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A cross stands as a memorial for Hannah Wilson at the site where she was found April 24, 2015, in Brown County, Indiana. Daniel Messel is scheduled to stand trial for her murder in a Brown County court this summer.
1 year later With a summer murder trial approaching, friends and family of Hannah Wilson have learned during the past year how life can go on without their IU senior. are still learning to say goodbye.
By Hannah Alani halani@indiana.edu | @HannahAlani
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t has been one year since hundreds of mourners convened outside a red and white-roofed house just west of campus. Her name, Hannah Wilson, rang through the crowd with purpose as one person after another tried to make sense of something totally senseless. During IU’s 2015 Little 500 weekend, IU senior Hannah Wilson was abducted from her home after friends put her in a cab. Her body was found hours later in a clearing in Brown County, Indiana. The next day, police officers arrested a Bloomington man on the charge of murder. The trial is scheduled to begin in June. At age 22, without notice or warning, Wilson was violently taken out of the world. A year later, her friends and family
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Crean brings in recruit Junior college forward Freddie McSwain committed to IU on Sunday, crediting Tom Crean By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu | @MichaelHughes94
It had been a few minutes since he made the decision, and it was a whirlwind. Freddie McSwain’s phone was blowing up with congratulatory texts, tweets and interview requests. But there was a text that stood out a little more than the rest. He focused on a text from Tom Crean, IU’s coach, where McSwain just committed to playing his next two years of basketball. “He was texting me a few minutes ago saying, ‘Let’s go Fred. Let’s win,’” McSwain said. “He’s just as excited as I am.” Crean might have been the biggest reason for McSwain spurning Kansas State for IU on Sunday night. In the last of his two seasons at Neosho County Community College, SEE MCSWAIN, PAGE 6
In the week leading up to the oneyear anniversary of Hannah’s murder, Robin Wilson took a few minutes during her work break to talk about her daughter. Her family is doing well, she said. Robin is still working as a vet and Haley Wilson, Hannah’s younger sister, flourished during her freshman year at IU. Robin said she sometimes feels guilty she hasn’t been immobilized by her grief, especially when she’s remembering a funny Hannah memory and laughing with friends. Robin and Haley spent the oneyear anniversary at their house on Lake Michigan. Robin said last week SEE HANNAH, PAGE 6
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Hannah, left, and Haley Wilson, right, sit in the water in Lake Michigan. Haley and her mother Robin spent the anniversary of Hannah’s death at their lake house on Lake Michigan.
IU alumni honored at Jazz Celebration By Maia Rabenold mrabenol@indiana.edu | @maialyra
In 1950, the big bang of jazz education began. At least that’s what Tom Walsh, the chair of IU’s Department of Jazz Studies, calls it. In 1950, Buddy Baker and Jerry Coker started as students at IU. In the following years, five other jazz musicians — Jamey Aebersold, David Baker, Roger Pemberton, Whit Sidener and Dominic Spera — passed through IU. These seven IU alumni were honored Saturday at the annual Jazz Celebration concert, where they were the first class to be inaugurated into the IU Jazz Alumni Hall of Fame. Five of the alumni attended. Jerry Coker was unable to come, and the late David Baker was represented by his wife Lida Baker in the second balcony. Baker died March 26. “They are all not only great jazz musicians but great jazz educators as well,” Walsh said. “They all were around this area at the same time and went off to do such great things.” Buddy Baker started teaching the first official jazz course for credit at IU in 1959. He convinced Wilfred Bain, then-dean of the music school, that they should start a big band because a larger ensemble would be more familiar and easily recognizable to the rest of the faculty, which would help introduce them to the new style of music. After Buddy Baker, Roger
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Roger Pemberton, an IU Jazz Alumni Hall of Fame inductee, performs with the faculty/student jazz ensemble Saturday night at the Musical Arts Center. Pemberton performs his musical talents on both the soprano saxophone and flute.
Pemberton started teaching jazz courses and lessons for saxophone, an instrument that had not been previously offered at IU. When Pemberton left Bloomington, Jerry Coker took over the jazz program. David Baker created the jazz degree program in 1968. Previously, students were not even allowed to play jazz in practice rooms, Walsh said. Monitors would knock on doors of students playing jazz and tell them to stop. Jazz was assumed to be a kind
of street music accompanied with drug culture and was not considered fine music, Aebersold said during an open-panel discussion early Saturday afternoon. “If you counted the money I spent on beer or cigarettes or drugs, it was nothing,” Aebersold said. “I spent all my money on jazz records.” Aebersold was the first student to perform jazz during an official recital at IU. Roger Pemberton, from whom Aebersold took saxophone
lessons, worked to let him play jazz during his senior recital. Still, Aebersold said he was afraid he would be expelled because jazz was so new to the academic music world. For a week after his recital, he entered the music building through the back door to avoid meeting any faculty because he was afraid of the conversation they might have, he said. SEE JAZZ, PAGE 6