Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016

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Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016

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Armed man attacks Ohio State By Sarah Gardner gardnese@umail.iu.edu | @sarahhhgardner

A suspect in the incident at Ohio State University was killed after a campus lockdown lasting more than two hours, leaving students on campus unsure and on edge. Tweets issued from the Columbus Fire Department told students to find shelter and to “Run Hide Fight,” the standard protocol for active shooting situations encouraging people to first attempt to evacuate, take shelter if unable to evacuate and to fight as only a means of last resort. University officials issued a subsequent tweet saying: “Continue to shelter in place in north campus area. Follow directions of Police on scene.” Students in Ohio State’s Koffolt Lab watched out the window as police officers shot the suspect outside Watts Hall. At least 11 students are in the hospital. Classes at the school were canceled for the rest of the day. “We heard gunshots and ran to the windows to see officers shooting at the guy, and then he was just SEE OSU, PAGE 6

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Junior quarterback Zander Diamont runs the ball on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Diamont announced after the game that he will not return to football.

Zander Diamont will walk away from football on his own terms By Taylor Lehman trlehman@indiana.edu | @TaylorRLehman

There was one player IU Coach Kevin Wilson told to fall on the sword at the end of IU’s victory against Purdue — one player to run the ball backwards 27 yards and take a safety in an attempt to run out the clock. That player was junior backup quarterback Zander Diamont. He scrambled toward the endzone and was nearly caught by a defender before he crossed the line, draining 11 of the 12 seconds left on the clock to help seal IU’s fourth consecutive win against Purdue, 26-24. Diamont was part of three of those Old Oaken Bucket wins. However, just a week before Wilson called upon the veteran to close out the game, Diamont had told him he was walking away from the game after the season. “I was going to give 100 percent to the

“I think for my safety and for my future ... I need my brain.” Zander Diamont, junior backup quarterback

game and respect the game and play the way I wanted to and go out the way I wanted to,” Diamont said about his decision. “I think for my safety and for my future — I’m not going to the NFL — I need my brain.” Diamont doesn’t slide before he’s tackled like many quarterbacks, and he doesn’t step out of bounds. Instead, he goes for the extra yards. That playing style is something he said would never change. With the junior’s size — 6-foot-1 and a listed 174 pounds — he and Wilson knew that style couldn’t be sustained. It was a decision Diamont and his family had been discussing for a while, Wilson

said, and Wilson asked the junior after the regular season finale Saturday if he was sure about the decision. “He said, ‘Yeah, I took a few hits out there today, Coach,’” Wilson said. “He’s a small guy, and he plays with a lot of heart and a lot of courage.” Diamont was nearly an instant celebrity. Not for his passing — he boasted a 49-percent completion percentage and 837 passing yards in 14 games — but for his running, his distinctiveness, his passion. The Los Angeles native was a model in high school, and his dad was a soap opera star in the early 1990s. Despite his small frame, he played as if he were 10 feet tall. He jumped up to jaw with linebackers after a 4-yard gain. He laughed at potential NFL player and current Florida

Group seeks sanctuary campus Musical theatre class to stage performance status By Emily Miles

By Sanya Ali

elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta

siali@indiana.edu | @siali13

UndocuHoosier Alliance strategized for their sanctuary campus, church and city campaigns at a meeting Monday night, following a call to uphold and expand the Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by IU administration. Since 2012, DACA has provided deferred action for undocumented people who came to the United States as children, but the election of Donald Trump could threaten its existence. Alliance board members met with Provost Lauren Robel earlier in the day, learning the administration is reluctant to declare IU a sanctuary campus, which would protect undocumented students at the University, because they do not want to risk losing funding by defying the state. “One of the things the administration likes to say is that they will protect students to the limit of the law,” UHA President Willy Palomo said. “But a sanctuary campus really does stand within the limits of the law, if you’re looking at this memo.” The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo he referenced circulated in October 2011 and declared schools are protected from immigration enforcement. Still, UHA is one of about 200 groups around the U.S. trying to convince administrations to declare themselves sanctuary campuses. According to Palomo, more than 25 have succeeded so far. The push for a sanctuary campus, though, is not the only goal the growing UHA is working toward. Palomo said the administration has offered to advocate for the continuation of DACA status and for the equal treatment of such students for all educational programs. “If Provost Robel really means

