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City files lawsuit against Indiana’s governor From IDS reports
The City of Bloomington filed a lawsuit Wednesday that claims legislation passed by the Indiana General Assembly prohibiting annexation activities until 2022 is unconstitutional. The lawsuit names Governor Eric Holcomb as a defendant. Holcomb signed the legislation on April 27 after the General Assembly passed it
April 22. The General Assembly added the legislation as a last minute provision to the state’s budget bill. It terminates any annexations introduced after Dec. 31, 2016, and prohibits any new proposals until June 30, 2022. Bloomington is the only city verified to be affected by the provision, which is what prompted the lawsuit against the state.
According to a press release from the City of Bloomington, the lawsuit targets Bloomington and only Bloomington. It cites Article IV, Section 23 of Indiana’s Constitution, which states there can be no “special legislation” that singles out individual communities. In addition, Article IV, Section 19 of Indiana’s Constitution requires legislation to cover a single subject.
The city argues the annexation provision does not relate to state funding and administration covered in the rest of the state’s budget bill. “We believe the state’s action is illegal and sets a dangerous precedent,” Mayor John Hamilton said in a press release. “Without the court’s ruling in our favor, every local government in Indiana could have legal processes capriciously terminated
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by state level officials.” Hamilton has requested a meeting with Holcomb regarding the provision and will meet with local leaders in the meantime, according to the press release. There was no estimation of how long the lawsuit could take to be decided. Alison Graham
IU to play at Seton Hall next season From IDS reports
princess so far has been working at Riley. “We got to go to Promingdales at Riley and we got to help out cancer patients pick out dresses and tuxes and other jewelry to wear to their prom,” Cole said. “It was a moment where they were able to be normal kids like everybody else. That was such a cool thing to be a part of and help them with.” She has also participated in the parade and the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon. On the eve of the race Saturday, she was attend Breakfast at the Brickyard and the Snakepit Ball. Through the course of her time
IU will play at Seton Hall in the 2017 Gavitt Games, IU announced Wednesday in a press release. The game will be played November 15, 2017, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. It will be televised on a Fox Network Platform. The Gavitt Games is an annual eight-game series between teams from the Big East conference and the Big Ten conference. The games are named for Dave Gavitt, the first commissioner of the Big East who was instrumental in the founding of the conference. He also was a coach at Providence College. This game will be another earlyseason test for the Hoosiers. In the non-conference season, IU will play three ACC Teams. After playing a home game in the Big-Ten ACC Challenge last season, IU will likely play a road game in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge. The Hoosiers will also play at Louisville on December 9 and against Notre Dame on December 16 in the Crossroads Classic in Indianapolis. IU is 2-1 all-time against Seton Hall. The Pirates won a Sweet Sixteen matchup over the Hoosiers in 1989 and the Hoosiers won the next two matchups in 1992 and 1998 Seton Hall made the NCAA Tournament last season for the second consecutive season. The Pirates earned a number-nine seed and lost in the First Round to Arkansas. Seton Hall is led by senior center Angel Delgado, who withdrew his name from the NBA Draft on Monday. Delgado averaged 15.2 points per game last season and was top in the nation with 13.1 rebounds per game. He tallied 27 double-doubles, just behind Purdue’s Caleb Swanigan who had 28 last season. The Pirates also will return senior guard Khadeen Carrington who averaged 17.1 points per game last season. Also returning include senior forward Desi Rodriguez who scored 15.7 points per game last season and sophomore guard Myles Powell, who scored 10.7 points per game last season. The Hoosiers have only played one game in the Gavitt Games, winning in 2015 against Creighton 86-65.
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Big Ten baseball continues in Bloomington as Hoosiers face elimination, pg. 4 MICHAEL WILLIAMS | IDS
The Hoosiers watch the final outs of the ninth inning from the dugout on Wednesday as Minnesota secures a 5-4 victory in game one of the Big Ten Tournament.
