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IUSA to launch initiative on safety By Laurel Demkovich lfdemkov@indiana.edu | @laureldemkovich
After a semester filled with sexual violence cases, race disputes and student deaths, the IU Student Association has decided to step up and launch their safety initiative, the Safety Suite. While the initiative will have multiple parts, IUSA will focus on two ideas to start: revamping IU Safety Escort and implementing a safety button. “As the student government, we are really concerned about students being safe,” Deputy Chief of Staff Alex Ingoglia said. A team of freshmen interns presented the senior staff with the idea of a safety button app. The app would allow students to share information regarding their name, location and phone number with the IU Police Department. If a student is in an unsafe situation, he or she can press the button and share all information that would be communicated within the first few minutes of a 911 call, Ingoglia said. IUSA is currently looking into how they can partner with LiveSafe, an existing app similar to the idea of a safety button. Although IUSA is unsure which app to use and how exactly it will work, a demo for the app will hopefully take place next week, Ingoglia said. “We want to help the perception of campus safety and really make the campus feel safer at any time of day,” Ingoglia said. The second part of the Safety Suite includes revamping the IU Safety Escort. Chief of Marketing Miko Siewenie is working with people from Safety Escort to increase its funding and make it more accessible to students. Through a safety survey sent out last semester, IUSA found most students either did not know about Safety Escort or did not use it. Students’ complaints included a long wait time, the maximum of two
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Sophomore guard Tyra Buss looks for other open players while playing Michigan State on Wednesday night at Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers won the game 81-65.
PERFECT AT HOME IU upsets No. 18 Michigan State to improve to 7-0 at home By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @trlehmanIDS
After weaving through Michigan State’s full-court press, the ball was passed to sophomore guard Tyra Buss at the elbow with 5:15 to go in the game. After getting off to a quick start, IU led No. 18 Michigan State by 14 at halftime, but throughout the second half, the Spartans threatened the Hoosier lead on multiple occasions. Buss drove toward the rim, took a slap on her right arm and laid the ball in with her left. Following the conversion, the sophomore yelled to the crowd and pumped her fist as Assembly Hall exploded into cheers. She had given her team a 17-point lead with what seemed to be the dagger, leading to an 81-65 victory for the Hoosiers. “I was really excited for the team because we’ve had a rough couple games,” Buss said. “We were really pumped up for this game, and we wanted this one really,
really bad.” After losing to Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana on Sunday and to Ohio State by 27 points before that, IU welcomed Michigan State with the desire to bounce back from a Big Ten record that had slipped to 1-3. Two Spartan juniors — forward Aerial Powers and guard Tori Jankoska — came into the game averaging 18.5 and 16.8 points respectively, while Michigan State also sent out 6-foot-3 graduate center Jasmine Hines and a speedy sophomore Morgan Green. IU Coach Teri Moren said defending the weapons on the Big Ten’s fifth-best scoring offense would require a zone defense from start to finish — something foreign to the Hoosiers. She said in practice she stressed the importance of communication when using a zone defense. “It pains me to write that we’re going to be using zone on the board before a game because I’m afraid we won’t come out with the intensity that it takes to beat a team like Michigan State,” Moren said. “I thought their communication — their
81-65 IU 81, NO. 18 MICHIGAN STATE 65 Points Buss, 24 Rebounds Cahill, 8 Assists Buss and Cahill, 4 Junior shines in first start, page 5 Karlee McBride scored 17 points and helped shut down the Big Ten’s 5th best offense talk — was terrific.” In an effort to facilitate the communication, Moren gave junior guard Karlee McBride her first start of her career, saying the guard displays the most communication on the team. McBride and the Hoosiers took advantage of the opportunity, keeping Powers and Jankoska down to a combined 23 SEE IUWBB, PAGE 5
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Salaam band to play at Player’s Pub’s ‘World Music Night’ By Maia Rabenold mrabenol@indiana.edu | @maialyra
Four musicians gathered around a small table over a bottle of merlot Tuesday night, discussing chord changes and passing the melody between each other as they worked with their sound. Dena El Saffar, Tim Moore, Tomas Lozano and Ozan Cemali were rehearsing for their band Salaam’s “World Music Night” scheduled for 8 p.m. today at the Player’s Pub. El Saffar, who is Iraqi-American, started a Middle Eastern band when she attended the Jacobs School of Music where she got her degree in viola performance. As other musicians have joined the band, she said, their repertoire has expanded to incorporate many different Middle Eastern cultures, including Turkish, Kurdish and Jewish. “I was born and raised here,” El Saffar said. “I’m very drawn to Arabic culture and I’ve been to the Arab world, but it’s dangerous and off-limits right now. Playing music is the only way that I can feel any kind of satisfaction with that connection, because it’s very frustrating. When I play Middle Eastern music, I feel more emotionally connected with it.” All of the group’s first CDs consisted of Middle Eastern folk songs
that had been passed down through generations, but their most recent album “Train to Basra and Other Stories” is a collection of El Saffar’s own compositions. She said her compositions stay within the Middle Eastern genre but she has added infusions of classical and Western elements. Spanish guitarist Lozano said they each embody their cultural traditions as musicians, just as a blues player would carry the blues with them anywhere they go. El Saffar said they can’t stop their culture from showing through. “Part of it is being this introduction or ambassador of our culture musically,” El Saffar said. “We need to normalize the perception of the Middle East.” The best kind of audience to have is one with Americans and Middle Easterners mixed together, Moore said. El Saffar said Americans can be too polite, and the Middle Eastern audience members show them how to interact with the music by clapping, cheering and singing along. “When we have people from the Middle East in the audience and we play songs that they recognize, they love it,” Moore said. “They get up and dance and they feel familiar with it. It’s also fun to play the music for people who have never heard it before,
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Musicians from Salaam gather on Tuesday evening to rehearse for their performance, which is 8 p.m. Thursday at the Player’s Pub. Salaam uses a mix of blues, jazz and Middle Eastern music to create a unique sound for their audience.
because it’s something new for them. It’s a kind of cultural immersion.” Listening to Middle Eastern music can be a way to appreciate the culture, Cemali said. Cemali, who moved to America from Turkey in 2006, sings in Turkish, Greek and Armenian and plays traditional Turkish folk instruments. Moore said the group is lucky to be able to focus on one of the beautiful aspects of Middle Eastern culture.
“I want people to feel a little more connected to Middle Eastern culture, more familiar with it,” Moore said. “That’s an important thing that this band does, especially in this day and age, because the more familiar people are with something, the less fearful they will be of it.” Salaam’s statement of peace, introduced by the name of the band itself, is a way to connect the musicians to each other and to
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WORLD MUSIC NIGHT Free 8 p.m. today, Player’s Pub audiences, El Saffar said. “Anytime or anywhere I play, it doesn’t matter what we play, our repertoire, or how we play,” Lozano said. “If the people that come leave in a better state than when they came in, I’m happy.”
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