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Evolve, CitySide dealing with delays By Alex Hardgrave ahardgra@iu.edu | @a_hardgrave
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Sophomore Will Eltzroth sits in a designated usher seat in the back of the IU Cinema. Eltzroth set a record for the most volunteer shifts at the cinema since its opening in 2011, numbering 81 shifts in one year.
Usher sets record at IU Cinema By Annie Aguiar aguiara@iu.edu | @annabelaguiar
Will Eltzroth knows how to usher. It’s the know-how honed over the course of 81 shifts volunteering at IU Cinema as a freshman, the most of any usher that year. Eltzroth, 19 and a sophomore studying media production, will receive a nameplate in his honor on a seat of his choice in the theater. The job is in the details — perfecting the proper ticket-tearing technique while maintaining eye contact with the customer, switching back and forth between watching the film and the audience on the hunt for a stray phone screen, making sure to prepare for rainy days so his usher’s uniform is impeccable. “Since you’re wearing the white shirt, you need an umbrella otherwise you can’t usher because then your nips are showing,” he said. “I was always really good about that.” Every year, the cinema awards the usher with the highest amount of shifts with a permanent nameplate on one of the theater seats. With his 81 shifts, Eltzroth didn’t just have the most shifts of his year — he’s set a record for the most ever in a single year since the cinema opened in 2011. Last
year’s honoree, 2017 graduate Mary Mitchell, was recognized for 54. He didn’t even know he had done something worthy of an award until friends starting texting him congratulations. “They were like ‘congrats for the award,’” he said, “and I was like, ‘what award?’” He started signing up in bulk for 10 and 20 shifts at a time, which isn’t that unusual for ushers at the beginning of the year said Jessica Davis Tagg, the cinema’s assistant director of events, facilities and guest services. “It was less shocking that he signed up, it was that he kept doing it,” she said. “Will is phenomenal.” With every volunteer shift, Eltzroth received a free ticket voucher. “I never ended up using any of them. Whenever I wanted to see a movie I would just usher for it,” he said. He estimates that at his peak ticket hoarding, he had around 70 tickets at one time. It all started with a hat. On a visit to IU before his freshman year, his father went into the IU Cinema on a whim and met Jon Vickers, the cinema’s founding director. Eltzroth says Vickers gave his father a black baseball hat with the cinema’s name in white
on the front. “Which was groundbreaking because then I had to get an IU Cinema hat,” Eltzroth said. “I was hoping if I ushered enough, they would kind of be like ‘oh man you’re a great usher, have a hat. You earned it.’”
“Since you’re wearing the white shirt, you need an umbrella, otherwise you can’t usher because then your nips are showing. I was always really good about that.” Will Eltzroth, IU Cinema usher
He actually did receive the hat in recognition of his sixtieth shift in February, but accidentally left it at his house in Crown Point before moving back down for his sophomore year — he sounds annoyed with himself when he says it’s still on his bedroom lamp: “Oh, dude, don’t even ask.” Neither snow nor rain nor any other weather condition stopped Eltzroth from ushering. He walked to every single one of his shifts with only one exception — he got a ride from a friend when “Mississippi Masala” came to the
cinema in the middle of a blizzard. Eltzroth, who wants to be a writer-director, said there’s no feeling like watching a good movie. He wants to make movies that give the audience goosebumps, the kind of offbeat films he spent his freshman year watching at the cinema, like space-western musical “American Astronaut” or Brazilian werewolf flick “Good Manners.” “It’s kind of like seeing someone’s brain splatter on paper,” he said. “There’s books and there’s paintings, but film is, in my opinion, the most transparent way to show what you’re thinking and convey what you want to say.” He said he plans to put his dad’s name on the seat because he didn’t want to put his own and he couldn’t think of any appropriate movie quotes. He’s not sure which seat he’s going to choose — maybe one of the designated seats for ushers in the back of the theater where he spent so many nights. For those wanting to volunteer, IU Cinema is recruiting ushers and has a callout meeting planned for Aug. 21. Eltzroth, however, wants to take a step back from volunteering and instead visit the cinema as an audience member. Maybe he’ll even get around to using some of those vouchers.
VOLLEYBALL
Hoosiers look for strong start to season By Stefan Krajisnik stefkraj@iu.edu | @skrajisnik3
Part of IU volleyball’s weekend itinerary for its opening trip to Las Vegas is live shows and team dinners. The Hoosiers will be on the road for their opening 11 games of the season, with the first three coming at the UNLV Invitational this weekend. However, first things first for the team — the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “All my attention is based on the next person that we play,” Coach Steve Aird said. “I told them I understand there’s a lot of lights and glitter in Vegas, and there’s a lot of distractions, but bad teams get distracted. Good teams take care of business and then have fun.” Two of IU’s opponents this weekend — UNLV and Long Island University Brooklyn — are
Students who signed leases for Evolve apartments and CitySide apartments were unable to move in on their promised lease dates. It is uncertain when they will be able to. According to an email sent from Evolve to residents Aug. 18 obtained by the IDS, the move-in date has been changed to Aug. 21 in order to ensure safety of residents. The original move-in date was Aug.17. Evolve is giving displaced students two options for alternative housing and compensation until the new move-in date. Students can either take advantage of the housing provided at SpringHill Suites and receive $60 a day or find their own housing and receive a daily rent credit and $120 a day. Additionally, if a student planned on parking with Evolve they are getting back one sum of $50. Evolve Apartments could not be reached for comment. The CitySide Apartments, which are owned by Cedarview Management, are also behind in finishing. This has resulted in about 70 IU students unable to move in on their scheduled date. Suzanne O’Connell, vice president of Real Estate for Cedarview Management, said the North Tower is completed and students are moved in, but the South Tower is still incomplete. The students with CitySide are currently placed at the Hyatt Place for free. “The lease agreement does say that if we are delayed in occupancy that we would provide alternative accommodations, and so that is what the Hyatt is doing,” O’Connell said. She said the students also get breakfast at the Hyatt and a $30 food voucher every day. There is no set date yet on when the students at CitySide will be able to move in, but O’Connell said they will move in phases. Move-in will be near the end of August or early September. People living on the fourth floor, which is the top of the building, may have to wait until mid September. “This week I should have a better idea because we did do a lot of work over the weekend,” she said. “We’ve been working multiple shifts seven days a week to get the building completed.” The company had problems with utility companies not meeting deadlines to have work completed at the beginning of the project. “We have built a brand new building every single year since 2004 and we have never had a delayed move in until this year,” she said. She said Cedarview was told they would have the plans back to start the project by September or October of 2017, but they did not receive them until December. She mentioned Duke Energy specifically. “Duke Energy has met with the developer to listen to his concerns,” said Lew Middleton, Duke Energy Communications Consultant. “We were able to work through his operational concerns regarding the apartments.” Evolve residents were not notified of this delay at first, said Rene Rylander, a parent whose son, sophomore Ryan Ditmanson, signed a lease with Evolve.
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Then-junior Samantha Fogg dives to return the ball against Penn State on Oct. 21, 2017, in University Gym. IU opens its 2018 season this weekend in Las Vegas.
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