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Transgender policies unclear after Trump tweets By Emily Eckelbarger eaeckelb@umail.iu.edu | @emeckelbarger
Aimes Dobbins logged onto Facebook around noon on Wednesday. Their timeline was dominated by a single story: President Donald Trump had tweeted that transgender people would no longer be allowed to serve in the U.S. Dobbins, an IU senior who identifies as a trans-masculine nonbinary
person, said they felt frightened by Trump’s announcement and what the future could entail. “I’m afraid this is just the beginning of the scapegoating and the pointing fingers and the saying ‘you’re not worthy, you’re a burden,’” they said. “It’s absolutely terrifying.” In a series of tweets Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted, “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot
be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.” Trump’s tweets come more than a year after policies were changed under the Obama administration to allow transgender people to openly serve in the military in January 2016. But transgender people have served in the military as far back as the Civil War, said John Summerlot,
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IU’s Director of Veteran Support Services. Transgender people are also one and half to three times more likely than cis people to serve in the military. “Most of the people in the military are the same age as college students,” he said. “So they’re realizing things about their lives and themselves. It’s their first time away from home and they’re able to explore those things in ways that you don’t
get to when you’re younger.” About 150,000 transgender people have served in the military to date, he said. In his tweets, Trump mentioned the tremendous costs that transgender people entail. However, most of the military medical costs are on the Veteran Affairs end, not on the Department of Defense, which handles SEE TRUMP, PAGE 8
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Post Malone and others to perform at 2017 IU Block Party From IDS reports
New and returning students will again be welcomed back to campus with an outdoor concert, the lineup for which was announced Wednesday. RL Grime, Post Malone, 2 Cents and Niko Flores will perform 9 p.m. Aug. 19 at the 13th and Fee streets parking lot as part of the 2017 IU Block Party. Presale tickets for freshmen will be available at 10 a.m. Aug. 1 for $25. All other IU-Bloomington students can expect to pay $35 in advance starting Aug. 14 or $45 on Aug. 19. This year’s Block Party, which coincides with IU’s Welcome Week, leans heavily on EDM and rap music. RL Grime, an EDM artist who has produced remixes for Chief Keef, Jamie Lidell and Shlohmo, will headline. He’s released two singles this year — “Reims” and “Stay For It,” which features R&B star Miguel — and his second studio album, “Nova,” is forthcoming. Los Angeles rapper and singer Post Malone, who will take the stage before RL Grime, gained moderate attention in 2015 when his debut single “White Iverson” attracted millions of listens on SoundCloud. Republic Records signed him shortly after and, in 2016, released his debut album “Stoney,” which has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. That same year, Post Malone toured with Justin Beiber for his “Purpose” tour. Post Malone released a remix of “Congratulations” in June featuring Future and Migos’ Quavo. Preceding Post Malone is DJ duo SEE PARTY, PAGE 8
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Time to adapt IU’s running back position open after Camion Patrick’s medical hardship By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @TaylorRLehman
CHICAGO — While senior running back Camion Patrick was nursing a lingering shoulder injury in the spring, IU Coach Tom Allen put running backs coach Mike Hart’s 2008 NFL Combine numbers on the board under a pseudonym. He told Hart and the other running backs the player who owned those numbers was coming to camp in the summer — a tenth of a second slower than former Hoosier Tevin Coleman in 2015 and four and 12 inches shorter than former IU running back Jordan Howard’s respective vertical leap and broad jump. Even Hart was critical of the numbers he had forgotten were his. Those numbers belonged to the running back who placed fifth in Heisman votes in 2006 and went
“There was something special about [Hart]. It was his toughness. There were some skillset things that he did well, but he wasn’t going to outrun a lot of guys. But he was obviously a great, great football player.” Tom Allen, IU football coach
down as one of the greatest Big Ten running backs of all time. The lesson, Allen said, was that Hart didn’t walk onto the field possessing more talent than everyone else, but he left Michigan as the program’s all-time leading rusher. And as Patrick was granted a medical hardship, ending his collegiate football career, the lesson applies more than ever
to the IU backfield that lost its anticipated 2017 workhorse. “There was something special about him,” Allen said about Hart. “It was his toughness. There were some skillset things that he did well, but he wasn’t going to outrun a lot of guys. But he was obviously a great, great football player. It was a valuable lesson, for that position and others, to say this is what we’re looking for. Why was Mike Hart such a great player?” Allen and the coaching staff was worried about Patrick. Allen said the running back’s shoulder was not healing right as offseason camps continued into the summer, and he hadn’t practiced at all. This was the guy that was supposed to walk onto the field with more talent than everyone else, a gift even Hart didn’t have. SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 8
2017 IU BLOCK PARTY Tickets $35-45 9 p.m. Saturday, August 19
Steve Jobs electro-acoustic opera coming to IU next fall By Clark Gudas ckgudas@indiana.edu | @This_isnt_Clark
The legacy that started in a garage is now coming to the stage. “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” an electro-acoustic opera co-produced by the Jacobs School of Music and the Santa Fe Opera, is set to makes its IU debut in September 2018. Written by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell, the opera follows the life of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs from his time as a counterculture hippie to technology mogul. “Jobs’ search for inner peace is the story of the opera, which, in a sentence, is about a man who learns to be human again,” Bates said on his blog. Bates took a poetic, energetic and nonlinear approach to creating the opera so as to reflect Jobs’s personality and psyche, Bates said in an interview with NPR.
The work is anchored with musical numbers and a single question, “How can you simplify human communication when people are so messy?” Bates said on his blog. Personal relationships and technological revolution are also explored in the opera. Each character’s personality is represented by a diverse musical style — Jobs’s is buzzing and energetic, while his wife Laurene’s is pensive. Even set design is representative of Jobs’s work with Apple. Projection mapping, which uses sensors attached to stage units to allow projected video to move with a dynamic set, is used in the opera. “We wanted to integrate it seamlessly into the design because that’s what Steve Jobs and Apple did with the products themselves,” Opera Director Kevin Newbury said in an interview with NPR. The work debuted at the Santa Fe Opera on July 22, and will be performed there throughout August. The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs “features a stage where film projections can move with the scenery.”
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