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A day after debuting at No. 15 nationally in The Associated Press preseason poll, IU will play host to the University of Ottawa in an exhibition matchup that will serve as a litmus test for the Hoosiers, who fell to the Gee-Gees during their foreign trip two summers ago. “We have a lot of respect for this team,” IU Coach Tom Crean said Monday. “That’s why we scheduled them.” IU went 4-1 during its tour of Canada in 2014, falling 109-101 to Ottawa — one of the best university teams in the country — in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, while playing with a 24-second shot clock. Now the Gee-Gees will travel south of the U.S.-Canadian border to play the Hoosiers on their
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home floor. While the shorter shot clock in Canada allows for more offensive possessions, the level of scoring in last year’s matchup was no fluke. Through its first nine games, Ottawa (8-1) averaged 94.6 points per game on 49.7 percent shooting, while IU is projected to have the second-most efficient offense in the country. Six Ottawa players are averaging at least 8.8 points per game, led by point guard Mike L’Africain at 16.6 points per contest. When the two schools last met, L’Africain scored a team-high 27 points on 6-of-8 shooting from 3-point range. As a team, the Gee-Gees are shooting better than 42 percent from 3-point range. Ottawa recently attempted 48-of-68 shots from
After browsing through the Newspaper Archive in July, IU Archives Director Dina Kellams discovered a piece of IU’s history. She realized the first African-American female to attend IU was Carrie Parker Taylor. Although it was already known that the first African-American woman to graduate from IU was Frances Marshall, who graduated in 1919, this is the first IU has heard about Parker. IU has now decided to create a scholarship in her name to honor her historic education. Parker attended from winter 1898 through fall 1898 but was unable to finish her education because of lack of resources, said Joyce Rogers, vice president for development and external relations for the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs. This new scholarship will help sophomores, juniors and seniors who demonstrate financial need and are involved in the 21st Century Scholars, Groups or Hudson and Holland scholars programs, with a preference for first-generation
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Hoosiers face off against Gee-Gees in first exhibition of the 2015-16 season By Andy Wittry
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Skylar Spence embraces live pop instrumentation By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans
In fall 2014, a Long Island musician named Ryan DeRobertis received a cease-and-desist notice from Pepsi. At the time, DeRobertis, 22, had been releasing music under the name Saint Pepsi for almost two years, and, despite picking up steam on the music blogosphere with a pair of pop songs called “Fiona Coyne” and “Fall Harder,” he said he never expected the soda corporation to notice him. “I sort of figured that I was going to get away with being Saint Pepsi
until I just stopped making music under the name,” he said. “It’s flattering to an extent to know I was on a big corporate radar, just a little blip.” So DeRobertis changed his pseudonym to Skylar Spence, also the title of a song on his 2013 album “Hit Vibes.” In September, he released “Prom King,” his first album under that name. He’s touring behind “Prom King” now, with a show scheduled for 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Bishop. Tickets are available online at thebishopbar.com or at the door for $15 the day of the show. Though DeRobertis said he didn’t anticipate having to change his name
last year, he said the transition came at an appropriate time, as he moved from the sample-based music of “Hit Vibes” and his other early work to pop songs featuring his own singing and guitar playing. That musical shift also meant a change in Skylar Spence’s live performances, from DJ sets to shows with a full-band configuration. DeRobertis said he was initially nervous fans of his music wouldn’t be the types to go to concerts — especially considering his early work built on the foundation of vaporwave, a genre featuring looped, COURTESY PHOTO
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Ryan DeRobertis changed his stage name from Saint Pepsi to Skylar Spence after receiving a cease-and-desist notice from Pepsi.
Friends, mother of Bickford say attack was uncharacteristic By Annie Garau agarau@indiana.edu | @agarau6
Julie Frazier’s phone rang at about 8 p.m. Her son was in jail and needed $705 for bail. She was upset and surprised. Drinking too much and being aggressive? These things didn’t sound like Triceten. She couldn’t have imagined then, staying awake with her five dogs, that an even more upsetting call would come later in the night. It was Oct. 18, and her youngest child, Triceten Bickford, explained to her he had woken up on the floor of the drunk tank, he didn’t remember anything and police had told him he’d been in a fight. Julie called the court and was read the charges: Intimidation, public intoxication, strangulation, illegal consumption and possession of alcohol by a minor, two counts of misdemeanor battery and one count of felony-level battery. “Oh,” she remembers thinking. “This is some kind of fight.”
She arranged for the bail money to be paid and waited. At about 3 a.m. that same night, her phone rang again. “Mom,” Triceten was saying through tears. “There’s an article here, and it says that I did this. That I attacked this woman, and she was a Muslim, and that I tried to strangle her and all of these things.” Julie remembers the terror in her 19-year-old son’s voice as he stared at a mug shot he didn’t remember being taken. “I don’t remember any of this,” he said. “This can’t be me. They’ve got the wrong person. This can’t be me.” * * * In the following days, the details of the incident unfolded. Triceten, an IU sophomore, had been drunk, with a blood alcohol content of .195. He was walking down the street at about 7:30 p.m. when he allegedly began shouting racial slurs and “white power.” He grabbed a Muslim woman around the neck and shoved
her face into a table while her 9-yearold daughter watched helplessly. He threatened to kill the men who came to the woman’s rescue: her husband and a passerby. He tried to kick out the windows of the patrol car taking him to jail. He bit an officer’s calf. All of this was documented in police reports, witness accounts and news articles. What remained unclear was why any of this had happened in the first place. Triceten’s friends, Caleb Gardner and Drake White, had last seen Triceten at the tailgate. He had been drunk, they conceded, but not in a way that made them worry. The friends who grew up with Triceton in Fort Wayne, Indiana, described him as quiet and nerdy. He loves playing games like “World of Warcraft” and “Dungeons and Dragons.” In fact, as the officers placed the cuffs around his wrists, Triceten was supposed to have been with friends, playing the role of his character in “Warhammer 40K,” a science-fantasy war game. Before being expelled as a result
of the charges, Triceten had been a psychology major. He transferred from IUPUI this fall and still hasn’t figured out his way around Bloomington. He struggles with anxiety and attention deficit disorder and his mother said he had chosen his major so he might someday help people with the same problems. Caleb, an IU sophomore, said Triceten is the friend he always turns to when he needs someone to talk to. “You can just tell there’s no air of pretentiousness about him,” Gardner said. “Some people, you feel like they’re looking down on you when you talk about your problems. He truly cares and can always see your side of the story.” The friends said they were shocked to learn about the attack. The Triceten in the news couldn’t possibly be the same Triceten who was one of Bernie Sanders’ most loyal supporters, the Triceten who visited art museums just for fun, the Triceten who had dated a black girl and a Filipino girl, the Triceten who had sat next to the new kid on
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the bus who didn’t yet have any friends. Triceten doesn’t go out much, they said. He prefers staying in and reading, gaming or studying to maintain his straight A’s. White said Triceten is a great problem solver and loves fixing things, like the computers he builds. He wants to fix this too, they said. He’s working on writing the victim a letter. The friends made it clear the events of the day are sickening to them. They don’t support Triceten’s actions, they said, but they support Triceten. * * * Triceten’s initial hearing was waved by the judge. His lawyers are now preparing for the next stages of the process. They plan on pleading not guilty, one of Triceten’s lawyers, Amelia Lahn, said. SEE TRICETEN, PAGE 4
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