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Thomas Bryant coming back

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IU fans will be able to watch Thomas Bryant in Bloomington for at least one more season. IU announced Thursday the freshman center will choose not to test his NBA Draft stock. Bryant’s decision comes in the face of the new rules allowing potential prospects to declare for the draft, not sign an agent and still come back to school. Bryant chose simply to remain a Hoosier. “Being a part of IU basketball is special, and I’m excited to continue my development as a person and as a basketball player under Coach Crean,” Bryant said. “The bond I have with my teammates and coaches is strong. Our plan is to continue to work hard and build off of the many great things we did last year and add to the tradition here.” Last season, Bryant was a thirdteam All-Big Ten selection after averaging 11.9 points and 5.8 rebounds a game. In the NCAA Tournament, Bryant averaged 14.7 points a game while helping the Hoosiers reach the Sweet 16. Another Hoosier whose future is still undetermined is junior forward Troy Williams, who has still not announced whether he’s retuning to IU or will test his draft stock using the new rules. Michael Hughes Next season, page 7 Read our column on why Bryant’s return could make IU one of the best teams in the country next season.

Complaint filed in light of controversial abortion bill From IDS reports

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky is demanding a federal court halt implementation of Indiana’s controversial abortion law. The group filed a formal complaint with the United States District Court Southern District of Indiana regarding the law Thursday with assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are challenging House Enrolled Act 1337 on the basis it is unconstitutional and violates women’s rights. “The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed that a woman, not the state, is to determine whether or not to obtain an abortion,” said Ken Falk, legal director for ACLU of Indiana, in a Planned Parenthood press release. “The State of Indiana’s attempt to invade a woman’s privacy and to control her decision in this regard is unprecedented and unconstitutional.” The law outlines several provisions on abortion in Indiana. It requires physicians to tell the woman seeking an abortion human life begins when a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm and prevents a woman from getting an abortion solely because of the fetus’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having a diagnosis of a disability. The law mandates fetal remains must be disposed of through burial or cremation. Women must also wait 18 hours after a mandatory ultrasound before having an abortion. The law’s prohibition on abortions for specific reasons such as sex and race creates an undue burden on the right to obtain an abortion and violates the 14th Amendment, according to the complaint. It also violates the patient and physician’s First Amendment rights because “the government cannot compel persons to provide patently unconstitutional information,” according to the complaint. The formal complaint also says treating the fetal tissue differently from other medical material during disposal is irrational and violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection and due process. The law is another attempt by Gov. Mike Pence to end access to safe, legal abortions, Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, said in an ACLU press release. “We make sure women receive SEE LAWSUIT, PAGE 6

Reported to a campus official or administration

Did not report the incident to anyone

Each person represents two students that experienced two or more nonconsensual contacts since coming to IU SOURCE IU SEXUAL ASSAULT CLIMATE SURVEY GRAPHICS BY HARLEY WILTSEY | IDS

COST OF CULTURE IU chooses to put funding toward sexual assault prevention and programming

By Lyndsay Jones

Gauging the IU assault response

jonesly@indiana.edu | @lyndsayjonesy

The money going into curbing sexual assault is seen in the fliers and T-shirts during Culture of Care Week, the student leaders circling a table on a Tuesday night and the colorful posters tacked at eye level in bathroom stalls. It’s about $200,000 worth of work, done in response to survey results published by IU last fall. Seventeen percent of undergraduate female and 6 percent of graduate female participants reported surviving attempted or completed nonconsensual sex while at IU, according to IU’s Sexual Assault Climate Survey. Most men and women who experienced sexual assault told their friends. Some told family. Less than 10 percent of undergraduate women reported their sexual assault to IU police or administration. On paper, changing the culture of condoning sexual assault is a huge effort on IU’s part. Most of the money comes from an annual grant from the state of Indiana. A small amount comes from a fee students opt to pay while scheduling classes. There are just a couple of people in charge of deciding the who, what, where and how much involved in these funding allocation decisions that define IU’s prevention and programming. An intro to funding “There’s different pockets of funding,” IU Assistant Dean for Women’s and Gender Affairs Leslie Fasone said. This year, IU will allocate at least $200,000 for sexual assault prevention programming, Fasone said. The majority of the money —

Students who reported experiencing sexual assault and reported the assault to IU generally received little help Graduate women ANDREW WILLIAMS | IDS

The Title IX Sexual Assault Task Force discusses planning the upcoming Sexual Assault Awareness month in April during their March meeting. The task force plans prevention events to target Kilroy’s on Kirkwood, residence halls and various forms of social media.