Thursday is World AIDS Day, a day for unity in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The day supports those living with HIV or AIDS and commemorates those who have died to the illness. Professor George Pinney’s T300: Musical Theatre Workshop class will perform a specially devised dance performance in connection with World AIDS Day at noon Tuesday in the atrium of the Eskenazi Museum of Art. Pinney, who is the director, said the 20-minute performance titled “Rising from the Ashes” will invite students in the class to present a story of triumph against health obstacles and about four or five decades of the history surrounding HIV to audiences. “‘Rising from the Ashes’ is a devised musical theater piece that centers on basically how man overcomes incredible odds to live and how viruses invade us,” Pinney said. “This is obviously regarding the AIDS viruses but also connects with many different viruses in our world.” Abe Morris, manager of public relations and marketing for the museum, said the museum is happy to be the venue for the workshop class, which will highlight the

SEE HOOSIERS, PAGE 6

struggles and the hope surrounding AIDS. “We are looking forward to hosting IU’s Musical Theatre Workshop as they commemorate an important event in Worlds AIDS Week,” Morris said in an email. This is not the first event that connects the Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance to the museum, Morris said. “We have been lucky enough to collaborate with both IU Theatre and IU’s Contemporary Dance program on a number of events in the past,” Morris said. “We are excited that we can continue those partnerships with this event, and serve as a venue for some of our arts partners at the university.” The performance will be largely improvised, with each component being built up in front of the audience part by part, Pinney said. “It is very constructed improvisation,” Pinney said. “All of the music, all of the movement and dancing, will be improvised.” This sort of devised movement exercise is one Pinney said he has done with the workshop over the years, though this year is the first with this particular structured theme. “Over the past couple of years, we started elevating it to have more shape and form. Now we have a whole new take on it,” Pinney said.

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George Pinney, co-head of IU's Musical Theatre B.F.A. program and director of the performance "Rising from the Ashes," will lead his students in a music and dance piece Thursday as part of World AIDS Day.

Pinney said as part of his workshop he has always asked his students about their experience with HIV and whether or not they had known someone who had been affected by HIV or AIDS in their lives. Last year, Pinney said he had his first ever class in which none of the students had had a loved one die to AIDS. “I thought, ‘We are finally winning,’” Pinney said. “It becomes uniquely individual, and it’s the passion of the actors in the piece that make it so incredibly unique. It’s in commemoration of World

AIDS Day, and people should attend to be a part of this devised theater piece and hopefully be inspired by it.” There are two big ideas Pinney said he hopes come through during Tuesday’s performance. “One is communication — that people are aware of what is going on in the world and people can think globally about the world,” Pinney said. “The second is inspiration — that it inspires people to understand what other people have gone through and what we need to move forward.”

Indiana residents weigh in on Trump chief strategist By Melanie Metzman mmetzman@indiana.edu | @melanie_metzman

Rabbi Sue Silberberg watched a video of Richard B. Spencer, president of the alternative-right National Policy Institute, salute more than 200 attendees at the organization’s annual conference with a simple message. “Hail Trump, hail our victory,

hail our people!” Spencer said. Silberberg, the IU Hillel executive director, said her reaction to the chant was terror. Silberberg, along with other activist and minority groups, has been unsettled by the rise of alt-right groups such as the NPI and president-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Bannon as White House chief strategy officer and se-

nior counselor. Bannon served as CEO of the Trump campaign starting in August 2016. He also co-founded Breitbart News, the parent company of the alternative-right wing news site, with Andrew Breitbart. The alt-right movement is generally associated with efforts to preserve white identity and oppose multiculturalism. Some Breitbart

News headlines have read “Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy,” “How to talk about global warming with our crazy ISIS relative at Thanksgiving dinner” and “Read the scary descriptions of refugees by Idaho refugee agency.” Bannon became chief executive of Breitbart News after Breitbart’s SEE BANNON, PAGE 6


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