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IU senior found dead
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IU student Robert Liu, 20, was found dead in New York, according to IU spokesperson Mark Land. Liu would have been a senior in the Kelley School of Business studying finance. Liu was from Columbus, Indiana, and was supposedly in New York for an internship, Land said. No foul play is suspected.
Five Hoosiers ready for NCAA Championship meet
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Daniel Kuhn warms up June 2 at the Billy Hayes Track. He will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships this weekend with five other IU athletes.
By Seth Tow stow@indiana.edu | @Ready_Seth_Go
For five Hoosiers, it all comes down to this weekend. IU is sending five athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Sophomore middle distance runner Daniel Kuhn qualified for nationals in the men’s 800-meter run. His 1:48.41 time at the East Regional meet put him in as the 16th seed for nationals. Kuhn set the second-fastest time in school history in the 800-meter run at the first outdoor meet of the season, the Pac-12 vs. Big Ten Invitational on March 26. The throwing squad will be well-represented in Eugene, as three throwers are competing in nationals for IU: senior Laura Schroeder and junior Nakel McClinton in the women’s hammer throw, and freshman Willie Morrison in the men’s shot put. Morrison said it’s a big deal to the team to have three throwers at nationals. “A lot of times during the season, we didn’t get a lot of exposure as the sprints and distance teams did,” Morrison said.
“So having three of us here is a big deal.” Schroeder and McClinton have excelled in the women’s hammer throw all season. McClinton set the high mark between the two, a 65.12-meter throw at the IU-Purdue dual meet that set a new school record, but Schroeder won the Big Ten title in the event. They now have an opportunity to go head-to-head one more time this season. Schroeder’s 62.58-meter throw at regionals gave her the seventh seed for nationals, and McClinton’s 58.88-meter throw gave her the 24th seed. Morrison has raised eyebrows with his performance this season in the men’s shot put. He has set new personal bests in three consecutive meets, with his 19.27 meter throw at regionals placing him second in school history in the shot put. He’s the first IU freshman to go to outdoor nationals in seven years, and the first freshman thrower to get to nationals since 1991. He is the seventh seed in the shot put. Morrison has high expectations for himself this weekend. He said he expects nothing short of a top-eight finish. He
added it’s exciting for him to be on such a high level as a freshman. “I’m looking forward to showing everyone that, even though I’m just a freshman, that I’m able to compete at these big levels,” Morrison said. After a less than ideal start to the outdoor season, senior pole vaulter Sydney Clute has come back and turned in some very strong performances. She won a conference title in record-breaking fashion, setting a school record, an Ed Weir facility record and a Big Ten Championships meet record with her 4.42-meter vault. She tied for first at regionals with a 4.25-meter vault, which seeded her seventh for nationals. Clute went to nationals during indoor season and didn’t perform up to her standards. She said she learned a lot from that experience and is excited for her shot at redemption this weekend. Clute is coming off some of her strongest performances of the season at regionals and Big Tens, which she said is big for her confidence at nationals. “It definitely gives me a lot of confidence having jumped some higher bars here recently,” Clute said.
Pence expresses renewed interest in pre-K funding From IDS reports
After rejecting millions of dollars in federal funding for Indiana’s pre-K programming, Gov. Mike Pence has come forward in favor of accepting a grant for Indiana’s first state-funded pre-kindergarten pilot program. “As governor of Indiana, I support access to quality pre-kindergarten education, and I am committed to opening the doors of opportunity to the most vulnerable children in our state,” Pence wrote in a June 2 letter to the United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. He addresses in the letter the 2014 legislation he signed that created On My Way Pre-K, a program that would dole out grants to underprivileged families with 4-year-old children to ensure they go to a good pre-kindergarten school. The program, he explains in the letter, will encourage parental SEE PRE-K, PAGE 4
Orientation to Orientation starts summer programs By Leo Smith js92@indiana.edu
At the IU Auditorium on June 6, a program called Orientation to Orientation was provided to participants with information about goals for the Office of First Year Experiences. Orientation to Orientation is an event which gives parents, faculty and students a preview of the events New Student Orientation will provide. Participants are also introduced to major key figures in the FYE, such as the OTeam memebers. OTeam members are students from IU. The 2016 summer freshman orientation runs June 8 to July 19. There are also fall and spring sessions. However, FYE anticipates the majority of their orientation participants to reserve a summer date. The program takes two days and is filled with numerous activities for incoming freshmen. “We will share with you what is maybe different, what is updated and some of our proud traditions,”
said Senior Associate Director of FYE Melanie Payne. Payne is also the Director of New Student Orientation. The event began with a checkin process similar to the New Student Orientation. The Orientation Team provided bags of materials, similar to those given to incoming freshmen. The participants were guided through much of the New Student Orientation program, highlighting some new features as well as traditional favorites. FYE is a division of IU that offers students their first IU experience through New Student Orientation. FYE guides students after orientation through IU traditions from the Freshman Induction Ceremony to Little 500. The office adds depth to a student’s academic study by providing information about events like “Trading Places” and “What’s Next for You at IU?” “We will also equip you with the logistics, the numbers and the details to make sure to provide a picture of new student orientation even to the most practical and SHIQI ZHANG | IDS
Jordan Spoor, a senior who studies elementary education, helps a parent sign in Monday afternoon at the IU Auditorium. She was SEE ORIENTATION, PAGE 4 one of the program leaders on the OTeam.
Portland comedian takes stage at Comedy Attic this weekend By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu | @grace_palmieri
It wasn’t until he opted to take an improvisation class at Portland State University that Ian Karmel discovered his passion for comedy. A political science major, Karmel needed a course to fulfill his arts credit, so he decided to take the improv class his uncle taught. “It felt like I’d been naked my whole life and finally put clothes on,” Karmel said. “I loved it immediately. It clicked.” His passion for improv developed into a career in stand-up, and now Karmel is known for his time
as a roundtable regular and writer on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” as well as a writer for the “Late Late Show with James Cordon.” Karmel, who performed at the Comedy Attic for the first time a year ago, returns this weekend for shows Friday and Saturday. He said he’s excited to come back to Bloomington, a crowd he said reminds him of those in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. “There are a handful of cities that are the perfect comedy cities: Portland, Austin, Madison, New York of course, Chicago. And Bloomington’s one of them,” he said. “It’s a joy to do stand-up there.”
Karmel left college to pursue a career in improv comedy but after moving to LA, he returned to Portland expecting the people there to be as excited about improv as he was. When they weren’t, he decided to switch to stand-up. “That clicked even more than improv did,” he said. Since then, he hasn’t gone more than five days without performing, he said. Karmel admits although it took him years to find comedy, he was the kind of kid who always craved attention. Rather than being the class clown, he was the one always trying
to make the teacher laugh, Karmel said. His first memory of being inspired by a comedian was when he was on a family vacation in Mexico at 14 years old. While there, he had a bad stomach illness for a few days and was badly sunburnt. So when his family went out to the beach, he stayed inside and watched the Eddie Izzard special “Dress to Kill.” Karmel called Izzard one of the best comedians he’s ever seen. “It changed me, watching that special,” he said. “I think that has been my biggest influence in comedy. He was whimsical and very funny, but he would be serious about
very silly things and silly about very serious things.” Even though it was still five years before it occurred to him he could be a stand-up comedian, that was first time Karmel saw someone whose brain worked the way his did, he said. Through comedy, especially through writing for the “Late Late Show,” Karmel has been able to meet some of his heroes. He worked with — and wrote a sketch for — Mel Brooks. “I will never do anything cooler than that,” he said. “That guy is like SEE COMEDIAN, PAGE 4