IU grad to take part in Indianapolis 500 By Andrew Hussey aphussey@indiana.edu | @thehussnetwork
Katherine Cole grew up around race cars. Her family was into racing and passed that passion down to her. As a kid, Cole raced and began attending the Indianapolis 500 with her father when she was 11. Her love of racing pushed her to want to become part of the Indianapolis 500 Festival Princess Program, where she had the opportunity to give back to her comKatherine munity and get an Cole up-close experience of the race she grew up going to see. The recent graduate of IU went through the lengthy process of becoming a princess and said she was thrilled to become one of 33 chosen to be a princess this year. “I love the race,” Cole said. “I love everything about it. We’ve always been involved with the Indi-
anapolis 500. So, it was super cool to be a part of it now in this way.” The 500 Festival Princess Program was founded in 1959 to celebrate Indiana’s civically-minded and academically driven young women. Each princess participates in a variety of events leading up to the Indianapolis 500, volunteering at all 500 Festival events. Cole is one of five IU princesses this year. Her interest in the program started in 2016 when two of her friends were princesses and she thought it was right up her alley. She applied to become a princess in January and went through the two-day interview process. Hundreds of young women were chosen to be interviewed, but Cole was one of 66 who were chosen for the last set of interviews with the panel. “I was so excited,” Cole said. “The second interview day, the third and final interview, they take 66, so I was excited to even make it to that. That was kind of
“My main thing was to spread the word to young girls that they can be princesses and race car drivers. They’re not limited to being beauty queens. The 500 festival has nothing to do with beauty.” Katherine Cole, Indy 500 Festival princess
my goal because this was my first time applying.” When she found out she made it, she told her mom and cried happy tears. She wanted to make a difference as a princess. “My main thing was to spread the word to young girls that they can be princesses and race car drivers,” Cole said. “They’re not limited to being beauty queens. The 500 Festival has nothing to do with beauty.” Each princess must schedule her own community outreach and she chose to help kids at Riley Children’s Hospital. Cole, who is also a figure skater, has donated her time and skills to teach kids how to figure skate for free. Her favorite part of being a
IU research shows limitations of gene editing system By Alison Graham akgraham@indiana.edu | @alisonkgraham
When a revolutionary gene editing system called CRISPR was revealed in 2013, researchers couldn’t help imagining the incredible possibilities it could bring — wiping out diseases before they could spread or creating crops that could breed better than ever before. The gene editing system allows scientists to target specific genes, making it easy to take out different parts of the genome and replace them with whatever CRISPR was designed to create. One immediate idea for many scientists was using CRISPR to stop the spread of malaria, a disease that affects three billion people globally. Theoretically, scientists could take a mosquito’s DNA and change the gene that allows the insect to carry that disease. By releasing lab-edited mosquitos into the wild and breeding them with mosquitos already living in nature, they could create a new generation of mosquitos without the ability to host malaria. The actual execution of this idea was far off and required more research, but it was still in the realm of possibility. But new research from IU biologists show that it may be even further off. Michael Wade, distinguished
professor of biology at IU, published a study May 19 in the journal of Science Advances. The paper outlines a genetic and mathematical analysis that shows naturally occurring variations in genes found in the wild would essentially stop CRISPR in its tracks. The study focused four varieties of flour beetles. The beetles came from four parts of the world — India, Spain, Peru and Indiana. The team designed CRISPR mechanisms to see how they would react with naturally-occuring gene variations found in the beetles. The results showed that in all four species and in every DNA segment, there were genetic variations that would prevent CRISPR from spreading and controlling the population after a certain number of generations. This means that to control a population, scientists would have to create different mechanisms for every type of genetic variation. It’s a costly endeavor that would take time, energy and money to implement. And that’s if it works. Variations can be both genetic and behavioral. For instance, mosquitos tend to inbreed, meaning they don’t mate with insects outside of their group.
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Michael Wade, distinguished professor of biology, recently published a study that revealed the limitations of the gene-editing system, CRISPR. Natural gene Variations in Wild Populations could prevent the system from working as well as researchers SEE GENE EDITING, PAGE 10 previously thought.