Share your story If you are a survivor of sexual assault at IU, we want to hear from you. To share your story with us, email campus@idsnews.com.

14.3% 14.3% 28.6% 42.9%

Undergraduate women $195,000 — comes from a grant from the Indiana State Department of Health. Fasone said the money would go to sexual violence prevention programming and support for students and staff. Last year, the Office of the Provost provided more than $35,000 to fund both the Sexual Assault Climate Survey, published in October 2015, and the printing and placement of bathroom posters, Fasone said. The University received the same grant from the ISDH last year, but it totaled $165,000. The Division of Student Affairs chose to put the money toward an Indiana “It’s On Us” conference, a planning session targeting underrepresented student groups. “We spoke with about 50 students who told us what they wanted SEE MONEY, PAGE 6

9% 11.4%

34.7%

26.5%

18.4% Did not help me at all Helped me a little Helped me, but could have helped more Helped me a lot Not reported in survey SOURCE IU SEXUAL ASSAULT CLIMATE SURVEY

Opera presents classic musical ‘Oklahoma!’ By Maia Rabenold mrabenol@indiana.edu | @maialyra

The soundtrack of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” was the first soundtrack of a Broadway musical to be recorded and distributed on vinyl, in 1943. Second-year master’s student Emily Dyer plays leading lady Laurey Williams in the IU Opera and Ballet Theater’s production of “Oklahoma!” She said the soundtrack was her grandparents’ generation’s pop culture. Dyer said IU’s production brings out her character’s strengths, unlike previous productions that portrayed Laurey Williams as immature. Laurey is able to keep her strong, self-sufficient nature while still allowing herself to fall in love. “It was one of the very first American musicals to become prominent because it was dealing with things like obsession and sexual awakening,” Dyer said. “It also has a strong female lead, which people hadn’t really experienced until the time it was written. Now that it’s standard rep, it still carries with it those undertones of being new.” The musical remains a classic with an original-Broadway run of more than 2,000 shows after more than 50 years since its creation. Mitchell Jones, who plays Laurey’s love interest, Curly McLain, said this is due to the characters it portrays. “It comes right after this very melodramatic style of Italian opera,

DEONNA WEATHERLY | IDS

Chad Singer’s character, Will Parker, center, begins a musical number during the dress rehearsal of “Oklahoma!” on Tuesday at the Musical Arts Center. Along with the ensemble, Singer polished his song in the musical for the soon to come audience.

and you can see the tail end of that era of music in parts of this, but they brought it back down to earth by picking a bunch of everyday people in Oklahoma to write a musical about,” Jones said. “It’s not about famous people. It’s about everyday people who are feeling things that are important.” Jones said the audience won’t be able to leave the show without humming at least five of the songs. Stage director Gabriel Barre said almost every song in the score is iconic in musical theater. The music has a swagger that evokes the Midwest, he said.

“They captured the flavor and essence of the environment beautifully in the music,” Barre said. “You can sense the trotting horses in the song ‘Surrey.’ You can feel the wide open plains in that classic song ‘Oklahoma.’ They have a way of tapping into the essence of what these people and places were about.” The dance numbers that accompany the music add classic Rodgers-and-Hammerstein flair, but a 12-minute ballet section shows the duo’s willingness to break the Broadway rules, Barre said. Seven Jacobs ballet students dance in the “dream ballet,” where

“OKLAHOMA!” Tickets $20-$40 7:30 p.m. April 8-9 2 p.m. April 10 7:30 p.m. April 15-16 the Musical Arts Center Laurey confronts her Freudian fears of the two men in her life, Jud and Curly, Barre said. Laurey’s psychological journey and sexual awakening parallel the state of America in 1906. “Lands like Indiana and OklaSEE OKLAHOMA, PAGE 6


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