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Friends remember Joseph Smedley one year after death By Emily Miles elmiles@iu.edu | @EmilyLenetta
After the words ended and before the silence began, those who had filled the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall spilled onto the dim plaza just outside. They lit candles for every black life, but this moment of illumination belonged especially to Joseph Smedley. A year has passed since the IU
student was reported missing and later found dead. Through invisibility, controversy, grief and healing, a community came together Wednesday night for Our Black Lives Matter: In Remembrance of Joseph Smedley. “We’re still here,” Joseph’s sister Vivianne Smedley said. “We still care about Joseph. And although some of the other students at IU might have moved on, we haven’t, and we’re still seeking justice for
him because we just don’t feel like it got the attention it deserved.” Vivianne and the IU Black Graduate Student Association joined efforts to organize the memorial and Black Lives Matter event. “Black Lives Matter, as a concept and as a movement, is not specifically and only about black victims of police brutality,” BGSA President Andrea Sterling said. “It’s what the name is, black lives
mattering and the lack of care given when black people go missing or are hurt in various ways. I don’t have the words for it, for that feeling, but it is that feeling that your existence does not matter.” Sterling said it was that lack of care, the invisible side of a hypervisibility-invisibility dichotomy, that motivated her and others to grieve, remember and look forward together. “It was this period where we
Woman reports rape attempt
were kind of existing in these different worlds, where there was this great population of students who had high anxiety levels and weren’t sure whether they should be grieving or what,” Sterling said of last fall. “And then you had administrators and faculty and some students who seemed like they had no idea what was going on.” Vivianne said she was so conSEE SMEDLEY, PAGE 6
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A woman was woken up at approximately 4 a.m. Tuesday as a friend attempted to have sex with her at her home near Henderson Court on the south side of Bloomington. The male friend had been over earlier and had been drinking with the woman and her husband. When she woke up, the woman screamed, and the male friend fled from the home without raping her. At the time, the woman’s husband was sleeping on the couch in the apartment while the woman was in her bedroom. The husband and wife then went to the Bloomington police station at 6:50 a.m. and filed a report. BPD Lt. Brad Seifers said after the report was filed the police took her to the hospital for a rape kit.
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Student arrested on multiple charges
Students and locals met at Peoples Park to discuss police discrimination against the homeless, page 4.
From IDS Reports
An IU student was arrested Tuesday night on charges of possession of a stolen gun and dealing marijuana, among lesser charges, after officers searched a car parked outside Forest Quad, according to an IU Police Department release. Jason Nguyen, 18, faces a felony charge for possessing the gun, two misdemeanors for dealing marijuana and possessing a handgun without a license, a misdemeanor for possession of 34 grams of marijuana, and a misdemeanor for illegal possession of alcohol. Foot patrol officers approached the car after they smelled marijuana. They found the loaded 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun in the center console and obtained evidence Nguyen was dealing drugs. IUPD said it believes the handgun was stolen during the robbery of a gun store in North Vernon, Indiana. Nguyen said he bought the gun on the streets of Indianapolis. IUPD said there is no reason to believe Nguyen is connected to the robbery. Nyssa Kruse
Eisenberg to perform at Comedy Attic By Naomi Farahan
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Top Bloomington resident Susan Haines protests at the "Keep the People in Peoples Park" demonstration Wednesday. Haines grew up playing in the park and brings her kids there to this day. Middle left Bloomington citizens gather at the “Keep the People in Peoples Park” demonstration Wednesday. In response to student petitions to remove the homeless from the park, activists organized an event aiming to keep the park a public space. Down left Police arrest a man at the “Keep the People in Peoples Park” demonstration Wednesday.
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“Big Bacon” Natee on the rise for Hoosiers By Jordan Guskey jguskey@indiana.edu | @jordanguskey
IU Coach Kevin Wilson had only been talking with Euless Trinity High School head football coach Chris Jensen for a couple hours when he told Jensen he wanted the school’s starting quarterback. Tyler Natee was a 6-foot, 260-pound physical freak of nature. First he was a fullback with tailback capabilities. Then he was a tailback who threw just as accurately as any quarterback on Trinity’s roster. Eventually, he found himself lead-
ing the offense as a junior and senior. Wilson didn’t think IU had a player like him. “Assistant coaches and recruiters just really didn’t know what to tell their head coach about him,” Jensen told Wilson. “He goes, ‘Well, I can solve that problem. I’m the head coach. Let’s talk.’” Wilson was only in the area because he had traveled down to visit now-junior quarterback Richard Lagow, but he had some time to kill. So, he asked a couple coaches he knew well from his time at SEE NATEE, PAGE 6
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Freshman running back Tyler Natee runs the ball against Michigan State on Saturday night. IU beat Michigan State 24-21 in overtime.
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The Comedy Attic is hosting three shows Saturday for its annual charity event. This year, the proceeds will go to Middle Way House to support victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault. Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Neal and Todd Barry will perform stand-up comedy at the event. The three comedians will be signing autographs, and autographed items from Eisenberg’s films will be auctioned off. “It’s vital people know about and support the emergency shelter, rape crisis and domestic vioSEE EISENBERG, PAGE 6
Voter Registration Project under investigation By Lyndsay Jones jonesly@indiana.edu | @lyndsayjonesy
The Indiana Voter Registration Project is under scrutiny after voter fraud was reported in Hendricks and Marion counties in August. Indiana State Police delivered a search warrant to the IVRP office in downtown Indianapolis on Tuesday as part of the investigation that began in August, which now includes seven counties. The search warrant and affidavit, which include de-
tails regarding why the warrant was granted, are sealed until Nov. 3. “That happens if there’s information that will tarnish our investigation,” ISP public information officer Dave Burton said. Burton said the warrant was delivered after police in civilian clothes arrived at the office and knocked on the door. Christy Setzer, a spokeswoman on behalf of the IVRP, said the arrival of police was a “raid.” “This is part of a series of intimidation tactics,” Setzer said.
Setzer said the IVRP did nothing to merit an investigation or allegations of voter fraud. “The IVRP is a nonpartisan effort to register voters in Indiana,” Setzer said. “We try to reach disenfranchised communities.” Setzer said problems arose when the IVRP turned in all of the registration forms they had collected. She said the law required them to turn in all forms, even though they knew some of them had been filled out incorrectly.
“They saw that we had a few forms with wrong information and then the police said they had found voter fraud,” Setzer said. “In any operation there’s always a small number filled out incorrectly.” Setzer said the IVRP exists to get more people registered in Indiana since the state’s voter turnout in 2014 was the lowest among all states. But the IVRP has no social media presence or official webSEE FRAUD, PAGE 6