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IU opens season against Kansas By Zain Pyarali zpyarali@iu.edu | @ZainPyarali
A top-tier college basketball matchup is on tap 2,500 miles off the mainland as No. 11 IU takes on No. 3 Kansas in Honolulu in the State Farm Armed Forces Classic to start the regular season. While both teams enter with high expectations for the upcoming season, neither coach feels like his team has found its identity. IU Coach Tom Crean has talked tirelessly about how his team hasn’t been able to implement as much of the offense as he’d like at this point in the season, but battling the Jayhawks will help the Hoosiers as they move forward. “I’m not big on measuring-stick games,” Crean said. “But I think when you play against Kansas you’re going to learn a lot about where you’re at going into the rest of the month and into December when you play a team like that this early.” The Jayhawks may have the edge in the backcourt with senior guard Frank Mason III and junior guard Devonte Graham, but the Hoosiers appear to have the upper hand in the frontcourt. The tandem of sophomore forwards Thomas Bryant and OG Anunoby has the potential to get the Jayhawks into foul trouble down low and force Kansas Coach Bill Self to motion to his bench early. Kansas fifth-year senior center Landen Lucas will be marked with the task of stopping Bryant down low. Lucas has the experience and size to stop Bryant, but beyond Lucas the Jayhawks don’t have much experience in the frontcourt. The best bet off the bench for Kansas to limit Bryant would be 7-foot freshman Udoka Azubuike. The 17-year-old from Delta, Nigeria, has shown flashes of greatness early for Kansas but is still a raw player on both ends of the floor. He fouled out in just eight minutes in the first exhibition game and picked up three SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 6
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An IU professor’s months of work to resettle refugees in the City of Bloomington isn’t done yet. EMILY MILES | IDS
Professor Elizabeth Dunn stands for a photograph. She helped Bloomington earn zoning to resettle refugees from Syria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Refugee Question By Emily Miles elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta
Anyone peering from an Indiana Memorial Union window Sept. 28 could have seen Professor Elizabeth Cullen Dunn dancing. On her way to a talk, she received word that the State Department had approved Bloomington as a resettlement site for about 60 Syrian and Congolese refugees — in the middle of a state where the governor attempted to ban those very people. She called fellow members of the Bloomington Refugee Support Network and sent a Canvas message to students in the I304: Refugees and Displaced People service-learning class. “We are now moving into Phase II — getting ready for our new neighbors to arrive!” the message read. “Your help will be so important as we get ready.” Her inbox exploded, and she never made it to the talk. That day was like redemption, the chance to do something she has wanted so badly for more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork. With the help of her students and the community, she could make a difference. * * * A few days later, just before a Bloomington Refugee Support Network meeting, Dunn’s adopted cats Omar, Zorro and Squid — just three of the creatures to whom Dunn has given refuge — lazed about her home. It was the red brick home where 5 a.m. pulls her out of bed, where she works a while before her adopted son Aaron — one of 15 foster children Dunn has housed over the years — wakes up. It was the place to which she returns after taking Aaron to school, eight hours of classes and meetings and trying to make it to the gym. It was where she chats with her son while making dinner, supervises his homework and finally gets to her own work — grading and planning and editing her book, which the publisher wants by the end of the year. It was where she finally melts in front of the TV. Sometimes she falls asleep fully dressed, with all the lights on.
