MONDAY, AUG. 25, 2014
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Private sector creates 9,900 new jobs By Brian Seymour briseymo@indiana.edu | @briseymo
Just add salsa
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Top Seniors Taylor Walter, Thomas Garcia, Laura Luczak and Peter Bernardi taste the salsa and guacamole prepared by Nick’s English Hut owner, Gregg Rago, on Saturday at the 26th Annual Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market Salsa Contest. Bottom Bloomington resident Johnny Hernandez salsa dances with Barbara Leininger of Arthur Murray Dance Studio on Saturday at the salsa contest.
Bloomington Farmers’ Market names salsa contest winners By Audrey Perkins audperki@indiana.edu | @AudreyNLP
The smell of fresh-squeezed lime juice, tomatoes and garlic permeated Showers Plaza at City Hall. The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market was host to the city’s 26th annual salsa contest Saturday. Thirty salsas were entered into three categories, said Ellie Symes, a farmers’ market intern. The three categories were raw, cooked and specialty salsa. Each category had first through third place winners, announced at the end of the contest. Launching the contest was a salsa and guacamole demonstration by Nick’s English
Hut owner Gregg Rago. “Salsa does not need to be complicated,” he said. Rago said he is a regular at the salsa contest, but not as a contender. Word-of-mouth connected him to the contest organizers, and about 15 years ago he said he started getting involved in the contest as a demonstrator. Rago showed the audience how to make salsa and guacamole using fresh ingredients. “I do this quite a bit,” he said. Rago said he is lucky his restaurant is staffed well enough that he has the free time to come to the market for events like this. It was also helpful that he had a strong presence at the farmers’ market.
HOW DO I MAKE FRESH SALSA? Watch a video demonstration from Saturday’s contest by Nick’s English Hut owner Gregg Rago on idsnews.com. “I tend to be flamboyant,” he said. “People know who I am.” The main ingredients involved in the demonstration were beefsteak tomatoes, red onion, garlic, lime, salt, jalepeno and cilantro. However, people should not feel limited to those ingredients, he said. “There’s so much to enjoy,” Rago said. People could opt for a fruit salsa if they SEE SALSA, PAGE 6
Indiana added 9,900 private sector jobs in July, according to a news release from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. This is the second consecutive month in which Indiana has seen a large influx of jobs in the private sector. The state has added more than 66,300 jobs in the private sector in the last year and more than 244,000 since July 2009 when the state’s employment reached its lowest. Gains in the private sector, or the part of the economy run by individuals and companies for profit, came mainly from the manufacturing sector, which added about 5,500 jobs. Other sectors experiencing gains include trade, transportation and utilities, private educational and health services, construction and financial activities. Sectors seeing losses were professional and business services as well as leisure and hospitality. But despite a large influx in private sector jobs, unemployment in Indiana remained stagnant at 5.9 percent in July. “While the number of jobs is increasing, more people are being encouraged to enter the labor market,” economics professor Eric Leeper said. “The labor force is a ratio.” When you have an increase in the number of people searching for jobs and an increase in the number of jobs available, then the unemployment rate will see little to no change, Leeper said. Economically, Indiana is holding steady compared to the rest of the nation. Indiana sits 0.3 percent below the national unemployment rate of 6.2 percent. The state also ranks second in the Midwest, with a rate 0.2 percent higher than that of Ohio. Scott Sanders, commissioner of the Indiana Department of SEE JOBS, PAGE 6
Freshman class reflects focus on diversity in Strategic Plan By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma
A record-breaking group of first-year students heads to its first classes today. Making up this year’s class is 7,708 students, compared to last year’s 7,604. “We have a larger class because IU continues to be attractive,” said David Johnson, vice provost of enrollment management. A record 1,042 underrepresented minorities enrolled, marking the first time more than 1,000 underrepresented minorities have enrolled, reflecting progress toward Strategic Plan goals. The African-American and Hispanic populations experienced a particularly large boost, with a 7-percent increase and a 10-percent increase, respectively, according to the release. Additionally, 711 international students represent 41 countries and six continents, while domestic students come from 47 of 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, and 89 of 92 Indiana counties. Neither Idaho, Montana nor North Dakota, nor Warren, Fulton or Pulaski counties are represented. Fifty-seven percent of students are in-state domestic, 34 percent are out-of-state domestic and 9 percent are international, compared to last year’s 58
percent, 34 percent and 8 percent, respectively. A new team focused on diversity-oriented recruitment and a new position, filled by Khala Granville, focused on Indianapolis-based recruitment, were created for the increase in diversity, Johnson said. Johnson also attributed the increase to increased collaboration between the Office of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs and the Groups Scholars, Hudson and Holland and 21st Century Scholars programs. “IU is a global institution,” Johnson said. “It is not just a state or national, but an international institution. It is imperative that we have differing ideas and thoughts in the classroom. Opportunity for learning is greatly increased when we have a diverse student population. And it reflects the greater society of not just the state or the U.S. but of the world.” The increase in diversity reflects the University’s increased focus on diversity, particularly on the recruitment and enrollment of underrepresented minorities, found in the IU Bloomington Strategic Plan. “(Diversity) is part of the Strategic Plan because every group that worked on the Strategic Plan had a diversity component, and the provost is very interested in
ensuring that we provide appropriate focus there to really make good on our plans to enroll a very talented, yet diverse class,” Johnson said. “And it was a very collaborative approach.” This year’s class not only grew in numbers but in academic achievement, as well, with a higher median GPA. The class has a median high school GPA of 3.73, the highest in IU history and a slight jump from last year’s 3.72, and the second highest mean combined SAT/ACT score of 1215, a minor drop from last year’s 1217, according to a press release. In this year’s class, 33.3 percent were in the top 10 percent of their high school class, compared to last year’s 34.5 percent, and 26 percent of this year’s class were admitted directly into an academic program, compared to last year’s 25 percent. Students arriving with sophomore status make up 8.9 percent of the class, compared to last year’s 8.6 percent. “It’s recruitment, it’s scholarships, it’s the reputation of IU and then it’s the continued just being more selective as a selective institution, just becoming more selective with whom we’re able to admit and just having a much brighter applicant pool,” Johnson said.
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Sophomore goal keeper Colin Webb punches the ball up over the goal in the first half of Saturday’s game at Carroll High School in Fort Wayne.
Men’s soccer defeats No. 6 Washington By Andrew Vailliencourt availlie@indiana.edu | @AndrewVcourt
After falling to Xavier on Tuesday in the team’s first exhibition match, the IU men’s soccer team came back in a big way, toppling the No. 6 Washington Huskies 1-0. IU junior forward Femi HollingerJanzen scored the game’s lone goal in the 64th minute with an assist by sophomore midfielder Tanner Thompson. “The ball was played to Jamie Vollmer in the left corner,” HollingerJanzen said. “He did a great job of holding the defender off and played
it back to Tanner Thompson, who played a great ball in, and it was just a one foot touch in.” The game was played at Carroll High School in Fort Wayne, as a part of the ShinDigz National Soccer Festival. With a young team, consisting of 10 freshmen, IU Coach Todd Yeagley said the primary focus was evaluating the players on the roster. “The most important piece was figuring out what player options we have in a few spots,” Yeagley said. “One in particular was right back.” SEE SOCCER, PAGE 6