 2.1 innings, star freshman Megan Hensley was removed and junior Maryssa Becker was put in. Becker walked just one and gave up no hits for the rest of the game. Each of IU’s three pitchers tossed 1.2 innings in the game, and each allowed multiple runs. Trainer gave up just one hit during her time in the circle, but six walks were her undoing en route to allowing three earned runs. Wood and Kirk followed by giving up 10 hits combined and the rest of the nine Cardinal runs. IU will travel to take on Michigan State (20-19, 2-7) for a threegame series this weekend. It will be the first weekend on the road

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Sophomore Rebecca Blitz runs during a softball game against University of Louisville at Andy Mohr Field on Tuesday. The Hoosiers lost 2-12.

for IU in Big Ten play. Gardner said because the young Hoosier pitchers have been struggling lately, the offense will need to catch up and provide support.

“We’re just taking some lumps on the mound that we weren’t taking earlier in the year,” Gardner said. “And now we’re taking them a little bit, so we’re going to have to get through it.”


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