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Monday, May 23, 2016

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IU earns No. 3 seed for tourney From IDS reports

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Dick Rose and Alan Backler, far left and far right, give a tour of Friend's Place shelter during the Shalom Community Center open house to introduce the shelter to the public Sunday afternoon. Geoff McKim, center-left and member of the Monroe County Council, and Jean Capler, center-right and advocate for transgender rights in the Shalom Community Center, are both residents who said they hope the transition to the new shelter will help and rehabilitate those looking for residence in the future.

Funds for friends Open house introduces new emergency shelter to community By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma

Kimala Boyd has been staying at Friend’s Place since February. After four months, she and her son will move to an apartment in June. As of January 2015, nearly 6,000 homeless individuals lived across Indiana, according to the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority. Boyd and her son are two of nearly 350 who live in Monroe County. An open house Sunday afternoon introduced the new emergency shelter Friend’s Place to the surrounding community, which kicked off a $200,000

matching campaign. Martha’s House, Inc. was dissolved last June after losing its 501(c)(3) status, which put Martha’s House — the only nearby year-round, nonreligious, emergency shelter for homeless adults — at risk. Support and funding from the government, nonprofit agencies and concerned citizens kept the shelter open, according to a press release. Shalom Community Center, Inc. then accepted management of Martha’s House in January, renaming the shelter Friend’s Place. The open house Sunday afternoon kicked off the public phase of a matching campaign, with a goal of raising $200,000 by

Dec. 31, according to the release. Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association will then match up to $200,000. Though $80,000 has already been raised, another $120,000 is needed, according to the release. To help raise the additional $120,000, Shalom Community Center is sponsoring an adopt-abed program. It costs $12 per bed per night, according to the release. Because of the matching grant, a donor can therefore adopt a bed for a week for $42, a bed for 2 weeks for $84, a bed for a month for $182, all the beds for a night for $240, all the beds for a week for $1,680 or the entire shelter for a month for

$7,300. “I believe, and I think this community believes, that anyone could go homeless, and that we need a place where people can find the safety and security that they need until they get back on their feet,” said Forrest Gilmore, executive director of Shalom Community Center. “So I think this shelter says something about what this community believes in and stands for.” The $200,000 goal will fully fund the shelter through 2019, according to the release. During that time, Shalom Community Center will focus on building its SEE SHELTER, PAGE 7

The Hoosiers came to Lincoln, Nebraska, with a chance to win the Big Ten regular season title. They left Lincoln in third place after three losses. IU also only scored one run while being swept by Nebraska. This means IU will be the No. 3 seed in this week’s Big Ten Tournament, a tournament IU needs to win if it hopes to qualify for the NCAA Tournament since it ended the regular season ranked No. 93 in the RPI. The Hoosiers only managed 12 hits in the three-game series, with six coming in the series finale. Senior pitcher Kyle Hart started the opener Thursday night, going six innings and allowing three runs, all in the sixth. Those three runs would be all Nebraska needed. Junior outfielder Craig Dedelow provided the only Hoosier run with a solo home run to lead off the ninth inning. That would end up being the only Hoosier run of the weekend. IU now enters the Big Ten Tournament on a four-game losing streak. Hart will presumably start IU’s first game of the tournament Wednesday morning against Maryland. Hart is the Big Ten’s leader in wins with 10 and will likely go against Maryland’s junior pitcher Mike Shawaryn in the opening game of the tournament. After winning 13 games his sophomore season, Shawaryn has only managed to win five games this season. He does still have a 3.30 ERA, however. For the Hoosiers to win the Big Ten Tournament, they will need to win at least four games and as many as five. IU has had winning streaks of at least four games three times this season with the longest streak being eight games in early April. Michael Hughes Big Ten bracket, page 6 IU faces Maryland in Game 1 of the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday.

The Bee Corp. struggles to continue work on beehives From IDS reports

An IU club turned a business opportunity into a company that received $100,000 in funding. Winners of the 2015-16 Building Entrepreneurs in Software and Technology Competition, the Bee Corp. was one of the two companies IU invested $200,000. Student-led projects are annually praised at IU’s School of Informatics and Computing and the Kelley School of Business through a competition for student entrepreneurs, called BEST. These schools have marked $1 million invested in student-led projects throughout the past five years. The business leaders who fund the BEST competition are IU alumni and will receive a stake in the company. This competition is the largest award in the world offered just to students by a university, according to an IU press release. The founders of the Bee Corp. are Ellie Symes, Lucas Moehle and Simon Kuntz. These students are studying in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the IU Kelley School of Business. The students began the Beekeeping Club on campus which grew into a business idea. “We presented to the IU Foun-

dation about the Beekeeping Club, and some board members pulled me aside and said that there were some possibilities in the pollination market and that we should dream big and think beyond a club,” Symes said in a press release. “I went back to my team and said I thought it was something we could do.” The idea the students produced helps to develop technology that monitors internal hive conditions. The technology the Bee Corp. is making monitors the hive and its internal elements, according to an Indiana Public Media podcast,. Things like temperature, pesticide levels and pollen count are monitored. Receiving data such as this helps identify struggling hives. Though the group struggled with what ideas it wanted to make a reality, members continued to brainstorm. “We started spit balling ideas all over the place” Moehle said. Aside from developing monitoring technology, the company is collaborating with retired beekeepers and farmers who need bees to pollinate crops. The Bee Corp. plans to adopt 500 beehives from the retired beekeepers. Bees are important and SEE BEE CORP, PAGE 7

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Classical Connections is a university organization that pairs student musicians with homeless shelters, retirement homes, hospitals and other areas in the Bloomington community.

IU musicians play for underserved areas of Bloomington community By Allen Laman alaman@umail.iu.edu | @allen_laman

Junior Julia Bell sat with the children at the New Hope Family Center as the cello quartet played and told them to draw pictures of what they thought the music was about. She said she thinks they were mostly happy and sad faces, maybe some dancing stick figures and animals reflecting the tone of the clas-

sical piece being played. She was the MC of the performance that day, and so when the strings stopped she taught the kids about rhythm by making maracas and tambourines out of paper plates and cups. She was outside of the recital hall and away from professors and juries, engaging with a different audience in a different way. It wasn’t what she was used to, but she was

comfortable. “I liked it immediately,” Bell said. “There’s a little less pressure but you feel inclined to do well because your audience is so receptive.” Classical Connections is a university organization that pairs student musicians with homeless shelters, retirement homes, hospitals and other areas in the Bloomington SEE CLASSICAL, PAGE 7


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