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City hiring staff for parks By Hannah Reed hanreed@indiana.edu | @hannahreed13

PHOTO BY ALISON GRAHAM | IDS

NPR brought their mobile recording studio to Bloomington to record residents this month. All recordings will be archived in the Library of Congress.

Bloomington residents will have the chance to record their stories as part of an oral history project. By Alison Graham | akgraham@indiana.edu | @alisonkgraham

hey say listening is an act of love. Morgan Feigal-Stickles saw it firsthand when he recorded an interview with his grandmother, Marmie in 2013. She was 94 at the time. He said he learned things about her he had never known before — like how Marmie’s mother knew she was pregnant with her first child even before she did. Marmie died about a year after the interview. But her words and stories were enshrined in an archive in the Library of Congress. Feigal-Stickles recorded Marmie through StoryCorps, an oral history project through

National Public Radio and where he works as the mobile tour site manager. A few months after Marmie’s death, FeigalStickles visited Washington D.C. He walked past the towering marble columns and the volumes of history in the Library of Congress to a computer where he pulled up Marmie’s interview. “Listening to Marmie’s voice and realizing that she’s going to be there for generations was amazing,” he said. “It really struck home the power of this project.” StoryCorps collects recordings of conversations between two people to show what life is like in the United States today. So far, the project has collected about 70,000 interviews

from people around the country, all of which have been archived at the Library of Congress. The project operates a mobile recording studio that travels from city to city to help people record their stories. This month’s stop: Bloomington. The trailer rolled into town this week and has officially begun recording interviews and conversations between Bloomington residents. Angelo Pizzo, director of the movie “Hoosiers”, and former congressman Lee Hamilton were the first two interviews May 25. For the next month, the booth will be SEE RECORD, PAGE 8

While walking down Kirkwood Avenue, the homeless can be seen in the park or on the sides of the street. Some hold signs asking those passing by for help. A new Bloomington program aims to help these residents earn money while helping keep the city clean. The city’s Parks and Recreation Department is collaborating with Centerstone to create a program to employ people who are homeless or in unstable homes. Those in the pilot program will be hired to clean up some of the downtown parks in Bloomington. According to their website, Centerstone is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit providers of community-based behavioral health care. They offer a full range of mental health services, substance abuse treatment and intellectual and developmental disabilities services. Paula McDevitt, an administrator at Bloomington Parks and Recreation, said in a City of Bloomington press release that Centerstone has been engaging in conversation with the Downtown Outreach Group since early 2016. McDevitt said the idea for the parks and maintenance pilot program came about during a conference with a small group of parks directors from across the country SEE CLEAN, PAGE 8

BASEBALL

Hoosiers earn two-seed in NCAA Lexington regional From IDS reports

IU is headed to the NCAA Tournament once again. The Hoosiers made the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in five seasons, earning a two seed in the Lexington Regional as an atlarge selection. The Hoosiers were one of 33 teams that earned a bid as an atlarge team. This is the Hoosiers’ seventh NCAA Tournament bid of all time, making the tournament only in 1949, 1996, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Coach Chris Lemonis has now made the regional two times in his first three years, a first in IU history. The Big Ten had five teams selected to the tournament, the fourth most of any conference. Iowa earned an automatic berth by winning the Big Ten Tournament. The other three conference teams to make the tournament were Maryland, Michigan and Nebraska. The NCAA Tournament

consists of 64-teams placed in 16, four team regionals. The numberone seeds all get to host the regional, which is double-elimination. The winner of each regional advances to the super-regional. Each superregional is a best-of-three series. The winner of each superregional advances to the College Baseball World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting June 17. The College World Series begins as a double-elimination tournament with two brackets of four-team pods. The winner of each bracket advances to a three-game series to decide the national championship. The tournament begins Friday as IU takes on NC State at 7 p.m. in Lexington, Kentucky. The Wolfpack made the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season and they have won 14 out of 17 games. NC State has been a staple in the NCAA Tournament, making the tournament 13 out of the last 15 years.

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The Hoosiers walk off the field after congratulating the Golden Gophers on their 9-8 win Friday night. Minnesota made a late SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 8 comeback and eliminated IU from the Big Ten Tournament.

Husband and wife duo Slingshot Dakota play The Void By Clark Gudas ckgudas@umail.iu.edu | @This_isnt_clark

Under ceiling-strung Christmas lights, Carly Comando and Tom Patterson of Slingshot Dakota took the stage to the tune of “That One Night” from the TV show “The Office.” The crowd applauded and sang along. Then, Slingshot Dakota played. The power-pop duo from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, performed at The Void on Tuesday as part of its Midwestern “Little Sebastour.” They played alongside fellow punk-pop bands Petal, Idle Era and Spacer. Slingshot Dakota is comprised of singer and keyboardist Carly

Comando and drummer Tom Patterson, who are married and have been performing as a pop-punk drum and keyboard duo since 2003. This isn’t the first time Slingshot Dakota has played Bloomington. Its most recent appearance was at Amy’s Winehouse back in March of this year. Comando expressed her appreciation for the Bloomington community as well as DIY venues like The Void and what they do for communities. “It’s so great to see young people have a space to come together,” Comando said. Before taking the stage as Slingshot Dakota, Comando and Patter-

son backed Petal’s singer and guitarist Kiley Lotz for a performance of her song “Heaven.” It’s about finding comfort in friends and family, Lotz said. “That’s something Tom and Carly have given to me.” Lotz also noted how much she appreciated venues like The Void. “There’s something wonderful about building communities,” Lotz said. In between songs, the trio sang “5000 Candles in the Wind” from the television show “Parks and Rec,” which laments the death of the band’s idol miniature horse, Li’l Sebastian. Then Comando and Patterson performed as Slingshot Dakota.

Slingshot Dakota started with “Paycheck” before Comando and Patterson headbanged to the synthesized, upbeat “You.” The crowd bopped along as Patterson’s long, wavy hair and tie-dye shirt fluttered in the fan. The band played songs from its first album “Their Dreams Are Dead, but Ours Is the Golden Ghost!” from 2007 all the way to “Broken,” an album released in February that included tracks recorded alongside its 2016 album “Break.” As the night wound down, Comando said how the volunteers of The Void, the patrons and the bands all make its events and music possible.

“When you put a lot of energy and focus into something, it’s going to come back at you,” Comando said. “I just want to thank you for existing.” Slingshot Dakota’s final song, “Grudge,” is an “ode to all of my experiences in which I have been written off, ignored, spoken over, steamrolled and treated unfairly because of my gender,” Comando said in a press release from Topshelf Records. When they performed that song, the keyboard, vocals and drums hit hard and loud enough that the grating protecting their speakers flew from it’s position and slammed to the ground, to the surprise and excitement of the audience.


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