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Woman reports rape in home By Jack Evans jackevan@indiana.edu | @JackHEvans
Police are investigating after a 22-year-old woman reported Sunday that two men raped her in a downtown apartment. The woman went to the Bloomington Police Department at about 7:20 p.m. to report the incident, BPD Lt. John Kovach said. She told police she’d been at a local bar, where she met two men, whom she left with at about 6 p.m. She went to a downtown apartment with them. When they arrived, the men took turns holding her down and forcing her to have sex, she told police. They left, and she went to the police. Kovach said the woman was having trouble remembering some details in an initial interview but that officers were set to follow up with her Monday. He said she did go to Bloomington Hospital for a sexual assault kit.
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Controversial social scientist Charles Murray will speak at IU. The University has released little information concerning the event. By Lydia Gerike
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With little official publicity for the event, students are making their own statement about Tuesday’s talk headlined by conservative social scientist Charles Murray. Some are reserving tickets and leaving their chairs empty. Others are taking it a step further. Senior Stella Shaffer burned her ticket on Facebook Live after receiving the ticket at the IU Auditorium. The tickets are free, and many students are picking them up just so others can’t go. “The University is letting him plant his ideological seeds in the minds of students, and that’s really reprehensible,” Shaffer said. Murray is considered a white nationalist by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is known for beliefs of white genetic superiority outlined in his controversial book “The Bell Curve,” which states that social welfare programs are designed for failure and that differences in race and ethnicity result in higher or lower levels of intelligence. He will speak at 6 p.m. in Franklin Hall. The event was not organized by the University as a whole but is sponsored by the American Enterprise
By Zain Pyarali zpyarali@iu.edu | @ZainPyarali
Sophomore forward OG Anunoby appears to be moving on from IU. After missing the final 15 games of this season with a knee injury, Anunoby will reportedly enter the 2017 NBA draft and hire an agent, according to Jeff Goodman of ESPN. Anunoby will lose his amateur status by hiring an agent and forgo his final two years of college eligibility. He was named a preseason AllAmerican by The Sporting News but only played in 16 games due to injuries. He suffered a season-ending injury on Jan. 18 in a win at Penn State. Anunoby ended the season averaging 11.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per game while adding 21 blocks and 21 steals. He scored 16 points and gathered five rebounds and two blocks in IU’s win against then-No. 3 North Carolina at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in November. Anunoby is currently projected as the No. 15 overall pick in the latest mock draft from Draft Express. He’s also rated as the No. 1 overall sophomore available in the draft and the No. 2 overall prospect from the Big Ten, behind Michigan State freshman forward Miles Bridges and ahead of Purdue sophomore forward Caleb Swanigan. The 6-foot-8 Anunoby has the ability to lock down on defense with his length and is also evolving on offense. He broke onto the scene at the end of his freshman season by scoring 21 points in IU’s two NCAA Tournament wins over Chattanooga and Kentucky. Anunoby is the first player IU will lose under new head coach Archie Miller. Junior guard James Blackmon Jr. is also expected to declare for the NBA draft but it is believed he won’t sign an agent. Sophomore center Thomas Bryant is also considering his basketball future, although he is projected to be a second round pick by Draft Express.
Institute Executive Council at IU, a student group affiliated with a conservative think tank, and the Tocqueville Program for democratic theory, an IU program. Political science graduate students Rafael Khachaturian and Mike Kovanda wrote an open letter against both the event and the University’s lack of a public statement. “The University must realize the magnitude of his presence here,” Khachaturian said. “The fact that they have not really taken the time to construct a response to the concerns that are being raised is problematic.” Although students do not want to censor all viewpoints that may differ from their own, they believe Murray’s statements harms the IU community, the open letter said. “It is important to value free speech,” Khachaturian said. As of Monday evening, more than 170 students, faculty, alumni and community members had signed their names on Khachaturian’s open letter. In addition to Khachaturian’s open letter, the English Graduate Solidarity Coalition is planning peaceful protests outside Franklin Hall before and during Murray’s talk.
Read more on Murray Page 2 Opinion columnist weighs in Page 4 Another speech will be taking place across campus on how anti-Muslim fringe organizations have become mainstream. Murray’s recent appearances at the University of Notre Dame, Middlebury College and other schools have also led to protests and, in some instances, have led to physical violence. At Middlebury, Murray’s faculty escort was attacked while attempting to move the event to a different location to broadcast Murray’s talk, according to an article from the Boston Globe. AEI executive council member and sophomore Katherine Hitchcock said the group expected criticism because of the recent incidences but invited Murray because of his “prescient analysis on the politics of today.” Murray’s writing is often positively reviewed and cited in research, Hitchcock said. It is used by people all across the political spectrum. “We would hope that IU possesses a bit more respect for the event, for SEE MURRAY, PAGE 5
Freshman Media LLC produces short film By Sanya Ali siali@indiana.edu | @siali13
A project that began in the Media Living Learning Center has turned three freshmen into a functioning production company. Sam Oates, Andrew Torbenson and Spencer Bowman met in the Media LLC and worked with the rest of the floor to produce a short film, “Repopulate,” which will debut by the end of April. The three plan to continue working together under the name B6 Films. The film revolves around themes of online dating in a peculiar setting, Bowman said. Torbenson said the score is all original and the locations were also provided by an aunt of someone in the LLC. The Media LLC is a thematic housing community in Forest Quad, a dorm on the south east side of campus. Production on the film began in December, but the process of building the initial team started on day one of living in the same dorm, Bowman said. “We spent the first semester hanging out, becoming friends, and once that happened we realized we had a variety of talents,” Bowman said. “We thought, ‘If we can pull this together, we’d be
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Genevieve Marvin uses the slate to mark the beginning of a new scene while Mia Siffin prepares to say her lines during the weekend shoot. Members of the Media Living Learn Center, a thematic housing community in Forest Quad, produced the film.
able to create something really cool that we can put our hearts into.’” Oates said he wrote as part of his application to be in the LLC
that he thought a film would be the ideal collaborative project for the floor to take part in because of the range of skills each member would bring to such a project.
“One of the things I said was that, now that we have this huge group of kids that are very SEE MEDIA, PAGE 5