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game averaging over 20 points per game. Alston finished with 27 points and Mitchell had 25. They were two of five Buckeyes who scored in double figures. Mitchell is just a freshman. Moren called her and Alston a two-headed monster. “I think if the draft was today, they’d both be the first and second draft pick, I really do,” Moren said. “I think they’re that good.” Offensively, the Hoosiers shot just 28 percent from the field
More than a week after police aimed their guns at her 16-year-old son in a high school parking lot, Tracee Lutes is still trying to put the pieces together. There’s so much that’s still unclear about that afternoon, she said. But what is clear is that it started with what law enforcement officials refer to as a “high-risk traffic stop.” Her son, Evan, summed it up in a tweet: “Starting my year off by getting pulled over by 8 cops, being hand cuffed, and being at gun point ... #FreeLutes.” Evan was on his way to basketball practice at Bloomington High School South on New Year’s Day. It was after an “abrupt” turn into a neighborhood when Sgt. Chad Lierschran the plate number, 726HAL, on the black 2005 Buick Rainier, according to the deputy report. The return on the number indicated that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Gary. As Liersch followed the vehicle, arriving in the high school parking lot, dispatch informed him that they, too, believed the vehicle was stolen when the plate information was fed to a police database. “He was under the impression this driver was trying to evade him,” Monroe County Sheriff Brad Swain said. Due to the apparent nature of the stop, with Liersch believing the vehicle was stolen, he requested backup and proceeded to carry out a high-risk traffic stop, according to the report. A high-risk traffic stop, also known as a felony traffic stop, is when the responding officer has concern that the driver or occupants of the vehicle have committed a serious crime. A simple Internet search on a high-risk traffic stop bears images of scenarios depicting drivers with their hands in the air, some even on their knees or lying face down, and police with weapons at the ready. Moments later, another officer arrived on the scene, according to the report. And then eventually seven more. In a high-risk traffic stop, it’s protocol that each officer has his or her gun drawn, Swain said. Evan Lutes was asked to remove the keys from the ignition, place them on the roof of the car and show his hands through the window. The deputies realized their mistake as the 16-year-old stood in handcuffs — the vehicle had not been stolen, and here stood a high school sophomore in handcuffs and at gunpoint. As far as the manner in which the high-risk stop was carried out, Swain said he took no issue, referring to the protocol as being executed “flawlessly” and that Evan was cooperative from the beginning. Evan’s mother, Tracee, was also called to the scene. “There was a tremendous amount of upset, as any parent would be, with what took place,” Swain said. “I talked with them and said what I’m going to do from a training standpoint and policy standpoint. We are using this event as a teaching method (and)
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Freshman guard Tyra Buss drops the ball after being fouled by a pressuring Ohio State defense during the Hoosiers’ game Thursday at Assembly Hall. IU lost 103-49 and will play its next home game against Wisconsin on Saturday.
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Buckeye blowout Ohio State duo too much for IU in 54-point beatdown By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu | @grace_palmieri
You have to be able to hang your hat on something. That was IU Coach Teri Moren’s message to her team the first day she got to Bloomington. From that moment on, she’s tried to make that “something” defense. She wants defense to turn into offense; when shots aren’t falling, Moren said defense should be something they can fall back on. Now, 15 games into the season,
she is still trying to make the concept stick. The IU defense was no problem for Ohio State in a 103-49 IU loss Thursday night at Assembly Hall. Moren saw the same problems that she had in a loss to Purdue earlier in the week. “At some point this team has to understand, and I, as the leader of this group, has to keep hammering away at them that we’re going to have nights like this,” Moren said. “And that’s when you’re going to have to rely on your defense.”
Ohio State started the game on a 21-2 run. That quickly turned into a 44-14 lead for the Buckeyes and by halftime the Hoosiers trailed 49-17. Moren’s message to her team at halftime was to start the second half like the game was 0-0. But in games – against Purdue and Rutgers – where the Hoosiers have dug themselves a hole, they’ve struggled to come back. Defensively, the Hoosiers couldn’t contain Ohio State duo Kelsey Mitchell and Ameryst Alston, who both entered the
Indianapolis emcee Sirius Blvck Vice president of research to perform at the Bishop on Friday to step down in order to
take a year-long sabbatical
By Adam Smith adbsmith@indiana.edu | @adbsmithIU
By Alyson Malinger
Sirius Blvck, an emcee from Indianapolis, will be performing at the Bishop Friday. Playing with him is a diverse crowd from indie rock bands to a disc jockey. Oreo Jones is a fellow emcee from Indianapolis who has collaborated with Sirius Blvck many times. Nightcap is a band who also come from the Indianapolis area. Niquolas Askren, the man behind the Sirius Blvck image, said he wanted to add some local music to the show and the Bloomingtonbased band, Birdbath, was recommended to him. DJ Littletown from Indianapolis will also be performing. Askren said his experiences performing in Bloomington have all been good. He said he expects nothing less this time around. “I try and give a lot of energy and put on a good show,” Askren said. “People like to see that you’re having fun. If you’re having fun, they’ll have fun.” On Dec. 15, Sirius Blvck released the last installment in a trilogy of mixtapes produced by Los Angeles producer Bones of Ghosts. Askren
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Emcee Sirius Blvck will perform on Friday at the Bishop. Blvck is an emcee from Indianapolis.
said he was introduced to the producer when he found one of his instrumental mixtapes on a blog. He said they started sending messages back and forth and making music together nearly three years ago. This most recent mixtape, “Light in the Attic,” takes its name from the Shel Silverstein poem of the same title. Since meeting Silverstein at the age of 9, Askren said the poet was one of his biggest influences grow-
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ing up and writing his own poetry. “I just kind of wanted to pay homage to that, you know, that spark you have when you’re a child,” he said. Askren said he tried to make the SEE BLVCK, PAGE 10
On Dec. 19, IU announced Jorge Jose, vice president of research, will step down in July once his five-year term ends. Jose intends to take a year-long sabbatical focusing on his research in the field of neuroscience. Following this research, he will return to IU and serve as a Rudy professor of physics at IU-Bloomington and a member of the department of cellular and integrative physiology at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis. “One of the main benefits of joining IU was my appointment with both the physics program and the medical school, allowing me to form collaborations across campuses,” Jose said. According to a press release from IU, President Michael McRobbie has yet to appoint someone to succeed Jose but intends to find someone soon within the beginning of the new year. Since his start in August 2010, Jose has brought a variety of research programs and administered
an 18-percent increase in federallyfunded research by IU faculty members. His research overall helped mold IU’s bicentennial strategic priorities approved by the IU Board of Trustees at the end of 2014. Prior to his time at IU, Jose worked a five-year term at the University of Buffalo as vice president for research. Although the titles were one in the same, the position entailed a completely different work load, almost incomparable to Jose’s work at IU. “Each university has a very different DNA,” Jose said. “I served 23,000 students on Buffalo’s campus and a total of 110,000 students in all of IU’s campuses.” Jose looks at both experiences as rewarding but sees his time at IU as having a more powerful impact through his contributions in his work. As the vice president of research Jose is in charge of an array of responsibilities that relate to the research efforts of IU as a whole. He is responsible for, and oversees all research and creative activities SEE RESEARCH, PAGE 10