Monday, Feb. 15, 2016

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MONDAY, FEB. 15, 2016

BEHIND INDIANA STATE’S 2015 GOLDEN GLOVE CHAMPION

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In sickness and in health In their 59 years of marriage, Bloomington residents Shirley and Wendell St. John have stuck together through high school, World War II and a stroke, all along growing in love. Cody Thompson comthomp@indiana.iu.edu | @CodyMichael3

Shirley St. John gazed fondly at her husband of 59 years as he spoke of their life — the story of how they met as teenagers, survived through war and traveled the world. Her eyes rarely left him as he detailed their adventures together. Shirley and Wendell St. John, both 84, met their freshman year of high school in the science club. They attended their junior and senior proms together, went to church together and have remained together since then. “My basic thinking is holistic,” Wendell said. “I would say that I simply love Shirley, and then I would say that I love everything about her.” Shirley lives in the Meadowood Retirement Community in Bloomington.

On May 29, 2015, she had a stroke and was hospitalized for three weeks. Since then, she has been recovering well, aside from the paralysis of the left side of her body. Wendell visits his wife every day, most times using the app Uber to do so, he said. As Wendell spoke about their love, Shirley was mostly quiet, watching her husband. Occasionally, she added her thoughts to the story. “He’s wonderfully creative,” she said. “He always comes up with something just a little bit different.” The couple married Oct. 6, 1956. Wendell served in the military from 1953 through 1956 during the Korean War. He was sent to Heidelberg, Germany, to the American military headquarters in Europe and worked SEE ST. JOHN, PAGE 5

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Top Wendell St. John shows his and Shirley St. John’s photo three years after they were married. They went to the same high school and church. Wendell served in the army from 1953 to 1956. He was stationed in Germany. After he came back from the army, Wendell married Shirley. Bottom Shirley St. John and Wendell St. John, both 84, talk about their marriage Sunday at Meadowood Retirement Community. They have been married for 59 years, since Oct. 6, 1956. They met in their freshman year of high school in the science club when they were 14-year-olds. They have three children. The left side of Shirley’s body was paralyzed by a stroke. Ever since then, Wendell visits her in a nursing home every day.

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IU falls to Michigan, 88-69 Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu @MichaelHughes94

EAST LANSING, Mich. — After what might have been the biggest win of the season, the wheels seemed to fall off all at once. Senior guard Yogi Ferrell looked exasperated. Junior forward Troy Williams didn’t score

a single point. In the final minute, IU strength and conditioning coach Lyonel Anderson snapped his clipboard in half. After trailing by just one point at halftime, IU lost 88-69 to a Michigan State team led by senior guard Denzel Valentine, who had 30 points and 13 assists. “The disappointing part for us is obviously we did a very good

job in the first half, but we did not continue that by playing the personal as much as we needed to,” IU Coach Tom Crean said. “They were just too comfortable.” The Hoosiers started slow, not finding an offensive rhythm before the first media timeout. They were saved by junior SEE HOOSIERS, PAGE 5

Denzel Valentine torches Hoosier defense for 30 points, 13 assists Grace Palmieri gplamier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Denzel Valentine didn’t have the chance to make a game-winning shot at the buzzer like he did exactly a year ago on Valentine’s Day.

That’s because this time, his team led by double digits for most of the second half. Instead of being a hero in the final seconds, Valentine dominated from beginning to end, scoring 30 points and dishing out 13 assists in No. 8 Michigan State’s 88-69 defeat of IU in East Lansing, Michigan.

“We let him play to his strengths,” IU Coach Tom Crean said. “You have to put more pressure on him and make him more uncomfortable, and we didn’t do that as much as we need to obviously.”

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Junior forward Collin Hartman shoots a layup during the game against Michigan State SEE VALENTINE, PAGE 5 on Sunday at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan. The Hoosiers lost 88-69.

Cardinal Stage performs ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ By Maia Rabenold mrabenol@indiana.edu | @maialyra

Audience members willingly checked themselves into a 1960s mental hospital Friday evening. They entered through a gated doorway into a set complete with tile floors, barred and locked windows and an overlooking glassed-in nurses station. For the next several hours, they experienced Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s

novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” put on by the Cardinal Stage Company. “From the moment they walk through the door, they’re locked in here with us,” said IU senior Ian McCabe, who plays Billy Bibbitt. “They get to be a part of this.” McCabe’s character is one of the acutes, the group of inpatients who have a chance of being cured of their conditions. The story focuses on the acutes, led by Randall McMurphy, in their struggle against the system, embodied by Nurse Ratched.

Billy Bibbitt, along with the other acutes, often gets caught between the forces of McMurphy and Ratched, McCabe said. While this tension creates many heavy, sad moments in the play, he said there are also some points of hope. “It’s this gang of misfit toys, these guys who didn’t fit in for one reason or another and didn’t work in society,” McCabe said. “They’re brought together by this one person to be a team and to have their moment in time. At the beginning of the story, you see them and you think these

people could never have a cohesive moment of success and triumph, and then you get to see that more than once in the play. These people surpass and surmount their troubles.” The characters are developed more in the play than in the book, McCabe said. The side characters come to life, and more of their humanity is shown in the stage adaptation. The book, which is more symbolic of anti-establishment thinking, is made more linear and easy to

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST” Tickets $15.95-$31.95 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12-28 the Ivy Tech John Waldron Auditorium follow in the play, McCabe said. “It’s a wonderful stage adaptation of a very important piece of American literature,” McCabe said. “And it’s exciting, it’s funny. SEE CUCKOO, PAGE 5


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