Thursday, July 14, 2016
IDS
A REMINDER ABOUT BLACK LIVES W E M AT T E R. PAGE 3
Indiana Daily Student | idsnews.com
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Local returns as a walk-on From IDS reports
PHOTO BY SCOTT TENEFRANCIA | IDS
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump address the crowd after Pence introduces Trump to the stage during a rally Tuesday evening in Westfield, Indiana.
A POTENTIAL PAIR Mike Pence makes appearance at rally days before Donald Trump’s final decision By Emily Ernsberger emelerns@indiana.edu | @emilyernsberger
Team Make America Great Again is done with auditions for its next member. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was host to a rally Tuesday in Westfield, Indiana, finishing a series of rallies around the nation before
the Republican National Convention next week. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, one of Trump’s potential choices for vice president, was present. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Pence are the lead contenders for Trump’s vice presidential choices. Trump has rallied with each of them during the last
week. A spokesperson for the Pence campaign said Tuesday prior to the rally Pence was focused on his gubernatorial reelection, and the position had not been offered to or accepted by Pence. If Trump wants Pence to be his running mate, he must decide so
Stay up to date, idsnews.com The IDS will continue to update coverage online through Trump’s decision of who to pick for his VP. More election coverage, page 2 Evan Bayh recently announced his candidacy for the remaining U.S. Senate seat for Indiana.
IU gained an unexpected member to its roster Tuesday with a name familiar to Bloomington residents. Johnny Jager, a former basketball player at Bloomington High School South, announced on Instagram he would be returning Johnny home, enrolling at Jager IU and walking on to IU Coach Tom Crean’s team. Jager had just finished his freshman season at Wabash College, where he was studying biology and playing for the basketball team, which competes in Division III. In his one season at Wabash, Jager started in all 26 games at point guard and averaged 15 points a game to go along with 5.5 assists. He also shot 39.6 percent from the floor and 35.6 percent from behind the arc. Those stats earned Jager an honorable mention for the All-North Coast Athletic conference team. At Bloomington South, Jager started at point guard and averaged 13.2 points to go along with 5.1 assists and 2.1 steals, ending with the Bloomington Herald-Times naming Jager the Area Player of the Year. Jager will join Zach McRoberts, a 2014 Indiana All-Star, as walk-ons joining next year’s basketball team. Jager also said in his Instagram post his return to Bloomington will not only allow him to play for his hometown team, but also to start preparing for his new desired career — coaching.
SEE TRUMP, PAGE 5 Michael Hughes
Lotus World Music & Arts Festival lineup announced From IDS reports
The lineup for the 2016 Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, which takes place annually in Bloomington, was announced this week. More than 30 international artists will visit Bloomington Sept. 15-18 for the 23rd annual festival, according to a press release. Lotus, which lasts four days, will fill eight downtown venues with music from 20 countries. Artists from Zimbabwe, Israel, Ghana, Sudan, Argentina, Ethiopia, Finland, Hungary, Mongolia and more will be represented. The music ranges from Finnish folk music and classical Indian sarod, to reggae and east African afro-pop. Festival passes and one-day tickets are being sold beginning Aug. 1. Lotus, which was established in 1994, is one of the oldest world music festivals in the country and the only one of its kind in Indiana. It attracts more than 12,000
“Our mission is to create opportunities to experience, celebrate and explore the diversity of the world’s cultures through music and the arts.” Lotus World Music and Arts Festival mission statement
people to Bloomington each fall. According to a press release, Lotus creates — on a grand scale — the rare opportunity for audiences to experience places far removed from their everyday routines and to broaden their worldview through the arts.” Lotus Fest is put on by Lotus Education & Arts Foundation, whose mission is to “create opportunities to experience, celebrate and explore the diversity of the world’s cultures through music and the arts.” SEE LOTUS, PAGE 5
IDS FILE PHOTO
Backing vocalist Moira Smiley, lead singer Merrill Garbus and backing vocalist Haley Dekle (left to right) from tUnE-yArDs perform during Lotus Festival on Sept. 26, 2015, at the Sixth Street Tent. Smiley is an IU alumna and received a degree from the Jacobs School of Music.
IU history professors weigh in on recent police violence By Alessandro Tomich atomich@indiana.edu
With a new week comes a new set of citizens killed in the land of the free and the home of the brave. On July 5, Alton Sterling was shot in the chest in Louisiana at pointblank range while subdued by two police officers. On July 6, Philando Castile was shot multiple times by another officer after being pulled over. In response to the two shootings, Micah Johnson shot 12 police officers and two civilians in Dallas, killing five. Carl Weinberg, adjunct associate professor in the Department of History, whose research interests include labor history, and modern social and political history, said, “Despite it going on for hundreds of years, what’s changed with po-
lice brutality in the last couple of years is that it’s become more visible.” Since George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal of the murder of Trayvon Martin, Weinberg said the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement has finally propelled the subject of police brutality into the forefront of the national discussion. “The professional police force arose out of the intense battles with the labor movement in the late 19th century,” he said. “They are not policing corporate boardrooms,” where especially in the financial industry, reside the white-collar criminals who commit some of the biggest racketeering in the United States, whose actions sometimes go unpunished, as in the case of the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.
Though police officers around the country undoubtedly put their lives on the line every day to deter crime and maintain order, Weinberg made it clear that historically, they have only targeted certain types of criminals. “They have acted as an institution to keep working-class people in line, regardless of what their skin color is,” he said. Amrita Myers, associate professor of the Department of History, whose research interests include the study of black women, African-American history and 19th century U.S. history, views the situation differently than Weinberg. “This is not about good apples and bad apples,” she said. “I think this is about a bad apple barrel. In the colonies, police forces were created as slave-patrols, and to protect white people’s ownership
of slaves.” Myers said because of this fact, our judicial and police systems are inherently built on white supremacy. After watching the video of Castile’s murder, she called last week “one of the most difficult weeks I have experienced as an adult.” Myers said she could not bring herself to go to work or sleep and devoted two days to mourning, crying and praying because of the news. “Cops don’t give suspects the chance to defend themselves because they’re dead,” she said. Myers condemns all forms of violence and said police officers go through training in order to deescalate situations, arrest suspects and allow the judicial system to charge them with the appropriate
“This is not about good apples and bad apples. I think this is about a bad apple barrel.” Amrita Myers, associate professor of the Department of History
sentence. “This is not a system that is adhering to even the basic premises of the protections of the Constitution,” she said, as police officers simultaneously act as “judge, jury, and executioner,” often without repercussions. “I truly hope, from the bottom of my heart, that nobody you love becomes a victim of police brutality,” Myers said. “What I don’t want is for them to have to go through something like that in order to be woken up.”