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Devin Jordan Smith, 21, was arrested Wednesday for the rape of a 19-year-old woman that occurred during a Halloween party in downtown Bloomington last fall. Bloomington police obtained a warrant for Smith’s arrest March 23. Smith turned himself in to the Marion County Jail on Wednesday and was transported and booked in to the Devin Smith Monroe County Jail, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joe Crider said. Around Nov. 1, 2015, the woman went to a Halloween party on the 300 block of North College Avenue. She reported being inappropriately touched and then sexually assaulted by an unknown male at the party, according to a police report. The assault ended when a friend of the female’s walked in, according to the report. Afterward, the man left the party. BPD detectives interviewed partygoers and the hosts of the party and pieced together information about the suspect based on Halloween costumes. After these interviews, the detectives determined Smith’s name. On or around Nov. 9, 2015, a photo lineup that included Smith’s photo was given to the victim. She named Smith as her rapist. The woman received a sexual assault examination kit, which resulted in DNA evidence. A DNA swab
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Amy Reader, left, and Jack Hagedorn practice an improvization game during a rehearsal leading up to the Campus Comedy Festival on Wednesday in Woodburn Hall. Reader and Hagedorn played the game called “Three Lines” as the rest of the Midnight Snack comedy group cast watched and laughed along. By Abigail Gipson
community, but we have a great comedy community for women,” Reader said. Emily Wertlieb has been a member of Backdoor Comedy, another improv troupe, for three years. She didn’t know a lot about improv when she joined, but she said she fell in love with it. There were more boys than girls at the auditions, she said, which made her feel a competitiveness she didn’t like. “I think when you’re a woman in comedy, a lot of times you have the mindset that there’s less opportunity,” she said. “You have to make yourself even more of a presence.” There’s more of a pressure to prove yourself as a woman in comedy, Wertlieb said.
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Members of campus improv troupe Midnight Snack Comedy stood in a circle and sang to the tune of “The Farmer in the Dell.” “The system is corrupt, the system is corrupt!” “‘Sesame Street’ is on HBO!” “The system is corrupt!” As they went around the circle, each member added a line. “Every human dies alone!” freshman Amy Reader said. “The system is corrupt!” Midnight Snack rehearsed and planned Monday night for the upcoming IU Campus Comedy Festival, starting with the warmup. The members invented it to get themselves listening to each other and thinking
COMEDY on their toes, Reader said. The group will perform both days of the Festival, but being on stage is just one part of the experience. Through IU’s comedy community, Reader said she’s met strong, funny and powerful women who have become her mentors. “Not only do we have a great comedy
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BASEBALL
Hoosiers hope start of Big Ten season brings better play By Zain Pyarali zpyarali@iu.edu | @ZainPyarali
The day after IU Coach Chris Lemonis called his teams performance “uninspired” following its first shutout loss of the season against Cincinnati, the lack of effort continued to show. However, the team caught a break. As IU trailed Evansville 15-0 entering the bottom of the fifth, lightning struck and the rain continued to pour. This forced the game to be canceled. Evansville was just three outs away from an official complete game, but instead all the statistics were reset and no game was recorded. During a week with two nonconference games that could have sprung the Hoosiers into Big Ten play, IU will now have to regroup. It has just one loss for the week to its credit, although it could have been a lot worse. “We’ve got to get a little tougher,” Lemonis said. “Everyone in college baseball has to do it, but unfortunately our group struggles with it a little bit being able to show up day in and day out.” IU scored 40 runs last week over the course of four games, but the struggles have been apparent during the most active week of the Hoosier season so far. Lemonis said the offensive consistency isn’t there and he questions some of the
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leaders on the team. After being shut out for the first time all season, IU was only able to scratch out one hit during four innings of the terminated game against Evansville. The Hoosiers will head to the East Coast this weekend for their first conference matchup of the season against Rutgers. Carrying a 4.55 team ERA this season, the Scarlet Knights are the ideal Big Ten opponent. IU hitters will seek more quality at-bats at the plate to produce inrun scoring situations. Lemonis talked extensively about the amount of opportunities IU had to score against Cincinnati, with a runner at second and no outs and runners at the corners with one out. But the Hoosiers failed to come through at the dish. “We had three or four opportunities early to score a run and we just don’t even come close to it, with the right people at the plate too,” Lemonis said. “That’s the hard part of being able to get a run or two.” The starting weekend rotation will also seek to recover in the conference opener this weekend after SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 5
Demolition, relocation will continue for Chocolate Moose By Melanie Metzman mmetzman@indiana.edu | @melanie_metzman
The Bloomington Historical Preservation Commission voted Thursday evening not to make The Chocolate Moose at 401 S. Walnut St. a historical landmark. The building will be demolished to make way for a four-story building. The Chocolate Moose would reopen in the new space, Justin Loveless, owner and operator of the ice cream store said. However, there is controversy around the development. The Chocolate Moose, previously named the Penguin, was built in the 1950s and reopened in 1983, could be considered historic based on the building’s history in the town. Loveless rents the building from landowner Doran May, who opened the Penguin. Despite the iconic location, past operational challenges with the building forced Loveless to consider alternate locations for the business, he said in a letter to the Bloomington Historic Preservation Commission. “This building, to be honest, is falling apart,” May said. “It’s served its purpose and it’s done well, but its time has come.” The fate of the Chocolate Moose was left to Loveless, May and the developers who want to buy the land. Loveless said he is in support of the development. “The Moose isn’t going anywhere,” Loveless said. “We’ll be
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Customers line up to order at Chocolate Moose on Thursday on South Walnut Street. The store will be demolished to make room for future developments.
part of the new space. I’m in support.” Construction would take place from December 2016 to April 2017, during the time the Chocolate Moose is already closed for winter, Loveless said. Cailey Doering, 20, has lived in Bloomington her entire life and worked at the store for three years. She said she is torn because she loves the Chocolate Moose, but understands why they want to develop the land. Doering said many customers have had a strong reaction to the news. “We’ve had a lot of people call in today asking if it’s really happening or not,” Doering said. “A lot of people I’ve talked to are really shocked.”
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“The Moose isn’t going anywhere. We’ll be part of the new space. I’m in support.” Justin Loveless, Chocolate Moose owner and operator
Ariel Adams said she has only lived in Bloomington for one and a half years, but she has seen how much the Chocolate Moose means to everyone who lives here, and she said it makes her sad to possibly see development happen. Bloomington resident Jessica Giem said she thinks knocking down the building is unacceptable. “No, no, no, no, no, no, no,”
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