But it was not that time yet, and Dunn had a meeting to attend. Aaron asked if she would pack her recurve bow to the library for protection from the grassroots conservatives. She did not. They are not bad people, she said. They are just afraid. And that fear, she said, will dissipate when the new neighbors join the community. * * * Dunn scanned the meeting room, bright blue eyes behind subtle brown glasses. Three Bloomington Police Department officers skirted the walls. Any woman in a cotton dress or man in a pastel polo could throw the first punch and launch another scuffle, like the one that rocked a similar public forum on refugee resettlement the month before. The adversaries’ nametags did not identify them as grassroots conservatives, but generally that’s what they were. One of Dunn’s students, Courtney Veneri, shifted her slim frame from left to right at the head of the room. She had just slipped in from helping a classmate collect names and emails from those entering the night’s resource meeting and public forum. The chair of the support network, Diane Legomsky, clasped her hands. She had first approached Dunn just after the Paris bombings, explaining how she and others at Congregation Beth Shalom had formed a committee to help refugees. They wanted her help. Nine months of help later, there were no more chairs in the Monroe County Public Library meeting room. Legomsky instructed the library room to divide into their preferred subcommittees. Bodies wormed around each other like goop in a lava lamp and eventually settled. Dunn buzzed toward the table dedicated to community education. Before Dunn could sit, she had been nominated the committee chair. Dunn’s students and members of her Wednesday morning refugee-focused reading group — which Dunn hopes is the beginning of IU Refugee Studies — gravitated toward the table. Reverends and SEE REFUGEE, PAGE 6
10th World’s Fare and Market Gathering offers unity to collaborate with IU Late Nite to campus after election By Jesse Naranjo jlnaranj@indiana.edu | @jesselnaranjo
The Indiana Memorial Union’s Alumni Hall will be transformed into an international bazaar Friday night for the 10th anniversary of IU World’s Fare and Night Market, a collaboration between the Office of International Services and Union Board. “It’s a great chance for both domestic and international students,” IU junior Josh Thomas said. “It provides a great opportunity for them to learn about these different cultures, interact with different students that they pass every day on campus and learn about where they come from.” The event will feature 25 booths representing international student organizations across campus and be followed by the Night Market, which is a collaboration between the normal IU Late Nite programming and the World’s Fare. Thomas is director of the spirit and traditions committee on Union Board. He said Union Board is instrumental in conducting World’s Fare every year. He said the access it has to areas of
the Union such as Alumni Hall and the Solarium and joint social media marketing are key when planning events with other offices on campus. Allison LeClere, a graduate assistant in the Office of International Services, said Union Board is what helps the event get off the ground and running. “Each year we get about 1,500 students and community members who stop by,” LeClere said. “This year we’re hoping to get even more, so it’s going to be a really big event, especially since we’re partnering with IU Late Nite.” LeClere said she thinks World’s Fare provides international students with means not only to teach others about their culture but also understand how the campus as a whole respects diversity. “Considering recent events, I think it’s important now more than ever to show international students how much they mean to our campus and how much we value them,” LeClere said. She said a difference between this event and previous World’s Fares is an absence of food at
each individual booth. This was done intentionally. “College students love food, so they’ll come, eat food and then kind of leave,” LeClere said. This year, visitors to the event will be provided with a program, on the back of which contains a small passport page. LeClere said when people visit each booth, they can get a stamp from the country that booth is representing. The stamps are redeemable for food, which will be in a separate room. According to iStart, IU’s resource website for international students, there are more than 6,000 international students on the Bloomington campus alone. They account for more than onetenth of the population. Thomas, who just won reelection to Union Board, said the face-to-face interactions that visitors to the World’s Fare will experience can generate positive dialogue about different cultures. “I really hope people come away from this event feeling more connected to the world around them and the different places and cultures that are represented on this campus,” Thomas said.
By Kate McNeal khmcneal@umail.iu.edu | @katemcneal11
For the second night in a row, a crowd began to gather in the Fine Arts Plaza. Students held signs Thursday night including one that said “LOVE TRUMPS HATE.” A rally by the same name had occurred in the same place the day before. One girl, with a patch of rainbow stripes painted on her cheek, held a sign that read “and still, like dust, we will rise.” A group of students from the UndocuHoosier Alliance stood at the front of the crowd. The group is asking IU to declare itself as a sanctuary campus to protect undocumented students from deportation. One of their signs said “Sanctuary Campus Now.” Only one word was written on the road around Showalter Fountain: LOVE. Students, faculty and community members were invited by the dean of students to a Unity Gathering in the Fine Arts Plaza. Lori Reesor, dean of students, sent an email to all students inviting them to the event, which included speakers Provost
Lauren Robel, Vice President James Wimbush and student leaders. Robel said she has been trying to make sense of the last few days and think about the future, and there has been one thing going through her head. “We are one IU,” Robel said. “We believe in the intrinsic dignity and worth of all members of our community. We believe past our differences, past our disagreements on positions, but we don’t disagree on our common humanity. We are all IU, every one of us, full stock, no exceptions.” IU has a culture of care, is committed to diversity and inclusion and is a great place to be, Wimbush said. “I know that over the last couple of days, there are those who have felt some happiness,” Wimbush said. “For me, it’s been sadness — a deep, internal sadness.” Wimbush recited a Negro spiritual from his youth he said he remembered when he woke up. “I feel like going on, I feel like going on,” Wimbush said. “Though trials may come on every side, I feel like going on.” Before Steven Johnson, president SEE UNITY, PAGE 6